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Monique Martin
@moniquemartin.bsky.social
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Author, pop culture fan (movies & tv classics/modern, books, comics), animal lover, sports, art, and history.

I write time travel romance/adventure/mystery and some YA fantasy. https://moniquemartin.weebly.com/
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These are lovely and fun. Thank you!

I saw a completely different cat - lying on its side.
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Hard to believe these are the same species. Little foot (QB Mac Jones) and giant foot (lineman, not sure who). Crazy!

#NFL #Niners #Bucs
49ers players' legs between plays. Football players walking wearing the gold and red of the San Francisco 49ers. A lineman with gargantuan feet accidentally steps on Mac Jones's (relatively) dainty foot.
October 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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What kind of lunatic schedules a game to start at 6:38?!

#MLB #Dodgers #Angels
Screenshot from the ESPN MLB scoreboard showing the Dodgers vs Angels with a starting time of 6:38 PM.
August 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Night of the Living Unfed by Billy the Kitten Studios
#cats #catsofbluesky
A satirical version of the movie poster for the film The Night of the Living Dead but in this case it's cat-a-rific! The Night of the Living Unfed with frightened and crying out cartoon cats. "They won't stay fed!" the topline cries. "They keep coming back in a bloodthirsty lust for breakfast!... Pits the unfed against the sleeping in a struggle for survival!"
July 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Had the pleasure to walk with elephants today. Not actual elephants but the next best thing - The Great Elephant Migration, currently walking along Santa Monica Boulevard in Beverly Hills. Lovely.
Life-size elephants made of a bamboo-like invasive weed called lantana camara. A baby elephant "walks" alongside the herd on the grass of the park where the installation is. Close-up of a elephant's eye, made from lantana camara, a bamboo-like weed A life-size elephant made of lantana camara, a bamboo-like week, steps across the grass at a park in Beverly Hills, California on a lovely sunny day.
July 7, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Of Our Own Making by L Scooter Morris

#4thOfJuly
A distressed American flag in a wooden box frame with chicken wire in front of it.
July 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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I can't draw a straight line or circle, so it's pretty janky, but here's mine.
Hand-drawn protest sign with block letter with blue and red infill that says "Tanks, But No Tanks"
June 13, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Red rebel alliance starbird emblem.
June 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The report of our death was an exaggeration.

This is LA.

#ThisIsLA
A view of Doheny Blvd in Los Angeles. A street lined with palm trees and the Hollywood Hills just visible in the background. A beautiful jacaranda-lined street in Los Angeles. The trees are in full bloom with hundreds of vibrant purple flowers. A red car sits parked at the curb.
June 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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June 8, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Posting this for no reason at all.
Cartoon depiction of a Black Lives Matter protester with the heading Protection from Head to Toe. Shatterproof googles, earplugs, backpack, mask, switch phone to airplane mode, long sleeves and pants to protect from gas and pepper spray
June 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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I took HBO's "Which Deadwood Character Are you?" quiz! Click here to take the quiz.
Promo still from the movie Son of Paleface. A white middle-aged man with a ski-slope nose (Bob Hope) is wearing the most embarrassing dandy-as-cowboy outfit ever with striped pants TUCKED into his fancy boots. His shirt is double buttons, his oversized cowboy hat is set back on his head. He holds a six gun in one hand and the other rests dangerously on his ill-aligned holster belt. He is looking right at the camera - $5 ham. Lord, I love him.
June 4, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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Spiral-bound gold. I still have one around someplace.
Cover of The Thomas Guide 85th year edition for Los Angeles and Orange County. Year 2000. Classic spiral-bound map book with an inset overview of Los Angeles County
June 4, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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This is Joseph P Martínez — A Mexican-American who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry during fighting in the Aleustian Islands. He was 22. In 1945, the Navy named a troop transport after him.

America used to see the value in diversity. And someday it will again.
A black and white photograph of a young Hispanic man, roughly 20 years old in his US Naval uniform.
May 26, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Drop a sandwich.
Period portrait of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich circa 1750. He's a middle-aged white man with a white wig, wearing deep red velvet aristocratic coat with a frilly white cravat. His expression is thoughful, amused, perhaps thinking of an Arby's Beef 'N Cheddar with a side of horsey sauce
May 4, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Nothing will save us from Olive Garden!
screenshot of video - a female scientist with glasses and long teal hair sits in front of a background of the planet mars. The autogenerated caption says, "the unending greed of billion air olive gardens."
May 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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👀

#NBAPlayoffs
Screenshot of the score between the Cavs and Heat with 3:16 left in the 3rd - Cavs 103 Heat 57
April 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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Culver City, CA showing up for #HandsOff #NoKings. Great crowd and infectious energy.
A "Lucy from Peanuts" therapy booth at a HandsOff protest. The sign reads: TheraTrumpy Trump-induced anxiety help 5¢. The doctor is in. A hand-made protest sign on white poster board that reads: One if by LAND, Two if by DC. The fascists are coming! (with "are coming" crossed out) and beneath that "The fascists are HERE!!!"
April 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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What I see. Maybe they fixed it?
Screenshot of trending topics with Coachella Fest at the top with 594k posts and labeled as "hot." With Newcastle United, 1k posts, Formula 1, 736 posts, and Masters 1.1k
April 13, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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#HandsOff Culver City, CA
A middle-aged man in a dark t-shirt holding up a handmade protest sign that reads, Fuck This Shit!
April 5, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Keep 'em coming. Love everything about this movie. Thank you for making it. My mom loved it. I loved it. And my cat loved it.
A large fluffy Balinese cat reaches up to pat the screen during a scene from the animated movie Flow with a black cat cautiously cowering next to a chill capybara in the hull of a wooden ship.
March 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Matisse feels the same way. It's a testament to the animators that so many cats reacted so strongly to this. Wonderful movie.
A large fluffy Balinese cat reaches up to pat the screen during a scene from the animated movie Flow with a black cat cautiously cowering next to a chill capybara in the hull of a wooden ship.
February 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Thinking about this for no reason today. No reason at all.
Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four (30-years-old, with medium-length blonde hair, beautiful) stands in a doorway wearing her iconic blue bodysuit with the number four emblazoned on the chest. Standing opposite to her with his muscular back to us is Namor, a very fit man wearing only a tiny brief-like swimsuit in green with gold trim. He's standing with one hip slightly jutting out, shoulders slightly slanted - casual, powerful, seductive. Sue's dialog bubble reads: Namor. Oh god. I... I'm married...
January 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire.
A handsome, tan, and snappily dressed vampire complete with cape, red scarf, white bow tie, teutonic medal, and gray sideburns looking sexily and hungrily off camera. (Movie still from Love At First Bite with George Hamilton)
January 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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#LAFires list taken from Watch Duty
A screenshot from the app Watch Duty with 9 LA area fires listed with updates within the last 7 hours to 5 minutes.
January 9, 2025 at 5:37 AM