Jamie 🇵🇸 @JTommins Twitter profile

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Jamie 🇵🇸

3 years

I’m back. The big project is over and there’s a mostly-new (reopened) trail in the wind river mountains. Also the fall weather is here, which was nice aside from the glacial river crossings

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Jamie 🇵🇸

@JTommins

8 months

my dude is fucking back!!!!

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7 months

i’ve been cracking up at this for five minutes

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2 months

we love to see it folks

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4 months

ok boeing killed a guy

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7 months

vince guaraldi trio you have to stop. your jazz too smooth. your patterns too festive. your good tidings too different. they’ll kill you vince guaraldi trio

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4 years

Cannot stop laughing at this beautiful tiny bird

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7 years

Just normal weather in normal texas four totally normal months apart

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@JTommins

2 years

Reading that study that found how grizzly bear genetic populations and indigenous language families in central BC mapped onto each other almost perfectly with my jaw on the floor

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@JTommins

4 months

great tip for bushwhacking and scrambling illustrated here to zigzag up the slope rather than charge straight up. also, this man does instinctively what the appalachian mountain club has not figured out in 100 years of trail building

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@JTommins

5 months

doctors: do not even attempt to remove a shirt that comes in contact with this pesticide, cut it off and throw it out EPA: reapproved

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8 months

i fucking love this guy

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@JTommins

7 months

that my friend is a deity

amelia𓆨

@kcalbug

7 months

the common spotted cuscus looks so untrustworthy

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@JTommins

3 months

bad news, it's looking like everything we've bought and sold for many decades is the most poisonous thing ever

Zoë Schlanger

@zoeschlanger

3 months

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For @TheAtlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning:

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@JTommins

4 months

a former boeing project manager who worked on the max demanded to be let off after finding out he’d been scheduled to fly on a max despite purposely booking a flight on a different model 😬

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@JTommins

5 months

it’s come to my attention that some of you are still in your 20s. it’s fine but just so you know we’ve all moved on to our 30s now

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@JTommins

2 years

@nytimes college administrators: have we tried ruining students’ lives?

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@JTommins

2 years

imagine speaking a language as closely tied to the land as its wildest and most awesome resident. a dimension of identity that someone like me can’t even comprehend

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@JTommins

7 months

lake baikal you have to stop. your depths too deep. your fauna too different. your water too clear. they’ll kill you lake baikal

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@JTommins

3 months

cops: they don’t seriously expect us to follow the law for every single person we arrested right

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@JTommins

4 months

mining sand to build “sacrificial dunes” on a spit in cape cod is probably one of the worst uses of resources one could dream up. managed retreat now!!!

QENNY Lovecraft

@AKBrews

4 months

The level of delusion in this video is astonishing

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@JTommins

2 years

ok my last take on this

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@JTommins

18 days

well for one thing about half of that area is federally designated wilderness including the largest wilderness in the contiguous united states

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@vanillaopinions

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why isn't anyone trying to build housing here?

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@JTommins

3 months

as a connoisseur of terrain features i’d like to introduce you this evening to piedmont glaciers

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@JTommins

2 months

so uh is the state of education as bad as frequent posts on r/teachers and r/professors suggest? illiteracy, ai written assignments, fried attention spans, etc

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4 months

just learned about vischachas

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7 months

oh my god

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@JTommins

1 year

@emilydolhansky oh jesus that crosscut saw is the stuff of nightmares

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@JTommins

2 years

They thought factors like topography and watersheds or other sources of geographic resistance would explain it but no, the populations involved appear to have just said “nah we’re good right here.” otherwise it’s just a great mystery. unbelievable

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@JTommins

5 months

one of the things i love most about photography is the knowledge that even after digital touch ups or manipulation, the light i captured in the camera sensor was a real moment in time. there’s something profound there. so this strikes me as kinda demonic

Benjamin De Kraker 🏴‍☠️

@BenjaminDEKR

5 months

I am often critical of OpenAI but the Sora video previews have left me speechless. This is excellent, world-changing work.

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@JTommins

4 months

@36_chambuhz yeah because hitting each step at an angle lengthens the run even though the rise stays the same, so you’re reducing the grade while adding the distance

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@JTommins

4 months

flight attendant: wait what do you know about this plane airline safety executive director: i can’t go into detail right now but let me off please ill do anything please please please please

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@JTommins

4 months

i even zigzag up like that on narrow trails as best i can. save the legs. or i did lol. now i am working on a system where a friend or adoring mufo carries me up but tbd

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@JTommins

2 years

Vince McMahon meme ranging from “grizzlies and indigenous languages map onto each other” to “populations not evidently confined by topography” to “results may reflect socio-cultural respect and reciprocity towards bears” to [not in study] “bears stay close to their homies”

