Orin Drake
@wickedorin.bsky.social
Queer maker of things and professional thorn. Pronoun preference: whatever's funniest at the time. Practitioner of defiant hope and the sacred melancholy, dethroner of gods, servant to none. https://reignofangels.com/
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Orin Drake
@wickedorin.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Pinned post/helpful links!
Art: www.reignofangels.com/jewelry/pand...
Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/ShinyTh...
Music: blackdogsatmyback.bandcamp.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/orindrake
Art: www.reignofangels.com/jewelry/pand...
Shop: www.etsy.com/shop/ShinyTh...
Music: blackdogsatmyback.bandcamp.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/orindrake
www.youtube.com/imfromdriftw... Just wanted to drop a link to this channel specifically because it contains lots of stories from queer elders. Folks who survived. I think it's a little bit important, is all.
ImFromDriftwood
I'm From Driftwood collects and shares true LGBTQ stories from all over the world to help our youth feel not so alone.
I’m From Driftwood envisions a world where every lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgen...
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
www.youtube.com/imfromdriftw... Just wanted to drop a link to this channel specifically because it contains lots of stories from queer elders. Folks who survived. I think it's a little bit important, is all.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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just a quick holiday psa because it's almost december and i see people make this mistake in their festive art every year without fail
November 26, 2024 at 10:02 PM
just a quick holiday psa because it's almost december and i see people make this mistake in their festive art every year without fail
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Video for the curious. Was so happy to see this told from a cosplay perspective
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJx...
how one company broke sewing for EVERYONE
YouTube video by Lizard Leigh
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Video for the curious. Was so happy to see this told from a cosplay perspective
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VJx...
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"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Millions of full-time workers are struggling to afford a place to live. Here’s why
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
"What we see on the street is just the tip of the iceberg. There's an entire world of homelessness that has been rendered invisible."
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
Here's the YouTube link to my PBS News Weekend interview:
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Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Look at this image (and thread - use the translate service).
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
This one reads along the lines of:
"..Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) without cleaning.
In just 15 minutes of acquisition, we counted 1,659 satellite trails (about 400 individual ones).
Words cannot describe the pollution of near space."
🔭
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retweeting kinky stuff to make sure my followers aren’t still beholden to the cops in their heads. call that rent lowering cumshots
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
retweeting kinky stuff to make sure my followers aren’t still beholden to the cops in their heads. call that rent lowering cumshots
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It's december, which means only one thing: I drew another of my family's christmas card.
December 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's december, which means only one thing: I drew another of my family's christmas card.
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It's Cyber Monday, which means Threadless' biggest sale of the year ends today. Don't be the kind of dumbass that misses out on $12 tees and up to 40% off everything else!
effinbirds.threadless.com
effinbirds.threadless.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's Cyber Monday, which means Threadless' biggest sale of the year ends today. Don't be the kind of dumbass that misses out on $12 tees and up to 40% off everything else!
effinbirds.threadless.com
effinbirds.threadless.com
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Cross-stitch is a nice hobby to fill up some of the time one no longer uses to combat roaming trolls & intrusive sealions.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Cross-stitch is a nice hobby to fill up some of the time one no longer uses to combat roaming trolls & intrusive sealions.
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An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
Flock Uses Overseas Gig Workers to Build Its Surveillance AI
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:54 PM
An accidental leak revealed that Flock, which has cameras in thousands of US communities, is using workers in the Philippines to review and classify footage. www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Let’s be louder than his hate today. Let’s honor those we lost by defending science, protecting care, and standing with the LGBTQ+ community and everyone affected by HIV/AIDS.
We owe it to history, and to each other, to never go backward.
We owe it to history, and to each other, to never go backward.
December 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Let’s be louder than his hate today. Let’s honor those we lost by defending science, protecting care, and standing with the LGBTQ+ community and everyone affected by HIV/AIDS.
We owe it to history, and to each other, to never go backward.
We owe it to history, and to each other, to never go backward.
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to keep functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
Body cam shows an immigration agent asking ChatGPT for help writing a report:
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
“During surveillance in the area, I observed a male subject loitering while seated in a vehicle. Based on his behavior, I approached and initiated a consensual encounter.”
ICYMI:
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/28/b...
Bodycam footage from Operation Midway Blitz released: ‘It’s all about arresting people’
The group of videos made public through the Loevy & Loevy law firm includes footage from agents who responded to controversial arrest operations in the Little Village and Irving Park neighborho…
www.chicagotribune.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM
to keep functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities
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@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov
Vote no on #KOSA
It won't protect anyone; it will only cause harm (especially to LGBTQ+ kids) - we need more privacy laws, not more incursions into our private lives
Vote no on #KOSA
It won't protect anyone; it will only cause harm (especially to LGBTQ+ kids) - we need more privacy laws, not more incursions into our private lives
🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
@amyklobuchar.com @smith.senate.gov
Vote no on #KOSA
It won't protect anyone; it will only cause harm (especially to LGBTQ+ kids) - we need more privacy laws, not more incursions into our private lives
Vote no on #KOSA
It won't protect anyone; it will only cause harm (especially to LGBTQ+ kids) - we need more privacy laws, not more incursions into our private lives
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Also offering digital and color film photography for a fee: arguingmeadows.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Also offering digital and color film photography for a fee: arguingmeadows.com
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tomorrow is the end of the discount and this sunday these comms will be closed
#furryart #ocart #ych #commsopen #ocsky
#furryart #ocart #ych #commsopen #ocsky
Ahoy there! If you want your little creature to be trapped in a window tab today’s your lucky day! From now to dec 2nd these YCH comms are %15 off
Discount: ko-fi.com/tailblazerfi...
Reposts app!
#furryart #ocart #ych #commsopen #ocsky
Discount: ko-fi.com/tailblazerfi...
Reposts app!
#furryart #ocart #ych #commsopen #ocsky
December 1, 2025 at 6:33 PM
tomorrow is the end of the discount and this sunday these comms will be closed
#furryart #ocart #ych #commsopen #ocsky
#furryart #ocart #ych #commsopen #ocsky
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🕯️ Spooky holiday sale in MortSTOR is ON! 🕯️
🦴 tinyurl.com/mortstor 🦴
In case you crave something spooky or wanna catch up on my fandom merch/prints (or just wanna support your local necromancer) 💀💜
(Shipping to US is possible, more info in the form!)
#merch #darkart #ff7 #trigun
🦴 tinyurl.com/mortstor 🦴
In case you crave something spooky or wanna catch up on my fandom merch/prints (or just wanna support your local necromancer) 💀💜
(Shipping to US is possible, more info in the form!)
#merch #darkart #ff7 #trigun
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🕯️ Spooky holiday sale in MortSTOR is ON! 🕯️
🦴 tinyurl.com/mortstor 🦴
In case you crave something spooky or wanna catch up on my fandom merch/prints (or just wanna support your local necromancer) 💀💜
(Shipping to US is possible, more info in the form!)
#merch #darkart #ff7 #trigun
🦴 tinyurl.com/mortstor 🦴
In case you crave something spooky or wanna catch up on my fandom merch/prints (or just wanna support your local necromancer) 💀💜
(Shipping to US is possible, more info in the form!)
#merch #darkart #ff7 #trigun
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Me trying to tell artists it's okay if you keep repeating certain characters, themes, visuals, anything since you clearly need to say it some more 🖤
you should tell your story until you no longer need to tell it
December 1, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Me trying to tell artists it's okay if you keep repeating certain characters, themes, visuals, anything since you clearly need to say it some more 🖤
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This holiday season, especially in an age of such repugnantly puritanical censorship being done to even us 18+/NSFW/smut/kink artists around the globe *JUST* for expressing our freedoms through our own artworks, PAY RATHER CLOSE ATTENTION to this great-importance piece from @fightforthefuture.org:
Fascists love online ID checks.
Our team at @fightforthefuture.org breaks down why this is and how it’s a threat for us all.
@sarahephilips.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
Our team at @fightforthefuture.org breaks down why this is and how it’s a threat for us all.
@sarahephilips.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This holiday season, especially in an age of such repugnantly puritanical censorship being done to even us 18+/NSFW/smut/kink artists around the globe *JUST* for expressing our freedoms through our own artworks, PAY RATHER CLOSE ATTENTION to this great-importance piece from @fightforthefuture.org:
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Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.
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Trans youth exist.
Denying this doesn't stop that fact.
It just tortures them
Denying this doesn't stop that fact.
It just tortures them
December 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Trans youth exist.
Denying this doesn't stop that fact.
It just tortures them
Denying this doesn't stop that fact.
It just tortures them
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Resharing this thread incase anyone is Christmas shopping 🎄
On November 17th last year I sold my first enamel pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com in an attempt to create a new stream of income that might eventually cover the expenses of trans healthcare instead of perpetual GoFundMes 🏳️⚧️
As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
As we approach the anniversary, I'm going to celebrate one design each day
December 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Resharing this thread incase anyone is Christmas shopping 🎄
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ACT UP New York has a brilliant posters for #WorldAidsDay. It's part of their #Healthgate campaign, targeting the deadly consequences of RFK Jr as head of HHS on HealthAct, PrEP, USAID, Trans, Covid, HealthAct
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can get the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can get the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
December 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
ACT UP New York has a brilliant posters for #WorldAidsDay. It's part of their #Healthgate campaign, targeting the deadly consequences of RFK Jr as head of HHS on HealthAct, PrEP, USAID, Trans, Covid, HealthAct
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can get the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
Dismantling Healthcare = Death!
You can get the posters here: actupny.com/act-up-ny-an...
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🦜🐦 Love cute bird stuff? Want to drop cute bird stuff on a bird-loving friend? Go to birdhism.com, there's a sale now.
TY for your consideration. 🥰
#smallbiz #cybermondaysale #artgifts #birdgifts
TY for your consideration. 🥰
#smallbiz #cybermondaysale #artgifts #birdgifts
December 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
🦜🐦 Love cute bird stuff? Want to drop cute bird stuff on a bird-loving friend? Go to birdhism.com, there's a sale now.
TY for your consideration. 🥰
#smallbiz #cybermondaysale #artgifts #birdgifts
TY for your consideration. 🥰
#smallbiz #cybermondaysale #artgifts #birdgifts