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Aviva West

@hammock-district.bsky.social

Clinical research, art, anti-colonialism. Toronto-based 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🇨🇦

created November 28, 2023

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Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

Ding ding ding! Not worth the risk at all.

1/9/2025, 3:15:38 PM | 11 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

I cancelled my plans to travel to the states, Seattle in particular. Fuck Trump and every politician who values power and money over democracy and fairness. America, you used to be cool.

1/9/2025, 3:14:59 PM | 7 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wendy Glauser (@wendyglauser.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

We can choose to take care of each other, which means demanding proper funding and accountability in our health system. Thanks for reading. Thanks especially to Rheanna's sister, Kassandra, for advocating in hopes others don't have to suffer as she has. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

27/8/2025, 8:40:06 PM | 35 11 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) reposted

Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor

28/8/2025, 3:39:56 AM | 19027 3193 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

In Twitter jail for impersonating Elon's botched penile implant :(

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15/8/2025, 1:52:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

Congrats @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social it's fire

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15/8/2025, 1:49:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NBA (@nba.com) reposted

SGA paid a visit to SickKids in Toronto & shared some very special moments! 🥹

7/8/2025, 3:19:10 PM | 6354 833 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

His face screams "spineless"

7/8/2025, 1:39:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

My cat, for consideration. Princess Beatrice Dirty Snowball, aka Bebe. Born in 2007 in Hanoi, Vietnam and still terrorizing all who meet her in August 2025 in Toronto, Canada. Hobbies include barfing on the carpet, sleeping in the sun, catnip, horrible meows.

An eldery Tonkinese cat, mostly white but mottled with grey and light brown, lays on a bed.
6/8/2025, 2:45:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

Today's haul from the local corporate behemoth, thanks to gift cards from holidays past

Stack of new novels and non fiction on a nightstand, from top to bottom: Animal Farm, a Tale of Two Cities, 1984 and One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
3/8/2025, 12:13:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

MAGA doesn't realize the world has moved on. No matter how much they want to live in their romanticized reality of 1953, it'll never happen. Too many of us DEIs have education, money, & some power and influence now. So, instead, they'll just burn the entire country down, including themselves.

2/7/2025, 2:05:29 AM | 1145 185 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture war is coming, don't give up, hang on, tear it down, love. (@nogenius.bsky.social) reposted

No gods, no nepo babies

16/6/2025, 7:06:30 PM | 92 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

As a Canadian I often think about this. If he was our Prime Minister he would have been revered.

16/6/2025, 10:42:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

In rural Ontario, Canada, there exists A Queer Camp that brings a diverse group of people together for a weekend of workshops, performances and community building. Happy Pride!

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15/6/2025, 11:30:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

Netanyahu talks about the Holocaust a lot for someone actively committing genocide in Gaza

13/6/2025, 1:05:14 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

More disgusting behaviour from the pariah Zionist state.

13/6/2025, 12:55:29 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Roshi Joan Halifax (@joanhalifax.bsky.social) reposted

Pride Month... what is beautiful, true, and strong.

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6/6/2025, 1:34:23 PM | 308 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture juan barquin (@woahitsjuanito.bsky.social) reposted

I saw Rains Over Babel at Sundance and became obsessed. When I saw it was screening in South Florida and that director Gala del Sol was in town, I cold emailed her. We ended up chatting for an hour about the film, magical realism, religion, and way more. Hope y’all dig our talk, published at Into!

1/5/2025, 10:47:45 PM | 11 4 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

I loved this movie SO MUCH, I cannot stop thinking about it.

5/6/2025, 7:20:49 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

Pride month gift for all of us.

5/6/2025, 7:19:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

Pride month claims its first couple.

5/6/2025, 7:18:39 PM | 36 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

Don't look away.

20/5/2025, 11:48:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

He looks like his soul has been sucked out and replaced with garden debris

20/5/2025, 11:46:41 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net) reposted

Trans people: somehow too fragile to serve in the military, yet too powerful to compete in sports. Fascism thrives on contradiction.

20/5/2025, 10:47:20 PM | 1671 330 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Liddle Lady ✨ (@liddlest.bsky.social) reposted

Andre 3000 carrying a whole ass piano on his back. #MetGala

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6/5/2025, 12:42:16 AM | 587 93 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kim Kelly (@kimkelly.bsky.social) reposted

🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers. When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤

1/5/2025, 6:37:39 PM | 2033 781 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

How do I get Blue Sky to stop showing me furry anime in my feed? I keep clicking "show me less like this ☹️" to no avail

1/5/2025, 2:41:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) reposted

If you want to understand the rationale and cruelty behind Trump's anti immigrant policies, just read up on Stephen Miller. This is all his doing. Trump is golfing most of the time. Miller is an avowed white nationalist. He doesn't hide any of it. It's all there.

