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Barb Lake
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10 days till #superman
July 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
OMG I am SO excited for this movie!!! 🍿 The wait for July 11th is going to kill me!
June 5, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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*Slams dictionary shut til Tuesday*
May 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I learned you can change the font in Garmin BaseCamp. I should not be trusted with this power 😆
May 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Surveying for grouse with an epic view of Mendenhall glacier.
May 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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“If we don’t understand what’s happening and why it’s happening, you can’t be adapting. … You’re just going to suffer,” said a member of NOAA’s scientific advisory board. “We’re going to see huge impacts on infrastructure and lives lost in the U.S.”

By @abrahm.bsky.social
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
May 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When the state of the world gets you down, I suggest: Superman (and friends) punching bigots in the face, to lift your spirits. @geneluenyang.bsky.social @gurihiru.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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I recently wrapped up an internship with the North Pacific Fishery Management Council! During my time there, I designed and illustrated 3 infographics about marine mammals and Alaska’s fisheries and related policy/statutes/management practices:

www.npfmc.org/fisheries-is...
Protected Species | North Pacific Fishery Management Council
Marine mammals, seabirds, and other species may be impacted by fishing activities through competition for prey, direct mortality, and disturbance. The Council
www.npfmc.org
April 25, 2025 at 12:13 AM
What in the Herman Melville is this?
April 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
$5,000 covers about 26% of the average cost of having a baby. 🤰🏻 I’d take it for a cat though!
April 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
More views from West glacier trail, Juneau Alaska.
April 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Super cool quartz vein from todays hike!
April 13, 2025 at 6:45 AM
That’s a nice boulder.
April 12, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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While many key programs remain unchanged, hundreds of millions of federal dollars are at stake in Alaska if the order disrupts funding.
President Trump’s executive order could shutter the Department of Education. What does that mean for Alaskans?
If the executive order disrupts federal funding, hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake in Alaska.
www.ktoo.org
March 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
You know, this year’s bingo card is getting out of hand.
March 21, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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March 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Like the last one, or the one before that? Or…
The state Department of Transportation and Public Facilities unveiled plans last week to launch a new study to examine the feasibility of building a road – and other infrastructure – that it says could create more cost effective and reliable transportation for the region.

(From KHNS)
Once again, Alaska will study building a road to Juneau
The state has repeatedly studied and pitched such proposals before, including in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
www.ktoo.org
March 12, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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ATTN AK FIRED FEDS: the AK ACLU has compiled a legal team to potentially bring a wrongful termination lawsuit in AK. Please take 10-15 minutes to do this survey so they are better able to consider possible litigation & determine plaintiffs. DEADLINE: 3/18/25

survey at forms.office.com/r/zPWJZjWLm6
Microsoft Forms
forms.office.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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Alaska fisher gets six months in federal prison for attempting to kill endangered whale, reports James Brooks of @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...
Alaska fisher gets six months in federal prison for attempting to kill endangered whale • Alaska Beacon
Daniels had previously agreed to the sentence as part of a plea agreement for attempting to kill a whale, and the judge confirmed it.
alaskabeacon.com
March 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people!…Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness. Soldiers! in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/...
Charlie Chaplin : The Final Speech from The Great Dictator
www.charliechaplin.com
March 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
When you’re home sick, you watch Superman movies.
March 8, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Did we see some cool shit during my surveys? Yes. Did I take a single picture? No. Classic. But at least my colleague took pictures of us on the way back for photo evidence we were there 😆
March 6, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Enjoyed a beautiful pit stop heading home from field work on the Kenai Peninsula.
March 5, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I’m doing the Meta boycott March 5-11. Realized I haven’t logged out of my FB or Insta, maybe ever…
March 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM