Erica 👻 🌲 📕

People are so CLEVER

This arrived in the mail today @rickirobin.bsky.social. I'm looking forward to diving into it, seeing as it's by "…one of Alaska's finest contemporary writers." 🙂 #AlaskaSky

A wide densely forested valley with a visible cube of river, and a rainbow in the right third of the photo. In the distance, the sky is blue, which was surprising in the moment, but the surprise may be out of the scope of the photo

A rainbow surprised me today

Donate to Western Alaska Disaster Relief here:

someone in a kipnuk facebook group screen recorded all the pleas for help in the community due to the disaster flooding

hopefully the alaska national guard will make it out there soon

🫠 Thank you, Rick!

It can arrive in your mail too! Order here: porphyry.press/ghosts-of-di...

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Apparently the first three episodes of “The Last Frontier” have just dropped. About a prison transport plane suspiciously crashing near a “rugged Alaskan town”

I’ll watch so you don’t have to…

“This is Alaska, where shapes never end and distance cannot possibly be perceived” thank you I’ll be using that line 😂

😂 it was! I think it was my dad’s from when he was a kid. It’s not like…standard tie size (I say, as I realize it’s really the only tie I have any sort of reference for lol)

Once again Fairbanks has proved that when we work hard together progressives win- we’ve done it three years in a row. This is how you win in a red state- you get on doors, you talk to people, you listen and you meet them where they’re at. So proud of my city

If you are a federal worker, there are several credit unions and other financial institutions that are offering zero interest loans during the government shutdown.

Please go to my website for more information: www.sanders.senate.gov/resources-fo...

oh, that tie I used to wear on my head 😂 I only very recently moved it from the scarf drawer into the box of scarves I will never wear but can't get rid of

In response to that skeet asking if anything amazing has ever happened to you bc of social media: my friendship w @halperta.bsky.social is rooted irl, & has crossed continents & platforms w long gaps & reunions, exchanges of art & ideas. My answer is yes (&)

I love seeing this book in the world!

I wrote 12 pages of Lacanian analysis of Julio Cortazar's short stories *in Spanish*, which I never actually mastered tbh, using only locutorio espresso, an English/Spanish dictionary, and my brain and all its regrets, in one 3-7am sitting. These AI junkies could never.

Seriously. The daily whiplash between "give them all my money!" and "STFU NPR" is exhausting

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

"...resisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."

by @nplusonemag.com

www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

when big storms hit rural alaska communities, i struggle to sleep until it passes and we get word that they’re safe

"our greatest fear is a storm will hit shaktoolik in the middle of the night and, when we pick up the phone in the morning the line is dead, and the whole community is wiped out."

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

anxious and foggy-brained today. is it bc i had a 4pm coffee yesterday or bc i'm living in a failed state? who's to say

“We want a fair process, but only if that process results in approval of the road”

you are no longer allowed to have imposter syndrome.

not after this bari omgwtf weiss situation.

you're literally not allowed to feel imposter syndrome ANYMORE

Long live the PDX frog

Inside the Fight Against Trump's Alaskan Pipe Dream Donald Trump is using Alaska and a proposed LNG pipeline to kickstart his fossil-fueled "National Energy Dominance" agenda. Alaskans are resisting.

"Ultimately, [21 year old organizer Linnea Lentfer] finds solace in a key recognition. “There’s nothing worse to do than to not try,” she says."

good overview by @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I’m actually kind of alarmed by some of the directions my phone tried to take that

Due to the Radical Left Democrat shutdown, I think the only way to stop the spread of communism is to get a vaccine
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Sorry to be so heteronormative on main but goddam c gets shit done around the house during a government shutdown

DHS cameramen film their approach.

DHS cameramen film their leader.

DHS cameramen film their assault on tackled protesters.

You can see how their cameramen document their violence. This is about content creation. For the last one, I had to search my files for a photo of this moment that didn't include the face of a pained or screaming protester, but for clarity: those are tackled human beings on the ground.

For logistical/travel schedule reasons, my publisher started w some of the lower 48 (& maybe SE?) orders, & he’s heading back to AK soon along with most of the books & get the AK orders out soon

Aah, I’m loving hearing from people who just got their shipping notifications! I’m so excited for this book to meet its readers. (Which, bc of the idiosyncrasies of Alaska shipping, might happen before I meet it irl 😅)