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Lionel
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Rat dad at http://ratwaysanctuary.org in Portland, OR. Environmentalist & lifelong volunteer. Journeyman programmer & bit whisperer. A8c HE. Reality-based tarot reader. T1 Diabetic. Born 1983.

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A version of Banksy's flower thrower but it's a humanoid rat throwing a sandwich
November 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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The "False or misleading statements by Donald Trump" Wikipedia article is at 770 citations; it's under constant edit and so long it has a warning 🫠

THANK YOU @wikipedia.org for protecting information against AI slop and propaganda. Everyone who can should donate!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_o...
Screenshot of the 'False or misleading statements by Donald Trump' Wikipedia article. At the top of the article are two notices: That it has been proposed to be split into three articles (2016 term, Between terms, and 2024 term), and a warning that the "article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably".
October 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Rattober day 14: Rat church

Rats pray in the STREETS! ✊🐀📣

The source image is reverend David Black being assaulted by ICE. He was protesting illegal federal activity in Chicago, Illinois in September 2025.

#abolishice #ratsky #rattober #rattober2025

On Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DPzEEfCCQRs/
Photoshopped image of reverend David Black being maced by ICE in Chicago in September 2025. His face has been swapped with our sanctuary rat Sprite's. It is captioned: 'Rats against fascism / abolish ICE' Rattober 2025 prompt list showing checkmate through day 14, rat church
October 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Rattober day 10: Hello rat

This was a fun one to put together :)

Post on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DPot65ZkmR9/

Post on Cara: cara.app/post/d8f3543...

#rattober #rattober2025 #rats #petrats #skyrats
Lionel Richie's "Hello" album cover photoshopped with a cut pet rat face swap and the name changed to "Lionel Ratchie"
October 10, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Rattober days 5-7! We're getting weird :)

Day 5: Stinky rat
Day 6: Ratio
Day 7: Steamer rat

Having a bit of travel posting more than three images right now, so I'm omitting the prompt list - but you can check it out on my past posts or over on Instagram :)
3 loaded hotdogs, with the central one covered in relish and onions and replaced with a photoshopped head of a blushing naked rat. The bottom half of the "rat dog" is comically pixelated out. A clamshell is also photoshopped into the image. The joke is that this rat was named Geoduck, and he is depicted like a gooey duck with his Shell taken off. Joke image of pills being poured into a hand with rat ears and eyes on each pill. It is laid out like an advertisement for a fantasy pharmaceutical named Rativan, with the text, "9 out of 10 doctors agree - Rativan can improve your mood, reduce (and cause) anxiety and drain your wallet." A Photoshop cutout of Emongg of OverWatch Fame with his head replaced with a rat head in front of a rat cage interior and a text bubble saying 'OMG chat! Did you see that??' And a text bubble from the other room saying " why do you guys always make so much noise when we're trying to sleep?"
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Especially proud of this one
:) Howl as Morpheus in Sandman. (Still love the art, though the author can take a hike)

For Rattober day 4: Dream
#howlrat #ratwaysanctuary #rattober #rattober2025 #sandman
Edited version of a moody Netflix Sandman series poster image where Morpheus stands in the center wearing a black cloak and holding his iconic gas mask style helm. This version has Morpheus' head replaced with the head of our pet rat Howl, the helm has rat ears added, and the text reads "A Ratway Series, the Sandrat".
October 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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It's Rattober! Proud to share days one through three with all of you 💚🐀✨

1. Friend-shaped rat
2. (Biblically) Accu-rat
3. Lake rat

We primarily post about our Sanctuary over at Instagram: instagram.com/rat.way.sanctuary

#rattober #rattober2025 #rats #petrats #skyrats
A. Hand-drawn meme styled after the rat subreddit saying "guys is my rat okay? He's acting weird Is he in pain?" with a photograph of our pet rat Howl being held up with exaggerated pleasing eyes and exaggerated cartoon balls, with an arrow pointing to him and the words "literally the happiest creature on God's green earth." An angelic photobash of four rats into one rat with four heads pointing in each direction with six wings and angelic Wheels with eyes. Circling them and rays of light streaming up from the clouds. A satirical Black and white Weekly World News newspaper cover with the headline "Bigrat spotted riding Nessie?!" With a picture of Bigfoot riding loch Ness monster, but both their heads have been replaced with rats. In the foreground a figure with binoculars is quoted saying " they look like best friends out there", his head is also a rat head. In the top right is an extra story headline, "Breaking: gay rats found in UFO wreck offer peace" with a colorful pride flag sticker next to it. The rattober 2025 prompt calendar with the first three checked off: friend shaped rat, accu-rat, and lake rat.
October 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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I'm going to start cross-posting some of my favorite daily sketches from Cara, I like Bluesky and want to keep contrituting over here!

This was inspired by “If I Must Die", written by Refaat Alareer, who was murdered by Israel in Gaza alongside his siblings and their children on December 6, 2023.
A vertical sketch and watercolor piece arranged to resemble the Palestinian flag with black, burned buildings and smoke on the left, blood-red earth in a triangular hill at the bottom, and green olive trees on the right. A young girl is flying a yellow kite from the top of the hill, while a second figure climbs up to meet her, looking up. The piece has pencil, ink, and watercolor and is about 2"x3" in dimension (vertical).
September 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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My weekend doodling project has been this scene of fishing with Maurice, who is probably a badger.

I'm still fighting with the tablet a bit, but did manage to get into a rhythm. My digital linework leaves a lot to be desired, someday maybe I'll crack getting some of the 'soul' of pencil in digital.
Scannel Pencil sketches / doodles. Center: A 3/4 view of a dumbo rat peeking up, sporting a cowl or hood on his shoulders. Top right: Tiny sketch of a dancer, a very rough scketch of a hooded animal sitting on a rock with a fishing line into a pond. Lower right: thumbnail of the same anthropomorphic small animal fishing scene. Lower left: A slight detail of the animal, starting to look like a badger with a hood up, sitting with a fishing pole in the water. Full page sketch of a composition of a lake with hills in the background and some rocks stepped to the water and another large rock jutting out and a small animal on it fishing. Some branches an forms are in the foreground on the left. Hooded badger lake fishing scene, traced and shaded digitally. Monochromatic. Pencil sketch overlaid. Hooded badger lake fishing scene, traced and shaded digitally. Monochromatic.
July 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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Finally got to attend a figure drawing session at @hipboneartstudio.bsky.social - it was a super welcoming crowd and a great model. :)
Rough sketch of a married woman sitting backwards on a folding chair at 3/4 facing away. 30 minute figure drawing pose in charcoal Rough sketch of woman sitting and mostly facing viewer, holding one knee close and extending the other leg. 5 minute figure drawing pose in charcoal Rough sketch of woman sitting facing away from viewer. Legs and arms not visible. 15 minute figure drawing pose in charcoal
June 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Trying to turn some of our evening couch time into sketch time.

I have lost a lot of my confidence sketching; it is frustrating to remember my hands when they knew what they were doing far better, but it is satisfying to shake some of the rust off.

