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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Pros: my favorite barista is working and in control of the playlist. Lots of Björk. Cons: this elder bro next to me is talking very loudly about his opinions to his friend and she is not stopping this train from going full speed.

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Re This case: Most media are focusing on their own states, but this was a multi-state trip. The person took the whole route of the Southwest Chief, so Illinois through the midwest, then across S. Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona before LA. Then up the coast, and back across on California Zephyr.

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Person with measles rode Amtrak trains and buses across CA, health officials say

The California Department of Public Health said the unvaccinated passenger stopped at six California stations, including downtown Sacramento.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Someone on the radio disparaged Third Eye Blind's debut by saying all the songs are bad after Jumper, and I maintain the final 3 songs are the best on the album. Anyway that why I'm inking a thousand bats while listening to an album I haven't touched since college.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Reminding you that unvaccinated rabies has a 100% fatality rate. Once you are symptomatic, it's too late. As a certified bat lover and member of the Two Bats Besties, don't touch wild bats. Put a box on em and call the professionals. Did you know course of rabies vaccine cost $10k? You do now.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I shouldn't have opened this app today. Why is everything so terrible?

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Guess who's got some more monster smut coming?

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the IRS has helpfully included this blurb at the end of this instruction packet, for a form I need that states I am a resident and do live here. It will cost me $85 to file this.

Image of IRS form text: The time needed to complete and file this form will vary depending on individual circumstances. The estimated average time is:

Recordkeeping

33 min.

Learning about the law

or the form

1hr., 13 min.

Preparing the form.

1 hr., 3 min.

Copying, assembling, and sending the

form

to the IRS

48 min.

If you have comments concerning the accuracy of these time estimates or suggestions for making this form simpler, we would be happy to hear from you. You can send us

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Actually yes I have seen bats this cute, and you can too at the annual Minnesota Bat Festival, held every October. It's on Halloween this year! Come learn about bats, go on a bat walk, see some bats. www.fws.gov/event/2026-m...

fws.gov

2026 Minnesota Bat Festival | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Come celebrate and learn about the unique role that bats play both in Minnesota and world-wide during International Bat Week at Minnesota Valle

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I have begun abstracting the bat horde so I don't have to draw all of them individually and they're starting to look like rabbits...

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Follow me for more hot/gross monster feet. Feet are real easy to draw if you just make 'em up. What do monster feet look like? No one knows.

In progress drawing of bat lady feet gripping a wooden beam. Overly large, taloned toes, sinewy scrawny hairy legs. Red line sketches of her many billions of tiny bat friends.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I think library books should have teirs, and anything over 600 pages automatically has an additional week on checkout no matter how new.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did I just find two bees boning in my backyard?

Two fluffy bees, one on top of the other, possibly boning?

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I've hardly had time to work on this but I finally have a few free hours today.

A mass of writhing human bodies, pressed against one another, tortured hands reaching and grasping. Some root-like structures growing here and there. Pencil and ink sketch.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

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When I say the purpose of the tech is to erase consent…

“The amended complaint contends that “no reasonable consumer would expect that a product marketed as privacy-protective is a conduit for AI training and systemic surveillance,” nor “would any reasonable consumer understand ‘designed for privacy’ or ‘controlled by you’ to mean that everything the Glasses’ AI sees and hears, including people’s most intimate moments, could be viewed by strangers overseas and used to train Meta’s AI.””

It argues that “millions” of consumers may have unwittingly been impacted, and that “no bystanders anywhere had any opportunity to, much less in fact did, consent to having their faces, bodies, voices, and personal information captured, reviewed, labeled, and embedded into Meta’s AI systems.”

