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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 8h

I REALLY need multiple likes option for this one. ❤️‍🔥

Today‘s quilted heart was made for No Kings Day. Today millions will be rising again to show the world: America has no kings and the power belongs to the people.
🧵🪡💙 🚫 👑
#ifaqh #quiltedheart #ifoundaquiltedheart #FDT #nokings #freespeech #peaceful

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 8h

Look at this beautiful piece of art and resistance!
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O.V. Speaks Quilts @ovspeaksquilts.bsky.social · 9h

A new quilt! #ilovequilts

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Introducing My Quilt “Resist Rest Resolve Repeat”

Part of my Bodacious Beautiful and Brilliant series.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 3d

This is stunning. I’ve never seen a piece like this. I zoomed in, I zoomed out. Wish I could see it in person.
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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 4d

Mini quilted mug rugs for the techs at the wildlife hospital. #quiltsky #vettechweek
🐢🐍🦎🦃🦫🐿️

Small quilts featuring wildlife - in a square.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 12d

We need a prize for traditional indigenous knowledge.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 12d

This was my first time hand/slow stitching. I’ve been afraid of not being good enough but this style says, you are always good enough.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 13d

Tried it. Liked it. Will do more. #kawandi #quiltsky

A patchwork quilt of blue and green batique fabric

Close up corner photo of a scrap quilt showing the traditional flowers on one corner

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · 23d

I live in Florida. This was WAY harder than it should have been. It’s like “they” don’t remember what we all went through and the people who died. The people who risked their lives and sanity to bring us the vax should be remembered always. I thank them from the bottom of my vaccinated heart.♥️

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 29

The monkey story is totally believable.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 26

As a necropsy team lead for several Atlantic large whales…checking my necropsy notes just to be sure….nope…no windmills. Hold tight, checking the peer-reviewed data and publications…. nothing about windmills, just lots of ship strikes and entanglements in fishing gear.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 26

RFK Jr claims that windmills are "wiping out the whale population" in the Atlantic

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David Roberts @drdavidlroberts.bsky.social · Aug 17

Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world, and what do they do to the creatures that carry them? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

The life of microplastic: how fragments move through plants, insects, animals – and you

Microplastics have been found in the placentas of unborn babies, the depths of the Mariana Trench, the summit of Everest and the organs of Antarctic penguins. But how do they travel through the world,...

www.theguardian.com

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 9

Yesterday we released two orphaned #otters after a long stay in the Florida Wildlife Hospital. North American River otters are still hunted and trapped in Florida and many other states.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you. I have so many things to learn. 🤓

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 6

Baby weaver/lurker here…what type of loom do you weave on? This is the most amazing piece I’ve ever seen.

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cathryna.bsky.social @cathryna.bsky.social · Aug 5

Off Balance When I Look Up. Handwoven 44"x 70" #weaving #michiganartist

Woven image from the perspective of standing under a tall tree on a clear warm day. Colors slightly washed out by the sun. I often try to walk under trees with my head tipped back, the feeing is like floating with a tinge of fear that I will trip and fall. It is better than staring at my shoes all day.

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Maqsood Asi @maqsoodasi.bsky.social · Aug 6

How rising seas are threatening the crucial #art of weaving in #Samoa

#Weaving is central to #cultural life in Samoa but #ClimateChange is disrupting conditions needed for plants used to make the intricate mats

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How rising seas are threatening the crucial art of weaving in Samoa

Weaving is central to cultural life in Samoa but climate change is disrupting conditions needed for plants used to make the intricate mats

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 6

It’s his world. You are just knitting in it.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 4

I zoomed in and zoomed out again and again. This is beautiful. 🩵

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 4

Why can I only “like” this once? 🥹

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Aug 4

Soap savers made on a rigid heddle loom. Reduce, reuse, use it all up. 🧼 #weavesky
#unplastic

4 blue and green bags with drawstrings and a lump of soap

4 blues and green woven bags with drawstrings for bits of soap

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Jul 28

Mass mortality event at the wildlife hospital.

A pile of brown and white stuffed pelican toys on a towel near a filing case. These are used in education program to teach kids about fishing line entanglement.

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Colin Schultz @colinschultz.bsky.social · Jul 28

Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game

Open ocean cleanups won’t solve the marine plastics crisis. To really make a difference, here’s what we should do instead.

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Scooping Plastic Out of the Ocean Is a Losing Game | Hakai Magazine

Open ocean cleanups won’t solve the marine plastics crisis. To really make a difference, here’s what we should do instead.

hakaimagazine.com

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Jul 20

I have been saving my single earrings for years- hoping the one I lost will magically come back. I have a LOT of single earrings. At last, a driveway miracle.

Close up: An earring (back side up) in the shape of a skunk with a wire loop laying on a brick driveway.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Jul 20

Gross. And sad.

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Megan Stolen @seaforensics.bsky.social · Jul 20

This is be-u-ti-ful! 🩷

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