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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 19h

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 19h

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...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 15h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 6h

This sucks.

Now I wonder how all these Tragedeighs will fare in the future.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 6h

Yes, I've seen govt computer systems that required any of the following:
-a middle name or initial
-a surname of 3 characters or more

The same fields on diff documents have max 15 characters, some 22.

And that's all front-end, to say nothing of how it gets stored.

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 10h

A typhoon hit the west coast of Alaska and several homes and communities have been washed out. Most of the communities are indigenous, so…no press coverage.

They also can’t count on FEMA.

Sad and ridiculous.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 6h

I don't trust any of them, but esp not Mace. She's the most Stefanik of them.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 6h

Even today, there are ppl whose names show up differently on different documents. This is why "no match" voter clauses are so evil and effective.

If you're Thai? Forget about it.

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 8h

Lots of us have great-grandparents names who were absolutely changed when they came here, and when people say otherwise, they're assuming your great-grandparents name was in the Roman alphabet.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 8h

Now, more than ever, it's important to understand why so many the myths we tell ourselves about immigration are actually very harmful.

First of all, your great-great-grandparents names *were not changed* at Ellis Island. No one there had the authority to do that.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 7h

They way I'd pay good money to see this come from MTG 🍿

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · Oct 18

If you still need to share a link to a tweet, but don't want to send people to Musk's cesspool - replace "x" with "xcancel" in the tweet link.

For example x.com/dril/status/...

becomes xcancel.com/dril/status/...

People will still see the tweet, but without going to Twitter.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 14h

Excellent thread. Also: are most of the libertarian places in the US out west?

Arizona and Nevada are two that are top of mind. Yes, New Hampshire, but that's the only New England outpost that I can think of.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 17h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, who went viral on the "Humans of New York" account by sharing stories about her life as a burlesque dancer in the 1970s, has died

A photo of Stephanie "Tanqueray" Johnson, sitting down, holding a photo of herself

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 17h

This cat looks like it's wearing a cat fur coat of his enemies

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 17h

Why is the NYT not interviewing them in diners?

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 18h

Hopsters! *Snort laugh*

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1d

The inflatables have made it to Broadview.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 18h

Him and Mike Rowe coming out R belatedly tainted my TV watching in the aughts

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It's Gloria! @smilodonichthys.bsky.social · 1d

Oh we posting brassica memes?

Ladies Get you a fella who can do it all

And it's a illustration showing the wild version of Brassica oleracea with arrows pointing to different vegetables it had been bred into.

Cabbage, selection for terminal buds. Brussels sprouts, selection for lateral buds. Kohlrabi, selection for stem. Kale, selection for leaves. Broccoli, selection for stems and flowers. Cauliflower, selection for flower clusters.

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 18h

This is just a genealogy map of European royalty

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 19h

(it's projection)

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah but McCarthy was an institutionalist. I think he would've kept to more of the norms than this one. And there are even worse options waiting in the wings.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

We need a Senator Emeritus role where they still get to go to events and feel important but that gives them a graceful retirement route

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

"About a decade ago, formerly feuding factions decided to overlook their differences in order to ruin the world."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

"My end notes are dead ends" - archive and document on physical paper

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 1d

"About a decade ago, formerly feuding factions decided to overlook their differences in order to ruin the world."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/panopticon...

PanoptiCon Artists: Your Questions Answered

On digital surveillance, ICE city raids, the need for new parties, and more.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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Caroline Fan @carolinefan.bsky.social · 1d

It's so good as popsicles tho