Naa Marteki Reed 💃🏾 💖
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Naa Marteki Reed 💃🏾 💖
@marteki.bsky.social
6.2K followers 7.9K following 370 posts
Two-word first name! Was US fed govt (10 yrs CFPB & OFR), now @publicdigitalworks.bsky.social CEO. Philly born, Chicagoland mom, cat servant. She/her, bi/pan. 🇬🇭

Profile pic: Black woman in yellow blouse with glasses & long dark brown locs
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FYI: because you have a certain acronym in your user profile, you’re being labeled as a potential follower. Details in attached screenshots.

I can see your posts because I choose to just be warned of folks with that wording, but you won’t be visible at all to those who choose to hide that wording.
Because I choose to be warned of anyone with “MAGA” in their user profile with one of the most common Bluesky labelers, every post and reply that Patrick Baker has made is hidden behind an expandable that I have to press in order to reveal his posts. Description of the “MAGA” tag on the @skywords labeler. Patrick’s posts will be completely not visible to anyone who chooses the “hide” option because he has the acronym in his profile.
October 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Mini sweet peppers recipe:

Wash, slice into fourths, & remove all seeds.

Heat frying pan on med-high. Coat pan well in olive oil. Shake lots of garlic powder & onion powder. Add peppers. Shake lots of salt, black pepper, & mustard powder.

Fry for 10 mins, flipping often, until lightly blistered.
A small glass bowl filled with dark yellow, orange, and red mini sweet peppers that have been well seasoned and lightly blistered in a frying pan. They look delicious and are delicious for snacking on their own or a side dish for a meal.
October 6, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Important status update: went to get flu and COVID vaccines with the 14-year-old and 12-year-old, walked away with six CVS incentive coupons to spend even more money there than I already do
Photo of Marteki wearing a black N95 mask and sitting in a bright red chair used as part of a makeshift waiting room for vaccinations at her local CVS drugstore. She has two latex-free CVS-branded bandages on her right arm, signifying that she just received her autumn flu and COVID vaccines. She’s also looking directly at the camera in a way that maybe reveals some of her weariness. Her two teen and tween kids are just off-screen and are not visible.
October 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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I didn’t plant a cherry tomato plant this year. Yet, likely thanks to a squirrel friend, there’s one erupting out of my lawn near the fence with a neighbor who planted some in containers.

Monday’s harvest is on the left, and my harvest from five minutes ago is on the right. 🌱 #gardening #GardenSky
Two medium-sized bowls sit side by side. The bowl on the left contains 6 red-streaked orange-colored cherry tomatoes in a sort of star pattern. The bowl on the right contains approximately 25 of the same orange-colored cherry tomatoes, almost overflowing the bowl with no space left for any more.
September 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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There is my plated lunch. A grain, a green, a bean. With a little cheddar jack cheese sprinkled on top. #BeanSky #HeirloomBeans
A plate of white quinoa, sautéed kale, and a mix of black caviar lentils with Flor de Junio heirloom beans. Roughly a tablespoon of cheddar jack cheese is sprinkled on top.
September 22, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I cooked for 2 ½ hours this afternoon. Fried plantains like my Ghanaian mom makes, kale sautéed in bacon grease with gochugang and other spices, quinoa with garlic and lots of lime juice, and a mix of two Rancho Gordo beans added to a well-spiced base with more gochugang. #BeanSky #HeirloomBeans
Fried plantains like my Ghanaian mom makes, resting and releasing oil onto paper towels on a dinner plate. Around half of them were severely burnt on one side, so I pulled them aside into a bowl to eat immediately. 😋 I could not stop grabbing bits of this delicious kale from the glass serving bowl while the other food was cooking. Kale sautéed in bacon grease with a little salt, a whole bunch of black pepper, garlic powder, a lot of paprika. Delicious! 😋 A pot of cooked white quinoa, seasoned with salt, black pepper, garlic powder, and an excess amount of lime juice. It was the perfect amount. 😋 My first batch of Rancho Gordo beans! I went a little wild. Sautéed fresh minced onion and ginger and garlic in olive oil, added an array of spices that include cumin and gochugaru Korean chili flakes and umami mushroom seasoning, added a cup and half of beef broth and five cups of water, added two bags of different Rancho Gordo beans (black caviar lentils and Flor de Junio heirloom beans), stirred, dropped three bay leaves in, and then set the Instant Pot timer for 17 minutes. Natural release of roughly 23 or 24 minutes led to this picture of deliciousness in a pressure cooker.
September 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Two fresh cocktails sitting on a wooden table. A white man on the other side of the table is taking a photo of the cocktails and the person taking this photo.
September 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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Look who is featured on the high school girls flag football Instagram! www.instagram.com/p/DLm61eyuFMK/

Yes, that's my older child with the long legs and the auburn hair and the strong arm muscles carrying the ball forward.
A group of public college prep high school girls of different races running during their practice for flag football. Centered in the photo is Marteki’s older child, who is biracial but identifies as Black. She has long legs, ringlets of auburn hair that are tied back, and is carrying a ball securely in her right arm. (She also has cute teal and pink cleats that were only found at a specialty soccer store after many others were rejected, but which were also on discount.)
July 3, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Please share, it’s been 5 days! 😬

Injured bat with rabies handled on June 25 at ~9:24 a.m. at 88–100 Harbour St in Toronto.

Them: ~5” 8’ tall, dark beard, eyeglasses, black t-shirt, black pants, white sneakers, black water bottle.

Phone to call to identify this person in alt text & next post ⬇️
A bat with rabies was physically handled at the north entrance to 88-100 Harbour St. in Toronto on June 25 just after 9:20 a.m. ET. Toronto Public Health is looking for a person involved to receive treatment. The unidentified person is described as around five-foot-eight in height with a beard. During the incident, they were wearing eyeglasses, a black t-shirt, black pants, white sneakers and were seen holding a black water bottle. They are signified in this photo by being surrounded with a blue drawn circle. Toronto Public Health is urging the person or people they’re with to immediately call the health agency as rabies will lead to death if it is left untreated before symptoms appear. (The news articles say “may lead,” but my family is full of medical professionals and I’ve read some clinical literature around rabies. As a friend said, “Yeah it’s the only thing I know of that can’t be treated once it shows.”) Call: 416-338-7600 (M-F, 8:30–4:30); 311 after hours Outside Toronto, call: 416-392-2489
June 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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If you see a screenshot of Homan speaking out against Taco Bell menu items, it’s probably a fake.

Source: I took one for the team and looked at a Fox News interview with Homan. Whoever made the Taco Bell screenshot didn’t get the Fox News chryon correct.

Gotta pay attention to the details!
Screenshot I took of a Tom Homan interview on Fox News. The Fox News chryon at the bottom of the screen has three bars of blue, white, and red. Each bar has only one line of text. The red bar has a small section with the word “ALERT” before it. The top of the white bar is aligned with the top of the Fox News logo to the left of the three bars. Screenshot that is circulating of a probably fake Tom Homan interview on Fox News. The Fox News chryon at the bottom of the screen has only two bars of white and red. The white bar has two lines of text and is taller than the top of the Fox News logo to the left of the two bars.
April 7, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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I wore a hoodie with a graphic made by @zezvaz.bsky.social to my (Protestant, non-evangelical, liberal/progressive, multiracial but white majority) church this morning.

Most of the folks who saw it nodded and said “Yep.” Especially the ones whose voices are still hoarse from protesting yesterday.
A Black woman not showing her face and wearing a gray hoodie. The front of the hoodie depicts the famous scene from the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, except instead of tanks the protestor is standing in front of a line of three silver Cybertrucks.
April 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Happy consolidated municipal election day to those who celebrate 🥳

Cook County, rise up
A cute elder Xennial Black woman with tortoiseshell framed glasses and locs in two-strand twists stands outside her local town’s garden conservatory which is her regular electoral polling place with a backdrop of a gray overcast sky. She is wearing a black N95 mask because she is immunosuppressed and does not fuck with the viruses or bacteria currently in circulation in her area. She is also holding up a Cook County Illinois sticker proclaiming “I Voted!” in multiple languages. She took this photo approximately three minutes after leaving the polling place where she voted for local government and school district officials.
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Reposting the image of Amy Gleason’s declaration about DOGE with alt text. Links to the documents are in the quoted post.

Also: I want to see her SF-50s and the official dates of her personnel actions. 🕵🏾‍♀️
DECLARATION OF AMY GLEASON 1. My name is Amy Gleason. The following is based on my personal knowledge or information provided to me in the course of performing my duties at the United States DOGE Service (USDS). 2. I currently serve as the Acting Administrator of USDS. I joined USDS on December 30, 2024. 3. I am a full-time, government employee at USDS. 4. In my role at USDS, I oversee all of USDS's employees and detailees to USDS from other agencies. 5. I report to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles. 6. Elon Musk does not work at USDS. I do not report to him, and he does not report to me. To my knowledge, he is a Senior Advisor to the White House.
March 15, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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This is what being 43 looks like.
Successful, thriving, staying healthy, and hard at work on improvements for the future.

Happy birthday to me! 🥳
Photo of Marteki, a Black women in tech, who is seated in the basement of the DC headquarters of her federal employer. She's wearing a bright red cardigan (to match her not-visible red skirt) over a black blouse. The lanyard for her federal ID (not visible) is around her neck, and she is properly wearing a black N95 mask, as she does in all buildings that aren't her house.
November 20, 2024 at 1:20 PM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #128,893!

