@tjbarnes.bsky.social
She/they // Rat wrangler, art hobbyist, amateur baker // 💍Andy
Using racism stone on Eevee and it turns into Jontreon
16.07.2025 16:25 — 👍 6207 🔁 1204 💬 89 📌 29computer always trying to get me to "connect to the cloud" what are you a fuckin Care Bear
24.06.2025 11:41 — 👍 128 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 1Dumb joke for you:
This is butter?
-actually, it's ghee.
-oh, thanks for clarifying.
fuck webp's, all my homies hate webp's
#art
#comic
it's grunch week now, and it started today
time to keep it grunchy in a major way
#grunchweek #timetogrunch #grunchweakforgrunchweek #doesanyoneevenreadhashtags #grunch
A pet rat in a travel cage, looking at the camera.
Bento not understanding that we were in the bathroom for a tornado warning, and instead wondering why mom wasn't playing with her at 3 am.
03.04.2025 13:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Bento and Whiskey!
23.03.2025 13:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A rat is poking her head out of a blanket.
A rat is inside a cage sitting on a multicolored wooden bridge.
A rat is sitting on someone's leg.
Hi from my rats 🥰
23.03.2025 13:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
She spent 2 weeks locked up in freezing cold cells, sleeping on the floor, eating rancid food, and she had not broken a single law — nor entered the U.S. illegally. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
19.03.2025 13:42 — 👍 35 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 4I'm sorry for raining on this parade, but the "transgender mice" talking point is bullshit, but not because someone mistook "transgenic" for "transgender."
The blog post that kicked it off (from a partisan bullshit website) listed a number of papers testing the effects of sex hormones on animals.
a marker and colored pencil doodle of two rats cuddling together
playing around with my alcohol markers and colored pencils :>
21.02.2025 23:04 — 👍 144 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 0on one hand, I see how this would get you blacklisted today. but on the other hand this really seems par for the course for 2007 humor
14.02.2025 02:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
TO THE YOUNG WHO WANT TO DIE Sit down. Inhale. Exhale. The gun will wait. The lake will wait. The tall gall in the small seductive vial will wait will wait: will wait a week: will wait through April. You do not have to die this certain day. Death will abide, will pamper your postponement. I assure you death will wait. Death has a lot of time. Death can attend to you tomorrow. Or next week. Death is just down the street; is most obliging neighbor; can meet you any moment. You need not die today. Stay here - through pout or pain or peskyness. Stay here. See what the news is going to be tomorrow. Graves grow no green that you can use. Remember, green's your color. You are Spring.
On the days I am about to give up, this Gwendolyn Brooks poem gives me an anchor.
09.02.2025 23:13 — 👍 9410 🔁 1782 💬 221 📌 83I had a female rat who was a rescue and was crazy friendly and sweet. I'm mildly allergic to my rats and had to start taking Claritin every day because she always wanted to rub up against my face, give kisses, pee on me, everything.
09.02.2025 22:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0My least favorite thing about Dead Internet is all the AI recipe posts on other platforms. The images are clearly fake, the recipes won't produce the item in the image, etc. it's just annoying since I used to get so inspired by recipe posts and now it's just slop.
04.02.2025 14:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a pet rat approaches a person wearing an orange sweater for pets and snuggles.
a second rat has approached the orange sweater
we are being affectionate and cuddly today #rats
29.01.2025 19:42 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service.
“Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.
A pet rat (Bento) stands on a beds headboard, touching the wall with one paw. A lamp in the background provides warm lighting and dramatic shadows.
A pet rat (Whiskey)rests her head in someone's hand, atop a blue blanket.
A Bento and a Whiskey photo in these trying times #rats
24.01.2025 23:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One of the main causes is bird flu (H5N1). We are in the middle of the largest bird flu outbreak in US history. Very lethal to birds. Supply is low, but demand remains high. Doesn't usually affect humans, but dairy and meat may go up as it starts to affect other animals.
24.01.2025 20:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trevor Project is national org that does crisis & suicide intervention for LGBT people, who are vulnerable now. www.thetrevorproject.org
There are plenty of organizations you can donate who are providing legal aid to immigrants such as IRAP refugeerights.org
It also never hurts to look locally.
Interesting article connecting ideas about sci-fi and Nietzsche and how it all relates to how tech bros idealize being above the law and think they'll win that.
20.01.2025 23:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black rat (named Bento) sitting on a person's leg. There is a second rat who is out of frame.
A black rat (named Bento) is sitting on a person's shoulder, nestled inside of the person's blonde hair.
Bento the rat is sitting on a purple hammock.
Bento has recovered really well from her lumpectomy !!! She has been such a good trooper thru the whole thing.
20.01.2025 20:47 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A black rat is poking out of a tissue box.
A black rat is hanging out in bed with blankets in the background.
A black rat is looking out of her cage.
A black rat is looking out of her cage.
more hellos from my littlest Bento #rats
16.11.2024 15:02 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two black rats have their heads stacked on top of each other, sticking out of a fluffy pink and blue hammock.
Hi #ratsofbluesky ! This is Bento (on top) and Whiskey (on bottom), my two girls 🐀🐀 #rats
19.10.2024 02:08 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
