A year of #GoodMorningFromSaskatoon. A photo almost every* work day from Oct ’24 to Oct ‘25. Blue sky and clouds, sunlight and street lights, sea smoke and fire smoke, advance and retreat of the ice, sunrise at 4:45AM to sunrise at 9:15AM… so many things to see from this one spot (*210 pics) 😁📷

People who are dismissing these protests are missing the courage required for folks to show up to a #nokings event in small, rural, predominantly Republican communities. These people spend a lot of social capital to show up with signs and it’s really, really inspiring.

Folks have been focused on the developing disaster in southwest Alaska, but America's farthest-west community is suffering, too: Adak has been without power for two weeks because of problems with the local generator. www.kucb.org/regional/202...

“The North is calling on you to see us”… www.adn.com/opinions/202...

140 people in Petersburg, Alaska, population 3,000 in the cold rain say #nokings

ooh well done

A big question now is: why isn't FEMA in western Alaska? Because they have not been deployed. Gov. Dunleavy has requested a federal disaster declaration, and Alaska is waiting to hear back. In the meantime, it's all local, tribal and state led relief efforts. alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/17/m...

this is why I think the admin spending all week yelling about a “hate America” rally was stupid anyone who tunes in gets to see funny signs, joyful crowds and shit like “an enormous constitution being carried to the White House” this is a crowd that loves America and wants it to be better

When I start to feel bad about not being able to attend I remember that Joni Mitchell wrote the protest anthem Woodstock after watching the festival on TV from her hotel room.

35 people and 5 dogs in Seldovia.

#NoKings Fairbanks Alaska

#nokings Wasilla Alaska

Peaceably Assembled in Bethel, Alaska! #NoKings

Hundreds gather at Juneau, Alaska’s Overstreet Park amid rain and fog for the local No Kings protest on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2025. (Photo by James Brooks/Alaska Beacon)

No Kings protest in Gustavus Alaska today with over 90 people! A great turnout for our little town despite the rain. #NoKings, #Alaska

#NoKings Juneau, Alaska

My neighborhood, my Island! Wrangell Alaska! NO KINGS! Only king salmon & king crab & kingfishers. 🐟 🦀 🐦 #AlaskaSky #Alaska #NoKings #Wrangell #SoutheastAlaska

I have friends everywhere. #NoKings

Alaska communities rallying today for the nationwide No Kings protest - Gustavus, Dillingham, Soldotna, Fairbanks, Juneau, Wasilla, Kotz, Valdez, Anchorage and who else!? Send us your photos! Tag community + photographer name - [email protected] www.marchagainst.org/whenwhere

There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window. Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat. "Oi!" I called. "The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it." Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.

One thing folks are going to need, strangely enough, will be storage totes. Families are left, in too many cases, with nothing else except what they were able to carry to shelter. As relief supplies come in they will need something to keep stuff in.

World Central Kitchen’s Relief Team is in Alaska, where Typhoon Halong left a devastating wake of flooding and destruction in remote coastal cities. Our teams will be serving first responders and impacted families. We’ll share more information soon. #ChefsForAlaska 📸 ABC News

If you're able, please consider a donation to the Alaska Community Fund to help people in western Alaska impacted by ex-typhoon Halong even as winter is bearing down. All the money donated goes to the region. Quyana. #Alaska #AlaskaSky alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities. alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

“Troopers have received secondhand reports of people who are unaccounted for in Kipnuk and are continuing to work with local officials to verify and confirm how many people are missing,” DPS wrote.”

KTOO 360TV will once again carry this year's First Alaskans Institute Elders & Youth Conference. Watch live starting Sunday at 3:00 p.m. How to watch => www.ktoo.org/360TV/where-...

@carolinemyoachim.bsky.social's WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ | WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO READ wins the #2025IgnyteAwards in Outstanding Short Story www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/we-w...

The National Weather Service Alaska Region is doing very thorough briefings on the storm's progress on Youtube - Forecasts for Sun night, into Monday and Tuesday. Eye of the storm hitting Kotzebue Sound now. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rss_...

Notably, local schools are serving as emergency shelter + evacuation centers throughout coastal communities hit by remnants of Typhoon Halong in Western Alaska - www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...

On the way home from the barn I heard a This American Life piece by a guy who had an AI clone of himself call his friends to have conversations and I would just like to state now that if anyone ever does this to me, we will no longer be friends. WTF is this world where we outsource all interaction?

I’m working the phones for KDLL’s fall membership drive this morning! Call 907-513-1996 and support local news on the Kenai Peninsula!

Yesterday Juneau voted to significantly cut the taxes to the local municipality. I can’t understand how the electorate is so easily swayed by rhetoric and lies, at all levels. The next few months and years are going to be difficult as our Assembly has to choose what city services live and die.

We want to support educators by sharing our love of diverse books. So this October, 2% of every sale at Mysterious Galaxy will be donated to local teachers to help them build classroom libraries filled with diverse books for their students.

Hooray! I look forward to this event every year. I might have to work a little harder to come up with my list this year, since I don’t always pay attention to whether a song is a cover or the original version.

Do you remember, the 21st night of September? Tonight’s the night!

22-26 episode seasons. And bottle episodes. Love a bottle episode.

We announce the theme for this year’s 885 countdown on Friday, Sept 26 at 4pm. Our Music Detective Eric Schuman is on a clue-finding mission for the theme. Let the guessing games begin.

I know @pat.alaskarobotics.com has written about it, but there's a pretty good op-ed in the @juneauindependent.bsky.social today about the ballot measures in the city's upcoming election: www.juneauindependent.com/post/we-know... #akleg #Alaska

The world has been especially dark this week and the new baby tapir at the Calgary Zoo has been cheering me up.

Great LTE! Letter: Alaska needs to join West Coast Health Alliance now www.adn.com/opinions/let...

🚨 SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 18. Millions of Americans took to the streets in June to drown out Trump’s birthday parade. As Trump’s regime escalates his authoritarian power grab, we’re gathering again on 10/18 for a nationwide day of peaceful protests to say NO KINGS: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

ICYMI: (This time with the correct release date!) Weston Wei's delightful cover for my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space, animated! Repairing physics that has gone awry! Delicious food! Choices no one should ever have to make! Release date: 4/7/2026

Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...

Ok, that's a good little tag.

the thing that's so fucking infuriating about this is how much more that matters for the bottom 10% $1200 can be life or death at that level of income top 10%? $13K is nice, to be sure, but it's "maybe we'll take another vacation" nice not "oh good now we can afford to eat this month"

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Not just infusing joy into a high-stakes mayoral race at a dark time, but doing it in a way that builds community & reminds participants (& everyone they'll excitedly tell about it tomorrow) what they're fighting for [their city] and why [because they love it]. I! LOVE!! THIS!!! SO!!!! MUCH!!!!!

Oh my goodness! Thank you everyone for bringing me to 99% of my goal! I'm less than $600 away from it now! Almost there!

As of 2025, @naomikritzer.bsky.social has joined an exclusive club of only 21 authors who have earned at least four Hugo Awards in the prose categories (novel, novella, novelette, short story, or series). It's the same number of wins that Heinlein managed.