James Umbanhowar
@jumbanho.bsky.social
Part time ecologist. I spend more time on Mastodon @[email protected]
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“How do I make turkey taste like turkey?”
You don’t. That’s the whole point. Next.
You don’t. That’s the whole point. Next.
November 27, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“How do I make turkey taste like turkey?”
You don’t. That’s the whole point. Next.
You don’t. That’s the whole point. Next.
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On Thantsgiving, the ants eat too much.
November 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
On Thantsgiving, the ants eat too much.
Brisket fat octopus
November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Brisket fat octopus
Brisket fat octopus
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Brisket fat octopus
You've just died. 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
You've just died. 6th picture in your gallery is what killed you.
Seems like the Feds are going to gin up some charges only to drop them a few weeks later, as they have done in LA, Chicago, and other places.
"Assault of a Federal officer" does not equal "striking an officer's vehicle." www.twincities.com/2025/11/26/i...
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Seems like the Feds are going to gin up some charges only to drop them a few weeks later, as they have done in LA, Chicago, and other places.
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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Love the new protected bike lane in NE Minneapolis—in the last 15 years of living in this neighborhood, I never thought I’d see the day I’d bike Lowry Ave. Now we can! We need to imagine good things, because they can materialize with vision and hard work!
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Love the new protected bike lane in NE Minneapolis—in the last 15 years of living in this neighborhood, I never thought I’d see the day I’d bike Lowry Ave. Now we can! We need to imagine good things, because they can materialize with vision and hard work!
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This Monterey Mushroom facility has a strong union contract. The good union wages and benefits make for low overturn, which makes for extremely skilled workers like this.
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This Monterey Mushroom facility has a strong union contract. The good union wages and benefits make for low overturn, which makes for extremely skilled workers like this.
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If it must snow, then I must use the snow for its beauty. The cocktail is blue curacao, a whisper of pineapple juice, champagne, and a little edible white glitter to mimic the snowfall. #cocktailsofbluesky #cocktails #winter
November 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If it must snow, then I must use the snow for its beauty. The cocktail is blue curacao, a whisper of pineapple juice, champagne, and a little edible white glitter to mimic the snowfall. #cocktailsofbluesky #cocktails #winter
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After action reviews are honestly no longer enough. It tells the cops shoot now, ask questions later. It’s how Minneapolis is BURIED in millions of dollars of police settlements. It’s how journalists and Soren Stevenson lost full fucking eyeballs. Welcome to Hell St Paulites.
Carter said he stood by the city's police department, and Police Chief Axel Henry maintained his department did not violate the city’s separation ordinance.
Carter said Henry has begun a full review of the use of force during Tuesday’s response.
bit.ly/3XPFzJk
Carter said Henry has begun a full review of the use of force during Tuesday’s response.
bit.ly/3XPFzJk
November 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
After action reviews are honestly no longer enough. It tells the cops shoot now, ask questions later. It’s how Minneapolis is BURIED in millions of dollars of police settlements. It’s how journalists and Soren Stevenson lost full fucking eyeballs. Welcome to Hell St Paulites.
Earlier this week, I saw goldenrod, butter and eggs, and creeping bellflower with new blooms and now we have 10 straight days of below freezing weather forecasted.
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Earlier this week, I saw goldenrod, butter and eggs, and creeping bellflower with new blooms and now we have 10 straight days of below freezing weather forecasted.
Looking for advice about wage law. My son just realized that his employer hasn't been paying the new Minneapolis minimum wage. He works part time (10 hours a week) and none of his coworkers have gotten the raise, either.
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Looking for advice about wage law. My son just realized that his employer hasn't been paying the new Minneapolis minimum wage. He works part time (10 hours a week) and none of his coworkers have gotten the raise, either.
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Secretary of Transportation now encouraging people "not to bring snakes on a plane."
November 26, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Secretary of Transportation now encouraging people "not to bring snakes on a plane."
Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League
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Texas has been aiming to have zero deaths on its roadways for as long as I remember.
I wondered if we'd ever gotten close.
Nope turns out it's 10 or so people a day like clockwork.
We haven't had a death free day since before George W Bush got elected president.
I wondered if we'd ever gotten close.
Nope turns out it's 10 or so people a day like clockwork.
