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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 26/09/2026

Our cat Ollie is trying out his Halloween face.

Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 30/08/2026

Signs outside of the Medford NJ meetinghouse. Taken because a Friend at my meeting is thinking about signage that might further convince neighbors we’re not an abandoned space.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 30/08/2026

Fuck Google Maps. At some point you have to decide that the official US federal geographic names database has become an unreliable stew of politicized 💩. What happens when President Demented names the Atlantic Ocean after himself?

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 24/08/2026

martin_kelley Happy would-be birthday to my mom Liz. She would have been 96 today. This is her in 2014, about a year before she passed.

A woman with four grandchildren sitting on a couch.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 15/08/2026

I’m powered by Freedom, baby! This has always been a sketch location, constantly closing and reopening. There’s definitely been some sort of con going with its owners and this month it’s Freedom Fuels.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 14/08/2026

My oldest son and I had a great tour of this meetinghouse by a kindly grandfatherly type, complete with a trip up to the attic. He's the former principal at the North Carolina school mentioned in the @friendsjournal.org article. Abused multiple kids at at least two schools.

Photo of the front of an 18th century Quaker meetinghouse.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 14/08/2026

I took this photo at a Quaker gathering at a Friend's house. He was a respected administrator at a (non Quaker) religious school, seemed like a nice guy. My two oldest sons are just off camera. Police later said the trailer on the left was the scene of years of rapes of foreign-exchange students.

Sunny lawn with three people playing Frisbee. On the left is a trailer.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 14/08/2026

For some reason my Friday newsletter didn't go off last week so it's an extra bundle today. Learn how philosophers are rediscovering plainness and what a "worship fluid" Quaker meeting might look like. us17.campaign-archive.com?u=7e77489ebc...

Screenshot of a YouTube interview with the title "Open Worship, Guided Worship, Fluid Worship"

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 10/08/2026

The AI resistance. These are great. Via @kottke.org aftermath.site/ai-resistanc...

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 29/07/2026

Not at all a surprising outcome. China's been disciplined and strategic while Trump changes policies every month. In the last 18 months the U.S. has pretty definitively dropped the ball on future-looking energy, transportation, and education policies and they're the odds-on favorite to win on AI.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 17/06/2026

Lutnick and Rubio must take tranquilizers when appearing with Trump so their eyes don't bug out. Even so they sometimes break.

Lutnick smirking and looking to the side.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 21/04/2026

I thought this might be a clever, meta headline about how we're always waiting for headlines. No, it's just the NYTimes making a gaffe on its homepage.

Screenshot of headline from NYTimes reading "TK Headline." (TK is magazine-speak for "To Come," used to fill in a layout when the headline isn't ready.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 15/04/2026

I don't know why we're supposed to take much stock in the stock markets. Their movements don't seem to indicate any kind of long-term intelligence. They increasingly seem to just be a marker of the confidence of an oligarch class in keeping the corruption going.

Headline reading "Stocks Hit Record High as Wall St. Looks Beyond War"

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 27/02/2026

pressing a shift key uses minimal energy but if you calculate it over a lifetime you'll find the average thought leader wastes 7.8 years with caps. you could spend that time using ai to write your next unemployment memo. next up: ditching punctuation andmaybespaces and whtbtvwls

This picture represents just how much of a ass Jack Dorsey is, showing that he can't even use the caps button when announcing mass layoffs.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 19/12/2025

Had to work in a new-to-me library in Vincentown NJ this afternoon. They have a children's building located in an old firehouse. It's the only open building while the main building (in an old bank) is renovated. I had the 2nd floor to myself and hung out with stuffed bears. Cuteness 10/10.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 05/11/2025

The diet is more widely known under it's other name, veganism (a word which doesn't even show up in the article). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/w...

Newspaper headline: This Little-Known Diet Can Actually Lower Your Cholesterol

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 28/10/2025

A neighborhood visitor at my Quaker meeting's halloween truck-or-treat this Sunday told us she had heard that our burial ground was a pet cemetery!

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 19/10/2025

Batsto Country Living Fair 2025 had all the normal fun (apple cider donuts, cool steam powered stuff) but also included a family kayaking outing and a cute turtle rescue.

Old mansion with people gathered on a hillside.

Light playing on overhanging trees alongside a river.

An orange and brown box turtle safely relocated from the middle of a county road.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 01/10/2025

An over-the-air update yesterday to my 18 year old Hyundai has brought a revolutionary anti-theft design feature: a handle-less door knob!

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 26/09/2025

Gregory is back in Scout Life magazine for the second time (third if you include his sister’s joke that was submitted under his name).

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 24/09/2025

Lake and old dam works on the Great Swamp Branch at Wiltseys Mill just east of Hammonton NJ. Seen on my evening bike ride.

