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Alex Martin

@atmartin.io
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🌴 Software engineer, tech educator, people lover. Growing early-career dev talent at Build Carolina. I think a lot about roller coasters.

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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 31/08/2026
If you do not immediately recognize Chappell Roan's Daisy Chain Fields fit we can not be friends.
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Alt: Garish fictional entertainer Ruby Rhod waves his hand dismissively & makes a loud buzzing sound, captioned as "Bzzzzz!", played by Chris Tucker in the film The Fifth Element.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 17/06/2026
David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" but the pool water has been hastily scribbled over in murky green tones mimicking algae.
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Alex Goldman @agoldman.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 13/03/2026
It means I'm busier than a tunafish in a tin can. What's so difficult to understand, y'all? 😅
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 04/03/2026
Contrarian thought, mostly just to be contrarian: Bluesky's core accounts being subject to their own moderation systems, and the level of transparency that requires, is actually kind of awesome? I dislike the inconvenience this creates but I don't think "just make it unblockable" is a real fix.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 11/02/2026
The final canonical entry in the Rachel Weisz/Brendan Fraser "Mummy" series is the queue & post-ride video of the "Revenge of the Mummy" ride at Universal Studio. I will not be taking further questions.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 06/02/2026
Oh man, Gonzo trying and failing to figure out a good Juno pose is a great skit tho.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 05/11/2025
Nobel PP: 🍆 Fifa PP: 🍄 🤷
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 22/09/2025
¿Por que no les quatre?
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 13/09/2025
Rails.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 02/09/2025
Javie Martzoukas is the only worthwhile "Love Is Blind UK S2" couple, don't @ me.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 19/08/2025
How's this guy know about my running shoes? 😅
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 14/08/2025
So what this means is that if there were demand, say through a call/letter/word of mouth campaign, from Costco's members and other patients who can no longer get this critical medication from their providers, then they'd sell it. Right? 🤔☎️📬🗣
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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 11/07/2025
Us: 💜 every purchase supports indie bookstores 💰 pays local taxes 🎉 raised more than $39 million for bookstores 🌎 certified B-Corp Them: ❌ does not pay their fair share of taxes ❌ does not care about putting indie bookstores out of business ❌ harmful to the environment
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 10/07/2025
Hate it 'cause I really felt like I was getting good stuff out of all that networking, but after 500 "got 15 minutes to connect?"s I recognized I was just busy, not productive. Much more useful with intentionality but also less profitabke for LI, so I don't expect it to last.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 10/07/2025
I tried the LION thing for a while and was inundated by automated spam and outright begging. Switched it up in early 2025 and now reject most requests & block any variant of BDR title (+ disconnect mutuals for repeat offenders). LI is calm and usable again. Until they make me pay to block. 🙃
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Brian Rinaldi @remotesynthesis.com · 09/07/2025
Looking forward to the latest round of self-serving justifications from folks on why, despite this, they simply can't give up Twitter.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 05/06/2025
Akabanga all the things!
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 04/06/2025
I bet we can ask Monica. Or Erica. Maybe Rita?
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Veni Kunche @veni.dev · 16/05/2025
We have new roles on Diversify Tech, the job board for underrepresented people in tech! Democracy Now, Illustrative Mathematics, Libro, Community Tech Alliance, Facing History & Ourselves and Carnegie Mellon University are hiring. jobs.diversifytech.com
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Mark Noonan @marktnoonan.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
I follow a lot of people on here who post poetry or programming images without alt text and it quietly reduces your impact in ways you might not be aware of, since many people have a preference for interacting with accessible content even if they don’t “need” it.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 12/05/2025
🌌🧠: Send your reps a video of themselves telling themselves to vote against this bill. I guarantee there will be an AI ban in 24 hours. 😅
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 06/05/2025
Ooooh nooo Cam we have to fly to Medellín for a weekend. I'm crushed. 😈
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 02/05/2025
I recently ordered a few gifts from @pigeonpost.cafe and y'all their packaging was an unexpected gift in itself. 💜 Highly recommend @alextomlinson.com's crafty creations if you've got a feather-obsessed friend in your life!
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️
Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 16/04/2025
@vueconf.us If you're gonna have an Alex as a volunteer, it should totally be @alexcurtisslep.bsky.social! He's a thoughtful, helpful human and your conference experience will be better for his attendance.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 12/04/2025
Paul Rudd & Will Forte sitting around just noshing on fresh Jolokia like they're Cheetos. 🤷‍♂️🔥
"You vs  the guy she tells you not to worry about meme", featuring rapper DJ Khaled  (who infamously abandoned his episode early and in disgrace) on the left as "you" and champion comedian Will Forte (who set a new standard for hot wings performance) on the right as "the guy" in the right. Khaled looks uncomfortable. Will is taking a third bite of Da Bomb.
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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Diversity didn’t crash the stock market. Equity didn’t crash the stock market. Inclusion didn’t crash the stock market. Immigrants didn’t crash the stock market. Trans people didn’t crash the stock market.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 21/03/2025
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a group of people standing in a room with the words dawnjourno on the bottom right
Alt: A group of well-dressed people standing in a room with the word "Bawnjourno" on the bottom, taken as a clip from the movie "Inglorious Basterds", where Brad Pitt plays a coarse American trying to communicate with high European society in a poor accent.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 19/03/2025
Chappell Roan has built a whole career out of this Venn diagram. 😅
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Jason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 16/03/2025
friends, I have a bit of a scheduling emergency & I need your help: we’re filming Web Dev Challenge on Mar 25 in Salt Lake City & had a team drop out — need to book a new team FAST I need: - 2 devs (combined skills covering full stack dev/UX) - comfortable on camera - available Mar 23–26 in SLC
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 11/03/2025
Buddy it's not even 80 down here today. Locals are all in jeans, long sleeves, light jackets, and warm socks until next month.
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE
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Alana McLaughlin🏳️‍⚧️ @alanaferal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Antivaxxers are far more dangerous to society than trans people will ever be.
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Johnnie Jae @johnniejae.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Always buy Inspired Native, not Native Inspired! A good place to start would be business like Eighth Generation - www.eighthgeneration.com Beyond Buckskin - www.beyondbuckskin.com Tribes have online gift shops: Otoe-Missouria www.wokuwosa.com/shop-1 Choctaw www.choctawstore.com/collection/?...
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 02/03/2025
"That's not a Forester. THIS is a Forester."
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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Please sign, and share widely.
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Catmint Studios 💚 @catmintstudios.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Our moving sale shop update is LIVE! ⭐️🏡 🔗⬇️, Shares = 💚 [ #cuteart #artshop #merch ]
A graphic showcasing items for our moving sale shop update. Items pictured include assorted keychains, enamel pins, stickers, and mystery bags. In the center is our chubby brown cat mascot Chip winking with a heart over his head. His paws are resting on the words “MOVING SALE!” - underneath it reads “special offers valid through 3/5 or while supplies last”
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 16/02/2025
I try every now and then & have the same experience. Just gonna stay in my little noncompetitive all-roles lane, spamming Junkrat and buying skins.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 15/02/2025
Every time!
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 13/02/2025
Thank you for sharing this! I am fully ashamed to admit that I have not hunted down this glorious source - I've got some weekend reading to do & am updating all our lectures now. 🏃
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 12/02/2025
One of my favorite graphics to use when teaching new devs about the importance of accessibility nails this:
Infographic featuring stick figures modeling various disabilities, classified by the impaired sense and nature of impairment (for example, "Blindness" features a character in dark glasses with a dog & cane, and is on the chart as impairing sight and permanent vs. "Distracted Driver", which impairs sight situationally).
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 09/02/2025
Unfortunately, yes. Registrars of TLDs hold all the strings here, and it's only through collaboration and goodwill that we haven't seen more outrageous goldrushes by them en masse. You can shop around hosts a bit and maybe find someone offering discounts to hold your business, but it'll go up later.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 31/01/2025
How tho? 💸
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 28/01/2025
Tag yourself, I'm "elephant sized space iguana". Love this!
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 28/01/2025
Easy call. I still have not read it though. 😅
Robert Heinlein's "Glory Road", featuring cover art set in a dismal swamp with a buxom blonde archer reaching for an arrow while her red-tunic'ed & carefully coiffed companion draws his own bow, aiming at a bipedal saurian with draconic features preparing to breathe fire in retaliation. A balding and muscular party member carries the party's backpack and looks on from below the archers, holding a gnarled quarterstaff at the ready.
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 28/01/2025
Looks delicious either way. Buen provecho!
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 28/01/2025
I gotta ask: is "thoughts" a typo for "thighs" or a brilliant vegetarian pun? 😅
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Alex Martin @atmartin.io · 23/01/2025
Tired: The Octagon Wired: The Pentagon
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