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Montana. Back-country hike, ski, etc. Weirdo underground house in the mountains. Pottery. #mtleg #mtpol. Motivated to Love Thy Neighbor (no exceptions). Quaker.

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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 19h
Finds on an #autumn afternoon walk. #photography #montana
a grey tree stump with arm-like branches wears a painted bucket as a hat, and has found objects attached like eyes and a nose, with bright yellow aspen trees in the backgroundclose view of sunlight filtering in through dense yellow and red shrubs, to illuminate bright white filaments of seed pods being blown sideways in the winda large, dead tree stands alone on a hillside, with vein-like branches framing a distant road leading to far mountainsview of a valley floor speckled with yellow aspens and green conifers, dwarfing a small pull behind camp trailer
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Forests showing their age. #Montana #photography #autumn
a path winds through a mixed forest of yellow, orange and green trees and shrubs, and tall green conifersClose view of a tangle of red, yellow, orange and green leaves clinging lightly to horizontal twigs of a choke cherry treeview up a steep hill that has been cleared by fire to a stand of burned trees on the horizon, below a blue sky with shredded wispy white cloudsclose view of a treed that has been burned, revealing curved layers of growth around old branches. The tree is studded with long, old nails and chunks of complicated barbed wire
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Get Lost. #Photography #Montana #autumn
White trunks of aspen trees interlace with each other above a yellow forest floor and below a yellow canopy of leavesA charred stand of pine trees stand black above brightly autumnal shrubs and grasses on the forest floorcircling red seedpods tangle around the fluffy white seeds of a fireweed plant standing above red, orange and yellow leaved shrubsa two track lane bends through a forest of yellow leaved aspens and choke cherries
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#Silentsunday #photography #MOntana
A grey, weathered old dead pine tree stands on a grassy hilltop. Its bare branches curve like the curves of the hills and clouds in the background
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
My body is a temple. My mind is a strip club. My soul is a crime scene. My love life is solitary confinement. My social life is a mosh pit. I could do this all day.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Late bloomers. #autumn #Montana #photography
a pale yellow potentilla flower blooms in the autumn suna bright yellow composite flower blooms in a field of tall yellow grassa purple gentian flower blooms in a field of grey yellow grassa pink geranium flower blooms in a ragged field backed by yellow, red, orange and green leaved shrubs
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wandering around, looking at things. #photography #Montana
A stand of aspen trees with yellow grass and leaves on the ground and yellow leaves on the tops of the treesview from a grassy hillside toward sun-dappled plains with square buttes in the distance under flat-bottomed grey cloudsa trail curves along the edge of a yellowing aspen grove with dark green conifers in the distance and even more distant mountainsa sandy colored mushroom rises wetly from a bed of pine needles and grass, into the sunshine
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Autumn #photography #Montana #bloomscrolling
a lone gaillardia flower blooms in a field of grass gone yellow with ageA Cluster of yellow flowers turning to seed on a stalk of red leavesA yellow aspen leaf lies on a bed of pine needles and twigs, bedazzled with shiny rain droplets
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
please stop posting "gift articles" that are data-pay-walled. Instead, how about writing a post about what you read in your bespoke news source? I don't want to give the NYT my money, my data, my time, my attention.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mood. #Autumn #photography #Montana
bright yellow shrubs grow in front of tall dark green pines, with the sun shining down, casting rainbow refractions through the scene
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"During an unpopular and unjust war, common soldiers expressing their discontent can be an immensely powerful constituency." Support our troops by not sending them to wars nobody signed up for. #endlesswar #GIHotline #MoralInjury www.currentaffairs.org/news/service...
currentaffairs.org
Service Members Should Refuse to Fight Trump’s Illegal Wars
Attacking Iran serves America’s rulers, not its people. Are military leaders going to get away with sending you to another pointless war?
