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Restore 🌍. ❤️All the Creatures. Kindness. DEI. 🇺🇦
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Jennifer ( she / her ) 🍊🐈⬛🦁
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Bette V. Collins 🇺🇸📎🧷V for Victory
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#MelttheIceHat
Thanks to the
needleandskein.com
store in MN Over 100,000 patterns sold! 43 Different countries $600,000 raised to help people effected by
#ICE
in Minnesota Even if you don't
#knit
but for the
#knitter
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#knitsky
#knitting
#crochet
www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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Melt the ICE Hat pattern by Paul S Neary
In the 1940’s, Norwegians made and wore red pointed hats with a tassel as a form of visual protest against Nazi occupation of their country. Within two years, the Nazis made these protest hats illegal...
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/melt-the-ice-hat
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Katie Bark
about 5 hours ago
Melt the Ice Red hat
#resistance
#knitting
These women have raised $600,000
youtu.be/EeFmB9zR4HA?...
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Red knitted hats being used as a quiet protest of ICE
YouTube video by WCCO - CBS Minnesota
https://youtu.be/EeFmB9zR4HA?si=rgPEUhgMQPK8gZX-
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Melina Thévenot🏳️⚧️
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#JWST
MIRI IFU 🔭 images of proplyd 551-51201 in NGC 1977. It is basically a protoplanetary disk around a young star that is being evaporated away by radiation coming from nearby massive stars (outside the frame, called 42 Orionis).
#star-formation
#proplyd
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Annaplexis
about 3 hours ago
Are you getting big holes at the underarms on your top-down sweaters? 🧶 Try this method to avoid them: Pick up 2 extra loops at each body/sleeve junction on the first round and eliminate them on the next round!
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Annaplexis
about 2 hours ago
How Can You Avoid Gaps at the Underarm? A very common source of annoyance for knitters is the large gaps that form at the underarm, where the sleeve and body stitches meet, or more generally at the corners of picked-up stitches. The most effective method I’ve found so far to eliminate these holes…
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How Can You Avoid Gaps at the Underarm?
A very common source of annoyance for knitters is the large gaps that form at the underarm, where the sleeve and body stitches meet, or more generally at the corners of picked-up stitches. The most effective method I’ve found so far to eliminate these holes is as follows: Begin at the center underarm and knit up the underarm stitches. When you reach the body/sleeve junction, pick up two extra loops before the sleeve stitches: pick up the first loop from back to front, then the second from front to back.
https://annaplexisinenglish.wordpress.com/2026/02/04/avoid-gaps-at-the-underarm/
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Emma Mitchell
about 2 hours ago
A starling murmuration at Tubney Fen (& my reaction). Only filmed on my phone so not brilliant quality, but experiencing awe, even from a video on a screen, has been shown to improve mental health 🪶:
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WeRateDogs
about 20 hours ago
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of January!
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David Blanchflower BSc
about 19 hours ago
Largest bird to ever live in UK could make a return. 🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Dalmatian pelican could be reintroduced to British wetlands
The Dalmatian pelican, once hunted to extinction, could be reintroduced to wetlands in England.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn40kn8kn08o
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David Blanchflower BSc
about 18 hours ago
February 2024 I was capturing the Pleiades. 🔭 🧪 🎨
#astrophotography
#SciArt
#photography
#StormHour
#ThePhotoHour
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Inside Climate News
1 day ago
Scientists say increasing shipping traffic in the Arctic is interfering with narwhals’ ability to hunt and communicate. Conservation groups are urging the International Maritime Organization to instate mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise.
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As the Arctic Grows Noisier, Narwhals Are Becoming Quieter - Inside Climate News
For most of their evolutionary history, narwhals have relied more on sound than sight to survive in the Arctic’s dark icy waters. The speckled toothed whales—sometimes referred to as “unicorns of the ...
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/02022026/as-the-arctic-grows-noisier-narwhals-are-becoming-quieter/
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High Country News
1 day ago
Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant kangaroo rat are recovering from near-extinction.
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Where giant kangaroo rats — and other critters — thrive - High Country News
Thanks to environmental groups’ efforts to protect and restore habitat in the Carrizo Plain, native species such as the giant kangaroo rat are recovering from near-extinction.
https://buff.ly/BAXaHb4
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Jeff St John
about 21 hours ago
Two Colorado electric co-ops are the first utilities to challenge the Trump admin's push to force coal plants to stay open, arguing DOE's must-run order for Craig Unit 1 imposes unreasonable costs on their members and could force cheaper solar offline:
www.canarymedia.com/articles/fos...
#energysky
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Colorado co-ops to Trump: Let us close our aging coal plant
Tri-State and Platte River become the first utilities to challenge Trump’s emergency stay-open orders for coal plants, citing the cost to customers.
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/fossil-fuels/colorado-co-ops-to-trump-let-us-close-coal-plant
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molly taft
about 20 hours ago
wanted to follow up on this reporting from last week with a couple points on who is paying for all of this as well as methane emissions from natural gas:
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bioGraphic
about 19 hours ago
Facing intensified flooding, Kigali, Rwanda, began working nearly a decade ago to restore its natural defenses. In three years, the city converted a degraded swamp into a functioning wetland, and is now restoring an integrated wetland system that will eventually span more than 18,000 acres.
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The Rwandan City Where Wetlands Are Winning
To save its citizens from floods, Kigali is betting big on wetland restoration.
https://www.biographic.com/the-rwandan-city-where-wetlands-are-winning/
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
about 15 hours ago
"Hey everyone the peanut lady is here!" -Tufted Titmouse
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David Blanchflower BSc
about 14 hours ago
Rare egg hunt finds record number of butterflies. 🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Carmarthenshire rare egg hunt finds record number of butterflies
The brown hairstreak butterfly is receiving a population boost as its habitat is left to grow wild.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3edl7v97g5o
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Alison Fisk
1 day ago
Artists have always loved to sketch! Sketch of a sparrow from Egypt dated c. 1479–1458 BC. Some 3,500 years ago in Egypt, artists used flakes of limestone as sketchpads! MMA excavations 1922-23, Deir el-Bahri. 📷 The Met
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#Archaeology
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WeRateDogs
about 23 hours ago
This is Bowie. He overheard you talking about his rubber ducky jacket. Jealousy is a disease. Hopes you get well soon. 12/10 (IG: bowiethegoldenbear)
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10 ROWS A DAY
about 22 hours ago
This stitch has a small pattern repeat and it forms a fabric that does not curl at the edges and looks good on both sides of the work.
tenrowsaday.com/vintage-colo...
#knitting
#yarn
#handmade
#crafts
#knitter
#handknit
#fiberarts
#bskyknits
#knitsky
#diy
#beginnerknitter
#art
#textiles
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Easy Vintage Colour Pattern
Step-by-step tutorial about an easy two-colour slip stitch pattern that is perfect for scarves, shawls, blankets, mittens and sweaters.
https://tenrowsaday.com/vintage-colour-pattern/
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Anton Gerashchenko
about 22 hours ago
Kyiv survived through a horrible night today as Russia launched a massive drone&missile attack Since sleep was already out of the question,several Kyiv residents chose to welcome the frosty dawn with a cup of coffee on Saint Volodymyr Hill. Kyiv is so beautiful.I love this city 📷elena_semenchenk0
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State of St. Louis
1 day ago
St. Louis University could prevent a lot of Ed Martin problems if they took back the law degree that they gave him. Just admit you made a mistake. Or just say that he's a little ball of hate that Jesuits can't be associated with but will pray for him.
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Mother Jones
4 days ago
Oregon's wildlife agency has to hold 'bake sales' to fund conservation. The 1% for Wildlife bill would change that with a small hotel tax. Hotel lobbyists hate it. Hunters and environmentalists love it. Last year, 2 GOP senators killed it. Round two starts in February.
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Oregon bill would tax tourists to protect animals and their habitats
If passed, it could be a model for other states.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/oregon-bill-tourism-tax-fund-conservation-species-protection/
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Guardian Environment
3 days ago
‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice
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‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice
Events such as Storm Chandra take a terrible toll on ecosystems, but nature can be part of the solution for mitigating flood waters
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/storm-chandra-uk-floods-impact-wildlife-birds-butterflies-dormice-beavers-aoe?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env
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Guardian Environment
2 days ago
Volunteers race to contain suspected bird flu outbreak among swans
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Volunteers race to contain suspected bird flu outbreak among swans
Rising case numbers and dozens of dead birds in Thames Valley raise fears spread is wider than recorded
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/02/race-contain-suspected-bird-flu-outbreak-swans?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu_env
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Yale Environment 360
2 days ago
The grasslands of western India are, in the popular imagination, the remains of woodlands lost under British rule — areas to be reforested, not conserved. But an analysis of medieval songs and stories reveals the grasslands predate British colonization.
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India Sees Its Grasslands as 'Wastelands.' Ancient Poems Show Otherwise
The sprawling grasslands of western India are, in the popular imagination, the remains of woodlands that were leveled under British rule — areas to be reforested, rather than conserved. But a recent analysis of stories, songs, and poems from centuries past reveals that western grasslands predate British colonization.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/india-grasslands-poems-songs-stories
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Ken
1 day ago
“We are careening toward a post-literate society, where myth, intuition, and emotion replace logic, evidence, and science. Nobody needs to bomb us back to the Stone Age; we have decided to walk there ourselves.”
www.persuasion.community/p/reading-is...
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Text Is (Still) King
Why the written word will never die.
https://www.persuasion.community/p/reading-isnt-dead
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WeRateDogs
1 day ago
This is Gordie. He's demonstrating what is known in the business as a sweetie pie semi-sploot. It's when you haven't quite figured out how to sit yet but are so cute it doesn't matter. 12/10 (IG: rubyandgordie)
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Yarn Treats Designs
3 days ago
#sockknitting
Thought I’d share this handy guide fo converting men’s shoe sizes to inches/centimeters. All you need is someone’s shoe size to get started on gifting socks.
