Pat Walsh
@ptrq.bsky.social
General Enthusiast/Chill Wizard/Friend of Tom. We're all Frankies, we're all lying in hell. FULL POWER TO THE VOID. Hydrate or Die. He/him.
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Bless Chunklet for keeping the noise rock howl of Harvey Milk alive. This one’s a WREK ripper from when the band was barely even a band. Sounds nasty.
chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/wharve...
chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/wharve...
WhaRvEy milK, by Harvey Milk
6 track album
chunklet.bandcamp.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Bless Chunklet for keeping the noise rock howl of Harvey Milk alive. This one’s a WREK ripper from when the band was barely even a band. Sounds nasty.
chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/wharve...
chunklet.bandcamp.com/album/wharve...
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
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ONE
SMASH
BEYOND
SMASH
BEYOND
Keeping myself centered by thinking about Hulk skanking to the heavy heavy monster sound of Madness.
December 1, 2025 at 11:26 PM
ONE
SMASH
BEYOND
SMASH
BEYOND
Oh, now I see people doing "5 concerts ive seen". I've seen many thousands. I think ive seen at least 500 acts multiple times each. I've been to over 5 shows in a single day, not at a festival. Just like a normal Saturday.
Only 5? I could definitely name 50, easy. 500 is likely doable if we're counting openers or like people ive seen play with different collaborators. I guess that's how to introduce myself.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
Destroyer
Yo La Tengo
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Carly Rae Jepsen
Green Day
LCD Soundsystem
Destroyer
Yo La Tengo
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Carly Rae Jepsen
Green Day
LCD Soundsystem
November 28, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Oh, now I see people doing "5 concerts ive seen". I've seen many thousands. I think ive seen at least 500 acts multiple times each. I've been to over 5 shows in a single day, not at a festival. Just like a normal Saturday.
Only 5? I could definitely name 50, easy. 500 is likely doable if we're counting openers or like people ive seen play with different collaborators. I guess that's how to introduce myself.
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
Destroyer
Yo La Tengo
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Carly Rae Jepsen
Green Day
LCD Soundsystem
Destroyer
Yo La Tengo
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
Carly Rae Jepsen
Green Day
LCD Soundsystem
Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen multiple times
The Replacements
Tori Amos
Tegan and Sara
Sleater-Kinney
The Hold Steady
The Replacements
Tori Amos
Tegan and Sara
Sleater-Kinney
The Hold Steady
November 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Only 5? I could definitely name 50, easy. 500 is likely doable if we're counting openers or like people ive seen play with different collaborators. I guess that's how to introduce myself.
I normally don't care about the appraisal values on Antiques Roadshow, as the prices are the boring part and are silly fantasies, but I'm pissed that 3 Ayn Rand books were appraised at $20,000-$30,000 since they are obviously worthless.
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I normally don't care about the appraisal values on Antiques Roadshow, as the prices are the boring part and are silly fantasies, but I'm pissed that 3 Ayn Rand books were appraised at $20,000-$30,000 since they are obviously worthless.
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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This guy deserves much more harsher treatment than impeachment.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This guy deserves much more harsher treatment than impeachment.
I kicked out (and canned) the (blueberry-earl grey) jam, motherfuckers!
November 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
I kicked out (and canned) the (blueberry-earl grey) jam, motherfuckers!
I now see that I got a text alert about it yesterday, but a bunch of fighter jets in formation just flew over me on a random Tuesday morning. Why the fuck is there just a fucking military flyover of the White House (which is visited yesterday and is half gone and completely blocked off and weird)?
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I now see that I got a text alert about it yesterday, but a bunch of fighter jets in formation just flew over me on a random Tuesday morning. Why the fuck is there just a fucking military flyover of the White House (which is visited yesterday and is half gone and completely blocked off and weird)?
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Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...
As a person who has experienced a coma and is diabetic and thus has an intense relationship with sugar, the term "sugar coma" is so weird and wrong. Please don't use it. You sound dumb.
October 30, 2025 at 1:47 PM
As a person who has experienced a coma and is diabetic and thus has an intense relationship with sugar, the term "sugar coma" is so weird and wrong. Please don't use it. You sound dumb.
How many times did I scream "fuck you, bootlickers" at pathetic losers in camouflage costumes while going to the post office? 3. Just a Wednesday afternoon in suburbanish Washington, DC. Just fucking assholes in army costumes standing around. I guess they are approved by someone and get paid.
