Sherman Patrick
@shermanpatrick3.bsky.social
Politics, process, and poetry
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Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
January 1, 2026 at 5:27 AM
Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.
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An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
December 29, 2025 at 3:26 PM
An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.
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There are so many amazing things about being a parent but the most unexpected for me was how funny they are. E.g.: My daughter has an ongoing bit with her grandfather in which they try to steal each other’s dessert. They taunt each other over FaceTime. My daughter brainstorms ways to prank him.
December 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
There are so many amazing things about being a parent but the most unexpected for me was how funny they are. E.g.: My daughter has an ongoing bit with her grandfather in which they try to steal each other’s dessert. They taunt each other over FaceTime. My daughter brainstorms ways to prank him.
Til they return one hundred of the oil,
the land
The seized
Assets that they stole
They thieved
We need
Them to be returned right now
They should be mine
Or I will use my largest armada
To change the fate of venezuela
the land
The seized
Assets that they stole
They thieved
We need
Them to be returned right now
They should be mine
Or I will use my largest armada
To change the fate of venezuela
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Til they return one hundred of the oil,
the land
The seized
Assets that they stole
They thieved
We need
Them to be returned right now
They should be mine
Or I will use my largest armada
To change the fate of venezuela
the land
The seized
Assets that they stole
They thieved
We need
Them to be returned right now
They should be mine
Or I will use my largest armada
To change the fate of venezuela
Hard to think of an album in best-selling music that goes as hard as the first five tracks of Battle of Los Angeles from Rage Against the Machine.
And then just kind of evaporates.
1999 was a wild time
And then just kind of evaporates.
1999 was a wild time
December 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hard to think of an album in best-selling music that goes as hard as the first five tracks of Battle of Los Angeles from Rage Against the Machine.
And then just kind of evaporates.
1999 was a wild time
And then just kind of evaporates.
1999 was a wild time
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Great example of congressional over speech by Rep. Magaziner papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Great example of congressional over speech by Rep. Magaziner papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
I have this!
December 11, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I have this!
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Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
Reforms of the Reckless
On The New York Times Losing Their Minds
othermeans.io
December 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Yeah, look, I realize I just wrote something, but the NYT has managed to annoy me enough to get me to write something else.
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
othermeans.io/p/reforms-of...
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All we have to do is simply invest more wisely! Wow, why has no one thought of that!!!!
December 8, 2025 at 4:48 PM
All we have to do is simply invest more wisely! Wow, why has no one thought of that!!!!
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I am once again asking why Washington, DC does not have decent food options past 9 PM despite being a city full of workaholic sickos.
December 7, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I am once again asking why Washington, DC does not have decent food options past 9 PM despite being a city full of workaholic sickos.
Never forget: this president went to Poland and gave a speech about Western civilization and said it was great because "we write symphonies."
Then he saw a performance of the Finale of the greatest symphony ever written in Hamburg, and when asked about hearing the Ninth said "the opera was good."
Then he saw a performance of the Finale of the greatest symphony ever written in Hamburg, and when asked about hearing the Ninth said "the opera was good."
There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Never forget: this president went to Poland and gave a speech about Western civilization and said it was great because "we write symphonies."
Then he saw a performance of the Finale of the greatest symphony ever written in Hamburg, and when asked about hearing the Ninth said "the opera was good."
Then he saw a performance of the Finale of the greatest symphony ever written in Hamburg, and when asked about hearing the Ninth said "the opera was good."
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They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
The real problem is I am confusing it with a German city-dweller
This whole discussion is an enormous waste of time, it should be focused on food fraud not on food habits. People are not that stupid and the lobby should be ignored.
Is anyone really misled by the term 'veggie burger?' Our research suggests consumers are savvy
The European Parliament recently backed changes to the rules around the labeling and marketing of plant-based meat alternatives. New definitions specify that words like "burger," "sausage," or "steak,...
phys.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The real problem is I am confusing it with a German city-dweller
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Reminds me of when Jesse Helms in a hearing kept referring to Kim Jong Il as "Kim Jong the Second." So his staff wrote it out phonetically as "Kim Jong ILL" ... and naturally, he read it as "Kim Jong the Third."
-Often US prez needs to say "difficult" foreign name.
-Any COMPETENT prez, w competent staff, has close-enough version phonetically in text.
-Once Prez Carter welcomed Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, from Egypt
-Carter's text said "sheh-NOO-dah" (via consultation w Arabists)
DAMHIK. This is basic stuff.
