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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 15h

Tidal keeps autoplaylisting to them no matter what I started with lately. Some kind of special operation to normalize this band going on

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

Going outside in Whitesburg Kentucky 🤝 Going outside in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

some days you consume the particle
some days the particle consume you

janа @ghola.bsky.social · 3d

i think you might have consumed some particles

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

Worth a shot, right? mastodon.social/@SongsForHor...

Songs for Horses (@[email protected])

26 Posts, 134 Following, 179 Followers · Cultural anthropologist from NC Blue Ridge interested in folk music and animals in Mongolia and Appalachia

mastodon.social

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

There aren't any wrong reasons to follow a certain baseball team. I usually root for the team that has games I can go to or watch on local tv, so I rooted for the A's when I lived in the Bay and I root for the Guardians now. But I have a friend who is a fan of the Orioles because he likes the bird

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

Going outside in Whitesburg Kentucky 🤝 Going outside in Ulaanbaatar Mongolia

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

some days you consume the particle
some days the particle consume you

janа @ghola.bsky.social · 3d

i think you might have consumed some particles

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

The fact that "make the miners code" was doomed because AI would nuke all of the coding jobs a scant 8 years later is almost not even worth mentioning given the context that the electricity demands of both the coding jobs and ai meant that both only served to entrench Old King Coal further anyway

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

Shockingly hard to find any writing that is remotely critical of the "Silicon Holler," despite the fact that I don't know a single rural southern Appalachian person who thought of it as anything other than a scam that, at best, you might could get on the pump side of for a couple months

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

Shockingly hard to find any writing that is remotely critical of the "Silicon Holler," despite the fact that I don't know a single rural southern Appalachian person who thought of it as anything other than a scam that, at best, you might could get on the pump side of for a couple months

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 3d

some days you consume the particle
some days the particle consume you

janа @ghola.bsky.social · 3d

i think you might have consumed some particles

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cigarro nas salas de leitura @yungquiabo.bsky.social · 3d

treating LLMs as an intellectual curiosity during unchecked global warming is indistinguishable from climate denial

Dylan McConnell @dylanjmcconnell.bsky.social · 4d

Black coal up from Q3 2024 to Q3 2025

(Growth in demand partially offsetting growth on RE)

www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Thirst for energy undermines effort to pull back from coal

A steady rise in the demand for electricity is slowing the decline of coal-fired power, even as wind and solar generation hits new highs.

www.afr.com

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 4d

Sort of millennial luck that my book came out right as the social media apparatus fell apart, but anyway what this means is you just have to go back to makin wordy jokes to your real life friends

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 4d

I think what would make mastodon work is people being on there, basically, but honestly in a bigger sense I think microblogging is over. We have a twitter government now, social media has fully metathesized into... That

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 4d

Unfortunately SoupSocial has become botted all to hell

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 5d

Seeking investors for my soup themed social media app SoupSocial (formerly Stirr), where you post your soups for other "bowlies" to upspoon or downspoon and people say things like "thanks for the oyster crackers, kind stranger!"

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 5d

Sorry, I have a fever right now

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 5d

Seeking investors for my soup themed social media app SoupSocial (formerly Stirr), where you post your soups for other "bowlies" to upspoon or downspoon and people say things like "thanks for the oyster crackers, kind stranger!"

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Proud Appalachian @rwheeler.bsky.social · 6d

‘I’m not Disney Pocahontas’: Appalachian Heritage Writer’s Award awarded to first Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians novelist

SHEPHERDSTOWN — Shepherd University Center for Appalachian Studies Director Benjamin Bankhurst handed a plaque to author Annette Clapsaddle, proclaiming her this year’s recipient of the Appalachian He...

www.shepherdstownchronicle.com

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Kenny Linden @kennylinden.bsky.social · 7d

@songsforhorses.com

Trevor_V01.fbx @darikis.bsky.social · 7d

Pondering the PORB

"Pondering the orb" meme where the orb is a ball of Possums, otherwise known as a PORB

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 7d

Despite the best efforts of its users, at its bones this is a "moved from PNW to Asheville, learned some new slurs for hillbillies, then moved to Colorado to open a brewpub guy" website

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Victor Turner Overdrive @badfriendclub.bsky.social · 9d

I got my preorder copy and am already enchanted by this book, really fascinating even (perhaps especially) if, like me, you don’t really know anything about Mongolian music

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · Aug 15

I started out writing a book about Mongolian music, but ended up with a bigger question: what do you do with a world that is falling apart? For the musicians and herders I worked with, the answer is in the songs. A Song for the Horses out this October:
uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...

Song for the Horses | UAPress

uapress.arizona.edu

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 9d

Thank you! I am glad you enjoy it

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

Central Asia is, of course, the South and the Altai are Appalachia. Thank you for your attention in this matter

Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 10d

Central Asia, Or, Asia's Midwest

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

It's a delicate game, only way to win for sure is to go for something that is silly on purpose, like "whip-crack went his thwumpy tail"

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

The less like country your genre is, the better actually

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

Actually the key is to add a little steel guitar to your song, regardless of genre

KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

I think the key to good songwriting is to invent a new word in the song but use it in a way that everyone just kind of feels like they've heard it before. Like "surry down." Makes you think "sure, that's how you go to a stoned soul picnic, you surry down to it. Like how Grandma used to say"

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

Now I often think of myself as surrying somewhere. Even to places where there won't be sassafras and moonshine, like work or the hardware store

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KG Haintings 🎃 @songsforhorses.com · 10d

I think the key to good songwriting is to invent a new word in the song but use it in a way that everyone just kind of feels like they've heard it before. Like "surry down." Makes you think "sure, that's how you go to a stoned soul picnic, you surry down to it. Like how Grandma used to say"

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