October 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
How many times did I scream "fuck you, bootlickers" at pathetic losers in camouflage costumes while going to the post office? 3. Just a Wednesday afternoon in suburbanish Washington, DC. Just fucking assholes in army costumes standing around. I guess they are approved by someone and get paid.
I like having a beard because I haven't shaved since 2012 and shaving is annoying and razors are expensive. Having a beard is annoying when I have a cold (as I do now) and various stuff collects in it.
October 29, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I like having a beard because I haven't shaved since 2012 and shaving is annoying and razors are expensive. Having a beard is annoying when I have a cold (as I do now) and various stuff collects in it.
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People with experience: please give food banks *money.* They can make it go much further than you can.
Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma.
Shopper 2: did you say canned beets?
“Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like
Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma.
Shopper 2: did you say canned beets?
“Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like
I’m going to need well to do people to remember that unhoused people, disabled and sick people, recovering people, survivors, etc are not feel-good or learning opportunities for your kids. They’re not traditions for the holidays. They are people, and if you can’t treat them that way, stay away.
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
People with experience: please give food banks *money.* They can make it go much further than you can.
Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma.
Shopper 2: did you say canned beets?
“Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like
Grocery shopper 1: I’m going to donate whole pineapple cakes in honor of my grandma.
Shopper 2: did you say canned beets?
“Shopper” 3: here’s this opened box of cereal my kid didn’t like
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Lovecraft is so weird because he’ll write the most cosmically intense scenarios with the sickest vibes and then you realize it’s a metaphor for being terrified by an Italian he saw crossing the street
September 7, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Lovecraft is so weird because he’ll write the most cosmically intense scenarios with the sickest vibes and then you realize it’s a metaphor for being terrified by an Italian he saw crossing the street
It is extremely funny that these doors ran up $23,000 at that hotel across Hiawatha Boulevard from the mall. What a tasteless trash thing to do. I cannot explain the degree to which this is the least cool thing to do in Syracuse. And that's a low bar. What dweebs.
Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.
October 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
It is extremely funny that these doors ran up $23,000 at that hotel across Hiawatha Boulevard from the mall. What a tasteless trash thing to do. I cannot explain the degree to which this is the least cool thing to do in Syracuse. And that's a low bar. What dweebs.
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every day is a big opportunity to learn about a slightly different kind of nazi
October 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
every day is a big opportunity to learn about a slightly different kind of nazi
I have a lot of things to say about this. Mostly that it's great. IMP staff should have been unionized v
Long ago & that management there are awful. I worked towards it, then they fired me for ridiculous made-up non-reasons that a union would have stopped. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Long ago & that management there are awful. I worked towards it, then they fired me for ridiculous made-up non-reasons that a union would have stopped. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Workers at Major D.C. Concert Venues Launch Unionization Effort
There are more than 300 staff members aiming to unionize at the 9:30 Club, The Anthem, The Atlantis and Lincoln Theatre.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:11 PM
I have a lot of things to say about this. Mostly that it's great. IMP staff should have been unionized v
Long ago & that management there are awful. I worked towards it, then they fired me for ridiculous made-up non-reasons that a union would have stopped. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Long ago & that management there are awful. I worked towards it, then they fired me for ridiculous made-up non-reasons that a union would have stopped. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
A dog just showed up at this show i volunteered to help with 2 days ago and ended up being the only person running! His name is Otis! He came up to me and leaned on my leg for like 5 min! #ShowDog
October 19, 2025 at 12:43 AM
A dog just showed up at this show i volunteered to help with 2 days ago and ended up being the only person running! His name is Otis! He came up to me and leaned on my leg for like 5 min! #ShowDog
Whenever I see a dog carrying a stick, I always try to compliment the dog for their cool stick.
October 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Whenever I see a dog carrying a stick, I always try to compliment the dog for their cool stick.
This generally seems good. Less Catholics is better (not my parents or technically me, but in a broad sense.)
BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.
NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei
If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.
open.substack.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This generally seems good. Less Catholics is better (not my parents or technically me, but in a broad sense.)
Umbrellas are ridiculous, ineffective things that mostly serve to annoy everyone around you and thus are immoral and opposed to an organized society. Useless shit. Fuck umbrellas, wear a coat and hat, walk through rain.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Umbrellas are ridiculous, ineffective things that mostly serve to annoy everyone around you and thus are immoral and opposed to an organized society. Useless shit. Fuck umbrellas, wear a coat and hat, walk through rain.