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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
Dolly (in signature)
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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 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
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 · 24/07/2026
Legit see my most recent post lol. Every time I see that "you've used X times more tokens than War and Peace" I want jump out a window.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Like I don't think I've generated 50x more value than Pride and Prejudice, guys.
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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 🥞🥞🥞 🥞⭐🥞 🥞🥞🥞
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 · 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 · 26/05/2026
My favorite art is "<div style>"
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Sorry "unwell zoomer" 💀
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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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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Grow a freaking spine, man.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This has gotten a lot better over the course of our relationship. My stance is "eating should never be punishment" and he's gotten better at identifying when he's being motivated by guilt vs desire. It's a lot of patience and talking things out. Also, we both engage in therapy.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A common dynamic is me saying I'm full/not interested in eating, him questioning that, then volunteering to eat my leftovers, me asking if he ACTUALLY wants them or is just afraid of wasting food, him insisting we at least save it, and then me throwing it out anyway when it isn't eaten.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My husband has a lot of complicated feelings around food waste... his mother did the whole "children are starving" thing with him as a kid, he's struggled with his weight and body image, and he REALLY struggles with wasting food.
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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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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
media.tenor.com
a woman sitting at a table with the word schitts creek on the bottom right
Alt: Alexis from Schitts Creek saying "Ew"
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward.
media.tenor.com
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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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
In fact, if you don't have a drivers license and aren't an active student you likely don't have any form of ID on you at all. And more people fall into that camp than you'd expect.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I wouldn't be surprised if Buffet was more a fan of Melinda than Bill in the end. She's been very positive about Warren Buffet, even after he pulled back his previous promise to donate to the foundation after his death.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I was talking to a coworker yesterday about how difficult it is to manage devs who begin using AI because they quality of their work drops and it's tough to get them to improve because any feedback you give doesn't make it to their AI model.
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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
Calling the movie Melania has had the hilarious unintended consequence of not always knowing if their are critiquing the film or her character.
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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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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
And to clarify, I'm a big fan of fluoridated toothpaste! It's just not a public health measure
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Fluoridated toothpaste is more prone to injury than fluoridated water. A child could eat a tube of toothpaste and get sick. There is essentially no risk of fluoride damage from fluoridated water. You're just wrong about this.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We have 80 years of evidence that *fluoridated water* has had major positive impacts for oral health—an estimated 40 to 70% reduction in cavities, equivalent to over $6 billion in savings in dental care. Relying on personal action is not the same. www.nyu.edu/about/news-p...
nyu.edu
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Fluoridated water is a public health miracle. This is so sad...
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Let's all count! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 11, 13, 13!
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I feel like a lot of these replies are forgetting that November is a midterm. The Supreme Court is not going to intervene in dozens of state races. States are not going to give a crap what Bondi says. AT WORST rep elects could face issues taking office after the election.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I remember during the last election, when international poll observers came to the US for the first time, they said the distributed nature of our election process was a logistical nightmare for them but also an enormous strength for our electoral process.
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The protein obsession has always read, from my perspective, as a combination of fragile masculinity (because everything is gendered, protein=boys and plants=girls) and meat industry propaganda. It’s never been based in real nutrition science
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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 · 13/01/2026
I love LA but I was angry when I saw this ad. Absolutely trash.
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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 · 12/12/2025
Woody Allen jumpscare
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Martha @marthf.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
In Los Angeles there’s a guy that does this to various confusing freeway signs abc7.com/amp/post/las...
abc7.com
LA's stealthy freeway sign artist still up to his old tricks | abc7.com
Richard%20Ankrom%20knows%20a%20little%20something%20about%20traffic%20signs%3A%20Despite%20hours%20of%20staring%20at%20them%20each%20day%2C%20you%20really%20don't%20notice%20them%20until%20you%20miss%...
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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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