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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦

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Part-time prevaricator. He/him 🇨🇦 https://patrickjohanneson.com/ Avatar by Hallie @halliebateman.bsky.social Bateman Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · Oct 18

Hi, I'm Patrick. I write SF/F, I take photos—largely in the dark—and I wrangle websites for my spending cash. I keep a blog over at patrickjohanneson.com, though I cross-post most everything here too.

#Introduction #PinnedPost

Vivid red and green aurora borealis above a line of scrubby trees

Lightning arcing over the dark silhouette of a tree

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 3h

Fair enough. I live here and always have, even though I know better.

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 4h

The Winnipeg version is "winter and construction"

Also, it's October, it's not cold yet

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 16h

Apparently today is March 2050th, 2020.

eternalmarch.com

Eternal March

What day is it, considering time crashed on March 12, 2020?

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 16h

Chart of the year... so far.

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 16h

It really is

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 16h

My guess is that, at some point during the creation of your post, the word "oh" was adjacent to a single period which was adjacent to the word "so". Bluesky assumed it was a URL and retained the link even after it got changed to "Oh... so".

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 16h

Found a repeat of The Good Place.

oh, Chidi

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 17h

Gosh, if only there were thousands and thousands of people on the internet who have been saying for years that generative "AI" is a scam.

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 17h

I feel like that might be something I don't want to google¹

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¹ Or, y'know, DDG.

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 18h

The image is a humorous meme titled "Every Graph About the US." It depicts a simplistic graph with two intersecting lines.

- The horizontal axis is labeled "Some" on the left and "metric" on the right.
- The vertical dotted line in the middle is labeled "Ronald Reagan."
- The green line, labeled "Good thing," starts high on the left and trends downward as it moves right.
- The red line, labeled "Bad thing," starts low on the left and trends upward as it moves right.
- The lines intersect at the "Ronald Reagan" point

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 18h

I wish I could find the originator, but:

"Remember, when two villains are duking it out above a pit of lava, you're rooting for the lava."

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 18h

her work with Muppets is also very good

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 18h

Related:

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 19h

Is it déclassé to have a footnote within a title?

I'm thinking of something like

THE 365¹ STAIRS

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¹ Sometimes 366.

#AmWriting #PrairieSFF

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 19h

something something Born to be Wild

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Mira (SPOOKYNOUNS IN BIO) @thefreeradical.org · 1d

this goes for every industry, btw. if youre wondering whether to unionize, the answer is ALWAYS yes

Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 1d

The best time to unionize was ten years ago. The second best time is right now.

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 3d

Those of you who have been in gamedev for 5yrs+

What do you wish you knew before you joined the industry? What life lesson would you pass down to someone just joining today?

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 19h

Is it déclassé to have a footnote within a title?

I'm thinking of something like

THE 365¹ STAIRS

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¹ Sometimes 366.

#AmWriting #PrairieSFF

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Ness 🎃🇨🇦 @vriccithode.bsky.social · 21h

hey canadian friends you can tell the govt what you think about AI (🚮)! survey closes at the end of the month. it's a tad long but worth it. #CanPoli
ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...

Help define the next chapter of Canada's AI leadership

Current status: Open from October 1 to October 31, 2025 Canada helped invent modern AI. To stay a leader—and protect our digital sovereignty—we're running a 30-day national sprint to shape a renew...

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Cait 🦇 @gendercoffin.bsky.social · 1d

Nobody could have imagined the future world that would find this funny and why

A boy running alongside a train with a bindle on a stick. A word balloon reads “I’m through with school- it’s only for sissies anyway. I’ll run away and- and make money with my FEET”

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 22h

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Planning to continue with the structure of Diary Entry From Teenaged Me / My Commentary 30 Years Later. It feels like it's working well so far.

I'm still not happy with the title, though: The Tower is a little meh, and At the Top of the Tower isn't a lot better.

Weeknight Writers @weeknightwriters.bsky.social · 22h

#WeeknightWriters #FirstDraftFall Check-in Writing Community! How's your progress today? What are you working on tonight? Let us know!

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Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 22h

one of those surreal "ahh, environmental storytelling" moments (camera is cracked, best i could do)

subway ad for a shitty virtual friend app that has been tagged with JOIN THE LUDDITE RENAISSANCE and REAL PEOPLE ARE BETTER

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

Is this better or worse than the human being who booked a ticket¹ to India when they meant to fly to Indiana?

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¹ Allegedly. Possibly apocryphally.

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

at that point, someone should probably call the ambulance

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

yeah but it would've come out as "You snow nothing, Jon Know!" and I can't tell if that's better or worse

ah well, l'esprit de l'escalier

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

Is this one of those "stopped clocks" I keep hearing about?

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

Close but kinda meatless
Like actors who play Jesus
In movies of the week

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