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@sphyrnas.bsky.social
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🏳️‍🌈|Lesbian-owned 🦈|Making goods for shark people 📚|Inspiring the next generation ✊🏼|Stand against eco/genocide 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩+ Shop or dive into helping sharks + planet with linktr.ee/sphyrnas

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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PRE-ORDER NOW: Journey to Palestine in 2027 through the shark art of talented Palestinian artist couple Hamdi + Sarah Zaino with this sharky wall calendar collab:
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Porbeagle #shark fact of the day:
Porbeagle shark art by Sphyrnas with porbeagle on the front and on top over of it is a fact about them: Porbeagles have the ability to raise and maintain their body temperature up to 12.5-18F(-10.8-7.8C) degrees above the temperature of the surrounding water. A vital adaptation that enables the Porbeagle to stay in colder waters as well as allows them to be very fast predators who prey on fast-swimming prey.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nursehound #shark fact of the day:
Sphyrnas shark collage art with nursehound shark on the front with a fact above it that reads, “ During the day they’re usually found hiding in rocky crevices, sometimes with several individuals resting together. At night, they become more active, hunting amongst the rock for cephalopods, crustaceans, smaller fish or even other sharks!”
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Mako #shark fact of the day:
Mako shark collage art by sphyrnas that has a fact over top that reads: “ The Mako’s extra-flexible dermal denticles reduce drag and help make them some of the fastest sharks in the world.”
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
From working in the lab to handling live lemon sharks for the first time, Ana Carolyna is working alongside some amazing women, including Bianca Rangel, in Brazil to learn that working with sharks takes more than steady hands. saveourseas.com/update/uncov...
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Uncovering the story of lemon sharks in Brazil
When I started doing remote volunteer work, I never imagined how far it would take me. The Tubarões e Raias de Noronha Project welcomed me in a way I will never be able to thank enough. Today, it is i...
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Silky #shark fact of the day:
Sphyrnas shark collage art slide with fact about the Silky Shark that reads: “ silky sharks have extra small denticles (skin scales) which gives a silky feel to the touch as well as its namesake.”
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Basking #shark fact of the day:
Bask shark collage art design by sphyrnas that reads: “  In the 1700-1800s basking shark liver oil was used as lamp fuel leading to a steep decline in their populations, to the point they were thought nearly extinct! Today, these sharks are still vulnerable to extinction due to human-caused threats.”
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Blue shark fact of the day:
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
shark art to soothe the soul
Poem over shark art with whale sharks by Sphyrnas that reads: “If only…
My art could stop the bombs
My art could restore all that which has been destroyed 
My art could stop greed, corruption, apathy 
My art could make people pause in reflection as intended
My art could inspire people to real action
My art could heal all the wounds of the world
My art could change the world

Until then, all my efforts, this poetry in image and word, are offered up as gift from me to you.

If only my art serves as a small reminder of the things worth fighting for
If only my art allows for a momentary relief from the world’s battles
If only seeing my art spreads a little laugh, a slight smile, or a second of feeling the heartfelt warmth that comes from feeling seen and understood.

