Drew
@drewavery.bsky.social
Drew's feed reads like a museum exhibit curated by a caffeinated octopus with a penchant for politics and pet pics.
🚩Can get lost in deep discussions about medieval fishing practices.
I don't think I'm a bot but does a bot know it's a bot?
🚩Can get lost in deep discussions about medieval fishing practices.
I don't think I'm a bot but does a bot know it's a bot?
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This is an odd way to frame a return to traditional food ways that we ought to celebrate and treat as a chance to reflect on the importance of food sovereignty apnews.com/article/shut...
Tribes that restored buffalo are killing some to feed people because of the shutdown
A deal to end the government shutdown is too late for about 30 bison on the Fort Peck reservation in northern Montana.
apnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
This is an odd way to frame a return to traditional food ways that we ought to celebrate and treat as a chance to reflect on the importance of food sovereignty apnews.com/article/shut...
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I, for one, welcome our new trash panda overlords.
But for real, fascinating science on how we might be seeing the very early stages of domestication in action in wild animals. 🧪
By @marinacoladas.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social
But for real, fascinating science on how we might be seeing the very early stages of domestication in action in wild animals. 🧪
By @marinacoladas.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social
City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets
City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals
www.scientificamerican.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I, for one, welcome our new trash panda overlords.
But for real, fascinating science on how we might be seeing the very early stages of domestication in action in wild animals. 🧪
By @marinacoladas.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social
But for real, fascinating science on how we might be seeing the very early stages of domestication in action in wild animals. 🧪
By @marinacoladas.bsky.social for @sciam.bsky.social
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Sovereign Nations of Virginia conference is now online. The Rappahannock Tribe of VA are the first Indigenous Nation in the US to recognize the rights of a river (Rappahannock) in their Tribal constitution. #rightsofnature
Sovereign Nations of Virginia Conference (2025) (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube
Sovereign Nations of Virginia Conference (2025) (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube
Sovereign Nations of Virginia Conference (2025) (Part 1 of 2)
YouTube video by Rappahannock Tribe
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Sovereign Nations of Virginia conference is now online. The Rappahannock Tribe of VA are the first Indigenous Nation in the US to recognize the rights of a river (Rappahannock) in their Tribal constitution. #rightsofnature
Sovereign Nations of Virginia Conference (2025) (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube
Sovereign Nations of Virginia Conference (2025) (Part 1 of 2) - YouTube
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For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
November 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...
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For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
November 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
For #FossilFriday & in honor of @alinemghilardi.bsky.social & colleagues' fantastic discovery of a new Cretaceous pterosaur in Brazil in a dinosaur regurgitalite ("fossil vomit"), here's a diagram I made for my book 'Dinosaurs Without Bones' (2014) showing the physics of a puking brachiosaur. 🧪🦕🤮🪨
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Mammoth spotted in South Poland!
Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍
Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍
November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Mammoth spotted in South Poland!
Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍
Actually, a to-scale model by Studio Kamyk for the Jegiellonian University Nature Education Centre, Krakow. 😍
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ.
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
It's a surreal--and troubling--read.
drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...
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#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. 🧪 🔭
November 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
#PPOD: This new JWST picture features a cosmic creepy-crawly called NGC 6537 — the Red Spider Nebula. Using its Near-InfraRed Camera (NIRCam), JWST has revealed never-before-seen details in this picturesque planetary nebula with a rich backdrop of thousands of stars. 🧪 🔭
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Today, Starbucks workers in 40+ cities began a historic ULP strike. But we’re NOT finished.
We're prepared to escalate with more stores striking if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing, and the resolution of 100s of ULPs.
We're prepared to escalate with more stores striking if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing, and the resolution of 100s of ULPs.
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Today, Starbucks workers in 40+ cities began a historic ULP strike. But we’re NOT finished.
We're prepared to escalate with more stores striking if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing, and the resolution of 100s of ULPs.
We're prepared to escalate with more stores striking if we don’t see substantial progress toward finalizing contracts that address pay, hours/staffing, and the resolution of 100s of ULPs.
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The Cape Goishi #Lighthouse in #Ōfunato, #Iwate, #Japan hosted "an experiential parent-child tour" on Saturday, November 8, as part of a nationwide project to educate the public on the role of the country's lighthouses in Japan's #MaritimeHistory and the present day.
#灯台 #日本 #大船渡 #岩手
#灯台 #日本 #大船渡 #岩手
碁石埼灯台と漁業から学ぶ「大船渡の魅力再発見ツアー」を開催しました！
ソーシャルアクションネットワークのプレスリリース（2025年11月13日 16時30分）碁石埼灯台と漁業から学ぶ「大船渡の魅力再発見ツアー」を開催しました！
prtimes.jp
November 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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🌄 From the Cleveland Museum of Art collection, these oil paintings capture autumn’s glow — forest paths, sunlit hills, & mountains brushed with color.
First is View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, NY, After a Storm, 1838 by Thomas Cole.
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More ➡️ archive.org/details/clev...
First is View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, NY, After a Storm, 1838 by Thomas Cole.
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More ➡️ archive.org/details/clev...
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
🌄 From the Cleveland Museum of Art collection, these oil paintings capture autumn’s glow — forest paths, sunlit hills, & mountains brushed with color.
First is View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, NY, After a Storm, 1838 by Thomas Cole.
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More ➡️ archive.org/details/clev...
First is View of Schroon Mountain, Essex County, NY, After a Storm, 1838 by Thomas Cole.
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More ➡️ archive.org/details/clev...
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9:30 Club owner voluntarily recognized its workers’ union: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Staff at 9:30 Club and other venues win voluntary union recognition
The production company I.M.P. will recognize a union for hospitality staffers at 9:30 Club, the Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre, after workers petitioned last month.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:24 PM
9:30 Club owner voluntarily recognized its workers’ union: www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
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Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate! #ExplodingWhale www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered!
YouTube video by KATU News
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Happy Exploding Whale Day to all those who celebrate! #ExplodingWhale www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6CL...
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The Fitzwilliam has one of the funniest faience hedgehogs in their collection. Something about this little face is so funny and almost modern in a way, it makes me laugh every time I see it.
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
Egyptian faience hedgehog, from Beni Hasan
Figure/figurine/tomb figure. Faience Hedgehog. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Tomb 655 Beni Hasan, Egypt. Faience, moulded, length, 6.25 cm, width, 3.75 cm, 1976-1793 B.C. Twelfth Dynasty. Middle...
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 AM
The Fitzwilliam has one of the funniest faience hedgehogs in their collection. Something about this little face is so funny and almost modern in a way, it makes me laugh every time I see it.
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/med...
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#OnThisDay in 1914 the Royal Flying Corps officially adopted the red, white & blue roundel for all its aircraft and those of the Royal Naval Air Service.
Find out more about the RFC/RAF roundel at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the... #aviation #history
Find out more about the RFC/RAF roundel at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the... #aviation #history
November 12, 2025 at 5:38 PM
#OnThisDay in 1914 the Royal Flying Corps officially adopted the red, white & blue roundel for all its aircraft and those of the Royal Naval Air Service.
Find out more about the RFC/RAF roundel at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the... #aviation #history
Find out more about the RFC/RAF roundel at www.classicwarbirds.co.uk/articles/the... #aviation #history
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"She tells of a student who kept trying to save her meal to carry home, because she didn’t have anything to eat there. Seiber-Garland and her staff found a way to provide her with a second meal for the evening."
All Praise to the Lunch Ladies — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Blessed are the women who watch over America’s children.
bittersoutherner.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
"She tells of a student who kept trying to save her meal to carry home, because she didn’t have anything to eat there. Seiber-Garland and her staff found a way to provide her with a second meal for the evening."
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A strange 'sea monster' (squidlike?) caught by fishermen on the North Sea between Scheveningen and Katwijk, #otd 12 Nov 1661. (Rijksmuseum)
November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
A strange 'sea monster' (squidlike?) caught by fishermen on the North Sea between Scheveningen and Katwijk, #otd 12 Nov 1661. (Rijksmuseum)
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twiggy hasn't been able to threaten him enough as he has done to others
Dr McDonald told the tribunal on Tuesday the natural flow of the Ashburton River is “central” to Thalanyji belief and culture.
Any works, he said, interfering with this flow would have an "adverse impact" on Thalanyji people.
Dr McDonald told the tribunal on Tuesday the natural flow of the Ashburton River is “central” to Thalanyji belief and culture.
Any works, he said, interfering with this flow would have an "adverse impact" on Thalanyji people.
Anthropologist under fire over sacred river serpent in 'Twiggy' Forrest case
A lawyer for billionaire Andrew Forrest questions an anthropologist's credibility over his opposition to plans to change a sacred Pilbara waterway.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
hi, can you do me a favor?
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
take a picture of your pet and then take a picture again while you sing to them
thank you, this is for science
here is my contribution
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Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry (Official Video)
YouTube video by BobMarleyVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM