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environmental archaeologist and terrible gardener - researching the archaeology of bear ceremonialism

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The Mastodon giganteus of North America /. Boston: J. Wilson, 1852. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40681279

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Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! šŸŒ±

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July coneflowers and blazing star, with a backdrop of swamp milkweed that is not yet blooming

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my uncle spent summers working on MV in the 70s and recalls overhearing an exasperated guy in a bar complaining about how "the cameras keep falling in the water" & ā€œthat goddamn shark" wasnā€™t working. then jaws came out and he realized what he'd overheard.

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The Matriculated Brick's avatar The Matriculated Brick @beeb33.bsky.social
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happy birthday to the ground

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Vince Mpls's avatar Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social
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Mni SĆ³ta Territory depicted in the 1857 Atlas of the United States. County lines in red, survey lines for the proposed Pacific Railway in purple. Map by HD Rogers & AK Johnston, London, via University of Minnesota Borchert Map Library

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The USA Movie Freedom Act - Congress will certainly make it a priority

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Not particularly relevant but I was thinking the same about the 1980 Flash Gordon this morning, only because I havenā€™t seen it.

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dang, I do actually have to weed the asparagus today

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Amy A's avatar Amy A @lolennui.bsky.social
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I saw Joe biden slip on a banana peel and all his cups and dishes went flying up in the air and he caught them all with his tray

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Maggie one year ago & now - this little monster has been part of our family since a year ago yesterday. He had been living in our garden for a while, we realized.

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Joey McAllister's avatar Joey McAllister @joeymcallister.com
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Also also, Hidden Falls Regional Park is mostly Mississippi River right now.

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The coffee is in the next room but the cat is here on my lap.

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I panfried an experiment from the garden tonight- walking onion bulbs, lovage stalks & leaves, mustard greens, and dandelion greens, with olive oil and salt/pepper. No one was more surprised than I when it was good. I think it is activating some super powers, Iā€™ll let you know.

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John Maycroft's avatar John Maycroft @johnmaycroft.bsky.social
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The Minnehaha Falls are extremely angry right now.

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The midsummer purples are starting in our dog Cocoaā€™s memorial garden

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Dean Frey's avatar Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social
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Debbie Harry, New York Apartment with Warhol Portrait šŸ“· Brian Aris, 1988

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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Maggie needed an exorcist last night but we just ended up falling asleep instead.

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I need coffee so badly that Iā€™m forgetting to drink the full cup of coffee beside me.

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Glad to see this from Kansas. There are historical records of sacred red boulders in Minnesota as well. One of them, from Eden Prairie, was returned to the Dakota recently.

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Iā€™m guessing that I inadvertently started it but they have taken it to the next level (the bitey level). I would like to negotiate some sort of tiny ant accord.

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Iā€™m involved in some sort of disagreement with the many tiny ants that are trying to bite me.

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Our lovage plant has become a monster (complimentary). Lots of pollinators bumbling around the very cool flowers, including an iridescent blue fly or bee that I couldnā€™t get a picture of.

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My wife & I are working in the garden as the cat scolds us for our temerity from inside the kitchen window.

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The kind you find at a second hand store - oh wait, thatā€™s not it

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Gary Hornseth's avatar Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social
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Fun fact: The Plant Seed Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, was founded in 1845 by a man named William Plant.

It also had cool catalog art. Hereā€™s one from 1892.

Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery & Seed Trade Catalog Collection, National Agricultural Library, via @archive.org; archive.org/details/seed...

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Remembering that time we were in the local not playing trivia but I knew all the answers. Anyway, weā€™re sitting outside where we canā€™t hear the questions tonight and who cares.

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Wild rice in the floating leaf stage, Mille Lacs Kathio State Park in Minnesota. This is the first time Iā€™ve noticed it in the Rum River.

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Giant sequoias are the most massive trees on Earth. Some of these coniferous trees have been alive for over 3000 years. They are so large that you could create a tunnel big enough for a car to drive through. This severely damaged the tree and most tunneled trees have died except The Chandelier Tree

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I passed a humvee towing a mini-donut stand. To what paradise were they bound, I wonder still.

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Sarah E. Bond's avatar Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social
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I may now be obsessed with the fact that freshwater crabs šŸ¦€ (Potamon fluviatile) proliferated in late Roman sewers & now archaeologists & conservationists are fighting to save these little guys as an indigenous species, who live in places like Trajanā€™s Forum. www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/riv...

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I just rewatched that after decades of seeing it the first time. I read The Ox-Bow Incident years ago but didnā€™t know there was a movie.

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