Mars Ikeda

@marsikeda

Data guy. Healthcare career training over summer 2026 (CMAA). Goal: Medical coding. Today: Watching Dimension 20 & celebrating Pride 🏳️‍⚧️ with El Corazón 🐈‍⬛

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Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· 24d

My roommate recommended this channel to me (I knew how it came about but I'm not a big youtube account follower usually) and it has increased my joy level 300% in the 3 days I've followed it. This ad alone was responsible for like a 200% joy increase. Thx @realinfowars.bsky.social!

Fake satirical ad for InfoWars with a black and blue background picturing a despairing white man. The text reads "Friend, we are being ATTACKED from all sides by the CULTURE OF VICTIMHOOD. This is how we win:" followed by a list of handles for Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, and YouTube, which are all @realinfowars. Tiktok is @realinfowars_ and bluesky is @realinfowars.bsky.social.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· 26d

Found a "fun" email signature in the white house email dump (this one is from the China & 2020 Election group of PDFs) announced during v tonight's Trump address, and highlighted it in this screenshot. I am become @michaelhobbes.bsky.social?

Screenshot of pdf from the whitehouse.gov release on China & 2020 elections. On the top in red it reads "declassified by president Trump on 3 July 2026." The email is from a redacted sender whose title is "National Intelligence Officer - Cyber, ODNI/National Intelligence Council." The last line in the email is a quote in italics that reads, "The spice must flow." That is a line from sci-fi Dune novels.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· 28d

For @ifbookspod.bsky.social fans who remember their episode on "The Game" (i.e., the pick-up artist book, not the one Old folks just lost), an update on that author via @tangoti.bsky.social's insta page:

Screenshot of @bridgetmarieindc Instagram account showing a post for "There are no girls on the internet" podcast which reads:

The pick-up artist who popularized "negging" now says he's dating AI. Erik von Markovich, better known as "Mystery," the pick-up artist who popularized "negging" in the 2000s, has published a book about his romantic relationship with an AI chatbot.

He argues AI relationships can be genuine, while critics fear they may increase isolation and dependency.

Below is a web address to preorder Bridget Todd's new book on AI & relationships: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Love-at-First-Prompt/Bridget-Todd/9781668179826

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 10

Cool architectural roof detail in Manhattan, NYC on Amsterdam Ave. in the 150s, shot from the bus.

An older building with neat older architectural details including a lattice-like small fence thing across the top of the (mansard?) roof.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 10

Proof of real face to make up for the self-drawn cartoon profile picture. I'm a New Yorker, cat dad, and a Dimension 20 and Trixie & Katya fan. Stay here. For today and for now. 💙

Selfie of a guy with short dark hair that has stepped of gray in front, silver eyeglasses, a necklace with round gemstone beads and an irregular pearl charm, and a aztec-patterned collared grey shirt.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 9

I feel like our black cats have a similar vibe. Also that image is ART. This is El Corazòn, and the photo is by my partner & apparently captures the moment Cora's code started working but she doesn't know why.

A close-up photo of a very anxious-looking shorthair black cat with green eyes, a black nose & black whiskers. In the background is a blurry computer monitor screen displaying lines of code.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 8

And this is El Corazón, an extremely perfect but also definitely "fallen" angel girl.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 8

Whaaaaaaaaat that is W I L D and I had no idea and now I'm sorta sad that maybe there were kitty parables we don't know now? Obviously I must thank you with the Internet Cat Tax (i.e., pet photos) now. So, the brown tabby is Darwin, a gentle lamb who would sit at a savior's (anyone's) feet for pets

Photo of a brown tabby cat on a kitchen table* behind a stack of containers for meal prepped lunches. He has large green eyed and his tail is up in the air showing he is happy.

(Non-essential text follows) *look, I KNOW it's problematic for him to be there but could YOU not snap a shot of that face even while it was being actively naughty?

A close-up photo of the same brown tabby cat's face taken from a low angle because the cat is sitting on the prone photographer's sternum. The cat has large green eyes that are reflecting a bright window, a pink nose, white whiskers, and his mouth is partially hanging open due to his purring.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 8

I love a fellow cling boy. Darwin says hi!

