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Brown Pelican

@brownpelican.bsky.social

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Birder by bike; amateur bird photographer; sewer that sews; linoleum block print patch maker; potholders of protest; occasionally a joyous layabout, but never a wastrel.

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 1d

Latest free patch I’ll pass out this weekend. #linocut #printmaking #MedicareForAll

Linocut patch in white fabric ink on black cotton fabric. I’ll pass this out on the street this weekend. Text says, “32 of the top 33 developed nations have universal healthcare.”

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 3d

A patch for the littles. #printmaking #linocut #LinoleumBloc #TeslaTakedown

Linocut patch, black ink on yellow cotton fabric. The words “ Empathy is a super power” are next to a picture of a golden retriever’s smiling face.

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 14d

Tiny cotton patch. #linocut #printmaking

Black cotton patch with linocut print in white fabric ink. It says, “I like my war criminals in prison”

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 16d

In the audience tonight is Charlotte Bennett, one of the 13 women that Andrew Cuomo is credibly alleged to have sexually harassed while they worked in his government.

She can't speak for herself because Cuomo's lawyers have hounded her.

So I confronted him.

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 18d

My husband and I dressed as bees, and handed out linocut cloth patches. It was hella fun!!!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20d

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true: https://propub.li/47aawMD

50+: Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

~130: Agents also can arrest U.S. citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

~20: Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 20d

Chicago No Kings

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 20d

Thank you to the inflatable frog/genius artist who gave me this incredibly great necklace at the No Kings protest in beautiful Oakland, California. #NoKings2 #Oakland #NoKingsOakland

Wooden medallion with an image of two ICE agents confronting an inflatable frog in Portland.

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 28d

Isn’t he adorable?

Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 28d

Yes, they are very special. I’ve seen them find an interesting object, like a stick or piece of human garbage, and pass it around. They sometimes nip each other on the butt with their beaks. I think they have a sense of humor.

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Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages @climateages.bsky.social · 28d

For those wondering, this would be considered a non-fossilized but drag 🧪🍑
It’s all about behavioral biology

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29d

WAKE UP, AMERICA!

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 29d

Male Brown Pelican in Northern California. #birding #GreenBirding #BrownPelican

Photo of a male Brown Pelican floating on a lagoon in Northern California. His head is pale yellow, neck white, and body brown. His long bill is orangey-pink and his gular pouch shows some red.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · Oct 7

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · Oct 7

A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X 🧪

This is figure 5, which shows processability and formability of BM-plastics for diverse products.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · Oct 6

🍃 🧪 Dr Jane Goodall - Final Thoughts on Musk, Planet Earth & Mother Nature

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · Oct 5

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.