Nothing beats practice.
4 pencil sketches in a sketchbook. Top: anterior human skull study, shaded. Right: feminine gesture sketch, suggesting a sort of crouched pirouette facing left. Bottom: Shaded sketch of masculine, lean muscled figure looking up with left arm extended down and right arm bent, elbow up (waist up). 3/4 angle facing rightward. Left: little rat doodle 💚🐀🎨
May 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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A little bit of rat art does wonders to get my head out of the news 💚🐀🎨
A roughly 2.5 by 3 inch linocut stamp of a rat sitting on it's haunches with a heart over it's head next to a test print. The stamp has lots of horizontal chatter.
April 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Criminal.
April 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Surprised how happy this non-AI disclosure makes me 😌
An audio widget to play a vocal version of an online article labelled "Listen to the human-read audio version".
April 12, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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For the record, rats are great and don't willingly associate with neoliberalism 🐀💚🐀
Jimmy the gray Dumbo earred rat posing with three silver and red paintings he made with his brother Rory. Jimmy is into the arts and strong social safety nets, and rejects neoliberalism on the grounds it is anti-social and endangers non-profit work like the sanctuary that took him in!
April 4, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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She loves blueberries!
Frieda the rat (agouti female) eating coconut whipped cream and blueberries surrounded by blueberries wearing a blueberry hat
March 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Frieda the rat
March 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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YES I saw those too when I was there last week!
Elon sucks
March 20, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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I want to apologize for the lack of cute rat content. The fall of the thin veneer of democracy I'd become accustomed to has me a bit distracted.

In compensation please accept these artistic marvels by our resident #skyrats, Rory, Jimmy, Slime Mold, and Rogue 💚🐀🌈
Jimmy, a Russian blue dumbo pet rat, posing with 3 paintings by him and Rory (not pictured). Rogue, a white with partial black mask dumbo pet rat, posing with 2 paintings by her and Slime Mold (RIP, not pictured). Jimmy, a Russian blue dumbo pet rat, posing with 3 paintings by him and Rory (not pictured). He is sticking out his dumb lil tongue. 💚 Rory, a cinnamon blazed top ear pet rat, posing with 3 paintings by him and Jimmy (not pictured).
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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Right, it is on the PDF which most people don't know how or care to remove; Since it is on every page of and not easy to disable, I would definitely seek a PDF without it if I was routinely reading these.

I think as a way to inform/assure casuals like me it works, but it is annoying to read around!
Example legal PDF screenshot showing "retrieved from democracydocket.com" in diagonal gray behind the document text.
February 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I tried to make a top down 2d rat customizer once, but never finished it 😂 character customizers are sooo time consuming!
An 8 frame idle cycle of a top down pixel art rat for a game. The cycle shows the rats tail wiggling back and forth.
December 8, 2024 at 5:40 PM
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Rat Way Sanctuary is at the Vegan Night Market in Portland, Oregon!

Come join us - we have some of our ambassador rats who love to say hi, a ton of stickers, cage accessories, rat paintings, and sponsorship packages for all your holiday needs ✨🐀🎉
Our booth at the market packed with stickers, cage toys for pet rats or other animals, rat themed crafts, and sponsorship sets! Our resident rat sponsorship cards An info sheet of our achievements in 2024 - we earned our official 501c3 status, 35 rats brought into sanctuary care, over $35,919 in specialty medical care provided, 154 vet visits, 7 major surgeries, 17 spays and neuters, 44 medication refills, and 18 monthly subscribers. A board of our rat stickers and paintings attractively laid out for display!
December 8, 2024 at 1:25 AM
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Howl has been having partial seizures; he went into ER yesterday and is at the vet today.

Here's hoping it is an infection or something and not a pituitary tumor, but we are prepared for the worst 🤞✨🐀❤️‍🩹
Handsome Howl, a naked rat with a striking mask looking suspiciously out from his hide. #skyrats #petrats
December 3, 2024 at 7:42 PM
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Sadly Statler can no longer eat comfortably, and we are saying goodbye tonight.

It's always tempting to ride it out a little longer, but after the rapid growth post surgery and two types of unsuccessful chemo we'd rather be safe than sorry when it comes to his comfort.

We love you little buddy 💚
Statler and Waldorf in a carrier 💚 #skyrats #petrats
December 1, 2024 at 7:04 AM
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Statler's chemo isn't going well, but he still enjoys his time on the couch with Waldorf.

A couple handsome old men hanging out ❤️‍🩹🐀✨
Waldorf the black and white capped rat snuggling on top of Statler (pink eyes white) in my partner's arms on the couch. #skyrats #petrats
November 30, 2024 at 7:05 PM