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Martha

@marthf.bsky.social
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I'm a web developer and designer. You can see my long form musings at marthafast.com

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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library has gifted over 300 million books to children under five years old. It has measurably improved childhood literacy at a time when that is critical. If you're missing the queen of country today, donating is probably the best way you can support her legacy.
Email from the Imagination Library that reads "Thank you so much for your monetary gift to support my Imagination Library. This program is so special to me and I am thrilled that it is special to you, too. My Daddy was the inspiration for the Imagination Library and he told me many times that out of all of the dreams I had fulfilled, this program was the one thing that made him the most proud of me!

Your generosity will help us continue to grow this program so that we can gift books to more children to inspire a love of reading. We have surpassed over 2 million children receiving books each month but we have dreams to do more!

Your support will help give those dreams wings, along with the generous help from our local partners who manage the program and raise funds to support it in communities around the world. I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Together we are going to keep dreaming and keep growing!

Love
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Emily Wilson's piece about the Odyssey really highlights that interpreting ancient texts is a distinct skill from interpreting film and adaptation. Anyway, this is the best response I've read: slate.com/culture/2026...
slate.com
As a Classicist, I’ve Defended Emily Wilson’s Odyssey Translation. I Can’t Defend Her Review of Nolan’s Movie.
Emily Wilson used baffling arguments to flay Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s poem.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Finally back above 800 after 2 days of FRICK. hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 28 884 pts · PERFECT 💯 · 13-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
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Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Idk if Claude Code's "you've used X times more tokens than [insert great work of literature here]" is intended to illicit feelings of shame... But if that's the case it's certainly succeeding
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I'm chasing that 800+ point high again but it's tough, man hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 22 614 pts · PERFECT 💯 · 7-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
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Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Me, a canonical Alexander Hamilton-hater who has had to be polite about him for a decade, listening to the 4 episode podcast series about him on @thedollop.bsky.social:
Relieved Tony Stark meme
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
She can't be stopped! hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 21 764 pts · PERFECT 💯 · 6-day streak 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
hankgreen.com
Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I don't typically self promote (and I have complicated feelings about Being Perceived) but I just finished rebuilding my personal site for the 4th time so check it out: marthafast.com
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
All I need is that vowel in the center baby. hankgreen.com/smush · Jul 16 956 pts · PERFECT 💯 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
hankgreen.com
Smush
A daily word game. Each letter gets 5 uses. Except the gold one, which is always required.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Stefano Forte, president of the New York Young Republicans, is headlining an event organized by neo-Nazis to promote ethnic cleansing. www.theredoubt.net/afd-republic...
theredoubt.net
AfD lawmaker, Young Republican leader headline 'remigration' summit with convicted Holocaust denier
Europe's leading far-right extremists are gathering to promote what critics say is a plan for "ethnic cleansing."
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social calling @bigjoel.bsky.social a "sleepy zoomer" in the most recent IBCK absolutely sent me
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Does anyone else get a little thrill when reading an email saying a defunct account you stopped using years ago is going to be deleted unless you take action? You mean you'll delete it without me having to do anything? 😈🥰
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Belated Xmas gift from my husband and I'm lowkey obsessed
LED metro board showing realtime activity on the LA metro train system. Brushed aluminum in a wooden frame
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
"When will you wear wigs" energy
A spam text that says "will you come to eat dumpling tomorrow?"
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
This is a good principle for design in general: When users tell you there's a problem, they are usually right. When users tell you how to fix it, they are usually wrong. (bonus: if you replace "user" with "stakeholder" this still applies)
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward.
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a cartoon of a man giving a speech with the words and always twirling twirling
Alt: Bill Clinton: and always twirling towards freedom.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
My office for the day. So grateful to have the ability to get fresh air and sunlight during the work day
A low angle photo of a small front yard with a blooming orange tree in the background and roses in the foreground
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 31/01/2026
It's always struck me how little empirical evidence there is that AI actually saves time, given how widely accepted the idea seems to be. No company has more motivation to prove it than Anthropic—yet their own study confirms the speed gain is not only insignificant, but carries *steep* penalties.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The loss of Catherine O'Hara is devastating... what a talent just gone
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
As a former advocate for survivors of domestic violence, I cannot describe how much it pains me to hear the Vice President say we owe a debt of gratitude to man who shot a woman in the face and then called her a fucking bitch.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Let’s be clear: if any other president at any other point in history had done this, they be impeached and out of office by the end of the month. This is heinous.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Playing Assassin’s Creed II for the first time and it’s really good, but man has never been a more 00’s game. Sci-fi nonsense, parkour, knights of the templar bullshit, AND Leonardo da Vinci? It may as well be called Assissin’s National Da Vinci Code of Treasure Matrix.
