I might do a violence the next time someone asks if I had a "restful holiday season."
Fairbanks' ongoing cold snap stats: • 24 straight days low temp ≤ -20F tied for 11th longest • 33 straight days low temp ≤ -15F tied for 4th longest • 19 days low temp ≤-40F most since 1970-71 • 6 days high temp ≤-40F most since 1988-89 #akwx #Climate #Winter2026 @climatologist49.bsky.social
Waffle House has better de-escalation than cops
Julie S. Lalonde@julieslalonde.bsky.social · 10mo agoI teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement. Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
Our soup kitchen served 74,327 meals in 2025... thousands & thousands more than any previous year in the Bread Line's history of feeding #Fairbanks. I am deeply proud of how this team shows up & we're not enough. The ongoing elevation of community need is alarming. #AlaskaSky #JustSoupKitchenThings
Please admire the ABSOLUTELY PERFECT PAVLOVA that I made during the soup kitchen's massive boiler failure!
Had looong anxiety dreams all night & woke up to half a dozen real life stressors jangling my last nerves. This dumb Tuesday is a prolonged process of breathing through it & I am GRATEFUL to have the skills to pay the bills.
I'm so proud of the soup kitchen team. There's so much going on & such enormous human complications to navigate. Still, every day & every way, the crew shows up for each other just as big as they do for those we serve. It's incredible.
We're keeping Fairbanks Open Radio hot today (despite the frigid temperatures) with a fresh QuantaRadio 2-4PM AKST on KWRK-LP 101.7FM & the kwrk.org livestream.
With a week that started with snow and ended 20 below, winters can be unpredictable, so we’ve got an equally unpredictable wintry mix for you today from 12-2 PM AKST on KWRK-LP 101.7 FM or KWRK.org on this week’s subzero RADIODROME.
Friday night public bathroom bleed out is really a chefs kiss turn of events
Board meetings where you turn off your camera to have a quick little cry about the state of America
The tone & volume that the bank teller used to ask me "so you're trying to make a purchase with THE ORCA MAN DOT COM?" was not necessary
Do you want a Yule card? Send me your addy & I'll mail you one! ♥️
I'm on the radio today: 2-4PM AKST on KWRK-LP 101.7FM & the kwrk.org livestream! Tune in to this Saturday's spacetime if you like shoegazey spacerock or want to learn where in the world Galileo's middle finger is... #AlaskaSky #CommunityRadio
Tune in 12-2 PM AKST on KWRK-LP 101.7 FM or KWRK.org for a vibe I can only describe as “New York City in the 1970s when Times Square was grimy and sleazy and didn’t have an Applebee’s” on this week’s RADIODROME.
For the first time in my life, I was told by a major donor that if I don't "tone down" my "political rhetoric" they'll pull their funding from the soup kitchen. So, that feels uniquely rotten. Please excuse me while I enter a tight depressive spiral.
This Trans Day of Remembrance I’m (still) furious for my trans friends who didn’t live to have equal rights in Fairbanks. We still don’t. Fuck you, Jim Matherly & David Pruhs. #Alaska #Fairbanks #AkLeg
It's the 10th anniversary of my radio show, QuantaRadio! There's not much I've done for ten straight years but I've been doing local radio since 1999. Funny what sticks.
It's wild - today, the soup kitchen passed last year's TOTAL meals served (66,603)... with a month & a half left in 2025. #JustSoupKitchenThings #AlaskaSky breadlineak.org
whenever the sun sets at 4:45 pm i open a window, lean out and yell "WRONG" as loud as i can. that usually buys me another hour or two of sunlight
Alex's birthdayween party was a BLAST! Mrs. Piggy won the costume contest, we lit a giant dick on fire, I had a little too much Re-Animator serum, the food was fantastic, we got haunted & there was a midnight screening of The Blob (1988). 10/10 would birthdayween again
I'm on the radio until 4PM AKST today - talking backyard astronomy & playing Saturday tunes. Find QuantaRadio on KWRK-LP 101.7FM or our kwrk.org livestream!
Aurora's back at it Wednesday early evening at Poker Flats northeast of Fairbanks (65ºN). #akwx #Aurora @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @alaskannah.bsky.social @akskierken.bsky.social
Tuesday 537pm AKST and a red/pink aurora is already visible at the UAF Poker Flats facility northeast of Fairbanks. Note that in the image, south is at top, so most of the aurora is in the southern half of the sky. #AlaskaSky #akwx #aurora @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @bs.mivox.net
