Marian Call

so i wrote a new song. it's very short, it's a bit shouty. i'm shouting my lungs out. i'm screaming. people have asked for it since my friends and i sang it at Alaska Folk Fest, so here's a demo. i'm releasing this song into the public domain. it's for anyone. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jw08y...

Glasgow ❤️

Oct 26, 1954 Reuters silent newsreel of Roy Bergo trying to sail from Edmonds, WA to Alaska in a children's bathtub. Without charts/maps, he instead said "I will rely on my own judgement." He made it 12 miles before a very annoyed Coast Guard had to rescue him. #alaskahistory

I've been a fark loyalist for many years. It keeps me reading diverse & local news sources, has talkback in the chat bringing local or expert context to stories, and most importantly, the number of news stories is FINITE. no endless scroll. fark.com/subscribe keep this old internet site going!

Happy Monday, everybody! This week, have you considered voting early (if you can) and voting in person (if you can)? It's fun! Try it if you can!

Eric Bauza. Legend.

"If anything can distract you & give you a fleeting moment of joy, put it on a billboard. Guilt & shame are crazy...I would talk to Michelle Obama about kraken smut; I would go on CNN & talk about this gay-orca-shapeshifter romance I just bought. This is freedom our ancestors fought for!"

the data journalism Alaskans need: "A sample from the 1930 Census showed the territory was home to twice as many Dans as the national average rate, while WWII enlistment files show Dans holding strong at 1.8 times the national rate."

If you really thought that you'd credit Patrick Freyne, (@patrickfreyne.bsky.social) and you'd also be correct.

it is my deepest and most fervent wish that the tech oligarchs suffer consequences for openly allying with fascism the world over maybe we can extradite zuck in 2029

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Democracy wins tonight!

You want to talk about lessons learned? Fine But I'm not giving into the idea that it was the "excesses" of the movement to blame and not the highly visible and successful coordination of large segments of the US oligarchy and police state to crush said uprising

Idgaf what AOC says I refuse to accept the framing of Woke 1.0 what you had was one of the largest uprisings against racism in US history that reverberated throughout the social structure to the extent that businesses that otherwise didn't give a shit had to at least look like they cared

please please vote before election day, and tell your circles to. Republican mayors and governors are watching this unfold and getting ideas.

If a Democrat running in *Kansas* can say this, folks like Turek truly have no excuse whatsoever

Apparently, some Houston voters are putting their I Voted stickers on the Lorenzo Salgado Araujo memorial. Stephen Miller is ALREADY trying to scapegoat others for losing whatever races they lose in Texas and elsewhere. This is a vivid testament that for some voters, his murder squad is the reason.

Every time I hear some cis person say "it's just sports, that's not a human right," I think about this poast and a little bit of me dies inside. "I am tired of being discriminated against and having things I love and sometimes need taken from me because of hate and ignorance." 💔

They want to ban trans people from swimming in college athletics but they also want to ban trans women from getting changed in the locker rooms at your local community swimming pool also. Denying us this kind of space is a route to denying us health and life.

Anti-trans Democrats are spreading poison when we can least afford it, during elections in this ongoing fascist takeover. As a strategy, it’s a recipe for failure. As a moral stand, it’s reprehensible. PS I’m the father of young trans woman and I’ll never forgive anyone who makes her life harder.

I found a nest of transphobes who need to hear this and now will not because I am on a blocking spree but I'm going to say it for any I miss: If someone's physical body disgusts you, that is a problem with YOU.

guys, if you work for the puppy crushing factory, the technology you build is going to be used to crush puppies

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

1) Shit's tense now in Europe, yes, but when I was a kid Germany was split in half by a wall and the concept of a European Union was unfathomable. 2) Famine and starvation were far more common than they are now. We were afraid we could never feed a growing global population, but we figured it out.

Also, as I have recommended multiple times: Go vote with someone vulnerable to the voter fraud conspiracy theories. Friends with a trans person who will be under suspicion bc of their ID or a brown person who speaks mostly Spanish? Don't make them go to the polls alone.

I'd like to see more cis allies grapple with the crazy making environment trans ppl are living in right now the way that Hauser grapples with that here. There is no one right way to understand this, in part bc there's no one way all trans ppl experience it. But really sitting with it is important.

This is taxpayer-funded research data and info that belongs to the public and is not this administration’s to erase.

People with food allergies/sensitivities can socialize without risking life and limb. No one thinks I'm weird for wearing earplugs at concerts. The concept of extrovert/introvert, tired as it is, makes for more thoughtfully planned social gatherings, and makes saying no to them less painful.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

Dear DOJ, this applies to you, too. Elections are the states' responsibility, especially since you gutted the voting rights act. Feds out of Alaska elections.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.