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Natalie Downe
@natbat.bsky.social
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Enthusiastic adventurer, artist, potter, conservation technologist, tidepool guide, California naturalist, community organizer & frontend web developer. WU3M 🦇🦭🦀(🐺🐓🐇) #scicomm Mastodon @[email protected] Twitter @natbat Instagram @natbat & @natbat.art
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Hello followers! My name is Natalie, I'm a naturalist, ceramicist, community organizer and occasional technologist. A Brit living in coastal Northern California with my husband @simonwillison.net

- My art instagram.com/natbat.art
- Photography instagram.com/natbat
- Mastodon @[email protected]
Anyone else think that in the most recent episode of Watson, they exhibited extremely poor biosecurity protocols throughout the whole episode?!
Oh shit, I’m so sorry! I’ve been there too, that’s the worst!
Your work is beautiful, please don’t give up. I know it can be a rough ride sometimes, especially lugging the same pieces to and from markets, I’ve been there. Good luck with your online shops!
I translated the booklet to Spanish but it’s Canva’s auto translation as I don’t speak Spanish … corrections welcome! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o3qu8...
www.dropbox.com
Thanks for this, I just canceled my subscription
No worries! Let me know if you need any help. I’m guessing you know how to fold & cut it?
Thanks! Of course you can get a copy, if you have the Canva app installed you should be able too open this and then create a copy that you can edit yourself.

You’ll need to unlock the panels before you make changes. I lock them after I’m done so I don’t mess them up

www.canva.com/design/DAG2N...
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I made and folded a little booklet that I attached mini bags of haribo to and handed them out at the #nokings rally in Half Moon Bay today.

Printable: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kd92p...

The phone numbers are specific to the CA Bay Area, let me know if you want the Canva template I made.
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Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.
I think I’ve solved two of life’s hard problems! In order to get to sleep and distract your brain, plan what to have for lunch tomorrow!

I’m going to be dreaming of my baked potato with sour cream, butter, cheese and Korean impossible beef!
Today’s episode of “what is that chicken doing?”: Olive has a dust bath…
I loved that expression! I think he was pained the pumpkin didn’t weigh as much as he wanted it to
I always love the entertainment too, we get free donuts and coffee from Safeway and Jim Stevens is the best pumpkin bard!

The local brass band plays and local celeb Cameron from Cameron’s Inn and local radio personality Marcus from Star 101.3 MC the event and tell very bad pumpkin jokes 🎃
Congrats to Brandon Dawson who won the Half Moon Bay Giant pumpkin weighoff yesterday with a 2346lb (1064.128kg) pumpkin!

It’s always such a fun day, the weather held out (before the epic rain last night!) and all the pumpkins were fabulous!
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POSITIVE NEWS 🗣️

Green turtles move from ‘Endangered’ to ‘Least concern’ on the IUCN Red List, thanks to decades of hard work by conservationists globally.

Read the full assessment - iucnredlist.org/fr/species/4615/285108125

Footage from Open Planet / @brendangodley.bsky.social

🦑🌍🌐🌊🐟🐢
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Everyone I know is sick right now with “a bad bug”

Many are lamenting the fact that they were sick not long ago as well

Then they turn around and ask me when I’m going to stop masking

My N95 means I avoid not only covid, but all the other viruses floating around

Masks rock!
Where are you getting your pretty radar maps?

I’m supposed to be in the calm between the blobs but it’s still hectic rain right now!
Wow, that is incredibly exciting. Do you have any videos of you vaulting?
The after party had tasty food and some horsey demonstrations, including: a polo match, dressage and “vaulting” which is basically gymnastics ON A MOVING HORSE!!!

whoa94062.org/trail-ride/
It turns out I don’t own anything beige at all because I spend a lot of time scrubbing around in the dirt. (Making ceramics, as a naturalist & we have a mini farm)

Instead I wore a sparkly leopard print jacket that I got from a drag queen royalty sale from a queen that was retiring in San Francisco
Such an enjoyable day hanging out with old and new friends. My friend Judy invited me and her housemate Michael and her friend Catherine joined us on our booth.
The costumes were great, naturally there were a fair amount of zebras and giraffes!
I learnt a lot about horses! My favourite species were the Clydesdale and the Gypsy banner which had furry feet and the Icelandic ones which were so fluffy!