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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Weird Al Yankovic will be in Anchorage this weekend.

I desperately want them to walk into a bar.

Costco or no, Alaska needs a law school. Between ANCSA and ANILCA, our legal environment is legitimately different from any other state, and we need a school that teaches it.

Clouds cover an almost full moon.

Goodnight, #alaskasky

Ok @forrestdunbarak.bsky.social, Because I'm a wonk, I found the citation.

Per Alaska Stat § 44.09.040, it is in fact "a last frontier."

They shouldn't. Just as we should not pretend that make-work sprinkled randomly throughout a curriculum on a schedule having nothing to do with that curriculum is education.

I was looking at the protesters, not his annual pig roast.

Pig masks and a political shift in Alaska For the last 15 summers, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) has hosted his state’s political heavyweights at a down-home pig roast fundraiser. But this August, pigs of a different kind snorted back at…

I mean... It's an old story, but it may count.

Given ANCSA and the North Anchorage Land Agreement, would Eklutna Inc. have the right of first refusal on any land or buildings transferred from Anchorage to Eagle River should Eaglexit actually happen?

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This is a trap.

The proven ability for many to telework combined with the water shortages in the Southwest could significantly change this prediction.

We need a tax system that scales with the population, both year-round and seasonal.

The mechanics of the feed allowed me to exclude posts from people on the list that also include the hashtag, meaning we only get one version of the post, that coming from the hashtag itself.

You find what you look for.

I've found Tai Chi helpful, but it took re-learning what to look for within my body.

Tai Chi works with energy that is invisible to Western medicine, which doesn't look for it. It takes time to relearn, and there is nothing stupid about it.

Content that AI generates can't be protected under US copyright law. Strangely, due to a precedent set by PETA in court.

I wonder where the line is when using an AI editor, as the referenced company intends to do.

If artists need to prove human content, this could get very, very messy.

I suspect you would have more luck pushing for standards DST.

With artificial light available, an hour or daylight is more valuable for after work activity then it is before work.

Power pole and trees sticking out of the fog, sun trying to shine through.

Sun burning through the fog. #AlaskaSky

Eagle River valley, mid-June

#AlaskaSky, Eagle River, taken in spring.

Dormant?

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

It's good to have you. You may wish to link your username to your ADN website (see attached).

As you will likely be a primary source for a lot of our discussions, it would be good for you to be verified.

Thank you.

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The best possible reason.

Optimist: the cup is half EMPTY.

But we can refill it.

Optimism is not about framing how you see the world. It's not about deluding yourself or others about what the world is.

It's not passive.

It's about imagining and MAKING the world what it can be.

I may have to revisit Friendica. A quick glance at Wikipedia indicates that they have added AT to their OAuth and ActivityPub.

That being said, if I had just stuck with Mastodon instead of trying to get too much into federation, I probably would not have lost contact with you all

I ran across this and thought of your post. It's frustrating how many times people build a new protocol to federate social media, and how much effort then has to go into federating the federation
protocols.

fed.brid.gy

I grew up in Sitka, but went to college in Minnesota. Every summer I came home and worked at a fish processing plant.

While in college, I paid income tax in MN.

MN made more money off of my work processing Alaskan fish than AK did.

EDITORIAL: How Alaska can fix its sluggish ballot-counting problem By implementing these fixes, the state can restore confidence in its ability to administer elections and get results reported more quickly.

@anchoragedailynews.bsky.social, campaign events happen up to election day, and voters continue gaining new information until the end.

Our desire to know results quickly is not more important than rural Alaska's right to informed voting.

Requiring absentee ballots by election day would be wrong

There are many people either in our covering the #akleg who should consider account verification. It just takes access to your web host.

Thank you for building this.

@alaskasurvey.bsky.social, do you have any insight on why people voted one way or the other on Ballot Measure 2?

Troll lists should henceforth be known as Nonstarter Packs.

Here you go:

I found a website called SkyFeed, which builds them. I don't know where the feed is stored, or if it may disappear at some point.

Of all the colonial names we insist on keeping, this one has to be the most bizarre.