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If I could get a job in reading, and listening to music all day, I would. Yarn, knitting, 🧶 crochet make me happy. she/her
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Shout out to allllll the amazing women who took on #Iditarod2025! #InternationalWomensDay #MusherSky #UglyDogs

If you follow #akleg, you might want to meet JERRI, the Alaska Legislature's (relatively new) database of all the annual reports that the executive branch is required to submit to the Legislature. It's a pretty good resource of information: www.legfin.akleg.gov/JERRI/AllRep...

"Anyone can start up a snowmachine, not everyone can build up a successful dog team." - Bruce Lee #Iditarod

Geeze winter, don’t you think you’re a day late and a dollar short?

Great work by Julia Jimmie, KYUK's Yupik and Cultural Director translating Emily Schwings' story about the decrepit conditions in the Sleetmute School. www.kyuk.org/public-safet...

Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:

Trudeau: I want to speak first directly to the American people… your government has chosen to do this to you. Your government has chosen to put American jobs at risk. They have chosen to raise costs for American consumers on everyday essential items…

apropos of our future: www.nps.gov/articles/sto...

Let's be honest. Behind all the rhetoric that neighborhood schools must do the impossible with less, what Dunleavy is proposing is a system that funnels what little funding he will support to the few — while leaving everyone else to fight over the scraps. #akleg www.akmemo.com/deep-dive-du...

There are many worthy teams in this year’s #iditarod race, including many descendants of champions - dogs and mushers alike. I’m still learning about everyone, but when I read about rookie Justin Olnes (Bib #29)’s team, they had my full support: 1/🧵

UAF folks! Fairbanks!Dance party to support diversity! Outside the system office at Butrovich! Wednesday 2/26, 1pm

Anyone in #AlaskaSky still need Girl Scout cookies?

If someone you know is detained: immigrantjustice.org/know-your-ri...

I curse so I don’t have an aneurysm. Thank you for understanding.

Read this.

I honestly do not know how to convey to people not in aviation that two things can be true: 1. The recent accidents in DC, PA, AK, AZ and now Toronto have nothing in common; and 2. Firings at the FAA & NWS will negatively impact flight safety in the future.

If you want a spicy, fast-burn wolf shifter book that’s a lesbian BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE for adults with shifter lore grounded in Alabama’s Black history, my novella A WOLF STEPS IN BLOOD is here for you 🫀

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The quality of the reporting on this has been disappointing, to say the least, with only the most basic understanding of what the National Archives does. This is bigger than a little spat with a small agency. bit.ly/3Ex744a follow @everylibrary.bsky.social to stay informed!

How to be safer on ice in Alaska’s wild country, according to Luc Mehl, an ice rescue instructor and trainer who specializes in wilderness risk management: www.adn.com/opinions/202...

Like 90% of Americans have zero idea that the biggest crime spree in US history is happening right now at the White House. It’d be cool if we had some profession whose job it is to inform them.

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

It’s Valentines Day? Oh. *goes back to rant about reproductive rights & complete douchecanoe eugenicists trying to make everything deeply unsexy* 🫀

Here is the pre-RFK vaccination schedule for your kids. Please download it before he is confirmed and changes/deletes it. Give it to your pediatrician and say this is the schedule you want your kids on. Making this my pinned post.

Pass it on

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

I have been running around a bunch today, but I finally got to write something up about the Senate going in on revenue. Check it out in the latest from the newsletter: www.akmemo.com/senators-its... #akleg

for all of the talk about democrats, and messaging, and whatever else, look, NO ONE IS GOING TO SAVE US BUT US. don’t look to the politicians, they follow us. no one is gonna bail us out here, everyone has to grab a fucking bucket.

Just bc there’s no website doesn’t mean laws don’t exist. Special education laws are still on the books federally: PL 94-142 (1975), with reauthorizations in 1990 & 2004, in case anyone needed to sound like they’ve been talking to a lawyer.

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This period under Musk/Trump feels like early February in 2020—when a terrible thing was happening with breakneck speed, and the people paying close attention were hair-on-fire about it while the rest of the country carried on as normal.

Good night Alaskan moon

Your horoscope for today: Be like a cactus - cultivate a hostile exterior to protect yourself and other vulnerable creatures from any big oafs who blunder by.

Stop using Autism and Bipolar Disorder to explain Nazism.

The sunrise this morning was another beautiful one, but I wasn’t able to get a good picture of it. The stop light turned green, and it was time to begin my trek to work. Anyway, I did get a quick picture of this fuzzy pink cloud.

New (well, as of last week!) column for the StitchMastery blog, all about the improvements in the new version for handling two-pass pattern stitches like brioche and slipped-stitch colourwork. stitchmastery.com/two-pass-cha... 🧶

There are many basic decency things that are, at this point in time in the US, subversive, & that push back against installation of an authoritarian regime. I 👏 the American Bar Association for this & 👏 every federal worker, judge, attorney, legislator, etc who defends the constitution & law. No🤴.

I know everything seems hopeless & nothing seems to matter. It seems like there is no accountability or consequences so it’s tempting to just crash out. BUT survivors of autocratic regimes ALL advise NOT to do this & to continue to vocalize opposition LOUDLY over & over, even when it feels futile.