Erica 👻 🌲 📕
@rickirobin.bsky.social
Writer, reader, knitter, sometimes organizer. Student of climate & shifting seasons. Contentedly discontent.
Ghosts of Distant Trees, Porphyry Press 2025
Denali National Park, AK.
Part of my heart lives in the desert.
she/her
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Ghosts of Distant Trees, Porphyry Press 2025
Denali National Park, AK.
Part of my heart lives in the desert.
she/her
ericarobinwatson.com
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Erica 👻 🌲 📕
@rickirobin.bsky.social
· Nov 12
It’s always a good sign when you and your publisher take book pics in the wood pile, independently and with zero coordination 😅
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
If you’ve already purchased my book, THANK YOU, & check out the other porphyry titles! Discount code below!
"This kind of music discovery delights people...Sometimes they start telling me about rediscovering their old CD collection, or wanting to track down an old iPod Classic to experience their music library away from the surveillance and excess of big tech platforms."
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Why I Quit Streaming And Got Back Into Cassettes
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
www.404media.co
December 27, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"This kind of music discovery delights people...Sometimes they start telling me about rediscovering their old CD collection, or wanting to track down an old iPod Classic to experience their music library away from the surveillance and excess of big tech platforms."
www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s...
www.404media.co/why-i-quit-s...
Anyway, I’ve been eating burritos and hanging with the niblings and these trees & being every cliché of a millennial visiting family for the holidays but I’m re-engaging now, hi
December 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Anyway, I’ve been eating burritos and hanging with the niblings and these trees & being every cliché of a millennial visiting family for the holidays but I’m re-engaging now, hi
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Yet another airport gate employee lying about facial recognition being mandatory. If you’re a US citizen, you CAN refuse.
December 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Yet another airport gate employee lying about facial recognition being mandatory. If you’re a US citizen, you CAN refuse.
i am once again reminding my liberal family and friends that every time you see a kid with a doll or pick up a pencil you don't have to reference a dumb thing tr*mp said jfc
December 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
i am once again reminding my liberal family and friends that every time you see a kid with a doll or pick up a pencil you don't have to reference a dumb thing tr*mp said jfc
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Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska
Saa Dzé’edeex Dé’ "Winter Solstice"; literary when the sun divides
Wunenh Nach’ehjedh "December"
Nach’imbâal Dzeen "Christmas"; refers to an old custom of giving/receiving gifts at the darkest time of year.
Dzeen Chox "Christmas" post-gold rush term
Saa Dzé’edeex Dé’ "Winter Solstice"; literary when the sun divides
Wunenh Nach’ehjedh "December"
Nach’imbâal Dzeen "Christmas"; refers to an old custom of giving/receiving gifts at the darkest time of year.
Dzeen Chox "Christmas" post-gold rush term
December 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few."
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
Declining credit quality, one recent report warns, could lead to debt packaging “similar to the 2008 mortgage crisis.” As one source told me, “Every taxpayer should be furious that the federal government is chasing this project."
Read more @grist.org grist.org/energy/alask...
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Alaska's $44 billion bet on natural gas
No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: Inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.
grist.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few."
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
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@psabortionfund.bsky.social are far behind in their year end fundraising. Times are hard. We are who we have. Please support their work.
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund: End-of-Year Fundraiser | Palmetto State Abortion Fund (Powered by Donorbox)
Give for freedom. Give for care. Give before December 31st.2025 tested us — and our community showed up.Because of people like you, the Palmetto State Abortion Fund helped more than 1,500 Southerners ...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:41 PM
@psabortionfund.bsky.social are far behind in their year end fundraising. Times are hard. We are who we have. Please support their work.
donorbox.org/palmetto-sta...
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"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few."
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
Declining credit quality, one recent report warns, could lead to debt packaging “similar to the 2008 mortgage crisis.” As one source told me, “Every taxpayer should be furious that the federal government is chasing this project."
Read more @grist.org grist.org/energy/alask...
Read more @grist.org grist.org/energy/alask...
Alaska's $44 billion bet on natural gas
No-bid deals, undisclosed contracts, and millions already spent: Inside the wild story of the Alaska gas pipeline that will not die.
grist.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:58 PM
"The pipeline has become a mirror, reflecting an enduring faith in a future powered by fossil fuels. It hearkens back to a time when deals were struck behind closed doors and entire economies bent to the will of a few."
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
Excellent reporting by @loisparshley.bsky.social for @grist.org.
i'm starting to think Erika K paid the guy to do it...
December 19, 2025 at 11:19 PM
i'm starting to think Erika K paid the guy to do it...
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Buy the book.
How are you a bad feminist?