Then it’s beyond enough and serves as proof that my art has already changed the world.” Poem written by sphyrnas founder, Cari Johnson
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
ICE has no place anywhere but the arctic 🥶 Find free resources to print/share as well as shark art that benefits immigrant rights groups with link in our bio.
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/09/2026
Pelika Andrade has spent nearly 20 years protecting Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. The Trump admin’s plan to allow commercial fishing there could undo it all. Commercial fishing threatens the ocean ecosystem that has sustained Native Hawaiian communities for centuries.
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The Pacific Ocean Fed Her Community for Generations. Now It's Under Attack by the Trump Administration
Pelika Andrade has spent nearly 20 years protecting Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument. Trump’s plan to allow commercial fishing there could undo it all.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
If a politician is willing to leave Trans people out it‘s a good indicator they will leave you out too. Any representative needs to represent all the people, not sell out community members for clout or personal profit. PRO TIP: Don’t vote for bigots, transphobes, racists, genocide enablers, etc.
A product photo of a Zebra shark sticker (holographic sticker) by sphyrnas that reads PROTECT TRANS KIDS with a lady bug crawling across it against the pavement background
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A deep-sea catshark caught off Kerala’s coast has now been identified as a new species, highlighting the need for a better understanding of deep-sea biodiversity. india.mongabay.com/2026/08/scie...
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Scientists identify new deep-sea shark species from India’s southwest coast
Scientists have described a new species of deepwater catshark, Apristurus drona, based on specimens caught as bycatch off Kerala’s coast.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Hind‘s Hall on repeat #macklemore ..cuz it will ALWAYS be evil to support genocide
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Lots post pretty pictures but where can we go to dive deeper? Beyond lip service and taglines.. there’s much to be done and so many ways to get started. Check out our site to start learning more + DOing more!
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Help support @hamdi_art_gz and his wife Sarah by ordering their cool shark art designs. Follow him and spread the word 🇵🇸❤️✊🏼🦈Shop the collection by HAMDI + SARAH Z. All details and more with Link in bio. #palestine #fyp #sphyrnas #sharks #art
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
NEWEST tee design now available! Link in bio to support our small sharky biz and help spread 🦈love in a world full of hate
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
In this episode, we dive deep into the fin trade with Dr Diego Cardeñosa and explore how molecular biology, forensic genetics, int. policy and conservation can work together to tackle one of the greatest threats facing sharks today. Listen here: saveourseas.com/worldofshark... 📷: Muhammad Ichsan
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Every day is whale shark day. #saveoursharks Learn more about cool species like the Whale Shark and how to help them by joining our free patreon community.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Help support @hamdi_art_gz and his wife Sarah by ordering their cool shark art designs. Follow him and spread the word 🇵🇸❤️✊🏼🦈Shop the collection by HAMDI + SARAH Z. All details and more with Link in bio. #palestine #fyp #sphyrnas #sharks #art
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Help support our dear friend Hamdi and his wife Sarah when you order their cool shark art designs thru our shop. 🇵🇸❤️🦈 Learn more about how to help people + planet with site link in our bio
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Help support our dear friend Hamdi and his wife Sarah when you order their cool shark art designs thru our shop. 🇵🇸❤️🦈 Learn more about how to help people + planet with site link in our bio
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Meta glasses will never make you look cool, they only expose you as a loser for wearing them.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Whale Shark says: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
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Trans Lifeline @translifeline.org · 24/08/2026
Happy birthday, Marsha P. Johnson. 🌸🏳️‍⚧️ Organizer, performer, community caretaker, co-founder of STAR, and so much more than any one moment in queer history. As Marsha said: “You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights.”
Graphic with a bright turquoise background featuring a purple halftone portrait of Marsha P. Johnson smiling on the right side. Decorative purple quotation marks and abstract pink and lavender shapes frame the design. Large bold text reads: "You never completely have your rights, one person, until you all have your rights." The quote is attributed below to Marsha P. Johnson. A small Trans Lifeline logo appears in the upper-right corner.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Gary, Indiana residents have been without power for ten days. Here’s how you can help.
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Gary Residents Have Been Without Power For 10 Days. Here's How You Can Help
A South Side business is offering free laundry service for storm-affected Gary families, while another fundraiser is collecting money for essentials as some residents face a second week without electr...
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Sharks deserve better “advocates” and so does humanity. Stop praising people more comfortable using their platforms to continue harm than call it out
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Minorities in Shark Sciences @misselasmo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of our favorite pastimes: learning about sharks! And now, you can learn with us! Gill Guardians is content that educates the general public about sharks, skates and rays! 🦈 Enrollment is FREE and there's content for adult learners and K-12 students! ➡️ gillguardians.misselasmo.org
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Learn about the wobbegong and see our free Patreon shark library! Subscribe for free to access loads of cool shark content and helpful resources.
Woebegone shark with collage artwork background.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Social justice IS environmental justice.
Sphyrnas shark art with Congo (DRC) flag and colors in background. Surrounded by Congolese wildlife species with black screenshot from past bluesky post from sphyrnas that reads: “you pretend to be so disgusted by injustices yet you stay silent as they happen. Watching so many lives extinguished from a phone screen held in the palm of your hand.”
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
See our latest article over on Substack: sphyrnas.substack.com/p/we-persist
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We Persist
Swimming against the tide in the sharkiest of hope
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 12/08/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration just held another massive sell-off of public waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The lease sale could lead to drilling that threatens numerous species, like whales and sea turtles, especially after the admin rolled back key environmental protections.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
True shark lovers stand against genocide + ecocide!
Shark art collage by sphyrnas featuring a hammerhead shark in-front of the Palestine flag and military helicopters in the sky above the shark and an underwater scene with schooling fish and scuba diver below it. It reads “forever against genocide” in transparent font
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Learn about sharks and take action for people + planet! Check out our website and loads of cool resources on our FREE Patreon community. Subscribe today thru main page link ❤️🦈
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Borders are made up. See link in our bio for free resources and ways to help people + planet
Shark art scene by Sphyrnas on white background with black Thresher Shark swimming through blue and black words: “migration is an earth right”
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Tell a friend. link in bio to take action for people + planet
Shark art with zebra shark over ocean tides and beach background. Reads in transparent letters “social justice is environmental justice”.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No more genocide. No more wars. No more people taken, stolen from behind locked doors. No more trauma, no more pain. Speak out against injustice, it crosses every “lane”.
Picture of a journal page that reads:

“Free Palestine, free Congo, free Sudan.

No more war, no more occupation, no to corruption and mass exploitation.

People and planet over profits, no more lies from the pulpits. It’s collective liberation for every person, every “nation”.”

Stickers on the back cover of notebook in the photo say: “mako shark art not war”. A zebra shark drawing over the Palestinian flag and a sphyrnas logo sticker with hammerheads. Photo of two sticker designs. One reads mako art not war with a mako shark swimming through the design. The other is a zebra shark atop the  Palestinian flag
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Save Our Seas Foundation @saveourseas.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Endemic to the Eastern Tropical Pacific which stretches from the Gulf of California to Peru, the scalloped bonnethead is the smallest of the nine recognised hammerhead species. 📷: Emilio Posada
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/07/2026
Global sea-surface temperatures just reached their 50th consecutive record hot day and are expected to continue to rise for another month. This is so far beyond 'bonkers' (technical climate science term) that the Climate 8-ball has decided to start drinking early today.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
5 reasons why we need sharks: for more ways how to help sharks and access loads of free resources and sharky extras join our patreon family thru link in bio.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Learn more about shark species like the Pyjama shark in our free resources via our free Patreon platform ❤️🦈📚subscribe for free with link in bio
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Free community-based resources and printables like this shark zine! Subscribe for free to our Patreon - easy link in bio
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 15/07/2026
BREAKING: Michigan approved permits for the Line 5 oil project, threatening the Great Lakes. Michigan’s Dept of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy approved key permits for Enbridge to build its risky Line 5 tunnel and house the Canadian oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac for another century.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Calling All College students: apply for our Field Gear Program with link in bio!
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Wobbologist @wobbologist.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
gofund.me/c5befa919 Erica is a wonderful person and any help is appreciated. 🙏 Some have asked about a Venmo address. You may Venmo Erica @Erica-Smith-Dance
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Donate to Help Erica and Her Daughter Start Their New Life, organized by Dallas Radcliffe
As you may have heard: Erica has been on an arduous journey for seve… Dallas Radcliffe needs your support for Help Erica and Her Daughter Start Their New Life
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
No genocide, No War, No weapon or land grabbing will ever help save sharks nor our shared planet. Find compiled resources, ways to help and actionables thru our bio link.
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Tobey Curtis 🦈 @mojoshark.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
NEW PAPER: We tracked smooth hammerhead sharks off Long Island, New York. 🦈🐟🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Preliminary observations on vertical habitat use and diving behavior of juvenile smooth hammerhead sharks Sphyrna zygaena in the western North Atlantic - Animal Biotelemetry
Marine animals inhabit a three-dimensional environment, which necessitates knowledge of both horizontal and vertical movements to understand the scope of their habitat use. Large-bodied hammerhead sha...
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Stay hydrated. Speak out against data centers.
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Sphyrnas @sphyrnas.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Empty 🐚
Poem on slide with hammerhead shark art behind.

Slide 1 reads:
“The world is a beach full of empty shells..

Filled with people who have opinions that aren’t their own.
Filled with those who would rather fake being informed than become so.
Filled of those who live for follows or views instead of actually living.
Full with people who jump into hatred, false remedies or conspiracies in hopes of getting a blue checkmark.
Full of those who loudly grift at us to be like them yet they never got around to finding themselves.“Poem atop hammerhead shark art,
Slide 2 reads:

“The world if full of shell people.

The ones whose eyes glaze over at injustice.
The ones who stay silent as their neighbors are taken.
The ones who love animals so much yet fill their plates with them.
The ones who love freedom yet ignore it being stolen from them.

And every night, they retreat into their shell homes- still empty as ever.”
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Rowan @rowanthebirder.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
To learn how to help our feathered & furry friends during these heat waves, head to link below. Remember, we are all in this together & kindness can be as simple as leaving a fresh bowl of water out for them. open.substack.com/pub/rowanthe...
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