ashgcy

Chief Editor and Community Manager for @ARKSunken and Father to ARK’s Gigantoraptor

[ashgcy @ashgcy]

LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL BIRD GO

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE AT WC FOR BRINGING MY CRITTER TO LIFE ♥️

[ARK: Survival Ascended @survivetheark]

🦖 Introducing the Gigantoraptor: Gentle giant. Fierce protector. Master nurturer.

🎮 Gigantoraptor just made its grand debut on The Island!

https://t.co/eFD3n2Ef0A

[ashgcy @ashgcy]

@LutheBunny That’s so awesome, thanks!

(Btw wonderful art I forgor to say :)))

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box.

The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year.

A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease.

Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk."

One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks.

If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you.

The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

[Rones @RonesRexouium]

WE FUCKING TOLD YOU

STAGE 9

IF YOU ARE TRANS, FUCKING ARM YOURSELVES

[apartadomex @ApartadoMex]

🚨 ¡XOCHIMILCO AGONIZA! DENUNCIAN AGUAS CONTAMINADAS EN EL SANTUARIO DEL AJOLOTE
Lo que ves en este video no es solo agua sucia, es la sentencia de muerte para el ajolote mexicano. El proyecto "Santuario Ajolote" ha alzado la voz para mostrar cómo las aguas jabonosas y los residuos domésticos se vierten directamente en los canales de Xochimilco. Mientras el mundo admira a nuestra especie más emblemática en billetes y museos, su hogar real se ha convertido en un depósito de drenaje.
La opacidad en la gestión del agua en la Ciudad de México es alarmante. A pesar de los censos que confirman el colapso de la población de ajolotes —pasando de 6,000 a solo 36 ejemplares por kilómetro cuadrado en pocos años—, las descargas ilegales y la falta de plantas de tratamiento eficientes continúan. Xochimilco no es solo una zona de fiesta en trajinera; es un ecosistema crítico que estamos perdiendo por pura negligencia institucional.

[Matt Braly @Radrappy]

HERE WE GO - I am very proud to announce that an animation studio based in Thailand has acquired the rights to my movie. They are called "The MONK Studios", are based in Bangkok, and are passionately pursuing a way to make this discarded film a reality.

[Leah Dionne @leahdionne__]

It makes me sad that he’s been ringing the alarm of climate disaster for decades and everyone is just like ‘aw what a sweet old national treasure’ and ignoring him

[ashgcy @ashgcy]

@DarkEdgeTV Me when I make a model of my friend and put it in the kiln to fire:

[rora / noah 🧁 relapsing @rorapilled]

“it’s fuck ai til your assignment is due in 25 mins” no it’s fuck ai and take your failing grade like a man

[ashgcy @ashgcy]

@KonciTheLock Unrelated but DITTO FROM BEN 10????

I love that design it’s so good

[Wyatt-Andrews-Workshop @wa_workshop]

ORANG-HILANG 1/19

[Coyote vs. ACME @CoyoteACMEMovie]

The trailer ACME doesn’t want you to see. Coyote vs. ACME. In theaters August 28.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds.

The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic pigeons bred to be small and white, and they have no survival skills outside a coop.

DIY releasers often buy white Ringneck Doves or King Pigeons, which have zero ability to navigate home. Nearly all of them die.

Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons kill birds. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. They get lost and starve.

Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, broken legs, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated the birds can barely stand.

One rehabber described treating a white pigeon from a release whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull.

There is no version of this tradition where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing story. The reality is that you paid to traumatize and usually kill a domestic animal for a 15-second photo moment.

If someone you know is planning a dove release for a wedding, funeral, or celebration, tell them. Bubbles, sparklers, dried flower petals, or ribbon throws all photograph beautifully and don't kill anything.

The birds are not props, they are live animals that need proper care.

[RickRaptor105 @RickRaptor105]

The Moby Dick fandom is dying.

Retweet if you're a true Dickhead.

[Mesozoic Travelogue @MesozoicDream]

A possible first direct preservation of terrestrial stalking behavior!!
: Newt-like animal abruptly changed the path and ran away, closely followed by a Neoazhdarchoid pterosaur.

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

RAPID MASS EXTINCTION: world-first study identifies >3,000 fish species caught in bottom trawls with researchers warning true figure could be nearly double

[Player One Stories @Player1Stories]

We are incredibly honored to announce our film Monster Hunter: Eko, which was captured entirely in-game of Monster Hunter Wilds, is now up on display at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, Washington to represent the art of in-game filmmaking. It will be playing every day for attendees for an entire year in their large Sound + Vision movie theater.

We are grateful and would like to thank @CapcomUSA_ for allowing this to happen, and to the development team of Monster Hunter Wilds for approving the film without any changes. We would also like to thank the entire team at @MoPOP for believing that this kind of film is art.

Important to note that the film itself was not made in association with Capcom, and the story is not related to the official main story of Monster Hunter Wilds. This was a personal film written and directed by @Lotims.

You can watch the film here: https://t.co/xuLIVyiiyn

If you wanted to catch it in the movie theater, it is playing week days at 3:15pm, and on weekends at 10:15am and 3:15pm.

@monsterhunter

[Fleischer Cartoons! @fleischertoons]

Almost at the halfway point. Please retweet or donate if you can

[ashgcy @ashgcy]

@1Karissel What if we allowed Dodogama to ascend to Elder Dragon status

Just the ultimate terraforming force of nature

[ashgcy @ashgcy]

@Tweeeze ZCI MENTION RAHHH