I had the privilege to join a black bear research team during a den survey today. If you zoom in you can see the tears of amazement forming in my eyes as I’m holding this cub. Once in a lifetime kind of experience.
No Child should feel fear in their school bathroom... Leftist social experiments and ideologies have no breeding ground here in Oklahoma... My administration will do everything in its power to uphold and enforce the law to protect our most vulnerable.
This is the crusty, musty, and slightly balding stuffed raccoon that greets our guests at the front license desk in Oklahoma City. We call him Hernando:
we sold almost 1,000
#garweek
stickers in one day , and all of that is going back to fund wildlife conservation.
I could never say thank you enough to everyone who ordered 🥹❤️
This ALT is getting a lot of attention - So here’s the basic format I use for this account’s photos:
1) Physical description
2) Perspective (view) description
3) then explain HOW we’re using it in the joke
tiktok removed this exact thread for mentioning the word hunting. No firearms were shown. - ONLY the working dogs.
—BUT EVERY SINGLE VIDEO OF SOMEONE MESSING WITH AN UNWELL EXOTIC PET GETS MILLIONS OF VIEWS AND NOTHING IS EVER DONE ?????
I get to work with the kindest and funniest group of fish and wildlife peeps on planet Earth. I’m so proud of our team and how much we’ve done with just a little whiteboard, some sticky notes, and a whole lot of laughter 🥹
Found a dog on the way home and she ended up belonging to an older neighbor that didn’t have his phone on. When we dropped her off he didn’t wanna talk, but later he sent the nicest text 😭 :
GINORMOUS THANK YOU to
@CurbsideOKC
and
@NathanPoppe
for sitting down and talking to me about wildlife conservation social media with
@OKWildlifeDept
!! This illustration made me smile SO BIG!! Thanks Hezekiah Hamlin for your artwork, I really really love it 🥹💕
If not friend why friend shaped? What's the perfect snack food? How should we communicate science and policy?
@heyaimsarah
, the genius behind
@OKWildlifeDept
's social media supremacy and architect of the banger tweets below and I tackle these tough questions on today's episode!🌳
I had had a great time speaking with The Guardian about writing (or trying to, at least) a government voice. Thanks for the conversation
@CantorMatthew
“I believe that people are hilarious because life is funny. We all have different perspectives, and that’s where comedy comes from," said a social media specialist behind the
@OKWildlifeDept
account, which has 135,000 followers:
We need an intern. This position will be supervised by the social media people. Said intern will *probably* get to tweet from this account - it depends on how well you fight for your memes.
(OKC based)
One time in high school this guy didn’t how to ask me if I sunburned without sounding racially insensitive so he asked
“Do you change colors in the sun?”
And now I’m marrying him.
*annual plug of shame*
I’m Sarah. I’m a social media specialist and content creator. You may have seen some of my work somewhere on the internet - but if you haven’t, good for you. In my real life I am an avid climber and hiker. That requires money.
SOOOOOO——
You don’t have to be casual about things you love just make others more comfortable.
Don’t be casual about your family.
Don’t be casual about your relationships.
Don’t be casual about your spirituality. Don’t be casual about your studies.
Don’t be casual about your time.
I just want to say thanks to
@SolomonRDavid
for answering my call a couple of months ago. We agreed that we wanted to throw a celebration of gar, but we had no idea it would blow up the way it did. I’m so thankful to call such a passionate person a new friend.
#garweek
4ever
If you need something to do while listening to
@taylorswift13
all day, you’re always welcome to report your ex boyfriend’s wildlife violations to Operation Game Thief. ✨✨(1-800-522-8039)✨✨
If you had your birthday at the Cheesecake Factory in OKC and thought the “opera singers” were over the top , that was me and my friend Clint. NOBODY told us to sing that way. We made that choice independently.
The bit lasted 3 years.
I actually wasn’t gonna do this but we’ve been together NINE YEARS this month. —My family had just moved to a tiny town and i had zero friends. A neighborhood mom felt bad that I was turning 16, so she put together a surprise party and invited my classmates.
Rilan was there, 🥹
Rilan and I got into a fight over the phone when he called me “hangry” and I told him that I could take care of myself before I hung up dramatically.
Then a pizza man shows up with a note that says “for stupid-head”
LORD YOU BETTER GET THIS PETTY AND THOUGHTFUL MAN BEFORE I -
My dad was just on the phone with me and randomly went “huh, it’s hailing 🤨”
— so I let him go, and not 5 mins later a tornado hit some of the buildings behind him. Living in Oklahoma is unreal
don’t you dare let anyone tell you money can’t buy happiness - this manatee tea dispenser was just 9 bucks and he’s already changed my entire outlook on life
I ALREADY DID THIS THREAD BUT I HAD A TYPO SO SORRY, BUT HERE:
#GARWEEK
GIVES ME A REAL BIG CASE OF THE FEELS.
