How it feels to live during 2026 while caring about bugs.

Yesterday, Scott and Donna introduced me to the movie Joe Vs the volcano. The true hero of the story was the incredible luggage. It was delightful.

I know I’ve already talked about this. But it’s a really big deal and I’m so excited!

Thinkin' about bugs.

Absolutely at no time could I have ever guessed what was coming next in this movie. AT NO TIME

This is the picture I took at the end of the spectacular movie. I cried so hard. It was beautiful.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

I painted the wings of this dragonfly to make it a Drag-queen-fly hehe. I can’t wait to do a painting of this one!

I can always figure out how stressed I am by looking at the level of audacity in my late night projects. I am currently attempting to build an entire desk out of scraps of trash.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I'm blown away by the generosity of those who have participated and/or helped get the word out about these giveaways/fundraising efforts 🥰 There is still time to enter both the Macarons 4 Immigrant Rights and the Macarons 4 Minnesota giveaway, but today is the last day! (US entries only)

Minnesotans on Lake Bde Maka Ska (formerly Lake Calhoun) in Minneapolis. Jan. 30, 2026. 📷: WCCO-TV

Every time I post about abolishing ICE and the genocides happening in Palestine, Congo and Sudan I get a flood of hateful messages from people I grew up with. I’m not surprised, I mean I live in Utah.

I’m on day five of mostly eating quesadillas because I don’t want to go grocery shopping. My autism is very happy. My body is not.

Bluesky gets a sneak peek. I get to join Weta workshop at their traveling exhibition Bug World in Utah! I will have a booth with my art and be speaking about the intersectionality between insects, art and science. The event is February 14th.

Five jobs I’ve had: Babysitter Art teacher High school art teacher Portrait artist Insect artist

I have been working on this papier-mâché moth in the evenings when I can’t paint. I have a lot more layers to add but I’m excited with how it’s turning out.

doctor: I’m sorry, but we’re going to have to amputate at both ankles me: well, that’s terrible news, but nothing can defeat me doctor: I’ve just told you that I can

Let's learn about Tom Eisner, renowned entomologist & pioneer in chemical ecology. Born to Jewish parents in Germany in 1929, his artist mother & chemistry professor father fled Nazi repression in 1933: first to Barcelona, then France, Uruguay & finally to the US in 1947.

"If someone tells you it is raining and another tells you it is dry, it's not your job to quote them both. It's your job to look out the ****ing window and find out which is true" Jonathan Foster, on journalism

I process a lot of what’s going on around me through insects. Inspired by a good friend I made this drawing of a bombardier beetle spraying acid at ice. Abolish ICE

It's up on my website now: martynwarren.com/gallery/chin...

"Ruinous Obsession" The Last Unicorn - I'm obsessed

america is a nuclear armed fascist state dedicated to utterly shattering world peace for its own imperial gains and any decent person should want everyone involved brought before the hague

someone has to be the bitch wearing ear defenders during a fire alarm and it is always going to be me #autistic

We made our goal of getting to $15,000 on the GFM for the Isbaita family which means I could do an insect info dumping tea party!! Thank you so much to everyone who donated I’ll do another party when we get to $20,000! You can find the GFM in my link tree.

Again apologies for being terrible at remembering to cross-post new bookish macarons over here, but LOOK I made A Girl of the Limberlost macarons for @charlottereads.com to gift to @soundoftheforest.bsky.social 🥰🙌 #booksky #bookishmacarons #macarons #cookieart

The moment I realized these were Girl of the Limberlost macarons I started crying. I feel so loved and seen. Also I am blown away by how gorgeous these are! Thank you so much @charlottereads.com @sarasbookmacarons.bsky.social

Viva Greta.

I finished all my Christmas commissions of bugs which means I can get back to painting a lot of bug! I love doing these bigger collection paintings and watching kids try to identify them all.

When you shoplift from Hobby Lobby

your political platform can’t just be against something, you have to be FOR something, and the thing you’re FOR has to be BETTER than the thing that IS hope this helps

If I can ask y'all for some help, please read & just share the following? Medical emergencies + 2yrs of unemployment + debt is a hell of a combo. Any support would be a huge help. So far, through your kindness I've been able to pay off $3k of my $20,000 debt gofund.me/5bfe73dd9

am I first

Earlier this year I drew this magnificent Metallyticus splendidus. I'm very pleased with how it turned out. That's all.

I’ve upped the goal to $5K because y’all keep crushing every other milestone I’ve set so far. thank you to everyone who’s donated or shared. lotta people are gonna eat because you cared ❤️ teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...

So, all the Corporate Democrats who said Dems can only win by by "running to the center," or "siding with Israel on Gaza" or "not being distracted by the Trans issue," should shut up & have the humility to listen. Zohran is what happens when you run FOR justice rather than just against Trump. 2/2

This just makes me SO SO HAPPY. When a friend actually takes the time to read something you made. 🥰 And recreating the cover? 😭 Thank you Nicole!

I finished reading @ssavaart.com book last night! I loved it so much and can’t wait to share my thoughts. Scott is an amazing friend, artist and author. If you need a little encouragement making art read his book.

hunger’s a battle we gotta fight on multiple fronts, and in numbers, so I also joined a coalition of over 40 tiktok creators who are raising money for @feedingamerica.org. $1 can buy at least 10 meals! donate if you can, repost if you can’t! tysm ❤️ teamfeed.feedingamerica.org/participants...

I was jewel beetle specifically sternocera aequisignata for Halloween. I went to one Halloween party and hid in a dark room, emerged for the costume contest and then disappeared. It was great.

Will never not be haunted by the @soundoftheforest.bsky.social fun fact that some snails have up to 20,000 teeth

finally hung up the prints from @soundoftheforest.bsky.social along with reorganizing my tiny ass bookshelf 😭 i reaaaally need a new one.. peep the PaintGem diamond art as well!!

Netanyahu won't stop until he's murdered every Palestinian on Gaza. #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

As Palestinians cling to a fragile ceasefire after suffering horrific genocide, I ask those who remained silent and complicit for the last two years—was it worth it? Was it worth it to know this is how history, your children, your descendants, will remember you? www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-does-i...

if you want to do some good today, my friends the Espitas (some of whom y’all helped me raise a ton of money for last year, thank you ❤️) could use whatever attention or dollars you could spare for them. www.gofundme.com/f/your-gener...

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg raised her fist as she and about 160 other Global Sumud Flotilla participants arrived in Greece to roaring cheers. Crowds welcomed them after their release from illegal Israeli detention. Greta later addressed supporters — her remarks are below.

Pt1 🧵: Greta Thunberg deported to Athens says, "There's a live-streamed Genocide in front of our eyes in Gaza. No one will be able to say they didn't know this was happening. The Global Samud Flotilla only existed because our leaders failed. Our international systems are betraying Palestinians."

I think the biggest indicator of the illiteracy that I’ve recently seen is people thinking The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift is an accurate representation of her in Hamlet.

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’