26/4/2025, 7:24:58 PM | 2544 592 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Prisonculture (@prisonculture.bsky.social) reposted

An antidote to facism is more community.

26/4/2025, 7:29:47 PM | 4429 1074 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

two dottering old autocrats.

25/4/2025, 12:35:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jasmine 🌌🔭 (@astrojaz.bsky.social) reposted

HAPPY 35TH BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST TELESCOPE EVER!! THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SUCH BEAUTIFUL AND ICONIC IMAGES OVER THE YEARS!!! 🌌🤩

Large orange, yellow, and red clouds of dust and gas tower in the image, interspersed with a few pink stars. Resembling a pair of butterfly wings, two lobes of a nebula stretch out from a central point, reaching to the upper right and lower left of the image. The lobes glow in pink, white, red, and orange hues, against a black background of space dotted with stars. A roughly circular nebula, glowing in bright blue near the left curve, fills most of the image. At the top left corner is a region of gold-brown gas and dust. The This Hubble image shows how young, energetic, massive stars illuminate and sculpt their birthplace with powerful winds and searing ultraviolet radiation. In this Hubble portrait, the giant red nebula (NGC 2014) and its smaller blue neighbor (NGC 2020) are part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located 163,000 light-years away. The image is nicknamed the
24/4/2025, 7:26:42 PM | 4957 664 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jeremy Berg (@jeremymberg.bsky.social) reposted

A new evolving outrage… Damaging of the NIH Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network

24/4/2025, 6:13:00 PM | 98 32 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

Uh oh. As a Canadian researcher with projects under the RDCRN

24/4/2025, 6:30:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Anna Hickey (@annahickey.bsky.social) reposted

America circa 2025 is one of the best arguments for a parliamentary system I've ever seen

23/4/2025, 1:00:18 PM | 248 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dean Dettloff (@deandettloff.bsky.social) reposted

Good! We should discourage car ownership in Toronto. In fact the rate of removing vehicle travel lanes should be even more alarming, I want a five alarm war on cars over here.

23/4/2025, 8:13:55 PM | 9 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

And the rest of the world looks on, scratching their heads, and wondering how a clearly deranged and demented man was allowed to take power a second time.

24/4/2025, 11:41:07 AM | 15 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

Meanwhile in Canada, a fringe candidate emerges (he's got my vote)

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20/4/2025, 1:12:29 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

@dansavage.bsky.social The caller mid show who only likes me for short periods needs to monitor her cycles. I'm similar, very gay but when I'm ovulating I don't mind a man here and there. The body, she's a strange mistress.

15/4/2025, 12:46:55 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

LMAOOOOOO

11/4/2025, 12:48:44 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

I'm left with more questions than answers

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11/4/2025, 12:06:26 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

Fuck this guy

4/4/2025, 4:17:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social)

Let's see how long this lasts.

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2/4/2025, 12:36:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

Just brutal.

1/4/2025, 6:23:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

I could have watched an entire episode of just this.

31/3/2025, 7:05:39 PM | 13 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Atlantic (@theatlantic.com) reposted

End a clinical trial early, and researchers might not be able to tell if it worked, leaving participants worse off than when they started. But that is what the Trump administration is asking scientists to do, @katherinejwu.com reports: theatln.tc/Qgq0vPCX

27/3/2025, 9:25:58 PM | 253 128 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Dean Dettloff (@deandettloff.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

By Toronto poet Anna Lee-Popham, following the toppling of a statue of Egert Ryerson, an architect of the residential school system.

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28/3/2025, 4:59:21 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish a whale would flip flop on Musk.

22/3/2025, 1:54:09 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture NY Times Pitchbot (@nytpitchbot.bsky.social) reposted

Hitler dismantled a democracy in 58 days. It looks like it will take Trump at least 70.

21/3/2025, 2:27:59 PM | 1038 119 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm a Canadian researcher working on NIH-funded pediatric rare disease studies. Around 90% of our lab meetings these days involve an American colleague apologizing for the currrent US leadership and trying to assure us our consortium will still exist tomorrow.

21/3/2025, 12:58:04 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Immigrant. We Matter. (@shinery.bsky.social) reposted

They call me Cybertruck because I disintegrate from stress when gross men are near me.

20/3/2025, 8:57:57 PM | 27 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Aviva West (@hammock-district.bsky.social) reply parent

God only know how his botched penile implant is faring

20/3/2025, 11:12:25 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view