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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 23h

Fairbanks 530-730pm Halloween, prime trick or treat hours, and it’s straight up raining and above freezing. I can find no prior occurrence of such wretchedness. Halloween 1970 closest, with temps in the upper 30s but the rain came after 9pm. #akwx @leahwrenn.bsky.social @tomhewittnews.bsky.social

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 1d

My FB memories from late October are full of ice fishing photos. Sigh.

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Security Cryptography Whatever @scwpod.bsky.social · 1d

NEW EPISODE!

Apple did a new security thing for their latest phones with memory integrity enforcement, we did a deep a dive as we could given that we couldn't get anyone from Apple to come on our podcast 😭

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
open.spotify.com/episode/0DhC...
youtu.be/9FJwOI2PliU

Apple’s Memory Integrity Enforcement

YouTube video by Security Cryptography Whatever

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 3d

The President wants to use the military to crack down on Americans who are exercising their 1st Amendment rights to oppose him. I can’t think of a better reason to insist on exercising those rights.

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Ivan Moore @alaskasurvey.bsky.social · 4d

Mary Peltola is beating Dan Sullivan by 2 pts in our most recent US Senate survey. Why?

Sullivan wins 87-9 among conservatives.

Peltola wins 97-2 among progressives.

So Sullivan's boat is leakier...

But among moderates (41% of the voting population), Peltola is winning by a whopping 58-32. Ouch!

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 3d

I just saw that neither Dan nor Lisa joined the new bipartisan Senate Stewardship Caucus to protect public lands.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

Federation ≠ decentralization.

This is a key misunderstanding & it's concerning. The infra on which a federated protocols/systems run must still be maintained/provisioned by someone. As we saw w all the 'decentralized' chains going down last week, such infra is often licensed from hyperscalers.

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 5d

2/ Anyway, IETF "presentations" are supposed to be discussions. So, as it so often does, it comes down to chairing, not to the people with time on the agenda.

Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 5d

1/ A bunch of years ago I gave a paper at a conference where another author was from Japan and spoke no English, had had his paper transliterated so he could read it. Things went south very quickly during questions.

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 5d

This is an opportunity to help and reach people all over the state. @thealaskadems.bsky.social and Democrat candidates and the #akleg

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks! Years ago I found that it was the best way to get a handle on who's running qualifiers, etc., and what to expect from the race season. (I think reactions to last year's Iditarod might have been different if folks could see how teams had done in other races they'd run that season, too)

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 6d

Updated the combined race roster to include the Two Rivers 100 and the Two Rivers 200. There are now 12 races covered. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Race rosters, 2025-2026

docs.google.com

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Alaska's News Source @alaskasnewssource.com · 7d

Watch the full hour-long special on the devastation of former Typhoon Halong and what happens next for those Alaskans impacted by the powerful storm. WATCH HERE 👉 https://tinyl.co/3sDo

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Andy Kostrub @andrewkostrub.bsky.social · 10d

Updating my LEGO White House

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Antisocial Bog Witch @boggywitch.bsky.social · 10d

Within DAYS for Merbok. Biden signed it as soon as it was requested by governor in 2022.

KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 10d

Federal declarations sometimes come within days of a disaster, as was the case when the remnants of Typhoon Merbok struck in 2022. Or, as occurred with three Alaska disasters last year, the federal declaration can come months later.

(From @alaskapublic.org)

What's in a disaster declaration? One big detail matters for storm survivors.

Only a few Alaska disasters have qualified for a federal program that distributes as much as $85,000 per household.

www.ktoo.org

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 10d

Alaska squirrels can out-pudge Texas squirrels every day of the week and then some. This is Stumpy (of the abbreviated tail) who spent entirely too much time at our bird feeders.

Pudgy squirrel on a snow-covered spruce branch

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 11d

rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com/2025/10/taka...

Takaichi Sanae: Japan's First Woman Prime Minister

Quantum computing, quantum Internet, Japan, astrophotography

rdvlivefromtokyo.blogspot.com

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 11d

Oh! Also in Fairbanks, Apocalypse Design. *The* place to go for extreme cold weather gear, and I think pretty much everybody in Fairbanks has at least one item they've gotten there.

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

Cold Spot Feeds, in Fairbanks, which is probably the best dog mushing outfitter anywhere but is also the busiest place in town for pet owners in general. Everything from runner plastic to high-density kibbles to gerbil bedding.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12d

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

President George W. Bush being informed about the second plane reaction jpg

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Melinda @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 12d

Wyze AI tagged this uninvited visitor as “pet”

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 13d

Y'all 😂 was not expecting that. Best No Kings protest. Has got to be the highest* protesters to population ratio in the US!

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMaqwB2k/

*Bettles has 23 people