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• Post #3924418

  On our farm, we've learned that if we stop mowing an area, the trees will come.

• Post #3924417

  I was listening to a #99PI episode on an obscure 18th century lawyer from Boston writing pamphlets before the Revolutionary War, and they just casually mentioned without drawing any attention to it, that the face of the oppressors doing the whole taxing without representation thing were (immigration and) customs enforcement agents. Funny that.

• Post #3924416

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116890866175952271 Remember, kids, when you wander, wear your whistle! https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/track/wear-your-whistle-minneapolis-jingle

• Post #3924415

  This is the story of how I learned to do fiberglass repair. About a month ago, we ran into the duck doing a sails-up reposition on the pier, and thus discovered a paste-only repair from a previous owner. The initial hole was only maybe two inches tall, but this is what it looked like after I dug out most of the old repair #ItsAlwausTheSkippersFault #sailing

• Post #3924414

  Not wanting to replicate the previous craftsmen's work, I carefully set about fashioning an interior layer of fiberglass and resin, using the method prescribed for what is called a "blind-hole" patch Not shown: I did the same on the other side #ItsAlwausTheSkippersFault #sailing

• Post #3924413

  Was browsing the NYPL Most Influential Books list. Lotta heavy reading in ther (and some clunkers imho) but not exclusively. Encephalitis has left me less able to read no-fiction, but I'm keeping this list around. https://www.bklynlibrary.org/america-250/booklist/ #bookstodon #NYPL

• Post #3924412

  It seems folks could use a song about grief. "I Grieve," (Feb 2026) in the tradition of community singing groups like Singing Resistance. #grief #SingingResistance #CommunitySinging #Folk #FolkMusic #Acapella

• Post #2483782

  Diy optical tape loop by @mle_online https://makertube.net/w/7C4wigWfR2fyC972PjLSMQ

• Post #2483781

  Tfw you read a fantastic book written quite recently and learn there are two sequels already!

• Post #2483780

  the ants of Minneapolis have awoken! #GrasshoppersBeware #ants #antstodon

• Post #2483779

  #MusicWomenWednesday Nina Gerber is a guitarist, known most widely as the long time accompanist for legendary songwriter and folk singer Kate Wolf. Her sense of timing and composition, the way she artfully emphasised Kate Wolf's singing, have been a huge influence on my own playing. When I'm talking with session musicians on my projects, I point to Gerber as an example of what I'm after. A songwriter in her own right, she's published many albums. https://nin...

• Post #2483778

  In honor of the white throated sparrow actually arriving in my neighborhood early on an April morning (today!), my hit folk song, "Hey, Hey (Sweet Sweet)" is FREE to download today! Edit: FREE for as long as they stck around! Additionally, I'm releasing five downlod codes for the whole album to mark this day vznk-6v7y 6y5t-69af bk39-666f bagk-7k66 a7t2-j99k https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/track/hey-hey-sweet-sweet-3 #Folk #FolkMusic #bird #birding

• Post #2483777

  found this on a Piefed thread An index of European alternatives to US providers, with a focus on privacy and security. If you open a specific provider's profile and click on "more" at the bottom, they show some detail about how the "trust score" was derived https://european-alternatives.cloud #Degoogle #Europe #Tech #Privacy

• Post #2483776

  Well, my day just got a lot richer. Turns out the near future SF polyamorous love story we've all been waiting for was published in Clarke's World Magazine in 2017 🥰 https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/barber-saab_09_17/ #SFF #Polyamory #ClarkesWorld

• Post #2483775

  the other day someone who knows much of my recent story heard about injuring my arm in a guitar accident and said she thought I must be unlucky. I said, "after what I've survived?? I'm the luckiest woman you know," and that's stuck with me since. over the intervening days I've come to be grateful she asked -- I don't think I'd have quite noticed this way, if she hadn't.

• Post #2483774

  using left-handed mode in GrapheneOS (also available in vanilla Android) bc right elbow injury, and I am so confused as to why it's buried in Developer Options and not surfaced in accessibility options or even better, in display prefs next to light/dark theming options #accessibility #Android #grapheneos

• Post #2483773

  Today is Bandcamp Friday, right? I freaking love folk music -- traditional, singer songwriter, indie, it's my jam. It's my wake up playlist. I have a couple dozen albums on my bandcamp wish list. If you buy my record, I can buy someone else's and make those wishes come true! My most recent album, "I'll Be Right Here, Too" 13 songs for 15 bucks: https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/album/ill-be-right-here-too And here's what I hope to...

• Post #2483772

  Here's a little sample of what I'm working on for my next album. Help make the whole thing possible by buying my last one: https://jennifervenawood.bandcamp.com/album/ill-be-right-here-too #folk #FolkMusic #IndieFolk #BandcampFriday

• Post #2483771

  Listening to an episode of Folk on Foot, and once again being reminded of how many musicians' journeys to finding their own creativity took them through jug band music, and finding some satisfaction in seeing that as part of my own winding road to becoming a songwriter. #FolkMusic #Folk #Songwriting

• Post #2483770

  I'm a little chagrined that I forgot that Bandcamp Friday was during a national economic strike, and I'm honestly grateful that the community mostly ignored this post. maybe next time https://musicians.today/@jvw/116499633817057473

• Post #2483769

  Oh okay, I'll play... Vader's Redemption: Vader's theme in a major key https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B9MShtCg4fk if this doesn't get you off the metaphorical couch I don't know what will #StarWars #mayThe4th

• Post #2483768

  one of memories of the late 90s in the bay was when Alisa Clancy dedicated her whole show, "morning cup of jazz" on KCSM, to playing one version after another of Take 5.

• Post #2483767

  well, I keep filling in my transbian stereotype bingo card. Finally listened to a Trampled by Turtles album and ... yep

• Post #1553948

  I remember one "half-way day" event, three weeks into a six-week summer camp, where the theme was swapping clothes with another camper of a different gender, and I got to wear a skirt for the first time. The only comments anyone made were about how the hadn't seen me smile so much in... ever. It was only one day in 1986, yet I still remember exactly what that skirt looked like and how it felt to wear. And this is why I will ALWAYS fight for trans kids. @alexadeswif...

• Post #1509896

  autocorrect has given me a new word, by failing to offer an alternative to what I wrote: exosrumenral the condition of outside events affecting ones internal monologue in a manner and severity such that they interfere with daily living activities. #Dictionary

• Post #925293

  What do you get when you cross the greatest nautical adventure series written (Hornblower), with the most wholesome swashbuckling romance ever put to film (The Great Race), rewritten from the viewpoint of a young woman as the heroine of it all? ARABELLA OF MARS by @daviddlevine That's what. And it's AMAZING. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ #Bookstodon #SFF

• Post #925292

  This is beautiful. I have long wished this kind of care existed, almost a gender affirming surgery doula. @transworld https://masto.ai/@transworld/116337593832711807

• Post #925291

  Destroyed by a new book by page 20: "No matter how many times it's been stomped, burned, and uprooted these past few years, the flower of hope still grows inside me as soon as it's given the least bit of water and sunlight." --Tim Pratt, DOORS OF SLEEP #bookstodon #SFF

• Post #925290

  Now we know their names. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1d736ojx-ZY #iceout #ice

• Post #888831

  THE STRANGE CASE OF THE ALCHEMIST'S DAUGHTER by Theodora Goss ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great storytelling, brilliant characters, a novel narrative device that blends seamlessly into the story. Brilliant mashup and reimagining of stories and characters from 18th and 19th century sf adventure and horror woven into a new and compelling story and heroine. I'm not sure if it was published with pages yellowed by age or if that's just my library's copy, but it certainly fits the mood....