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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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sher12.bsky.social
Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.
February 14, 2026 at 12:10 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
So good
February 14, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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katemckean.bsky.social
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
February 11, 2026 at 7:56 PM
brownpelican.bsky.social
Patch I’ll pass out for free. #printmaking #linocut
Linocut print. Black ink on light blue cotton fabric. A tuxedo kitty with fluffy white mittens in a boxing stance. Text below the kitty: “Don’t mess with my vote.”
February 12, 2026 at 11:25 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
brownpelican.bsky.social
The Dino Report: Lunchtime Edition
#NorCalBirding #GreenBirding #CedarWaxwing #CommonLoon #BeltedKingfisher #birdphotography
Cedar Waxwing eating red berries. It’s a songbird that is mainly light brown with a pale yellow belly, a yellow stripe across its tail tip, a crest, and a black mask. Common Loon in non-breeding plumage eating a crab in the water. It’s a diving bird with dark feathers on its back, lighter-colored feathers on its chin and neck, red eyes. Belted Kingfisher female with a small yellow fish in her beak. Dark gray head, belt, back, wings, and tail. White throat neck, nape, and belly. Rust-colored belt on this female.
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
brownpelican.bsky.social
Brown Pelican at the Richmond Marina showing moral support for striking West Contra Costa teachers rallying nearby. #birding #GreenBirding #BrownPelican #NorCalBirding #UnionStrong
A Brown Pelican sits near the Richmond Marina, where striking teachers are holding a rally.
December 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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felipegaonar.bsky.social
I love this.
An exchange on twitter. controlla.xyz: If you hate Al you probably just hate art and expression It's an infinite mashup of all the best art ever made by humans lesliejandersonwriter: If you hate the juice at the bottom of a restaurant dumpster you just hate food and cooking. It's an infinite mashup of all the best food made by humans!
November 12, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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fightforaunion.bsky.social
NEWS FLASH
November 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
brownpelican.bsky.social
Latest free patch. #linocut #printmaking #NoKings #LinoleumBloc #BorderCollies
Linocut image in black ink on light green cotton fabric. Image is of a border collie’s head. Text: “Don’t roll over for fascists.”
November 13, 2025 at 2:09 AM
brownpelican.bsky.social
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.”
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
brownpelican.bsky.social
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.
November 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
brownpelican.bsky.social
Tiny cotton patch. #linocut #printmaking
Black cotton patch with linocut print in white fabric ink. It says, “I like my war criminals in prison”
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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.
October 23, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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propublica.org
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.
October 19, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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50501movement.bsky.social
Chicago No Kings
October 19, 2025 at 12:36 AM
brownpelican.bsky.social
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.
October 19, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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climateages.bsky.social
For those wondering, this would be considered a non-fossilized but drag 🧪🍑
It’s all about behavioral biology
October 11, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
WAKE UP, AMERICA!
October 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
brownpelican.bsky.social
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.
October 9, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
💥 🍃 🧪
natureportfolio.nature.com 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.
October 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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kinesinmotors.bsky.social
🍃 🧪 Dr Jane Goodall - Final Thoughts on Musk, Planet Earth & Mother Nature
yasharali.bsky.social 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.
October 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
This is it #trumpshutdown

🎥: @warnock.senate.gov
October 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣
October 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM