Ongoing crisis in Northwest Arctic Borough. Outstanding reporting from Desiree Hagen at KOTZ, Kotzebue: "Ambler, a Northwest Arctic community of about 270 people, has been without water or sewer for more than five months." #Alaska #AlaskaSky @napaaqtuk.bsky.social www.kotz.org/kotz-local-n...

Ambler has gone 5 months without water and sewer. Fixes could take months.

According to the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities, about 85 percent of Ambler's main water lines are cracked, unable to hold pressure, and require replacement.

kotz.org

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

It seems to me that if you remove someone from the voter rolls who previously signed up, the absolute minimum is that you have firm evidence that the person is indeed ineligible. Maybe they became ineligible due to a court verdict, or they died, or there's a later claim of non-citizenship.

Pat Race@pat.alaskarobotics.com · 2d ago

Wow. This is getting pretty sketchy. The Alaska Division of elections used outdated data to justify removing a bunch of citizens from the voter roles and given the opportunity to fix it they were just, like, nope.

The Senate is important, but state legislatures are just as big and, as the post notes, these races are a lot more effective use of your dollar.

Sam@samd.bsky.social · 3d ago

I love Talarico and hope he wins. But he’s already raised $70M On the flipside, control of critical state legislatures will come down to seats where candidates raise 0.1% of that. I’ve researched the highest leverage swing district candidates you should donate to secure.actblue.com/donate/donat...

Smoke from the Tatlanika wildfire about 45 miles southwest of Fairbanks has moved into town Saturday morning. Obvious haze and smoke smell. Graphic courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #Summer2026 #Wildfire #Smoke @leahwrenn.bsky.social @bikewritedave.bsky.social @carrieinfbx.bsky.social

First ever heat advisory for Anchorage because NWS Anchorage did not issue such a product until this year. Anchorage airport record high temp is 90F in July 2019. #akwx @climatologist49.bsky.social

Anchorage Daily News@adn.com · 5d ago

Forecasters have issued the first-ever heat advisory for Anchorage and large parts of Southcentral Alaska, with temperatures expected to hit the upper 70s or higher through the weekend. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

My favorite social construct for arguments about social constructs is money. I trot it out when someone uses social construct as the opposite of “something with real consequences for people’s lives”. Neurodevelopmental disorder is a social construct, along with crime or education level.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d ago

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

I was coming along the hallway when I saw Rick take this great photo. This is a fire from June that kicked up again yesterday. Most think the season is essentially over, and the weather forecast has cool temperatures, but at the same time these things smolder a long time and can revive.

Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · 6d ago

The 2000 acres (800ha) Tatlanika wildfire, about 45 miles (70km) southwest of Fairbanks putting out smoke Thursday afternoon, as seen from Troth Yeddha' at UAF. #akwx #wildfire #Smoke @themattphelps.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social @jenniferschell16.bsky.social

The only thing Alaska has more than coffee shops is Thai restaurants

Carceral Abolition@carceralabolition.bsky.social · last wk.

Number of coffee shops per 100k people in each US state plus DC www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/co...

FYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

🧵 Friends, #Alaska our community lost the one and only Diva Dog Revna’s human @arcticvelocipedist.bsky.social His silence is loud, many of us have been in incredible grief at the loss of such a unique, vibrant man. Sharing stories about the vast and varied impact he had on us is a testament (1/3)

Someone (@lrb.co.uk) needs to get themselves on a CDN.

Joshua J. Friedman@joshuajfriedman.com · last wk.

Incredible

Good graphics and a lot of analysis in this article.

Carrie Nash@carrieinfbx.bsky.social · last wk.

www.northernjournal.com/alaskas-17-g...

To be clear- this is catastrophic for radio astronomy, not just in the UK. If you shut down a facility like this not only do we use access to the facility, dozens (hundreds?) of jobs are gone and with it expertise that never comes back. Please write to your MP if you’re in the UK! 🔭🧪🎢

Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · last wk.

Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nerd alert: fairly robust multi-model support for above normal warmth to start August in Fairbanks-land. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social @anisian.bsky.social

it’s… a lot! heads up, pals!

Ari is afraid to change pfp now@raantuva.blacksky.app · 2w ago

It should be ok if you're cooking an actual raw potato! It was just chips and specifically the seasoning (probably tied to that garlic powder up north) that got recalled. It's also Salmonella so if you have any of the impacted 650,000 bags of the impacted brands, THROW THEM AWAY. Salmonella kills.

