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James Umbanhowar

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Part time ecologist. I spend more time on Mastodon @jumbanho@mas.to

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That second image looks like a cat's head placed on top of an old man's butt.

06.03.2026 21:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh, the good old days of the racial and gender underclasses.

06.03.2026 21:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This.

06.03.2026 20:42 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

They are still kidnapping our neighbors.

Abolish ICE.

06.03.2026 17:12 πŸ‘ 117 πŸ” 61 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"A NEIGHBOR WAS TAKEN HERE" stamps crossed out at Chicago Lake Liquors.

Minneapolis, March 2026

06.03.2026 19:06 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

I feel like experts love talking to people curious and genuinely skeptical about there particular expertise, except the frustratingly more and more common bad faith, explicitly anti-expertise "debate me" dinguses we encounter, now.

06.03.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A traffic gantry with two traffic lights showing green straight arrows. Between the two lights are two signs, one nearly square that says "No Turns" and another smaller and elongated is placed below and two the right says "Except 🚲"

A traffic gantry with two traffic lights showing green straight arrows. Between the two lights are two signs, one nearly square that says "No Turns" and another smaller and elongated is placed below and two the right says "Except 🚲"

I love the jaunty placement of the "Except 🚲" sign

06.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Illustration depicting a giant riding a giant bicycle through a bunch of people on a city street.

Illustration depicting a giant riding a giant bicycle through a bunch of people on a city street.

"The Unrestrained Demon of the Wheel"

Judge magazine, 1893
🎨Grant E. Hamilton

06.03.2026 17:14 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
Portrait of Greg Bovino during his stay in MN

Portrait of Greg Bovino during his stay in MN

Portrait of Kristin Noem as head of DHS and hatred-filled accuser of local saints Good and Pretti.

Portrait of Kristin Noem as head of DHS and hatred-filled accuser of local saints Good and Pretti.

Keep in mind that the watercolor Despot Series is having real political takedown effects. Noting Despots #1 and #2, Creepy Bovino and Kristi "Brooke Shields-era" Noem are now forced out of Minnesota.

06.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

So i understand (though disagree w) local PD refusing to intervene w ICE. But now that we have bounty hunters doing ice work, what is their legal standing when they brandish guns or run red lights, etc? Have officials commented on this change?

06.03.2026 17:05 πŸ‘ 101 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 2

I'm just trying to not make a CT joke

06.03.2026 16:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just thinking about how an unannounced attack on American naval facility is "A day that will live in infamy" and then...

06.03.2026 16:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great closure to this 6-parter:

"I worry that contemporary quests for standardization and formalization of research practice lose sight of the value of creative experimentation and investigation. We can’t let reproducibility checklists stifle creative exploration."

We make a mess so we can learn!

05.03.2026 15:38 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Ooh, I'll try this. On my Zoom client (linux) it asks everytime I start it to turn it on, with a click box for "never ask again", which I click on every time, but every time it asks again.

06.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Those guys are tucking.

06.03.2026 14:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Are you talking about the Blue line (it goes to Cedar Riverside)? That's light speed compared to the Green line.

06.03.2026 14:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

However, I did not bring my son to church because I could not deal with the annoying social event.

06.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My parents (one an atheist, the other probably more a deist, but guilty) brought our family to church until I, the youngest, was 12. Without the home life backing up the religion, it just seemed like an annoying social event, with the bonus that I did get all those cultural connections.

06.03.2026 14:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Private credit funds means we own your money?

06.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, mine is 14#, but that little puggle looks only 25-30, he can carry them for half a block.

06.03.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He's building bridges between factions by leading!

06.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe Pam Bondi will answer Congressional questions now that the DJIA is down 6% from 50000

06.03.2026 14:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same, even if we put her jacket on! My wife discovered the solution is to carry her a half block away and walk her back, otherwise, she just won't pee.

06.03.2026 14:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

4.445 round to 4.45 then to 4.5 πŸ˜€

06.03.2026 14:37 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

05.03.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 7330 πŸ” 2121 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 64

Not at this moment in time, but as the subsidies to clean energy are no longer needed, start taxing it to directly pay for the successful decommissioning/maintenance of legacy fossil fuels.

06.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I agree, it was fascinating. One idea that came to mind: given that the success of clean energy is tied to the successful retirement of fossil energy, I'm wondering if, politically, there might be some way to tie the financing of shutdown to profits of clean energy.

06.03.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Green line train stuck at a red light

Green line train stuck at a red light

This green line train has to wait for the left turn arrow and the red light on the bridge over 280. Cmon St Paul, figure this out.

06.03.2026 13:09 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I really encourage everyone to spend some time with the DHS Flickr page, which in one year posted thousands and thousands of glamour shot propaganda photos of Kristi Noem and little else. Our tax dollars! www.flickr.com/photos/dhsgov/

06.03.2026 12:15 πŸ‘ 654 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 20

That seems more like a Bluesky post than a Strib comment.

06.03.2026 00:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0