-Any COMPETENT prez, w competent staff, has close-enough version phonetically in text.
-Once Prez Carter welcomed Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, from Egypt
-Carter's text said "sheh-NOO-dah" (via consultation w Arabists)
DAMHIK. This is basic stuff.
Trump tries to read President Tshisekedi's name
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminds me of when Jesse Helms in a hearing kept referring to Kim Jong Il as "Kim Jong the Second." So his staff wrote it out phonetically as "Kim Jong ILL" ... and naturally, he read it as "Kim Jong the Third."
Miss that salad bar
Please enjoy this 5 minutes of footage from a random Roy Rogers’ restaurant near DC in 1989 during the Christmas season, complete with Fixin’s Bar.
Roy Rogers : WRC-TV (Television Station: Washington, D.C.) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
WRC-TV stock footage: ROY ROGERS EXTERIORS AND INTERIORS. Made Available by NBC4 Washington.
archive.org
December 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Miss that salad bar
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Please enjoy this 5 minutes of footage from a random Roy Rogers’ restaurant near DC in 1989 during the Christmas season, complete with Fixin’s Bar.
Roy Rogers : WRC-TV (Television Station: Washington, D.C.) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
WRC-TV stock footage: ROY ROGERS EXTERIORS AND INTERIORS. Made Available by NBC4 Washington.
archive.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Please enjoy this 5 minutes of footage from a random Roy Rogers’ restaurant near DC in 1989 during the Christmas season, complete with Fixin’s Bar.
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If anyone's interested, I've got a whole article on these dynamics ... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If anyone's interested, I've got a whole article on these dynamics ... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
December 2, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.
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These Stoppard remembrances from actors, directors, and producers who worked with him are just lovely www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Glenn Close, Ethan Hawke and Others Mourn Tom Stoppard
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
These Stoppard remembrances from actors, directors, and producers who worked with him are just lovely www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Just preordered @patrickwyman.bsky.social new book *Lost Worlds* at my fav local book store @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social. Not much harder than online, and more support for the people I want to support.
Giving myself a reward for all this virtue by picking up and reading a book I want in May.
Giving myself a reward for all this virtue by picking up and reading a book I want in May.
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Just preordered @patrickwyman.bsky.social new book *Lost Worlds* at my fav local book store @onemorepagebooks.bsky.social. Not much harder than online, and more support for the people I want to support.
Giving myself a reward for all this virtue by picking up and reading a book I want in May.
Giving myself a reward for all this virtue by picking up and reading a book I want in May.
Who needs humanities majors now? Ahahahhaa
November 25, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Who needs humanities majors now? Ahahahhaa
This issue is so much more complicated than we want it to be. An E-3 should never be analyzing whether an order is legal in a healthy system, only whether it was legally given. And we probably don't want every E-3 analyzing that order.
The whole paradigm simply doesn't contemplate this situation.
The whole paradigm simply doesn't contemplate this situation.
BLITZER: I want to be precise. Should members of the US military obey clearly illegal orders?
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
McCLAIN: You're asking an enlisted person for their opinion on what they think is legal. That's a pretty slippery slope. Follow your commander in chief. That's the oath that you took
(Not a no!)
November 24, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This issue is so much more complicated than we want it to be. An E-3 should never be analyzing whether an order is legal in a healthy system, only whether it was legally given. And we probably don't want every E-3 analyzing that order.
The whole paradigm simply doesn't contemplate this situation.
The whole paradigm simply doesn't contemplate this situation.
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These foreign-run accounts are following the best practices of disinfo:
-ID vulnerable audience
-amplify preexisting grievances, fissures, or hot-button issues
-monetize and watch the cash flow in.
We've seen this movie many times before. We shouldn't be shocked, but we should be vigilant.
/end
-ID vulnerable audience
-amplify preexisting grievances, fissures, or hot-button issues
-monetize and watch the cash flow in.
We've seen this movie many times before. We shouldn't be shocked, but we should be vigilant.
/end
November 24, 2025 at 1:00 PM
These foreign-run accounts are following the best practices of disinfo:
-ID vulnerable audience
-amplify preexisting grievances, fissures, or hot-button issues
-monetize and watch the cash flow in.
We've seen this movie many times before. We shouldn't be shocked, but we should be vigilant.
/end
-ID vulnerable audience
-amplify preexisting grievances, fissures, or hot-button issues
-monetize and watch the cash flow in.
We've seen this movie many times before. We shouldn't be shocked, but we should be vigilant.
/end