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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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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 19h

counterpoint: Rocky and Bullwinkle is #1 (if we're talking the late-50s early-60s TV show and not the movie)

👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 19h

which is the one where he turns into a raccoon

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

Two *that we know about*

(...which is, I guess, a five-word horror sequel)

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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

If I can have six word,

"Little Bobby Tables sends his regards"

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Exploits of a Mom

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

Kernel panic, system halted

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“The tapes wouldn’t start”

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

The card

A hand-drawn Pokemon card with a picture of Batman (his theme song is worth 170, and he can Beat Up Joker for 190)

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 1d

It’s been a while since the last etymology thread so here’s the history of the word cellphones!

In the 1990s, the US and the UK started using “cellular phone, defining “cell” as “unit” and “phone” as “connection.” The reason for that was-

hold on let me back up

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

Batman

(I'm not even joking; one of my nephews gave me a Pokémon card that he'd drawn Batman on, and it's still on my fridge)

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

Bogus Journey introduced me to Primus, so it's got that goin' for it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Oh...

Primus - Tommy The Cat (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by PrimusVEVO

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

This is my favourite one 'round these parts

A polished black headstone that simply reads DONE

(it's the surname, but it's also correct, I'd say)

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Drewcifer DIEtsch 🎃 @drewdietsch.bsky.social · 21h

It's 1982. Disney hopes TRON will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2010. Disney hopes TRON: LEGACY will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

It's 2025. Disney hopes TRON: ARES will be a huge hit and a franchise kickoff. It flops.

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👻 Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 21h

two men are sitting on a stage in front of a wall that says wild lynns

Alt: Bill S. Preston, Esquire, and Ted "Theodore" Logan play a bit of air guitar

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

sudo rm -rf /

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

cf. WordPress vs Drupal

(that said, I haven't tried Drupal in like a decade, maybe it's better)

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

some software is made for users, some is made for developers

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

I read The Once and Future King a few years ago, and every few pages I kept thinking, Why'd I wait so long?

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

Last book: The Last Unicorn (graphic novel), Peter S. Beagle et al

Current read: Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi

Newest adds to the TBR: The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde

Eagerly waiting for: I'm not sure; is Michael Swanwick releasing a new book soon, or did I dream that?

Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 1d

bookish checkpoint 📝

✧ last book: wisteria by adalyn grace

✧ current read(s): perils of the past, holly, no earthly sunne

✧ newest adds to the tbr: i found the first three books in the nightrunner series at a used book store!

✧ eagerly waiting for: sunrise on the reaping! (i know, i am slow)