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Mostly posting dumb screenshots of patents and occasionally about sports. Recently started playing around with some fun data visualization: https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/peter.hoagland

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · May 5

i know what you’re gonna be…
I KNOW WHAT YOU’RREEE GONNA BE!
YOU’RE CRUMBLING UP JUST TO SEEEEEE
AFRAID YOU’LL BE JUST LIKE MEEEE

Julie Andrews playing guitar and singing to children in Sound of Music

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 1d

lol people at the bar I was at were saying the same thing

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah I think I get the reasoning to do something for baseball regular season if managers are like “we have 6 more games the next 7 days and burning through relievers for 1 game out of 162 is crazy”. But I’m with you, I still don’t like it. think this idea is best option if you do anything

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 1d

Had this convo with someone at the bar tonight: (regular season only) if both teams agree, and they play each other the next day, end the game and tomorrows game is double or nothing

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 2d

Wyatt Russell?

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 3d

wondering if years later (hopefully, etc) when people are watching for it for the 1st time they’ll think the show was just remarking on things that already happened like a prestige snl or something. I’ll be grampa Simpson yelling “no!! They did this 8 years BEFORE it happened!”

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 7d

UNREAL

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 9d

immediately thinking in my head “booking dot yeah” after reading this makes me feel, uh, not great

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 9d

lol when I read “California” I for whatever reason immediately thought of the phantom planet song

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 10d

I read The Looming Tower like five years ago and, honestly, I hadn’t realized just how little I knew about it until I did. I would say the average is crazy little

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 11d

lol a real life Major Major Major Major

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 14d

The level of laughter, groans, and “OH GOD DUDE!”s in my theater was one of several moments in the movie that made me remember why seeing an awesome movie with a bunch of strangers is truly the best time

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 14d

How does a company run by David Zaslav have a movie studio that’s now just reliably putting out bold, original, absolute bangers one after another. 2025 has been a truly insane year (mostly derogatory, in this specific case welcome).

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 17d

Me: you know I’m also kinda the Big Dumper tonight
Roommate: dude, I told you not to eat those leftovers

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 17d

I think it’s probably Bradley Cooper saying her name over and over again in Licorice Pizza for me

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 18d

For our 13th birthdays we all receive his 1975-1985 live recordings in a ceremony some would call “weird” but is actually quite beautiful

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 21d

dude…wth

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 22d

AND Tatiana Maslany! Hell Yeah

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 22d

I got to see them perform that live earlier this year and it was incredible. “The bills keep changing colors” is such a perfect line

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 23d

I’m just picturing if they had to have made a replay review and the refs are just squinting at the monitor trying to figure out what happened like they’re watching the battle of winterfell

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 23d

If that had gone in it would have been maybe the funniest thing that’s EVER happened in the history of sports

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 24d

feels like every time I feel like I’ve hit a bottom to how this shit feels, there’s a whole other floor lower it can go

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · 29d

[me, learning the violin part to Lesley Gore’s “You Don’t Own Me]: wait ANOTHER key change?! Oh, five sharps, sure why not 😐

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · Sep 12

no…

Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · Sep 11

Love how perfectly legible and (at least nearly) left-right centered the “GRAND SLAM!” is too!

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Patents Pete @phoagland.bsky.social · Sep 11

I spent…my entire life until reading this post thinking the exact same thing