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Ashtan Albright (she/they) 🏳️‍🌈
@cricketandlace.bsky.social
🐍Noodle Mom | 🦎Keeper of Dragon | 🕷️Spider Wrangler
Nonbinary | Queer | Poly | AuDHD
Maker of Many Things🧶🪡🎨
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Hi! I'm Ashtan/Cricket (she/they). I'm nonbinary, genderfluid, & queer.

AuDHD, poly, & a Weird Bug Person.

I'm a Maker™️ that will try any craft but knitting is my 💚 especially lace shawls. I also love miniatures, watercolor, & embroidery.

Currently hyperfocused on houseplants & fountain pens.
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“How can you suddenly dislike art when you find out it’s made by AI?”

For the same reason I can dislike art when I find out the employees were overworked and underpaid.

Because I care about people.

You dipshit.
December 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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this time of year brings a mix of emotions, i know.

i hope this season, whatever you celebrate or may be struggling through, brings you a bit of peace somewhere.

this may be a message for you. maybe just give it a call.

216-361-6772.
December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Looking for YA (13yo) books and stories written by trans authors.

My sister's kiddo could use some positive things to read in light of all this bullshit.
December 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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From the Larchives.
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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where my nerds at
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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We have so many more headlines to celebrate over the next decade or so as we've had today with Cheney.

Good time to invest in party hats
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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TRANS RIGHTS WINS ELECTIONS
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Don't forget that Zohran Mamdani spent his entire campaign standing proudly beside the trans community. He went to trans rights rallies just to show support. He proudly waved trans rights flags without hesitation. He refused to back down in support of trans rights. That makes me happy.
November 5, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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A little ditty I wrote
September 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered.

And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.
Please give me an unironic list of things that have gotten better over the last ten years because I’m spiraling.

I’ll start: you can buy an enormous TV from Costco for like $100 bucks now.
September 12, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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LOUDER FOR THE TRUST & SAFETY TEAM IN THE BACK
Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Experimental philosophy
August 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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Racoon: what is this stuff?

Me: it’s our garbage

Racoon: it’s delicious, I understand why you chase me away from it, do you eat it?

Me: no we’re trying to get rid of it

Racoon: ok I guess I don’t fucking understand at all then
October 4, 2023 at 5:03 PM
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visa and mastercard deciding what games are allowed to be sold is an apocalyptic level threat to the games industry. phone calls are the highest impact way to help.

this is an all hands on deck situation. the enemy got results with 1000 phone calls.

we can beat them

phone numbers and a script:
July 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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RIP Ozzy Osbourne, here are 7 heavy metals limited in our sewer system.
July 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Ea-Nasir
Had no fear
Of the kingdom's crime stoppers
As he knew they were inferior coppers
July 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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ICE and BP are heavily targeting people in their vehicles right now. You can’t attempt to use your rights if you don’t know what they are. Knowing them may protect you against a forced abduction, search, or seizure when being pulled over.

Here’s what to know. lataco.com/car-ice-rights
July 23, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references.

Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.
Exotic Animal Photo Reference Repository
www.animal-photo-references.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Inventor of the GIF, hearing about Notre Dame burning: oh no the jarjoyles
June 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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there will be heat.
there will be humidity.
there will be sun.
there will be darkness.
there will be rain.
there will be wind.
there will be storms.
there will be middle of the days.
there will be overnights.
there will be water flowing.
there will be work to do.
there will be.

there? we’ll be.
July 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Added to my tbr
You know what, fuck it; You want strong women? How about polyamorous lesbian dragons, 12+ butches, a fat trans femme romantic lead, and lesbians everywhere?

vaeladenarr.itch.io/on-wings-of-fallen-stars

"All the strong women are lesbians" is a skill issue, and I'm not giving them back.
July 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
This picture of our cat never fails to send my wife into a hysterical laughing fit, especially because I like to just send it to her randomly. I can't wait for her to see this.

Btw, Jass was the first cat we adopted as a couple and we still have her. She's 18 years old now.
July 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Samos' wisdom
#jakanddaxter
July 11, 2025 at 1:33 AM
“I asked Grok” “I asked Chat GPT”

Yeah well I asked the plants and the rocks and they said you’re a bitch
July 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM