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Patrick Delahanty

@pdelahanty.bsky.social

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Father, husband, tall guy, and likes chocolate cream pie. Creator of FanCons.com. Watch me sometimes at TWiT.tv where I keep the podcast feeds flowing. Fully vax’d! he/him

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · Feb 7

If you follow me, you should almost certainly also be following:
@twit.tv (my real job, tech podcasts)
OR
@fancons.com (my convention listing site)
AND
@svetlania.bsky.social (my amazing wife!)

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, he’s a criminal who has committed dozens of impeachable offenses, but the system is SUPPOSED to provide us a method to get him out of office. It’s the complicit GOP that won’t end this nightmare.

Please promise to actually have consequences for all of this, unlike his first term!

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 20h

Okay, finally! Here’s what I think about Die Hard 2…a thread:
1/372 🧵

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Leigh Walton @leighwalton.bsky.social · 1d

“The scheme provides unconditional, regular payments to eligible artists and creative workers, allowing them to focus on their practice without the pressure of commercial viability.”

“A cost-benefit analysis by Alma Economics found that for every €1 invested, society receives €1.39 in return.”

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Healthcare is important, yes…but can you ALSO address the ongoing issue of sending troops into our own cities?
…or are you going to wait until he gets to Boston?

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

The main reason I’d want a self-driving car is so that I could drive somewhere and then not have to park. I’d send the car off to park itself. (I don’t care where…as long as it’s legal and free.) Then I can summon the car when I want to go home.

No more downtown parking!
No more airport parking!

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TrainShows.net @trainshows.net · 1d

I want to go here!

Inside Futuristic Restaurant Serving Burgers with Tiny Trains

YouTube video by TEKNIQ

www.youtube.com

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Most of it I can live with...but this looks like they made a mistake and misaligned the icons...and also put some sort of blur filter on them for some reason.

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously, I can get you in touch with someone. Drop me a DM if you're up for a trip...

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Twice this morning, I thought "I need to take out the recycling with the trash tonight."
That's tomorrow. Wednesday.

What's going on to make us think it's Wednesday?!

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Don't forget that while the government is shut down, he's trying to send more troops into American cities.

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

You should go to LA and take a tour!

Patrick and an anonymous friend at Harmony Gold's office in Los Angeles

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Did you consider swinging by?
"I'm here for my part..."

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

After the shutdown during the 1st Trump admin, Congress passed a law to guarantee back pay for furloughed workers.

That bill was signed into law by Donald Trump.

Workers will be paid.

This chaos is a distraction from Trump's failure to secure a deal to lower health care costs.

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

I hate how the new iOS 26 icons look in CarPlay.
This is so sloppy and ugly. It's not like Apple at all.

The icons are blurry and there's a little bit of white on the left edge.

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve had two TiVos over the last 23 years. I’ve actively hated the interface, but it’s been a fairly reliable box. I loved having a TiVo HD which let me use a cable card instead of a cable box. Still use it…and the lifetime subscription paid for itself long, long ago.

Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 1d

R.I.P the TiVo DVR (1999-2025)

The pioneer in digital video recording has officially ceased selling its DVR.

TiVo changed my life, and cloud DVRs will never match its precision and user-friendliness. It's the best piece of consumer electronics I've ever used.

www.mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting...

TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News

TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation...

www.mediaplaynews.com

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

Narrator: They did not.

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 1d

That doesn’t look like Robert Patrick…

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

I’m musically challenged.
Rock Band on easy mode is the limit of my ability.

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

Could he sue? …because I think discovery on internal communications would be fun.

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

Kinda wish the episode started with a logo for “HB-Oh Max” 😆

Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

There was once a company owned by About .com which had a site with some featured users on the home page. If you uploaded an image to your profile, it DID NOT resize it & DID NOT rename it. If you uploaded a giant image with the same name as one on the home page, you got THAT image on the home page!

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

“Edo? Oh,you’re talking about that shapeshifter from Deep Space Nine?”

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Rook-o'-lantern Saproling @tcolahan.bsky.social · 3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGvX...

MST3K ... Joel blows it.

YouTube video by Frankie Viturello

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Patrick Delahanty @pdelahanty.bsky.social · 2d

WITCHCRAFT!

a man with a beard and mustache is wearing a black hat and a white collar

Alt: a man with a beard and mustache is wearing a black hat and a white collar. He stands up and says “Thou art a witch!”

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