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@tundragranite.bsky.social
Posts about Teaching, Scifi fiction TV/films, Science and blue alaskan politics (views my own) and alaskan life
Anti Trump/Anti ICE Protest in Bethel, AK. Dec 20 #alaska #nokings #ICE

@maddow.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 10:13 PM
#ruralalaska might agree with Finland on the value of steams
(Setting aside whatever you feel about Trump).

Personally, steams never worked for me.
#alaska #sauna
January 20, 2026 at 8:18 PM
#aurora lighting up the northern Bethel, Alaska sky. Night shot with the Russian orthodox church at 1020pm on Jan19.
#alaska #northernlights #auroraborealis
January 20, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Lets take a moment and juxtapose this Danish image with foxnews. Remember, Greenland IRL is only 1/4 the size of the United states.

God, Americans need to do better with geography.
#standwithgreenland
#greenland #Denmark #foxnews
January 19, 2026 at 5:43 PM
These soldiers are stationed in #alaska. alaska!

How does Dan Sullivan feel about soldiers being deployed against americans?
ABC News reporting 1,500 active duty soldiers are on standby to deploy to MINNESOTA.

The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson, one of the Army's premier infantry formations.

The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare
Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say
abcnews.go.com
January 18, 2026 at 10:32 AM
My favorite moment in Starfleet Academy 1x01.

You decide how your past defines you, but your past still led you to the current moment.

#starfleetacademy #startrek
January 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM
Its the alaska equivalent of winter shorts and t-shirt weather.

Insane how the current temp effectively had a negative sign just TWO DAYS AGO

It does beg the question...which end of the temp swing this week is normal and which is out of wack?

#alaskawx #akwx #alaska #winter.
January 18, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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January 18, 2026 at 2:19 AM
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Astounding temperature increases in southwest Alaska on Thursday. The largest reported increase was from Quinhagak, where the temperature rose 77°F (!), from a low of -40F/C to a high +37F (+2.8C). #akwx #weather @markspringer.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social
January 16, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Can someone explain in Starfleet Academy the lighting and camera work that led to a yellow tint in any "sunlight" scene particularly outdoors?

#starfleetacademy #startrek
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Checked out the new #starfleetacademy

I was struck by how much the Betazoid character Tarima reminded me of Ann Hatheway in #princessdiaries

#startrek
January 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Definitely some for #alaska to contact Murkowski about. She chairs the Indian affairs committee. Alaska natives need to be protected from ICE also.
#ice #alaskanative
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Go home Bethel weather. You're drunk.

(Not sure which is worse -
brutal dry cold or
warm with gobs of snow)
#alaskawx #alaska #winter #snow #cold
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen:

"If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU."

"Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
January 13, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 AM
If you personally haven't blocked the term "grok" yet on bluesky, make sure to do that in settings.

Any recent news is disturbing and effectively made the term NSFW and NSFE (not safe for EVERYONE)
Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.
Malaysia, Indonesia become first to block Musk’s Grok over AI deepfakes
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok due to its misuse in generating explicit images.
bit.ly
January 12, 2026 at 7:35 PM
I just learned i am as tall as the current SHORTEST NBA player. Dude at 5ft 8 in is also just under the average height of men in the United States (but he is from japan). NBA PLAYERS ARE SO TALL!

Yuki Kawamuta
January 11, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Pretty awesome event at my local church today in Bethel, #Alaska. A group was allowed to design an "American girl" style doll that looks alaska native. They then gave it out to Bethel based typhoon halong evacuees. It is so powerful for our alaska native girls to see themselves in their dolls.
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 AM
We have some amazing Alaskan women in our army and marines. To say they are reducing our combat lethality is insulting. Make this a campaign issue against Sullivan
#army #marines #election2026 #women #senate #dansullivan

www.npr.org/2026/01/06/n...
Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions
The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and generals in September that women must meet the "highest male standard."
www.npr.org
January 10, 2026 at 11:48 PM
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#Fairbanks #Alaska at -30F protests against ICE. We remember Renee Good and the many, many hurt and stolen.

Standing here loving cold, not murder, not abductions, and not vice.
January 10, 2026 at 1:48 AM
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Friday afternoon, 1/9/26. Protests against ICE in Fairbanks, Alaska. At -30F (-34.4C).
#Fairbanks #Alaska at -30F protests against ICE. We remember Renee Good and the many, many hurt and stolen.

Standing here loving cold, not murder, not abductions, and not vice.
January 10, 2026 at 6:04 PM
#alaska specific question for locals

What is a unique home or possession perk of the Alaskan 1%

I'll start: private heated garage
Omg Baby GIF
ALT: Omg Baby GIF
media.tenor.com
January 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
January 9, 2026 at 7:17 AM
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Low temperature of -33F at Bethel airport (lower Kuskokwim) Thursday morning is a new record low for the date. Previous record -32F in 2012. Even colder upriver, with -43F at Kalskag and -45F ar Aniak. #akwx #Cold H/T @climatologist49.bsky.social @markspringer.bsky.social @tundragranite.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 7:39 PM