One thing the new apple guy could do is stop hijacking our phones in the middle of the night to make them worse

"Normal people aren’t running around like chickens with their heads cut off, trying to automate every single part of their lives. Indeed, there are places in our lives where efficiency isn’t desirable."

an editing/sanity check Q:

When describing "facing a challenge/problem," I think of the ppl/entity dealing w/ the problem as the subject, ie, "the town is facing a water crisis."

But I've read TWO instances today flipping it to say "the water crisis facing the town," &...that's weird, right?!

Authors of Alaska | Get Lit! Virtual Event YouTube video by EWU's Get Lit! Programs

Our virtual event for the GetLit Festival in Spokane is live on YouTube! We talked about glaciers, death, lineage, cartoons, and more. With @akwenstrup.bsky.social, @pataky.bsky.social, & Susanna Mishler & John Messick. #AlaskaSky

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There are so many things I wish I didn’t know

Thank you!

A Body That Outlived Its Heart The grief that at first flowed with my tears now has calcified in my chest with no release.

"Perhaps in writing I discover that a dead heart is not complete death, but a stage the survivors pass through to keep going." jewishcurrents.org/a-body-that-...

I have long been a sucker for flds documentaries of pretty much any quality but I just binged Trust Me: the False Prophet with my parents and oooooh boy this installment might be the darkest yet, but with like…a weird hopeful twist…? Good tv for when your nation is hostage to a cult leader

A white woman with glasses wearing an orange shirt stands at a podium, showing a photo of Denali National park on a screen

3 people on a stage. I’m holding the microphone making some kind of point about nature writing probably

A billboard in a grassland desert with a blue mountain (Dook’o’oosliid/San Francisco peaks) on the horizon. The billboard reads “no kings on sovereign lands”

I have been quiet here but talking in public. Pics from readings in Page & Flagstaff, & driving in between. It’s been fun. I’m ready to be home & stay a while.

Metamorphosis | Milkweed Editions

Check out this one milkweed.org/book/metamor...

It really seems like that whole website tho. I followed some real life friends a while ago, maybe when it first came to be, and I see no evidence of them in my feed, just these weird bot-like engagement bate posts. It’s so odd

Meanwhile in Fairbanks

www.alaskasnewssource.com/2026/04/10/o...

Oh god

Glover in a Japanese lab on the ISS

In 2020-21, Glover made history as the first Black person to stay for an extended period on the International Space Station. Consider this: "As a verdict neared in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the officer accused of murdering [George] Floyd..Black astronauts called from Earth to lend..moral support."

I have a Collie Ball brand- it looks like same concept. Ozzy wants to eat it 😂
From memory their website was written by someone whose 1st language isn’t English & says something like “please play in the cold but store in the hot, deflation is not reason for return, it is just the way of things” 💯

back to our usual tsa programming:

[me, taking my laptop out of my bag]

agent: leave electronics in the bag

me: there’s a sign saying take them out

agent: yeah, but there’s another sign saying don’t

Ghosts of Distant Trees by Erica Watson — Porphyry Press

Oh oh, am I too late for this?

My first essay collection, Ghosts of Distant Trees, “traces the layered ecologies of Denali National Park, Alaska—its vast and shifting landscape, seasonal labor rhythms, & the subtle politics of inhabitation.”

Support small presses 🖤

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Ghosts of Distant Trees Book Signing & Reading TUESDAY April 7th 7:00 PM PAGE PUBLIC LIBRARY GUEST SPEAKER Erica Watson Join us for a reading from Ghosts of Distant Trees where we'll explore the layered ecologies of Denali National Park-its shifting landscapes, seasonal rhythms, and the quiet politics of inhabiting place. Through lyric and narrative essays, Watson reflects on belonging, vulnerability, and the fragile intimacies that persist in a warming world. Made possible through a special collaboration with: THE AUTHORS & POETS READING A. SERIES PORPHYRY PRESS GLEN CANYON — CONSERVANCY- PAGE Public Library The Glen Canyon Lecture Series is provided through a partnership between Page Public Library and Glen Canyon Conservancy: offering free monthly presentations on a range of educational topics to the community and surrounding area

ENVIRONMENTAL READING feat. Katherine Larson, Steven Law, Erica Watson & Janine Schipper Saturday April 1lth | 5 PM | Firecreek Coffee PRESENTED BY THE NORTHERN ARIZONA BOOK FESTIVAL

And now: Arizona book tour part 2: Page and Flagstaff, which is a homecoming in the case of the latter, and there’s one snarky mention of lake Powell in my book so I feel like I have to include Page. Tell your northern AZ friends 👻🌲

#northernarizonabookfestival

#Anchorage, maybe see you tonight?

