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Vyla
@twistieties.bsky.social
Queer and trans individual in the Umpqua Valley, Oregon. 🏳️‍⚧️ Mostly hiking pics.
Sahalie, Koosah, and Tamolitch Blue Pool! Brilliant hikes up on the upper McKenzie River.
April 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Upper Table Rock near Medford, OR. Great wildflower hike and a good climb too! (Some pictures courtesy @nakaela.bsky.social)
April 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Mt Baldy last Sunday ❤️
April 6, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This week was a long week! Between student finals and racing through Emergency Response GIS work on flooding and road closures.. whew! Glad to breathe and get to the weekend.
March 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Yakso and Clover Falls. The big delightful surprise was that we hiked into snow! (3400 feet!). Had a blast ☺️❤️
March 3, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Hardesty Mountain up near Eugene! With @nakaela.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Leaving Facebook has been a great mental health break. I do still feel like I left my community behind in it, but I know that can’t be at the cost of my own Well being. Maybe I’ll come back one day, but for now I’m content stepping away and saving spoons. Wanted to share ❤️
February 15, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."

(gift link)
Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Pretty close, except no notification of the firecaine because NOAA has been dismantled into a thousand pieces.
It’s 2036: your neuralink chip plays an ad for colloidal silver supplements to fight Horse Flu before pushing you the notification that a fire hurricane could be hitting the United States. You can’t narrow down the impact path until you refill your Trump coin prime wallet.

Cats are extinct.
February 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Row River trail in Cottage Grove, OR. First time this far along the trail. 11 miles! A bit of rain, snow, and sun along the way :)
February 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
John Dellenback Dunes! Not the most ideal hike as I was plugging along with a cold, but did 5.5 miles. Beautiful place!
January 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Escaped to the woods to get away temporarily from the Monday of it all. Salt Creek Falls!
January 22, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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A reminder Monday that there will be an avalanche of executive orders.

Mass deportations will start.

Meanwhile, the House and Senate will try to ram through a bunch of bad bills.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair.

That is what they want.

Prepare yourselves now.
January 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Last weekends excursion out at Shore Acres and king tides.
January 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Oh no! I’m running low on spoons!
January 6, 2024 at 12:04 AM