The view of a lake reflecting the twilight sky.

Head of lake with the culvert for highway overpass.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 23/09/2025

After visiting the John Woolman Memorial this weekend I stopped by the Shinn Curtis Log House in My Holly NJ. Built in 1712, it gained so many additions over the centuries that the original house was totally encased and lost. It was rediscovered when the outside house was being demolished in 1967.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 19/09/2025

In this week's "Quaker Ranter" newsletter, I talk with Ron Marullo about his path to conscientious objection in 1969. I also share how I went through my own discernment around military service almost two decades later. us17.campaign-archive.com?u=7e77489ebc...

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 29/08/2025

Happy 20th to Francis. I took him out to breakfast at Gilcrests, then we headed to the mountain bike trails of Estell Manor Park. Following along behind him I realized just how bad off his bike was so we got a new (old) bike. Then home for Royale Crown ice cream cake.

A human blowing out candles of an ice cream birthday cake.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 29/08/2025

Gregory passed his Eagle Board of Review tonight!

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 28/08/2025

Also the iPhone night lightening sucks. Better exposure settings.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 28/08/2025

I think I randomly saw the TOMEX+ atmospheric laser experiment while walking the dogs. www.nasa.gov/blogs/wallop...

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 22/08/2025

Make buttons, not war. 😉

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 25/07/2025

I've listened to park music playlists too and there used to be some radio stations (they seem to come and go). Also, my favorite Disney hat ever.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 19/04/2025

It likely was more imposing (and bluer?) once upon a time. It’s by an intersection of Lenape trails and was a popular meeting spot for centuries. The 1930 aerial and modern lidar show a lot of interesting features nearby, including networks of trails and a bend in the Egg Harbor River.

1930 aerial photo showing Blue Hole quite distinctly.

Modern lidar showing a web of trails and ribbon of ancient river channels.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 19/04/2025

Greetings from the famous South Jersey Blue Hole, whose legends eclipse the actual body of water. Some include: it has no bottom; people swimming there have been drowned by being pulled down by the Jersey Devil; it is cold but ice free year round. #southjersey #bluehole

Three humans and some dogs in front of a small lake in the woods.

A small lake with green growth in the front.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 05/04/2025

Compass went to the salon and came back so sleek and chic.

Two pictures wide by side of the same dog, shaggy in the one picture, trim in the other.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 04/04/2025

Rain has brought water to the often-dry creek in our back yard. I hope it wakes up the frog eggs so we have a lot of little hoppers in a few weeks.

Small stream of water traveling down a grassy culvert.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 23/03/2025

I have enough pictures for a mushroom series too. #southjersey #pinebarrens.

Red and brown circular mushroom growing off a pine tree in woods.

The bottom side of a circular mushroom growing off a birch tree in woods.

Some sort of mushroom growing in a line off a downed birch limb, against the forest floor.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 23/03/2025

Stuck in a line at Lowe’s now but I’ll share some more golden-hour pics from yesterday’s run in the #southjersey #pinebarrens.

Late afternoon sun by a sand trail in woods.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 22/03/2025

Bushwhacked to a remote spot on the Mullica River #southjersey

River with trees reflected in the water.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 15/03/2025

Wading River at the Franklin Parker Preserve near Chatsworth NJ.

Trees along the edge of a bog alongside a river.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 12/03/2025

Our once pure-muscled found kitty has turned into a happy house cat.

A somewhat hefty grey cat in the sunlight of a porch.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 10/03/2025

The snowdrops are coming up at the Friends meetinghouse.

White flowers on green stalks in foreground, wooded cemetery lawn in background.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 07/03/2025

Really amazing presentation by duck decoy carver J.P. “Jamie” Hand at the Hammonton Historical Society.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 09/02/2025

Making it across the finish line yesterday at the Chili Run in Pitman NJ. A lot slower than my time 2 years ago but glad that my new asthma medication seems to be working.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 07/02/2025

Me and 3 of the kids attended a talk by Samuel Still, chairman of Dr James Still House and a second great grandnephew of the famous Still brothers: James, the “Black Doctor of the Pines”; William, the “Father of the Underground Railroad”; and Peter, epithet-less, who also had a remarkable life.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 06/02/2025

As someone who minored in geography in college I’m really thrilled that my son Theo Heiland is getting to use modern geographic systems for genuinely useful data analysis.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 05/02/2025

New England # Quaker general secretary Noah Merrill spoke to CBS News about the DHS lawsuit www.cbsnews.com/video/why-qu...

Screenshot of video interview with Noah Merrill.

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Martin Kelley @martinkelley.com · 27/01/2025

Google Books' NGRAM only goes to 1927

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