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James Umbanhowar

@jumbanho.bsky.social

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

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King Algamemnon@adamrothman.bsky.social · 2h ago

A radical takes a suicidal action that results in the election of a moderate who terrifies slaveowners so much they secede, inciting a war that results in the overthrow of slavery, which was the goal of the radical to begin with, and the very thing the slaveowners were trying to prevent.

Vince Mpls@vincempls.bsky.social · 2d ago

And i just love that this was called Cataract Lodge. We need to bring the word "Cataract" back to more things in Minneapolis. There was once even "Cataract Street", which led right to the falls. Today that's "Portland Avenue", and definitely needs to be renamed.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 3d ago

This got me to finally read the entire New Yorker article on the Tates and... yeah. I don't see how what they're doing is any different than what everyone has accused Jeffrey Epstein of doing. Except they're *more public* about admitting to what they're doing AND getting young men to join in.

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 4d ago

However horrible you think the Tate brothers are, I promise, it's worse than that. It's insane that Dems aren't making a bigger deal of the GOP embracing these grotesque monsters.

James Umbanhowar@jumbanho.bsky.social · 4d ago

Radical language proposal, the formulation "in-law" is already ambiguous (it can be spouse's family or siblings' spouse family), so let's just drop "step" and use in-law. Under this awesome proposal, your parent's new husband would be your father-in-law. Reason: I started doing this accidentally.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

Berna Devezer@devezer.bsky.social · 5d ago

"And so Arnold began reaching out to other people who said science was untrustworthy and giving them money." A MUST-READ post about open sci/metasci funding, philanthropist agendas, and academic censorship in the name of scientific reform. There's so much I want to quote. Better read it yourself!

Jeff Lockhart@jwlockhart.bsky.social · 5d ago

I wrote about science funding, science reform, and anti-science agendas. scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...