Patrick Rapa
@classypatrick.bsky.social
of Philadelphia
(he/him)
(he/him)
Hey @maura.bsky.social want to know a word?
February 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Hey @maura.bsky.social want to know a word?
Hey @bethysmalls.goflyers.online would you like a word?
February 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
Hey @bethysmalls.goflyers.online would you like a word?
Hey @ryangodfrey.com wanna know a word?
February 10, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Hey @ryangodfrey.com wanna know a word?
Serious question: Would you join the Pluribus hive mind if invited?
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
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February 10, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Serious question: Would you join the Pluribus hive mind if invited?
1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
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1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Yes
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/tOabyd/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">No
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Sometimes if you ski really well you win farm animals.
![In 2005, after winning a downhill race at Val d'Isère, Vonn was offered a pregnant Tarine cow. Vonn decided to keep the cow, who she named "Olympe" and placed in the care of an Austrian farmer she knew.[124] In 2009, she won a goat, which she gave to a different farmer in Austria.[124] In 2014, she won a calf in Val d'Isère, which she kept as well.[60] As of 2014, she owned a small herd of cows on the farm.[124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7p57j2id4xbzlbn5lwczssxj/bafkreib2aeglmhkpkij6fvkjt2pqejp2f3iz7nr6sjdhtfkejnee22rgky@jpeg)
February 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Sometimes if you ski really well you win farm animals.
Reposted by Patrick Rapa
This isn't necessarily a mixed metaphor. He might actually be juggling hats.
February 6, 2026 at 4:13 AM
This isn't necessarily a mixed metaphor. He might actually be juggling hats.
Reposted by Patrick Rapa
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM
Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”
These Eyes is a ship of Theseus.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
These Eyes is a ship of Theseus.
A screenshot from December of 2011, during the painstaking assembling of the Top 21 Records of the Year issue (when I worked for an alt-weekly).
February 2, 2026 at 10:54 PM
A screenshot from December of 2011, during the painstaking assembling of the Top 21 Records of the Year issue (when I worked for an alt-weekly).
My phrogger is a squirrel.
February 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
My phrogger is a squirrel.
looking forward to Longlegs 2
One month after high winds postponed Mummers string bands from playing during the New Year's Day parade, one string band says it's too cold to play a make-up show at Lincoln Financial Field.
With ‘extreme cold’ expected Saturday, one Mummers band has already pulled out of the String Band Spectacular
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January 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
looking forward to Longlegs 2
The time I ran into Dan McQuade and Sam Melamed on Arch Street in November 2020 — two of the first friendly (half) faces I'd seen since the pandemic began. Inside the Convention Center, people were still counting the votes, and a mostly masked-up rally/costume party had assembled outside.
January 29, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The time I ran into Dan McQuade and Sam Melamed on Arch Street in November 2020 — two of the first friendly (half) faces I'd seen since the pandemic began. Inside the Convention Center, people were still counting the votes, and a mostly masked-up rally/costume party had assembled outside.
BH wrote a lovely piece about Dan McQuade and what made him such a great Philadelphian and journalist.
Dan McQuade Got Philly Like No One Else
The writer, who died Wednesday, was one of the most gifted chroniclers of the Philadelphia experience.
www.phillymag.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:46 PM
BH wrote a lovely piece about Dan McQuade and what made him such a great Philadelphian and journalist.
Dan was a great person and friend and one of the best to ever do it.
January 29, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Dan was a great person and friend and one of the best to ever do it.
Kristi Noem's poor trigger discipline leads to photoshop carnage.
January 28, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Kristi Noem's poor trigger discipline leads to photoshop carnage.
Hog splashing is exactly what we're trying to avoid here.
January 27, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Hog splashing is exactly what we're trying to avoid here.
Find the newspapers that do the good work and support them.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Find the newspapers that do the good work and support them.
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Our country was founded on protesting unjust laws.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 24, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Our country was founded on protesting unjust laws.
R.I.P. Uncle Floyd.
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Dramarama - Work For Food
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January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
R.I.P. Uncle Floyd.
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