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Erin Alberty

@erinalberty.bsky.social
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Utah news reporter for Axios. Gardener, word puzzler, skier, haunter, mom. Happiest in the mountains.

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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
@dhookstead

Did we cancel D-Day because of a little rough weather? No. Play the damn game.

Readers added context

D-Day was delayed by a day because of the weather
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Frankenstein Iscariot @deaconblues1979.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The problem with society is nobody wants to be a ham for Halloween anymore
Scout from To Kill A Mockingbird dressed as a ham and yeah, I know it was for a school play and not for Halloween, come on, I am from the South, give me some credit
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Photography by Elliot McGucken
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I can't even trust AI to tell a decent photo from a terrible one. My phone thinks it can, but it keeps choosing pictures where one person's eyes are closed and the other's mouth is half-open — while burying the one where everyone looks lovely!
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I saw 2 rhinos fight at Etosha, and there was NOTHING like this anger. They even had rules, with a pausa de hidratacion, and a clear submission & departure. No attempt to injure; just shoving. I guess they can tell when it's just business & when it's time for the horn. youtube.com/shorts/qjDWF...
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Raging rhino attacks safari car
YouTube video by ABC News
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Shadow Novus @shadownovus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The jokes write themselves tbh
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Darth Vader Alter The Deal
ALT: Darth Vader Alter The Deal
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I got enough sleep twice this week. I thought it would help more, but it was also a sucky week. Maybe it's more of a Jesus-sand-footprints thing, where you don't know how bad it would have been without two restful nights.
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I’m so sick of everybody and the racism and the sexism and how it’s destroying fun deadline.com/2026/09/ride...
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'Ride Or Die' Canceled By Prime Video After One Season (Exclusive)
'Ride Or Die' has been canceled By Prime Video after one season. The Octavia Spencer & Hannah Waddingham series is shopped By Paramount TV Studios.
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Hillary Monahan @hillarymonahan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"He only did this because people protested." Yes. Exactly. Proving protest works AND people can evolve.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’m just saying Billie Joe MacAllister should’ve survived that jump.
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BOGLUDDITE @brucemackay.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the face of a man who knows he is about to become a meme.
The Pope looking bleak because someone has gifted him Rasputin's soul and is resigned to the fact that the photo of this moment is going to go viral.
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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 17/09/2026
THE 1998 CADILLAC GOPHEARSE IS FOR SALE ONLY 3,000 BUCKS
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ROW THE BOAT
1998 Cadillac DeVille • Hearse
$3,000
Listed over a week ago in Anoka, MN
SKI-U-MAH
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/09/2026
We obtained recordings of 160+ emergency calls made from or about an immigration detention center where three people died within six weeks. “They will not give them medical treatment,” one caller said, seeking help for a detainee with kidney stones.
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Listen to 911 Calls From Inside an Immigration Detention Center: “We Just Need to Take Him to the Hospital”
Reporters don’t have access to Camp East Montana, one of the largest immigration detention centers in the country. Emergency calls from the Texas facility offer a glimpse of unfolding crises faced by ...
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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY DARLIN HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAL
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sunrise over the Faroe Islands.
A distant band of light in the dark signifies a coming sunrise.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Neither Trump nor his wife are in attendance at this year’s ceremony, notwithstanding the AP photo editor’s bullshit.
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026
The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When Gemini sounds like Fox News. By the way I don’t use this crap. I entered the question on Google and now the default is this AI nonsense
Gemini chat calling May Day “radical socialist”
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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 04/09/2026
YAY DADA ZADDY
Black and White photo from 1916 showing a white man in a strange costume with a tall cylinder on his head
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Utah software engineer/influencer/recent Pentagon hire DataRepublican says her socialist tracker is a "personal project." Critics are skeptical that her undisclosed Defense role is actually separate from her personal projects. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Utah's "DataRepublican" launches socialist tracker
The rightwing personality says it's a "personal project." Critics say it's a tool to spy on citizens.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 01/09/2026
you can always tell when all the Harvard/Yale/Princeton guys in the media have decided to talk about something
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
As Utah's late sunsets slowly come earlier, it's worth weighing whether they'll keep their appeal as summer temps get hotter. Daylight Saving Time puts us about about 90 minutes out of whack with a "normal" day, based on solar noon. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Daylight comes and stays late in Utah with or without DST
As days get hotter, Utahns will have to decide whether late sunsets still have appeal.
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
it is incredibly noticeable here that the pretty much explicit position of cottle is “black people’s opinions don’t count, they need to accept what Real America says”
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It's funny, after I listened to the "Behind the Bastards," I said to my family, "I think most of the people I personally know are at least as intelligent as Thomas Jefferson." Incident after incident made him look like a smart-person imposter. Fake populist AND fake great man. How embarrassing.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 28/08/2026
Side note: This is why my toddler already knows who Dolly Parton is — her picture is on the back of some of the books we read together. Saying "The end — and that's Dolly!" has been a phrase used in our house when finishing these books for a while now.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
That is sooooo lovely. I honestly needed that little anecdote today.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Monte, whose gourmet tasting menus are served next to a fire extinguisher store on an industrial street in South Salt Lake, has earned Utah's first Michelin star. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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South Salt Lake's Monte wins Utah's first Michelin star
A mention in the famously choosy guide is a huge boon for a restaurant's reputation and business.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm now reflecting on all the 5- and 6-year-old birthday parties where we 100% watched Bernadette Peters get a facial from a locket.
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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Holy shit.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Aaaand Tim Curry & Carol Burnett are playing brother & sister! 😅
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Etrigan (unrelated, but also spooky) ✌️🏈 @etrigan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I am very glad I ignored my reflex of “79 posts in a thread? Nooo…” and read this. I hope you also do that.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.
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The thread o’ tweets @threadotweets.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
WenzlerPowers: 

