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Patrick Damp

@synonymforwet.bsky.social

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Writer in Pittsburgh. Co-host of Locked On Penguins. Purveyor of nonsense who speaks only for himself. I yell about sports and WWE too much.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · Aug 6

Genuinely don’t like the fact that one of the most sure fire ways to go viral or get validation in this modern era is to be cynical.

You give up the game before it even starts, you lose.

You don’t have to irrationally optimistic but “lol nothing matters” isn’t better.

Kelly Jelly 🪼 @kellybdevoe.bsky.social · Aug 6

Online comedians with the most followers are the most nihilistic people I’ve ever heard in my life

They sound like walking SI symptoms, and people love it — because they understand a similar misery

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

www.pbump.net

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1h

The GOP can do this? I’m stunned they didn’t give them more prominent roles within the state party…

John Boy 2 - Living in AR SUX @johnrlambert2.bsky.social · 3h

www.kwch.com/2025/10/14/s...

State GOP leaders shut down Kansas Young Republicans chapter after racist chats surface

GOP leaders in Kansas are shutting down the state’s Young Republicans chapter following leaked chats that included racist and antisemitic messages.

www.kwch.com

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 2h

Parker Wotherspoon I am IN YOUR FUCKING WALLS

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 12h

Alarm goes off at 4:15 a.m. so I won’t get to see it…

Pittsburgh Penguins, imo

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 12h

More and more people are saying

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 12h

Alarm goes off at 4:15 a.m. so I won’t get to see it…

Pittsburgh Penguins, imo

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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12h

very low importance but… the new spotify feature “messages” is verrrry surveillance-esque & feels creepy plus was pushed in an app update you may not have noticed. if you still use spotify, you can turn it off. here.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

you can just read the interview, you know.

So I see this election as very critical to who we are as a nation - the character of America, democracy. And they may not like hearing that, but I don't like what they're saying either. And what they're - the assault that they are making on - no one is above the law. That's been what America has been about, except if you're Donald Trump.

KELLY: When you say they, you're talking about who? Republicans?

PELOSI: Yeah. I'm talking...

KELLY: People who support Trump?

PELOSI: ...About the cult that the Republican Party has become - a cult to a thug. And that thug would be Donald Trump. So I wish they'd take back their part of - the country needs a strong Republican Party. It has had a strong Republican Party with great leaders for America. And that is really not what we're seeing there. It's up to them, though.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 16h

SHOCKING NEW AUDIO: During his final dinner in the White House, Mr. Biden confused rigatoni with macaroni.

Please welcome Alex Thompson for more analysis on this BOMBSHELL report.

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 16h

Habitually annoying is what I’m gathering

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 16h

Pictures of Donald Trump looking very tired and unable to handle the rigors of the presidency raises new concerns about Joe Biden’s age.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump had a lot of travel the last two days and he looked it today (Getty)

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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 16h

She told him to fuck off to his face over trans rights! And won!

Nationally Published Troll @mongoebooks.bsky.social · 16h

Mills is one of the governors who has shown a will to fight.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 21h

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 16h

Better than thinking the hab nots

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 18h

This feels like the inevitable result of One Guy Can Save Us politics

Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 18h

boss I’m tired

I see this guy and hope he is what we thought Fetterman was before he had some type of failed brain transplant. Platner's the fighter we need on our side!

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Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 20h

"Primary everyone!"*

*Obsess about one race in Maine while you are in CA or PA and your own Rep walks to reelection.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 21h

The posters revolution continues apace.

*they’re still posting

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Steve @zsteve.bsky.social · 21h

Live every day like it’s $1 hot dog 🌭 night

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 1d

The year is 2028, there is violence in the streets, structures burn even at night and leave an eerie glow. A simulacrum of peace and quiet settles over the land, and then quietly a lone finger presses the on button, and begins his post about how this is all Biden's fault

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Coffee III: Saison of the Witch @unlox.bsky.social · 1d

Bills: FRAUDS. Ravens: MEGAFRAUDS. The entire AFC West: FRAUDS. In the American Football Conference, the Colts and Steelers stand alone in- hang on that can’t be right

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Blue Jays gonna give Toronto some real blue days, amirite

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 1d

Now you're getting it....

icookfood2023.bsky.social @icookfood2023.bsky.social · 1d

If a person looks at it with any sense, Netanyahu and Trump played a game with the hostages lives this last year so they both can be seen as heroes in the negotiated plan for their release. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Pamela Parkington @bigdogmomthree.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn't even his, it was Biden's and Blinken's negotiated plan.

When this shit show is over, there's a ton of accountability that needs to be done.

People better get right with their lord, because the end is not going to be pretty.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Starting to think the Cleveland-based outlet who started out with the mission of proving the Browns didn’t actually suck might not be a great authority on football!

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

That’s actually the PFF headquarters

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Even in Perth, Australia, @thechrismack.bsky.social

Pittsburgh. Everywhere. Always.

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Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I think he also knows that if he tries to pull the shit he did with the Jets in Pittsburgh, misses the playoffs, and faceplants, it damages his legacy pretty badly.

Patrick Damp @synonymforwet.bsky.social · 1d

Toronto Maple Laughs, imo