Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 21hAh, Alaska Gear Company, the Canada Goose of Alaska. 010
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Preliminary FNSB election results have been posted and so far it's looking pretty good, with the more progressive candidates leading in every race (haven't checked North Pole). The thing I'm most relieved about is that the noxious Prop 3 (hand-counting ballots) is failing by a lot. 281
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 07/10/2026everyone at The Chicks show has t shirts that say Maryanne and Wanda 2028 4794117
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 07/10/2026When a paid @MarshaBlackburn *volunteer* shows up at your door… 😬 www.facebook.com/share/v/1C7B... 35936233
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Several Canada jays landed on my head tonight, which is the sort of thing that makes me stupid happy. 140
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026This is a bullshit situation - it's kind of a long story but the upshot is that it's a nonbinding agreement between Deere and the government, and that Deere is the only ag equipment company participating in the agreement. Also, no non-ag companies. None of the examples she opens with are covered 000
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Not a great turnout for the election so far, according to poll workers. Plenty of time left to vote! 042
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 06/10/2026this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...washingtonpost.com‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died. 8607113
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Cool to see Joanna back - she was started on an excellent career before she took a break to make a family. I'm curious to see if she's building back to being competive. They're local and I know she's been training pretty hard. 040
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I've got to admit that I thought this race season wasn't going to be that interesting, but the Copper Basin roster is a corker - that's going to be an excellent, excellent race. Big cred points to anybody who knows who's running the purebred team (although I'm guessing they don't start, tbh) 040
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦ᒪᑰᓯ Mark Springer @markspringer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Texans trying to colonize Alaska. 2106
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Timb🎃🎃 Wilson @wilsonti7.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"I would proclaim a day of meditation on the crematoriums a universal Day of Atonement. I would remember that we all marched with Eichmann to the prison or the gallows. Whether it was the human incinerator or the H-bomb, we built it. To be human is to be guilty." — I. F. Stone 151
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I think the underlying problem you're addressing is that we're terrible at dealing with uncertainty and tend to conflate "it's probably" with "it is." I wonder how the model in question learned to be more certain than it is. 011
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Some models are quite good at it, and given the probabilistic nature of the technology and its ability to compress a massive search space it's probably a problem that is better suited on a technical basis to LLMs than, say, answering a question of fact. (I hate the privacy implications, though) 110
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Alfa makes great boots! But those are not really winter boots, so dunno. There are actually some very good cold-weather boots made in the US, if the Marines were willing to sacrifice some style points (which I gather, in this DoD, they're not). 120
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Gratitude to Murkowski for not giving this legitimacy. 010
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As an Old, I am sad - that's Hubert Humphrey. 120
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026GEFILTE PHISHING 10569011210
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I'm in 34, as well, and it's reassuringly weird. I'm grateful that it includes Farmers Loop, though, to counterbalance the absolute batshittery out Eielson Farm Road. 020
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah, but open weight models are not without their problems, too. It's pretty straightforward to strip out their security guardrails - there are even Python libraries to do it, for folks who don't understand the math or the structure of the models. So, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 020
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It's one thing to work in coalition on specific issues with folks you disagree with, and another thing entirely to give them broader, more general power. Gotta say, Alaska Democrats don't stand on principle much. 141
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Antisocial Bog Witch @boggywitch.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Peltola’s ad with her saying directly into camera that she will work with trump🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮 @marypeltola.com 9243
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/09/2026If, as seems to be the majority view here, you dislike the prospect of a world where human journalism and analysis is displaced by AI slop, have the self-awareness not to act annoyed and offended that the human labor of writing sometimes requires compensation. 465078
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026That was basically the entirety of Mike Cronk's initial run for the State House (although it was Carhartt rather than CRF) - "I like guns. So very, very much." Got him elected. 000
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I can see "Montecito County" as a normal thinko, particularly given that it's "Mendocino County" under discussion, but the fires issue raises some questions. Looks like there's about 60,000 acres burning statewide in California. Could be AI, could be really terrible reporting. 011
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦alaskanrobby @alaskanrobby.bsky.social · 13/09/2026when I didnt study for the test but the smartest kid in class is sitting next to me 23912
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Nice - along with brook trout, the prettiest fish out there. Looks like a beautiful place, too. 110
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I think that "tuned out and inattentive" is his natural state. 050
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Seen a lot of these, but this one is my favourite 😎 27498682395
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Hey, the administration is blocking funding for, among other things, dog care for the dog teams at Denali.thehill.com$25 million in national park project funds blocked by Trump administration: ReportThe Trump administration has reportedly blocked more than 130 planned projects at national parks across the country, putting more than $25 million worth of funding on hold. The Interior Department,… 22113
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Indeed. א גוט געבענטשט יאהר to family, friends, and everybody celebrating! 020
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026That's actually been around for some years. Rod van Meter is here on Bluesky. @rdvquantum.bsky.social 111
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 10/09/2026National Jewish Survey, Sep 1, 2026 Generic congressional ballot: 67% D, 26% R Approvals JD Vance: -68 MAGA: -59 Donald Trump: -53 ICE: -50 Benjamin Netanyahu: -40 Marco Rubio: -33 "Israeli policy in Gaza": -30 Barack Obama +32 jewishvoters.org/wp-content/u...jewishvoters.org 281086248
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026That happens to me after the second distance race of the season every year 110
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 09/09/2026no, for god's sake what on earth is wrong with you 1349
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 09/09/2026Not to brag, but our product has been foldable since 1828. 142135222191
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026True, but Dan seems to only go to invitation-only events. Dunno if this one was open to everybody but Peltola really does make herself far more available than Dan ever did, both showing up at open events and holding them herself. 131
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Marian Call @mariancall.bsky.social · 05/09/2026what WERE the back room machinations going on the last few days to make this happen, because it seems like very dark primetime tv shit i really hope we find all the receipts one day 2226
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026"Had jurors received accurate information, the court said, 'the grand jury likely would have declined to indict.'" 041
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026My mother (92) often talks about how different the world would be if RFK hadn't been murdered. 020
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In our new essay for the @financialtimes.com (you read that right), @astra.bsky.social and I link the extreme weather events we have all been living through to the rise of a new iteration of futureless fascism, wherein the rich and powerful plan for their bunkered survival behind fortressed borders. 391764682
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Yiddish classic labor song ("and we are all brothers")youtube.comAle Brider With Michael Smolash and Alicia SvigalsYouTube video by YiddishCat 020
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026they’ll never take away our weird art, amen 214514
Reposted by Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/09/2026line out the door! 333738
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026BTW, thank you for the rainbow unicorn avatar option - much appreciated. 0160
Melinda 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @akbumpkin.bsky.social · 02/09/2026They grow up so fast! Eddie's left ear is still pretty whimsical - we'll see if that persists. 150