Dolly Parton writing “I will always love you“ and “Jolene“ in the same day is mind blowing.

It’s like if da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa then turned around in the same day and wrote “Jolene“
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Daryl Hannah @dhlovelife.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor when we began steel magnolias rehearsals  i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours? Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it! i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that
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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A man pulls off his jacket to reveal a black suit underneath and says "I have to confess... I'm really a Fed." The man he's talking to also pulls off his jacket and says "no way... I'm a Fed too!" They embrace and fall in love. 60 years later, one of the Feds is on his deathbed. He says "I've been lying this whole time. I just said I was a Fed to impress you." The other man leans in, smiling and says "I know. I'm a Fed." Tears of melancholic joy stream down their faces.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
It feels scary hot outside right now.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
To "tog out" is to get dressed in special clothes. "He's togging out for powder day." Who has ever used this word?
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I think those are elflings!
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That would be cuter, but it's "elvers."
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I guess the one at the bottom is a little cute.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Elvers are not as cute as you may have hoped. www.mainepublic.org/business-and...
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Why Maine Is The Only State In The US With A ‘Significant’ Elver Fishery
If you’ve ever read a story in the news about elver fishing season, you’ve probably seen some variation of this line: “Maine’s the only state in the U.S.…
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
(I always play the previous day's game)
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I just started looking up the words I don't know when I play NYT Spelling Bee, and today I learned there's a word for baby eels.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I once worked at a university that gutted an entire (very popular and useful) learning center and replaced it with two guys who would teach you how to host blogs. every student had to have a blog. Every single one. Our syllabus had to mention blogs. We had to teach WITH blogs.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
More Utah parents are refusing vaccines, with kindergarten exemptions spiking again as kids returned to school last year amid a measles outbreak In some parts of the state, kindergarteners' polio vaccine coverage has also fallen below herd immunity levels. www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Utah's vaccine exemptions spiked amid measles outbreak
Immunization counts also fell below herd immunity for whooping cough — and, in some aras, polio.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The constant state of anxiety is a tax I'm really feeling aware of when I indulge in my time-travel fantasies. There's definitely a limit to the hardships I'd risk to visit the past (smallpox), but GOD it'd be nice to get through two consecutive days without having to learn entirely new skill sets.
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TKarney @pecunium.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
“If I try to take away the gloves from those officers at this point I think we may have a mutiny on our hands.They’ve grown really attached.”The gloves allow their wearer to inflict pain without leaving an officer vulnerable to lawsuits," Glueck said. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The Orwellian Company Behind ICE’s New Electric Shock Gloves
“With a glove, there are no burn marks or scars.” That makes it hard for victims to sue.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
But that figure doesn't include the Great Salt Lake Commissioner's hat sales www.axios.com/local/salt-l...
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Utah's new Great Salt Lake commissioner sold alfalfa-promoting hats
Alfalfa and other hay get most of the water diverted from the lake but represent less than 1% of state GDP.
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Erin Alberty @erinalberty.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
haha me last week to my husband:
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