My head hurts.

it’s extremely bad that it’s so guilt free to enjoy this real suffering, but the evil witch inside my soul does need to feed and this is delicious

Looking a bit cartoony out here ngl

Amidst it all: So nice to wake up to this thoughtful review of #GhostsofDistantTrees, by Elizabeth Austin for @hippocampusmag.bsky.social "Ghosts...is a book about learning to see what’s really there, not what the postcard tells you to look for." www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/01/revi...

👇This is a really important read about BSNC Alaska Native Corporation shareholders organizing to divest from ICE contracts, including a delivered petition. #Alaskasky www.nomenugget.net/news/shareho...

I think that her being a white woman "mouthing off" to him is part of the trigger. He already likely felt "disrespected" by her wife earlier. To me, this explains some white people's "she had it coming" attitude. How DARE a white woman not submit to his authority? He had to put her in her place.

“i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—“ 💔

I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.

I know I missed December and should shut up but lemme get in on this just once

“i repeated & scribbled until it picked its way & stagnated somewhere i can’t point to anymore, maybe my gut—“ 💔

Black people five years ago: you know, they can kill anyone they want to out there Everybody today: hot damn, did you know they can kill anyone they want to out there?

Me to all my AZ friends: visit any time, any season! It’s magical! I have so much to show you! Me upon returning: cool, the windshield crack has grown & there’s frost on the inside, can’t see for shit, oh, did this break too? Thx for telling me. Why is nothing open. No I don’t wanna talk to anyone

Just #FairbanksAlaska things. Some #FROGTIFA fruitcakes at the UAF sign…

Tucson protest. End US imperialism.

Love this profile of my publisher, @porphyrypress.bsky.social! "...piecing it together, getting by in the woods"

Anyone want to fund emergency documentary coverage of 1 or 2 urgent & emerging issues? 1.) people w/o health coverage or unsure about their coverage in Alaska, the State w/ the highest premiums & health costs in the 🇺🇸 bc of Congress’ failure to extend tax credits for ACA & bc of Medicaid backlogs;

Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital

New year’s rainbow isn’t ready to commit to it just yet

2025 reading list COMPLETE. I’m a kinda slow reader, & this year was particularly fragmented (kept picking things up & putting them down for reasons that weren’t abt the books at all). If they appear here I found some value in them (sometimes even if it’s petty & personal 😅). Some highlights in 🧵

Sometimes I write a newsletter. Here's the latest, featuring trees, 14 lb turkeys, and book events: www.ericarobinwatson.com/campaigns/vi...

the same people who blame "bad voters" for political outcomes also elide how white people who vote actually vote. It's interesting.

Nature writer celeb content: right after the '08 election in a Moab coffee shop line w my brother, & the Bush 2s & Obamas were on the front page of a newspaper. I sd to by bro, "that's an awkward photo." The person behind me sd "awkward is the perfect word for it," & it was Terry Tempest Williams

"But is environmentalism out of ideas? Not exactly. The problem, as I see it, is narrower: some of the wealthiest environmental organizations in the US are relying on Silent Spring persuasion tactics in a Braiding Sweetgrass world." -Michelle Nijhuis conservationworks.substack.com/p/is-environ...

"This kind of music discovery delights people...Sometimes they start telling me about rediscovering their old CD collection, or wanting to track down an old iPod Classic to experience their music library away from the surveillance and excess of big tech platforms." www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s...

Anyway, I’ve been eating burritos and hanging with the niblings and these trees & being every cliché of a millennial visiting family for the holidays but I’m re-engaging now, hi

Yet another airport gate employee lying about facial recognition being mandatory. If you’re a US citizen, you CAN refuse.

i am once again reminding my liberal family and friends that every time you see a kid with a doll or pick up a pencil you don't have to reference a dumb thing tr*mp said jfc

Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska Saa Dzé’edeex Dé’ "Winter Solstice"; literary when the sun divides Wunenh Nach’ehjedh "December" Nach’imbâal Dzeen "Christmas"; refers to an old custom of giving/receiving gifts at the darkest time of year. Dzeen Chox "Christmas" post-gold rush term

"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few." Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.

@psabortionfund.bsky.social are far behind in their year end fundraising. Times are hard. We are who we have. Please support their work. donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...

"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few." Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.

i'm starting to think Erika K paid the guy to do it...

Buy the book.

"here's some plum jam from plums i got from ___, I think you've met her, her son's a cop, i know you don't like cops, but you knew him when he was a kid, i guess you didn't like him then either. Anyway he has chickens, & ___ gave me plums when i went to get eggs. I think it needs more sugar" -my mom

Holiday movie where a small town girl visits her hometown from an even smaller town that isn’t even a town really and stares at an uprooted juniper for days or weeks or years and the town grows around her, this all used to be forest, she says, to no one

The #PrairieBandPotawatomi Nation Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick issued a statement via a YouTube video late Wednesday afternoon to tribal members announcing that the nation and its subsidiaries have fully divested from the $29.9 million U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement #ICE... Read More ⬇️

Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport

My parents left me in a house with an amaz*n Alexa and a hammer and

I wrote about the multiple tragedies of the last few days, Hanukkah, Trump and how the forces of light and dark are trapped in a battle for our souls.

I still have not figured out how to fly from Fbx to Phx midwinter without dressing like an absolute psycho at one end or the other

about time

Something is shifting somewhere

"The motivating force behind American career fascism wd appear to be wanderlust. My conversations w prospective ...officers tended to follow the familiar script of engagement w the most banal ppl on Tinder,the kinds of ppl who post airplane emojis in their bios." www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...

No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.

I’m finally laying down after being in motion all day, & realizing my head still feels like I’m driving in the crosswinds through wasilla. That was unreal. Planning to head back north tomorrow but 😳

I didn’t get a picture but if I had I’d show you the full moon perched on Denali’s shoulder from my drive south this morning

"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!

WHAT the moon is even bigger tonight I cannot