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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃

@tractorgoth.bsky.social

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🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ 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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Get Knitfaced In CO @getknitfacedinco.com · 7h

Pretty yarn for your doomscrolling. 👻
#knit #indiedyedyarn #crochet #craft

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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 1d

"... she has now stowed her phone under a loose plank in the floor, she can hear every message coming through as a testament to her shame."

AuDHD woman’s unread messages beating damningly under floorboards

An auDHD woman is being tortured by the tell-tale sound of her countless unread notifications pinging underneath the floorboards, it has been reported. Navya Randhawa, 30, knows her emails, texts and…

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 6h

There’s gonna be a line, I wonder if they know how many salmon canon fans there are!!

🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 6h

It’s nice to have some FLAVOR in your food, right??

🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 6h

As obnoxious and invasive as they are they’re also beautiful and talented and it’s not their fault they’re here, so I’m afraid I am actually Team Starlings Are Great

🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 6h

I have that one too 😂 which dad did you end up going for!

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 7h

Should add really that if you're a smol newsletter bean who would dearly love to NOT be on Substack, then I will happily roll (and manage) a Ghost install for you for cost + a small maintenance fee.

I'll talk you through setting up your own mailgun and stripe. Do that and you keep ALL your revenue.

John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 7h

Okay, Ghost V6 integrated with Tinybird for analytics is pretty damn filthy.

Been running @theupfront.media on Ghost for a while as part of our "No Nazi platforms" stack. Very happy with it (and with our Germany-based email hosting instead of Google Business)

The technology you use is a choice.

In many instances, the choice of platform or technology that a publisher makes can no longer be seen as neutral. Nowhere is that more clear than in journalism in the 2020s.

We are proud that The Up Front and all of our supporting digital infrastructure (like our email servers, data storage and collaboration tools) are either self-hosted and managed, or use trusted third parties who have policies that align with our values.

We reject platforms and technologies where our use would represent tacit support for — or tolerance of — the views of their owners or major funders where we disagree fundamentally with those views and the impact they have on the world.

We’re very selective in the socials we operate: we’re on Bluesky as our network of choice and use its atproto as our commenting system, curating a community of thoughtful feedback on our work and elevating other voices. We also have a LinkedIn page, because we understand its importance for our industry audience.

Perhaps more importantly, we don’t use toxic socials like Instagram, Facebook, Threads or X, which drive really unproductive behaviour in media outlets, journalists, readers and companies.

We choose our technical backend and partners carefully, selecting independent European vendors rather than US-based Big Tech, for ethical reasons, for data privacy, and because we care about supporting the good parts of the digital sector in the same way we know our subscribers care about supporting the good parts of the media sector.

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 7h

PUBLIC SALMON CANNON

ROSE @milkshakemotel.bsky.social · 3d

Portland art lovers and fans of unusual fish transportation MUST go see Sasha Fishman’s SHAD MODE at ILY2, there is a functional salmon cannon in the gallery with realistic weight hot pink rubber salmon you can chuck into it

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 23h

Worn down and burnt out as fuck this week but I also look like a dead eyed average looking middle aged guy I would see tumblr posts about and that’s frankly a decent consolation prize

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 23h

I have a solid theory going about not looking in mirrors at night, so far 100% success rate

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 23h

“You really think someone would do that?? Tell lies in the [BIRD GROUPCHAT]?”

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 23h

Too late for the Hot Twink transition, just in time for Depressed Videogame DILF transition

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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70s Sci-Fi Art @70sscifiart.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan

Star Trek TOS art, featuring floating heads of Kirk, Spock, and Bones.

Poster for Blade Runner, featuring floating heads of the characters.

Poster for Back to the Future Part II, with Doc and Marty both lifting shades to look at their watches with the Delorean nearby.

Poster for ET, with ET in the woods reaching for a floating UFO, with the lights of a city grid in the background.

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bean baguette @thebeanbaguette.bsky.social · 1d

Hi #portfolioday! I'm bean, an illustrator, cartoonist, and fiber artist specializing in animals and fantasy.

Available for both illustration and needle felted work starting in January, and especially interested in TTRPGs and indie games!
✉️ me @ annalark.art

Needle felted cat with his ghost friend in a pumpkin patch, 2023

Created for Cantrip Candles FEAST line, 2025

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

Had coffee at the bridge with adventure cat and heard some REAL birds (starlings are not real)

Supervised walkies reduce insanity (hers and mine) and replace her preferred form of stimulation, woodland creature genocide

Swamp sparrow, Canada goose, eastern towhee, American goldfinch, yellow rumped warbler, eastern bluebird, northern flicker.

Northern flicker, hermit thrush, eastern towhee, white breasted nuthatch, white throated sparrow, American Robin

Persons legs hanging off a bridge over a small creek, a hand in a flannel shirt petting a small tortie tabby

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

(We do actually have a regular eagle visitor but they are NOT here this morning. My mockingbird is livid with jealousy)

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

Jesus Christ, Ms. Overachiever up here

Another long list of birds being imitated by a starling including a kildeer and a motherfuckin BALD EAGLE

List goes on including a kinglet and a red bellied woodpecker

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

Merlin: I heard ALL these birds in twenty seconds

Me, at the bottom of the list: sure you did, you gullible rube

Merlin bird id saying it heard a blue jay, white throated sparrow, red bellied woodpecker, eastern meadowlark, red winged blackbird

And a yellow rumped warbler, American goldfinch, and……European starling

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Lindsey Wailes @linwail.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting this guy since he never loaded properly in my other post

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

In fairness people also die of acknowledging it!

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

I hope it turns up somewhere if only to reassure you that it wasn’t a particularly weird and tedious group hallucination!

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

Prominently featuring the romance between a slutty defrosted Viking found in a glacier, an exasperated 00s billionaire’s estranged child unwillingly cryogenically frozen following an illness, and the research team who really just wanted textile facts neither of them actually know

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

I ALMOST got this when I picked up my preorder last week, I don’t think I’m going to succeed on my will save when I have to go back to pick up The Graceview Patient this week

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 1d

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy passed away today according to the House of GG. She was a veteran of the Stonewall rebellion and a lifelong organizer for the safety and dignity of trans people, sex workers, and the incarcerated. She came from the same generation and milieu as Marsha and Sylvia. She was 78.

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