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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃

@tractorgoth.bsky.social

800 followers 480 following 10K posts

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ Beer, bees, belligerent bisexual and all around rake. Mostly farm pictures and being gay on main. Runs the #Skyrats feed! ☁️🐀 The artist alternately known as swornbothers/raisedbycats. Click on over to Media for the uncut good stuff. ✨adult themes✨

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doctor frankenteeth with the good hair @ripeteeth.bsky.social · Jul 22

songxuexiao | mdzs

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Anise, Occult P.I., Stakin' the Forsakin' Since '87 @twigbelly.bsky.social · 5h

I met this artist at Pride this year and they're just a fabulous person BUT ALSO they're hilarious, so if you're in the market for pulp queer/feminist/horny merch, take a gander! www.redbubble.com/people/Femmm...

Femmmeow Shop | Redbubble

Femmmeow is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.

www.redbubble.com

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 15h

I'm just saying, we could settle this with swords, instead of 30+ emails. 🤺

#artWIP

A WIP embroidery piece, with a sword and mace chzrm, spikes and letter beads.

The beads read "this email could have been a duel | fight me"

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 1d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Yale Climate Connections @climateconnections.bsky.social · 1h

After a hurricane, many people worry about losing power. For trans Floridians, it can mean losing access to lifesaving medication and navigating hostility at disaster shelters. But one woman’s hurricane response team is stepping in:

When a hurricane hits, she shows up for those left behind » Yale Climate Connections

Trans advocate Jasmine McKenzie is building a lifeline for Black and trans Floridians who often can’t safely access disaster services from FEMA or religious organizations.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 1d

Canadians: The federal government is seeking public input on how AI should be developed and used in business, research, and the military.

If this scares the shit out of you, please let them know:

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renewed...

ised-isde.canada.ca

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 31m

Makes sense to me, either way

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Aug 20

At left is my beloved Tatterwing—so named for reasons you'll see in the right hand image—demonstrating next-level peanut technique: five at a time by spearing. No other crow I've ever known has figured this out.

Tatterwing the crow spears peanuts with her bill

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 46m

Glad to hear he’s looking out for you!!

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404 Media @404media.co · 23h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Tim Osborne Photography 🍁 @timosborne.ca · 1h

Ran into this young muskrat out enjoying an evening snack at the local wetlands yesterday. #wildlife #muskrat

A muskrat sits in the shallow water, chewing on a green reed. Have a great day!

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 1h

AAAAAH CONGRATS 🎊🎉🎈

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Jennifer Molidor @jennifermolidor.bsky.social · 12h

Hanging onto every bit of good news

The river has come alive in the Klamath with wild Chinook salmon. The wider ecosystem is healing.

This most powerful story of Indigenous-led #rewilding after the largest dam removal in US history keeps getting better.

lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/oct/9/o...

One Year After Klamath Dam Removal, 'There's Just Fish Jumping All Over the Place': Scientists Describe Improvements to Water Quality and Wildlife

lostcoastoutpost.com

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t even know this man but he’s so sexy to me right now

🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t think my personality supports traditional learning environments anymore lol I think we’re at Guy Who Got Too Autistic About Coral Propagation Methods And Is Now The Authority level

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

Or that you weren’t expected to crash course through everything in a set number of years

🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

Commenting is fine, that’s superficial keeping company, it’s messages that are for whatever reason the bane of my brain 😑 No rest is forthcoming for at least a week lmao

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

Or like a djinn maybe?? Coyote spirit?? All the stories tell us if you meet a fella in the middle of nowhere be polite and then L E A V E

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

This business model works so well, it really prevents that .00004% shoplifting profit loss! At the expense of 15% of your customers getting annoyed and leaving! Math!

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

I was counting on you to appear and intervene for sanity’s sake

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

I just do not trust myself to talk to other people without being uncharitable at the moment!

🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 13h

Had some real honest to god wins this month but also just a steady, grating, continuous string of low grade misfortune and moderate conflict added to the background voltage of the political climate and I’m both wildly depressed AND anxiously irritable

If I haven’t responded I still love you 👍

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Problematic Big Bang Problemtober + Bang @problematicbigbang.bsky.social · 21h

Problematic Big Bang 2025 Sign Ups are open! If you're interested in an all inclusive multi fandom and rpf dead dove themed creation event it's here! Any kinks, any tropes, any fandom and any medium.
Find the sign ups below ❤️🔥⏬️
#deaddove #proship #multifandomevent

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 22h

Idk man if I find one lone guy in the wilderness who seems to be perfectly healthy, well dressed, and in complete possession of himself I’m going to take a leaf out of desert dwelling folks’ lore books and NOT piss him off

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 22h

Isaac is my fucking guy I love this man, Isaac MVP, Isaac the man

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