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Read it and your day will get better. www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Storytelling is magic. The ancients and ancestors knew. The pope knows.
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Storytelling is magic. The ancients and ancestors knew. The pope knows.
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the playlist attached to this is also excellent, like all the styles of metal I like without the ones I don't click with open.spotify.com/playlist/6iC...
Precious Metalheads
open.spotify.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
the playlist attached to this is also excellent, like all the styles of metal I like without the ones I don't click with open.spotify.com/playlist/6iC...
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This made my eyes sweaty in a good way. Recommended reading.
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This made my eyes sweaty in a good way. Recommended reading.
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The power of metal, friends
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The power of metal, friends
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The data is pretty clear: paywalls are useless. They put needless barriers between readers and news sources. People either try to find the information available elsewhere for free, or give up and remain uninformed. Either way, the results aren’t great
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls
Among adults who have not paid for news in the past year, the most common reason they cite is that they can find plenty of other news articles for free.
www.pewresearch.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The data is pretty clear: paywalls are useless. They put needless barriers between readers and news sources. People either try to find the information available elsewhere for free, or give up and remain uninformed. Either way, the results aren’t great
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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An Apple News type platform that enabled me somehow to prioritize local or small news would be amazing
November 16, 2025 at 1:32 AM
An Apple News type platform that enabled me somehow to prioritize local or small news would be amazing
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I would gladly kick in a couple hundred bucks to a private Corporation for Public Broadcasting that acted as a funding intermediary, especially if got me a cross-site login that turned off all ads.
November 15, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I would gladly kick in a couple hundred bucks to a private Corporation for Public Broadcasting that acted as a funding intermediary, especially if got me a cross-site login that turned off all ads.
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Yes! Was there this summer and plan to be back next summer. Firekeeper Alliance and the FITM crew doing incredible work.
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Yes! Was there this summer and plan to be back next summer. Firekeeper Alliance and the FITM crew doing incredible work.
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This is a genius idea
November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
This is a genius idea
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this is so good
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 PM
this is so good
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In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:27 PM
\m/
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na moral q artigo lindo
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
na moral q artigo lindo
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Ya ves, a mí también me ayudó mucho escuchar metal cuando tuve depresión y personalidad suicida.
La gente se pensaba que estaba deprimida porque vestía de negro, pero en realidad era justo lo contrario.
La gente se pensaba que estaba deprimida porque vestía de negro, pero en realidad era justo lo contrario.
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Ya ves, a mí también me ayudó mucho escuchar metal cuando tuve depresión y personalidad suicida.
La gente se pensaba que estaba deprimida porque vestía de negro, pero en realidad era justo lo contrario.
La gente se pensaba que estaba deprimida porque vestía de negro, pero en realidad era justo lo contrario.
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🤘❤️🩹
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🤘❤️🩹
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Kansas’ Marion County paid $3M for forgetting the First Amendment.
After their illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023, local cops got their First Amendment lesson the expensive way.
Police elsewhere should take note.
After their illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023, local cops got their First Amendment lesson the expensive way.
Police elsewhere should take note.
Kansas county pays $3M for forgetting the First Amendment
Marion County cops got their First Amendment lesson the hard way. Police elsewhere should take note
freedom.press
November 15, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Kansas’ Marion County paid $3M for forgetting the First Amendment.
After their illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023, local cops got their First Amendment lesson the expensive way.
Police elsewhere should take note.
After their illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023, local cops got their First Amendment lesson the expensive way.
Police elsewhere should take note.
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This is cool
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 9:14 PM
This is cool
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“Heavy music teaches us things such as we’re not alone; when life is dark, we do something about it. We’re not just a prisoner to that darkness. But also that our risk fluctuates, that our misery isn’t gonna last forever. There are ways through it.”
www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“Heavy music teaches us things such as we’re not alone; when life is dark, we do something about it. We’re not just a prisoner to that darkness. But also that our risk fluctuates, that our misery isn’t gonna last forever. There are ways through it.”
www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
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Municipalities that try to ban gas-powered leaf blowers often face intense pushback. Here’s how advocates in one New Jersey town prevailed.
What It Takes to Defeat the Leaf Blowers
To end the use of gas-powered blowers, advocates in one New Jersey town focused on public health and made their case directly to local elected leaders.
bloom.bg
November 15, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Municipalities that try to ban gas-powered leaf blowers often face intense pushback. Here’s how advocates in one New Jersey town prevailed.
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Incredible article
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Incredible article
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Art saves lives
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Art saves lives
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🤘🎶💪
This is a legitimately good idea. Studies show that heavy metal fans tend to be the least angry people. Presumably because their brains experience anger a lot, but in safe, controlled, voluntary ways, so they have a lot more practice dealing with it, but fewer upsetting incidents that triggered it.
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🤘🎶💪
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This was the single best thing I read this week. I'm not a metal head, but I respect and admire both as a genre and, as a quoted fan calls it, "a strange road to joy".
“Heavy music teaches us things such as we’re not alone; when life is dark, we do something about it. We’re not just a prisoner to that darkness. But also that our risk fluctuates, that our misery isn’t gonna last forever. There are ways through it.”
www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
www.hcn.org/issues/57-11...
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
www.hcn.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This was the single best thing I read this week. I'm not a metal head, but I respect and admire both as a genre and, as a quoted fan calls it, "a strange road to joy".
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🖤
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
Heavy metal is healing teens on the Blackfeet Nation - High Country News
In response to youth suicides, teachers show students the power of headbanging at Fire in the Mountains festival.
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
🖤
“A tribal nation needs to have... the right to refuse and say, ‘No, we’re not comfortable with this outside entity using our information, even though you might have a really altruistic motivation behind doing it.’”
In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Alaska Native translators to help with disaster recovery. Local translators and tribal sovereignty experts have questions. Story for @highcountrynews.org:
Can AI translate Native languages in times of disaster? - High Country News
In the wake of Typhoon Halong, an AI language company wants to hire Native translators, raising questions about data sovereignty.
www.hcn.org
November 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“A tribal nation needs to have... the right to refuse and say, ‘No, we’re not comfortable with this outside entity using our information, even though you might have a really altruistic motivation behind doing it.’”
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You know you dont have to call him The Secretary of War, right?
It's not a title. It's not a real thing!
It's not a title. It's not a real thing!
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
You know you dont have to call him The Secretary of War, right?
It's not a title. It's not a real thing!
It's not a title. It's not a real thing!