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@JTommins

2 years

i'm also looking for responses to the article but the link from the journal seems broken. here's one of the coolest results they found imo--historical human settlement appears to have had little disruptive influence on bear genetic groups

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@JTommins

2 months

i think it’s important to get to know your local flora and fauna because they’re in this fight with us too. also they’re super cool

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@JTommins

4 months

just kidding btw. the AMC knows this would dramatically reduce erosion on their trails but they like digging up the thin soil for rock staircases too much. it’ll be interesting to see how those hold up in the northeast’s new megaflood regime

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@JTommins

4 months

i hate the way people in healthcare will drop news like “so the next open appointment is in 6 months :)” with a straight face and no recognition that what they’re saying means six months of unresolved medical issues, pain, disruption etc for the human being they’re talking to

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@JTommins

27 days

nothing like a 91 degree day with 50% humidity to remind you that we’ve turned most of our towns and cities into a giant asphalt solar stove

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@JTommins

4 months

@sharkrado to me it’s much more interesting psychologically how aggressive those people become when they see others taking precautions for themselves. angry denial is always a sure sign someone’s handling something well

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@JTommins

2 years

I’ve had a couple responses about possible explanations for the results so I’ll just add the study’s results summary and the author explaining it in layman’s terms. It’s almost a buried lede imo

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@JTommins

2 years

btw

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@JTommins

2 months

the heathlands of scotland and ireland aren’t ecological deserts at all and many once-forested landscapes there have developed complex anthropogenic ecosystems over several thousand years, but yeah some more reforestation in the british isles would be good

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@JTommins

5 months

think of how much damage these people have done directly and indirectly with this product. pretty unbelievable

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@JTommins

1 year

discovered the best card game of all time where you build biomes and try to increase complexity to get Healthy Ecologies. it’s called Ecologies

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@JTommins

6 months

this is where i post from

Frothy Friar Publishing

@FrothyFriar

6 months

and on this week's episode of Tiny Castles...

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@JTommins

5 months

i am in a pickle you guys

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@JTommins

2 months

damn i wish people had warned us about this *hand to ear* i’m getting reports that every knowledgeable person on earth warned us about this

David Ho

@_david_ho_

2 months

This is totally fine. "Shell sold millions of carbon credits tied to CO₂ removal that never took place to Canada’s largest oil sands companies, raising new doubts about a technology seen as crucial to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions."

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@JTommins

2 months

one reason i ask is because i did take a community college bio class last spring and it was great. i mean there were high achievers and kids who struggled but it felt about the same as my state school undergrad classes ten years ago

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@JTommins

2 months

this once mild infection in wild birds would never have evolved to kill so many millions of mammals and threatened a new human pandemic if it weren’t for factory farms and modern animal agriculture. it simply has to end

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

2 months

BREAKING: Human case of H5N1 bird flu reported at a dairy farm in 🇺🇸 Michigan

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@JTommins

4 months

guy in sunglasses wants the state to give taxpayer dollars to save a handful of luxury beach homes when he admittedly doesn’t believe “hundreds of scientists” telling him the beach will be gone. you can’t reason with these people

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@JTommins

5 months

dream morning coffee on the porch in the sun rotation

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@JTommins

4 months

man says “if you keep rebuilding the beach isn’t gonna go away,” followed by “no i don’t believe in that, no, it’s not climate change.” i’d nationalize these people’s property and demolish it just for that tbh

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@JTommins

7 months

@babywasteland yeah turns out i am largely the opposite of the buddha by nature

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@JTommins

2 months

it’s be great if one of our biggest federal land agencies could figure itself out

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@JTommins

7 months

miss vermont’s winter alpenglow

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@JTommins

20 days

democratic party consultants:

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@JTommins

10 months

Hey guys I’m back sorry if you saw me post this on my alt already but I just gotta share these

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@JTommins

3 years

@angelbyshaggy Someone said yellow tree

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@JTommins

8 months

i glued eelgrass seeds to a few hundred clams today for an eelgrass meadow restoration project in long island sound. ama

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@JTommins

3 months

great bird

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@JTommins

7 months

normally my long covid-induced mental illness posts are reserved for my alt but a little crossover now and then can’t hurt

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@JTommins

8 months

i should draw more fish

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@JTommins

4 months

anyone else hear about the kid in ireland who figured out how to remove almost all microplastics from water using magnetic fluid? i saw an article recently about a another lab in KY that came up with something similar. pretty sick

How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets

Huge amounts of plastic ends up rivers and oceans every year, harming the environment and potentially also human health. But what if we could pull it out of water with magnets?

www.bbc.com

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@JTommins

3 months

i continue to be amazed at the money people spend on landscaping just to have a yard with no wildflowers, no fruit or nut trees and no native plants at all

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@JTommins

7 months

the signs are everywhere

Russ McSpadden

@PeccaryNotPig

7 months

Just a coyote howling from the rooftop of a car in Tucson, Ariz.

