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Came here for shark science and sled dogs, staying for Alaska news, deconstruction, more sharks, more sled dogs, occasional internal screaming at the state of the world becoming external screaming, the little things in life.
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This whole thread has been the highlight of my day so far.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

How we got to the point where we trust brainworm-man to prevent us from getting brainworms (or other infections) is never going to make sense to me. But we’re here. Measles is not just a rash, get your vaxx.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Chris I saw someone this very morning say “we don’t need NOAA, there’s weather apps on my phone” I am so tired.

submitted 19 days ago • 42 comments

Elon Musk literally bought himself the United States Presidency. You can thank Citizens United for that.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone concerned about data loss right now should learn about the End of Term Web Archive, which I believe has been working on preserving federal websites for the past 8 months. The dataset you fear has been lost may well be here Just an incredible project. Thank you to everyone involved

submitted 46 days ago • 26 comments

On climate, did you know that only 11% of people in the US (and even smaller percentages in Canada, the UK, Australia and beyond) are dismissive? Yet because their voices are so loud and persistent, people often think they’re 50%. This is why I advocate so strongly for using YOUR voice!

submitted 48 days ago • 11 comments

A thread on how I came to publish a paper on acoustic ghost whales... I was exhaustively reading papers on blue whales for a book I'm planning to write, and came across a book that mentioned that killer whales can't hear low-frequency sounds below 2000 Hz 1/n doi.org/10.1111/mms....

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

If only we had a term for displacing an entire population based on their ethnicity.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

First they came for the Indigenous place names. And Alaskans were like “lol no, try and make us not call it Denali you senile MFer”

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Marked safe from having to make up new sins like "empathy" in order to justify being a terrible person.

submitted 51 days ago • 11 comments

Everything sucks but I’m choosing to be most ticked off by trying to yoink DENALI’S name because the implications of the rest of the flat out unconstitutional stuff getting to the Supreme Court so they can go “well if we squint maybe we can make it constitutional” is f’ing depressing

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

It’s DENALI

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

It was not peaceful. It was not patriotic. It was an attack on our democracy and we must never forget what happened that day—or who encouraged it.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Candle wearing sled dog holiday is almost over, and soon we will have to wait another whole year for candle wearing sled dogs.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Seriously y’all. This is a nightmare. They will have to drag me to the barber in chains if they want to do this to me. And that’s what they did. They are also taking away HRT or threatening to. Cis friends… please please speak up. Read more: www.themarshallproject.org/2024/12/10/n...

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

Norm Middleman, Chelsea Coder, Jess Excelwizard, Roy Barista

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I'm disproportionately stoked to hear that Orcas are wearing salmon hats again. Now we have the capability of drone surveying it'll be interesting to see what the orca do once they've finished with the salmon. Discard them? Eat them? 🦑

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks be to bees!

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

Also, the real mvp today: The original Olaf the Barbarian who has waited patiently for the past two hours for me to stop screwing around and go to bed already so he can sleep.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Also, finally posting here maybe. We’ll see how long the motivation lasts. Spark notes: Former AK person watching AK from down south and internally screaming (and sometimes online screaming). Also, expecting to be screaming about US national nonsense because wtf why are we like this

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

On the one hand, the schedule pressure of Jan 20 is finally getting me to try to panic update all my legal docs and get all my accounts fixed. Surprisingly, getting the college transcripts and diplomas fixed is not as hard as it could be. I hope I don’t end up needing them, though.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments