My religion is kindness. Practice is a bitch.
@jalan2.bsky.social
Practicing kindness and resisting meanness in Interior Alaska.
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Nothing says mid-winter in Alaska like daily higs at 3am and daily lows at 6pm. In this case, the power of no wind. #akwx @climatologist49.bsky.social @hanners64n.bsky.social
December 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Nothing says mid-winter in Alaska like daily higs at 3am and daily lows at 6pm. In this case, the power of no wind. #akwx @climatologist49.bsky.social @hanners64n.bsky.social
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Thanksgiving Day daily temperature in Fairbanks since 1904. Overall there's only a weak trend to milder Thanksgiving Days, but an almost complete loss of really cold days. All but one of the ten coldest Thanksgiving Days occurred prior to 1965. #akwx #Climate #Thanksgiving @leahwrenn.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Thanksgiving Day daily temperature in Fairbanks since 1904. Overall there's only a weak trend to milder Thanksgiving Days, but an almost complete loss of really cold days. All but one of the ten coldest Thanksgiving Days occurred prior to 1965. #akwx #Climate #Thanksgiving @leahwrenn.bsky.social
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Bono on Donald Trump: “America is the best idea the world ever came up with. But Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America. He’s trying to hijack the idea of America. Wise people of conscience should not let this man turn your country into a casino”
November 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bono on Donald Trump: “America is the best idea the world ever came up with. But Donald Trump is potentially the worst idea that ever happened to America. He’s trying to hijack the idea of America. Wise people of conscience should not let this man turn your country into a casino”
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Are you interested in live video production and politics? KTOO is looking for full and part-time Gavel Alaska crew members for the upcoming legislative session! Apply online at ktoo.org/job-opportunities. #akleg
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Are you interested in live video production and politics? KTOO is looking for full and part-time Gavel Alaska crew members for the upcoming legislative session! Apply online at ktoo.org/job-opportunities. #akleg
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“Crum is a psychologist who studies s’thing deceptively simple. She examines how beliefs shape physiology. Not in the loose mystical way that phrase sometimes gets tossed around. Her work cuts closer to the bone. The body is not a passive machine. It responds to expectation. It listens to mindset.”🧪
November 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“Crum is a psychologist who studies s’thing deceptively simple. She examines how beliefs shape physiology. Not in the loose mystical way that phrase sometimes gets tossed around. Her work cuts closer to the bone. The body is not a passive machine. It responds to expectation. It listens to mindset.”🧪
@nytimes.com That’s your take? Nostalgia for “a clubby world that’s all but gone.”
I’m familiar, by the way, with the argument that we just aren’t appreciating the NYT’s subtlety here; that it’s actually a searing indictment of this group of elites, just in a “show me, don’t tell me” kind of way. That take relies on ignoring that it’s in the New York Times.
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I can’t even
November 17, 2025 at 10:00 AM
@nytimes.com That’s your take? Nostalgia for “a clubby world that’s all but gone.”
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2020 footage said to be in 2025. A scene of protestors in Illinois, suggested as Portland.
We reviewed Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland.
Here's how Fox News told a misleading story:
We reviewed Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland.
Here's how Fox News told a misleading story:
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
2020 footage said to be in 2025. A scene of protestors in Illinois, suggested as Portland.
We reviewed Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland.
Here's how Fox News told a misleading story:
We reviewed Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision to send the National Guard to Portland.
Here's how Fox News told a misleading story:
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Mid-November ice extent in the Bering Sea (west of Alaska) 1978-2025 based on NSIDC data. In hindsight, the step change between 2001 and 2002 is remarkable for its consistency. The 2002-2025 median is 65 percent lower(!) than the median of the prior 24 years. 1 / 2 #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce
November 17, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic HPV vaccine prevents the development of cervical cancer
Cationic nanogel–based nasal therapeutic vaccine induces cancer-specific immune responses and inhibits cancer development in cervical tissue.
www.science.org
November 16, 2025 at 12:07 PM
#ScienceSunday
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
#Vaccines
Here is another example where scientists have generated systemic immunity against human papilloma virus using nasal delivery of a cationic nanogel containing the HPV16 E7 protein as an antigen. In addition, an anti-tumor effect was seen. Game-changing!
Vaccines save lives.
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Chukchi Sea sea ice growth the first half of November has been slower than normal. Total ice extent now slightly below last year on Nov 15 but still above the 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data, though not by much. Bering Sea ice extent is quite similar to the past three years. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
WTF? The @nytimes.com is doing its best to normalize corruption. The word they somehow forgot to use in this gloss piece.
