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Naturalist (no AI or kill pics). Lesbian. Buddhist (trying). My dog’s human. Evolutionary Biologist . US & Argentina. Activist. 🌍 🏳️‍🌈 , civil/animal rights. DEMOCRACY.💙 SAME ISSUES/HIGHER STAKES! RESIST->SPEAK OUT the WAY.✊🏽 ☸️. Humor 🤙🏽 NO “Pack” w/o ask

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · Dec 23

THIS IS IMPORTANT. More important than most of what we all worry about. This affects those horrific troubles & is, in turn, affected by them. ALL, EVERYTHING centers on our sustainable Earth. Let’s do what we can, no matter how small or big to help our home planet survive.

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World risks "collapse of everything" without strong climate action, warns British naturalist

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 1h

🌏 #coralreefs #6thextinctionevent 🦑🪸

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The planet has entered a ‘new reality’ as it hits its first climate tipping point, landmark report finds — CNN

The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and potentially irreversible climate tipping points: the widespread death of coral reefs, according to ...

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 1d

TAKE ACTION POST
#protectmarinehabitats #antiLifeTrump
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#Trump ‘s Exc. Order Opens Protected Areas ignoring marine welfare & biodiversity. Previously safeguarded ocean areas will open to greater #commercialfishing & drilling.
Use your voice. Reverse this!
SIGN HERE - mbl.ms/g4oO-50Slkh

URGENT: Trump Opens Protected Areas to Destructive Commercial Fishing

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strea3m.bsky.social @strea3m.bsky.social · 2d

This is a good read, w great tips on how to stay grounded & confident in our purpose & journey as we come together to exercise our First Amendment right this Saturday (& beyond).

(Join us Sat Oct 18 as we send a LOUD message: there are #NoKings in America.
Find an event near you: nokings.org )

No Kings Field Kit: Staying Human Under Occupation (October, 2025)

They want fear to keep you home—or make you so reactive you play into their hands. This field kit helps you choose your stance, pace yourself, and refuse to let occupation break you.

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Melissa Sickmund @sickmund.bsky.social · 3d

Excellent signs!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 3d

This Is Fascism

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Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 2d

On October 18th, millions of brave Americans will stand up and peacefully protest against the authoritarian disease metastasizing under Donald Trump.

No Thrones. No Crowns. No Kings. @gtconway.bsky.social

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 5d

Story of #hope #Rewilding project in #Toronto. I found every paragraph to be mind-blowing. Hope you do, too!!!

🌏 #paleoecology #resilienceoflife

Excerpt: have underscored the resilience of ecosystems in the face of human-led destruction.

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Creatures buried in soil for over a century burst back to life in Toronto waterfront — Guardian US

A project to restore coastal wetland leads to astonishing discoveries of a host of life: seeds and plant scraps, as well as water fleas, worms, larvae and plankton

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 7d

I am (was) a paleontologist. She is a strong thread in the fabric of our science. #WonanPower #GirlPower ! 💪🏽🤘🏽

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for showing this part of factory farming. So hard but knowing is the first step to changing. Pigs are incredibly intelligent & sentient.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 8d

So volunteer to knock on doors or make calls for a campaign today.

Here's an example call in Spanish from Hortensia who made calls with me yesterday.

Go to stopelectionrigging.com
You can volunteer from any state to save democracy.

We need you!
Don't wanna volunteer?
Then donate.

Even $3 helps.

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Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny! @malena.bsky.social · 8d

You are my hero!

You see the peril in our country.

You know democracy is in danger.

You post about it daily.

The good news is that YOU can save us, and volunteering for elections is the most effective use of your time—far more effective than posting.

And Prop 50 is the most important race rn. 🧵

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 8d

#LGBTQ+ #hotline

If you need a shoulder, the Canadians have us covered.

Thank you #Canada !

New Liberal Agenda @newliberalagenda.bsky.social · 10d

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Static Before the Storm @staticb4storm.bsky.social · 11d

Itamar vs Israel.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12d

History remembers people like Itamar as moral titans.

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 10d

I found this article to be important enough to post.

We need to block the fascists weaving their web.

Take what action you can (rest when you need). #protest #textbank #phonebank #recordatrocities #VOTE #beacandidate Organizations #Indivisible #MoveOn #NRDC

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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is trying to warn us about something. Are we listening? — Guardian US

Jackson enters her fourth year on the supreme court on Monday. As its fiercest liberal voice wary of Trump’s growing power, she faces an intense battle ahead

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 12d

Just Amazing! Of course she would “be” there when I think about it. Her favorite animal was the dog, close kin of wolves. But you may have already known that. And maybe she said it. . .

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 12d

One of my rare, true heroes. Let her message of hope and solutions make us think: What can I do? What do I need vs what do I want? How can I lead a #sustainable life?Thank You #JaneGoodall

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Wildlife advocate and primate expert Jane Goodall dies at 91 — Reuters

Scientist and global activist Jane Goodall, who turned her childhood love of primates into a lifelong quest for protecting the environment, has died at the age of 91, the institute she founded said on...

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Patti Olivier EPSTEIN FILES NEVER FORGET @patti3333.bsky.social · 13d

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES

DAY 1 OCTOBER 2025

THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES
THESE TERRIBLE TIMES

TODAY ....A THREAD
I hope you will indulge me and see the whole thread

There are people who come into your life and change you
for the better
I love Dr. Jane Goodall truly with all my heart (🧵1)

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 13d

The Jane Goodall Institute is incredibly grateful to all of our supporters, partners, and friends – especially during this difficult time.

To add a personal remembrance of Dr. Goodall and continue her legacy for future generations, please visit JaneGoodall.ca/RememberingJane.

Remembering Dr. Jane

Leave a Message in Honour of Jane Jane started this work. But the rest is up to us. Jane founded the Jane Goodall Institute in 1977 to ensure her mission could spread around the world. A donation to t...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 13d

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 13d

YES ! YES ! Been calling for it since February. This man lacks the cognitive skills to seal with his job. (This is besides his moral bankruptcy.)

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 16d

Thank you for doing fisheries conservation 🦑🪼🐡🦐🦞🐠🐬🦀🐟🦈🐋🦭

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 20d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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The Times & Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 20d

he Afghan women's refugee team will make their debut in an international tournament when they compete in a four-team friendly competition in the United Arab Emirates next month as part of FIFA Unites: Women’s Series.

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 20d

NEVER FORGET !!!

Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 20d

#GorillaConservation
#HappyGorillaDay

#Recycle
#RecyclePhones !
#miningminerals

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Michelle A. Rodrigues 🐒 @marspidermonkey.bsky.social · 20d

One of the most important things you can do to help gorillas is recycle your phones and other electronics! Coltan is a mineral used in phones, and the mining industry threatens gorillas! Many zoos now have drop boxes for phone recycling!

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Borntobe Free 🌎 ☸️ 🌏🏳️‍🌈 🌍 @vernal3.bsky.social · 21d

Another Orange Odious ( #Trump) spiral to no-results land (e.g., Ukraine, grocery prices, Gaza, #MAGA credos, endless etcs). #Argentina has been financially unstable for decades. #Milei is a non variable, only made it temporarily worse. That $ ought to go to “We the People”. Where it came from.