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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I've belatedly realized that I'm always liking or reposting cat pictures, yet no one here has seen MY cats! Let's fix that. Here's Bella (full name Arabella F. Wigglebotham - we just call her "Mrs. W"), provided to us by the CDS when she showed up at our back door, pregnant and ravenous:

portrait photo of a female tabby cat looking directly into the camera (and possibly your soul)

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa @kashinggiwa.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In the mood for a space opera adventure reviewers have affectionately called “tear-apart-the-empire-with-your-bare-hands wish fulfillment”? THE SPLINTER IN THE SKY eBook is currently 1.99 *again*! ✨ bookshop.org/p/books/the-... ✨ www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/...

Illustration of Enitan (a Black woman with brown skin and short black hair in a green tunic) and her sibling Xiang (a Chinese person in a reddish-brown tunic) by @ashcremated on Tumblr.

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

As if today could get even *more* depressing, I just heard that we lost Bob Weir: www.cnn.com/2026/01/10/e...

A recent studio photo of Bob Weir standing, wearing a fedora with a red semi-hollow electric guitar slung over his left shoulder.

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Today, the misanthropy has really got to me, so for purely spiteful reasons let me just reiterate for the record: The Abrahamic religions (yes, all 3 of them) are the useless, intolerant, bigoted, misogynist, hateful and anti-humane delusions of ignorant Mesopotamian herdsmen and farmers.

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Duchess of Doom @kilagreene.myatproto.social · 10/01/2026

I’m in search of book recs for my niece. Criteria: - Science fiction - Female lead(s) - Has an audiobook Bonus points for space opera and queer books. She doesn’t mind if the books aren’t super recent (she loved the Honor Harrington series). #Booksky

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026

A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

So I've been rewatching Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" on my local PBS affiliate (shouts to WSKG!). Last night's installment, "In Order To Be Free" is a horribly depressing reminder that human nature hasn't evolved AT ALL since the 18th century. Considering starting a day-drinking regimen...

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

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Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods

404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Are there ANY Republicans on this platform? If so can you please explain how you sleep at night, knowing that your party is rapidly devolving into a fascist nightmare?

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

"Murdering a mother of a 6-year-old child, you're in the wrong place in your soul. God help you! Her son's name is Emerson; Emerson does not have a mother today because one of you murdered a woman in cold blood yesterday!" -Minneapolis ICE protester scolds line of ICE agents ⬇️

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Today I am so ashamed and despondent about being a lifelong citizen of the United States that I fear the only solution left to us is a violent armed response to the jack-booted federal thugs who seem all too willing to treat their fellow citizens as targets. And I don't even OWN a firearm...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

@lepas.bsky.social creates one of the BEST GODDAM COMICS ON THE INTERNET* but since she doesn't post much I'm taking it upon myself to inform you of this 😃 www.wildelifecomic.com * if you disagree with me I WILL KICK YOUR ASS

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Wilde Life

a bearded man observes the antics of supernatural rednecks

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

As I see it, the fundamental cognitive dissonance faced by hardcore social conservatives is: while they understand that 1st Amendment "free speech" means they can spout whatever intolerant hateful racist bullshit they like in public, they think that *also* means they can't be ridiculed for it.

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Shitter thought for Today: It's really worrisome to me that all the American conservatives I've met seem to believe that crimes against property are somehow *always* worse than crimes against people. You know, people - like, actual fucking HUMAN BEINGS

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WIRED @wired.com · 19/03/2025

Why do people support dictators? How do dictators come to power? We teamed up with history professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat to answer the internet's burning questions about authoritarianism and fascism.

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History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED

Professor and authoritarianism scholar Ruth Ben-Ghiat joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about dictators and fascism. Why do people suppo...

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Today's mood: chilling with my kitties while the world burns. :|

Overhead picture of a man seated in a chair with two cats, one in his lap and the other by his side.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Man, the leopards have just been FEASTING lately. Thoughts and prayers for those rendered faceless!

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Sunday afternoon lap time 😺

Overhead picture of a man seated in a chair with a tabby cat in his lap and another at his side.

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

THIS was the reason I fired up BSky this morning, though I didn't know it at the time.

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Cheryl Snelson @rebelgirl74.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Skydiver Luigi Cani dispersing 100 Million tree seeds to revive the Amazon Rainforest

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

@schumer.senate.gov If you continue to enable these fascist criminals by voting "Yes" I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR YOU AGAIN, YOU COWARD. @klobuchar.senate.gov Please try to talk some sense into this CLEARLY DELUSIONAL man. And yes, I voted for you too - enthusiastically!

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

@schumer.senate.gov FFS, Senator, PLEASE do not allow Trump's CR to get a floor vote. Would a temporary shutdown really be worse than the shitshow we are currently experiencing?

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Apropos of absolutely nothing, and with the understanding that I am an olde white dude currently fighting leukemia: Antifa, if you're out there and can use a disabled IT guy who knows security, I'm available and have some free time 😎

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This. Is. AMAZING. I'm seriously reaching out to the folks at Wikipedia to see if they can help with hosting!

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

If I were an Englishman I like to think I'd be a Londoner, but if I'm honest, I'd probably be a Yorkshireman. And there's now't wrong wi' that!

Tony Pitts as Richard Alderson in All Creatures Great and Small

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

How about an actual computer hardware post (I am an IT dude after all): as if 2024 couldn't get weirder, I find myself looking forward to the new video cards from... Intel?! ...I mean seriously, wtf?

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