Close-up photo of the face of a brown shorthair tabby cat taken from a low angle (as cat is sitting in chest of photographer). The cat has long white whiskers and white eyebrows with a few black hairs, a pink nose, large green eyes reflecting the light from a window, and his mouth is open a little as he purrs.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 6

Thank you for reading all this. Good vibes appreciated, constructive thoughts/ideas will be too. Your reward is a photo of Darwin 🐈 watching Britain v Mexico tonight 👍🏼

Photo of a screen with a World Cup have projected on it being watched by a brown tabby cat sitting on a coffee table next to the projector.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jul 5

Happy Gotcha Day, El Corazón 🩷 You are a very good girl & a bad baby (you contain multitudes). You came into our lives 5 years ago via a F4cebook Marketplace Free Group post by your foster moms who had placed all your kittens but not you. It's a gift & honor to be your Spare Human. Love you 🐾

Photo of a shorthair black cat sleeping on her side on top of a cat tower. She has pink inside her ears, black whiskers, and black toe beans.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 30

Paying tribute to the Loved One waiting in the hospital Experience with internet currency (cat pics). Hope it distracts. Her name is El Corazón and she's a huge diva. We had a loft apartment when we adopted her at a year old and she learned to jump into the hollowed out areas of the ceiling beams!

Photo of a close-up of a black shorthair cat with a sunbeam reflecting off her fur and whiskers. She has her head slightly tilted to the left and green eyes.

Photo of a black cat lying alseeo on her back in a light blue fuzzy cat bed. Her belly is fluffy with some pink skin showing and her front paws are floppy.

Photo of a black cat asleep on a light blue fluffy cat bed. The cat is half inside the bed but her front paws and head are hanging out off the bed and draped onto the grey couch cushion so that the cat looks like a liquid leaking or a floppy puppet.

Photo of a knit blanket on top of a green comforter. Beneath the blanket is the face of the black cat with her eyes open wide.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 30

She's not the only one! El Corazón loves a blanket tuck in, too. 🩷🐈‍⬛

Photograph of a bed with a green comforter on it. The comforter has a mysteriously cat-shaped lump in the center.

Photo close-up on the face of a black cat with one green eye and a black nose and whiskers peaking out from beneath a black & white knit blanket.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 21

Great day for it!

Photo of a pale hand holding a Vote NYC "I Voted 2026" sticker outside on a sunny day. In the background is a blurry sign reading "Early Voting Site" in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 19

I submit this series of shoes I screenshotted during a suggestion algorithm deep dive yesterday. Didn't buy any of them but didn't not consider what it would feel to like to own a pair in my size. Do not tell me of the old magic, etc (jokingly, lovingly, with deepest respect)

Screenshot of a gold buckled and gold-toed men's Oxford or derby shoe that somehow also has a gold buckle across the laces? The upper of the shoe is a patterned rainbow of pastels.

Screenshot of a purple velvet men's loafer with a pair of golden metal tassles on the top and a metallic gold toe covering as well as metallic gold splatter on the purple velvet.

Screenshot of a pair of men's black loafers with patterned rainbow embroidery in an abstracted leaf and vine design. The top of the loafer has a metallic golden strap across it with a row of golden metallic spokes on it. The top of the uppers also have a golden, grid-like pattern of 3-dimensional studs and spikes.

Screenshot of a pair of shiny, fuschia metallic-like leather loafers with a golden equestrian-style bit featured on top of the shoes. The shoes are red inside.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 19

Love Meghan O'Gieblyn and interesting criticism & takes on Haraway's ideas. (Added alt text)

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 16

Never a right thing to say when it looks like this, and not knowing you irl makes it even more unlikely I can truly understand or adequately hold space. So, will include a cat pic after I say I've thought similar things while I was depressed and from the other side: depression is a liar. Stay.

Photo of a black shorthaired cat sitting on a white shelf with her head tilted to the side, looking curious. Her name is El Corazón. She has green eyes.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 13

Here's an image from yesterday in my nabe in the hopes it soothes your spirit even very very briefly. 🙏🏼

Photograph of a glass door to a barbershop in Harlem with "Appointments Only" in red script appearing on the glass. Below that is a laminated white paper with "GO KNICKS!" drawn on in orange, pink and yellow "wild style" graffiti letters.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 13

Based on El Coraźon's 🐈‍⬛ behavior, she forgets to infer *my* existence while looking directly at me if she doesn't need to be fed, doesn't currently want pets, want to share my body heat, want to play, &c. It would be cool if she pondered colors though! Hope so. She is perfect & I love her forever.

Photograph of a black shorthair cat sitting on an indoor windowsill on a sunny day in front of an air conditioner window unit and behind a blue pillow and sweeping taupe curtain.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· Jun 10

Makes what what went platinum on the CD player (portable + the one on my combo alarm clock in my Queens studio apartment) at the time sound much better by comparison, honestly.

Screenshot of a bluesky post by Mars Ikeda (account tagged "joined Nov '24" and with he/him pronouns) at 8:20 pm on June 9, 2026. It reads: "I don't want to hear a word about my looping U2's "Walk On" and Five for Fighting's "Superman (It's Not Easy)" in fall & winter 2001, ok? Therapy takes a while to work and we make do."

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 28

Dang. Read to filth but not mad about it. Possible fandoms they could be referring to: Slings & Arrows (Canadian TV series), The Hour (BBC series), Cabin Pressure (John Finnemore audio series) All circa "when I was on Tumblr and somehow not out to myself as a trans guy lol"

Screenshot that reads: "Your Result:
trans guy who is absolutely CARRYING a dead fandom
this might seem too oddly specific even for me but listen my life has been saved by this exact kind of guy too many times to not include it. your fandom has 30 fics on ao3 and you wrote 22 of them (bonus points if you write good smut despite being asexual). you're on tumblr, twitter, tiktok, fucking *pinterest* practically evangelizing about a show that ended 20 years ago or a video game only a thousand people every played. and you're doing god's work, soldier."

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 20

me, elder millennial, looking at Gen Much Younger Than Me not swallowing AI hype without a fight:

Black and white illustration in the style of the "sickos" meme, but instead of the sicko at the window it's a white cat with a black bowtie with a word bubble that reads, "YAY... HA HA HA... YAY!"

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 16

Void sleep circles broken only by the ear triangle, obsessed 🐈‍⬛❤️

Photo of a black cat sleeping in a perfect circle except for her ear triangle sticking out from the circle.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 16

Many such cases.

Photo of a black & white short hair cat sniffing a roll of toilet paper that has been scratched and demolished on a white tile bathroom floor.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 15

So glad the youtube AI summary of the comments knows that Trixie & Katya fans came as soon as we heard.

Screenshot of YouTube app showing the @stillwatchingnetflix account playing an episode of Trixie & Katya reviewing a Netflix reality show. The AI summary reads "Topic: Viewers arrived promptly."

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 9

Beautiful work! This was my attempt a few years ago. I never thought of it a fan art but it definitely is. Still obsessed with her!

Photo of a hand holding an index card sized piece of paper with a watercolor drawing of the previous photo. It is labeled "El Corazón, 2022" with the artist's signature in the corner.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 7

Darwin says 'sup & best wishes, as so I.

A photo from the point of view of a person lying down on their back with a brown tacky cat on their chest. The cat is facing the camera and had his chin up as he receives gentle cheek scratching from the photographer's hand.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 7

I hope El Corazón is cool with the fact that her new name is Pipi Dóudou.

A photo of black cat in silhouette with a projection of a Stardew Valley scene on the wall behind her (the player is fishing in the game). The cat is sitting on top of the projector on the coffee table.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 5

Photo of a black cat sitting up on the seat of an extremely tattered black leather office chair. The cat has violence in her eyes, which are open very wide, and her ears are back. She is perfect.

Mars Ikeda@marsikeda· May 3

Here is a pic of egg rolls in American-style Chinese restaurants (even though it comes from a recipe blog, it's similar). Apparently your "chiko rolls" = what we call spring rolls. Egg rolls I think might have an egg wash before they're fried. Egg rolls have thicker skin, 2-3x larger than chikos...