Patrick Meehan
@patmeehan.bsky.social
Former podcast guy, now I do other stuff.
he/him
Babylon 5 and Red October enthusiast.
he/him
Babylon 5 and Red October enthusiast.
My partners sister got me a horseradish start for Christmas last year, and today I finally harvested the first bit.
If it's half as sharp and spicy as it smells it's going to be a potent horseradish!
If it's half as sharp and spicy as it smells it's going to be a potent horseradish!
November 25, 2025 at 3:23 AM
My partners sister got me a horseradish start for Christmas last year, and today I finally harvested the first bit.
If it's half as sharp and spicy as it smells it's going to be a potent horseradish!
If it's half as sharp and spicy as it smells it's going to be a potent horseradish!
I spent the week dragging myself forward with work while I got over that nasty head cold going around.
Well, I'm back up and running, and as a treat we're going out to see one of my favourite bands!
Planet Smashers!
Well, I'm back up and running, and as a treat we're going out to see one of my favourite bands!
Planet Smashers!
November 23, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I spent the week dragging myself forward with work while I got over that nasty head cold going around.
Well, I'm back up and running, and as a treat we're going out to see one of my favourite bands!
Planet Smashers!
Well, I'm back up and running, and as a treat we're going out to see one of my favourite bands!
Planet Smashers!
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
Seems Bad!
It’s almost like something dramatically changed after the Industrial Revolution! (figure via Ed Hawkins)
November 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seems Bad!
@silverwordsmith.bsky.social Hey, have you updated that NHL spreadsheet this year? Cause I think it's possible Brent Burns is the only one older than me left in the league...
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@silverwordsmith.bsky.social Hey, have you updated that NHL spreadsheet this year? Cause I think it's possible Brent Burns is the only one older than me left in the league...
Finally watching Stranger Things season 4 and it's wild how accurately thry capture the high school experience, after all "high school kids get bullied, fight each other and play D&D" is basically everyone's high school experience right?
Right?
Right?
November 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Finally watching Stranger Things season 4 and it's wild how accurately thry capture the high school experience, after all "high school kids get bullied, fight each other and play D&D" is basically everyone's high school experience right?
Right?
Right?
Look what came in the mail!
Can't wait to crack it open and try to find time to play!
Thanks @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social!
#mcdm
Can't wait to crack it open and try to find time to play!
Thanks @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social!
#mcdm
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Look what came in the mail!
Can't wait to crack it open and try to find time to play!
Thanks @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social!
#mcdm
Can't wait to crack it open and try to find time to play!
Thanks @hellomcdm.bsky.social and @jamesintrocaso.bsky.social!
#mcdm
Pretty interesting read! I'll try to add some more weirdness to my life to counterbalance!
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
The Decline of Deviance
Where has all the weirdness gone?
www.experimental-history.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Pretty interesting read! I'll try to add some more weirdness to my life to counterbalance!
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
www.experimental-history.com/p/the-declin...
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In @translink.ca budget discussions, and frankly we don’t talk enough about how Metro Vancouver is the 25th largest metro area in Canada/USA, but has the 3rd highest transit ridership. This is a massive success we sometimes take for granted.
October 29, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In @translink.ca budget discussions, and frankly we don’t talk enough about how Metro Vancouver is the 25th largest metro area in Canada/USA, but has the 3rd highest transit ridership. This is a massive success we sometimes take for granted.
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if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.
Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
www.newsweek.com
December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost
your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive
Heck yeah!
Pharmacist! "I see you've gotten Pfizer and moderna before and this is your 7th shot d...*
Me: "AND ASTRAZENICA!"
Pharmacist: "ok well that one's obviously not available, which of moderna or Pfizer would you prefer?"
Pharmacist! "I see you've gotten Pfizer and moderna before and this is your 7th shot d...*
Me: "AND ASTRAZENICA!"
Pharmacist: "ok well that one's obviously not available, which of moderna or Pfizer would you prefer?"
October 25, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Heck yeah!
Pharmacist! "I see you've gotten Pfizer and moderna before and this is your 7th shot d...*
Me: "AND ASTRAZENICA!"
Pharmacist: "ok well that one's obviously not available, which of moderna or Pfizer would you prefer?"
Pharmacist! "I see you've gotten Pfizer and moderna before and this is your 7th shot d...*
Me: "AND ASTRAZENICA!"
Pharmacist: "ok well that one's obviously not available, which of moderna or Pfizer would you prefer?"
This is a weirdly specific and pedantic post:
People should begin wearing poppies starting on the last Friday in October through to Remembrance Day.
Wearing it today feels performative rather than respectful.
People should begin wearing poppies starting on the last Friday in October through to Remembrance Day.
Wearing it today feels performative rather than respectful.
October 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This is a weirdly specific and pedantic post:
People should begin wearing poppies starting on the last Friday in October through to Remembrance Day.
Wearing it today feels performative rather than respectful.
People should begin wearing poppies starting on the last Friday in October through to Remembrance Day.
Wearing it today feels performative rather than respectful.
Going to see a movie I adored as a teenager in a real movie theater shortly.
Groovy.
Shop Smart, shop S-Mart
Evil Dead 2.
I'm subjecting my partner to it too, she doesn't like gore, but I've promised it's funny gore?
Can't wait to see if it holds up.
Groovy.
Shop Smart, shop S-Mart
Evil Dead 2.
I'm subjecting my partner to it too, she doesn't like gore, but I've promised it's funny gore?
Can't wait to see if it holds up.
October 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Going to see a movie I adored as a teenager in a real movie theater shortly.
Groovy.
Shop Smart, shop S-Mart
Evil Dead 2.
I'm subjecting my partner to it too, she doesn't like gore, but I've promised it's funny gore?
Can't wait to see if it holds up.
Groovy.
Shop Smart, shop S-Mart
Evil Dead 2.
I'm subjecting my partner to it too, she doesn't like gore, but I've promised it's funny gore?
Can't wait to see if it holds up.
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Sometimes being an activist can feel defeating.
But then I remember that humpback whales were considered so endangered that an entire Star Trek movie was made about them in the 80s.
Now, because of the work of thousands, humpbacks are now a classified as a ‘species of least concern’.
But then I remember that humpback whales were considered so endangered that an entire Star Trek movie was made about them in the 80s.
Now, because of the work of thousands, humpbacks are now a classified as a ‘species of least concern’.
October 15, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Sometimes being an activist can feel defeating.
But then I remember that humpback whales were considered so endangered that an entire Star Trek movie was made about them in the 80s.
Now, because of the work of thousands, humpbacks are now a classified as a ‘species of least concern’.
But then I remember that humpback whales were considered so endangered that an entire Star Trek movie was made about them in the 80s.
Now, because of the work of thousands, humpbacks are now a classified as a ‘species of least concern’.
At the Vic Theatre for Donnie Darko tonight and I think every single person in the theatre was born within five years of me.
Truly a millennial touchstone.
Truly a millennial touchstone.
October 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
At the Vic Theatre for Donnie Darko tonight and I think every single person in the theatre was born within five years of me.
Truly a millennial touchstone.
Truly a millennial touchstone.
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Vancouver's TransLink is a rare success story in North American transit, with ridership almost matching pre-Covid levels. It might be the only big 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 agency that has *expanded* total bus service since 2019.
I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵
I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵
The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery
The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.
www.bloomberg.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Vancouver's TransLink is a rare success story in North American transit, with ridership almost matching pre-Covid levels. It might be the only big 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 agency that has *expanded* total bus service since 2019.
I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵
I spoke w/CEO Kevin Quinn about lessons from TransLink's rapid recovery. 🧵
Happy Prompt Payment Day to all who celebrate (Really just @mattmacinnis.bsky.social)
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Happy Prompt Payment Day to all who celebrate (Really just @mattmacinnis.bsky.social)
Thing I miss most about when MEC was good?
Having reasonable things at good prices. I need new a cycling ankle pants clip, in days of yore they'd have a bin of them for $4 each.
They have one they stock now and it's $30
I just want a Velcro strap for my ankle. That shouldn't cost $30.
Having reasonable things at good prices. I need new a cycling ankle pants clip, in days of yore they'd have a bin of them for $4 each.
They have one they stock now and it's $30
I just want a Velcro strap for my ankle. That shouldn't cost $30.
October 7, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Thing I miss most about when MEC was good?
Having reasonable things at good prices. I need new a cycling ankle pants clip, in days of yore they'd have a bin of them for $4 each.
They have one they stock now and it's $30
I just want a Velcro strap for my ankle. That shouldn't cost $30.
Having reasonable things at good prices. I need new a cycling ankle pants clip, in days of yore they'd have a bin of them for $4 each.
They have one they stock now and it's $30
I just want a Velcro strap for my ankle. That shouldn't cost $30.
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Apparently if you try to live properly and get a full night's sleep, work out 3-4 times a week, keep your apartment clean, cook your meals, and maybe try to see friends 1-2 times a week, that takes up pretty much all your time outside of work.
October 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Apparently if you try to live properly and get a full night's sleep, work out 3-4 times a week, keep your apartment clean, cook your meals, and maybe try to see friends 1-2 times a week, that takes up pretty much all your time outside of work.
Discovered a new board game I have to buy at my local brew house (Spinnakers)
October 4, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Discovered a new board game I have to buy at my local brew house (Spinnakers)
Gen. Wayne Eyre on Paul Wells' podcast said he doesn't like the phrase "warrior culture"
Warriors are undisciplined rabble that gets beaten by soldiers. The professional soldier is not a warrior, they are a professional at the skill at arms.
Warrior ethos is idiot bro-brained stupidity.
Warriors are undisciplined rabble that gets beaten by soldiers. The professional soldier is not a warrior, they are a professional at the skill at arms.
Warrior ethos is idiot bro-brained stupidity.
WAPO SCOOP: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered hundreds of generals to travel on short notice from around the world to hear him make a speech on military standards and the “warrior ethos,” multiple people familiar with the event told The Washington Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
New details emerge on Hegseth’s unusual mass gathering of top brass
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has summoned hundreds of generals for what is expected to be a short lecture on the “warrior ethos.” But top brass is bracing for possible firings or demotions.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Gen. Wayne Eyre on Paul Wells' podcast said he doesn't like the phrase "warrior culture"
Warriors are undisciplined rabble that gets beaten by soldiers. The professional soldier is not a warrior, they are a professional at the skill at arms.
Warrior ethos is idiot bro-brained stupidity.
Warriors are undisciplined rabble that gets beaten by soldiers. The professional soldier is not a warrior, they are a professional at the skill at arms.
Warrior ethos is idiot bro-brained stupidity.
At HARPERS FERRY?!?
Literally where a man sparked the civil war by attempting to start a slave revolt with the goal of ending slavery in America???
Literally where a man sparked the civil war by attempting to start a slave revolt with the goal of ending slavery in America???
"At Harpers Ferry, staff flagged more than 30 signs...that highlight information potentially in violation of Trump’s policy. They include signs referring to racial discrimination and the hostility of White people to people who were formerly enslaved." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
September 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
At HARPERS FERRY?!?
Literally where a man sparked the civil war by attempting to start a slave revolt with the goal of ending slavery in America???
Literally where a man sparked the civil war by attempting to start a slave revolt with the goal of ending slavery in America???