Congratulations! It's such a great story - so well deserved!

“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.

I may work on my own list before looking at the staff lists. I usually end up submitting a mix of some popular ones that I also really like and the oddball ones that I love and possibly no one else will vote for. Although I may be tempted to pick 10 from I'm Your Fan, the Leonard Cohen cover album.😂

Thanks! I'll check it out. As I've been thinking on it, I have started coming up with a brainstorm list, too. I actually also own several albums of cover songs that I forgot I had until this morning. 🙂

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"