Bluesky Elder Certified. Elder millennial (1981 birth year is the best year). Future village elder due to my family tree and birth ranking.

BRB, considering requesting to change my current job title from Product Advisor to Product Elder.
Bluesky generated image that's a celebration of reaching the 10 million users mark. It states that Marteki Reed (username @marteki.bsky.social) is the 128,893th user to sign up on Bluesky when she joined on June 15, 2023. The image also states that she is Bluesky Elder Certified due to being in the first 10% of joined users.
September 17, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Error received when entering my two-word first name to sign up for a subscription service from a well-known pharmacy that is nationwide in the US and that is preferred by my insurance: "Enter a valid first name." 😑
Shown: First name field for an annual subscription offered by CVS Pharmacy. The first name "Naa Marteki" is entered into the field. After submission, the field is outlined in bright red and an error message is also given in bright red text: "⛔ Enter a valid first name"
September 15, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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My first time at an 8th grade girls' basketball game since 1994. This time, I'm not on the court.

N95 in place, of course.
Photo of Marteki Reed at her elder daughter's away basketball game. Marteki is wearing a black N95, because of course she is.
September 10, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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Proof of cat: Piper, the tabby calico ("tabico") in my house.
A cat named Piper is stretched out sleeping on her side on a gray blanket. This view of her shows off her tabby calico ("tabico") qualities of stripes, swirls, and a variety of colors. Most of her fur has a underlying background color of light brown, cream, or orange. She has dark brown tabby stripes on her face and legs, and a circular swirl on each of her sides that is light brown and orange. The fur around her mouth is white, and she has some white fur peeking through from her belly.
June 24, 2024 at 4:10 PM
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What I had for dessert tonight at dinner.
An image of a slice of Pride Cake from Tatte Bakery in Washington DC, which has layers in the colors of the rainbow separated by chocolate ganache frosting. The entire slice is also dipped diagonally in the same type of ganache. Behind the cake slice is a plastic cup with a straw containing Blood Orange Hibiscus Tea on ice.
June 4, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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One of the several labels I submitted stuck.
Screenshot of the account for "jiminnh.bsky.social" at @jiminnh.bsky.social He has 155 followers, 184 following, and 4K posts as of 8:30 pm Central Time on May 14, 2024. Account is tagged with the following through moderation services: "User Blocked" "Anti-Social/Trolling" "No Display Name" Posts are marked as hidden because Marteki has blocked them.
May 15, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Time for tea for the human family members. The youngest human will use their favorite mug on this #Caturday. (But to be honest, the kid uses this mug every day of the week that they have tea.)

We are serious in this house about our roles as cat servants.
A white mug with two drawings of cats on it. One cat is orangey with brown stripes and swirls, while the other cat is all black with yellow eyes. The text on the mug reads as follows: "GOOD MORNING HUMAN SERVANT YOUR TINY FURRY OVERLORDS Piper, Polly"
April 13, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Happy #Caturday! Piper the tortoiseshell tabby cat and Polly the black void kitty are having a relaxed start to the weekend. No need to get out of bed yet...
A view from above of the head of a tortoiseshell tabby cat with a light brown base, black stripes, white splotches on their mouth or belly, and orange swirls on their sides. The cat is sitting on their owner's lap on a tortilla blanket. The kitty placed their paws gently on their owner's arm and is remaining very still. Polly the black cat rests on a soft blue blanket that's laid at the foot of her owner's bed and that she sleeps on most nights. Piper the tortoiseshell tabby cat is resting on a lap, has placed her paws on her owner's arm, and is staring out the window. The morning light is coming through the window and reflecting off her light greenish-yellow eyes. Polly the black cat is sitting up on a dark blue blanket that's covering the bottom of her owner's bed. She's facing away from the window. Her large yellow eyes are bright and shining.
April 13, 2024 at 1:07 PM
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Took advantage of my autumn Ocrevus crap gap to schedule my 2023 COVID vaccine and flu vaccine.

Get your shots, y'all. Sincerely, your immunosuppressed friend.
Photo of Marteki Reed in a CVS drug store, wearing a snugly secure black KF94 mask and showing off her right arm with the band-aids she got for her 2023 COVID vaccine and flu vaccine
September 22, 2023 at 12:22 AM
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Photo of Marteki Reed, a Black woman with glasses, a nose stud, and long locs for hair. She is wearing a bright yellow shirt and is smiling broadly at the camera.
September 17, 2023 at 1:03 AM
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Happy Black Cat Appreciation Day from Polly! She's five years old, enjoys cozy areas, and her tabby-calico sister.
A completely black cat with greenish-yellow eyes has tucked herself into a small wicker basket and is looking directly at the camera.
August 17, 2023 at 3:02 PM