Patrick "I'm Patman" Sponaugle
@patman.bsky.social
I used to spend a lot of time on Twitter as patman23, but Elon Musk turned it into the proverbial Nazi Bar.
I used to blog a lot about Game of Thrones, but that's just sad to bring up, I feel. (I'm happy to talk about Game of Thrones though, pleasantly.)
I used to blog a lot about Game of Thrones, but that's just sad to bring up, I feel. (I'm happy to talk about Game of Thrones though, pleasantly.)
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Since it is now December, I collected all the MicroStories I posted during November, into a convenient blog-sized package.
Big thanks to all who appreciate this nonsense, and encourage me to keep doing it.
Big thanks to all who appreciate this nonsense, and encourage me to keep doing it.
November 2025 MicroStory Collection
It’s the first of December 2025, so I went through my social media feeds and grabbed all of the MicroStories I’d tweeted* during the month of November. (Full Disclosure: I didn’t tweet any of these…
patricksponaugle.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Since it is now December, I collected all the MicroStories I posted during November, into a convenient blog-sized package.
Big thanks to all who appreciate this nonsense, and encourage me to keep doing it.
Big thanks to all who appreciate this nonsense, and encourage me to keep doing it.
@mamasand.bsky.social
I understand that today is not just the start of December - the onset of meteorological Winter - but it is also the anniversary of your emergence onto the World Stage.
Happy Birthday!
🎂🎉😻
I understand that today is not just the start of December - the onset of meteorological Winter - but it is also the anniversary of your emergence onto the World Stage.
Happy Birthday!
🎂🎉😻
December 1, 2025 at 2:43 PM
@mamasand.bsky.social
I understand that today is not just the start of December - the onset of meteorological Winter - but it is also the anniversary of your emergence onto the World Stage.
Happy Birthday!
🎂🎉😻
I understand that today is not just the start of December - the onset of meteorological Winter - but it is also the anniversary of your emergence onto the World Stage.
Happy Birthday!
🎂🎉😻
"For Galactic to honor our exclusive mineral rights in the system, we'll have to compensate the existing sentient species a suitable level of tech."
"We'll give it to the right group of sentients."
Years later, armored dolphins rose from the depths with lasers and bombs, nets and hooks.
#MicroStory
"We'll give it to the right group of sentients."
Years later, armored dolphins rose from the depths with lasers and bombs, nets and hooks.
#MicroStory
November 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"For Galactic to honor our exclusive mineral rights in the system, we'll have to compensate the existing sentient species a suitable level of tech."
"We'll give it to the right group of sentients."
Years later, armored dolphins rose from the depths with lasers and bombs, nets and hooks.
#MicroStory
"We'll give it to the right group of sentients."
Years later, armored dolphins rose from the depths with lasers and bombs, nets and hooks.
#MicroStory
The road was dark and ran through the woods.
Ahead was a bridge spanning a creek, and as I expected, a woman in white was standing on my side of that bridge. She was going to ask me to help her look for her baby.
Part of me wanted to stay in my car, but this had to play out.
#MicroStory
Ahead was a bridge spanning a creek, and as I expected, a woman in white was standing on my side of that bridge. She was going to ask me to help her look for her baby.
Part of me wanted to stay in my car, but this had to play out.
#MicroStory
November 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The road was dark and ran through the woods.
Ahead was a bridge spanning a creek, and as I expected, a woman in white was standing on my side of that bridge. She was going to ask me to help her look for her baby.
Part of me wanted to stay in my car, but this had to play out.
#MicroStory
Ahead was a bridge spanning a creek, and as I expected, a woman in white was standing on my side of that bridge. She was going to ask me to help her look for her baby.
Part of me wanted to stay in my car, but this had to play out.
#MicroStory
Why not? Evaluate my potty-mouthiness, @profanity.accountant
November 30, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Why not? Evaluate my potty-mouthiness, @profanity.accountant
Dammit, PLUR1BUS!
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Dammit, PLUR1BUS!
November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Reposted by Patrick "I'm Patman" Sponaugle
this one, this is the one
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this one, this is the one
The hillman swung his battle axe, and the wizard's head flew through the air.
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The hillman swung his battle axe, and the wizard's head flew through the air.
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
I always love being reminded of this story.
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I always love being reminded of this story.
The old peasant had two skills: stone-working and knowing not to report to work when the monarch’s secretive projects were nearing their completion dates.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The old peasant had two skills: stone-working and knowing not to report to work when the monarch’s secretive projects were nearing their completion dates.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
The dark zone wasn’t exactly a Dyson Sphere, a theoretical structure built around a star. It was a senses-shatteringly huge structure built around a black hole.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The dark zone wasn’t exactly a Dyson Sphere, a theoretical structure built around a star. It was a senses-shatteringly huge structure built around a black hole.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
Happy Blackagar Fridayagon to the Inhuman consumers of Attilan.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy Blackagar Fridayagon to the Inhuman consumers of Attilan.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
I'm falling asleep.
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm falling asleep.
I honestly feel that I don't get enough credit and respect for that time I single-handedly prevented the invasion of Earth by Martian monstrosities. A thing that absolutely can't be proved that it didn't happen.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I honestly feel that I don't get enough credit and respect for that time I single-handedly prevented the invasion of Earth by Martian monstrosities. A thing that absolutely can't be proved that it didn't happen.
Historically accurate!
happy Thanksgiving! in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, “Now by God I’ll see if I can’t cut up this turkey without farting!”
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Historically accurate!
@jonswoe.bsky.social Hey, I hope you have an outrageously happy birthday today.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@jonswoe.bsky.social Hey, I hope you have an outrageously happy birthday today.
Thanks, everyone.
Also, hang in there.
Also, hang in there.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thanks, everyone.
Also, hang in there.
Also, hang in there.
The Butlerian Jihad is paying off dividends.
Well I didn’t intend on poking it and I have little desire to talk about AI here again.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Butlerian Jihad is paying off dividends.
“Mordrugh, this tribunal is not here to listen to your views on the benefits of necromancy -“
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Mordrugh, this tribunal is not here to listen to your views on the benefits of necromancy -“
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
“You shouldn’t have cursed them with plagues if you didn’t want them to leave you,” the river god observed.
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“You shouldn’t have cursed them with plagues if you didn’t want them to leave you,” the river god observed.
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
A PRE-THANKSGIVING GIFT!
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A PRE-THANKSGIVING GIFT!
Just spending my Sunday evening playing my favorite (free-to-play) MMO, City of Heroes. I'm having my Superman-homage flying strongman try to solo a Task Force in the beautiful (but often empty) Shadow Shard.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Just spending my Sunday evening playing my favorite (free-to-play) MMO, City of Heroes. I'm having my Superman-homage flying strongman try to solo a Task Force in the beautiful (but often empty) Shadow Shard.
I could do anything I wanted to do tonight - I chose to watch the 2022 movie PREY and I have no regrets.
🏹 👾
🏹 👾
November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I could do anything I wanted to do tonight - I chose to watch the 2022 movie PREY and I have no regrets.
🏹 👾
🏹 👾
Do not let this Space Moss come to Earth!!!
'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth
'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth
"This study demonstrates the astonishing resilience of life that originated on Earth."
www.space.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Do not let this Space Moss come to Earth!!!