When surveillance companies sell their technology to the government for hundreds of thousands of dollars, the public has the right to know. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The number of people in Alaska who are outraged at the need for a passport when they cross into Canada (a foreign and sovereign nation) is boggling. Especially considering how many of these same people have opinions on the borders of the United States. Why yes, I am in line at the post office.

Also big shout out to @gavelalaska.bsky.social coverage. Now, more than ever, they need our support to provide this essential coverage of the #akleg www.ktoo.org/donate

Hey gang, my Clarke Award shortlisted novel SEA OF RUST is on sale for just $1.99 this week. Got two bones? Get the book Esquire Magazine called one of the best 75 science fiction novels ever written. Quite literally one of my favorite things I've ever put to paper for less than the price of a soda!

@alaskannah.bsky.social has written an excellent and much-needed LTE. Please read and share. The Golden Rule www.newsminer.com/opinion/lett...

Teach your children about Johnny Telephoneseed

I leave the info for those who have died in my address book as a way to be reminded of them randomly, when it’s a nice memory. Poignant, but it’s good to be reminded of those who still bring a smile. That being said, I think today I will finally delete the card of Nordstrom Anchorage. It’s time

OK, enough drowning myself in miserable homicidal politics on my personal bsky… I’m thinking of taking my new funky medieval sled dog illustration, and turning the individual dogs into stickers. Whaddya think?

I’m Scandinavian death cleaning and finding some things I’m not quite ready to dispose of. But I do like the grouping of my UA medal (got an award), my WorldCon ribbon and the badge on a lanyard from the time I was designated as Media at a UAF event. I did use hashtags at the event!

✨The Sunburst Society is pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Award. We are delighted that the longlist highlights the diversity, quality, and scope of contemporary Canadian literature of the fantastic published in 2024. www.sunburstaward.org

When someone engages in addiction transfer activities such as going from alcoholism to ultra running it's fascinating how many are cool with the change in compulsive activity but don't follow through to address the issues that drive compulsion. Eh, gotta get that dopamine one way or another.

Let’s talk about my new game book, conceived and written by @paintingmoreorcs.bsky.social, with additional writing by me! It’s a Bronze Age Lost World heist! An eccentric art collector has hired the adventurers to steal a statue back from another collector who stole it from him first.

@burntumberak.bsky.social FYI

A fun day is when you say hi to @alaskatravelgram.bsky.social and enjoy his bonhomie. He’s in Fairbanks today and he’s a genuinely nice person.

Presidential budget is out. Here's NSF. Biggest cut, by amount, is $1 billion, or 66.8%, from MPS (Physics & Math directorate). nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

For now - the shop is all stocked up, and I'm doing my best to show things off. (Thank you all for your support, you've all been awesome.) Over 30 different pendants ready to ship: oishiny.etsy.com Each one comes in a gift box with free international shipping.

On NSF Grant Terminations- even if your termination letter says that you cannot appeal, there is a legal basis for you to appeal within 30 days in PPAPG www.nsf.gov/policies/pap... and in Uniform Guidance 200.340 www.ecfr.gov/current/titl.... Appeal and send a message!

If you a member of law enforcement in America, you should have to show your face. This practice of masking by ICE and affiliated federal law enforcement needs to end. What are they so afraid of in New Jersey? What are they so ashamed of that they don't want their faces to be seen?

My very first novel TRAIL OF LIGHTNING is on Kindle sale. It was a Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy award finalist and it won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Maybe check it out! 💙⚡️🤘🏽

McGrath, Alaska joins Kotzebue with no more upper air observations. Yakutat and Bethel down to one launch a day. Shemya is a Dept. of Defense site. More reductions coming. #akwx #weather #NOAA @climatologist49.bsky.social

This is so thoroughly for me specifically.

Hear directly from some of the reporters and editors of our Pulitzer-winning “Life of the Mother” series — which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans — as they reflect on their stories, their process and the lessons they’ve learned. Read more: propub.li/3F1plXT

ok now we got entering *and* leaving the room all covered

@obscurelynikki.bsky.social Finally went and checked my mail. C’est tres adorable. Merci beau coups.

Hi, my name is Tania and I almost created a car accident today staring at a plane wondering “Is that a KC-135 landing at Fairbanks International Airport? Because it doesn’t quite look right for that aircraft but it’s certainly military. Maybe for Aviation Day on Saturday? OH HECK RED LIGHT!!”

Huh. I've been paying federal taxes since the 1980s (before I was a legal adult) & though I don't go on dates, I was married for a long time & do socialize & even occasionally engage in *ahem* intimate behaviors. Dude, don't project your shortcomings. You're not like us.

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

Texts from the nine year-old niece fill me with hope for the future. She’s terrifying. And that’s part of what fills me with hope.

Not only does the FDIC not fall under executive branch control - IT DOESN'T EVEN USE TAXPAYER MONEY. IT'S SELF-FUNDED. DOGE is lying about their purpose. They are a nihilistic attempt to destroy the government due to a belief that all government not in the service of oligarchy is bad.

Hey #Alaska and #Fairbanks - one of our own!

ICYMI! Voting for the Locus Awards? Uncanny Magazine is eligible for a Locus Award in the Best Magazine category, and Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas are eligible in the Best Editor category! Vote here: poll.voting.locusmag.com

Any of my writing world people at the Whiting Awards reception? I’m the tall one in Fluevogs. I’m entourage for a recipient.

Hey Fairbanks, if anyone is awake, there’s a pretty decently bright stripe of Aurora overhead right now

There is so much I am grieving. I know many are annoyed by April Fools Day, but I always enjoy its silly & whimsical nature. Mean spirited pranks, no. Bullies are never to be tolerated. My small anticipation of the clever & funny is gone. I'm exhausted & on egg shells on the daily. I resent that.

I love Tanya Huff's work (those Canadian writers speak to my Alaskan soul, I'm also looking at you Michelle Sagara/West and Julie Czerneda) and just bought the ebook version through Bookshop.org

OH HECK YEAH! Oh, this is an excellent choice and a recognition of a tremendous person.

@gregvaneekhout.bsky.social Watched Dogman the Movie w/ the niblings last night, they’ve read all the books. When the ball with Greg written on it showed up they said “Hey, you give us books by a man named Greg who likes dogs!” I said that’s true, & I think Greg would be ok with this association

Full house this afternoon at our community house in Sheet’ká (Sitka, Alaska) to recognize and honor the late Tlingit code talker Louis Kaachdáx Minard Including the presentation of the Tlingit Code Talkers Silver Medal by Senator Lisa Murkowski

Tomorrow at 1 pm, the National Weather Service in Anchorage will implement new zone boundaries. For Anchorage, it means splitting the existing zone into two. 1) Anchorage and 2) Anchorage Hillside / Eagle River. The boundaries are Birch Rd. in south Anchorage and the 415' contour in Eagle River.

The only dating advice I can offer involves stable isotope analysis, stratigraphy, and palynology.

Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏

Over the past several weeks, ProPublica has identified dozens of people who worked for DOGE. #ICYMI: We just added 20 names to our tracker, bringing the total to 66.

@davidhulen.bsky.social Thank you. Thank you for being thoughtful, being conscientious, holding truth to power and advocating for those whose voices are ignored, overlooked and perceived by many as having less value. I know you aren’t fully retired yet, but I hope you get there soon.

ATTN AK FIRED FEDS: the AK ACLU has compiled a legal team to potentially bring a wrongful termination lawsuit in AK. Please take 10-15 minutes to do this survey so they are better able to consider possible litigation & determine plaintiffs. DEADLINE: 3/18/25 survey at forms.office.com/r/zPWJZjWLm6

I have been crafting budgets for projects since I was in my early 20s. I can calc the fully loaded cost of an employee without blinking an eye. When I pay an employee for a holiday or pto it doesn’t cost me any more on those days then it does when people are on the clock. These people can’t math

Hugo noms are about to close. You might consider my work. 🙏 Derail: www.bourbonpenn.com/issue/34/der... To Drive the Cold Winter Away: strangehorizons.com/fiction/to-d... My short-form editing work @thedeadlands.com and @psychopomp.com. And much more. ecatherine.com/bibliography/

I’m going to need all of you to do a FAR better job spreading the word about this film when we finally come to cinema screens! 😅