Martin Baker

@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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Today's mood: youtu.be/8XeBE1GaZOY?...

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.

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.

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...

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?

"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 ⬇️

The murderer’s name is Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

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...

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Sunday afternoon lap time 😺

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

@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!

@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?

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 😎

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

This isn't *at all* worrisome gizmodo.com/wild-dolphin...

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!

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?

You can say what you want about the insurance CEO shooter but I have to applaud his commitment to lowering his carbon footprint: abcnews.go.com/US/hearts-br...