Reposted by MarthaJ @jaseomcn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I was in NY when I was 18 and on the subway I offered to carry a very large suitcase up a looong flight of stairs for an elderly lady. She said, angrily, “Do I look old?”. I didn’t know how to answer “Honestly yes”, so we looked at each other in silence until she said “Oh alright, yes then” 0397
Reposted by MarthaChris Adamson @invalidname.me · 19/09/2026The Ford app just added AI. This is the greatest thing ever. 382312427
Reposted by MarthaDag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Alan Ritchson chasing Stephen Miller down the street show. Everywhere Miller goes he looks over his shoulder and Alan just smiles and starts running. 313619
Reposted by Marthajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18/09/2026i am genuinely bewildered by people who say that the rise of white nationalism in the republican party is a response to the "woke left." like, did the woke left cause pat buchanan's 1992 presidential campaign? is the woke left why steve king had a long career in congress? 430103811922
Reposted by MarthaNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not. 12247241139
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Somewhat related, please stop having high school students contact undergraduate faculty to ask for internships or research assistant roles! 020
Reposted by MarthaPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this. 15333976216130
Reposted by MarthaDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance. 643087537
Reposted by MarthaKathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026paul gross on heated rivalry s2 ... fine, you have my attention 61104
Reposted by MarthaNE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 03/09/2026May the sewers rise to meet you, May the flows be always at your back. 718921
Reposted by MarthaClaire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026absolutely wheezing at an Instagram clip of comic Stevie Martin (who I love from being a maniac on Taskmaster) claiming that Shakespeare only had three plays: 1. “I’m Not a Good Monarch” 2. “I’ll Pretend To Be You, You Hide Behind That Plant, and We’ll Both Marry Her” 3. “The Lion King” 202148375
Reposted by MarthaLeah Reich @leahreich.com · 31/08/2026I’m sure most of you aren’t watching the US Open right now which means you missed this instantly iconic moment, now available in gif form 349162033296
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Husker Du’s cover of Eight Miles High is an all time favorite, although I have had Maxwell’s cover of Tori Amos’s This Woman’s Work on repeat this week. 110
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I love that whole albums. I really liked her version of Waterfalls. 111
Reposted by MarthaAlexandra 🍸🍸 @nycbubbles.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I love this tribute so much.🍸🍸 014326
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Barbara Mertz was a well-regarded Egyptologist and when she passed away Salima Ikram—the endowed Amanda Peabody Professor—helped provide expertise so her last books could be finished. 040
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026My delusional wishful thinking: they are negotiating the terms of removing Trump via the 25th amendment. 000
Reposted by MarthaMr. Blabalino 🇳🇴🇺🇸💙 @blabalino.com · 22/08/2026Found this recording of Rita Moreno performing “Fever” on The Muppet Show from 1976. 14/10 345119712989
Reposted by MarthaKendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 21/08/2026This is the funniest shit. Florida allows religious exemptions for vaccines. Catholic schools in Florida: we require vaccines. Florida's attorney general, who is Catholic, is threatening to pull vouchers if they don't allow for religious exemptions The Bishops: separation of church & statemiamiherald.comCatholic bishops remind attorney general about separation of church and state“The government may not decide that Church teaching is insufficiently religious,” wrote the Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops. 15781252336
Reposted by MarthaYvette Clarke for Congress @voteyvette.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Brooklyn Democrats deserve a county organization that respects its members and operates with fairness and transparency. Altering the rules and/or who gets a say just before a leadership election raises very serious concerns about the integrity of the process. nysfocus.com/2026/08/20/b...nysfocus.comFacing Ouster, Brooklyn Democratic Chair Tries to Rewrite RulesBrooklyn Democratic Party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn wants to expand who votes for party leader, and a reform group is threatening to sue. 1111918
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026As one of your constituents, I appreciate you taking this stand. 070
Reposted by MarthaPatrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026She ran a CrossFit gym, which is basically a swinger's club that produces orthopedic injuries 344155553
Reposted by MarthaMicah @rincewind.run · 13/08/2026now that we know how the new season of Reacher is (excellent), a thread about why you should watch What If A Man Was Large, The Show, in the form of a Q&A 541873410
Reposted by MarthaStandplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 30/07/2026 172044655
Reposted by MarthaMichael @michaeljsc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not 292640432
Reposted by Marthacaztastrophe 🐦🦝🏳️🌈 @caztastrophe.gay · 22/07/2026I fucking love this idea, like it's making me think of two sci-fi stories I love, the Utopians' shifting suits in @adapalmer.bsky.social 's Terra Ignota, & the surveillance-beating clothing in Baxter & Clarke's The Light of Other Days 411123
Reposted by MarthaAnna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/07/2026shout out to The Strand bookstore staffer who did this 100133731950
Reposted by MarthaYours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂 194136023859
Reposted by MarthaRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Antifascism looks like Pedro Pascal. It looks like Alex Pretti and AOC. It looks like 600 priests, imams, and rabbis in the cold streets of winter Minneapolis. Antifascism is gorgeous. 1273211584
Reposted by MarthaDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Air Quality Index on my weather app currently just says "it looks like The French Connection outside." 32102388
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 10/07/2026While I, personally, don’t think this is a negative, I am amazed that his ex-wife is a feminist scholar at Smith College 140
Reposted by MarthaEric Ansley Díaz 🏳️🌈 @geekboyeric.bsky.social · 10/07/2026RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?... 10778072900
Reposted by MarthaMovies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · 10/07/2026One topic that really interests me is masculinity in classic film John Wayne and Clark Gable would be featured in scenes specifically designed to make them look like the manliest thing in the room. Robert Mitchum and Humphrey Bogart would walk in and automatically be the manliest thing in the room 401053121
Reposted by Marthajamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10/07/2026really think that if democrats hold any chamber of congress next year that a condition of passing a budget is the removal of russ vought, who has a genuinely tyrannical vision of presidential power and is a focal point of the lawlessness of the trump administration 15562421860
Reposted by MarthaAdequateEmily @adequateemily.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Losing my mind at this Murder, She Wrote promo 182134504701
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026My Egyptian colleagues telling me to stop sending emails and watch the game 100
Reposted by MarthaElizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 06/07/2026As for the men wondering why women wait so long to come forward: because it's humiliating, you dumb fucks. Not because we did anything wrong but because of the way society views survivors and the fact that we're always put on trial too if we report it--as if we're also the perpetrators 221945396
Reposted by MarthaThe Onion @theonion.com · 04/07/2026Nation Turns 250 Despite Presence Of Irish theonion.com/nation-turns-250-despi… 684347603
Reposted by Marthalottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 24/05/2025ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go 1073660913
Reposted by MarthaPaul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 02/07/2026You Holiness Pope Leo XIV, I have a proposition for you: if you excommunicate JD Vance I will come out of spiritual retirement and re-Catholicize. That way your numbers stay they are. I don’t want to put a clock on it, but I’d prefer sooner rather than later 43392365
Reposted by MarthaGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 02/07/2026We're so starving for consequences we're reading Vatican press releases 2556191388
Reposted by MarthaLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC 80113983391
Martha @mpcooley.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I know that one of the reasons John Paul II was chosen was to bring the communist block back into the fold, and I suspect that Leo has been brought in to bring the US back into the fold, albeit with a baseball bat 2220
Reposted by MarthaMel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Thank you so much for all of your happy birthday wishes. Honestly, I don’t really feel 100. I feel pretty good. I feel like I’m only 98! 1054303593595
