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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Absolutely obsessed with this late 19th century illustration of the Orion Nebula by Otto Boeddicker.

An illustration…Surreal monochrome with bands and textures resembling flowing fabric. Stars pepper the background.

A false color image of the actual Orion nebula, where you can see many of the features from the illustration, but without the foldy fabric bands.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10/03/2025

I need y'all to sit with this headline and understand what is being done to our community. They're trying to criminalize our very existence. This is a campaign of eradication. www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/rcna...

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I’m so sick of people jettisoning trans people from their platforms to court bigots to their side. #transequalitynow #transrightsarehumanrights #transwomenarewomen

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

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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Katie Scarlett @ktypical-katie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

I just spoke to a rep from Bernie Moreno’s office who told me, “Medicaid is not getting cut, anyone who needs Medicaid will get it” but when I asked where the $880 billion tax cut was coming from he just repeated the quote to me like a parrot over and over again Call your senators Demand a town hall

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

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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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

What is Congress doing to protect trans and non-binary people and support them during this time?

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 19/02/2025

The official White House account posted this.

A screenshot of a tweet from The White House (@WhiteHouse), posted 33 minutes ago, quoting Donald J. Trump:
"CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE KING!" –President Donald J. Trump

Below the tweet is an illustrated or AI-generated image of Donald Trump wearing a suit with a red tie and a gold crown on his head. He is smiling confidently against a background featuring the New York City skyline, including the Empire State Building and the Chrysler Building. The image is framed in red, with the word "TRUMP" in large white letters at the top. In the bottom left corner, white text reads "LONG LIVE THE KING."

Engagement metrics show 722 replies, 1.9K retweets, 8.2K likes, and 314K views. The interface includes icons for replying, retweeting, liking, and sharing the post.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

DNF: The Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

#Booksky #currentlyreading 🌈📚 Currently reading: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Just finished: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (2.75 ⭐️) Looking forward to: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy & The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton See thread for my finished books & DNFs! (5/24)

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Just finished The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. I love these characters and the world and their stories, the pacing is just a bit slow for my taste. 2.75 ⭐️ #booksky 🌈📚 #witchsky

Screenshot of the Libby app of the final audiobook screen of Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Me too! I am so eager to see what happens next!

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

That is a hazard of the practice unfortunately

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

This is the beauty of audiobooks, I can close my eyes and rest while listening to my books!

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I think y’all were in the same seats that me and Verdi were! What did you think?

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

#Booksky #currentlyreading 🌈📚 Currently reading: The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman Just finished: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (3.5⭐️) Looking forward to: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy & The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton See thread for other books finished this year! (4/24)

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver - 3.5 ⭐️ An interesting dive in to one variety of Appalachian life. #booksky 🌈📚

A screenshot of a finished ebook of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025

“Trans people are not invisible. Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love, thank you.” — Lady Gaga while accepting Best Pop Duo Performance at the #GRAMMYs

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Pop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025

🚨 Lady Gaga premieres the ‘Abracadabra’ music video during a #GRAMMYs commercial break.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

🌈📚 I am reading a lot right now, but the book that I’m currently reading isn’t so much escapist as literary historical/contemporary fiction, and I find that it’s not helping as much. How do y’all find the mental space to read literary fiction and escape at the same time? #booksky #currentlyreading

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NPR @npr.org · 01/02/2025

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

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5 things to know about the fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels say they are now in control of the key eastern Congolese city of Goma. Their fighters continue to claim more territory in one of the world's most mineral-rich territories.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Nice! I think you would like Lightlark by Alex Aster if you haven’t already read it.

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

You're not overwhelmed. You're under attack.

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

On trying to make it as a trans girl of color in the heart of the empire. As a queer person who experienced homelessness for 6 mos in my early twenties and had few resources during those years to help me survive + loads of trauma, I relate hard. #lgbtq #trans #america #empire 🌈📚

of pressure to live a life of crime, to be the perfect woman. But don' fel guilty about it. You'll never have all of the right clothes, makeup, hair chat will suddenly add up into an unclockable woman. On my fishiest days, where I fully believe I'm giving Cis Girl, I get clocked by two or three people. I's very humbling and a nice reminder that passing is a losing game. Cis women chase this perfection, too, and it sucks years off their lives. Embrace imperfection. Be a nasty, hairy, disheveled, woman. Be the kind of woman with perfect makeup and fucked up hair or no makeup and impeccable tresses of hair cascading down your back. Wear your mom's hand-me-down Prada bag with your sweaty polyester nightgown that you stole from Village Discount. Don't try to be a good girl.
The only reason that us queers of color are at the bottom of this totem pole is because white dudes set it up this way centuries ago. They pilfered, they stole, they lied, killed, raped, burned shit to the ground, and set it up so they'd be on top. I'm not saying you should emulate the White Man, but I do think that breaking a few of the White Man's laws can help you get up from rock bottom. How're you supposed to save money when you zero out your paycheck every month on food and rent? Imagine what you could do with the money you spend in one year on groceries.
Crime is not only something you'll have to get used to as a trans person, it's a part of our history. Transsexuals, transgender people-we all transgress against the norm. We have to break the law sometimes. I'm writing this while living in the heart of the Empire, smack dab in the middle of the United States. There's a concerted effort to scapegoat trans people, queers, drag queens, all of us weirdos and try to erase us from public life. The ACLU has declared an emergency on behalf of trans people because we're facing unprecedented, coordinated legislative attacks against our personhood, all under a Democrat president who seems to be asleep…

hard to imagine a Republican president taking over and helping all these losers in their genocidal rage. Right now, I'm living in a perfectly legal transgender body. But next year I could be considered a criminal just for having a gender marker that's different from the one I was assigned at birth. Legislation could change the act of taking estradiol into a criminal act worthy of years in prison.
But a life of crime has gotten me this far, it's gotten me my career, a loving community of found family and blood relatives. It's shown me unending happiness. All those years of petty theft, of illegal existence, prepared me for the ultimate act of criminality: girlhood. And since I've already committed myself to this life of crime, I'm ready to continue to break whatever laws the man will write to keep me chained up.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

How did you get a January wrapped? Is that a premium feature of StoryGraph?

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Book 1: The Phoenix Crown by Janie Chang and Katie Quinn (3.25 ⭐️)

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Book 2: Lightlark by Alex Aster (4.25 ⭐️)

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

#Booksky #currentlyreading 🌈📚 Currently reading: Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Just finished: Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros (5 ⭐️) Looking forward to: The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy & The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman See thread for other books finished this year! (3/24)

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Oh my god. It was amazing! I can’t wait for the next one. I’ll be reliving this book in my mind for a while! I can’t wait talk about this book with someone! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #fourthwing #onyxstorm #booktok #booksky 🌈📚

A screenshot of the end of the Onyx Storm audiobook on Libby.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/01/2025

How can you sanction a country you can't even spell.

A document header from The White House, Washington, dated 01/26/25. It is labeled 'FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE' and the headline reads: 'ICYMI: President Donald J. Trump's TRUTH on Columbia Sanctions.'"

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Currently reading Onyx Storm (3rd book in the series) if you haven’t already read Fourth Wing I recommend it. These books are addicting!

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Bobby Keys @hilly-keys.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Go to theaters, support the arts. Music and art is also resistance

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Jackie Smith (she/her) @smilejackie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I’m tired of living in unprecedented times.

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Also, I hardly ever buy books, my favorite way to read is through the library. most library cards are free and if they aren’t in your community, some libraries allow you to use their digital library on Libby which is a free app for audio books and ebooks from anywhere. Reading should be for everyone

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Katie Gifford-Baskerville @cosmic-katie.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Zami is the autobiography of one of my favorite authors, Audre Lorde. She is a black, queer, immigrant, working class woman and mother who lived during the mid 20th century. She calls it her biomythography because each chapter is like a myth dedicated to a person or group of people that impacted her

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Harley Giff-Bask @riverhelix.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

It costs taxpayers over $30k/year to criminalize a single person suffering from homelessness, & only $10,000 to provide shelter. Why do you think the gov doesn’t pick the more financially sound option? #socialcontrol #fascism #homelessness #lgbtq #classwar

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/01/2025

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

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