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Bat
@bouncybat.bsky.social
34, They/Them/Theirs
☆ A creature, -⃝⃤
☆ 23 years a furry
☆ Mycology photographer and enthusiast
☆ Art of all kinds
☆ Bit of a gym rat
💍 @baahemian.bsky.social 💖🐑
No minors please!

AI is never used in the creation of any art or craft I make.
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I got nothin’
more bat gurl doodlin
January 25, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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The correct answer to this is "Yes, and everyone else too."
Should artists get a basic income like they do in Ireland?
Could the government pay salaries to musicians and artists - no strings attached like they do in Ireland?
www.bbc.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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rats that jump from the sinking ship are still rats, but at least the ship is sinking
* FETTERMAN: SUPPORT STRIPPING DHS FROM APPROPRIATIONS BILL

#PAsen
January 26, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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one of the reasons everybody hates late arrivals from the right or even the center is they're all weepy little idiots who want to be coddled and forgiven and make it everybody else's problem. shut up, figure out how to help fix what you broke, and stop writing thinkpieces
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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they need to have the sense to sneak in the back and start stacking chairs and sweeping floors instead of running straight for the goddamned mic
January 26, 2026 at 6:06 PM
No time to doom scroll when you’re out helping your neighbors dig out their cars, sidewalks, and steps from snow 👍
If you feel helpless and overwhelmed and stuck in a hole— help someone. It will bring you to your feet. We are in this together.
January 26, 2026 at 4:43 PM
You know, I think the way my brain set up is fine. The people who can not feel accomplished through empathy, mutual support, and self awareness, who only find it through capital gain, ego, and power through absolute authority have something fundamentally broken inside them.
I think one of the most frustrating things for many neurodivergent people is that we cannot understand why people don’t give a fuck about things that could make the world a better and kinder place - that’s what happens when your emotional circuitry doesn’t work “effectively”
January 26, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I’m starting a traditional painting, while also using the judging looks of many tiny horses to keep me motivated
January 25, 2026 at 3:27 AM
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This is amazing and wonderful, North American grasslands are the most endangered biome we have because they have largely been plowed under for monocrop agriculture since the mid-19th century.
Conservation nonprofit American Prairie in Montana has acquired holdings now spanning more than 2,428 km², the nonprofit aims to stitch together 12,950 km² of shortgrass prairie, home to bison, badgers, prairie dogs, ferrets, pronghorn, sage grouse and swift fox. buff.ly/PJYfnwi
#ShareGoodNewsToo
Victory for public access: American Prairie unlocks another 70,000 acres in Montana
Conservation group opens gated road and tears down "no trespassing" signs with purchase from Texas billionaire brothers.
buff.ly
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Slightly diminish a band

Acquaintance the Imp
Slightly diminish a band:
Front Line Some Assembly Required.
Slightly diminish a band: Immobile Mode

(if anyone gets this, I'm impressed)
January 11, 2026 at 10:28 PM
So as it stands now, Flu-A has rendered me unable to taste sweet. Lauren gave me a slice of kiwi and I told her “I can tell it’s a kiwi, but it’s like the kiwi went to business school and now works a 9-5 in middle management. There’s no joy in this kiwi.”
January 10, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Got room for one more?
September 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Lauren patiently schooling me on why USB ports aren’t “all the same hole” while the steam deck wasn’t getting any meaningful charge.
January 9, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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Indiana State Senators Byrne, Charbonneau, Garten have launched a horrendous anti-trans bill in SB 0215

* It's a criminal bathroom ban - pretty much everywhere; (felony in schools, labs)
* It will revert gender marker changes on birth certificates & driver's licenses

legiscan.com/IN/text/SB02...
Indiana SB0215 | 2026 | Regular Session
Bill Text (2026-01-08) Gender matters. [First reading: referred to Committee on Health and Provider Services]
legiscan.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:36 PM
More Casserole posting. I’m not trying to speak platitudes or flowery bullshit *~vibe~* whatever’s in the midst of this shit, but for your own sakes he reminds you, don’t forget to take time to find your sun beams.
January 8, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Here, have a look at our boy
January 7, 2026 at 11:40 PM
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PSA to avoid Uline like the plague for your packaging needs.
Clearbags has every specific bag and board you could want and there’s also good old BCW for comic & art sleeves on Amazon.
Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom.

Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country.

(Published 2022)
That Cardboard Box in Your Home Is Fueling Election Denial
A previously unreported boom in profits for the shipping supply giant Uline has provided the funds for a deeply conservative Midwestern family to bankroll anti-democracy causes around the country.
www.propublica.org
December 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
So..heads up NYFB peeps, Lauren and I both have the flu (well my test wasn’t positive but all my symptoms are on par with hers and her was positive)
January 5, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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It's time I confess my sins.
January 4, 2026 at 8:26 PM
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"Cognitive amplifier tools" son it's a Teddy Ruxpin that makes teenagers commit suicide.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'

"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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The artist behind these has been doing this longer than most of us and we are so lucky to be able to enjoy the breadth of her work. She needs heart surgery and could really use community support atm

www.patreon.com/TerrieSmith
November 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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If, being incredibly charitable, you didn’t intend to make a CSAM robot, not immediately turning off the CSAM robot when you find out you accidentally made a CSAM robot should still get you put in the magnetic boots prison from Face/Off
January 2, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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Is there any precedent for powerful people claiming that a nonsentient process has a personality behind it that only they and their fellow experts can understand and speak for and it knows everything and can do anything and wants to help and also it will destroy us if we dont give it what it wants
January 2, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Introduce yourself as what almost killed u

Hi, I’m stalled birth-pneumonia-peppermint-antiNMDAr encephalitis

It’s a name that really rolls off the tongue
introduce yourself as what almost killed u

hi im Indian Creek Trail to Eye of the Needle in Jasper, Arkansas
introduce yourself with what almost killed you

hi, I’m a second-story window
January 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Goals for 2026:

Make Bat 2.0
Make an art website
Paint some shit
Make more plush
Vend local festivals and maybe do AA for at least 1 con
Start making house customization/improvements
January 2, 2026 at 7:45 PM