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Thomas Winfield Marie

@magpine.bsky.social
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Thomas - poet and ecologist- plants, climate change, human geography. He/him and she/her. Buy my chapbook! bottlecap.press/products/causes

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David Lowry @davidlowry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I am looking to hire two seasonal field/laboratory technicians to join the lab working at the MSU Kellogg Biological Station and Main Campus. The primary work will be dedicated to our switchgrass program with potential to expand into other roles in the lab with time. careers.msu.edu/jobs/profess...
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Professional Aide - East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Position Summary(Basic Job Function) This is a temporary or an on-call position. Provides professional support. Responsibilities may include general business, science, medical, agricultural or other p...
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm dreaming about a meadow garden for next year. I want it to be fluffy.. boneset, joe pye weed, mountain mint, blazing star, goldenrod, some northern sea oats and groundnut in there - maybe both purple and red monarda? Don't ask me where I'm finding the space
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Brendan O’Kane @bokane.org · 26/08/2026
it's #weirdpoemwednesday apparently
my translation of a Wang Fanzhi 王梵志/"Brahmacarin Wang" poem:

i have a couple acres of land 
plantings on the south mountain slope 
four or five pine trees of my own 
and two or three hills of beans as well. 
when it's hot i just go for a dip in the pond
or take the cool breeze singing on the bank 
i come and go as i please and i've got enough 
so i'd like to see somebody try me now. 

--attributed to "Brahmacarin Wang," fl. 7th/8th c.

吾有十畝田,種在南山坡。
青松四五樹,綠豆兩三窠。
熱即池中浴,涼便岸上歌。
遨遊自取足,誰能奈我何。
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jessamine finch @seedystudies.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📣 New York Botanical Garden is seeking a career-track Restoration Ecologist! 🥾 develop ext. funded, field-oriented, collections-informed, & collaborative research program 📨 Optimal consideration: Sep. 25 (open till filled) 📆 Start: Jan. 1, 2027 (negotiable) 🤑 $87.5k jobs.jobvite.com/nybg/job/o8s...
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New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology.
New York Botanical Garden is looking for Assistant Curator, Restoration Ecology. Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Their contexts are different, but I hope Brattleboro is able to save the birth center, as Troy was.
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Pleased to share my newest publication, 'Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad', out now in Biological Invasions. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Invasive plants are more abundant than native and introduced plants at home and abroad - Biological Invasions
Invasive plants are often observed and assumed to be locally abundant, which likely increases their ecological impacts. However, there are few macroscale comparisons of invasive versus non-invasive sp...
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Biologists, are we using the term "parent species" to describe the taxa encompassing a subspecies? Or is there another phrase which is more clear?
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My landlords yard guy weedwhacked my Carolina lupine 😭
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My mountain mint seems to be attracting mostly flies and a few black and white wasps (visitors I'm happy to see!). It seems like other people see a lot of bees and butterflies, but none on mine - it's not blooming super profusely though there are quite a few infloresences.
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Somebody tell me not to acronymize my newest research product as NIPPL
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is a real question for journalism folks on here - why don't online news sites allow me to buy access to a single article? I close out of articles I'm interested in so often due to paywalls. Some of them I'd pay a couple bucks to read. But I just will not sign up for ongoing, 1/2
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
A couple minutes late to work because I stopped to admire some really lush purslane
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Is it #weirdpoemWednesday? Here's one from a few years ago when I was writing daily fish poems. @tomsnarsky.bsky.social Click for full poem - a bit long for this format
ELECTROFISHING / ATLANTIC SALMON

ZAP! Ha Ha Ha!
We heard you and we came.
We wanted to taste the anode, since we had no choice.
Your stun gun hijacked our muscles.
Now we are here to laugh at you and dance in your bucket.
Ha Ha Ha! We all saw you when you slipped in the river
and you lost the grip of your hip waders
and cold electrified water got in the rubber.
YES! That is the sort of thing we really love. That is why we came.

