Brandon Wood

Prices finally went up where I live with our first fuel barge of the year. #Alaska

What an insult to all Alaska. This is outrageous.

How do you run a marathon in a place with fewer than 26 miles of road? Well, a kayak was involved for the inaugural Cape Blossom Marathon: www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n... #Alaska

The real holy trinity: The Father, The Son, and The Red Hulk

The northern lights were dancing last night!

Ok, if I must.

‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms. ‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms. But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

Sen. Bill Cassidy: "Do you agree with me that President Trump deserves a Nobel Prize for Operation Warp Speed?" RFK: "Absolutely." Sen. Bill Cassidy: "But you just told Sen. Bennet that the Covid vaccine killed more people than Covid?"

literally going to kill innocent children

My Alaska Outdoors: Over the years, the Chugach Mountains have become Anchorage comic book store owner John Weddleton’s fortress of solitude, and McHugh Peak is a particular highlight. www.adn.com/outdoors-adv...

Alaskans Standing with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

Be a Samwise Gamgee. Support your friends, trust your instincts, be humble, lead with your heart, love potatoes, don't let one little spider ruin your day.

"Restoring Truth in American History" is the most sinister Bradbury-esque totalitarian doublespeak phrasing

Threatening to impeach judges who check your power is proof you need judges checking your power.

A perfect summary of most Barkley runners

Well, there goes my next 60 hours...

The volcano is still at “code yellow” status, according to the observatory, which indicates “elevated unrest.” Me too, Mt. Spurr, me too.

Tell me why Jimmy Carter had to sell his family’s peanut farm (to a corp that destroyed it) but it’s totally fine for the orange dickhead in chief to shill cars on the White House lawn

Researchers at the Alaska Volcano Observatory reported that the likelihood of an eruption at Mount Spurr, a volcano about 80 miles west of Anchorage, has increased. They say the most likely outcome of the unrest at the volcano is “one or more explosive events.” alaskapublic.org/news/public-...

Full page in today’s Anchorage Daily News:

"I'd like you to set the severance device in my brain fully on 'innie' mode for the next four years. I'm willing to work nonstop if it allows me to avoid the panic attacks I get from hearing the news about teenage social media influencers becoming senior government advisors."

Super excited for this www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

I wrote a thing about my recent experience at the Arrowhead 135 a couple weeks ago: irunalaska.com/2025/02/10/a... #ultrarunning #arrowhead135

Accessibility doesn't only help a small group of people. Accessibility helps everyone

I know this is The Onion, but this feels extremely accurate.

Nice writeup on the Arrowhead 135, which I'll be starting in one week! www.grandforksherald.com/sports/north...

come to firefox and make duckduckgo your default search engine, if only because you can turn AI features OFF Firefox use has declined in the last few years. it's a good day to turn that around

This is peak Alaska content

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

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Birding with Jimmy Carter had its challenges. “You're generally trying to be very, very quiet,” Buzz Scher says. “But here's a man that we didn't want to be quiet with.” And joggers would freeze in their tracks. Carter wouldn’t hesitate alaskapublic.org/news/politic...

$750 for a 2 bedroom in 2003

The evolution of this morning's aurora between 6:30 and 8:00 a.m.

Even more lights out for my run this morning, this time with lots of purple.

Alaska put on quite the show for New Years. This was just after midnight.

I have never heard of an Alaskan of any political stripe who wants this to happen.

Christmas Surprise! GitHub Copilot is now FREE with 2000 code completions a month! github.blog/news-insight...

as of this week, when you verify your account by updating your username from a default like emily.bsky.social to your website @emilyliu.me, your former bsky.social username is reserved for you automatically (and prevents impersonators from claiming it). you can revert back to it at anytime

Next year’s hot Halloween costume will be “sexy Brussels sprout”

Christmas tree from Alaska, gingerbread Capitol sweeten the season in D.C., reports Ashley Murray (@ashleymurray.bsky.social) for @statesnewsroom.com, via the @alaskabeacon.com: alaskabeacon.com/2024/12/04/d...

One taking a regular nap, while the other naps like a giant derp 😄

I was noticing a decent number of failed login attempts, so I pushed out an update this morning that should help improve that flow for the majority of users. Please let me know if you're still having issues!

Beautiful (and cold!) run on the trails this morning. 14 miles at -9°F 🥶 #boycottblackfriday #optoutside #alaska #winter #trailrunning #ultrarunning

Really excited about this. Scooping up links is one of my main use cases for social media