say you’re in 🇨🇦 without saying you’re in 🇨🇦

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

got some proper aurorae in skagway tonite…

tbf, i am still surprised by the lower prices in WI coming from pretty much anywhere else in the US...

nothing like the van catching fire in the most remote part of the trip to really get the adventure juices flowing... (we're fine. no serious damage. workaround repair involving replacing a belt should be straightforward to do in here in whitehorse)

finally cleared up enough to see some aurora from our campsite in the yukon… 🇨🇦

Well, it is the first day of Autumn. 😂

oktoberfest in valdez is a jol.

the perfect amount of musical decisions while driving was the daft punk cd that was permanently stuck in the broken single disk cd player.

the van is on a boat… ⛴️

denali was showing out today, even from over 130 miles away…

last full day in our creek-side home in anchorage and it’s a stunner. next stop, whittier. then on to valdez…

This should have been a national holiday 3x3 / 4x4 / 3x3x5x5x3x3

back from our monsoon hiatus next week on a new day (wednesday instead of tuesday) and in a brand new location: zerai's international bar. zerai's is part of the new Z street complex along with zemam's ethiopian cuisine and zedamo coffee & tea.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

The fact that people who should know better can’t tell the difference between what Kirk did on one hand and “civil discourse” on the other is a sign of what a bad state our “civil discourse” is in these days.

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

Another thing: the people lining up to say “but he was nice to *me*” are to a person white guys in powerful positions. I got news for you: he did not respect your ideas, he respected your power and enjoyed proximity to it. Of course he was nice to you.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

wow. i guess magic is real.

iykyk

The Buffalo Bills stole that game like it was in the Ocean’s Eleven franchise

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

It started taking the piss, how did it end up like this? (It was only the piss) It was only the piss Now I'm right bloody chuffed and she's calling me naff While he's popped round the chip and she's havin’ a laff

anchorage elevator art

here he comes…

the silence from all light aircraft being grounded around anchorage is quite eerie…

this chap was unbothered by all the shenanigans going on in anchorage this week…

plane-spotting in anchorage is always fascinating. this week, especially so…

a few faves: AMS - consistently nearly friction-less plane seat to train seat in under 20 min with only brief pause at passport control. MKE - recombobulation zones inbound, 12-packs of spotted cow outbound. SEA - pre-book your security screening to skip lines, gratis and no tsa-pre required.

seriously styin’ motorcycles in girdwood, ak…

after grabbing some cheeky beers in girdwood, we rolled into our campsite just in time to catch the bore tide roll by. alaska continues to not suck.

camping in alaska is terrible. stay away.

fun to be at the end of a 9 km long sand spit when you get a tsunami alert on your phone 😬 (we’re fine and it will miss where we are in ak)

just a normal alaskan lunch view

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

Ethiopian War Pigs cover!!!

56 Years Ago Today:

dude is ripping off jack fokken parow who pioneered this look over 15 years ago... www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRzF... 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

EACH RICH PERSON MUST SPIN THE DIAL OF DESTINY

i guess if we were to drop an album, this otter be the cover… (after my 10th otter pun, the pilot threw a snowball at me 😂)

denali, properly experienced

I did some research and reporting to try to understand why Elon turning Grok "anti-woke" also made it into MechaHitler, some interesting stuff in the guts of LLMs. feat @theophite.bsky.social prospect.org/power/2025-0...