By now you may have noticed:
We are not the Atlantic Salmon you were hoping for.
We are the Elopomorph Superorder. 
We are like olms with eyes or like worms with bones.
We are the treasured jesters of your nets. We are
THE AMERICAN EELS!

Do not be impressed by frogs who go between
wet mud and wet leaves. We have seen the only two sides
of the world.
Salt and not salt.
These are the absolute antipodes.
Because of this it is very natural and easy for us to die or be born
or move between other such states of matter.
NO BIG DEAL!

But your hands are horrible to touch and unlike us.
Your current could hold us only because we LOVE currents.
We do not love your hands and so we are going now.
We know where the salmon went.
We have seen them on the way to our own secret place.
They are chasing a different anode
far more convulsing than yours. No offense.
ZAP! Ha Ha Ha.
We aren't telling!
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Global Change Biology @globalchangebio.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
REVIEW Native and Non‐Native Populations Respond Unevenly to River Barrier Removals 🔗 buff.ly/RLaCIm5
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This morning, I thought "I don't need two breakfasts. I can just have one breakfast." And you know what? I was so wrong
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
On my morning walk I was startled by a cyclist stopping suddenly and shouting to his partner "Holy shit Rebecca! Look at that huge fucking sycamore tree!!" (our local ancient celebrity). He apologized for yelling but it was really delightful.
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Never a bad time for this song, but this is an especially good one: sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com/track/i-drea...
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I Dream of Water, by Sarina Partridge
track by Sarina Partridge
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
At the pond yesterday, saw two big great blue herons flying and hanging out by the water with two littler great blue herons 😍
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Various feelings about the new NYT piece on native plant gardening (positive and some negative) - but one complaint is that the author refers consistently to Doug Tallamy as "Tallamy" and to Cindy Tallamy as "Cindy". I double checked - she does indeed have a last name (like most women!)
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Spent my walk this morning moving stranded freshwater mussels back into the water. Poor amazing little animals - I hope it rains soon
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What a fucking joke to have to do my university's required Title IX training about complying with athletic regulations, this week of all weeks
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
New sci-comm blog post out, drawing on my background briefly working for "Big Dairy" as my friends like to say. Learn something about dairy cattle genetics! sci-stories.org/2026/07/01/i...
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Is Milk Better Outside the US?
If cow's milk hurts your tummy— it might be time to try milk abroad— or try a new breed!
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Laura McKee @lauramckee.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Birthday of Czeslaw Milosz today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49457/...
Encounter
Czeslaw Milosz
trans. Czeslaw Milosz

We were riding through frozen fields in a wagon at dawn.
A red wing rose in the darkness.

And suddenly a hare ran across the road.
One of us pointed to it with his hand.

That was long ago. Today neither of them is alive, Not the hare, nor the man who made the gesture.

O my love, where are they, where are they going The flash of a hand, streak of movement, rustle of pebbles.
I ask not out of sorrow, but in wonder.

Wilno, 1936
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
out-of-season poetry WIP #poetry
WOMA

Against the black stack
of the mountain
the pitch of the wind drops

Bring me 
starvation food
pine bark bread
dark dust, pine in the lungs
lark in the gone-pine
stark on the tongue

Bruised by the axe back
back-breaking, bread-baking
resinating 
voice of the hungry mountain

