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Na Mee

@yourfriendnamee.bsky.social
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Poet, storyteller, teaching artist. Fellowships from PEN America, Kundiman, Aspen Institute. Studying at Randolph MFA. Fat bear nerd 🤎 www.tsunamee.com

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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
From guest contributor @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Amidst doom scrolls and dark headlines, over 2.5 million humans tuned into Fat Bear Week this year -hungry for good news. Allow me to share a bite: Fat Bear Week has crowned a new champion, and it is the sizable and the sensitive 89 Backpack.
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Fat Bear Week Crowns a New Benevolent King: 89 Backpack
Fat Bear Week has crowned a new champion, and it is the sizable and the sensitive 89 Backpack.
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Sylvia | Comms open! @asisherright.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have you been following @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social writing either here or on ig? She has made me fall in love with all of them. I want to pet their ears and feed them blueberries 🥹
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From guest contributor @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social It's Fat Bear Week Finals! Chomping at the lip, we’ve got 910. This, my friends, is your family girl. Opposite 910 (probably sitting on his favorite rock) is 89 Backpack—a poster bear for positive masculinity.
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Fat Bear Tuesday finals feature Dancing, Magic, and a Coat of Many Colors
It's Fat Bear Week Finals today! Who will win? Bear 910 or 89 Backpack? May the fattest bear win.
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Sylvia | Comms open! @asisherright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Obsessed with Backpack 🥰
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From guest contributor @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Welcome to the Fat Bear Week semi-finals where the bears are well-fed and the voters are well-read! May the fattest bear win. Vote today from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. AKDT at fatbearweek.org.
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Ladies and Gentlebears, it’s the Fat Bear Week semifinals
Welcome to the Fat Bear Week semi-finals where the bears are well-fed and the voters are well-read! May the fattest bear win. Vote today from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. AKDT at fatbearweek.org.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
May the fattest bear win. Vote today from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. AKDT at fatbearweek.org.
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Fat Bear Week 2026 - Explore.org
Explore.org is the world's leading philanthropic live nature cam network and documentary film channel. Our mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, create a portal into the soul of humanity...
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’ve been hungry my whole life to vote for someone like him.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s a lot of broken things about our world. But Backpack was born with, met with, and continues to lead with gentleness.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Amidst a culture of power and dominance, what we see is a bear who just wants to live in harmony with others.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What we see is a bear so idle and blessed, he has a favorite river rock to sit on.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What we see instead is a bear who dances before his beloved. (Adorable video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0osW...)
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Backpack became a behemoth of a bear who now has both size and seniority at his disposal. He could demand rich fishing spots, submission, sex.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Maybe it was nurture: when young Backpack had an injury (we think his leg was broken), his mother patiently adapted their lifestyle around it. This tenderness allowed Backpack the time and space he needed to heal.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How did he grow to be such a docile, nonviolent bear? Maybe it was nature: his mother, 435 Holly, was known to be highly tolerant of others—so tolerant that later she would also welcome an abandoned cub into her family.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a bear who packs a paunch, not punches.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of the final four contestants, 89 Backpack is the oldest. He’s also the least traditional. Backpack was raised in an environment that, by and large, rewards male aggression. And yet, he chooses peace.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#fatbearweek In a world of fighters, 89 Backpack is a lover.
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From guest contributor @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Of the four matches today, this is the one with real life rivalry. Out on the river, Bucky is kicking butt. May the fattest bear win! Vote today from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. AKDT at fatbearweek.org.