#justknitting
#knitting
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Renee' Martin
3 days ago
🥳🎊RESCUED! 8YO Senior Black & White Kitty "PEPPER" IS SAFE!🎊🥳 ▶️
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
💗TY 4 PLEDGING & RE-POSTING💗
#CatsOfBluesky
💗 😺👏🏽TY Whiskers-a-GoGo ➡To honor your pledge or donate PayPal email:
[email protected]
*Note 4 Pepper if possible ▶️
www.whiskers-agogo.org/donate
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Chris Grekoff
2 days ago
Hooray 🎉 ⚘️ 🎉
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RoseAvakian
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Sandy
2 days ago
💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝💝 HANNAH is a 5 month old puppy. 23 lbs. Can live with dogs. She's sweet, friendly, potty trained, walks well on leash. Right now she's in New Jersey. And she can travel! She needs a home by Friday. Foster or adopt her. Please!!!!! 👇🩷👇🩷👇🩷👇🩷👇🩷👇🩷
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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K)
2 days ago
No I’m not Bad bunny but I do live his music! I’m ACE- I’m abt 2b euthanized
#nycacc
- I have a rescue
poundhoundsresq.org
that wants me but needs an East coast foster 2apply! I’m running out of time here- only 30 reposts! Pls help!
@princesskim.bsky.social
will follow everyone reposting me!
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3 days ago
🐾2-y/o Honeydew adopted just b/f Thanksgiving & back at ACC by early Dec 🙄 Super sweet, loves to cuddle, social, playful, spayed, healthy & ready to go. Earned best possible behavior rating & is dog friendly. Available to foster or adopt by 2/03:
nycacc.app#/browse/216914
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Charlie Dog!
4 days ago
open.substack.com/pub/cttr/p/b...
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Border Collie Mix Found Tied to Pole- Seeking Urgent Rescue! (Baldwin, MD)
If you can possibly find room in your home & heart for Anya, please email
[email protected]
to inquire about providing her with a foster home.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cttr/p/border-collie-mix-found-tied-to-pole?r=2bblf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Protect the Wild
5 days ago
'Share' if you agree!
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Charlie Dog!
4 days ago
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14 y/o Sweetest Senior Girl named Baby- Seeking URGENT Rescue! (Baldwin, MD)
If you can possibly find room in your home & heart for Baby, please email
[email protected]
to inquire about providing her with a foster home.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cttr/p/14-yo-sweetest-senior-girl-named?r=2bblf&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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*orphaned* by ICE, these pups need homes, Minnesota!
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2 days ago
Please Look and Read about Otter Repost this baby who's just learning to trust people. Now NYCACC wants to kill him! REPOST REPOST REPOST
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Erin 🌱
2 days ago
Yes, there is a directory of North American native plant nurseries by region pinned to the top of the
#nativeplants
feed. Here's the post.
bsky.app/profile/beec...
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2 days ago
Check out Onix! Knows commands in both English and Spanish. Did ICE steal his people? Repost this very good dog
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🌾 Dr. Liz Anna Kozik 🌾
3 days ago
I also met this perfect angelic baby, dressed perfectly for the prairie in winter. We both had places to be, but paused for a moment together on the trail to remark on the night.
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
3 days ago
😛 -Tufted Titmouse
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Haters_gonna_hate (Princess Kim K)
3 days ago
ONIX-
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💋SassyAss💋Sister🔥🔱ValkyrieQueen🔱❤️🔥🥷Resistance Fighter👊 📎
3 days ago
🆘 Euth List! Meet Onix! Was found running loose but owner reclaimed him. Then they changed their mind & brought him back. Lived w/adults & 3kids 6-15yrs & was friendly, outgoing & playful w/them! He loves plushies & chew toys, knows cues in English & Spanish! 🚨 Urgent Foster Needed Pls Repost Him!
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State of St. Louis
3 days ago
The US kidnapped a Minnesota baby, likely an American citizen, and exposed her to a winter storm. This is child abuse. I don't know how
@schumer.senate.gov
sleeps at night, other than medicated.
#AbolishIce
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Jocelyn Anderson Photography
3 days ago
A Red-bellied Woodpecker showing his red belly. This is one of the more colorful Red-bellied Woodpeckers in the park so he has a decent amount of red, some have very little on their tummies.
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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography
3 days ago
New study shows the possible effects of a lunar impact. If asteroid YR4 hits our Moon, it'll cause a bright flash and meteors as debris hits Earth, say scientists.
#Astronomy
#Space
www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/effects...
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If asteroid YR4 hits our Moon, it'll cause a bright flash and meteors as debris hits Earth, say scientists | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Scientists have worked out the effects of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting our Moon in 2032, including what we'll see in the days after the event.
https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/effects-asteroid-2024-yr4-hitting-moon
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