Heyyy hi, #Alaska friends and #UglyDogs…

I JUST learned I am losing almost all my hours at work, with zero notice, and I’m freaaaaaking tf out. 🙃 Like, I knew the company was in trouble, but I thought I’d at least get notice?

I have a variety of skills, which I will outline in the replies here… 🤞🤞

Asking you to give me rights implies that they are yours to give.” - Elizabeth Peratrovich

Happy #ElizabethPeratrovich Day!

Besides being an Alaska state holiday, what else should you know about Indigenous civil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich?

SO MUCH. A 🧵

Heather Evoy and her children, Silje and Judah Haven Marr, in regalia with the forest in the background. Photo by Andrés Javier Camacho.

It was such a pleasure and an honor to sit down with Heather Evoy & her beautiful family for this story. We talked about their relationship with their languages, Sm’algya̱x and Lingít, their homelands & the crunchiness & goodness of herring eggs. 📷 Andrés Javier Camacho www.akhf.org/cradling-the...

While technically true, I’ve seen some convincing arguments that this isn’t possible on the same scale as the Fediverse:

dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

If she’s looking for a more laidback vibe it would be worth looking for jobs on Haines as well

I worked for Alaska Mountain Guides in Skagway. They do rock climbing, zip lining, and hike and float cruise ship tours. Lots of other tour companies as well. NPS might be another option. My brother’s there year round so presumably knows everything about everybody, let me know if she’s got questions

We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next? How to navigate the future without a map.

We failed to stop fascism's rise. Now it's dancing about on the White House lawn. I don't know how to fix all this but I do know that the shit we've been doing won't get us out of this one.

shatterzone.substack.com/p/we-failed-...

One of the greatest line reads of all time. Tim Curry for Command And Conquer, clearly it was a one and done and he could barely stop laughing at the ridiculousness of the line. Perfection

the cover of a book called The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice by Margaret Killjoy. The art is a bull's face illuminated by fire. There is a blurb from Alan Moore that reads "scary and energetic, this is ideal reading for a post-truth world."

Happy to announce that @tangledwilderness.bsky.social will be publishing the third Danielle Cain book in 2025. The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice is more prequel than sequel, as our characters tell the stories of their dead friends. It's got scary things like trolls and fairies and cops.

Glad I’m not there only one!

It's been about ten years since my brain started quietly singing ZOtero zoTERo to the tune of the Totoro theme every time I open the app and I would like to file a complaint

To everyone in a similar scenario: the tactic my doctor's office has taught me is to ask, in writing, for:
1) the name, board specialty, and license number of the doctor making the determination the treatment was not medically necessary;

There are four or five distinct arguments that get called "AI skepticism" and the tactic of pretending that the least serious of them—"AI is bad at hands, hurr"—represents the whole stack is very Chamber of Commerce–coded.

Sarah Jaffe: “The sense of anger amongst some men is masking a form… Our latest ‘Daddy Issues’ column features a raw and powerful interview with the American author exploring grief as a prism through which to understand the…

in our latest daddy issues column @sarahljaffe.bsky.social articulates our undoing of one another on a micro + macro level, grief, anger, capital, history and hope in breathtaking, raw and incredible form. you simply must read this. www.huckmag.com/article/sara...

A large dendrogram (phenetic tree) illustrating the structural similarities of 300+ knots.

Preprint: a cross-cultural review of knots.

Using archaeo & anthro data, our study reveals the cultural evolution of knots across 10k years and 83 societies. With mathy methods, we show which knots are most common & how they shaped human innovation.

A knotted thread. 🧵🏺

osf.io/preprints/os...

Sea Grant is accepting applications for NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant
Graduate fellowships in population and ecosystem dynamics & marine resource economics. Deadline = Jan. 23. Applicant guides at lnkd.in/dyggpSR9

Just finished last week’s episode of @socialistdogmom.bsky.social ‘s podcast Weird Little Guys. Between her and @margaret.bsky.social has anyone considered renaming @coolzonemedia.bsky.social Context Zone Media?