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

More unions for everyone please. Comics could use a union.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

40th is the e/w bike blvd for S Minneapolis and sucks because there're NO traffic signals at any of the major streets east of 35. There's other reasons it was a bad street to make the blvd, but that's a big one. If they want anyone to use it, the Cedar/40th intersection needs a real traffic signal.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Grabbing a beer and playing Big Walk with my homies.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You get a lot of rejection and a lot of self questioning drawing by yourself in a little hag cave, and then you wake up one morning to an acceptance email. So I can't be too terrible at this.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

If you're uninsured, COVID vaccines cost $100-200+. The state has a handy map of places that theoretically offer UUAV clinics. Many of the links are dead. So. Keep masking.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Help report this shop. All these brushes are stolen, many still include the logos or names of the actual creators. You can't report a whole shop on mobile, you'll need to switch to desktop mode.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger: A Perfect Sphere

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Most owls have asymmetrical ears, allowing them to precision pinpoint sound origin. Eye color will often tell you if an owl is nocturnal (black), crepuscular (orange), or diurnal (yellow).

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Draw a pained mass of flesh screaming for freedom.

Pencil drawing. Twisted limbs, hands clawing, arms bursting forth from an unseen (presently undrawn) center, yearning for freedom. Lil lead sharpener hiding some tiddies.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

🧵Pedestrians: when I shout "ON YOUR LEFT", I'm not mad at you. It's not an indictment. I'm letting you know I'm gonna pass you on the left. I don't want to startle you, or you to suddenly move into my path. I'm loud because a lot of you wear headphones and I need to make sure you heard me. 1/2

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TAHK0 @tahk0.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

it’s not me who is wrong, it’s flip canvas horizontally who is wrong

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Shitty day, but topped up with library Christmas. I was 34 when I first put this on my hold list. The Devils, by @joeabercrombie.com , and a decaf May Day. Cover by Will Staehle, which I have to call out because that's darkly brilliant.

Hardcover library copy of The Devils, by Joe Abercrombie. Features a block print of a red skull on a black background. The lower jaw is a crown, it has two stubby burning candles for horns.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I used to Freshbooks for invoicing (monthly sub), now I use Square (per transaction fee). I don't love using PayPal but I've done it. It's absolutely a fraud issue. You're skating their TOS. Your service tag should always just say "commission" and it's not up to the customer to fill it in.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 17/08/2026

Who's deciding the fate of this game?' The secretive process of getting a game with sexual content on Steam aftermath.site/steam-censorsh...

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Trust the process, draw a monster.

Sketchy drawing of a screaming bat lady in pencil and pen. She's scrawny, nude, her legs covered in fur and bats, with large wings. She is standing in a lath and plaster wall, full of tiny little round bats

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Someone thinks my bat lady should be upside down and I'm not the print police. You can hang it however you want. But I flipped it just to see how it'd look and...dang. not bad.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I have now heard someone describe a calzone as a "covered pizza."

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Oh my god. They've been hiding it all along.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Screaming bat lady monster, covered in little bats.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Shout out to David Slade for directing the Clubbed to Death music video, which is giving me some incredible reference for screaming mouth shapes for the Bat Lady comic.

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Worth reading for the tech specs and meely mouthed "we swear this won't cause permanent injury," and where they're SUPPOSED to aim, but the real meat is this passage. As usual, wear hoodies, hard pants, and now probably decent gloves.

Screenshot of article text: Crucially, the GLOVE has limitations, chief among them that for the device to work effectively and deliver its restraining pain shock, it must come into contact with the subject's bare skin. According to Compliant Technologies, the gloves won't work through dry clothing or thick hair. The gloves will work, however, if the subject is wearing thin, wet clothing, such as soaked T-shirts or blouses. The GLOVE also does not like being dunked in water and will likely be rendered inoperable if this happens.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The people have spoken. (also I am eager to show this off even though it's way to fucking hot to wear it)

Thrifted orange leather moto jacket with quilted shoulders, hanging in front of a white closet door, next to a wide brimmed black wool hat that it is also too hot to wear.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I need it to cool the fuck down so I can wear this orange leather moto I thrifted.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If I believed in omens I would link the first strange small death this morning, when a mouse strangled itself on my door, with subsequent events in the day. It's been a weird fuckin Monday.

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BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Never has my heart been so shattered as overhearing 2 people talk about the "new Utena movie" and realizing it's just the rerelease of the old one. For a few brief seconds though...

BΔRBΔRΔ @marteani.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Last night in Mad Maxxeapolis.