Amy Martindale
@grlndgz.bsky.social
Fan of Terry Pratchett, Doctor Who, #uglydogs, DS9.
Neurodivergent. Caring for aging parents.
Love dogs more than anything else in the world.
Neurodivergent. Caring for aging parents.
Love dogs more than anything else in the world.
Glenn Beck
Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank
February 12, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Glenn Beck
Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank
Yeah, I called mine “Always See” to make sure I don’t miss the people I care about.
Chantal brings me face to face with my whiteness every day, and I try to learn as much as I can from her.
Chantal brings me face to face with my whiteness every day, and I try to learn as much as I can from her.
February 12, 2026 at 5:52 AM
Yeah, I called mine “Always See” to make sure I don’t miss the people I care about.
Chantal brings me face to face with my whiteness every day, and I try to learn as much as I can from her.
Chantal brings me face to face with my whiteness every day, and I try to learn as much as I can from her.
Like, it’s not “have to boycott.” I loved Dorothy Sayers SO much as a naive teenager. Once I came to realize just how antisemitic and anti-gay she was, it’s just always felt uncomfortable to think about rereading one of her books.
February 9, 2026 at 6:53 AM
Like, it’s not “have to boycott.” I loved Dorothy Sayers SO much as a naive teenager. Once I came to realize just how antisemitic and anti-gay she was, it’s just always felt uncomfortable to think about rereading one of her books.
NYC and London are both like nowhere else in the world. I would love the chance to live in either for a year or two. With the option to leave at any time if I couldn’t take it.
Nothing about that desire is realistic, but it’s fun to dream.
Nothing about that desire is realistic, but it’s fun to dream.
February 3, 2026 at 1:18 AM
NYC and London are both like nowhere else in the world. I would love the chance to live in either for a year or two. With the option to leave at any time if I couldn’t take it.
Nothing about that desire is realistic, but it’s fun to dream.
Nothing about that desire is realistic, but it’s fun to dream.
Discovering it makes my mom with Alzheimer’s happy to listen to John Denver, and hearing all those songs again I loved so much when I was a kid.
Watching his concerts also reminded me, it used to be just fine to be earnest and sincere.
Watching his concerts also reminded me, it used to be just fine to be earnest and sincere.
February 1, 2026 at 2:38 AM
Discovering it makes my mom with Alzheimer’s happy to listen to John Denver, and hearing all those songs again I loved so much when I was a kid.
Watching his concerts also reminded me, it used to be just fine to be earnest and sincere.
Watching his concerts also reminded me, it used to be just fine to be earnest and sincere.
These are aMAZing!! Just brilliant.
January 30, 2026 at 4:26 AM
These are aMAZing!! Just brilliant.
So happy to be able to do something to help! The multi colored filament was just too pretty not to send one to each of them. 🧵🌈🧵
January 27, 2026 at 8:13 AM
So happy to be able to do something to help! The multi colored filament was just too pretty not to send one to each of them. 🧵🌈🧵
Thought this was a post from @dieworkwear.bsky.social at first lol
January 25, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Thought this was a post from @dieworkwear.bsky.social at first lol
But he’d stopped, so he came down the driveway. His whole affect changed when he saw her, and we got her in my truck and off to the emergency vet. She was fine, so I went in to work.
When I got home that evening, there was a little pot of chrysanthemums at the gate. It was the sweetest thing.
When I got home that evening, there was a little pot of chrysanthemums at the gate. It was the sweetest thing.
January 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM
But he’d stopped, so he came down the driveway. His whole affect changed when he saw her, and we got her in my truck and off to the emergency vet. She was fine, so I went in to work.
When I got home that evening, there was a little pot of chrysanthemums at the gate. It was the sweetest thing.
When I got home that evening, there was a little pot of chrysanthemums at the gate. It was the sweetest thing.
My dog had a seizure, was totally limp and unresponsive. She was too heavy for me to lift. I was terrified and ran into the road at 6 in the morning in my pajamas to flag down someone to help.
I could see annoyance wash over the face of the man who finally stopped when he heard what I wanted.
I could see annoyance wash over the face of the man who finally stopped when he heard what I wanted.
January 19, 2026 at 4:16 PM
My dog had a seizure, was totally limp and unresponsive. She was too heavy for me to lift. I was terrified and ran into the road at 6 in the morning in my pajamas to flag down someone to help.
I could see annoyance wash over the face of the man who finally stopped when he heard what I wanted.
I could see annoyance wash over the face of the man who finally stopped when he heard what I wanted.
I worked in production at an opera company, and had to find a harmonium for the orchestra once. The poot joke made my year. You have to have been involved with opera to really get it, but Maskerade is perfection. I know it seems over the top, but it’s only barely an exaggeration.
January 12, 2026 at 4:10 AM
I worked in production at an opera company, and had to find a harmonium for the orchestra once. The poot joke made my year. You have to have been involved with opera to really get it, but Maskerade is perfection. I know it seems over the top, but it’s only barely an exaggeration.
Could Jayapal win statewide? Cantwell seems like just a nonentity. Keeps her elbows in, plays it safe.
January 4, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Could Jayapal win statewide? Cantwell seems like just a nonentity. Keeps her elbows in, plays it safe.
Right? I was like, yeasty….
Yeasty. YEASTY!?!!
Goose meme, I guess.
Yeasty. YEASTY!?!!
Goose meme, I guess.
January 2, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Right? I was like, yeasty….
Yeasty. YEASTY!?!!
Goose meme, I guess.
Yeasty. YEASTY!?!!
Goose meme, I guess.
I slept through most of it, but the experience curled up in the car, drifting in and out of futuristic hallways remains strong.
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I slept through most of it, but the experience curled up in the car, drifting in and out of futuristic hallways remains strong.
My parents wanted me to see Sound of Music, so they took me to a triple feature at the drive-in. It was last, after True Grit and Andromeda Strain. (So I was at least 8, not much more.)
December 13, 2025 at 5:59 AM
My parents wanted me to see Sound of Music, so they took me to a triple feature at the drive-in. It was last, after True Grit and Andromeda Strain. (So I was at least 8, not much more.)
You may have just cured me 🫶
December 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
You may have just cured me 🫶
How do you stop? I can have millions in currency and all the best gear, and I still loot every single corpse for two copper Pennie’s and trash. It’s a compulsion.
December 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
How do you stop? I can have millions in currency and all the best gear, and I still loot every single corpse for two copper Pennie’s and trash. It’s a compulsion.
I walked out of my grandma’s funeral.
She wasn’t religious at all, the minister was a relative, it was nice to have someone who knew her. But then he started going all evangelical and how christians are so much better than everyone else. He was hijacking it for his own fulminations, so I left.
She wasn’t religious at all, the minister was a relative, it was nice to have someone who knew her. But then he started going all evangelical and how christians are so much better than everyone else. He was hijacking it for his own fulminations, so I left.
December 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I walked out of my grandma’s funeral.
She wasn’t religious at all, the minister was a relative, it was nice to have someone who knew her. But then he started going all evangelical and how christians are so much better than everyone else. He was hijacking it for his own fulminations, so I left.
She wasn’t religious at all, the minister was a relative, it was nice to have someone who knew her. But then he started going all evangelical and how christians are so much better than everyone else. He was hijacking it for his own fulminations, so I left.
The figure-ground comparison when the swirlies are side-by-side is fascinating.
I always see the white swoops as larger than the black ones, no matter which cover I focus. I wonder if that’s related to how vision works, or if racism is that deeply ingrained in my perception.
I always see the white swoops as larger than the black ones, no matter which cover I focus. I wonder if that’s related to how vision works, or if racism is that deeply ingrained in my perception.
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The figure-ground comparison when the swirlies are side-by-side is fascinating.
I always see the white swoops as larger than the black ones, no matter which cover I focus. I wonder if that’s related to how vision works, or if racism is that deeply ingrained in my perception.
I always see the white swoops as larger than the black ones, no matter which cover I focus. I wonder if that’s related to how vision works, or if racism is that deeply ingrained in my perception.
*grumble grumble* That’s not what “but tell it slant” even means.
I hate when people don’t understand the poetry they’re slyly referencing to look learnéd.
And I will die alone on the “movers and shakers” hill.
I hate when people don’t understand the poetry they’re slyly referencing to look learnéd.
And I will die alone on the “movers and shakers” hill.
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
*grumble grumble* That’s not what “but tell it slant” even means.
I hate when people don’t understand the poetry they’re slyly referencing to look learnéd.
And I will die alone on the “movers and shakers” hill.
I hate when people don’t understand the poetry they’re slyly referencing to look learnéd.
And I will die alone on the “movers and shakers” hill.
I started out thinking TPM was one of those indie outlets I wanted to support with my cancelled NYT and WaPo subscriptions, but Josh has had a handful of opinions that make me regret that.
I wish I could remember what they were, but I don’t always remember why my skin crawled, just that it did.
I wish I could remember what they were, but I don’t always remember why my skin crawled, just that it did.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I started out thinking TPM was one of those indie outlets I wanted to support with my cancelled NYT and WaPo subscriptions, but Josh has had a handful of opinions that make me regret that.
I wish I could remember what they were, but I don’t always remember why my skin crawled, just that it did.
I wish I could remember what they were, but I don’t always remember why my skin crawled, just that it did.
I’ll try to drop it in patreon. And yes, I think being ND is preferable to NT because I feel like I see more clearly because of it.
This has not made me popular.
This has not made me popular.
November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I’ll try to drop it in patreon. And yes, I think being ND is preferable to NT because I feel like I see more clearly because of it.
This has not made me popular.
This has not made me popular.
Autism makes it easier to recognize the self as a construct I think, which in turn makes us more fundamentally threatening to NT types. It’s a beacon for bullies, not because they see us more clearly than we see ourselves, but because our (unavoidable) authenticity calls their reality into question.
November 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Autism makes it easier to recognize the self as a construct I think, which in turn makes us more fundamentally threatening to NT types. It’s a beacon for bullies, not because they see us more clearly than we see ourselves, but because our (unavoidable) authenticity calls their reality into question.
I have a long response to this, informed by years of solitary meditation with the goal of letting go of the self and what I’ve learned about how I created mine in reaction to external threats.
November 26, 2025 at 6:53 AM
I have a long response to this, informed by years of solitary meditation with the goal of letting go of the self and what I’ve learned about how I created mine in reaction to external threats.