☎️ Landline: War exposes the energy dominance lie True energy independence...

I"f we truly want to be free of wars over oil and the damage they inflict on people, the environment and the economy, we need to not just liberate ourselves from relying on foreign oil, but also from our deadly and destructive addiction to oil."

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Screenshot of campaign text reading: Holy mackerel!!! Mary Peltola's campaign is SURGING. Give now (even $1) before her 1st FEC deadline at 12am: https:// secure.actblue.com/donate/. mp-ads-mobile26? refcode=v4-ads-260331-ga-ak-dtd_b3&refcode2w=nJr2Bn

Seems like a missed opportunity for a salmon reference but what do I know

“Mayor Chris Noel of Denali Borough, home to 1,600 residents, said that construction would see added costs for waste management, fire and rescue and housing, which would likely [*] be borne by the local community.”

* absolutely would be

I’m like…imagining asking AI to text a friend asking if I can stay on their couch. Sure, maybe it’ll save time (a few minutes?) but probably get ignored and I’ll still have to “plan my trip” lol

a Here&Now NPR story just now featured a guy encouraging ppl to keep up w AI evolution by “giving Google or Microsoft $20/month” & giving it household tasks you don’t like “like trip planning” &…how many trips are ppl planning? Can it scrub a toilet? wtf is the problem you’re telling us this solves?

A black and white mutt who is not a sled dog attempts to play tug of war with a kind of expensive bungee line attached to a person riding a fat bike on a groomed snowy road on a bluebird day

I started writing a thread in response to the “no kings isn’t revolution” discourse (tl;dr: no shit, & also it’s fine to hang around w angry neighbors for an afternoon) but instead I’ll show you how our bikejor progress is going, which feels maybe similar to writing that thread

#notasleddog

Wow, ok, this has reached escape velocity. Support young Alaska organizers via Alaska Youth for Environmental Action - they’re doing great work! akcentereducationfund.org/alaska-youth...

A group of 35-40ish people holding signs and flags in a plowed out area on the shoulder of a highway, mountains behind them

The sun is strong enough to melt ice. No, literally, check out that little melty bit in the road. Felt like sunbathing after the last 4 months. But figuratively too.

#nokings, Healy, Alaska

A large (maybe queen sized) handcrafted (knit) blanket with a mix and match of colors and textures, quilt-style. it reads "Your liberation is woven into mine"

from DTLA #nokings
"your liberation is woven into mine"

Healy too! 1-2pm. We can't get accepted by the form for...i dunno, some reasons I'm letting the people who are less ambivalent about the "register your protest" practice than I am sort out 🙃

Free Public Reading to celebrate the launch of Alaska Literary Field Guide Join co-editors Marybeth Holleman & Nancy Lord and contributors to share stories, poems, and artwork about Alaska's beings big and small. ECOLOGY I POETRY Books will be available for purchase & signing ARTI Edited by Marybeth Holleman, Nancy Lord, and Shaelene Grace Moler Friday, April 3, 2026 | 6:30 PM Anchorage Museum Auditorium 625 C Street (@ 7th Ave Entrance) ANCHORAGE MUSEUM 49 Writers MOUNTAINEERS BOOKS M SKIPSTONE BRAIDED RIVER recreation ・lifestyle conservatlor

A book held open to a print of a tiny vole atop a willow branch, enjoying g a willow but in the moonlight

A black dog curled on a snow pile against a greenhouse wall, which isn’t really equipped to handle all this weight ugh

I’ll be reading at the 1st Friday launch of the AK Literary Field Guide at the Anch Museum- plz come!

My contribution on the red-backed vole is accompanied by art by Yumi Kawaguchi, pictured here with a vole trail.

Bc it’s a gardening piece, I’m also sharing Ozzy and the current greenhouse status.