Cliff swallows, protected under the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, call the Moose Creek Dam in Fairbanks home.

I quickly pulled this data yesterday. Thanks to @alaskawx.bsky.social for giving it his visualization treatment.

Rick Thoman@alaskawx.bsky.social · 2w ago

Alaska tundra (as opposed to boreal forest) area burned since 1950. In 2026 so far, only 286 acres (116 ha) of tundra has burned, the lowest since 1998. The big pre-1980 spikes were all years with large fires on the Seward Peninsula. Data processing courtesy @borealchrys.bsky.social. #akwx #Wildfire

I had to get the MMR shot as a requirement for my Green Card b/c I’m old enough that I only had one childhood dose if measles vaccine. Also mumps back then was something only fine for boys, and I’ve had rubella, with an unknown titer status. Good thing I got that updated. Also TDAP every 10 years.

Dave in AK@bikewritedave.bsky.social · 2w ago

Last year before traveling I had my titers tested and learned I was low on rubella. So I got an MMR and didn't get autism (impossible) and didn't get rubella and thus didn't spread it to pregnant women who could suffer miscarriages, still births, or babies born with lifelong debilitating conditions.

220,000!

More than 220,000 evacuated in France and Spain due to wildfires

French firefighters battle a blaze heading towards Bordeaux while officials in Madrid say they face the "worst fire in the history of the region".

bbc.co.uk

More great reporting

Matt Acuña Buxton@matt.akmemo.com · 2w ago

Whew! Between the weather, it being summertime and a few other things, I've been busy — not that productive, but busy. Anyway, there's a LOAD to catch up on in Alaska, including the Division of Elections' nuttiness, the AKLNG project facing AKLNG odds, and a change-up in the House race. #akleg

Alaska removes thousands from state’s active voter list, erroneously flagging some citizens, write @alaska.bsky.social and @corinne-smith.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/07/23/a...

Alaska removes thousands from state’s active voter list, erroneously flagging some citizens | Alaska Beacon

DMV sent ‘old data’ to the Division of Elections, the Alaska's elections director said, but DMV says elections officials asked for it.

alaskabeacon.com

The political leadership of the Alaska Division of Elections is an embarrassment.

Matthew Beck@thebluealaskan.com · 2w ago

Bombshell reporting from @alaska.bsky.social - Undemocratic Elections Director Carol Beecher wasn’t very honest at yesterday’s judiciary hearing. 1/3

::eye roll::

Pat Race@pat.alaskarobotics.com · 2w ago

#akleg OMG. ☠️☠️☠️ "INSERT-ALASKA-NATIVE-WELCOME-GREETINGS-HERE"

Nice reporting here. Good work @alaska.bsky.social and @corinne-smith.bsky.social

Alaska Beacon@alaskabeacon.com · 2w ago

Alaska removes thousands from state’s active voter list, erroneously flagging some citizens, write @alaska.bsky.social and @corinne-smith.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/2026/07/23/a...

Not our Moose Creek. Other side of the Alaska Range.

Climatologist49@climatologist49.bsky.social · 2w ago

There is a flood advisory in effect for Moose Creek. This is one of 52 Moose Creeks in Alaska (Orth, 1971). 🫎 @alaskawx.bsky.social

The good news is, a scientific paper is inching towards publication. The bad news is that I'm again losing the data-as-singular-mass-noun fight. Clearly some people's agenda are different from mine and I don't have a sufficient number of stamina to fight them. (I'm the first author, dammit...)

This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.

Charlotte Clymer@charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 2w ago

This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...

We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.

Roberta Metsola@president.europarl.europa.eu · 2w ago

Fifteen years ago today, 77 lives were taken - most of them young - on an island that should have been a place of summer, friendship, and first ideas about the world they wanted to build. On that day, Norway grieved, and Europe grieved with it. Utøya. Oslo. We remember.

Let’s send this carpetbagger packing back to Ohio, folks.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2w ago

A GOP senator recited the Declaration of Independence — next to a Confederate flag. As he stood feet from the flag, Sen. Dan Sullivan spoke about the principle that all people are "created equal" and guaranteed the right to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." www.ms.now/news/dan-sul...