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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 2026 was the warmest September on record for the Contiguous U.S. since 1895 according to PRISM climate data. 🔥🔥🔥

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Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a kid, I thought adults had everything figured out. Now I get excited when the store has my favorite bread, I have no idea what I’m doing half the time, and I’m pretty sure everyone else is winging it too. Here’s some poems. 💙💙💙 #poetry #blueskypoets #writingcommunity #BlueSkyPoetry #SkyPoet

A humorous, affectionate poem about how growing older changes our definition of happiness, until something as ordinary as buying a good kitchen sponge becomes a small shared joy.
The Good Sponge
When I was young,
I dreamed of having money,
freedom,
and a house of my own.
Yesterday,
I bought a new kitchen sponge.
I showed it to my wife.
She agreed
it was a good sponge.
I don't know
when this became happiness,
but I think
we're doing okay.

A playful poem about the endless responsibilities of adulthood, particularly the exhausting realization that deciding what to make for dinner is a problem that returns every single day.
Dinner Again
Nobody warned me
that adulthood meant
deciding what to eat
every single day
for the rest
of my natural life.
I made dinner yesterday.
Apparently,
that doesn't count
for today.
At this point,
I'd welcome
a little jury duty.

A reflective poem about reaching the age your father was when you believed he knew everything, and realizing that his confidence may have concealed the same uncertainty and fear you experience as an adult.
The Age My Father Was
I reached the age
my father was
when I thought
he knew everything.
I remember asking him
what we should do
when something went wrong.
He always had an answer.
Now I wonder
how many times
he was just as frightened
as I am,
and answered anyway.

A warm, relatable poem about never quite feeling like a proper adult, despite managing everyday responsibilities. It suggests that growing up may simply mean caring for others and doing your best without knowing all the answers.
No Instructions Included
I thought someday
I'd wake up
and feel like an adult.
Instead,
I lose my keys,
forget why I entered rooms,
and occasionally eat cereal
over the kitchen sink.
But the bills get paid.
The dog gets fed.
Someone I love
knows they are loved.
Maybe growing up
isn't knowing what you're doing.
Maybe it's doing your best
without the instructions

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Heather Vogell @heathervogell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

NEW: Trump’s pick for a tiny federal agency that advises Congress and the president on Arctic research policy is a MAGA venture capitalist with no science background. The job put him on a global stage, where he’s pushed for closer ties with Russia. www.propublica.org/article/thom...

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How a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic Adviser

As head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve seen sentiments among the Sloppers that “A.i.” is shunned in art as a matter of taste. In the same way people once eschewed photography or digital art. No. Photographs have copyright. Digital arts have copyright. “A.i.” products have ZERO copyright. They are literally worthless.

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Covie @covie93.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Eric Schmitt might actually be dumber than Tommy Tuberville.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Two Schmitt staffers realizing this might be their last day.

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Senator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

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KrazyTheeAlaskan™️ @krazytheealaskan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Im not shy about my opinion on this. #AlaskaSky

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026

Trump's eyes are getting very heavy

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Ak Rita @ak-ritaj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Meant to share this from @mudflats.bsky.social days ago. Late but still pertinent.

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Rep. Mike Levin @levin.house.gov · 28/09/2026

Just in case it wasn’t clear, when they say the U.S. Government’s paying for this, that’s YOUR taxpayer dollars they’re using. I’ll say this as many times as I need to: it is ILLEGAL to use American taxpayer dollars from the government to pay for candidates’ or parties’ political ads.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

While you are getting up and going to start the work week, members of the Trump Admin are planning their next lavish taxpayer funded parties, trips and personal vanity projects while searching for new ways to turn their govt appointment into another grift to enrich themselves.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Behind the rhetoric around measles are real patients, families and clinicians carrying the consequences. This week, I traveled to rural Pennsylvania to hear directly from doctors at the center of an unprecedented outbreak Their stories deserve to cut through the noise—and remind us what’s at stake

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On the ground at the epicenter of the measles outbreak, the clinicians doing the lifesaving work told us who they’re relying on: their colleagues, local health departments and state officials. Just as revealing was who they didn’t mention.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Want the truth about measles? Listen to the doctors treating it. Voices breaking as they describe suffering that did not have to happen. More than 165 hospitalizations and rising. Their testimonials are the clearest answers to the fed’s rhetoric.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed... "How will you pay for it?" The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts... "How much do you need?" It doesn't have to be this way.

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

THIS 👇 IS TRUE.......

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Ak Rita @ak-ritaj.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

SNL new season has started!

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

CNN says its journalists have been barred from joining the press pool traveling with Trump this weekend. CNN reporters were scheduled to board Air Force One today to cover Trump’s trip to Knoxville for a college football game, but they’ve now been denied a spot in the traveling pool.

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David Veit 🇺🇦🌻 @daves-not-here-man.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"His summits are a national hazard precisely because Trump apparently does not understand that he is representing the United States; instead, he seems to think he’s just having a visit with some of the guys in a very cool club of which he’d very much like to be a member."

