I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of
- new account fatigue
- new app fatigue
- useless upgrade fatigue
- terms of service fatigue

an op-ed specifically for Juneau.

the City is not perfect, but they work their asses off and don't deserve the anti-muni scorn that has lately been heaped on them.

our small town will always be expensive and require high taxes to function, whatever we do.

Reading Room: A Catalog of New York City's Branch Libraries - Urban Omnibus

Since it's #NationalLibraryWeek, I am going to share a cool library thing every day.

Today, I am sharing "Reading Room" a project by Elizabeth Felicella, a photographer, who passed away way too early last year at 58 years old.
urbanomnibus.net/2014/11/read...

Poster: A Comic Convention for Juneau - Alaska Robotics Mini-Con - May 9th 2026 - Free Admission - 10am-5pm at the Alaska State Libraries Archives and Museums 395 Whittier Street - Minicon.Alaskarobotics.com

May 9th! It's Alaska Robotics Mini-Con!
minicon.alaskarobotics.com

3 little alien pins

#FundraiserPerk Show off your Locus love with our enamel Squocket pin, Cluso pin, and Bookworm pin!
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2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! These results are from the February 1 to April 1 voting by readers on an open public ballot. The Locus Awards winners will be announced…

Congratulations, Locus Award finalists!
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I saw my first robin today! It was in the small patch of grass that has emerged from the snow in my yard. It really feels like maybe winter is finally going away.

She described how their perspective of "tiny Earth" encompassed not just the globe itself, but also "all the blackness around it." Comparing our world to a "lifeboat," she reached out to the audience with a final thought: "Planet Earth - you are a crew."

4/4

Hello, I made you a feed of your cats watching the Artemis II splashdown bsky.app/profile/did:...

The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Hooray!!

WXPN Is Spinning 24 Hours Of Vinyl On April 9 - WXPN | Vinyl At Heart In 2025, WXPN twice hosted Vinyl Day when we shut off all the computers and CD players to go all vinyl on the radio — playing all music from our turntables in the WXPN studio. We also introduced the a...

Your attention please! Vinyl Day starts tonight at Midnight. Nothing but 24 hours of analogue. Check out the schedule of our DJs and guest selectors.
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I hope you get to go home soon (and feeling back to 100%)!

perhaps none of us can predict what Trump or Iran will do. perhaps we have to continue to sit in that deep and terrifying uncertainty knowing that as individuals we control none of this.

'I don't know what will happen' is the truest truth of this moment.

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Don't touch that dial!!!! Happy Saturday and thanks for listening.

I hope you are on the mend soon!

I woke up to the news that Juneau broke the all-time seasonal snow record overnight. We have now reached 201.2 inches of snow for the winter. Can it please stop snowing now?

Happy book day to the brilliant and funny @amalelmohtar.com !

I hope you start feeling better soon.

A detailed oil painting of a white duck against a black background. On its head sits a tangled crown of whole spring onions. The white bulbs point upwards, tied with string, the green shoots fall downwards in an elegant tangle. The duck is serene.

Our annual, seasonal viewing of Duck With Spring Onions. Oil on canvas.

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As glorious and medicinal as the sun.

❤️

This is exactly how I feel about shoveling snow right now.

One week left for Hugo noms! I offer for consideration one short story about taking care of ourselves and (crucially) our neighbors, when the world is on ten kinds of fire at a time. I wrote it last December in anxious anticipation of the shitshow that was due to kick off in January. ;_;

An apple tree is in a snowy yard with snow covering it's lower branches. There is a fence and a house with a snowy roof in the background.

Happy Spring from Juneau! We are coming close to breaking the all time snow record. 🎉😭 Here's hoping for more spring-like weather in our future.

What technology takes from us – and how to take it back | Rebecca Solnit The long read: Decisions outsourced, chatbots for friends, the natural world an afterthought: Silicon Valley is giving us life void of connection. There is a way out – but it’s going to take collectiv...

"But in education, the ultimate product is not your term paper or essay or [GPA]; it’s your self. You are supposed to emerge more informed, more capable of critical thinking, more competent in your field of study. The students who begin by cheating their professors end by cheating themselves."

Surgery was unexpectedly delayed for a few days, so I'm still crowdfunding. If you have a few bucks to spare or even just a RT, it would really help.

I love the idea of a daily dance break!

Through March 16th, Juneau has more snow than Fairbanks and Anchorage combined. ❄️ @alaskawx.bsky.social

And the Nebula Finalists for Best Novel are... When We Were Real Daryl Gregory (Saga) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) Katabasis R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Death of the Author Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) The Incandescent Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) Sour Cherry Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire) Wearing the Lion John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia)

Congratulations to our Nebula Finalists for the 61st Nebula Award for Best Novel!

#SFWA #Nebulas #61stNebulaAwards