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@JTommins

4 months

this painting from the liao dynasty, 916-1125, feels like the realization of a dream i’ve had of the autumn woods

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@JTommins

4 months

you should read the wikipedia entry for black capped chickadees because learning about their vocalizations blew my mind. other species seem to understand chickadee call syntax. and this doesn’t even scratch the surface, go read it

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@JTommins

2 years

Do y’all ever think about how 18th and 19th century American logging is mostly remembered or invoked with an antique quaintness when like, if you think what it destroyed, humanity will quite possibly not see such forests ever again

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@JTommins

4 months

unfortunately coastal towns all up and down the northeast are filled with these types of guys, as are their town councils and boards of selectmen. they’d turn their own mothers out on the street before they give up a dollar in property tax revenue. we gotta fight them

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@JTommins

2 years

I think we need to decide that the great lost natural abundance all around us is unacceptable. Goodnight

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@JTommins

21 days

real heads read my side of the mountain

p.k.

@pkrtvrns

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if you read this as a young kiddo you're probably cool

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@JTommins

11 months

skill issue

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@JTommins

7 years

@pierce @AlexWhitcomb Dammit I'm already nostalgic

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@JTommins

21 days

some of y’all would get bored looking at every different species of plant and tree in a small patch of forest and it shows

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@JTommins

5 months

yes it’s a miracle there are old growth white pines there so shut up and stop saying shit like this just shut up

Matthew Zeitlin

@MattZeitlin

5 months

considering how densely populated and historically economically developed both the acela corridor and the great lakes region is, it's crazy that just no one lives here

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@JTommins

3 months

LETS GOOOOOOOOO

North Cascades NPS

@NCascadesNPS

3 months

The @NatlParkService and @USFWS have announced a decision to actively restore grizzly bears to the North Cascades, where they roamed until nearly hunted to extinction in the area during the 20th century. News release: (1/4)

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9 months

Holy shit

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@JTommins

8 months

pretty crazy how people did this to the 4th largest lake in the world in like 50 years

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@JTommins

3 years

I just learned what a funko pop is. I mean I knew it was a thing but seeing the name always made my brain go “I ain’t reading all that.” Don’t think I’d buy one. Grim little things

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@JTommins

3 years

@hypervisible tech billionaires sitting around thinking what if I had a friend

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@JTommins

6 months

i see this kid on insta a lot and he’s our new gen z henry david thoreau

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@JTommins

10 months

Friends I’m sorry to keep putting this sad stuff on your TL but today I’m just not doing well. Like this post to send I am gonna be ok vibes

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@JTommins

4 months

and you know what the worst is? these wealthier coastal enclaves have tons of resources at their disposal for storm surge protection and fortification when the most vulnerable areas are actually low-lying urban areas with toxic sediments and woefully outdated sewage systems

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@JTommins

3 months

i could use some good pictures of nature to look at if anyone’s got any. long covid seems to really want to make me kill myself. but i’m gonna try not to do that. many thanks

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@JTommins

5 months

were meant to live among wild animals who interrupt our chores and steal our food from time to time. all this online squabbling is just people crying out for a pesky animal to chase away

Crude Magazine

@crudemag

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Amber Rotar had an unexpected visitor at Costco on Debarr this morning

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@JTommins

4 years

Camped here for nine days to build a new section of the continental divide trail in Wyoming

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@JTommins

7 months

type of shit i’ve been on as of late

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@JTommins

4 years

[mayor pete voice] together we will bridge the divides that separate us so that all roads lead to the future. I have sold Amtrak to a tire company

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@JTommins

3 months

i’m very comforted that Expected Warming is down. now to take a sip of coffee and check how Actual Warming is doing against previous expectations

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@JTommins

2 months

magical. thank you

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@JTommins

2 years

I have once again woken up early

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@JTommins

4 months

a man who just rocked his biology exam on a few hours’ sleep and one (1) sip of coffee

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@JTommins

10 months

Something you will never see me do is caving. Spelunking. Digging too greedily and too deep. No thank you

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@JTommins

10 months

jesus guys i go away for four days and now i see leftists saying the very idea of human social connection to a landscape is reactionary and even fascist, i'm so disappointed

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@JTommins

1 year

pretty cool day if i’m being honest

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@JTommins

10 months

remember when they found out coastal indigenous language families in BC mapped perfectly onto the distribution of grizzly bear genetic subgroups, indicating at the very least thousands of years of coexistence in their respective territories? sounds uhh pretty problematic

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@JTommins

3 months

get me The List

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1 year

okay!

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