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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · Oct 17

Nice to see things ramping up on this app. Mildly curious how this place picks up the pieces of what's left on the "other site."

As for me, I tend to post about cinema, horror games, apocalyptic ephemera etc. etc.

Also my cats, and occasional snapshots of life in the PNW.

Glad you're here.

a blurred image of a person 's face with a few lines

Alt: from Jacob's Ladder, a favorite of mine

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

aye

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 4h

youtu.be/9bifZBxG0Gg

Man in Black

YouTube video by Johnny Cash - Topic

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

yes one of my city’s largest city parks is named after the DUNE novels.

yes we live in the shadow of a giant, active volcano that could erupt any time and destroy us all. (people climb it for fun)

yes we have a highly developed cryptid culture, land and sea.

www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gia...

How the World’s Largest Octopus Went From Cryptid to Protected

Turns out some monsters are real—and pretty cute.

www.atlasobscura.com

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 5h

I swear to god people’s brains melt from other corners of the country when they actually see what life is like up here in the PNW.

It’s not all frog suits and voodoo donuts, but damn it’s working for most of us up here or from here.

Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 10h

Portland Frog! 🐸

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Karen Dalton Beninato 🐦 @kbeninato.bsky.social · 10h

Portland Frog! 🐸

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 9h

It is very important to make as legible as possible as often as possible that various administration administration officials are either straight-up delusional or lying through their teeth, every single day

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 7h

oof

CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely brutal way for the Phillies to lose, Dodgers win the series

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 8h

it’s like 50% of that movie, which is so often the case for great soundtracks. Music, hell yeah.

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 8h

at least there’s baseball. ⚾️

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 14h

endlessly compelling gameplay in this game (and its sequel).

Pretty sure you can play it on an iPhone nowadays?

The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 14h

XCOM: Enemy Unknown was released 13 years ago today.

I spent a few nights fighting the alien invaders. 😌

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 14h

always heard that! I was in my CoD off years then, so I missed it.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Rocketengine @rocketengine.bsky.social · 15h

Bucket Wheel Excavator
Nazarovsky Mine
gelio.livejournal.com/310879.html#...

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

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 1d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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Maxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 5d

4/10/25 - nocturn

small hours
big time

a pair of skeins - east to west
Saturn is the bright one left of the moon

night shift people tend a large washing machine
that has decided to channel Charlie Parker

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

a baked potato

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rad

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

Kai Lookhof ~ The Old Elbe Tunnel, Hamburg
#Photograohy

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

pick your side

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

youtu.be/eF9AC2Ce2ow

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Arthur David Spota @adaspota.bsky.social · 1d

British photographer Alan Schaller
Metropolis, London

#Photography #London

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

same word, this checks out

Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 1d

Puyallup.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

We are capable, and even more-capable united as a region.

If the dismantling can go in one direction — chaos, austerity, and despair, surely it can go in another, regionally?

patrickcarlson @pjcarlson.bsky.social · 1d

Cascadia. An idea. #PNW

We have a lot to offer the world, and preserve for the future.

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