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Rachel Martin
@racheljo.bsky.social
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Professional flyer and city girl trying to not just survive but thrive in rural Idaho. She/her

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And sometimes Jesus sends the eye doctor to heal us of our poor vision. I’m thankful that, unlike in the apostles time, physicians now could help me do some things, simple things really, to love my body more. I’m not in the “wrong” body, but a trans body, and “I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
“Nobody is born in the wrong body. Jesus loves you and wants to heal you.” Screenshot from a random stranger here on Bluesky, who believes in invisible sky god but not in very visible and tangible experiences of transition.
November 18, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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It feels like a lifetime, but incredibly just a few years ago? My twice annual pilot medical exam, and this was my last using my old name. The happy smile is that of a person just days away from a new life. I can’t adequately express the joy of and meaning of a name which reflects one’s true self.
A Rachel selfie, sitting in a doctors office waiting for appointment. Her hair is blonde and shoulder length. She wears glasses and is smiling up at the camera. She is wearing a blue t-shirt which says “flower aviation est. 19… something (can’t see the whole date). There is a large yellow sunflower surrounding the “o” in flower.
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I avoid reposting twitter, but this is well put. Directed at Musk but captures Trump, too. I think it's tragic that such men are so clueless about the beauty of life. I believe their lack of joy is why they try to squash life and light from all of us. Living joyfully is how we will overcome.
Joyce Carol Oates (from twitter): "So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend's or relative's accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated, uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the "most wealthy person in the world.""
November 9, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Speaking of going out, making an effort today 😊
Rachel is standing by the door, ready to open it, turning toward the camera and giving her weird smile (I think it’s weird and since I’m writing this…). I’m wearing a black dress with a black wool overcoat, and a sparkly white crystal necklace with crystal and gold earrings. My hair is down, is blonde and fairly long. I wear glasses and the photo is from the waist up.
November 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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I admit I have fear when I travel, even just to the local store. Like all women I have to be aware, even wary. And especially so under this regimes increasing efforts to endanger me. But I keep going out, every day, and I love my life. I will watch your back, friends, please watch mine.
IG post from Chase Strangio: This administration can and will put people in danger, deprive people of material needs, cultivate conditions of fear, harassment and discrimination, and attempt to criminalize people’s existence. But they can never change the fact that we exist. Neither Donald Trump nor Mario Rubio nor anyone else gets to decide who I am or that I exist. In the face of these webs of violence, we are each other’s safe passage.
November 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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My Halloween and birthday wish for my country and our world, is that we would shed the robes of hate and clothe ourselves in humanity.
In a watercolor style drawing, Scooby Doo and Shaggy sit on top of the Mystery Machine van, looking off into the distance. Shaggy is smoking a cigarette, the van is painted colorfully in pastel greens/blues, with a pale pink flower petal on the door. The caption says, “look at all this hate, Scooby, the monsters really are always human.”
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Reminds me of a twitter moment back in the day! 😂
A tweet to me from “Koz” dated 11/21/22, saying “Zip it Rachel! This is obviously way over your head!”
October 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Down on the farm in simpler times.
Black and white photo of Rachel sitting on an old upholstered sofa in her front yard. She’s wearing pajamas and her hair is cropped short. She wears glasses. A black and white dog stands in front of her looking at the camera. Behind the sofa is an old wooden fence with metal gates propped open. Beyond that is a small old wooden barn, an old pickup, and a line of old hills in the distance.
October 24, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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MTV memories put me in a mood to listen to Stop Making Sense end to end! “Girlfriend Is Better” was a brilliant video from a time when MTV was something.

Love, too, the Al Green cover “Take Me To The River” and “Burning Down The House” inspired by the iconic P-Funk NYC show.

Who got a match? 🔥
Black and white photo of bassist Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads in the Stop Making Sense concert movie. She has long blonde hair and is wearing a sleeveless mini dress. She’s holding her bass horizontally across her body and is kind of hunched with her knee bent. She has a theatrical expression of surprise or “huh?!”
October 17, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Having a common name and a more famous namesake, (luckily?) the real me isn’t even on the first page! I sometimes wonder if most of my followers have mistaken me for the NPR version! 🤔😁
Screenshot of search results saying: “Rachel Martin American Journalist,” “rachel martin wild card,” rachel martin wild card questions,” “rachel martin podcast.”
October 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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You can take the girl out of the 70’s, but…
A blue-green lava lamp sits on a small table, glowing at night. A string of tiny purple lights left of the lamp run up the wall and light the room next to it. A small cocktail glass and a votive style candle (Jesus?) sit on table next to the lamp, to its right.
October 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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It’s Scrappy’s world and the rest of us just get to live in it (this used to be the dog’s bed).

#caturday
A calico kitten sleeps on a dog bed onba wooden floor. Behind her are our shelves for records and cd’s. Her bed is a gray cushion, and it’s covered with a fuzzy black blanket that has a red and black plaid backing. The room is sunlit.
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I’m grinding through some really dull training today and scrolling down memory lane during breaks. Here’s a pic of a plane I later flew… In 1962 this JAL flight landed short of the airport in SF Bay. Everyone survived! I later served as flight engineer on this same plane for a cargo carrier.
JAL DC-8-62 resting in San Francisco Bay after landing short of the airport. Looking from above and behind the aircraft. The plane is floating and someone is standing on the right wing. Several boats and a raft are floating near the right wing and ahead of the aircraft, with passengers and rescuers seen in them. A Coast Guard helicopter is hovering above. Black and white photo.
October 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Can’t help myself, this was one of my favorite Barbie moments.
October 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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If you see this, post something monochromatic.
Black and white (silver tone) photo of Rachel, from the waist up standing in a doorway. She is wearing a sleeveless top with a wraparound collar, the top is silver which even in the monochromatic photo kind of stands out. She has wildflowers tattooed on her left shoulder. She wears glasses, and her shoulder-length hair is down. She is smiling.
October 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Dad’s chair.
A rusty metal lawn chair sits empty in a green, grassy yard. Behind the chair is an old wooden fence with the sun at sunrise gleaming brightly through two medium sized trees just inside the fence,
October 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Date night and enjoying that it’s dress season just a little longer.
Rachel taking a car selfie. She’s wearing a black sleeveless lowish-cut dress with bright green leaves and red flowers pattern. She’s wearing a small gold chain necklace and blown glass earrings which are clear with red fill. She’s wearing black rimmed glasses, her hair is blonde and she’s wearing it down, below shoulder length.
September 28, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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“I wanna be that girl
I wanna know what it's like to fall in love like
Most of the rest of the world
But as far as these songs will take me
Is as far as I'll go
I'm just a gay kid in a small town
Who loves country radio”

♥️ Indigo Girls
Rachel selfie taken leaning on a wooden fence, looking up at the camera. Behind the fence is tall green grass and a big round metal water trough. Rachel is wearing a bright red/orange/yellow striped tank top with black dashed zig zag and diamond patterns on the horizontal stripes. Her blonde hair is tied up, her glasses are dark. She’s wearing dangly earrings with a little turquoise, a small gold chain necklace, and bright colored bracelets on her left wrist. She has water colored wildflowers tattooed to her left shoulder.
September 22, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Got to fly the extra-sporty one today 😊
Rachel takes a selfie in front of a Citation CJ4. She is wearing a blue top with white flowers, glasses, and has her blonde hair pinned up. She’s standing by the nose of the CJ4 which is a small twin jet, behind her is the fuselage with the main door and 5 windows, with a tail-mounted engine and the tail visible (it’s a T-tail design). The engine has a cover with the BSU Broncos logo on it.
September 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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A good friend on another site posted something which touches an area of great frustration for me, which I feel compelled to address if anyone would like to hear 🧵
Text of screenshot: “It means in my opinion centrist politics are more coherent than anything on the left or right. As far as what I don’t like on the left, that’s a long list, so I give you the main ones. The haughtiness, the lack of self examination. That Identity politics have become the focus instead of policy that benefits those they claim to represent. The purity tests: ( you better believe that people who have transitioned from male to female should be allowed in women’s sports or you’re anti LGBT)"
September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Reading that very inspirational account of the RMS Carpathia's efforts to rescue Titanic survivors, put me in mind of this wonderful non-fiction account from Farley Mowat of the salvage tug Foundation Franklin which also operated in the North Atlantic.
A picture of the cover of "The Grey Seas Under," with two black and white photos of the salvage tug Foundation Franklin inset on the cover. In one photo the tug is cruising in flat waters, in the other photo at the bottom only the masts and top of the stacks can be seen above high waves and foam. At the top of the cover, white letters on red, is the title "The Grey Seas Under." Below that in smaller letters is the description, "the perilous rescue missions of a North Atlantic salvage tug." In another inset, white letters on black, is the quote "The men with whom it deals have duly earned their place in legend--The New York Times." In black letters on the lower photo is the authors name, Farley Mowat.
September 17, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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The picture seems to be a queue for something, maybe waiting for a train? It appears to be in a large public space and there are numbered columns in a row behind the cue of people. There are overhead lights above. In the midst of the line, there appears to be a middle-aged couple looking at each other. The man is turned toward his partner, he may be saying something and he is a bit taller. He is looking toward his partner but not directly at her. She has an expression of concern or displeasure, and has her hand on her hip. She is wearing a black medium-low cut dress under a long black and white patterned wrap tied loosely at the waist. His hair is gray and combed back, her hair is brown in a short cut with bangs. The caption in a large green border underneath says "It Only Tuesday," with an onion symbol below that and caption "the ONION."
September 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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A short working vacation near the water, which is always a balm to my soul.

Life continues apace in these troubled times.
Rachel is in the lower middle of the photo, standing on a wide, flat, sandy beach. She is wearing a blue and white sleeveless top. Her blonde hair is in a ponytail tied with a pink scrunchie. The ocean can be seen in the distance, and there are clouds above. Low stratus clouds above the distant hills of the shoreline and higher stratus above. The sun is out and Rachel is shading her eyes.
September 9, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Pretty morning out here today.
A layer of scattered, medium-high clouds are in a pale blue sky. The clouds are gray with a few pink and white just before sunrise. The sky is over the tall grass of our yard, looking over our old wooden fence. There is a small, old red barn behind the fence, and behind that in the distance is a line of low, bare hills.
September 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Clocked at the Starbucks, apparently.
A Starbucks paper coffee cup with a brown paper sleeve and mermaid logo is held in the center of the picture. The barista has written “Slay queen!” on the cup with a black sharpie. A pink thumbnail can just be seen at the bottom of the photo, which is a closeup of the cup taken in a car.
August 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM