Michael Barrett
@mechabarrett.bsky.social
Terrifying 50 foot tall Illustrator, equipped with Missiles, Laser Eyes and Rocket Fists
(He/They)
(He/They)
A Lowly Goblin Dreams Of Flight - Drawn for @6knifes.bsky.social brand new zine 'Down Down To Goblin Town', a goblin anthology (Gobthology) of original Illustrations, Comics and Assorted Fancies by Sar and a COTERIE of many wonderful artists
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
A Lowly Goblin Dreams Of Flight - Drawn for @6knifes.bsky.social brand new zine 'Down Down To Goblin Town', a goblin anthology (Gobthology) of original Illustrations, Comics and Assorted Fancies by Sar and a COTERIE of many wonderful artists
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"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Kamala Harris criticized Joe Biden's Administration, saying they should have been more willing to publicly criticize Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu over Gaza
The post ‘We Should’ve Done More’: Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai! Adored him utterly in Sanjuro (Pictured), Kagemusha and High And Low - And one of the All-Time Cinematic Foreheads
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai! Adored him utterly in Sanjuro (Pictured), Kagemusha and High And Low - And one of the All-Time Cinematic Foreheads
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Bug Crossing 🐛
I got the idea for this illustration on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!
I got the idea for this illustration on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!
July 10, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Bug Crossing 🐛
I got the idea for this illustration on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!
I got the idea for this illustration on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!
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I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
Is it any wonder I became a Tally Hall fan after an entire childhood of listening to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Qc...
Postcard (2007 Remaster)
YouTube video by Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Is it any wonder I became a Tally Hall fan after an entire childhood of listening to the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0Qc...
Thinking about this in the context of British politics, as my eyes slowly start to glow red
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Thinking about this in the context of British politics, as my eyes slowly start to glow red
Thinking of becoming an Omelette Guy
November 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Thinking of becoming an Omelette Guy
Trying to get a handle on a character design for a Mausritter module zine a friend and I are working on (The ghost of an ancient Mouse Queen, whose grave is DEFINITELY respected for sure for sure)
November 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Trying to get a handle on a character design for a Mausritter module zine a friend and I are working on (The ghost of an ancient Mouse Queen, whose grave is DEFINITELY respected for sure for sure)
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It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself
Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital
SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
November 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's interesting that wise conservative business guys implicitly understand "return on investment" except when it comes to this. It's better for YOU if your neighbor gets enough to eat so he can become your community's mechanic, accountant, dentist--whatever!--instead of lying dead in a ditch
I have called my Dad's cousin my Aunt for my Entire life, and I am taking this as further proof that every News Corp employee was raised in a Windowless, Underground Lab
i cannot believe that “mamdani calls a close adult relative an ‘aunt’ even if they are not literally their parent’s sister” is what counts as a “scandal” these days
October 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
I have called my Dad's cousin my Aunt for my Entire life, and I am taking this as further proof that every News Corp employee was raised in a Windowless, Underground Lab
The BBC is fuckin' institUTIONALLY transphobic
We tried to place this story - very expensive polling, the first of its kind, strong quantitative data about what trans people feel about Britain: bluntly there is no better way to tell the story - with the BBC but it said it was "too weak".
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
But it will pick up any old piece of transhating garbage.
In @yougov.co.uk polling of the trans community, to the best of our knowledge the first of its kind ever conducted, an astonishing 84% said Britain is “fairly unsafe” or “very unsafe” for trans people.
goodlaw.social/ncfw
goodlaw.social/ncfw
October 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The BBC is fuckin' institUTIONALLY transphobic
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🎉Today is my birthday! Here are my fave pieces I've drawn over this past year (that I can show lol), i'd love a share if you fancy it :^)
October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
🎉Today is my birthday! Here are my fave pieces I've drawn over this past year (that I can show lol), i'd love a share if you fancy it :^)
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Magical girls round 2!
I know it's Halloween so we should be creating a V:tM vampire, but I've just got back from MCM, so I'm in the mood for anime.
The polls will go live around 6pm UK time on the 29th, and will run for 24 hrs - have fun!
#magicalgirls #mahoushoujo #anime #manga #decora #jfashion
I know it's Halloween so we should be creating a V:tM vampire, but I've just got back from MCM, so I'm in the mood for anime.
The polls will go live around 6pm UK time on the 29th, and will run for 24 hrs - have fun!
#magicalgirls #mahoushoujo #anime #manga #decora #jfashion
October 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Magical girls round 2!
I know it's Halloween so we should be creating a V:tM vampire, but I've just got back from MCM, so I'm in the mood for anime.
The polls will go live around 6pm UK time on the 29th, and will run for 24 hrs - have fun!
#magicalgirls #mahoushoujo #anime #manga #decora #jfashion
I know it's Halloween so we should be creating a V:tM vampire, but I've just got back from MCM, so I'm in the mood for anime.
The polls will go live around 6pm UK time on the 29th, and will run for 24 hrs - have fun!
#magicalgirls #mahoushoujo #anime #manga #decora #jfashion
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In 1950, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey moved to Kenya & started doing field recordings of the Kipsigis. Missionaries had left a gramophone & a bunch of Jimmie Rodgers records for the tribe, who ended up composing 3 songs about Jimmie Rodgers or "Chemirocha".
Chemirocha 3:
youtu.be/rhi9mKVQFKs?...
Chemirocha 3:
youtu.be/rhi9mKVQFKs?...
chemirocha
YouTube video by aanityksia
youtu.be
September 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
In 1950, ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey moved to Kenya & started doing field recordings of the Kipsigis. Missionaries had left a gramophone & a bunch of Jimmie Rodgers records for the tribe, who ended up composing 3 songs about Jimmie Rodgers or "Chemirocha".
Chemirocha 3:
youtu.be/rhi9mKVQFKs?...
Chemirocha 3:
youtu.be/rhi9mKVQFKs?...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyT... 'Merrily We Roll Along' was an enormous Sondheim Blind Spot for me and, upon finally catching it: HOLY FUCK this thing rocks
Franklin Shepard, Inc.
YouTube video by Release - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoyT... 'Merrily We Roll Along' was an enormous Sondheim Blind Spot for me and, upon finally catching it: HOLY FUCK this thing rocks
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Happy Birthday, @thewaether.bsky.social !
Here's a quick doodle of Flea.
Sorry, the eraser did a number on her freckles.
[I'm working with low energy levels today 😅]
Here's a quick doodle of Flea.
Sorry, the eraser did a number on her freckles.
[I'm working with low energy levels today 😅]
October 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Happy Birthday, @thewaether.bsky.social !
Here's a quick doodle of Flea.
Sorry, the eraser did a number on her freckles.
[I'm working with low energy levels today 😅]
Here's a quick doodle of Flea.
Sorry, the eraser did a number on her freckles.
[I'm working with low energy levels today 😅]
I'm seeing this in Manchester in three weeks and I am EXTREMELY excited
There’s gonna be a movie that’s coming this month in a few weeks but, you can only watch it in Mexico and it’s called I Am Frankelda.
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
I'm seeing this in Manchester in three weeks and I am EXTREMELY excited
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Human artists!?
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
October 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Human artists!?
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
Use one piece to convince people to follow you !
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This is such a funny redux of the bad baby Jesuses in medieval art
Kids in hyperrealistic modern triple-A video games continues to be the funniest hurdle.
October 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This is such a funny redux of the bad baby Jesuses in medieval art
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“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
Guillermo del Toro on 'Frankenstein': 'AI can go f**k itself!'
"Art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go f*ck itself!” Guillermo del Toro is a guest of honour at this year’s Lumière Film Festival. He presents his adaptation of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein", which audiences got to see on the big screen before it streams on Netflix next month.
l.euronews.com
October 18, 2025 at 12:11 AM
“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”
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Starlings are one of Britain's most beautiful birds. With the right light and up close, the colours are amazing. Very underrated!
#ukwildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
#ukwildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
October 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Starlings are one of Britain's most beautiful birds. With the right light and up close, the colours are amazing. Very underrated!
#ukwildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
#ukwildlife #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0f8... Getting through my breakup with the help of a S. Todd (This is a perfect breakup song and I refuse to explain why)
Johanna
YouTube video by Jordan Fisher - Topic
www.youtube.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0f8... Getting through my breakup with the help of a S. Todd (This is a perfect breakup song and I refuse to explain why)
God damn I miss Chicago - It will absolutely be quite some time before I go again, but What A City
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIh...
Shockingly, They've Been Lying to Me About Chicago
YouTube video by Ray Delahanty | CityNerd
www.youtube.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
God damn I miss Chicago - It will absolutely be quite some time before I go again, but What A City
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEIh...