OK Elyn
@alaskan-umlaut.bsky.social
Believes in Pareto Efficiency. Lives life few clicks left of American normal. Home is where the anchor drops. ⛵️
www.krugercreative.org
www.krugercreative.org
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okra and fenugreek extracts can attract and remove up to 90 per cent of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater, and groundwater, providing a biodegradable and nontoxic alternative to conventional water treatment www.canplastics.com/features/okr...
Okra, Fenugreek Extracts Remove Most Microplastics From Water, Study Shows - Canadian Plastics
Researchers at Tarleton State University in Texas have found that substances behind the slimy strings from okra and the gel from fenugreek seeds trap microplastics better than a commonly used syntheti...
www.canplastics.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:33 PM
okra and fenugreek extracts can attract and remove up to 90 per cent of microplastics from ocean water, freshwater, and groundwater, providing a biodegradable and nontoxic alternative to conventional water treatment www.canplastics.com/features/okr...
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If the Alaska Legislature passes House Bill 59, five tribes would get close to $17.5 million for the first year to run pilot programs for tribally-compacted schools across the state.
Bill to create tribally-run public schools progresses through Alaska Legislature
The bill would create and fund a pilot program for five tribally-run public schools in the state, but it still has a long way to go before becoming law.
www.ktoo.org
May 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If the Alaska Legislature passes House Bill 59, five tribes would get close to $17.5 million for the first year to run pilot programs for tribally-compacted schools across the state.
I feel like Sarah Palin and George Santos were before their time.
April 24, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I feel like Sarah Palin and George Santos were before their time.
I love when two headlines are back to back AND contradictory
April 23, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I love when two headlines are back to back AND contradictory
kinetic energy
Compliance is the New American Dream
How risk aversion has shaped our schools, our government, and our global standing
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 8:59 PM
kinetic energy
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Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
April 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Fun Tariff Facts: during the depression the US lost access to many imported paper products. They were replaced with an unusually tough paper stock made of hemp from the Philippines (then a US colony, and tariff exempt).
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
Anyway, that’s why they were, and still are, called Manila folders /
envelopes.
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Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey.
Photos: Scientists trace a butterfly migration route that is millions of years old
Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer ...
www.npr.org
April 17, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Scientists have recently mapped the painted lady butterfly's annual flight from equatorial Africa to northern Europe and back, the world's longest butterfly migration. In Constant Bloom, photographer Lucas Foglia documents the journey.
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Bowhead #whales are true survivors, traveling long distances beneath thick ice. When open water’s not available, they use the top of their head to push through the thinnest ice, creating a breathing hole to survive the harsh conditions.
[dailywhaledose]
[dailywhaledose]
April 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Bowhead #whales are true survivors, traveling long distances beneath thick ice. When open water’s not available, they use the top of their head to push through the thinnest ice, creating a breathing hole to survive the harsh conditions.
[dailywhaledose]
[dailywhaledose]
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We’ve spoken to senior US Officials. They confirmed they’ve tariffed our lovely Islands in order to force us to sell our precious flightless bird eggs to America at discounted rates given egg prices there, and their Health Secretary raving about the benefits of fertilized Penguin eggs and whale skin
April 3, 2025 at 5:19 AM
We’ve spoken to senior US Officials. They confirmed they’ve tariffed our lovely Islands in order to force us to sell our precious flightless bird eggs to America at discounted rates given egg prices there, and their Health Secretary raving about the benefits of fertilized Penguin eggs and whale skin
Geology meets mythology
Researchers study erratic boulders from Frosh Giant legends
A study funded by The National Science Centre, Poland, has analysed both the geological and mythical origins of the erratic boulders scattered across northern Poland. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology New...
www.heritagedaily.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Geology meets mythology
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Good luck, all!
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Source: Dr. Genevieve Guenther
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Source: Dr. Genevieve Guenther
April 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Good luck, all!
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Source: Dr. Genevieve Guenther
Hundreds of millions of bees, almost 80% of bees in the US, have died over he past eight months. Researchers don't know why.
Source: Dr. Genevieve Guenther
A good reminder on why it matters.
Donald Trump is the product of abuse and neglect. His story is common, even for the powerful and wealthy.
“In order to cope,” writes Mary Trump, “Donald began to develop powerful but primitive defenses, marked by an increasing hostility to others and a seeming indifference to his mother’s absence and fath...
pacesconnection.crowdstack.io
April 1, 2025 at 1:05 AM
A good reminder on why it matters.
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If you don't like poverty, then support the one policy that can truly abolish it, which is unconditional universal basic income. Income for basic survival is a human right in a world where all the land once free is now owned. Income from work should be to obtain everything beyond basic survival.
Doctors call it the Physiology of Poverty:
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
The stress of trying to survive every day breaks the mind and the body.
That's why working class people in America live SEVEN years shorter than the very wealthy.
March 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If you don't like poverty, then support the one policy that can truly abolish it, which is unconditional universal basic income. Income for basic survival is a human right in a world where all the land once free is now owned. Income from work should be to obtain everything beyond basic survival.
March 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
“But if we keep trying to navigate and comprehend a world that has already transformed - and not overnight - using language that has not, we will never use the most powerful tool we have for change to any real effect, let alone with the force and precision it looks like we’re going to need.”
Etiquette for End Times
Of politics, politesse, and power
open.substack.com
March 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“But if we keep trying to navigate and comprehend a world that has already transformed - and not overnight - using language that has not, we will never use the most powerful tool we have for change to any real effect, let alone with the force and precision it looks like we’re going to need.”
The juxtaposition between these two posts back to back on my bluesky feed pretty much sums up the current state of things USA vs Canada.
March 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The juxtaposition between these two posts back to back on my bluesky feed pretty much sums up the current state of things USA vs Canada.
Written in 1992. Apropos today.
March 12, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Written in 1992. Apropos today.
“11 of the dogs on Olnes’ starting team of 15 came from the Fairbanks animal shelters. His main goal is to finish in Nome with all dogs healthy and happy. Secondary to that, he said, he just wants to showcase all the talent and potential that was previously hidden away in Alaska’s shelters.”
This Iditarod musher is racing with mostly rescue dogs from Alaska shelters
Justin Olnes’ team isn't leading the pack this year, but the musher says he’s on a mission to showcase all the talent and potential that was previously hidden away in Alaska’s shelters.
alaskapublic.org
March 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
“11 of the dogs on Olnes’ starting team of 15 came from the Fairbanks animal shelters. His main goal is to finish in Nome with all dogs healthy and happy. Secondary to that, he said, he just wants to showcase all the talent and potential that was previously hidden away in Alaska’s shelters.”
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The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
March 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy. The stock market is not the economy.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
Nonetheless, holy shit.
What’s remarkable is that there’s hardly any real news driving this. It’s just investors belatedly realizing that Trump is who he is, and always was.
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The only way the stock market will be saved today is if Canada shuts down its electricity.
March 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The only way the stock market will be saved today is if Canada shuts down its electricity.
Traffic on the water earlier this week. (That’s us in the little rubber ducky) 😁
Biggs Orca Whales passing thru. (These are the mammal eating orca, or “transients” — we can always tell when they are near because all the seals scurry up on the reefs)
Biggs Orca Whales passing thru. (These are the mammal eating orca, or “transients” — we can always tell when they are near because all the seals scurry up on the reefs)
March 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Traffic on the water earlier this week. (That’s us in the little rubber ducky) 😁
Biggs Orca Whales passing thru. (These are the mammal eating orca, or “transients” — we can always tell when they are near because all the seals scurry up on the reefs)
Biggs Orca Whales passing thru. (These are the mammal eating orca, or “transients” — we can always tell when they are near because all the seals scurry up on the reefs)
“In terms of self-mutilating policy decisions, they are up to about a Brexit a week at this point.”
America is no longer the leader of the free world – in Canada, we’re on a war footing
Under Trump, the US has proved it can't be trusted as an ally or trade partner, argues Stephen Marche, Canadian author of ‘The Next Civil War’. But, his country is feeling strangely confident as it he...
www.independent.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 4:43 AM
“In terms of self-mutilating policy decisions, they are up to about a Brexit a week at this point.”
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The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
restoredcdc.org
March 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The coolest thing I’ve seen today is that a bunch of volunteer public health professionals and developers have restored the CDC website from before January 20th 2025.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
This differs from an archive in that they want to rebuild the links between pages and replicate the full website.
If the government wants to break things, start with daylight savings time. 😑😴
March 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
If the government wants to break things, start with daylight savings time. 😑😴