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Patrick "I'm Patman" Sponaugle
@patman.bsky.social
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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.)
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I'm surprised you didn't promote this one (I'm not that surprised, because that Andor shirt is Fire)
A t-shirt showing Magneto's helmet, with the words "was right"
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Happy Blackagar Fridayagon to the Inhuman consumers of Attilan.

Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
Pic is of the unspeaking (for reasons) Inhuman king Black Bolt, whose real name is the unwieldy Blackagar Boltagon.
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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In City of Heroes, finally finished soloing the Dr. Quarterfield Task Force, where my heroic tank had to contend with Lovecraftian creatures and menacing mechanical steampunk automatons.
Pic is a screenshot from City of Heroes (an excellent free-to-play Superhero MMO) In the foreground, we see the back of a caped hero fighting a purple-skinned monstrosity with a featureless gemstone where a face should be. The monster has huge claws. Also, the hero is being menaced by a bronze robot-like thing which also has giant claws. And a flame-thrower.
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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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.
Image is a screenshot from the video game City of Heroes. In the foreground is a caped hero floating, his back to the camera. In the background is the Shadow Shard, which looks like outer space if outer space was orange and yellow and not dark. Throughout are what appear to be floating islands.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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Awwwwwww

🛡 🥚
A scene from the upcoming A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms show, with Ser Duncan the tall and his squire Egg, celebrating
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A mostly monochrome image of Black Bolt, the King of the Inhumans, whose real name ridiculously is Blackagar Boltagon.
November 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Wow, China continues to love my blog. Over 5000 hits from the Middle Kingdom today.
Image shows hits on my blog for the day. There is a map of the world with countries color coded on a green gradient, with China dark green - Canada, the USA, and Australia light light green. A chart shows a list of countries and the number of views. The US is second with 13 views, China is number one with 5063 views.
November 21, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Lisa, Grace, and I are at a Thai food restaurant, where you can design your bowl from many delicious options.

This is me. (I ordered the sauce Thai Hot because Why Not?)
An illustrated anthropomorphic Thai bowl with fire coming out of its eyes and mouth. The bowl is yelling an expletive. The text: ITS SPICY is it me or is it too hot to handle
November 18, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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This seemed wild, so I looked at some other stats - the geographical location of where people were visiting the site from. Apparently, I must be big in China.

To bring up the important numbers, of the top 10 countries the Netherlands is number 10 with 5 hits, the USA is number 2 with 186. Both -
A map of the world, color coded as a heat map in regards to the number of hits on my blog. 10 countries are listed off - the Netherlands is number 10 with 5 hits, the US is number 2 with 186, and number one is China with 53,653
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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I checked out the stats, and it was crazy - for this week, I had 54K views.

Wait.

That's just over 10% of the 500K views over 12 years. 10% just in this week.

Here are some of those weekly stats - the top 10 posts summed up around 25K or so:
A list of most viewed blog posts for the past 7 days, with the top 2 being the About page at 7,392 views, and the second most viewed being my post Arya Sure That's How It's Pronounced at 4,372 views.
November 18, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Just what are you saying? (I know what you mean.)
A woman looking at the torso of an armless mechanical female-presenting robot.
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Oliver the cat, btw, has managed to get himself locked in the master bedroom closet today AND locked in the laundry room today.

I'm just going to glue him to me so that won't happen again.

(Nothing bad can happen from this.)
A picture of a bearded grayish-haired man in a blue shirt, holding a gray cat to his face, cheek to whiskers. Both the man and the cat are staring at the camera. One of them does not look amused by this. (It's the cat.)
November 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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I have some shocking news to tell this person about the 2024 Presidential election.
A Facebook posting from a Trump voter: "It truly boggles my mind that Virginia can elect someone to the position of Attorney General, who is under investigation by a special prosecutor"
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Grace is preparing to defeat the Sinister Six tonight.
Picture is of a young woman (mid twenties) wearing classic red and blue Spider-Man tights (she is not wearing the head covering). She has gray sweat pants on over the costume leggings. She is facing the camera and making the Hippie peace sign with both hands.
October 31, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Here is Oliver the Bat-Cat
Picture is of a gray-markings cat with a white snout in a box, wearing a black cape with a light-green Batman logo.
October 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Emergency Lisa and Oliver pic
My wife Lisa taking a selfie with our cat Oliver on her lap - Oliver is looking at her with cat adoration
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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We are ahead of the Halloween game this year, getting pumpkins carved prior to the afternoon of October 31st.
Feel free to guess which pumpkin was carved by Lisa, by me, or by Grace.
Picture shows three carved Jack o'Lanterns, lit up in a dark room. From left to right, a Cyclops, an elaborate design based on the demon cat from KPop Demon Hunters, and a sensible, traditional Jack o'Lantern face.
October 30, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I had my annual tele-health appointment with the Sleep Doctor this morning. As usual, he was pleased with my perfect record of sleeping with my CPAP.
A picture of the facehugging xenomorph from Ridley Scott’s ALIEN.
October 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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This is our hedge getting complaints (we had a scheduled trim due the next week)
A hedge nect to a sidewalk. Some little bits stick over the walk
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Rockville, MD has opinions on kings.
A corner of route 355 in Rockville, with the beginnings of a crowd of protestors Protesters at 355 in Rockville, MD Protesters with signs, supporting democracy
October 18, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Oliver got to visit the vet today for his annual checkup.

He is in nearly perfect health (we are going to be putting drops in his left ear for 5 days.)
A picture of a brown-haired smiling woman with glasses, sitting on a triangular bench in the corner of a featureless room (it is an examination room at the vet) - next to the woman is a gray striped cat with a white snout.
October 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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OUCH. (We recognize the spiky bits on the approaching rider's helmet.)
Point of View from the inside of a helmet, looking out the eye slit. A knight with a helmet that is stylized like a dragon is approaching, swinging a flail - one of those spiked balls on the end of a chain. Point of view is looking out the eyeslit of a jousting helmet. The spiky ball end of a flail is about to impact the helmet. Ouch.
October 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Egg got that sword out of the stone just in time.

Merlin: Wait, what?
A young bald boy running carrying a sword almost as big as he is.
October 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Not only are the production values in this trailer good, but the production values of Dornish puppet shows during this time are WILDLY GREAT! 5 stars.
Pic from the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Trailer. It's a puppet show, with a HUGE dragon puppet. The Dragon is on the right of the shot, a man is crouching behind a shield in the left of the shot. The dragon is spraying a liquid that is catching fire because a puppeteer ninja is holding a torch up to ignite the liquid.
October 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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If that guy blows that horn three times, he'll summon the Others.
A guy with a horn (an actual bovine's horn, hollowed out) blowing it as part of a ceremony at a joust. A pic from the first episode of Game of Thrones, with one of the Others (the White Walkers) mostly in shadow with glowing blue eyes, carrying a blade and a severed head.
October 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM