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kmartino.bsky.social
A hopepunk tragic optimist
@kmartino.bsky.social
Dad, Husband, software engineer, bad songwriter.

Outrage may engage, but truth, and trust, scale.

Be Kind, Be True, Believe.

"Maybe it’s not too late, to learn how to love, and forget how to hate."

“Be excellent to each other”
Largest protest in American history and the NYTimes can't be bothered with promoting its reporting on it.
October 19, 2025 at 5:08 PM
October 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Times are tough, have an Enterprise
September 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Yup
September 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"It is easier to hide behind 40 attrocities than it is a single incident"
August 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
They aren’t wearing helmets.

They are wearing masks.
August 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
They sell the cure to manufactured fear:

www.statista.com/statistics/1...
August 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
My old denim jacket. Patches and pins missing. Dio's signature washed away. Ripped beyond repair.

RIP Ozzy
July 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.
June 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
May 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
May 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
April 16, 2025 at 4:52 PM
April 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
And the effective tariff rate has actually increased
April 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Remember, it didn’t start with gas chambers. It started with politicians dividing the people with ‘us vs. them.’ It started with intolerance and hate speech.

When people stopped caring, became desensitized, and turned a blind eye, it became a slippery slope to genocide.
March 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I hope you have as good a day as Winnie.
February 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. - Thomas Paine
February 8, 2025 at 12:07 AM
February 7, 2025 at 11:06 AM
February 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My feed list:
January 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
January 20, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Lilly, our Sun loving poodle
December 1, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Post a ship that's neither Star Wars nor Star Trek.
November 24, 2024 at 2:25 AM
Happy Belated Birthday Winnie 🐾
November 19, 2024 at 2:31 PM
"Trashcan Man" to "Randall Flagg" from "The Stand" (1984) vibes...."My life for you, my life for you"
October 7, 2024 at 1:23 AM