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Hanes Orrock (they/them)

@hansgruvr.bsky.social

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disabled singer/songwriter, voice actor, collage artist, creature | Long covid since 10/2020 | AuOCD, hEDS, POTS | I make music with my wife as Whistling Swans

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prospect hummer @weeedoodle.bsky.social · Aug 20

we released some music today

Freckled, by Whistling Swans

1 track album

whistlingswans.bandcamp.com

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Jul 30

Breakthrough study: COVID-19 reactivates dormant breast cancer, triggering deadly metastasis. Cancer survivors who got COVID had 4.5× higher cancer-related deaths and 1.4× greater breast cancer. MASK UP!! Protect yourself from Covid, which is airborne

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs - Nature

Mouse models show that respiratory infections from viruses such as influenza and SARS-CoV-2 can trigger metastasis of dormant breast cancer cells in the lungs, a finding supported by epidemiological d...

www.nature.com

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · Jan 16

I love the outpouring of love for David Lynch.

I don't love how many of the people who are remembering him have stopped masking in public.

If you've stopped masking, you're why he had to choose to spend his final years isolated at home.

I don't know what to do with that anger.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Dec 11

@who.int Director-General's remarks at a media briefing on 10 December 2024:

"We cannot talk about COVID in the past tense. It’s still with us, it still causes acute disease and Long COVID, and it still kills.

The world might want to forget about COVID-19, but we cannot afford to."

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 7

Sting of Time, 2024

#collage #disabledartist

A paper collage on a yellow background. A woman's face with a pleasant expression is seemingly floating in an expanse of stars. There are two honeybees on her face, one crawling into her nose, and the other on one of her eyes. There is text on her forehead and below her, reading: "Time, Where Is Thy Sting? If you're scared, push enter to run."

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 6

We Hope This Horrifies You, 2024

#collage #papercollage #covidisnotover #maskup

A hand-cut paper collage. The background is a blazing forest fire with orange and yellow tones. There is a comic book "VRR-KOW" and explosion pasted on the upper left corner, and a blue model of a SARS-CoV2 molecule pasted on the upper right and the bottom right. In the middle lower section of the collage, there is a comic book cutout of a villain spewing green energy onto a victim. The text pasted reads: "Life with Covid. A pandemic never out of season - disease of disparity. We hope this virus horrifies you."

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 7

Mask or D*e, 2024

#collage #covidisairborne #disabledartist

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Covid Safe Colorado @covidsafecolorado.bsky.social · Dec 6

We now have Blucifer shirts for sale in our shop. Many styles, softnesses, and sizes! And there are also options with our logo and "take care of your community" design. cscpride.itemorder.com/shop/home/

Blucifer, the demonic horse statue from Denver Int'l Airport, wearing an N95 mask. The words "do no harm' are written in black and white.

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 6

We Hope This Horrifies You, 2024

#collage #papercollage #covidisnotover #maskup

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Covid Safe Colorado @covidsafecolorado.bsky.social · Dec 3

Make a difference this GivingTuesday by helping farmworkers in Colorado protect themselves from H5N1! This is a publich health and workers' rights issue. Donate through our GiveButter campaign at www.GiveButter.com/iTCv2s

Our goal is $500! Funds will go toward gloves, boots, goggles, and aprons.

Giving Tuesday PPE Fundraiser for Farm and Dairy Workers

Protecting workers against H5N1

www.GiveButter.com

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 2

I wrote this little tune in April of 2023 😷 #maskup

Collective denial,
A dissonance viral,
I don't wanna see your smile
If it means I could get worse,
You're so glad to spread the curse,
You won't be smiling in a hearse or in a hospital bed

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 2

busted out the #fridgepoetry

a photo of fridge poetry that reads: you melt me, soft & slow, like smoke or perfume

four square magnets, three purple and one green with various patterns are below some fridge poetry which reads: "so, this ferocious pleasure must be your will, your instrument of sublime & animal passion, I must steel my porcelain spirit"

fridge poetry that reads: what is this bastard passion born from? be it wicked fever? brilliant, broken, delicious, secret

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Dec 1

Benny is the cuddliest of my three cats

A white nonbinary person with buzzed brown hair and green eyes holds a black and white tuxedo cat on their chest. They are wearing a blue tie-dyed, long sleeved T-shirt and half of their face is hidden by the cat.

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 26

Show me your pet and who/what they're named for: T'Pol 🖖 #startrek

T'Pol, a small brown tabby cat with hazel eyes, is curled up in a blue mixing bowl and looking at the camera with curiosity.

A photo of Jolene Blalock as her Vulcan Character "T'Pol" on the set of Star Trek: Enterprise. She has short brown hair, pointed Vulcan ears and dark brown eyes. She is wearing a brown, gray, and white patterned jumpsuit and has a very serious expression on her face.

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 25

Whistling Swans cover Gonna Be Lonely Again by The Pinkees (1982)

#covers #thepinkees #whistlingswans

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 24

What's your favorite Beatles song? I think mine is Maxwell's Silver Hammer 😆 I love the silly ones and the sincere ones

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 24

wife and I are rewatching lost #richardalpert

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 24

beatles but gay

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 23

thank you! 😄 not many people I've encountered know the reference

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 19

T'Pol does not approve of something

a brown tabby cat with green eyes lays on a human lap with a "side eye" expression

zoomed in shot of a brown tabby cat with green eyes, sporting a "side eye" expression

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Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 19

a clip from a sapphic strahd reading by yours truly 🦇🖤 #voiceactor #dnd

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 19

Stars (Convoluted Universe) by Whistling Swans - this song started as an instrumental track named "K.K.'s Revenge" due to its similarities to Animal Crossing music - you can listen wherever you stream ⭐

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 16

a library is to a building as a cemetery is to a park

Hanes Orrock (they/them) @hansgruvr.bsky.social · Nov 15

Duran Duran makes music for werewolves, Depeche Mode makes music for vampires