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Martin Baker

@mnemonick.bsky.social
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IT/AV guy who predates the internet and grew up with technology (for better *and* worse, lol). Fair warning: I post *extremely* infrequently because I am a curmudgeon (love that word), an atheist & certified Internet Hermit! Also, I swear. Like, a lot.

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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
And this little lady is Maggie; she's less than half Tyger's size but feisty as heck:
portrait photo of a small female tabby cat
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The striped kitten (top) grew to become this handsome gentleman who I named Tyger because I'm *terrible* at names:
portrait of a large male tabby cat
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Two months later she blessed us with these two:
photo of two very young, small kittens
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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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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Correction: FOUR games!
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
And so on February 13th, 2018 we magically went from 2 cats to 4!
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Max still enjoyed going outside in the evening, and I'd leave the kitchen door ajar for him. One autumn night I entered the kitchen to this tableaux:
A young black cat watches an uninvited female tabby cat eat his dinner.
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Mine were provided by the CDS! First one was this (not so) little void I named Maxwell
POV photo of a large black cat lying on his back in my lap, paws raised as he dozes
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Lol, I have a big boi too, his name is Tyger. Here he is, spilling out of his cat bed:
A large male tabby cat sprawling out of his normal sized cat bed.
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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 · 19/09/2025
This guy's got some 'Captain America' rizz; www.chicagotribune.com/wp-content/u...
Photo of a protestor wearing a "USA" labeled jacket with a large American flag and carrying a shield confronting uniformed National Guard soldiers at a protest in Chicago, Illinois
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
That's because I have a Bella
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Tyger agrees:
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only:
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Aww! 😊 Reminds me of a stray calico mom I fostered a couple years ago:
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
enjoy this bonus 1911 reload:
Actor James Caan from "Freebie and The Bean" (1974) hurriedly  reloading his 1911 pistol.
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Sounds like my semi-feral rescue Bella. 8 years of learning how to be a 'house cat' but she still gets over-stimulated when petted even though she loves it. 😸
A female tabby cat, seated in front of a powered off TV.
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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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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Aww, that face 😿 That's a face that's seen some shit. Reminds me of an orange tabby I finally got off the street a few years ago:
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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 · 16/03/2025
Sounds good, I'll have to look for it online! And hey- it stars Alain Delon because of course it would 😁
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Tyger says "Huh? Oh, hi!"
Picture of my male tabby Tyger camped out next to me in the Big Chair.
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Not the Cats of Yore we deserve but the Cats of Yore we need during these anxious, stressful times!
Photo of my big tabby boi Tyger, sitting like my Dad after a long day at the office.
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
"Well, at least they're not nihilists!" -- Walter Sobchak, probably
image of John Goodman as the character from the film "The Big Lebowski"
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Admitting my age twice: once via operating system and also by choice of subject. Yes, this was my actual Win98 desktop ca. 1996. What can I say, it was a simpler time 😆
screenshot of my old desktop background featuring Eric Cartman rendered in 3D
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
LOL, Cave Johnson is gonna sue the crap outta them. #portal
Valve Software's Aperture Labs logo, visualized as a CRT monitor image
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
COUNTERPOINT:
POV picture of a lap-full of six week old napping kittens.
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Why? Because I had the spare time and a copy of Photoshop. 😁
"Khajiit has wares if you have coin" meme adapted for BSky
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Martin Baker @mnemonick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Love me some Maiden 🤘🤘 ...is it just me or does Nicko resemble Michael Palin in a wig? i.guim.co.uk/img/static/s...
comedian and actor Michael Palin
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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
Oops, forgot the cat tax:
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