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Mike Martinet - Artist, manic bicyclist, technology guy

Currently liking all cute cat pics

https://shop.mikemartinet.com/collections/watercolor
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Botaday @mmrtnt.bsky.social · Nov 2
Owen. Seems like an appropriate image for a first post.
Vector graphic image by Mike Martinet of an eye with lips wearing blue jeans
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Global-manufacturing-slave-labor

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Optim/Pessim/Consumer-ism (2000)
Global-manufacturing-slave-labor oligarchy
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November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Last summer of the 20th century
Pieces of '99
Last summer of the 20th century.
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October 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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That time I applied for a job at Zappos.
Résumé
Zapplication
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October 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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#timetravel #tv #substack
What I Know About Time Travel
Learned from watching 10 episodes of the Time Tunnel back-to-back
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October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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"I knew the dame was trouble the moment she showed up in my office doorway. A sultry stare from her big blue eye, and I could tell that this was not going to be a normal night. I took a look at those full red lips, took another shot of whiskey, stood up and prepared for the worst"
#art #bonney
A vector graphic image by Mike Martinet of what looks to be a small woman with a large eyeball for a head and no neck. The eye has a bright blue pupil and orange hair sticking out of the top and back. Under the eye is a pair of full, red lips. The character holds a black submachine gun in her right hand, pointed toward the ground. She's wearing a tight, sleeveless, light-yellow dress and has short, brown legs ending in high heels. The name "Bonneye" is written in all caps vertically on the left side of the image. The artist's signature is in the bottom right corner. The background is a solid, light lavender color.
October 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Incredibly Stupid
You wanna race?
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October 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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COULD I HAVE REAR-ENDED THAT OTHER CAR?!
Incredibly Stupid
You wanna race?
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October 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Late to the party. Happy #Inktober!
A pen-and-marker drawing titled "LIP LIGHT." It depicts a black, curved stand holding a circular spotlight with green horizontal stripes, shining down onto a pair of stylized red and black lips. The signature "MARTINET" is in the bottom right corner.
October 3, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Would that you could be the Potentate
The Potentate
It you
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October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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October 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Hell, I'm still recovering from laboring my day.
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Life can be simple if you ignore everyone.
A black and white drawing with red accents, titled at the left top - "BEING." The drawing shows a long appendage ending in a foot. The top part of the appendage holds two objects that dangle like cherries from a stem. Beneath The left dangling object is a red heart and beneath the right is a mouth with red lips. There is text on the right, written in a rough, hand-drawn letters, reading: HEART, MOUTH & FOOT IT CAN COME AND GO LOVE AND TALK BUT IT WON'T LISTEN The artist's signature, "MARTINET," is in the bottom right corner.
September 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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This is beautiful.
elk64.bsky.social ELK64 @elk64.bsky.social · Sep 26
errant
September 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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We're screwed because people in the first 100 years had no concept of zero. 0-99 was the 0th century. 100-199 is the "first" century. We are in the 20th century. I need to go take my meds.
September 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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It’s my birthday, the autumn equinox and the first day of fall 💛🍂

It would mean a lot if you could share my work today.

Thank you for all the support this year. It’s everything to me

Hope Persephone’s blessings find you today ✨
Black and white illustration representing Persephone during the autumn equinox. A frame surrounds the whole thing split in half in black and white. The middle horizontal section is torn in half like a piece of paper representing the division between the above and the underworld. In the bottom right corner are wispy swirling smoke lines going towards the centre with 3 bats flying from right to left. In the bottom left is the symbol for Persephone. In the middle are two pomegranates one whole and one cut in half. In the top half on a black background is a bee in reference to Persephone’s name as “honeyed one” on a circular medallion with narcissus flowers dropping petals around it. In the top left is the Greek word for Persephone Swatch card of my Forest Floor Repeat Pattern. Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background Altar prayer card for the goddess Diana. A rectangular card has a black border with parts of the Orphic hymn for Diana surrounding it as a border in white text. In the bottom right are twin arrows over a crescent moon representing her and Apollo. In the bottom left and top right are white outlined 8 point stars. Inside the border is a marble shockwave black and grey pattern with white outlining that forms an arch at the top with lining to look like columns on both sides. In the middle is a stag skull with painted antlers of a diamond and star pattern. Behind the skull are smaller 8 point stars and cloud ripples. Above the skull is a scraggly branch of queen Anne’s lace with small dots above. In the top corners are two constellations for Sirius as her hunting dogs and Roman numerals for 13 and 8 for the date of the Nemoralia festival. Night Magic - Black and white ink illustration of a magic filled Victorian house with an ominous surrounding. of a shrub framing the left side and bottom of the page. In the middle is a Victorian revival house with a spire to the right and a porch. Over the porch is a bison skull and the windows are celestial stain glass. The roof is black with cosmic looking weather vanes. 5 Crows are flying overheard from the back to the front of the house and the sky is The sky is textured with swirling pattern of lines and with black dot stars
September 24, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Happy first day of #Autumn!
"Jack Stand"
A watercolor and ink illustration of a pumpkin creature. It has a rounded, orange body with a classic jack-o'-lantern face featuring large, wide eyes and a jagged smile. The pumpkin has a green stem on top. Below, two long, slender, dark green legs with black outlines extend downward, ending in a shadowed area. The background is a mix of purples and grays, with a signature in the bottom right corner that reads "MARTINET '20."
September 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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#caturday
Cats are Smart
Not!
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September 20, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Unemployment skyrockets
jakevig.bsky.social Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · Sep 16
Invention idea:

If you are on a video call (Zoon, Teams, etc.), you can hit a button and share the other person's screen to see what they're actually looking at.
September 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Here. Please accept this ambiguous affirmation from an internet stranger.
An ink-and-marker drawing featuring a character on the right side. The character is hand-drawn with cross-hatched black lines and filled with splotches of purple, blue, and pink. It has large, round Mickey Mouse-like ears, a wide mouth with prominent teeth, no eyes and is holding up its right hand as if in a wave or gesture of assurance. To the left of the character are three lines of large, bold, black text that read YOU GOT THIS. The artist's signature, MARTINET, is in the bottom right corner.
September 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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TGIT?
420dietitian.bsky.social Matt F Jackson @420dietitian.bsky.social · Sep 15
Anticipating Tuesday
(Tuesday suite 2 of ?)
5.5” x 8.5”
Acrylic on paper
2025

I seem to be venting something.
Blue and white background. Agitated circles of blue, green, pink, and violet float over orange bubbles.
September 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Sorry Bruce, I don't have any glory days yet.
September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Who's turn is it to guard the avant?
jakevig.bsky.social Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · Sep 10
who up carpeing they diem
overlooked237.bsky.social Chames @overlooked237.bsky.social · Sep 10
who up couping they d'état
September 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The Adequate Gatsby
uncleduke1969.bsky.social Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · Sep 9
Slightly diminish a book:

Of Mouse and Man
postlurker2025.bsky.social Post-it @postlurker2025.bsky.social · Sep 9
Slightly diminish a book:

Hitchhikers guide to the solar system
September 9, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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This is stuck in my head, so it needs to be stuck in yours too.

Gonna rock down two Electric Avenue
Gonna rock down three Electric Avenee
Gonna rock down four Electric Avenour
Gonna rock down five Electric Avenive
Gonna rock down six...
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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BOOKMARKS!
bsky.app Bluesky @bsky.app · Sep 8
v1.108 is rolling out today 🚚

Now live, at long last: Bookmarks, aka Saved Posts. For all those posts you'll definitely plan to come back to!

Update the app and give it a try. The button is right down there 👇
September 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM