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  1. With the drama between KUT and UT, I do very much hope there can be a resolution where they remain connected with assurance of station independence. #kut #utexas #atx

  2. Beautiful weather for takeoff from Kopitnari airport in Kutaisi area (Georgia) “UGKO 060600Z AUTO 10009KT CAVOK 05/M01 Q1018 NOSIG” : See what it means on bigorre.org/aero/meteo/ugko/en #kopitnariairport #airport #kutaisi #georgia #ugko #kut #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

  3. Omdat ik veel heb overgewerkt plande ik een dag vrij in morgen. Lekker een dag vrij voor het volgende feest en het bezoek.
    Tot mijn man me uit de droom hielp en liet zien dat het morgen de laatste dag van het jaar is.
    Niks vrij dus. Boodschappen doen, de keuken in en gasten ontvangen. #kut

  4. Texas' governor issued an executive order Wednesday mandating age restrictions on consumable hemp products containing THC. This comes after Greg Abbott's veto earlier this year of legislation that would have banned the products outright.

    houstonpublicmedia.org/article

    #Business #News #Politics #Texas #ExecutiveOrder #GregAbbott #Hemp #KUT #Marijuana #THCProductsInTexas

  5. When the governor called the Texas Legislature into special session after July's historic floods, he topped his priority list with passing bills to better prepare the state for natural disasters. Here's a look at six new measures lawmakers passed.

    houstonpublicmedia.org/article

    #Flooding #News #Politics #Texas #Weather #CampMystic #CongressionalRedistricting #Floods #GuadalupeRiverFlood #HillCountry #KUT

  6. The Texas Senate gave initial approval Tuesday to a bill that would allow private citizens to sue out-of-state providers of abortion pills for $100,000 or more. The Senate must vote once more before the bill can head to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk.

    houstonpublicmedia.org/article

    #News #Texas #Abortion #KUT

  7. The Democratic lawmakers who walked out were unable to block the passage of the new maps in the Senate, which passed Tuesday with GOP support. But the redistricting effort will remain stalled as long as House Democrats keep up their quorum break.

    houstonpublicmedia.org/article

    #News #Politics #Texas #CongressionalRedistricting #GregAbbott #KUT #TexasPolitics #TexasSenate

  8. Several massive footprints etched in limestone were discovered in the Austin area during cleanup after the July 5 flood. Some of the dinosaur tracks were hidden by brush; others had been covered in sediment that was scoured away by floodwaters.

    houstonpublicmedia.org/article

    #Environment #Flooding #Nature #News #Texas #CentralTexasFloods #DinosaurBones #Floods #History #KUT

  9. Linked is an article from the Austin Chronicle by Richard Whittaker (who is sadly not on the fediverse) that does a good job of chronicling the impact of the US legislature's (and #Trump's) recent public broadcasting cuts --- the Chronicle rightly uses the more appropriate term "rescission" --- to both #Austin and #Texas broadly. Austin #PBS, as well as #NPR television and radio stations #KUT and #KUTX, will all be impacted. KUTX was my favourite radio station when I lived in Austin. Its willingness to eschew the top-40 algorithm and branch out is refreshing; the rescission might impact available licensing arrangements for their music.

    Here in #FortWorth #Dallas #dfw, the closest analog to KUTX that I've found is #KNTU, better known as 88.1 Indie. It is entirely (well, mostly) commercial free. I say mostly, because I still consider "sponsored by X, offering service/product Y" to be an advertisement (formally referred to as "underwriting"); albeit a more palatable one than the traditional fare of the medium. KNTU is definitely more pop-heavy (and repeat-heavy) than KUTX, but it also caters/panders heavily to a more #millennial audience (guilty).

    All that being said...

    >The greatest concern is that this economic assault isn’t the end, but simply the latest attack on editorially independent media. The CPB defunding came after the dismantling of Voice of America Radio, and now the question is, what’s next? If the end game is to destroy public radio and television, how long before broadcast licenses become a target?

    The irony of putting editorial independence in the same paragraph as Voice of America is painful and invites a comparison that i suspect most folks working in public broadcasting would not appreciate.

    >Even if Republican lawmakers have turned their backs on public media, the hope is that donors, including charitable foundations, will continue to see the value of its uniquely community-minded programming. For example, Austin PBS is already strategizing about filling that $400,000 cut to Ready to Learn’s budget. Patiño said, “Our hypothesis is that, once we go out to the marketplace and say, 'Hey, these are the needs that will go unmet, these are the communities that will no longer receive the educational services that we provide and have for years and years and years,’ we hope that people that fund and support educational services in other nonprofits will support us in some way to fill that gap.”

    Cutting out the legislative middlemen between the public and their servants, by pivoting to a direct-donor-centered model, might prove to be a silver lining to this rain cloud (and perhaps an unintended and unwelcome threat to that legislative body's hard and soft power).

    austinchronicle.com/news/2025-

    #PublicBroadcasting #CPB #AustinChronicle #atx #VOA #VoiceOfAmerica #InventingReality