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LUNATRAKTORS

@lunatraktors.bsky.social

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Broken folk experimentalists. If you're into weird folk music with drums and drones you might like this: https://lunatraktors.bandcamp.com/

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · Sep 13

Solidity forever
The union never dies
Solidarity forever
In the face of all their endless lies
Decolonise

Wonderful footage of our #MidsummerNightsEve show for @thenestcollective.bsky.social. Maybe our best live recording ever!

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Lunatraktors - Solidarity Forever (Live at Campfire Club)

YouTube video by The Nest Collective

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

Britain has now spent £60m and killed half its population of badgers, having ... 🥁🥁🥁 ... absolutely no effect whatsoever on bovine TB. You know what spreads TB to cows? Other cows, especially factory farming (and maybe sheep and deer).

So what are MPs planning to do next?

Vaccinate badgers.

Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

The cull is collapsing under its own weight, and it is collapsing because people refused to accept a lie.

protectthewild.substack.com/p/badger-cul...

Badger cull dismantled from all sides in landmark Parliament debate

The cull is collapsing under its own weight, and it is collapsing because people refused to accept a lie.

protectthewild.substack.com

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks for sharing, this looks great.

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

"It is essential that we hold immigrants to higher standards than we hold ourselves. Double standards have been a proud British tradition since the Enlightenment and are a founding principle of colonialism."

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

Radioactive stuff! It's the new thing! Let's put it in toothpaste!

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

"Oh, you might like novels! Clearly you should start at the beginning, so here's Tristram Shandy."

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

Pssst: If you like #FolkHorror, you would like one of these. And also some of this by @stickinthewheel.bsky.social, who we are going to finally get to see live TOMORROW NIGHT IN LIMERICK!

stickinthewheel.bandcamp.com/album/help-t...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 2d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to reading Fungal Misadventure when it comes out

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 2d

Work in progress clips from the Old Market House Art Centre in Dungarvan

#Somatic #Stimming #MusicTheatre #Folk #CreativeWellbeing

R&D project for Time Weavers - an inclusive, family-friendly experimental musical - funded by @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social and @creativeeuireland.bsky.social

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 11d

These are wonderful - definitely want more pics like this in our feed! Also hungry for anything and everything about Traveller / Romani / Gypsy rights and culture.

We're a queer 'broken folk' duo, posting about traditional music, ancient weirdness and contemporary folk cultures.

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 11d

Trans rights are being used by Christian Nationalists - aka Christofascists - as wedge issues to fracture community consensus in multiple countries. In Ireland, Enoch Burke's family are currently attacking a presidential candidate using this tactic. UK politics totally infested with it.

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 25d

Next time you see an anti-trans court case in the news, think twice about who’s behind it 👀

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 12d

We were just thinking of the phantom island Hy-Brasil yesterday, listening to the late, great Manchán Magan talking about Ireland's sacred places.

(Weirdly, Deception Isle on the image shared by Wikipedia does actually exist!)

rte.ie/player/series/listen-to-the-land-speak/10001901-00-0000

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 12d

Honoured to have been asked to perform at the opening of 'HeArt of Gaza' exhibition at the Old Market House Art Centre in Dungarvan. Please join us there at 2:45pm today if you can.

Thanks to @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social for supporting this important initiative.

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HeART of Gaza Exhibition and Children’s Workshops • Culture Night

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 12d

This is our blessed sacrament - the sacred oils and dust.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12d

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 12d

Why is everyone reading? You should all be out among the ancient sacred stones, painting yourself with bone ash...

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 12d

Honestly, we'd go for a cheap pill and a pint over blow and fizz with the yuppies any day. Conversation would be much more interesting for a start.

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 12d

Check this out. Writers aren't necessarily the best readers of their own work - performing text is a totally different skill from writing it. Tom Cox has both abilities though!

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13d

I've also added an audio version of this (read by me, not a robot) in case you can't be arsed to read yet more stuff from a screen.

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 13d

I've decided to make this piece permanently unpaywalled, as a sample of the writing I do on my newsletter. If you like it, you might enjoy a subscription. If not, you probably won't.

P.S. It's significantly better if you read it to the end, I promise.

www.tom-cox.com/once-upon-a-...

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 13d

So retro-futuristical!

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 15d

Sure, just one or two minor patches there.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 15d

Same for us: anyone who was our 'fan' on Spotify and stops listening because we left probably wasn't the sort of fan we need!

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 15d

We know many people who've made this difficult step, from Substack and from Patreon. It's a horrible, punitive process but everyone tells us that the end result - freedom - is worth it! ❤️‍🔥

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LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 15d

We're struggling too. And honestly: playing music. It's the only healthy coping strategy we've found. Whether it's other people's or your own practicing, or just singing / humming, or listening to running water. Tune your gifted perception to a deeper and deeper appreciation of beauty.

LUNATRAKTORS @lunatraktors.bsky.social · 15d

Vultures as museum curators.

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Found: 650-year-old shoe, in vulture nest

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests.