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Harley Giff-Bask

@riverhelix.bsky.social

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I’m a queer appalachian living in the city. 33, they/he scientist(🌱🧫)/musician(🎸🎹🎺)/dad(🐈🐓) I like: the woods, board/video games w/my wife, darkwave, books in the bath, naps, critters, thinking about distant suns I don’t like: capitalism/hustle culture

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Mar 6

Big same!! I want to live in a beautiful society

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Mar 6

It’s sickening bro

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Mar 6

This is the official website of the government I fund.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Mar 6

It’s just that they detest transgender people so much they don’t even want 86 cents spent on health studies for us. Even if we are tax payers.

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Mar 6

The amount Musk and Trump are boasting about regarding federally funded research aimed at studying health outcomes in transgender people (the $8 million)? Just out of the research grant budget for the U.S., it would be the equivalent of if you had a $10,000 budget and spent 86 cents on something.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Mar 5

I mean, are we just numb to the insanity ? The president of the United States yesterday called for arresting American students protesting at campuses (they pay to attend) 😂

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 25

Character limits make it really hard to get a point across. :/

Anyway we haven’t forgotten you Aaron Bushnell. Your heart of gold weighs less than a feather. #aaronbushnell #freepalestine

Israel and the United States are fucking evil.

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 25

As Palestinians return Israeli bodies in coffins and Israel returns Palestinian bodies in blue body bags dumped out of a truck, today Netanyahu claims the opposite and withholds dozens of Palestinian hostages based on the lie. U.S. supports this while most western countries have criminalized him

𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍™ @devononearth.bsky.social · Feb 25

Exactly one year ago, 25 year old US Airman Aaron Bushnell took his own life by self-immolation in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. Rest in Power, brother. I didnt know you in life, but I will never stop thinking about the strength, resolve, and compassion you showed in death

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 22

“… for a better world”

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 20

#anticapitalist #anticeo #transmusician #moonwalker #cover #guitar #monopolymoney

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 20

Heard a song at work today and had to try it immediately when I got home .

Monopoly money by moon walker

Can only post a 60 second clip cuz Bluesky . If anyone wants more I’ll post the rest also go listen to the original.

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Grammy’s Garden & Apothecary @grammysgarden.bsky.social · Feb 20

#InsectThursday
I’m a retired nature teacher, and I raised dragonflies (among MANY things) I taught a Pond Life class, and brought live specimens to observe
Did you know their larvae live in water for 9-12 months? Students got to see the larvae too!
#dragonflies #PondLife
#TeachOurChildrenWell

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 19

a brief history of fascism in America and how it must eventually fail bc it is based on fiction/non-reality. It’s 30 mins long, but you’ll learn something and maybe come away with a little hope?

The Distorted Worldview of the American Fascist

YouTube video by NonCompete

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 19

Watched Sugarcane tonight. The atrocities committed against indigenous children by the Catholic Church is entirely revolting, and the lack of accountability and justice too. Required watching. The struggle is intersectional, no one is free until we are all free from white supremacy.

Jenny Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestine🍉🍉 @joneshowdareyou.bsky.social · Feb 16

Watching 𝘚𝘶𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘦 (2024), once again it beggars belief that the Catholic Church has not been held accountable for its many crimes across the world and has been allowed to flourish into the 21st Century.

It should have been terminated last Century. Along with all the others. #Disney+

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 14

We are here and we’re not going anywhere. Our queer forbearers were beat and arrested and harassed and murdered by cops and citizens alike, we won’t go back.

#transnews #trans #lgbtq #marshapjohnson

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 14

Erasure shows how weak this administration is. Cowards and sycophants all

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 14

It’s so fun!!

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 14

Nothing compared to the incredible work I see in #miniature groups, but thought I’d share these #minis I painted for the Clank legacy game me and @cosmic-katie.bsky.social are playing. I included an unpainted one for a “before”.

#minipainting #clank #clanklegacy #boardgame #painting

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 12

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Lakota Man 🪶 @lakotaman.bsky.social · Feb 12

So, Google Calendar has removed Indigenous Peoples Month.

Who here still supports the Native community? 🖐🏾

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 11

I love this cat so much that it makes me cry sometimes.

We’ve had each other for almost 14 years! My baby. 🩶🤍💚

#cats #soul #love

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 9

Microscopic photo I took of fungal colonies that reminded me of the creation of Adam in the Sistine Chapel

#fungus #science #art #LGBTQ #microscope #hyphae #queerart #photography

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 7

Which by the way, trans day of visibility is the same day every year. It just happened to fall on Easter that year. Misleading information to instill hatred against transgender people

Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · Feb 7

And the Biden Department of Health and Human Services sought to drive Christians who do not conform to certain beliefs on sexual orientation and gender identity out of the foster-care system. The Biden Administration declared March 31, 2024 — Easter Sunday — as “Transgender Day of Visibility.”