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Bartikus

@bartikus.bsky.social

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Programmer, YIMBY, dad. Connecticut.

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I got this book that says otherwise. “The Fort Bragg Cartel” by Seth Harp

Page 1: “Two veteran Special Forces soldiers, still drunk from the night before, their brains fried from a days-long binge on cocaine, MDMA, prescription pills, and a grab bag of mind-altering chemicals commonly sold in smoke shops as “bath salts,” were driving home from Walt Disney World the morning of March 21, 2018, when Sergeant First Class Mark Leshikar, riding in the passenger seat, developed an unshakable conviction that their car was being followed. Leshikar’s hard blue eyes, cracked with bloodshot veins from lack of sleep, studied the side-view mirror. He could have sworn that he saw shadowy pursuers on their tail, flitting in and out of the hazy lanes of traffic behind them on the Dixie Highway.

The driver of the car, Master Sergeant William Lavigne II, a member of the U.S. Army’s top-secret Delta Force who had been trained in evasive driving and countersurveillance, told Leshikar that he was hallucinating. They were northbound on Interstate 95, headed for Fort Bragg, North Carolina, where both men were stationed. Lavigne, the older and more highly ranking of the two, had been keeping a close watch on the rearview mirror for miles. There was no one on their six o’clock, he insisted. But Leshikar wouldn’t listen.

Two little girls, Lavigne’s daughter and Leshikar’s, were in the back…”

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Goddammit Spotify, what kind of father do you think I am?

Suggested “Fathers Day” playlist from Spotify, featuring “Cat’s in the Cradle” and “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Sound and Fog is adorable, and what every apartments-dweller deserves.

Google Street View of “Sound and Fog”, a nice coffee shop in a large apartment building in West Seattle. The building has a serene plaza under tall trees on a quiet side street. I could live and die there.

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

I got Guilford right here.

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Saw this in the Seattle 911 feed. What’s going on down there?

Photoshopped picture, alleging that the Seahawks playoff game is a “scenes of violence 12” incident

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

@dril: “issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding the terror group ISIL. you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"”

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

What up Aurora chat

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

New optical illusion just dropped

“Old woman/young woman” optical illusion by William Hill. It’s a picture that looks like an old woman with a heading, but simultaneously like a young woman with a hat looking away from the viewer.

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

@screaminbutcalm Twitter 2019
“Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.”

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Lets ask this visionary

Guy who said “the rent is too damn high”

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The sage’s words ring true to this day

Dril tweet: “the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”", 2014

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Hillary Clinton tweet: “delete your account”, originally to Trump in 2016

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I don’t think it’s *just* inflation. People would feel the wages more, if shelter weren’t eating up half of every new dollar coming in.

Housing prices coming out my generation / i sleep (pic of dude sleeping)
Egg / real shit (pic of dude awake, eyes burning with fire)

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Same energy

“I dated a 5'8 guy who'd taunt every jacked, 6'3 bro he met until they'd pull their fist back to beat him up, whereupon my ex would go "heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a little guy, I'm just a little guyy, noo, it's also my birthday, I'm a little birthday boyy" & it somehow
always worked” — tweet by @pissJugTycoon, August 2019

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

JUST WALK OUT
you can leave!!!

work
social thing
movies
home
class
dentist
clothes shoppi
too fancy weed store
cops if your quick
friend ships
capital gain for a fascist empire

IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!
~real winners quit~

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Reporting this dogshit post to bluesky mods for “harassment, trolling, or intolerance “

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

christ why

shinji, eyes bugging out in horror

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

if you see this, post a picture you took at sunset

Statue of Liberty, shot from ferry, setting sun behind clouds

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Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 15/06/2024

i needed to see it

Gendo from Evangelion, tenting his hands

underneath Gendo's hands, the two birds from the comic, imposed on his thumbs (sloppily)

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 23/03/2024

You've been murdered. Who do you want on the case?

McNulty and Bunk from The Wire, saying “fuck”

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Excerpt from https://achewood.com/2004/07/14/title.html, where, on a computer, someone drags a picture of a motorcycle over Mt Everest

Bartikus @bartikus.bsky.social · 12/01/2024

Harry Dubois, from the game Disco Elysium, shaved and expressionless