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 09/11/2025
New blog post: joshcollinsworth.com/blog/alchemy
joshcollinsworth.com
Alchemy
Some thoughts on attempts to create gold out of nothing, and how generative AI, in many ways, mirrors that doomed pursuit
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 13/10/2025
Alright folks, it's That Time™ JavaScript for Everyone goes live tomorrow so can you do me a solid? If you see a post about it, can you boost/repost? It's v hard since the divorced dad ruined Twitter, you see. I'll love you forever 😘
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Cruel. Truly. Wordle 1,576 5/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Josh Collinsworth @collinsworth.dev · 05/10/2025
You know when you buy the cheapest version of a product, thinking it'll save you time/money, but it turns out the cheap version sucks so hard you just throw it away and spend even more on the thing you should've just bought in the first place? That's what starting a coding project with AI is like.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/09/2025
Before the hearing begins, a reminder…
graphics.wsj.com
Battling Infectious Diseases in the 20th Century: The Impact of Vaccines
The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, generally declined after vaccines were introduced.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Wordle 1,523 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Oh you think you’re real clever don’t you, NYT?
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
media.tenor.com
batman is wearing a helmet and saying `` why did you say that name '' .
ALT: batman is wearing a helmet and saying `` why did you say that name '' .
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2025
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned. Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
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The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced today that it will begin phasing out its operations, following Congress’s recent decision to revoke previously allocated federal funding. CPB said it is initiating an “orderly wind-down” after nearly six decades.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
“I destroyed month of your work in seconds” –Our AI “Helpers”
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 08/07/2025
🎺Join us in standing with EPA workers! 139 dedicated civil servants are facing retaliation for speaking truth to power and defending our environment & health. Their fight is our fight. Show your support at the rally on July 9, 5 PM, Foley Square, NYC. #SaveTheEPA139 #StandWithEPA
A public service announcement poster from the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) Local 3911 and the Federal Unionists Network (FUN). The poster features bold text reading "SAVE THE EPA 139" with an image of a megaphone. It states that EPA workers signed a letter urging their boss to honor his oath and recommit to the EPA’s mission of protecting human health and the environment. The poster accuses EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin of retaliating by placing 139 EPA civil servants on leave for investigation. It calls for people to join a rally to demand an end to political retaliation against the 139 EPA workers. The rally details are: July 9 at 5:00 pm, Foley Square, New York, NY 10013. A QR code and a link (https://bit.ly/4kr1O1g) are provided to read the Declaration of Dissent.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
The IRS announced that churches and other houses of worship are now allowed to endorse political candidates to their congregations, effectively carving out an exemption to the longstanding ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.
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Mark Williams-Cook @markwilliamscook.com · 29/06/2025
A 1999 print ad praises Google as a pure, fast-loading search engine with no ads, news, or distractions.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Please share this. Friends of the Everglades are organizing a protest to stop Alligator Alcatraz. Join us we have coalition members traveling overnight to be there by morning. Where: Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, 54575 Tamiami Trail When: Saturday, June 28, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.
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Josh the Ar-TEEST @heroesofcrash.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
I just discovered this meme and I love it. Happy #PrideMonth to all my #LGBTQIA + friends!
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
As a long time lover of em dashes, it saddens me to see AI ruining their reputation—
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
@patrickhwillems.bsky.social I wanted to let you know that I love the train episodes and rewatched them twice. K thnx bye.
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.
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Elim Garak @elimgarak240b.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Can we take a quick pause to reflect on how fucking insane it is that the NY Times is saying that it would be good to acknowledge "many of his actions are legal". Do they not realize how batshit that is? Like looking at Jeffrey Dahmer and saying "there were a lot of days when he didn't eat dudes"
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
BREAKING: The constitutional crisis has arrived. We knew it was coming, just not when.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Protest happening NOW: Location: 517 E. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee Next action: Tomorrow at 3 PM Location: 3600 S. Lake Dr, St. Francis, WI 53235 Stand up. Show up.
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Hemry, Local Bartender @bartenderhemry.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Chuck schumer believes his whole job is just saying other people will fight trump at some point
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
You might not see it in the mainstream media, but over 10,000 people protested today at Tesla showrooms across the country, another 10,000+ rallied in support of national parks, and more than 1,000 gathered in Vermont to protest Vance’s visit.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 22/01/2025
Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.
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Sir Norman of Nowhere. CSE. 🏴‍☠️ @sirnorman.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 22/01/2025
JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives
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JPMorgan, Goldman CEOs Resist Calls to Roll Back DEI Programs
JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. are pushing back on demands to roll back their diversity initiatives.
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