Jeff, colourful old coot
@pattersonjeffa.bsky.social
Social democrat, omni, skeptic, into Tolkien, Brust, MCU, history. Avid indoorsman. Grandfather, husband. Woke AF.
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“Strong Floor No Ceiling!” chant all the people who say they can’t support Defund the Police or Black Lives Matter because “they’re bad slogans that nobody understands.”
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“Strong Floor No Ceiling!” chant all the people who say they can’t support Defund the Police or Black Lives Matter because “they’re bad slogans that nobody understands.”
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December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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TWO DAYS LEFT!
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November 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
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Think the grim truth of modern CFB is that it has been reshaped for the benefit of about the 15 largest revenue programs, to give them contracts for national TV audiences, to the detriment, over the long haul, of everyone else, including *most members of even the Big 10 and SEC.* -OS
This is such a good sports thread it deserves at minimum a masters thesis to excavate. As a Wisconsin fan so much of what we deal with is/has been gutted to mean literally nothing and it sucks to pretend to care about 6-5 blown out by whatever tech.
November 30, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Think the grim truth of modern CFB is that it has been reshaped for the benefit of about the 15 largest revenue programs, to give them contracts for national TV audiences, to the detriment, over the long haul, of everyone else, including *most members of even the Big 10 and SEC.* -OS
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Couldn't even "DO SOMETHING!" for one freaking day.
But, you're still expecting us to save y'all?
But, you're still expecting us to save y'all?
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
Black Friday Online Sales Up Nearly 10% From Last Year, Study Shows
Shoppers spent $1 billion more online shopping on Black Friday this year compared to 2024.
www.forbes.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Couldn't even "DO SOMETHING!" for one freaking day.
But, you're still expecting us to save y'all?
But, you're still expecting us to save y'all?
Roll Tide, y'all.
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Roll Tide, y'all.
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A LOT of this is Twitter Brainrot, too - Boomers and beardo Xers convincing eachother that there's this groundswell of support to see "unjustly cancelled" actors that will sell tickets when in reality every successful "cancellation" was a 'name' that the public was perfectly fine to see go away.
I'm flummoxed by the underground movement to rehab cancelled figures. There's a rumor that a studio head is planning to begin bringing cancelled people back. It's bananas. The industry has contracted, leaving writers, directors and actors scrambling for work and we're making space for sex criminals?
November 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM
A LOT of this is Twitter Brainrot, too - Boomers and beardo Xers convincing eachother that there's this groundswell of support to see "unjustly cancelled" actors that will sell tickets when in reality every successful "cancellation" was a 'name' that the public was perfectly fine to see go away.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
ICYMI!
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Shadow Of The Colossus reskin where you play as a cat trying to take down a Christmas tree.
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Shadow Of The Colossus reskin where you play as a cat trying to take down a Christmas tree.
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No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
November 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
No. I don’t just draw dinosaurs! These illustrations were commissioned for the Feeding Without Jaws Exhibition at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social Check out their website - www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/feedi... - for more details of the exhibition, which runs until the end of February. (1/4)
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sorting all my hobbies into right and left coded categories, like a normal person
November 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
sorting all my hobbies into right and left coded categories, like a normal person
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Donald Trump & Pete Hegseth are too stupid to realize this, but their over-the-top response to Mark Kelly's video guaranteed that *far* more people in the military would hear its message than had they ignored it.
November 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Donald Trump & Pete Hegseth are too stupid to realize this, but their over-the-top response to Mark Kelly's video guaranteed that *far* more people in the military would hear its message than had they ignored it.
Pop-Tarts are dumplings.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Pop-Tarts are dumplings.
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
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Join us for our final show of 2025, Yulemas in Escondido, CA! ☃️ Saturday, December 13
Tickets still available👉 artcenter.org/event/spg_yu...
Tickets still available👉 artcenter.org/event/spg_yu...
November 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Join us for our final show of 2025, Yulemas in Escondido, CA! ☃️ Saturday, December 13
Tickets still available👉 artcenter.org/event/spg_yu...
Tickets still available👉 artcenter.org/event/spg_yu...
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It’s interesting that by the mid-80s the Original Series crew wasn’t considered for a new syndicated show that eventually became TNG. They weren’t even that old: William Shatner was only 56 when Encounter At Farpoint aired, the as Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Dave Bautista, and Cate Blanchett today.
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It’s interesting that by the mid-80s the Original Series crew wasn’t considered for a new syndicated show that eventually became TNG. They weren’t even that old: William Shatner was only 56 when Encounter At Farpoint aired, the as Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston, Dave Bautista, and Cate Blanchett today.
In other news, I've now seen Kpop Demon Hunters.
It's charming, very infectious music. I enjoyed it.
It's charming, very infectious music. I enjoyed it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
In other news, I've now seen Kpop Demon Hunters.
It's charming, very infectious music. I enjoyed it.
It's charming, very infectious music. I enjoyed it.
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Pauper Challenge Sunday 23-Nov; 57 Players. A new take on R Madness wins, with Boros Moxite in 2nd. WB Blade managed to get 4th and rest of top 8 was standard affair (Elves, U Terror, Spy). U Terror was the most played in top 32 (5). 3x GR Ponza in Top 8 was quote the surprise. #MTGPauper
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Pauper Challenge Sunday 23-Nov; 57 Players. A new take on R Madness wins, with Boros Moxite in 2nd. WB Blade managed to get 4th and rest of top 8 was standard affair (Elves, U Terror, Spy). U Terror was the most played in top 32 (5). 3x GR Ponza in Top 8 was quote the surprise. #MTGPauper
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Media of all kinds and the internet is already an overflowing bilge of immediacy and unreliability, but what people need now, and will become ever-more-precious, is trustworthy, clear information : news yes, but also how our world works, what happened in the past, *how we know* these things.
November 24, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Media of all kinds and the internet is already an overflowing bilge of immediacy and unreliability, but what people need now, and will become ever-more-precious, is trustworthy, clear information : news yes, but also how our world works, what happened in the past, *how we know* these things.
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This man is exactly the age that his parents might've been attempting to do him intentional courtesy naming him for Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy - greatest of the B-Western heroes. If so, he shames that namesake with cowardice like this.
Bill Cassidy Is Still In Denial About RFK, Jr.
“Vaccines are safe. That’s the most important message,” Cassidy said on CNN Sunday—even though Kennedy’s CDC now officially claims otherwise.
New @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
“Vaccines are safe. That’s the most important message,” Cassidy said on CNN Sunday—even though Kennedy’s CDC now officially claims otherwise.
New @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Bill Cassidy Is Still In Denial About RFK, Jr.
"Vaccines are safe. That's the most important message," Cassidy said on CNN Sunday—even though Kennedy's CDC now officially claims otherwise.
www.motherjones.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
This man is exactly the age that his parents might've been attempting to do him intentional courtesy naming him for Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy - greatest of the B-Western heroes. If so, he shames that namesake with cowardice like this.
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Mamdani is one of the most famous politicians in America right now, it's no surprise that Trump is so smitten. There's only one thing that Trump has ever been consistent about it, and it's fawning over famous people who are nice to him.
November 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Mamdani is one of the most famous politicians in America right now, it's no surprise that Trump is so smitten. There's only one thing that Trump has ever been consistent about it, and it's fawning over famous people who are nice to him.
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Friday Pauper Challenge 21-Nov; 55 Players. Affinity dominated this challenge with a win and 2 more in top 8. Rest of top 8 was U Fae, U Terror, Hexproof and 2 R Madness. Flatter deck distribution than yesterday with R Madness being most played in top 32, but only at 4 copies. #MTGPauper
November 22, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Friday Pauper Challenge 21-Nov; 55 Players. Affinity dominated this challenge with a win and 2 more in top 8. Rest of top 8 was U Fae, U Terror, Hexproof and 2 R Madness. Flatter deck distribution than yesterday with R Madness being most played in top 32, but only at 4 copies. #MTGPauper