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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother

@martinthemess.bsky.social
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Science Fiction, Science Fact, History and Alternate History, Humor and Political Philosophy. Always Watching. Formerly @Back2Babylon5 on that other place with the Musky odor.

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 30/09/2026
American film screenwriter, director and visual effects supervisor Dan O'Bannon (1946-2009) was born 80 years ago today.
ALIEN: NOW in production, next to Dan O'Bannon
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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chat are we old
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Christian art about the Crucifixion or Agnus Dei/Lamb of God rarely demonizes the Roman soldiers doing the actual nailing him up. The only times you really see the Killers of Christ depicted animalistically like this is to remind everyone that The Jews are Christ Killers. This is antisemitic art.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The early results are in, and when my fellow Gen-Xers and I complete our ongoing transformation into crotchety old men and cranky women, we are gonna make the Boomers look like fucking Pollyannas.
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AltStateGov @altstategov.altgov.info · 20/09/2026
This thread contains voting & election information for all 50 states and D.C. Links lead to the state's main elections web page and where and/or how to vote. Please take time to ensure you are registered to vote and know how and where you can vote.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 21/09/2026
Can't believe it's been 3 years since I got the first copies of my book. And because the video I took that day is still the best unboxing video EVER, I'm going to share it again.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Is Synthwave going mainstream? Or have we regressed to the point that even the Gays are nostalgic for the Reagan Era? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa1k...
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Clay Aiken - Rewind (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Clay Aiken
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I really hope this popularity is due to concern about corruption, and not about seeking wedding-planning tips for Destination Weddings, or, worse, about "how can I get a Russian Oligarch to pick up the tab for *my* over-the-top dream wedding on a private island? Just a little light treason?"
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Has the FBI gotten a lot of applications from schoolmates of David Cameron who were also "forced" to pit their penis in the mouth of a dead pig's head as part of a hazing ritual?
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If I looked that good in those pants, I'd take 'em to space, too.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
“ICE agents were caught on video pulling one teen from the car and punching him repeatedly in the face while he lay on the ground. The other teen, Luis Ochoa, said he informed the ICE agents he was a citizen but was told, ‘I don’t give a damn.… Your parents can’t help you now.’”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is a big deal and it deserves a lot more attention. A federal whistleblower is sounding the alarm about a nationwide DHS operation called the “Unlawful Voter Initiative.” According to the disclosure, hundreds of employees at U.S. Citizenship and
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I'd suggest that between her and Jill "Putin's Puppet and Trump's Bitch" Stein that no one should take the Green Party seriously ever again...but I'm a Libertarian, and I shudder to think what "our" recent nominees are getting up to these days.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Reskeet for the Atheists. Help turn a church into a museum celebrating a great scientist.
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Chris 🟡🟡🟡🟡 @shelfnerds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’M SPEECHLESS. Set a course for EPIC!
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Star Trek: Voyager | 31st Anniversary Trailer
YouTube video by Fanning FX
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Timothy Gassin @timothygassin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The most effective response I've seen to the PRC's bullying in international fora.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One of the guys in my JROTC company would eat worms and bugs from under rocks for 50 cents. I bet he did well in the service.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There's an old bumper sticker slogan that "Injustice anywhere is a threat to Justice everywhere. " The converse is also true. Justice anywhere is a threat to Injustice everywhere. It's hard to hold slaves when there's someplace nearby they can escape to and be free. Hence the Berlin Wall.
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Cody @atiredgay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Since some folks will be celebrating Labour Day today. Neeoma Connally will always be an unsung hero of Babylon 5, a fantastic union rep and I wish we saw her again.
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Dock Workers Threaten to Strike | Babylon 5
YouTube video by Babylon 5
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StamfordTheLion. @stamfordthelion.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
If you follow this account mariascathouse25.bsky.social please be aware that it is a FAKE account copying a genuine rescue that doesn't have a Bluesky account and doesn't use Giverimpact as a payment platform #SpotTheScammer @moderation.bsky.app @support.bsky.team @safety.bsky.app @skywatch.blue
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NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade @69thsb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Fellas, we’ve raised more than half of the campaign with Kraut’s community @derparrot.bsky.social 🦜 We’re getting closer to the goal for a NAFO Bus 3.0 to support Ukrainian defenders 🫡 www.help99.co/patches/krau... 58% (€11,941.62 / €20,500) Let’s keep it going! 🔥 Donate, share, and boost!
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
In fact if there's one political message that should reach everyone on Bluesky, the website for Democratic politics obsessives afraid to leave their own house, it's that you should vote in person this year.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If a protest movement could put a million or so on the National Mall, and similar numbers in Times Square or Central Park, Grant Park, and wherever LA hosts such things, and KEEP THEM THERE Indefinitely rather than the usual 1-day protest marches, that would probably have some results.
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
September is Deaf Awareness Month. It's also the anniversary of the TOS classic "Amok Time." To celebrate both, i just ordered test prints for shirts and stickers. ✌🏻
white line illustration on a black background of American sign language hand gestures, 3 in total. from left to right: Two hands making the peace sign thrusting towards each other. this the fingers are legs and this is the sign for "fuck." the next sign is two hands laid flat. one palm up, the other palm down, they turn over or flop. this is the sign for "die" or "dead." the last is two hands with their thumbs up and turn outward. palms up, they move up and down. this is the sign for "which."white line illustration on a blue background of American sign language hand gestures, 3 in total. from left to right: Two hands making the peace sign thrusting towards each other. this the fingers are legs and this is the sign for "fuck." the next sign is two hands laid flat. one palm up, the other palm down, they turn over or flop. this is the sign for "die" or "dead." the last is two hands with their thumbs up and turn outward. palms up, they move up and down. this is the sign for "which."illustration on a gold background of American sign language hand gestures, 3 in total. from left to right: Two hands making the peace sign thrusting towards each other. this the fingers are legs and this is the sign for "fuck." the next sign is two hands laid flat. one palm up, the other palm down, they turn over or flop. this is the sign for "die" or "dead." the last is two hands with their thumbs up and turn outward. palms up, they move up and down. this is the sign for "which."
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Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 03/08/2026
this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
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God @thegodshow.com · 26/08/2026
“If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight. We are who we are. I don’t believe that we should criticize and judge other people. I think we should be accepting and loving. We are all God’s children.” - Dolly
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Send This to Your Bigoted Christian Family Member Right Now
Do it.
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Michael Baumann @baumann.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
RIP Tim Curry, who had the range to star in the two greatest movies about a mutiny in the middle of a transatlantic sea voyage, and also the crew occasionally breaks into song
Tim Curry as Dr. Petrov in The Hunt for Red OctoberTim Curry as Long John silver in Muppet Treasure Island, and also Sweetums
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Sam Eagle The American Way
Alt: Sam Eagle The American Way
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Happy #MapMonday!
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Wait, so everyone is twelve theory already had a name?
I think it's really funny that Japanese also has a word for 'edgelord', but theirs translates to 'eighth-grader'.

