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Ali Van Zee
@alikat747.bsky.social
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#Hospice RN, #Sept11 #WTC Responder, #Wildlife Advocate, #ClimateChange #Environment, Looking for sanity and peace in a fractured world, #TGForever www.savebears.org (Same handle on Mastodon and Twitter)
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A sentence in white letters superimposed over a tree on a grassy knoll. The background is shades of deep purple, magenta and lilac. Birds fly off to the left of the tree. The sentence reads: Never let the unacceptable become acceptable. I say, Amen to that!
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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#MakeTheCall☎️ and tell your #Senators to vote NO on the “Fix Our Forests” act. It’s a rampant giveaway to commercial logging of our public lands. @schumer.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov
A bear walking through a healthy forest. Clear-cutting destroys dens, kills our wildlife and leaves helpless baby bear cubs defenseless.
October 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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First snow at #LakeTahoe
Peek of snow on the distant mountains surrounding Lake Tahoe through trees lining the lake. Snow capped peaks across the lake. Looks like powdered sugar as snow dusted the peaks on the East side of Lake Tahoe. A brilliant day today but the lake is still rough.
October 16, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Canoe #76 about 300 yards from #DiamondHead and on track to win the #MolokaiHoe barring a major upset!
Companions boats behind leading outrigger canoe about 300 yards from the Diamond Head Buoy! Lots of blue ocean and blue sky!
October 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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A poster of a drawing of an eagle, in black, holding a torch in black with white simulating flames on a bluff background. Above, a red banner with buff lettering. Below, a black banner with buff lettering. Enlarge to read.
October 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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You might enjoy this … from February of last year …
Photo of the first part of a letter by Patricia Routledge. Second part of the letter … Final part of the letter 🤗
October 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Photo of Jane Goodall in profile wearing a pink shirt on a black background. Her quote is in white lettering.
October 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Indeed.
A collagen of numerous animals surrounding a quote by Jane Goodall. What we do, everyday, impacts the lives of all living beings. It’s time we started thinking about that instead of thinking we’re entitled to do whatever the hell we want.
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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An AI montage of “neon signs”.
September 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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#Fall #PSA Please slow down on rural roads - any roads, really. We’re killing way too many #animals! #IBrakeForBears #IBrakeForWildlife
An evocative AI image of wildlife from #bears and #foxes to #deer #turkeys etc trying to cross a road with a car speeding toward them. Please slow down. Budget your time so you don’t need to speed. Animals have families counting on them, too. As my dad always used to say to me: “All you have to do is get there.”
September 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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The #Oligarchs have been pulling this bait and switch for years, relying on hate and fear to get you to look the other way …
A cartoon featuring a rich guy in the middle hoarding cookies from the guy on the right while blaming the guy on the left … then and now. Look how the pile has grown.
September 27, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Gentle reminder … do NOT give bread to #ducks #geese or any birds! It causes their wings to twist outward and is extremely painful and a death sentence!
Picture of a beautiful mallard with a message.
September 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Happiest of birthdays @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Our always intrepid warrior for all our Rights.

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Close up photo of Mark Hamill in a black coat with red microphone in front of him against a white background.
September 25, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Oh my, we have now lost the inimitable #ClaudiaCardinale She was elegant and gorgeous and incredibly stylish. I did all I could to copy her looks down to her Laura Biagotti suits … I couldn’t come close! #RIP beauty 💔💜
Claudia Cardinale, beautiful Italian actress in all her glory in the 1960’s. She was my style icon! Claudia Cardinale in the late 60’s/early 70’s in a classic Laura Biagotti suite, ropes of pearls and signature white sunglasses. I copied her looks down down to her bangs and wished for all the world I could look like her. I finally settled on being me - but better dressed ;)
September 25, 2025 at 2:37 AM
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Thank you to all my many new followers! Where I am right now, I have very spotty reception (which is why I haven’t posted much for several weeks). As soon as I can, I’ll check out all your profiles but it’s going to take a while. Meanwhile …
Just a bear, doing bear things, eating bear food :) Profile of a bear munching on service berries on a leafy, green bush, enjoying the sun on her back.
September 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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@thedaveabbitt.bsky.social hey Dave. Miss you. I’m hanging out with my favorite peeps for a while. If you like truth and honesty, they’re your best bet!
Mama black bear wearing this years finest cinnamon-color coat. Intrepid Cub just turned 9mo old. He’s fearless and excellent at high-elevation parcour! Made it to the bottom. With that precious full tummy, I wasn’t sure! I just love these guys. Be smart in Bear Country: don’t speed!, don’t keep food in unlocked cars and homes and
September 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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I will miss this man so very much. Such a fine human being. #RobertRedford
A picture of Robert Redford from the cover of his autobiography. It’s how old he was when I met him back in 1985 at Pebble Beach … 💔
September 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Please be #kind to our #Wildlife They have rich lives just like we do and deserve to live them. Our overblown sense of #entitlement and carelessness is killing them.
Drawing in shades of blue of two bears with their heads together sharing a powerful moment.
September 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Please do your part to protect our #Environment and #Wildlife … btw, the same goes here for those candles people like to send up, too …
Should be readable - especially if you expand it.
September 7, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Today is #WorldWildlifeDay so here are a few reminders …
I think this should be readable - especially, if you enlarge it. A deer on a 2-lane road in the middle of the woods with a simple, but profound message. Sir David Attenborough with a message we should heed. Humans are a very small part of all life on earth.
September 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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A poignant - and trouble - #truth …
A poignant poem about what we have become …
August 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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We’ve left so much garbage on the #moon it looks like a dump! www.nationalgeographic.com/science/grap...
A jettisoned food container bag on the surface of the moon for over 30 years.
August 28, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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Thank you to everyone kind enough to add me to their timelines! It’s very humbling.
Fuschia in my garden. Deep crimson red and lush purple flowers against soft green leaves.
August 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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If any of you follow @chewieartist.bsky.social would you please ask him why he blocked me? I was trying to hire him again to do another pencil drawing of Angel Face after my husband accidentally threw it away while I was gone? Maybe he thought I didn’t want to pay? I do!!
Beautiful pencil drawing of our sweet kitty, Angel Face.
August 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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In #SanFrancisco tomorrow. Action for #Gaza
Poster for event in SFO July 22. Lettering in yellow and white.
July 22, 2025 at 7:10 AM