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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦

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Part-time prevaricator. He/him 🇨🇦 https://patrickjohanneson.com/ Avatar by Hallie @halliebateman.bsky.social Bateman Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · Oct 18

Hi, I'm Patrick. I write SF/F, I take photos—largely in the dark—and I wrangle websites for my spending cash. I keep a blog over at patrickjohanneson.com, though I cross-post most everything here too.

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Vivid red and green aurora borealis above a line of scrubby trees

Lightning arcing over the dark silhouette of a tree

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2h

weird phenomenon i keep encountering where “writers” correctly identify the soul-sucking danger that large language models pose to their craft, but for some reason have no problem using generative AI to make images. like….are you stupid!!!!

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 13h

AGRIPPA: A Book of the Dead

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 13h

Baird: Jones, who's your hero?
Jones: After me, it'd probably have to be... me.

Ah, The Librarians, what a great show

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 13h

watching myself as I referee a bunch of jiujitsu matches

it's an entirely different game from judo

man, I really hate watching leg locks

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SpatialKimtamine @kimmalien.bsky.social · 1d

I was today years old when I posted this

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 14h

I know I say "a lot going on here" a lot, but I think I've never meant it more than when I say it about this tapestry

It's amazing

Evlyn Moreau @evlynmoreau.bsky.social · 16h

doodles tapestry for Gormand

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 15h

pretty sure my wife is getting tired of me seeing someone writing on TV and pointing out that they're left-handed

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 16h

Have you ever been so fucking delighted by a username/icon set that it made you follow a total stranger

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 15h

Marge saying to Homer, "You know, Fox turned into a hard-core sex channel so gradually I didn't even notice."

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 15h

I thought this was from The Onion but apparently it's The Shovel instead.

theshovel.com.au/2020/06/04/n...

NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel

An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 15h

I'm hoping for a clear night in the next week or two, myself.

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 16h

You've Earned It (a sequel)

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 18h

gosh how I'd like a time machine right about now

so I could go back about five minutes and stop myself from clicking Play

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Eve Harms, Gourd Respecter @eveharms.com · 1d

Naked blue Dr Manhattan exploding a guy meme and the guy is saying “I asked ChatGPT and–“

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 20h

"Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues"

[citation needed]

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 23h

Everyone should get themselves a library card

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Kelly Knox @kelly-knox.com · 1d

"I’m selling movies, yes. But if I can do it with art, with beauty, in a way that reaches people and touches them... that’s what makes me happy." - Drew Struzan

Struzan's painted posters for Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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Mike Duquette @mikeduquette.bsky.social · 1d

Heartbroken that, per his social media accounts, Drew Struzan has left us. His poster and album art was quite simply shorthand for imagination for countless young people.

E.T. Adventure poster, 1990. I still have one of these hanging in my childhood bedroom.

Star Wars Special edition triptych, 1997. I remember seeing all of these in the paper as each film was re-released and just felt a burst of energy those mornings.

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

Spotted dick? Toad in the hole?

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

"user error" covers A LOT of ground

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

somehow the worst part is

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

counterpoint

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 1d

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june 🧛‍♀️ @juneever.green · 2d

Marisa Tomei as Mona Lisa Vito in My Cousin Vinny (1992).

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Isa / EvilCleverDog @evilcleverdog.bsky.social · Aug 23

Using ChatGPT

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Aug 23

What's something that isn't considered embarrassing but you think it should be?

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 1d

Present tense is a warning to me: often it means the writer couldn't make the story compelling so they used present tense to add urgency to it.

Sometimes it works really well—see Snow Crash, for instance. But sometimes it very much does not.

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