User holmoria replies, 

It's not even 'eighth-grader" it's even funnier. chunibyo is eighth- grade syndrome. like explicitly a diagnosis. I diagnose you with edgelord
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I recently started rewatching HEROES for the first time since it originally aired. Damn, that was actually a really good show, and she was fantastic in it. Really sad to see her gone at such a young age. Gonna have to retire one of the few memes I made myself, too.
Disambiguation meme showing the difference between NYC's Hayden Planetarium and Hollywood actress Hayden Panettiere.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 06/08/2026
✅Check your voter registration status EARLY and OFTEN.✅ The regime knows the only way they can win is through voter suppression and purging voter rolls. www.vote411.org/
vote411.org
VOTE411
Election information you need. Brought to you by The League of Women Voters Education Fund.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
It's the non-vegetarian version of Dr. Kellogg and the rest of the Enema Cult nutjobs who invented breakfast cereals to discourage masturbation. Why does American culture keep burping up this Kind of Guy at regular intervals?
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Your stool sir, is pathetic
YouTube video by grantzax
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Needs to be paired with a Tricorder (or, better yet, an old Laser Tag sensor) in a similar color scheme as a Portable Gaydar.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If she asked you to proofread, yes. Help her avoid embarrassment by assuming it was an autocorrect error, rather than her own typo. It you're just reading over her shoulder, no.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
woah this video for the Peleliu SINKEX is wild
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B-Roll: USVs participate in RIMPAC 2026 sinking exercise
U.S. Navy unmanned surface vessels take part in a sinking exercise in the Pacific Ocean targeting the hulk of decommissioned Tarawa-class amphibious assault ship USS Peleliu (LHA 5) as part of Exercis...
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
🎵An Eye would walk 500 miles an Eye would walk 500 more just to be the eye that walked 1000 miles to peek through your front door 🎶
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Cool Eyeball Walking Animation
ALT: Cool Eyeball Walking Animation
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Your father killed my father But my sons will murder yours They're down in Sarajevo Beating plowshares into swords
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I think we found Gritty's vehicle of choice.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
She's basically an X-Men character, so yeah, she counts.
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Babylon 5: Lyta's Angry Expression
ALT: Babylon 5: Lyta's Angry Expression
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Twitter is a town square in the sense that half the businesses around the square are shut down and everyone who could has already moved to a nearby city to get a job.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
He was once known as "The Craziest Pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force" for an incident where he flew his plane down a mountain slope at a ski resort, slaloming back and forth around the pylons of the ski lift...below the level of the wires of the ski lift chairs.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I've certainly done some questionable things in a public library, but drugs are not one of them. On the other hand, my local branch does lend out Naloxone as well as books, so at least they're prepared.
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economymedicine.bsky.social @economymedicine.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We are in fact a creedal nation, we have taken people from around the world who embraced the idea of America and let them become Americans. We should be throwing open the doors to people who embrace the creed.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I make a joke reply to a post about AI seeing a graffiti of "they eat babies in Denver" and helpfully suggesting Google searches on which Denver Restaurants serve the best baby meat...and an AI replies by misunderstanding the joke. Truly, it is a new age.
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Old School Cool @oldschoolcoolsub.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Our hearts have eclipsed today. Honoring rock icon Bonnie Tyler- singer, songwriter, philanthropist, legend. (1951-2026)
Credit to the original poster AuntWacky1976 who posted this on r/OldSchoolCool on July 9th, 2026 at 1:52 PM UTC.Credit to the original poster AuntWacky1976 who posted this on r/OldSchoolCool on July 9th, 2026 at 1:52 PM UTC.Credit to the original poster AuntWacky1976 who posted this on r/OldSchoolCool on July 9th, 2026 at 1:52 PM UTC.Credit to the original poster AuntWacky1976 who posted this on r/OldSchoolCool on July 9th, 2026 at 1:52 PM UTC.
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was gonna be chairtable and suggest someone told him some of those 111 missiles were "kamikaze drones" and his pea-brain thus was primed to be thinking about Japan attacking US aircraft carriers. But I'm pretty sure his WW2 "knowledge" starts and stops at "The Dirty Dozen was a documentary."
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Martin The Mess a.k.a. Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
My Sister and I decided to also make some U.S. State Flag cupcakes for the big 250th. Too row L-R: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado. Mid row: Indiana, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee. Bot row: New Mexico, Illinois, City of Chicago, District of Columbia.
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