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Matt Acuña Buxton @matt.akmemo.com · 25/09/2026

More on Team Soft Staffers: “More important, these Democrats should come to terms with the reality that sometimes, when you work for a busy, prominent person in a high-stress environment, your job really is to feed the lizard.” #aksen #akelect

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 26/09/2026

ICE BEHIND THE MASKS HAVE NAMES 2 masked agents threatened to arrest Robert Peck for legally observing them. He sued. “And now, because of a lawsuit, the (ICE) agents have names.” A Hylton 📌Nicholas Lapointe 📌Christopher Semler I hope more people take ICE to court when their rights are violated.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you so much @katiephang.bsky.social. Coming from a fearless defender of democracy & dedicated advocate for the EPSTEIN victims, this means the world to me! Wishing you continued success... Much ❤️ from your fan, Mar🐫

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 26/09/2026

This is an entirely new phenomenon because before the vaccine, most women who survived measles were immune because they had it when they were young. But now, idiots who refuse to get vaccinated are giving birth to babies with measles. Two babies have died. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.

Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.

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Aksaab @aksaab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Cause we need a good laugh and wink 😉

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akearthquake.bsky.social @akearthquake.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Do you live in the Wasilla area? Get on over to the 18th annual Mat-Su Emergency Preparedness Expo! Alaska Earthquake Center folks will be there (along with a LOT of others!) to answer your questions about our work with earthquakes. And tsunamis. And landslides. TODAY! 11am-3pm at Menard Sports Ctr.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Sea surface temperatures around Alaska are generally above the 1991-2020 baseline average. Chukchi and Beaufort Seas generally below average in except very close to shore. Eastern Bering Sea mostly not far from average. Data from NOAA/PSL/ESRL. #akwx #Arctic #SST

Map centered on Alaska showing the average sea surface temperature for the week of September 19-25, 2026 as the difference from the 1991-2020 average in 0.5 degree C increments.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska Working wood: tsets niɬdzedekt’ox "I'm splitting wood" tsets dįhjaayh "you split wood for kindling" tsets tinttheeɬ "you’ll chop the wood" tsets ihtl’ęyh "I’m sawing wood" Wunenh Ch’et’ą̌ą’ Dit-tsiig tah tsets niɬdzedekt’úux "I usually split wood in September"

Clip art drawing of splitting wood with an axe

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Arctic Goddess @arcticgoddess.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Here is a full length.

Ldakát Káá Léelk'w "Everybody's Grandfather" carved by Nathan Jackson. Photo of weathered wood totem pole inside the UA Museum.

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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Warrior Princess ⬇️

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Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

MAGA: “I won’t get one of those COVID shots. You don’t know what’s in them.” Also MAGA: “Look at this great price on this mystery meat Trump just brought us. I can’t wait to get home and make some Hamburger Helper with it.” 😂

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Ak Rita @ak-ritaj.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Welp the thing I was rushing around to go to tonight (here in Anchor town) is cancelled due to hostess running a fever. I might move up getting flu shot to tomorrow. She doesn't know what she has, but left work early due to fever and aches.

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Thursday. Most areas not to far from normal for the last week of September. Coolest on the northern North Slope coast. Warmest in parts of southwest Alaska. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Thursday, September 24, 2026. Plotted temperatures range from 30F at Deadhorse, AK to 63F at Fort Laird, NT.

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Janice in Anchorage @janiceinanchorage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ll guarantee you, Dan Sullivan doesn’t know from personal experience what diesel costs but Mary does as a fisherman who had to fuel her fishing boat. #USDemocracy #VoteBlue

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

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Aksaab @aksaab.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Definitely going to have to visit this museum.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Marco Rubio: “Iranians are radical religious lunatics.” Also: Have you met Paula White, the White House faith advisor?

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Jesus would treat Donald Trump like he were a money changer’s table and rush to angrily flip him. Glory!

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The best question a reporter ever asked of Trump was the one S.V. Date asked in 2020: “Mr. President, …do you regret at all, all the lying you’ve done to the American people?” The White House press corps needs to be at least that tough today—indeed tougher, given Trump’s degraded state of mind.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

ProPublica dropped the first story in a new series on corruption in Congress, and it starts with Sen. Susan Collins. A defense contractor illegally funneled $150,000 to a pro-Collins PAC. The company’s CEO later pleaded guilty to unlawful campaign contributions.

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Pat Race @pat.alaskarobotics.com · 22/09/2026

It's this kid's birthday. 49 years in the 49th state.

Pat dressed as Superman with a b-day hat on.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Comparing him to 47 is highly insulting... to Jabba.

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Ptarmageddon @ptarmageddon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Vote local! Early voting starts Monday! #Alaska #Fairbanks #AkLeg

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Dave in AK @bikewritedave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

#Fairbanks: In case any of you are getting suckered in by Pearl Creek revenge candidate for school board Robert Herrick, at last night’s forum at UAF he didn’t even know what preschool is. I’m not making this up. Vote for Bobby Burgess.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A huge thank you to CNN, MS NOW, Politico, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, PBS News, NPR, The New York Times, The Washington Post, HuffPost, the Associated Press, Reuters, Getty Images, and AFP for standing together in defense of a free press.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You don’t have to agree with one another to recognize that the government should not get to decide which journalists have access based on whether it likes their reporting. This is exactly the kind of solidarity we need when press freedom is challenged. 💚✊

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