December 19, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Buy the book.
"here's some plum jam from plums i got from ___, I think you've met her, her son's a cop, i know you don't like cops, but you knew him when he was a kid, i guess you didn't like him then either. Anyway he has chickens, & ___ gave me plums when i went to get eggs. I think it needs more sugar" -my mom
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"here's some plum jam from plums i got from ___, I think you've met her, her son's a cop, i know you don't like cops, but you knew him when he was a kid, i guess you didn't like him then either. Anyway he has chickens, & ___ gave me plums when i went to get eggs. I think it needs more sugar" -my mom
Holiday movie where a small town girl visits her hometown from an even smaller town that isn’t even a town really and stares at an uprooted juniper for days or weeks or years and the town grows around her, this all used to be forest, she says, to no one
December 19, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Holiday movie where a small town girl visits her hometown from an even smaller town that isn’t even a town really and stares at an uprooted juniper for days or weeks or years and the town grows around her, this all used to be forest, she says, to no one
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The #PrairieBandPotawatomi Nation Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick issued a statement via a YouTube video late Wednesday afternoon to tribal members announcing that the nation and its subsidiaries have fully divested from the $29.9 million U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement #ICE...
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Prairie Band Potawatomi Native Divests Its ICE Contract
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick issued a statement via a YouTube video late Wednesday afternoon to tribal members announcing that the nation and its subsidi...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
The #PrairieBandPotawatomi Nation Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick issued a statement via a YouTube video late Wednesday afternoon to tribal members announcing that the nation and its subsidiaries have fully divested from the $29.9 million U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement #ICE...
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Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport
December 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Border patrol is forcing rideshare drivers at the O’Hare lot to show proof of citizenship before they can exit the lot and pick up rides at the airport
My parents left me in a house with an amaz*n Alexa and a hammer and
December 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
My parents left me in a house with an amaz*n Alexa and a hammer and
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I wrote about the multiple tragedies of the last few days, Hanukkah, Trump and how the forces of light and dark are trapped in a battle for our souls.
Flaming out
Trump may beckon darkness, but he can never extinguish the light.
www.thehandbasket.co
December 16, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I wrote about the multiple tragedies of the last few days, Hanukkah, Trump and how the forces of light and dark are trapped in a battle for our souls.
I still have not figured out how to fly from Fbx to Phx midwinter without dressing like an absolute psycho at one end or the other
December 15, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I still have not figured out how to fly from Fbx to Phx midwinter without dressing like an absolute psycho at one end or the other
Something is shifting somewhere
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Something is shifting somewhere
"The motivating force behind American career fascism wd appear to be wanderlust. My conversations w prospective ...officers tended to follow the familiar script of engagement w the most banal ppl on Tinder,the kinds of ppl who post airplane emojis in their bios."
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
Naturally there were lots of law enforcement types hanging around the convention — men with military fades, moisture-wicking shirts, and tattoos of the Bible and the Constitution and eagles and flags ...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"The motivating force behind American career fascism wd appear to be wanderlust. My conversations w prospective ...officers tended to follow the familiar script of engagement w the most banal ppl on Tinder,the kinds of ppl who post airplane emojis in their bios."
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/pol...
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No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 6:56 PM
No one before Sam successfully raised a child, which is why the human species went extinct in Mesopotamia. Seriously, the best way to read this is that countless billions of humans did just fine but Sam is not as competent and self-reliant as them, and that's what AI wants us to be: dependent.
I’m finally laying down after being in motion all day, & realizing my head still feels like I’m driving in the crosswinds through wasilla. That was unreal. Planning to head back north tomorrow but 😳
December 7, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I’m finally laying down after being in motion all day, & realizing my head still feels like I’m driving in the crosswinds through wasilla. That was unreal. Planning to head back north tomorrow but 😳
I didn’t get a picture but if I had I’d show you the full moon perched on Denali’s shoulder from my drive south this morning
December 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I didn’t get a picture but if I had I’d show you the full moon perched on Denali’s shoulder from my drive south this morning
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"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!
Just in time for the holidays, here are ADN reviewers’ favorite books of 2025
Top selections by Nancy Lord and David James include poetry, works of fiction, adventure stories, a Pulitzer-winning memoir and multiple books that interrogate the changing nature of the North.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"She takes the award for best new Alaskan voice of 2025." So deems David James about @rickirobin.bsky.social, whose new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES, is included in the @adn.com reviewers' favorite books of 2025 list. She and John Messick are signing books today at Title Wave in Anchorage, 3:30-6!
WHAT the moon is even bigger tonight
I cannot
I cannot
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
WHAT the moon is even bigger tonight
I cannot
I cannot