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CeeJay Johnson-Yellow Hawk @adriftalchemist.bsky.social · 18h

UPDATE FROM SHISHMAREF:

“The government delayed funds for our projects for sea wall... We cannot keep protecting with sea wall against Mother Nature… Cannot stop rising sea levels. Wish our fed and state agencies can help all the communities in danger of flooding and erosion”

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning. There is rime all over the landscape. Options for today include Fiber Fest, Hamfest, “no kings” sign making party, practicing my cello, and making edits to a student paper that I really wanted to have done yesterday.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Good point. It implies that one is just as selfish or corrupt as the other rather than that there’s a conversation to be had about how to better achieve the, presumably shared, virtuous goals.

Olivia Waite @oliviawaite.com · 1d

The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 1d

Dunno about "for all eternity". I went to Wikipedia to refresh my memory, and apparently he's been inspired to run for Congress again, now in Florida, next year.

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · 2d

There's been a lot of talk about missing NWS upper air obs in recent months, but not as much specifically about AK. Thanks to @alaskawx.bsky.social I have a discussion today about the increasingly concerning situation there, and why it impacts all of us. More: tinyurl.com/bdeebmn6

A high-impact weather weekend in store

Major coastal impacts for the East with serious flash flooding risks in the Southwest. Also, a deep dive into the state of the NWS upper air network in Alaska.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 2d

If there's any kind of massaged dataset that shows this it's probably some sort of confounding variable that links rates of diagnosis with prevalence of having a kid circumcised

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

Yereth Rosen writing about concrete policy as it affects people and nature.

Alaska Beacon @alaskabeacon.com · 3d

Government shutdown creates uncertainty for fisheries management in waters off Alaska, reports Yereth Rosen for the @alaskabeacon.com

alaskabeacon.com/2025/10/09/g...

Government shutdown creates uncertainty for fisheries management in waters off Alaska | Alaska Beacon

A prolonged shutdown could limit the ability to get adequate information in time to set the 2026 groundfish harvest levels.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

It is, but the reason homicide and terrorism get reported on is not chiefly because you might die from them and even less to make you better informed about potentially risky behaviors or symptoms.

It's more a conversation starter than indicative of any particularly salient, specific point.

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Sarah Lawton @sarahelawton.bsky.social · 4d

“One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, ‘Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job,’” said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. “Everybody chants that.” ⚓️

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

Wanna learn more about the pastor in this photo?

I talked to him yesterday.

He's currently part of a lawsuit against DHS, in part due to this exact moment: religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

📢 D.C.: Help us track what’s happening.

Are you or were you a federal worker? Do you know someone who is?

You can reach us at propublica.org/tips or 917-512-0201 on Signal.

Close-up of a D.C. metro ad. Tagline reads: "There are thousands of federal staffers with stories to tell. Share yours. Signal: 917-512-0201. propublica.org/tips." Background illustration shows a man in a dark suit standing on an escalator that's heading out of the metro station, holding his phone out as he looks back.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 3d

I guess Tanana counts (it has antepenultimate stress - nearly all tourists get it wrong). Further south, Tlingit.

And of course Mt McKinley when referring to the mountain. It's /dɪˈnɑːli/ .

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 3d

Wednesday early afternoon: mandatory evacuation for the entire city of Kotzebue (posted on the city FB page) for expected coastal flooding later today. No roads in or out of Kotz, so in this case, evacuation means go to the High School. #akwx #weatther #Alaska

City of Kotzebue Mandatory Evacuation Order Issued 1205pm October 8, 2025. Due to incoming storm.water surge, the City of Kotzebue is issuing a mandatory evacuation order for all residents, effective immediately.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 4d

A windrose would work maybe (polar histogram).

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 4d

Congrats! I've more than once been cutting it very close, but it's always worked out. Great options are services like PosterSmith that deliver to your hotel, or taking a thumb drive to a local print shop who often print it more cheaply and while you wait (tho rarely on fabric).

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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 5d

FWIW I've written to the Irish Minister for Justice - an enthusiastic supporter of Europe's hideous "chat control" phone-scanning proposal - asking him to imagine when that technology is used against him.

If you're German, please, PLEASE write to your justice/interior minister today.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

Me, too. I know of 5 more UAF colleagues who naturalized since April. (Most are German like myself, and Germany made dual citizenship easier last year, so that's a cause too.)

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 5d

Valuable info about the Physics Nobel Prize today from Prof. Joseph Barranco at SFSU on Martinis and Devoret being a grad student and postdoc in Clarke's lab at UC Berkeley & Clark and Devoret being immigrants. "California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen." ⚛️

Joseph Barranco posted on social media: Go Bears! Nobel Prize in Physics goes to 3 physicists studying mesoscopic quantum phenomena... Work was done in the 1980s in UC Berkeley Professor John Clarke's lab with his graduate student John Martinis and postdoctoral fellow Michel Devoret... all 3 share the Nobel Prize. Must also point out that both Clarke and Devoret are immigrants from the UK and France, respectively. All 3 are pioneers in the race to build the most powerful quantum supercomputers. California *public* education made this happen. Immigration made this happen.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

Reporting from Two Rivers, AK - first time voting since getting naturalized (borough assembly and school board seats).

A round sticker in dark red, white, dark blue with the text VOTE LOCAL, I VOTED! and OUR TOWN YOUR VOTE and the Alaska flag with a golden star marking the location of the Fairbanks North Star Borough.

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Princess Daazhraii Johnson @princessdaazhraii.bsky.social · 5d

As this administration guts climate science & mitigation efforts in the midst of a climate emergency & opens #Alaska to more extraction - we are all left to suffer the consequences. @rick any data on amount of rainfall lately & potential impacts?

Carrie Nash @carrieinfbx.bsky.social · 6d

Huslia today.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

I still don't get what the basis is for your conclusion that the OP is ignorant of other (non-US) healthcare systems.

(For the record , I've lived, been insured in, and received heath care in 4 countries, the US and three in W Europe. I'm broadly familiar with a few more.)

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

You said " It is beyond confusing that you didn't know about the excellent types of public health systems around the world". I wonder where you get that from.

Also Bernie never struck me as particularly knowledgeable in the nitty-gritty of the vast spectrum of systems FWIW.

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

Huh? Where do you get that from?

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

You are generating ideas to help the Trump administration now? Is that very smart?

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

Scroll down for New! Robes! ... as well as some info on the German constitutional court.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

i had no idea this is how canada's supreme court dresses

Nine members of the Canadian Supreme Court sitting for a photo. They are dressed in red robes trimmed in white.

Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 5d

Two senates of 8 each. 12 year term limits. Mandatory retirement at 68.

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