Martin The Mess aka Big Brother
@martinthemess.bsky.social
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 series STILL goes on.
2016: The Prequel to the Year of Hell
2020: The Year of Hell
2020 Won: The Year of Hell Victorious
2020 Too: More Hell, More Problems
2020 3: Please God End it Already
2020 4-Ever: God Whispers back, "No"
2020 5: What Fresh Hell Is This?
2020 6: More Hells All The Way Down
2016: The Prequel to the Year of Hell
2020: The Year of Hell
2020 Won: The Year of Hell Victorious
2020 Too: More Hell, More Problems
2020 3: Please God End it Already
2020 4-Ever: God Whispers back, "No"
2020 5: What Fresh Hell Is This?
2020 6: More Hells All The Way Down
They just keep using the Villain Tropes list on TVTropes as a checklist, don't they?
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February 6, 2026 at 9:31 AM
They just keep using the Villain Tropes list on TVTropes as a checklist, don't they?
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
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Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
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It’s the greatest foundational myth any nation has ever had, and these evil fuckers want to mock our legacy and disrespect the Mother of Exiles. Nope, I’m not okay with that anti-American bullshit.
January 31, 2026 at 6:54 PM
It’s the greatest foundational myth any nation has ever had, and these evil fuckers want to mock our legacy and disrespect the Mother of Exiles. Nope, I’m not okay with that anti-American bullshit.
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Yeah. It's wild that he said that like it's some indictment of America. My response was "right fucking on, that's why for all its many flaws I still have some reason to love my country".
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Yeah. It's wild that he said that like it's some indictment of America. My response was "right fucking on, that's why for all its many flaws I still have some reason to love my country".
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I'll never get over the fact that Kamala Harris got the motherfucking Cheneys to bend the knee to her in exchange for absolutely nothing, and people looked at this and thought "oh god she's a puppet of the Cheneys"
January 28, 2026 at 12:21 AM
I'll never get over the fact that Kamala Harris got the motherfucking Cheneys to bend the knee to her in exchange for absolutely nothing, and people looked at this and thought "oh god she's a puppet of the Cheneys"
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies.
mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
Combatting DHS Misinformation / Department of Corrections
mn.gov
January 26, 2026 at 10:25 AM
I knew MN DOC had debunking Greg Bovino's false claims abt the target of the snatch CBP was doing when they murdered Alex Pretti. I didn't realize they created an entire website to debunking DHS lies.
mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
mn.gov/doc/about/ne...
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@amandagorman.bsky.social is the best of us.
January 26, 2026 at 8:50 AM
@amandagorman.bsky.social is the best of us.
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Only the most extreme reasons (e.g. active war, pandemic) should be allowed to halt free movement of people. It ought to be the default right of human beings.
January 24, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Only the most extreme reasons (e.g. active war, pandemic) should be allowed to halt free movement of people. It ought to be the default right of human beings.
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Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
January 24, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.
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I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
January 25, 2026 at 4:55 AM
I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL
I was traumatized for years from reading the news story.
The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.
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January 25, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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The absolute soul-crushing unseriousness and idiocy of someone in a tenured post as Wesleyan thinking, 'the world in general and my life in particular would be better if NATO didn't exist' is just astounding.
A straight up 'war is good, actually' take, by someone too myopic to realize it.
A straight up 'war is good, actually' take, by someone too myopic to realize it.
January 24, 2026 at 4:45 AM
The absolute soul-crushing unseriousness and idiocy of someone in a tenured post as Wesleyan thinking, 'the world in general and my life in particular would be better if NATO didn't exist' is just astounding.
A straight up 'war is good, actually' take, by someone too myopic to realize it.
A straight up 'war is good, actually' take, by someone too myopic to realize it.
One of hundreds, maybe thousands, of ways Trump is crippling this country for generations to come, any one of which would be grounds for impeachment in any even remotely sane Congress.
🇺🇸👀 The US has formally completed its withdrawal from the World Health Organization, leaving behind unpaid debt of roughly $260 million, - Bloomberg
All funding to the WHO has been terminated and US participation in WHO-sponsored leadership bodies and working groups has ended.
All funding to the WHO has been terminated and US participation in WHO-sponsored leadership bodies and working groups has ended.
January 23, 2026 at 10:55 AM
One of hundreds, maybe thousands, of ways Trump is crippling this country for generations to come, any one of which would be grounds for impeachment in any even remotely sane Congress.
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Just donated. Please join me if you can. Thank you.
Please help us bring Liam Adrian Cornejo Ramos (he’s only 5 years of age and is currently in pre-K. Yesterday, he and his father were kidnapped by ICE. This will help the family with legal services to help reunite Liam and his dad with their family.
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January 22, 2026 at 4:47 AM
Just donated. Please join me if you can. Thank you.
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The 2011 documentary The Captains is now available in YouTube in its entirety (I'm posting from the US, I'm unsure if the link works elsewhere). If you've never seen it, check it out! William Shatner sits down with each actor to portray a Trek captain up to that point.
The Captains | FULL MOVIE | William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Chris Pine | Star Trek Documentary
YouTube video by Shout! Studios
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January 22, 2026 at 1:20 AM
The 2011 documentary The Captains is now available in YouTube in its entirety (I'm posting from the US, I'm unsure if the link works elsewhere). If you've never seen it, check it out! William Shatner sits down with each actor to portray a Trek captain up to that point.
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“Liberalism is not merely tolerance alone or some conciliatory centrism. This form of politics offered by the consultant class is a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fdrs-four-fr...
FDR’s Four Freedoms and the Second Bill of Rights
The social welfare state, winning World War II, and building the liberal order after Trump
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 AM
“Liberalism is not merely tolerance alone or some conciliatory centrism. This form of politics offered by the consultant class is a suicide pact.” www.liberalcurrents.com/fdrs-four-fr...
Show this graph to a lot of US left-ish people, their jaw would hit the floor, and they'd ask in hushed tones what sort of paradise-on-earth this spending trend produced.
Don't know if this sort of rhetoric has caught up with the fact that Reform's base are the most dependent on welfare of any party's
January 21, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Show this graph to a lot of US left-ish people, their jaw would hit the floor, and they'd ask in hushed tones what sort of paradise-on-earth this spending trend produced.
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*clears throat*
*taps mic*
I had some edits
thank you to @sbarolo.bsky.social and @ajdemas.bsky.social for their Jeremiah and Lazarus jokes which gave me the idea for this
*taps mic*
I had some edits
thank you to @sbarolo.bsky.social and @ajdemas.bsky.social for their Jeremiah and Lazarus jokes which gave me the idea for this
January 20, 2026 at 5:07 AM
*clears throat*
*taps mic*
I had some edits
thank you to @sbarolo.bsky.social and @ajdemas.bsky.social for their Jeremiah and Lazarus jokes which gave me the idea for this
*taps mic*
I had some edits
thank you to @sbarolo.bsky.social and @ajdemas.bsky.social for their Jeremiah and Lazarus jokes which gave me the idea for this
There has *got* to be some lag on those Foreign Policy and Trade numbers, that R advantage shouldn't survive this week. Also, Dems need to get their heads out of their asses and come up with an Immigration Reform plan and a coherent Foreign/military policy framework.
"Who do you trust more on..."
🔵 LGBT+ Rights: D +28
🔵 Abortion: D +18
🔵 Healthcare: D + 13
🔵 Medicare/Social Security: D +13
🔵 Energy: D +1
🔴 Economy: R +3
🔴 National Debt: R +4
🔴 Foreign Policy: R +4
🔴 Trade: R + 6
🔴 Immigration: R +9
🔴 National Security: R +9
Morning Consult / Jan 18, 2026
🔵 LGBT+ Rights: D +28
🔵 Abortion: D +18
🔵 Healthcare: D + 13
🔵 Medicare/Social Security: D +13
🔵 Energy: D +1
🔴 Economy: R +3
🔴 National Debt: R +4
🔴 Foreign Policy: R +4
🔴 Trade: R + 6
🔴 Immigration: R +9
🔴 National Security: R +9
Morning Consult / Jan 18, 2026
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 AM
There has *got* to be some lag on those Foreign Policy and Trade numbers, that R advantage shouldn't survive this week. Also, Dems need to get their heads out of their asses and come up with an Immigration Reform plan and a coherent Foreign/military policy framework.
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@vienna_official
today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.
@pan_slav_posting
wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.
@pan_slav_posting
wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
as a black comedy, someone should write a version of WWI leadup that has social media. Don't bother about incongruity of fitting 21st century social media tech into early 1900s. Just imagine what it would have been like
January 19, 2026 at 7:04 PM
@vienna_official
today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.
@pan_slav_posting
wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
today we welcome his imperial highness archduke franz ferdinand to sarajevo. unity, stability, progress.
@pan_slav_posting
wild that austria thinks this is a good idea but ok
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trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.
January 19, 2026 at 1:04 PM
trump and his republican party are infected with the same death cult imperialism that brought the world to cataclysm twice in the twentieth century. there's no reasonable sane sensible foreign policy way of dressing up this "strategic logic." history is explicit: this is madness.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.
January 16, 2026 at 9:58 PM
"this is not who we are" is 90% of the time a normative statement of aspiration, it's not an empirical claim of "these events have never taken place in this country before". one of the most obnoxious genres of "actually..." is reacting like it's the latter when it's clearly the former.