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Some of my neighbors here in Montana say they're willing to pay for trump tariffs and diesel, because the 'believe in' Trump. I'm not sure about the moral clarity of either position.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
OR You could create parties which are responsive to the needs of the people rather than to the needs of the political class.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
cbc, bbc, Inkstick, The Economist, Reuters, Christian Science Monitor
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚁𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 @unfitz.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
“What fresh fuckery is this?” I say while putting aside the expired fuckery.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Curiously, he can no longer answer direct questions with specific answers.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Being vulnerable is risky, but it can also help remind us all that people actually do care about each other. Even when its fashionable to be snarky.☮️
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is why our MoCs won't support Mandatory Country of Origin labeling #MCOOL for beef.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Someone tell Uncle Cletus that I found out where he left Old Yeller, the huntin' truck he left behind when it wouldn't start and was too drunk to remember where he left it.... #Montana #parking #photography
a broad, open hill top with a yellow truck, under huge, billowing white clouds in a blue skyA broken down old yellow pick up truck sits on a rocky hilltop under a blue sky with dramatic cloudsan old yellow pick up truck with a blue interior which has been chewed on, stands with its door open, reflecting the view behind the camera, in the door mirror
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
"Natalie, do you take this obese, malodorous felon to be your lawfully wedded pedophile?" "I SO DO!!!"
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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) Black Accompaniment. 1924 (watercolour and India ink on paper laid down on the artist's mount) Christie's
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
#cleanwater #NWEnergyrates #dataCenters #GreatFalls #Montana
Great Falls Data Center Moratorium Rally
Golden Triangle Resource Council
Saturday, August 22nd
10am
Central Avenue Bridge, Great Falls
Join us August 22, 2026 to call on our local elected officials to adopt a countywide moratorium on data centers, and advocate for a 2-year statewide moratorium alongside communities across the state. Northern Plains Resource Council is holding a statewide day of action to call on our elected officials to keep our rates low, our water safe, and our communities strong by implementing a 2-year moratorium on all hyperscale data center development. Join and march with our local Golden Triangle Resource Council team to stand alongside seven communities across the state, and keep big tech away from our public resources. Meet on the Central Avenue Bridge on Saturday, August 22nd, at 10am with posters and signs as we push for a local and statewide moratorium.
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Enough is enough. The war on Iran is not making us safer. It's only causing needless suffering, destabilizing the region, and making daily life even more unaffordable for families here at home. #WarIsNotTheAnswer!
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US Gas Prices Set Mid-August Record After Trump Vows to 'Never Apologize' for Prolonged Iran War | Common Dreams
Trump campaigned on fixing the affordability crisis but defends high gas prices as the cost of preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons that his own administration said Tehran is not trying to…
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A-Moo’s Boos 👻 @asclepiasrosa.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I’m not messy, I just don’t know how to outsmart entropy
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FCNL @fcnl.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
In the wealthiest nation in the world, allowing any child to go hungry is unacceptable. Yet without urgent congressional action, millions more families across the country could lose the food assistance they rely on. This is not a partisan issue, but a moral one.⬇️
fcnl.org
This Week in the World: Mobilizing to Protect Food for Families | Friends Committee On National Legislation
“A child hunger crisis is unfolding in plain sight.”That was the warning this week from experts from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities over the fallout from President Trump’s devastating…
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Why yes, Mr. #Moose DID come to visit me at my campsite in #Jasper last week. #photography #hiking
A bull moose stands in a grassy field between a stream in the foreground, and a forest and rocky mountains in the background.A bull moose with velvety antlers crosses a stream in a forest. A bull moose with velvety antlers and a growing dewlap looks directly at the camera with yellow eyes.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
TBH I don't want news organizations to tell anything 'straight down the middle'. I'll figure out where 'the middle' is on my own, thank you very much.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Red sky at night Sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, Sailors take warning. Red sky all day, Oil execs got a payday. #climate #wildfires #Montana
An orange-tinted sun shines through smokey skies  over an orange-tinted wheat field stretching unbroken through the frame. Foreground of a few dark fence posts.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We all know Task Rabbit. Meet Track Rabbit.
A rabbit sits on the ties between railroad tracks
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
"Montana's lack of regulation is making it a target for massive data center developers." Here's an opportunity to ask Cascade County commissioners to develop specific regulatory safeguards for data center development in the region. #GreatFalls #datacenter #power www.krtv.com/news/data-ce...
krtv.com
Data centers coming to Montana? Great Falls community weighs in
Large-scale data centers could be coming to Montana — and conversations continue on the impact it could bring to the state.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It isn't "healthcare". It is a medical industrial complex.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Next he'll be giving them all brown-brown.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Just got off the phone with my "health insurance" syndicate, and have decided that from now on I will simply never go to another doctor ever again. If you find me dead from a completely preventable disease, please feed my body to vultures.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Today's flowers are brought to you by #Pink. #photography #Montana #bloomscrolling
close up of a pink monarda flower fully opened, with its pistels pointing up and out like fireworksclose up of a pink thistle flower in a field of wildflowers. its petals shoot backward and its pistels shoot forward like a pincushion.close up of a pink sanfoin flower in a field of sanfoin. The petals are illuminated and candy-stripedA white sego lily opens in a grassy field of lupine, clover, sage and other purple and pink flowers
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Now that I look at your feed, I feel that I must make it clear that I specialize in pretty flowers, and its all about color!
four stark red tulip flowers lifting from a dark green understory, with their petals widely open and catching sunlight from above
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I may be nothing more than an old, moss-encrusted forest troll, but I can still become utterly besotted with #Montana in July. #photography #bloomscrolling
a mountain meadow filled with tall blue, yellow, purple, pink and white wildflowers, with tall mountains  and windmills in the distance.a grassy meadow on rolling green hills, filled with yellow, white, pink andpurple wildflowersa grassy meadow on rolling green hills, filled with yellow, white, pink andpurple wildflowersclose up of red and purple lupine flowers, in a grassy field filled with many more lupines and pink geraniums.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Poppin' me a big bowl of show-watchin' popcorn for this.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
People are telling me that Trump airport's three letter code will be PDO. I'm hearing that from a lot of people.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Does Iran know?
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
The media’s language in coverage of sexual violence is so wild compared to any other subject matter. Instead of “it rained” they’re like “Several women allege that they received nonconsentual water upon their persons. We interviewed men they know, who confirmed that the women seemed damp.”
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Stars fell on #Montana last night. #photography #hiking #bloomscrolling
long view of a greening plateau with lakes and scattered patches of snow, with a ledge of snow in the foreground and a puffy white cloud above mirroring the snowin the foreground a long plateau with greening grass and many yellow, orange, white and blue wildflowers, with distant tall mountains with patches of snowhikers eye view of a path winding through a grassy meadow studded with white, blue, pink and yellow wildflowers
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Saw me some goats and wildflowers today on my hike. #Montana #hiking #bloomscrolling
wide grassy plain speckled with alpine wildflowers leads to distant, snow covered mountains. Hiker's feet in near foregroundA mountain goat with long tufts of shedding fur trailing away from her face, stands on a rock next to a glacier, with greening, snow-covered and craggy hills behindA mountain goat mother with her fluffy white kid lick salt from rocks on a cliff sidemeadow of wildflowers next to a glacial lake beneath rocky mountains streaked with snow
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My kinda #parade. #Montana
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
thread of posts begins: doctor here. Giving an hour long speech in 107 heat is not recommended. Second poster: Shush. Third poster: I heard Obama did two hours
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My excuse for being so slow on the trail was that it was steep, and I was tired. But really, I just had to keep stopping to admire the sun filtering through the fir forest, onto the orchids. #photography #hiking #Montana #bloomscrolling
A shaft of sunlight penetrates a dark fir forest to illuminate one branch festooned with lichenby the side of a rocky path running through a forest stands two lady slipper orchidstall red spikes of choral root flowers shoot from a dense forest floor, reaching into filtered sunlightA brown and yellow speckled chocolate lily nods its head in the filtered sunlight of a forest floor
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fantastic day for a hike - not hot, not cold, sun, clouds, and wildflowers galore. #Montana #hiking
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BeatGhoul @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This artwork is a spray paint mural titled "America 250" created by artist Topsy in 2026. It features a stylized character inspired by Uncle Sam alongside fireworks and text commemorating the 250th anniversary. The piece has been identified in a public space, possibly in Seattle.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Wow! I did not know this. Smarty-birds!
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This particular Brahma is actually quite tame... it is owned by a bonafide rodeo clown, who's off to Harlowton for the weekend.
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JKrotkov @jkrotkov.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You know its rodeo season when a Brahma bull shows up in your back yard in #Montana.
a grey and black brahma bull stands on a lawn.
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