We will
want for another winter
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Typically I do a pretty good job managing my emotional state in regards to the biodiversity crisis but I found an emerald ash borer outside my house yesterday and I'm feeling a bit crushed about it to be honest
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Today on my half-mile walk to the bus stop I stepped over five "ant wars" between pavement ant colonies. I saw four yesterday as well. They are most likely Tetramorium immigrans. This species is also parasitized by another ant species. It's a brutal time of year to be a pavement ant!
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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Come join us! Te Herenga Waka is looking for a senior academic to join our climate change teaching and research programme - apply by Monday 22 June.
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Tiffany Timbers @tiffanytimbers.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Thrilled to share that @minecr.bsky.social and my paper on Ten simple rules for teaching data science is now available from @plos.org Computational Biology! journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Ten simple rules for teaching data science
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My favorite scientific societies @ascbiology.bsky.social, @genetics-gsa.bsky.social & @socdevbio.bsky.social are already hard at work responding to the OMB proposals to undercut science funding. Ask your society to join them-good instructions are here elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...
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What We Need to do NEXT: OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule (OMB-2026-0034)
What OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule Means in Practice
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Maria Strutz @mariastrutz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
'Stormborn', a linocut that I carved a few years ago 🤍🐾💙 - in celebration of #WorldOtterDay
3 otters behind each other all facing towards the right, in front of a story sea, a small sailboat on the left hand side, a big swirl in the sky indicating high winds. Linocut, shades of bluegreen, and white, Maria Strutz.
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Dr. Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
“Your way of writing locates, even creates, your inner life.” Richard Hugo
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
This is one of the songs I listen to most often when I need to fully feel grief and dream hope about the climate and biodiversity crises. sarinapartridge.bandcamp.com/track/i-drea... The whole album is really wonderful too.
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I Dream of Water, by Sarina Partridge
from the album Songs to Re-Root and Remember Album
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Stable ecology jobs are few and far between at the moment, but the team I'm on is actually hiring! Come coordinate the third Ohio Bird Atlas! This'll be a 5+ year role, based at Ohio State. Bachelor's degree required (Master's preferred). Please share! osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/j...
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Ohio Bird Atlas 3 Outreach Specialist
Screen reader users may encounter difficulty with this site. For assistance with applying, please contact hr-accessibleapplication@osu.edu. If you have questions while submitting an application, pleas...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
I'm hiring a postdoc to lead sedimentary aDNA reconstructions of alpine plant biodiversity as part of a broader project exploring the mechanisms of alpine plant resilience. Come join a collaborative team working in beautiful places! Bonus: postdocs at UMaine are unionized!
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Been a while since I shared a poem in-progress 🪽#poetry
LODGINGS

Passing storm brings
nightlong heat lightning 
and we are
still	singing the wintering song
the one with the long longing
the tanagers’ black wings
dark orchards full of glossy tangerines
full of migrators 
voyaging passerines	only
as gone	 as the stars are gone
we passengers of the wind.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 05/05/2026
Woodcut from La Petit Histoire Bretonne ‘On the Open Sea’ Rene Quillivic, 1921
wood cut of ships on a wild sea with big waves
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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Tulip poplar flowers!
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I made this educational comic for an upcoming event - it introduces native plants and introduced plants, and the impacts of climate change on plant communities, at a K-5 level. If you'd like to read it or use it, check out the whole thing here: doi.org/10.7275/2ns2...
Colorful kids comic. Text: "Plants take a long time to: grow, change, adapt - to evolve! It can take millions of years. When a type of plant grows in the same place their long ago ancestors grew, they are a native plant. They have many connections to: birds, insects, microbes, and human beings. Over time, all the living beings that make up an ecosystem grow to fit each other just right! So, native plants have deep root. "Native plant" means old, rooted, and well-connected - not "never-changing". Illustrations of plants in ecosystems.
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Michael Bazzett @mikhailbazharov.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
CLOUDWATCHER's been out a few weeks, & I've read from it a number of times, & I'm truly grateful to see it begin to make its way into the world... Thanks all. Now, I go fallow for a bit. Enjoy this last little poem & maybe we'll cross paths again midsummer? #smallpoemsunday @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Today

I told the moon to go home. I let the river flow. 
I entered the cave with the nine songs I know. 
I wandered dark water, thick with eyeless fish,
and my mind is the same quivering animal 

that it was: tired of running its little rusted 
wheel, the cedar shavings of its cage, the little 
bottle where it takes a sip of gin, tiny pink 
fingers folded in what looks like supplication.
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Is anyone here knowledgeable about the new Midea (etc.) window unit, renter-friendly heat pumps? I am really curious about whether they work well and what kind of reductions in energy use they might offer (especially since my new apt. is very inefficient). LMK if I can ask you questions!
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I made this educational comic for an upcoming event - it introduces native plants and introduced plants, and the impacts of climate change on plant communities, at a K-5 level. If you'd like to read it or use it, check out the whole thing here: doi.org/10.7275/2ns2...
Colorful kids comic. Text: "Plants take a long time to: grow, change, adapt - to evolve! It can take millions of years. When a type of plant grows in the same place their long ago ancestors grew, they are a native plant. They have many connections to: birds, insects, microbes, and human beings. Over time, all the living beings that make up an ecosystem grow to fit each other just right! So, native plants have deep root. "Native plant" means old, rooted, and well-connected - not "never-changing". Illustrations of plants in ecosystems.
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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Eastern N. America folks, it's just about go time for the start of the ~3 week peak migration (unless you're on the Gulf Coast, in which case it is go time NOW). Expect waves of incredible birds for the next month and a half Turn those overnight lights off to protect them! [stolen from local news]
Graphic showing the timing of the start of the busiest three weeks of spring songbird migration in the eastern US and southeast Canada, from 13 First Alert Weather in Ohio. The graphic says "Start of spring migration peak, lights out dates! Start date of the busiest weeks of spring migration. The Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida Gulf Coasts are 7 to 14 April, the rest of those states plus Texas, the southeast side of New Mexico, southern Oklahoma, Arkansas, and South Carolina are 14 to 21st April, Virginia, Tennessee, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and southern Kentucky and Illinois are 21 to 28th April, Wester Virginia, Southern Pennsylvania, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota are 28th April to 5th May, and the most northern chunk, capturing the rest of the continental US states and southern Ontario, is 5th to 12th May. There is also a photo of a Yellow Warbler to get you hyped.
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Aly Putnam, Ph.D. (she/her) @aputnam.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Tomorrow & Wednesday is the virtual Northeast Regional Invasive Species and Climate Change (NERISCC) annual symposium! Free!! Join us for two half-days of invasive species & climate change talks, panels, & workshops! #invasivespecies #climatechange #NERISCC umass-amherst.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: 2026 Northeast RISCC Annual Symposium. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Join us for two half-days of invasive species and climate change talks, panels, and workshops! The symposium is free and will take place on March 24 and 25, 2026 from 10AM - 3PM Eastern each day.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
If you're a recent PhD with expertise in Indigenous knowledge systems, check out this cool postdoc opportunity here at UMaine through the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science:
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Postdoctoral Research Associate
The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Yaaay mango ginger chews I love you mango ginger chews
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
My university now by default prompts Gemini use in GSuite. When you open a Google Doc, instead of a blank page you see two buttons: "Generate document" and "Help me write". I toggled this off in my individual account settings but it didn't seem to do anything and I still see the buttons. Also,
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/02/2026
Hey, friends! @ziibiing.com and the awesome folks at StandWithMinnesota have launched #keepMNhoused! Check out keepMNhoused.com and kick in to help folks affected by ICE stay in their homes! ALSO, artists, please join the call for art to help spread the word! (art here by the great @trungles.com)
Keep Minnesota Housed!

Much of the media has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.

Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused

Drawing by Trung Le Nguyen features a bundled up boy holding a sign reading "Thank you!" in front of a cozy purple house.
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ICE OUT State Fan @therealjoro.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
People in my neighborhood need help, like so many others in Minnesota right now. I can vouch for this GFM - I was in the room when it was planned! I just gave $200. Can someone match me? www.gofundme.com/f/support-ne...
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Donate to Support Bancroft Neighbors Helping Neighbors, organized by J K
We are Bancroft, a South Minneapolis neighborhood with tree lined streets, boulevard … J K needs your support for Support Bancroft Neighbors Helping Neighbors
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Rachel Bean, still sick but less @colocharachel.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
These relatively smaller funds are not getting the attention they need even though they are supporting tons of families. I know we can pay every rent.
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Thomas Winfield Marie @magpine.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
It's a little weird working professionally in the native plant gardening space but renting with no gardening ability. So much of my job's outreach work is focused towards landowners re: planting and invasive spp. management. I wish I had more ideas of how tenants fit into the convo, as one myself.
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