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The Real Life Rivalry in the Fat Bear Week Quarter Finals
151 Walker is in The Office. The Office is a popular fishing spot amongst the bears on the far side of the falls. It’s kind of chill, like the corner
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Who did you vote for? There were no wrong answers in this one. May the fattest bear win.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some of us also call him Sir Gulliver Grazerson, which seems to fit his regal, gentleman-like personality.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
And from time to time, he will sit his big bear butt down on the river bank, just, you know, taking in the view.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most sizable thing about Gully, though, in my opinion, is his peaceful nature. He is known to take the wide road, often going around other bears as opposed to always vying for dominance. He enjoys zoning out at The Office like the zenmaster 480 Otis used to do. Sepol Sêni put them side-by-side:
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
903 Gully has a lot of claims to fame: he used to eat seagulls, which is how got his name; he sits at the lip of the falls and hangs his long neck over it like Eeyore; and he is the son of legendary FBW Champ, 128 Grazer.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The theory in our house is that he doesn’t want to risk battle scars. “Watch the face!” we imagine him saying. Walker knows his assets and he protects them.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Walker is a huge bear, but he’s not top dawg and he never has been. He throws his weight around, sure. He reliably backs down if someone really comes swinging.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
He does not have a bad side and his over the shoulder look could stop a gull in its tracks.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This beefcake is a bonafide bear model and what makes it even better is how aware of it he is. Walker is never not striking a pose.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
151 Walker does. not. age. His other name is Hot Walker. I don’t know how many steps are in his skincare routine, but if Walker posted a tutorial, I would watch it.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#FatBearWeek 151 Walker and 903 Gully are two of my favorite bears.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you’re into bad boys, this match is double trouble for you. 😘😘 May the fattest bear win.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As of this year, he is one of the actual largest bears of Brooks River, and at only ten years old he’s still got more room to grow. Bucky has been hungry for success ever since he was born, and his large size and even larger determination is helping him catch it.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Even as a subadult, Bucky wanted in on the action. He found new, unconventional ways to “fish” including seating himself right underneath/inside the waterfall. No one did that before! No one does that, even now. It looks…uncomfortable. Lol. Still, it worked for Bucky and he got big, big, big!
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
164 Bucky is also known as The Beariff because he likes to think there’s only room for one of him at the river, *pew pew*. (Can someone PLEASE add a sherrif badge to this photo for me lol 🤓)
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
32 Chunk was my gateway bear, to be honest, because I liked his name. He’s authentic that way—very hunky, very chunky--but is he huge enough to hold onto his title?
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Chunk had been on a real tear for awhile, so we weren’t entirely surprised when someone finally clocked him in the face. That doesn’t mean we don’t like the guy. In fact, we felt so bad / were so proud of him for surviving that we let him wear the crown for a whole year.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This was largely in part to his rags-to-fishes resilience story. He had a tough summer, and probably still is and always will be, on account of how someone permanently broke his jaw.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You’re looking at perpetual runner up 32 Chunk who finally got his claws on a championship last year.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the meantime, this gives me more time to prep you for tomorrow. Let's talk about two fat boys you'll see in Thursday's #FatBearWeek lineup: 32 Chunk and 164 Bucky
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shout out to @fatbearweek.bsky.social and @explore.org who prolly had a stressful day yesterday but then came up with workarounds so we can still play our fun bear game 😝 **website problem fixed** **Day 1 voting is extended through today!** (Go vote!!)
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That means an unprecedented, massive amount of ppl opened a browser, typed fatbearweek.org & refreshed & refreshed & waited, just trying to vote for the bear they thought was the fattest. Some problems are so wholesome
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In case you missed it: voter turnout for Day 1 of #FatBearWeek was so huge, it broke their website.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
They had so much engagement it broke their website lol. I hope you try again tomorrow; they said they fixed it!
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Katmai Conservancy @fatbearweek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Well Friends, today we had our biggest Fat Bear Week Day 1 turnout of all time and experienced some system overload. If you already voted today, your vote still counts. If you didn't get a chance, don't worry: Day 1 voting will restart tomorrow, Wednesday, September 23rd. See you then!
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KTOO Public Media @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
From guest contributor @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social Welcome to Fat Bear Week, Day 1!  Today we have a total of four matches—eight bears!—to weigh. New this year is the introduction of family groups.
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Fat Bear Week Begins with Family Groups and Sow Power
Today we have a total of four matches—eight bears!—to weigh. New this year is the introduction of family groups. Female bears who are well-fed going into hibernation are more likely to have the…
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Ladybugspicnic @ladybugspicnic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So much voting the website crashed on me. 😂
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This bracket is so brutal!
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Read my write-ups on all four matches at @ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social : www.ktoo.org/2026/09/22/f...
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Fat Bear Week Begins with Family Groups and Sow Power
Today we have a total of four matches—eight bears!—to weigh. New this year is the introduction of family groups. Female bears who are well-fed going into hibernation are more likely to have the nutrie...
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
May the fattest bear win! Vote today from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. AKST at fatbearweek.org.
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
There is not a thin thing about 910. She is as fat as a cruise ship. Is she full steam ahead?
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Normally known as a family girl, 910 is also a massive flirt. We know she, um, went on some dates with bears 151 Walker and 164 Bucky, both of whom are humongous hunks. She has a type, and the type is really big boar.
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