#Alaskas

[wolfcomix]

Jelly cycle, gamblin ink on kitakata paper, hand pressed

[paknewsinsightspk]

The last in-person vote in the US will be cast on the desolate tundra of Alaska's Aleutian Islands

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — On a desolate slab of island tundra in western Alaska, a resident of Adak will again become the last American to cast an in-person ballot for president, continuing a 12-year tradition for the nation’s westernmost community. The honor of having the last voter in the nation fell to Adak when they did away with absentee-only voting for the 2012 election and added in-person…

[ninakaina]

i was thinking about this today so how long has YOUR JOB existed- not how long your industry has existed, but how long someone has been doing the work you do as a trade notwithstanding changes in terminology and technology. no unemployed option cuz i cant add more answers sorry... tell me about it in the tags

[rosechata]

camprobber

[vangoghcore]

by camprobber

[sea-salted-wolverine]

So there are some perks to living in a tourist destination. There are a lot of detractors mostly that you cannot shoot the tourists because you rely on them for your income but you have a semi captive audience with no context for any of the bullshit you spew. You can tell these people anything and they will believe you, the trusted friendly local. Now this is a very much Spider-Man situation where Great Power begets Great Audacity and even worse Responsibility.

My buddy goes on a run and when hes done there is a bar near a creek. So he wades into the creek because the day is hot and the water is cold.

Tourists ask what hes up to, with his running stuff he didn't want wet piled on the shore and him very obviously cooling off in the water. He says he's fishing.

But now here is why I am telling you this story. The universe occasionally aligns in such a way that we get to really really fuck with people and their perception of said universe. The opportunities do not come often and when they come you must seize the day. This is what my buddy did.

So this Creek runs through town and as a result of the highway and neighborhoods and culverts and roads it does not have a great salmon run. It's a short Creek the headwaters are only a few miles from the ocean it never had a great salmon run to begin with. But there are salmon.

One such fish brushes past my buddy's leg. Immediately he knees the fish like he is juggling a soccer ball and pops it out of the water, then slaps it out of the air on to the shore.

This is dumb luck. He could not do this again if he spent years training. Noodling (catching fish with your hands) is a thing that is legal to do with salmon but it is so much harder than literally every other way to catch salmon, including grabbing them with a garbage can. What he just managed is the kind of thing that should make you want to grab the fish and swing it around your head like a stripper with her panties off.

But,

He has an audience.

This is the opportunity offered by the universe.

He plays it cool.

He puts on dead pan straight face on and wades up to shore to grab his fish and nod to the tourists. Someone asks something and he assures them this is the standard way to get a quick dinner here. The tour guide has caught up with his group. He looks at my buddy and his fish and the general lack of fishing accoutrement. Without missing a beat, the guide backs up every ounce of bullshit out of my buddys mouth because if there is one true fraternity it is locals bullshitting stupid tourists.

[milkcricket]

the vast energy in this single frame is i think beyond human comprehension

[maureen2musings]

Last rays in Alaska

fernlichtsicht

[herpsandbirds]

Willow Ptarmigan (Lagopus lagopus), in transitional plumage, family Phasianidae, Alaska

photograph by Kristina Ellis

[einereiseblog]

Alaskas Wildnis: Der letzte amerikanische Frontier

Alaska, das größte und abgelegenste Bundesland der USA, beheimatet eine einzigartige Tierwelt und unberührte Wildnis. In diesem Artikel werden wir die Bedeutung der Wildnis für die Erhaltung der Umwelt in Alaska untersuchen, die faszinierende Tierwelt des Bundesstaates genauer betrachten und den aufstrebenden Abenteuertourismus in dieser einzigartigen Umgebung näher beleuchten. Die Analyse dieser…

[poempoetryandmore]

[dimension20official]

💅WELCOME BACK, QUESTING QUEENS!

The trailer for Dimension 20: Dungeons & Drag Queens season 2 has arrived! Join Dungeon Master Brennan Lee Mulligan and players Bob the Drag Queen, Monét X Change, Alaska Thunderfuck, and Jujubee for an all-new 6 episode adventure, premiering January 8th on Dropout!

An FAQ for the season can be found here

[zegalba]

A mysterious spiral in the sky over Alaska spotted by aurora borealis watchers last week (2023)

[doctorbeth]

A Moose from Alaska

Moose was well hugged, like most of my patients. Made of french terry, her fabric had worn to almost see through in addition to holes:

The plan was to keep her insides the same (no spa) but to recover all of her brown in new fabric (her antlers and feet were both in good shape).

So the search began for French terry in a good color and here is where her stay got more complicated. I thought we had a good option, we ordered it, and it wasn't traditional french terry at all!

So we searched some more and placed another order and this time, it was a much better match that Moose's person approved:

It looks different here, but it was actually very close to her inseam shades, and matched her original texture.

Here she is mid surgery, when I got to her muzzle. It had been repaired by her person many years ago and was a bit... misshapen. The question was, did her person want to keep the unique shape or straighten it out a bit since she was having surgery anyway:

The decision was made to plump it back up. Here are her chubbiness approval pics, fully recovered, but without eyes (she hadn't had any on arrival):

A bit of research showed her original eyes were very similar to her nostrils, so they got added in and she was ready to fly home:

Looks great! said her person, so she flew home to snowy Alaska!

[rosechata]

elliothawkey

[spacewonder19]

Northern Lights over Alaska © Vincent_Ledvina