We haven't had a death free day since before George W Bush got elected president.
It's a classically American thing to say, "But can we really afford to make cars safer?"
Again, many Americans have decided that 40,000 roadway deaths a year is fine and dandy.
Again, many Americans have decided that 40,000 roadway deaths a year is fine and dandy.
November 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Texas has been aiming to have zero deaths on its roadways for as long as I remember.
I wondered if we'd ever gotten close.
Nope turns out it's 10 or so people a day like clockwork.
We haven't had a death free day since before George W Bush got elected president.
I wondered if we'd ever gotten close.
Nope turns out it's 10 or so people a day like clockwork.
We haven't had a death free day since before George W Bush got elected president.
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almost 150 years ago we invented the phone.
the latest innovation has been to uninvent it, by inventing the phone tree, customer service center, etc.
i now drive miles to talk to people whom, thirty years ago, i’d have conveniently phoned. it’s increasingly the only way to talk to a capable human.
the latest innovation has been to uninvent it, by inventing the phone tree, customer service center, etc.
i now drive miles to talk to people whom, thirty years ago, i’d have conveniently phoned. it’s increasingly the only way to talk to a capable human.
November 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
almost 150 years ago we invented the phone.
the latest innovation has been to uninvent it, by inventing the phone tree, customer service center, etc.
i now drive miles to talk to people whom, thirty years ago, i’d have conveniently phoned. it’s increasingly the only way to talk to a capable human.
the latest innovation has been to uninvent it, by inventing the phone tree, customer service center, etc.
i now drive miles to talk to people whom, thirty years ago, i’d have conveniently phoned. it’s increasingly the only way to talk to a capable human.
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Folks in New England are waking up to temps below freezing. It's a reminder that winter brings times of greatest stress to the power grid.
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Feel the cold? Offshore wind alleviates grid woes in winter, study…
A sector despised by President Trump can boost grid reliability on the East Coast when people crank up the heat and gas plants are tested by extreme…
www.canarymedia.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Folks in New England are waking up to temps below freezing. It's a reminder that winter brings times of greatest stress to the power grid.
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Offshore wind farms could keep the lights when gas plants are underperforming. But Trump has prevented all but five projects from moving forward.
NEW from me👇
Possible siting of a puma on the CP track next Desnoyer Park!
November 25, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Possible siting of a puma on the CP track next Desnoyer Park!
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This is the pizza Christmas lore. My family made turkey every year for christmas until my mom realized we all snacked all day and weren’t hungry and we’d be eating leftover turkey for a week. We tried various other things: ham, Cornish game hens. And then one year everyone was disgustingly sick and
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
This is the pizza Christmas lore. My family made turkey every year for christmas until my mom realized we all snacked all day and weren’t hungry and we’d be eating leftover turkey for a week. We tried various other things: ham, Cornish game hens. And then one year everyone was disgustingly sick and
Minneapolis and Minnesota need to regulate robotaxis, now.
Waymo privatized another public street:
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
Chanel approaching 4th, San Francisco
Possibly queued for a Billie Eilish show at Chase Center ~half mile away.
The light rail train on 4th seen passing in front of this roboherd has more passenger capacity than all of them combined.
OP: .tiktok.renaspam18
November 25, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Minneapolis and Minnesota need to regulate robotaxis, now.
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Interesting, at infinite-battery.com we make a sustainable and fireproof e-bike battery that's RAD-compatible
Infinite Battery
The only universally compatible and repairable battery.
infinite-battery.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Interesting, at infinite-battery.com we make a sustainable and fireproof e-bike battery that's RAD-compatible
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This *strongly* accords with my impressions of the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area (both cities and also the suburbs with which I'm familiar), fwiw
👉 Our new paper uses daily mobility data to show that spatial isolation is much more common today among those living in advantaged neighborhoods than the converse.
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
👩🏻💻 Lots of massive data wrangling and careful assumptions about mobility data needed - but check it out here! doi.org/10.1177/0042...
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This *strongly* accords with my impressions of the Minneapolis - St Paul metro area (both cities and also the suburbs with which I'm familiar), fwiw
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"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
November 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"You'll be visited by three spirits."
The three spirits:
The three spirits: