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Patrick McNamara

@dogfoodstudios.bsky.social

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Music and video producer in Seattle, WA. Storyteller for #MageOfSail. Chosen of Nurgle. www.patreon.com/PatrickMcNamara

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · Jan 10

I'm putting together a document of TTRPG performers (either players or DMs) in the Seattle area who are available to play in streamed/recorded games. If this applies to you (or someone you know), please get in touch! Thank you.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 8h

“Do you play requests?”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Graham @projectgr.bsky.social · 14h

There's a lot of dumb shit here but I do feel the pedantic need to point out that Dr Manhattan said literally the exact opposite of this

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 17h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 9h

Just FYI, this isn't even the worst thing he said in that email: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Prince Andrew told Jeffrey Epstein ‘we’re in this together’ in 2011 email

Royal sent email after Virginia Giuffre photo emerged but later claimed he had ceased contact with Epstein in 2010

www.theguardian.com

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 10h

Katy Perry is 40

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 1d

I find it hard to be sympathetic.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 3d

"Having trouble with two famously difficult things today. Must be useless"

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 4d

You owe me nothing Hadeel. Whenever you get around to it is fine.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4d

Social media is very effective at creating sin-eaters. A sin-eater is different from an ephemeral main-character. It's a recurring "well would you look at that guy" person you see screenshotted on your feed constantly, who is meant to stand in for the evils of some larger group you dislike

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 4d

...me finding out that you're not supposed to mix those colours.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 6d

No Star Trek of any kind

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 6d

And it’s about a spaceship?

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 6d

Is it good?

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 6d

I’ve heard the riff in other contexts and know roughly how the song goes

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 6d

I've never seen Star Trek or listened to Stairway To Heaven.

Maverick of Mayhem 🔜 Gamehole Con @rinahaenze.bsky.social · 6d

What cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I have never seen Scooby Doo.

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 7d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 7d

Hell yeah

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 8d

I know none of you are watching the fights right now but holy shit.

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 8d

In a way?

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a Taylor Swift joke

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 8d

I don’t like to complain about larger artists stealing my ideas so I guess I’m just throwing this fifteen minute long orchestral piece about the size of Travis Kelce’s penis into the trash.

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 8d

Personally I might have rethought this title/thumbnail combo

A YouTube shorts thumbnail of Jiri Prochazka with the title “Jiri Prochazka Intense Head”. Jiri has an intense, startled expression.

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 9d

A+ post

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Chackanory @chackanory.bsky.social · 9d

I heard there was a sacred chord that David played and it pleased the Lord but alas if only the Lord had known that Elvis Costello wrote something similar in 1978

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Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 9d

Use any round object. The cheese is immaterial, the allure is the thrill of caroming towards death.

Patrick McNamara @dogfoodstudios.bsky.social · 9d

The sad thing is that they undoubtedly thought this lore drop made them look impressively knowledgable rather that breathtakingly stupid and totally unaware of even the most basic elements of the craft they are paid to write about.

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