A screen grab of fictional character Brock Samson from the animated series Venture Bros.

Lucky me. Although there will likely be a gratuitous amount of collateral damage.

My teammate led a summer Maker Camp, one project the youth built is this "Door Prank." The sign on the door reads "Candy Shoppe," because of course there needs to be a reason to open a door standing for no reason in a grove of redwoods.

#makercamp
#water
#kidsmake
#SonomaCommunityCenter

Congratulations! Are you pointing to the record of the Dawn of the Industrial Age perhaps?

Fly Less. Resist more.

Travel must be safe. Restore focus on actual risk mitigation and deny authoritarians your obedience.

Hey! At 0:43 is my team!

One can be forgiven imagining that with their large brains and long lives humans would be more skilled at decision making, but they do seem to have an uncanny willingness to turn off their minds and follow the crowd.

#resist

We can agree on law and order, while demanding its equal application.

No Kings On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...

My best friend is a king... penguin. I suspect she'd be a competent leader of a nation. Regarding a certain authoritarian however: www.nokings.org

Find your waddle and exercise your rights

#resist
#nokings

(waddles up to the table)

A young boy interacts with sculptures of penguins

Witnessing moments of delight fuels resistance against the actions of hateful, self centered idiot authoritarians.

I see the hard work so many of you are doing.

Persist.

#antiauthoritarian
#artivism
#normalizepeace
#solidarity
#persist
#resist

A climate scientist stopped by during the race, pointed at the sculpture of a glacial face on the vehicle, and said, "I've just got back from there, it looks exactly like that."

He politely didn't comment on Tennessee Tuxedo's attire.

#fundclimatescience
#fundscience
#fundart

Oh my.

Skillful self preservation? 😉

Our team of athletes and artists spoke about carbon emissions and climate change, we reached thousands of people. We encouraged people to visit flightfree.org to share stories about why they don't fly.

Note to self: possible addition to our newsletter. Did FLYtLESS make our actions contagious? One never knows.

Good for Sarah.

Sarah's story is about spammy marketing. Do you have a story to tell, why you’re not traveling on an airliner? Inspire others. Go to flightfree.org and pledge to reduce your CO2 emissions.

I understand her completely. Our team starts building art several months ahead of the race on Memorial day weekend. It's eerie how quickly the world catches up and sometimes surpasses our absurdist climate messaging.

#lifeimitatesart
#KineticSculptureRace

Birds have excellent powers of perception.

A person in a polar bear costume poses with a sculpture of a life-sized emperor penguin next to a sign that reads CO2 emissions equals ice loss.

CO2 emissions equals ice loss.
Ice loss is eventually bad for everyone.
Ground yourself.
#CO2
#polarbear
#penguin
#climateaction

Pledge at flightfree.org

An image of street theater performance, including a polar bear, bridal party, a limousine driver and an airline flight crew. They are performing a skit to comment on CO2 emissions and frivolous airline travel.

At the finish line of the Kinetic Grand Championship.

Hahaha yayaya for the penguins

A person seated in first class on a jet airplane wearing a fake oxygen mask and the bag on the oxygen mask has the FLYtLESS logo

Sometimes it feels like collecting signatures for gun control legislation in a firing range.

On the other hand, kudos for taking the message directly to where it's needed most.

@flightfreeusa.bsky.social

Flightfree.org to pledge to ground yourself

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The team carried messaging such as"CO2 emissions equals ice loss" photos.app.goo.gl/76FX9xNWxgtM...

A vehicle called a kinetic sculpture is being peddled by four people across Humboldt Bay. It is floating on the water and paddle wheels are attached to propel it in the water. The sculpture is of a crashed airplane the people are dressed as a flight crew and depictions of penguins and ice floes are on the sculpture. There is a large logo on the tail with the title of the sculpture it is flightless.

My little waddle enjoys chauffeur service across Humboldt Bay.

Thousands of humans saw them, hundreds spoke with the team, and scores of children petted the penguins.

You can help leave resources for future generations. Ground yourself. Pledge at flightfree.org

@flightfreeuk.bsky.social

People dressed as an airline flight crew perform a skit. A sculpture of a crashed airplane is in the background and a person costumed as a polar bear wrestles with a person dressed as a clergyman.

Congratulations, Team! "FLYtLESS" is this year's Kinetic Grand Champion!
kineticgrandchampionship.com

People dressed as airline flight crew pretend to take selfies with an oversized mobile phone.

The flight crew seemed more concerned with creating viral content than they did with landing the plane. To be fair, everyone survived the crash.

Captain Robert has located the door that came loose on the chartered flight to Antarctica.

2025_05_24_KineticSculptureStart YouTube video by Eric Zeller

@aunt-arctica.bsky.social youtu.be/KIZDpQEZvxg

How penguin poop can help to mitigate climate change YouTube video by ABC News

We're pleased to be doing our part to stabilize the climate. You can help by reducing your air travel.

Pledge at flightfree.org