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a gremlin of sorts

📍 Alaska | Alutiiq/Sugpiak lands
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erly-am.bsky.social
Making martyrs out of mothers is not what I thought would be weighing on me tonight. But here we are.
January 8, 2026 at 7:11 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
Baby’s first gauge swatch! As soon as it dries I’m frogging and starting my first sweater (it’s still attached to the skein)
A knitting swatch of a light grayish blue alpaca & wool blend yarn still hanging from the circular needles with a wooden gauge ruler lying across the top. It matches the gauge for the pattern, so I am very excited to start!
December 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
Today I walked 5 miles on a frozen lake to see a glacier
Looking down at my feet (with my Steiger mukluks) at an open section of ice, the cracks going at least 1’ deep, and the water a rich deep green blue below An early picture looking down lake towards portage glacier, some sparse pink clouds dotting the sky, all the peaks and snow still in shadows as the sun is just barely starting to rise somewhere behind the mountains A bit further down the lake, on the east side on a wide open patch of ice, the sun still below the mountains, my dog wearing her mushing booties investigating some cracks Portage glacier from about a half mile away from where I’m standing in the middle of the far end of the lake. Dry snow covers the ice and makes snowdrifts everywhere. Sun still hasn’t risen yet, everything is early blue hour
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
erly-am.bsky.social
About to play monopoly with people I’m related to wish me luck
December 26, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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leepetersen.bsky.social
Some of the most intense and vivid light pillars I've seen on the south side of Fairbanks tonight! I took a few more photos: photos.lwpetersen.com/Recent-Photos

#alaska #lightpillar #atmosphericoptics #fairbanks #nightsky
Nighttime winter scene in Fairbanks, Alaska. A snow-covered road with deep tire tracks runs straight into the distance. Beyond the road, bright city lights create numerous tall, vertical light pillars rising into the dark sky. The pillars vary in brightness and height, forming pale white and bluish columns above the horizon beneath a low cloud layer. Vertical light pillars above a snowy landscape in Fairbanks, Alaska at night. A bright orange light source near the ground produces a vivid orange pillar extending upward, surrounded by multiple white and bluish pillars from nearby lights. Leafless shrubs and small trees appear in silhouette in the foreground, with snowbanks and a low ridge separating the viewer from the lights. A winter night scene showing tall, narrow light pillars rising above a dark treeline in Fairbanks, Alaska. The pillars are evenly spaced and pale white, stretching upward into a cloudy sky. In the foreground, power lines and a utility pole cut diagonally across the frame, with frozen grasses and low shrubs visible at ground level. Light pillars above an industrial area in Fairbanks, Alaska at night. A long, low industrial building sits in the foreground behind a chain-link fence, surrounded by snow. Numerous vertical light pillars rise from bright lights around the buildings, forming white and faintly colored columns against a dark blue sky. A single brighter pillar stands out on the left side of the frame.
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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zackbornstein.bsky.social
Midsommar / Midwintar
December 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I feel like Alaska is punking me. Going into my 3rd winter, but 2nd with basically no snow on the ground and single digit temps for the foreseeable future. I’m not complaining it’s cold, I’m complaining because I want my dog to learn to pull a sled
December 21, 2025 at 6:51 PM
erly-am.bsky.social
Got to see this when I took the trash out just now nbd
A streak of green ribbon in the sky, stars above. Mountains and trees on the bottom half of the picture.
December 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
erly-am.bsky.social
I guess I have ginger plants now
A ginger root on my counter with a green 4” shoot with two leaves unfurling, another smaller root with a 3.5” shoot about to pop open its first leaf
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
It’s hard to be a girl in Alaska and not buy giant earrings
December 7, 2025 at 5:32 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
So my dog killed a chicken she found hiding in the bushes on our walk tonight
December 2, 2025 at 4:52 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
How life feels atm
November 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Last night
A photo of the aurora last night - purple to pink streaks in the sky behind a mountain More Aurora - a green band on the horizon, red above it, and light pillars stretching up Another angle of the green ribbon and red facing NE
November 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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brdemuth.bsky.social
Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
m.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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corinne-smith.bsky.social
At least 20 people are unaccounted for in Kwigillingok, in the Y-K Delta as of Sunday morning, and several homes were flooded and carried away by the remnants of Typhoon Halong - the worst storm on record.

Damage is still being assessed along the coast of Western Alaska
www.kyuk.org/alaska-state...
A major storm is bringing dangerous flooding and hurricane-force winds to Western Alaska
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have already caused damaging flooding in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. The storm is expected to move north and continue into Monday.
www.kyuk.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:58 PM
erly-am.bsky.social
I just finished knitting this hat I started ~20 years ago, decreased until I couldn’t anymore and panicked a little, then just started binding off the last few stitches 😅
My dog wearing my finally completed masterpiece, a gray knit hat using… I don’t even remember what kind of yarn. Probably a blend of natural and synthetic fibers. Knit in a round until I had to switch to double pointed needles. The bottom edge is rolled up since it’s a stockinette stitch, and the top comes to a point with one yarn dangling down the side like and old timey sleeping cap.
October 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!! MARINERS WIN!! MARINERS WIN!!!
October 11, 2025 at 5:08 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
I can’t look at Gilbert without seeing Kenny Powers
A still from the series Eastbound and Down of the character Kenny Powers in a Seattle jersey flipping two birds at the camera
October 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
Did I just buy a ticket to go to a Lord of the Rings DJ set with Elijah Wood in November? Yes. Yes I did.
October 3, 2025 at 3:20 AM
erly-am.bsky.social
#girldinner
A cutting board with a small bowl of Alaska Chips Original Potato Chips, an open tin of Crown Prince smoked oysters, and a small plate with thin sliced red onion and do chua (pickled daikon and carrot). A small meal for a small girl about to go to her first book club
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Yes ma’am
The Aurora out tonight - bright green ribbons and sprays with some sparse pink; Resurrection peaks and tree silhouettes in the foreground. No clouds. At all. I’m flabbergasted. Looking East at a brighter green ribbon with some particularly bright streaks; more tree silhouettes in the background. Cassiopeia. No clouds. Amazing. My Discovery Weekly on Spotify is absolute fucking bangers for this. Yowza.
September 30, 2025 at 5:58 AM
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Good morning
A photo of the aurora in the sky behind my house this morning. Green waves with stars peeking through, silhouette of a mountain, cloud, and roof on the bottom of the frame The sky with a ribbon of Aurora through it this morning behind my house. Littered with stars - Ursa Major on the left. Silhouettes of cottonwoods and alder on the bottom of the frame
September 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Turns out I’m hanging out at the beach longer than I intended to because I didn’t look at the alcohol content of this Talkeetna mule. It’s fine. Im fine.
My dog, a white malamoo skadorgidon (Alaskan malamute) looking at me briefly from sniffing in critter holes at the beach. Yellow beach grass all around, high tide with milky blue runoff from Godwin glacier, Lowell point a ways across the bay off yonder. I need to sit down. A photo of my Denali Spirits Talkeetna Mule half slipped out of a hot pink beer kozy I got from Skinny Dick’s Halfway Inn in Fairbanks
September 29, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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The way that my dog mopes around like some Victorian waif when it’s not quite time for one of her three meals, daily walk, or toothbrush treat I stg
My dog (a white Alaskan malamute) laying down at the bottom of the stairs, mildly irritated at her lack of lunch for another 33 minutes. Taken after I was alerted via a long heavy sigh.
September 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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About that time
Termination dust at the top of Mt Benson and an overcast sky. The foliage at the base is green and blends into gold and red once it reaches the cliffs. Termination dust at the top of Resurrection Peak. Green foliage of Sitka spruce, cottonwood, and alder in the foreground. A grey overcast sky.
September 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM