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Living in Alaska. Runs a nonprofit community center. Trying to be a writer. Sometimes blogging at akasks.blogspot.com. Occasional podcast cohost at open.spotify.com/show/3M6Ufzw2abd2GqiYhWG9Oa Give me a follow. It's free. You can't beat free!
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New episode of my podcast! We discuss the merits of money spent on a report to inform a report on flood prevention in Juneau, a proposal to change how Alaska judges are appointed, and a surprise topic! Give it a listen: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/sam... #alaska #aksky #alaskasky #akleg

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New blog post about whatever happened to the Roman Senate anyway. Also, I put in a thing so you can get new posts delivered to your email: akasks.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-f... It's like a real blog now or something. #blog #rome #alaska #aksky #alaskasky

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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.

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New blog post about #CNC machining and losing control of technology akasks.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-s...

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New blog post on the Great Internet Outage of 2025: akasks.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-s...

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New blog post on the Great Internet Outage of 2025: akasks.blogspot.com/2025/03/on-s...

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Oh hey, the internet's back online. Honestly, it doesn't add much.

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Venturing back into the internet blackout. If anybody needs me, too bad.

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There's a widespread internet outage and the radio says, "More information about it on our website." Thanks, KTOO. Thanks.

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New blog post about #Avatar (the good one) akasks.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-a...

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A more lighthearted blog post after the past couple of political ones: akasks.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-f...

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Latest podcast episode has all of 1 listens. That's an all-time low. At least the blog view counts are going up. I wonder where those are coming from.

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This is my post-episode analysis of the most recent podcast episode. There are some interesting topics we got into and I go into detail on the language used. If you want me to do more of these analyses, give this a share. akasks.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-a... #AKsky #Alaskasky #AKleg

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This is my post-episode analysis of the most recent podcast episode. There are some interesting topics we got into and I go into detail on the language used. If you want me to do more of these analyses, give this a share. akasks.blogspot.com/2025/02/on-a... #AKsky #Alaskasky #AKleg

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New episode of the Sam and Derik Show is out now. It's about Alaska issues from the right and left. Give it a listen. I'm gonna do a post-episode analysis of some things that stuck out to me, so keep an eye out for that post in a bit. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/sam... #AKSky #Alaskasky #AKLeg

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How long until MAGAts are just called disease vectors?

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i just got served this ad on twitter that is literally nazi propaganda. not like regular right wing bullshit—i was served, with an ad label, just a thing saying hitler didn’t actually kill jews. i know that things have been fucked over there for a while but holy shit

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I told ChatGPT to write a strategic plan for Juneau Makerspace with just a few details. It spat out a 5 page document. While pretty accurate, one thing that jumped out at me was it said our mission included providing "high-quality" tools and equipment.

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Anyone know if having so many nonresident workers is normal for a state? It looks to me like one more way the oil companies just don't add all that much to our economy if they're not even employing residents. #akleg #aksky #alaskasky #alaska alaskabeacon.com/2025/02/10/n...

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Republican lunatic Senator Tim Scott with Sen. Dan Sullivan at today’s Bettye Davis Summit: Scott said, “I'm glad DEI is gone, it's different than diversity.” Wow, wtf.

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Hey, if anyone wants to just pay me to be there, I'll take your money. On second thought, I'm way too introverted for that. www.cnbc.com/2025/01/07/t...

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A story of the local impact from, checks source, NPR. It is a repost from AK Public Media, but still.

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The glare through the windows of the state courthouse ruins this picture of today's anti-Trump protest in front of the Alaska Capitol, but I counted 123 participants. That's large, but probably not the largest protest that'll occur at the Capitol this year. #akleg #Alaska

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"Including American citizens." Well there it is. El Salvador already had concentration camp sized jails. Now the US will pay them to do away with anyone they see as undesirable. That means you.

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Now that Instagram shows your friends what reels you've liked, what personality should I adopt so wild videos show up when they're checking on what their friend liked?

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The White House has suddenly removed this page. whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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So… Who got the job because of the way she looks or who she knows, and not her qualifications?

submitted 54 days ago • 343 comments

"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman "I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

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New blog post: akasks.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-m.... I recently received some hate messages from the far right over on facebook and I wrote up a deeper look into how their language use is the same as those in a cult.

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We should apply trumps decrees to him even if they are not legal for the rest of the country. He declared his gender to be what it was at inception making him female, and without birthright citizenship she had no legal basis of citizenship. She's declared herself a trans immigrant. Deport her!

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For Alaskans and normal people it's Denali. For white supremacists it's Denial. #aksky

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your Real Alaskan™ grandfather would've named Denali one of these: - Moose Mountain - Bear Mountain - Fish Peak - Devil's Big Horrible Evil Ice Cold Demon Satan Rock - Moose Fish

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