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Martha Vail Barker

@macvb.bsky.social

Writer who sometimes actually writes. Likes cats, dogs, and many humans.

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Where’s the lie

09.01.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5862    πŸ” 1627    πŸ’¬ 158    πŸ“Œ 63

Why can’t these people use our language normally? It all sounds like they are translating from German and forgot how nouns work in English.

09.01.2026 20:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s unfair and unkind. Everybody is on a journey and this guy’s just taken a good turn. Why dump on him?

08.01.2026 12:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or, see if a local teacher can use them to teach about WWII in a really cool way. Maybe including some archival work and oral history about your grandfather.

30.12.2025 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Contact the local museum where he lived growing up; they may not have room either (and that is no judgement on your legacy items) but maybe they will. Worth asking.

30.12.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely not The Big Easy.

14.12.2025 05:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not yet, any good?

12.12.2025 09:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sent to Coventry Some more Mitford mania

www.the-fence.com/sent-to-cove...

11.12.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

True fact: Jessica Mitford’s son tuned our piano about 10 years ago. Glad you liked Hons & Rebels, it’s one of my favourites.

11.12.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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This beautiful, brave, and generous book deserves a huge audience. The writing is gorgeous, and it’s the empathy-inducing, community-inspiring boost we could all use right now.

29.11.2025 10:25 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

and let’s not even discuss that they won’t give me an empty biz class seat (which is what I originally booked) if it becomes available because the only way I could get to London in time was to accept rebooking in economy.

22.11.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They won’t book my bags through to London after my Santiago-Madrid flight because I didn’t book both flights on one reservation. Which I couldn’t do because this flight is a rebooking due to Iberia putting me on a LATAM flight that was cancelled due to the pilots strike. Never again with Iberia.

22.11.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wow. He looks like a complete doofus.

19.11.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My favourite screen shot ever.

19.11.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

None. It was 1980.

17.11.2025 01:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And being abused by Epstein wasn’t enough? You require them to have been trafficked to other men? Get a conscience, if you can’t get a life.

17.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Legit question: why would they make themselves open to assholes like you questioning their veracity if they hadn’t?

17.11.2025 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My first thought was: Miss SD Rodeo…

14.11.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Precisely. When we shut up and organise, things get moving.

17.10.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a bottom-to-top (school board to SCOTUS strategy and funding collaboration. They put aside their mutual contempt to get (presumably) common goals established. We are living with the results. The Left will always eat itself: start focusing and stop bitching.

17.10.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You’d be surprised at how effective getting involved in legislative politics can be. For years, an ideologically diverse group of β€œconservatives”—old school CT-types, Texas oil types, whacko John Birch types, elite Buckley types, etc. And the religious and racists nutsβ€”jointly developed/1

17.10.2025 09:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think she’s on her meds?

12.10.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Still not resubscribing. Not until actual journalism is in evidence.

10.10.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So should Russian bots.

04.10.2025 05:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

And I wrote that minutes before I learned that in the UK Jews were being murdered simply for being Jews. Reflect on *that*. That is where comments like yours lead.

03.10.2025 05:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Funny how people who say they don’t believe in collective guilt actually believe in collective guilt.

02.10.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think it’s for making his Phi Beta Kappa key as obvious as possible. Ugh.

01.10.2025 05:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Was going to say…

29.09.2025 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mexeecan?

26.06.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

By contrast, in Scotland all children are given the vaccine at school in S1 (8th grade in the US), and it’s the child’s consent that is sought. I suppose parents could intervene if they had objections, but I have never heard of that happening.

24.06.2025 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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