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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦
@patrickjohanneson.com
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Part-time prevaricator.

He/him 🇨🇦

https://patrickjohanneson.com/

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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 The Milky Way rising in the night sky Spring lilacs against a bright blue sky
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Review: Horrorstör

It's funny, and then it very much isn't.
Review: Horrorstör
It's funny, and then it very much isn't.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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"At press time, Ontario Premier Doug Ford had just declared himself 'King of Upper and Lower Canada, the Eastern Islands, and the Northern Wastes,' which, according to legal scholars, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms also allows."
November 29, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Based solely on "how often do I quote that particular character", it's gotta be this dude

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0...
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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lorraineinglisd.bsky.social
Upward 🪾⚫️⚪️
Dramatic lines against an overcast sky

#classicmono #EastCoastKin
#BlackAndWhitePhotography #ColorADay #BWFri #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels
Black and white image looking up at a tree with branches weaving intricate patterns.
November 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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hourlycosmos.bsky.social
Deimos Over Mars, Terra Sabaea - ESA Hera Mission - From Andrea Luck (andrealuck.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2qRV5QD
Download full size image: www.flickr.com/photos/192271236@N03/54386120493/sizes/o/ Credit: ESA/AFC/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Colourised image processed from: www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Hera/Hera_asteroid_mission_spies... For the colourisation, I've used a reference image from ESA's Mars Express of this area: HO544_000 in RGB, taken on 2023-06-09 (raw data available at psa.esa.int/) check out the image here: flic.kr/p/2qRZbDK Mission: ESA Hera Instrument: Asteroid Framing Cameras (AFC) Distance: 1000 KM Date: March 12, 2025 Credit: ESA/AFC/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY Feel free to share, giving the appropriate credit as stated above and providing a link to the original media: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
November 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Dang, I need those today.

(The meeting may be worthwhile, but those socks would definitely improve it)
purplehightops.bsky.social Purple Hightops @purplehightops.bsky.social · Jan 28
Heading out tomorrow to go to the city for a mandatory meeting/event on Wednesday. Packing my meeting socks 😁
A photo of a pair of socks that have a geometric pattern with a large stripe down the outside edge with writing that says this meeting is bullshit.
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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probably my favourite Faith No More song for a #FridayFavourite

To see the unseen glitter of life
To feel the dirt, grief, anger and strife

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXNs...
Faith No More - The Real Thing - Download Festival 2009 (HQ)
YouTube video by Marijan 40cent
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November 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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niamhie.bsky.social
Tree abstract #scape
I couldn’t choose but it’s Friday so I get a pass…well I’ve decided I do anyway…
#eastcoastkin
Happy weekend folks
Branches of a tree golden in the sunlight and in pale blue water distorted by the movement of the water Branches of a tree golden in the sunlight and in pale blue water distorted by the movement of the water
November 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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— I am your king!
— Well, I didn't vote for you!
— You don't vote for kings!
— Well, 'ow'd you become king then?
1/6
itsdoug.ca Doug! @itsdoug.ca · 17h
"Do ye like dags?"
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
blipstress.bsky.social violet allen @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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coreybrickley.bsky.social
artists and designers using ai like
cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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thebeaverton.com
When your ambassador is SO deranged that Time Magazine says, "Yeah, that quote sounds real".
Photo of an Oct. 1 Time Magazine article that attributed a quote to US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, when it was actually made up for a Beaverton article.
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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My thesis on Top Gun: Maverick is that nostalgia is a hell of a drug; the studio delivered exactly the same movie as Top Gun I, but thirty-some years later, and the critics loved them for it.

RT scores:
I: 59%
II: 96%

They are, I say again, the same movie.

patrickjohanneson.com/2022/07/02/t...
November 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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widdershins

also:
onomatopoeia
pareidolia
serendipity
cromulent
merriam-webster.com Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d
Let’s all go around the table and say one word we’re thankful for.
November 28, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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I would audit any or all of these courses
scgriffith.bsky.social monoidal sarah @scgriffith.bsky.social · 1d
ruin your thanksgiving by reading new york magazine's take on mathematics
The Ten Most Ridiculous-Sounding Math Classes Currently Offered at Liberal-Arts Colleges By Jessica Pressler, Janelle Zara, and Emily Watkins Rachel Stein andAviva Shen OCT. 19, 2010 Every year, liberal-arts majors anxiously scour their college's course listings looking for classes that will fulfill their math requirement but aren't so, you know, math-y. Here's what they're signed up for this year. 10. Topology: The Nature of Shape and Space: "In geometry we ask: How big is it? How long is it? But in topology we ask: Is it [Sarah Lawrence 9. The Mathematies of Chance: "Most topics are introduced ina case-study fashion, usually by reading an article in a current periodical such as the New York Times. [Bard] 8. Mathematics in Many Cultures: "Mathematical ideas are found in many cultures, among both literate and non-literate peoples. This course examines both mathematics and the role it plays in the cultures. Examples chosen from the mathematical ideas of present-day peoples of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas, as well as historic Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Islam and China." [Pomona] 7. The Magic of Numbers: "This course will explore the beauty and mystery of mathematics through a study of the patterns and properties of the natural numbers 1, 2, [and] 3." [Harvard 6. Models of Life: In particular, we will ask such questions as: How do you model the growth of a population of animals? How can you model the growth of a tree? How do sunflowers and seashells grow?" [Kenyon] 5. Mathematical Origamist's Toolkit: "Topics include modular origami and how this models the creation of polyhedra and coloring of graphs, comparison of origami-axiomatic constructions to straight-edge and compass constructions, the combinatorics of possible crease patterns, the mathematics of origami design (circle packing, optimization), matrix models for paperfolding, spherical geometry, Descartes' Theorem, and Gaussian curvature." [Hampshire] 4. Mathematics and Narrative: "Many literary works (Arcadia, Proof, and Uncle Petros and the Goldbach Conjecture) use mathematics as an integral part of their narrative. Movie and television narratives such as Good Will Hunting and Numb3rs are also mathematically based. Nonfiction works about mathematics and mathematical biographies like Chaos, Fermat's Enigma, and A Beautiful Mind provide further examples of the connection between mathematics and narrative." [Vassar] 3. Borges and Mathematics: "Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important writers of the 20th century. Many of his short stories and essays were concerned with philosophical, metaphysical, and mathematical questions. The thesis motivating this course is that if we know the mathematies that Borges referred to, then we will read him differently, and we will read him better." [Bennington 2. Mathematics and Science as Art in Contemporary Theatre: "Playwrights such as Tom Stoppard, Rinne Groff, Michael Frayn, and others have effectively explored mathematical and scientific themes for artistic purposes. Through readings and exercises, and by conducting labs and staging scenes, this class will gain some first-hand insight into the complementary ways in which science and art aim to seek out their respective truths." [Middlebury] 1. Meaning, Math, And Motion: "Quoting a charming articulation by Kinsman (a mathematician-turned-oceanographer, in the preface to Wind Waves): "To the beginner, science is a conversation that has been in progress for a very long time. Our collective work is to catch up on the conversation. [Evergreen] This is why Asia is winning, by the way.
November 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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clpolk.com
If writing is so easy why do people argue that they can’t do it without the pablumatic verbiage extruder

And if it’s so difficult then why do people think it’s not labour and writers are not workers
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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everyone knows the coolest kids are the ones who give themselves nicknames
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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matthewdowsmith.bsky.social
Hell, a lot of us work multiple jobs so that we can keep creating stuff for people to read or listen to.

Because making stuff matters to us. It's worth all the work for us.

We're not the elite. We're working stiffs. Who make stuff they like.
November 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Some of what I wrote tonight.

#AmWriting #PrairieSFF #WeeknightWriters
Winter settled over the land outside, deepened, then began to recede. The piles of snow sagged, thinned, vanished into trickles of water, streams that dried. Leaves reappeared here and there, then everywhere. One stair brought a raging thunderstorm, a nightmare of flickering electricity that set my teeth on edge, and the next few stairs looked out on a drowned village: the river was a swollen torrent, every ditch level full of water, the gullies turned to lakes. Wavelets glimmered under a gibbous moon. By the full moon it had dried out again. Summer came. The stairs were warm underfoot, a gentle heat radiating through the soles of my sneakers, like a sidewalk at dusk releasing the heat of the day. My legs ached, and my breathing was ragged, but I didn't even consider stopping. It'll be easier, I remember telling myself, on the way down. At last I reached the final turn, a grey stone ceiling suddenly appearing above my head, the stairs leading to a square hole like someone had opened a hatch. I could see stars through it, the Little Dipper against a velvety black sky.
November 27, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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darthbluesky.bsky.social
blessed to be able to read
cursed to be unable to resist reading
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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This should go in all the Comp. Sci. textbooks, on the page where they start to explain "deadlock"
annesh.no Anders :) 🇧🇻🏳️‍🌈 @annesh.no · 3d
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.
November 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Patient: Whenever I do this, I feel a sharp, stabbing pain.
Doctor: Don't do that, then.
mitsuhiko.at Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 2d
But this keeps happening last time I posted about AI here too. This is not a permanent solution.
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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ursidice.bsky.social
You can kitbash a little Cow Tools. as a treat.
Miniature diorama of a cow in front of a table of odd tools, a la Cow Tools by Gary Larson
November 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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freyafaust.bsky.social
You seem to be waiting for the right time. Are you aware that the right time does not exist and that waiting will only delay your goal to an unachievable date?
November 26, 2025 at 6:51 PM