IM NOT GOOD AT THE FEELS. HOWEVER, MY FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES DESERVE ENDLESS THANKS FOR ALL THEY DO.
AY, turtles are out on the roads.
Here are some friendly reminders:
1) DO NOT fumble the turtle.
2) Pull off the roadway safely and completely.
3) do not fumble the turtle.
3) Move the turtle in the direction it was already going.
4) DO👏NOT👏FUMBLE👏THE👏TURTLE👏
Killers of the Flower Moon:
1) Lily Gladstone is incredible
2) I’VE BEEN TRYING TO TELL Y’ALL ABOUT THIS FREAKING GORGEOUS PRAIRIE FOR YEARSSS BUT U WOULDST NOT LISTEN
OR WHAT ABOUT THE THOUSANDS OF TIMES WE GET TAGGED IN VIDEOS OF PEOPLE MANHANDLING WILDLIFE ?? — NOTHING IS EVER DONE. NOT EVEN A WARNING IS PLACED ON THE CONTENT????
(i make this exact rant about once a week in the office so please don’t be alarmed im just venting)
You can hire me to help ya out with your social media needs. I am also selling a couple of pre-recorded lectures, given at various social media conferences throughout 2023. Send me a message and I can shoot ya a link.
Thank you my friends,
*plug of shame over*
Remember that whatever your take is on abortion and women’s right to healthcare that as Christians we cannot forget that Jesus LOVED WOMEN.
He picked an unwed teenager for a mother.
He defended an unclothed prostitute that had been torn from her home and humiliated.
Freshman let your parents say goodbye. Let them set up your dorm and meet your roommate. Let your family see your campus and your class buildings.
I know you're excited to start your new life, but oh my god you're going to need them more than you think.
How come Christian men get to wife hunt their way through college and become head pastors of large churches because of their connections, but homegirl who graduates with a degree in church leadership is only allowed to coordinate the women's ministry for the rest of her career?
AY. WE NEED YOU TO SEND YOUR KIDS TO OUR YOUTH CAMP. WE WILL WATCH THEM FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK - FOR FREE - AND TRY TO RETURN THEM THE LEAST SUNBURNED AS POSSIBLE. (NO PROMISES). THEY MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING THO. YOU COULD HAVE AN EMPTY HOME.
HERE IS THE APP:
When I was 17 I was told if god wanted me to climb on rocks like a boy he wouldn’t have made me a girl.
Today I accepted a job working for the State Department of Wildlife Conservation.
I get to protect those same rocks,
for EVERY 17 year old girl who wants to climb them.
American Christians will literally take a bakery to the Supreme Court but say NOTHING when people are murdered in the street
It’s time to examine if we love Jesus and what he taught more than we love privilege
Me: okay what’s the score?
Rilan: we don’t keep score
Me: then how do we know who wins?
Minister: for the last time no one “wins” premarital counseling
Someone just tried to rob my boyfriend but he didn't understand what was happening so when they said "give me your money," he just kind of laughed and replied
"no I'm good,"
and the robber walked away
HEYYY all my fellow science and conservation communication homies , this is what the Gar Week 2023 Calendar looks like thus far (or should I say “gar”?
@SolomonRDavid
)
Please contact me via my WORK email if you have any questions or would like to discuss participating 🙏
GUYS MY SHORT FILM WON AN OKLAHOMA BROADCAST EDUCATION ASSOCIATION AWARD AND I DIDNT EVEN KNOW TILL A SECOND AGO SO IF YOUR AWAKE PLZ WATCH MY MOVIE AND CELEBRATE WITH ME BC IM CRYING ALONE IM SO HAPPY I CANT WAIT TO MAKE MORE MOVIES I LOVE THIS SO MUCH
Fun facts about myself:
My first career path was actually in ministry . I was a fully credentialed
minister in a major denomination by the time I was 18 years old. I left for a lot of reasons, one of them being this mentality:
Thanks Tim and
@wildlifesociety
for helping
@SolomonRDavid
and I spread the word about forbidden 🧋and science communication social media strategies!! 🫶
I’ve gotten a lot of new followers and that’s dumb but I’m Sarah,
I’m a communicator.
I’m a deeply unserious person.
A lot of smart people will follow me and then unfollow me but it only makes me stronger
I (accidentally) caught my tablecloth on fire, so I (heroically) grabbed the ball of flames and dunked it in the sink without burning myself or the rest of the house. I am so lucky I was here to save my life from me.