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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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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 1d

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 1d

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 · 2d

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

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d

This is it #trumpshutdown

🎥: @warnock.senate.gov

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 6d

Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 7d

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AnneMc #FBPE 🇺🇦🇺🇦 @boof64.bsky.social · 8d

Absolutely 👇👇

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Shane Claiborne @shaneclaiborne.bsky.social · 8d

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 9d

I think the Trump admin assumed no one would try to find out who the people on the boats they blew up really were

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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 11d

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MikeM3 @mikeg80.bsky.social · 11d

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Brown Pelican @brownpelican.bsky.social · 12d

Free patch for Saturday. #linocut #printmaking #Linoleum Bloc #TeslaTakedown

Linocut print, white ink on a black fabric patch, that I’ll pass out for free. Message says, “I’m proud my family fought fascism 80+ years ago.”

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14d

If you think that adults taking Tylenol hurt kids, just wait until you read what the adults in the Epstein Files were doing to them.

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Alex DiFrancesco @alessandrostardust.bsky.social · 15d

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 15d

At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’

Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.

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Brave New Films @bravenewfilms.bsky.social · 15d

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 16d

Let’s be clear: Every year the retirement age is raised is a 7% benefit cut.

Instead of cuts, Social Security can afford to INCREASE benefits if millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share!

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16d

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16d

After enacting the largest SNAP cuts in history, Trump is now scrapping the federal government's annual report on hunger in America.

The utter cruelty of this regime knows no bounds.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 17d

Jessica Stacy

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16d

Disney paid $16 million to Trump to settle a bogus lawsuit involving George Stephanopoulos.

Disney fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a “world-class hater.”

Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel.

That Disney has walked back one of those after immense public pressure doesn't change who they are.