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Mark
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In another life, I researched contaminants in aquatic ecosystems.

Current interests include #ClimateAction #CleanEnergy #EnvironmentalProtection […]

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Some winter fun from a few years ago.

Pics are from a trial roll after I got an old Minolta Hi-Matic 11 cleaned up & refurbished. The camera—a #rangefinder —is sort of a poor man’s Canon Canonet, which in turn is a poor man’s Leica. It hadn’t been used in […]

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February 10, 2026 at 2:07 PM
I was introduced to John McPhee in grad school. “Encounters With the Archdruid” was assigned reading in an enviro policy class, which approached the topic from the perspective of motivating factors that underlie policy.

McPhee’s writing hooked me; I read a […]

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February 10, 2026 at 1:46 AM
We learned the importance of antecedents in junior high/middle school writing class. Sometimes a direct antecedent can imply something without explicitly it.

E.g., this line “Every…animal with a brain needs sleep—and even a few without a brain do, too” made […]

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February 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
If you’ve read the StarTribune over the years, you’ve seen the photojournalism of Richard Tsong-Taatarii. Most recently the viral photo of the Federal thug who pepper-sprayed an already subdued man, in the face, at point blank range.

My personal brush with […]

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January 23, 2026 at 10:13 PM
@davidho.bsky.social Kind of hard to operate a blower when you’re tackled to the pavement & have at least two agents on top of you with your hands restrained behind your back. So it goes…

#ice #minneapolis #mnastodon #humanrights
January 22, 2026 at 10:13 PM
January 21, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Recycling this photo from the back deck, five and a half years ago. #mnastodon #minnesota #minneapolis
January 18, 2026 at 12:59 AM
From the Bobby Weir FB page

#bobweir #bobbyweir #gratefuldead #ripbobweir
January 11, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Remembering #bobweir

1) Jack Straw (Weir & Hunter) is one of the best Americana songs ever performed (and never issued on a studio album);

2) Was the subject of a great Netflix documentary (watch it);

3) Wants people to vote ( […]

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January 11, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Here’s mine. Minnesota this evening. Best I’ve ever seen, and of course they were better before I got my camera out. #northernlights #aurora #auroraborealis #nightsky #mnastodon
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
3. Official flag of the Republican Party. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
2. Official flag of ANTIFA. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
U.S. flags thread.

1: The original No Kings flag. #nokings
October 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I visited downtown Anoka, Minnesota today…a mostly red part of the Minneapolis - St. Paul metro area. I would have taken more pics, but I was busy holding my signs.

Really like the Free Balls sign.

I reused my DUE PROCESS IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT and HATE […]

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October 18, 2025 at 6:38 PM
My 24th Wordle deuce today. Yay me!

#Wordle 1,573 2/6

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October 9, 2025 at 10:19 AM
There are layers of recommendations in this photo.

Find a nice spot to sit by the sea and listen to the waves and grab the binoculars when an interesting bird or boat passes by and sip on some wine and read Revolutions (a fascinating history of women and […]

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September 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Merlin app says this is a Merlin. (Positive id from both photo and sounds). Hanging around the back yard, looking for a songbird snack. Highly cropped. My first positive Merlin observation.

#birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #merlin
August 27, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Green Heron
August 27, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Logged my first iNaturalist observation today. The White-marked Tussock Moth, Orgyia leucostigma; larval stage. Very cool looking caterpillar. The fella crawled away from this photo shoot completely healthy and unharmed from being gently placed on the ruler. […]

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August 25, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Song Sparrow and Yellow Warbler from this morning’s amble, northeastern Minnesota #isawabird #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography
July 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
July 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The Social Security Administration is propagandizing for the Butt Ugly Bill. Isn’t that illegal? I know: who’s gonna stop them? #uspol #buttuglybill #bigbeautifulbill
July 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This person deserves an award for 3-dimensional protest art. #nokings #mnastodon
June 14, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I know this guy. I like the layers of messaging he showed up with today. #nokings #mnastodon #minnesota #stpaul #uspol #tuckfrump #stochasticterrorism
June 14, 2025 at 11:13 PM