Trump Organization Is Said to Be in Talks on a Saudi Government Real Estate Deal
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM
WTF? The @nytimes.com is doing its best to normalize corruption. The word they somehow forgot to use in this gloss piece.
This is not surprising but so disheartening.
"On all platforms we studied, a given user’s posts with links to lower-quality news sources receive more engagement on average than their posts with links to higher-quality news sources."
🚨Out in PNAS🚨
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Examining news on 7 platforms:
1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news
2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning
3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE - even BlueSky!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
November 14, 2025 at 6:53 PM
This is not surprising but so disheartening.
Fascinating. I think I’m a low-activity mouse.
November 14, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Fascinating. I think I’m a low-activity mouse.
Now let’s do: “What Newly Released Emails Tell Us About the New York Times.”
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Now let’s do: “What Newly Released Emails Tell Us About the New York Times.”
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What this investigative reporting reveals is that this raid on an apartment building in Chicago was done to obtain video for propaganda clips. Shameful and disgusting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
What this investigative reporting reveals is that this raid on an apartment building in Chicago was done to obtain video for propaganda clips. Shameful and disgusting.
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NEW: Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims.
For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims. For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the government’s claims.
For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
For the first time, the Venezuelans arrested in a Chicago raid are telling their stories.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Our America-first, America-alone foreign policy is promoting nuclear proliferation.
From Europe to Taiwan to Japan, everyone is turning into a porcupine. "PM Sanae Takaichi has sidestepped a commitment to maintain Japan’s decades-old pledge not to produce, possess or host nuclear weapons over apparent concerns about the U.S. 'nuclear umbrella.'" www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11...
Takaichi sidesteps commitment to decades-old nonnuclear principles
The prime minister refrained from saying her government would maintain Japan’s Three Non-Nuclear Principles, leaving the door open for a potential revision.
www.japantimes.co.jp
November 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Our America-first, America-alone foreign policy is promoting nuclear proliferation.
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Real time northern lights above the farmland outside of Thief River Falls, MN. It is quite extraordinary up here.
November 12, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Real time northern lights above the farmland outside of Thief River Falls, MN. It is quite extraordinary up here.
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Tuesday 634pm AKST from the UAF Poker Flats facility northeast of Fairbanks. Red aurora to the south and southwest, green aurora on the north and northeast horizon. In this image, south is at the top and east is to the right. #akwx #AlaskaSky #Aurora
Live link: allsky.gi.alaska.edu/poker-flat
Live link: allsky.gi.alaska.edu/poker-flat
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Tuesday 634pm AKST from the UAF Poker Flats facility northeast of Fairbanks. Red aurora to the south and southwest, green aurora on the north and northeast horizon. In this image, south is at the top and east is to the right. #akwx #AlaskaSky #Aurora
Live link: allsky.gi.alaska.edu/poker-flat
Live link: allsky.gi.alaska.edu/poker-flat
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A 50 year mortgage is basically an interest only loan. AKA rent.
The median age of first time home buyers is 40
The US lifespan is 78
The median age of first time home buyers is 40
The US lifespan is 78
Buying a $1M home with 20% down and a 50-year fixed mortgage at 6%?
Your loan is $800k.
Your monthly payment is ~$4,317.
After 30 years you’ll have paid $1.55M but only $201k of that is principal.
You’d still owe about $599k.
50-year mortgages barely touch the principal for decades.
Your loan is $800k.
Your monthly payment is ~$4,317.
After 30 years you’ll have paid $1.55M but only $201k of that is principal.
You’d still owe about $599k.
50-year mortgages barely touch the principal for decades.
November 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
A 50 year mortgage is basically an interest only loan. AKA rent.
The median age of first time home buyers is 40
The US lifespan is 78
The median age of first time home buyers is 40
The US lifespan is 78
From a friend: The story isn't that the Democrats blinked in the face of this suffering, it's that the Republicans didn't bat an eye.
However you feel about this (and I share the strong feelings) let’s not eat each up over this. There’s too much at stake.
However you feel about this (and I share the strong feelings) let’s not eat each up over this. There’s too much at stake.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
From a friend: The story isn't that the Democrats blinked in the face of this suffering, it's that the Republicans didn't bat an eye.
However you feel about this (and I share the strong feelings) let’s not eat each up over this. There’s too much at stake.
However you feel about this (and I share the strong feelings) let’s not eat each up over this. There’s too much at stake.
Can’t Schumer keep his caucus together?
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Can’t Schumer keep his caucus together?
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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U.S. consumer sentiment hits second-lowest ever, worse than 2020 and 2008
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
U.S. consumer sentiment hits second-lowest ever, worse than 2020 and 2008