Mark Patterson
@serfac.bsky.social
Writer, rank amateur photographer, former cult member, tech veteran, imposter syndrome survivor.
Publishes “Things to Realize” on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/markpatterson
Publishes “Things to Realize” on Substack
https://open.substack.com/pub/markpatterson
@kevingbrady.bsky.social it’s a better place.
December 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
@kevingbrady.bsky.social it’s a better place.
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It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
December 15, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It's actually quite amazing Donald Trump can still astound us with his depravity.
I can’t process the loss of Rob Reiner and his wife. I just can’t.
I can only be grateful I we shared this Earth together. I feel he’s been my friend for 55 years.
Humor. Humor is the way. May his memory be a blessing.
youtu.be/CVwwYxZzlSM?...
I can only be grateful I we shared this Earth together. I feel he’s been my friend for 55 years.
Humor. Humor is the way. May his memory be a blessing.
youtu.be/CVwwYxZzlSM?...
Sleepless in Seattle
YouTube video by Film Pieces
youtu.be
December 15, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I can’t process the loss of Rob Reiner and his wife. I just can’t.
I can only be grateful I we shared this Earth together. I feel he’s been my friend for 55 years.
Humor. Humor is the way. May his memory be a blessing.
youtu.be/CVwwYxZzlSM?...
I can only be grateful I we shared this Earth together. I feel he’s been my friend for 55 years.
Humor. Humor is the way. May his memory be a blessing.
youtu.be/CVwwYxZzlSM?...
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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The rank bigotry of today’s nativism is striking, but the utter stupidity of today’s nativism is almost as impressive.
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The rank bigotry of today’s nativism is striking, but the utter stupidity of today’s nativism is almost as impressive.
Trump is a killer and destroyer of men and women. Why would any of you be complicit?
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Trump is a killer and destroyer of men and women. Why would any of you be complicit?
It's actually Stephen Miller who hasn't assimilated.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's actually Stephen Miller who hasn't assimilated.
This is greatness
If Thanksgiving starts the Christmas season, it's not too early for this
There Is No Mary Problem in ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’
George’s vision of his wife without him is essential to the film, but critics continue to miss its true—and profound—meaning.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
This is greatness
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I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I cannot imagine what could possibly go wrong in trying to court-martial an astronaut and pilot decorated multiple times for valor and exceptional service, who is also a sitting senator, for correctly making the point that service members are obliged not to follow unlawful orders
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find someone who will wear a big overcoat with you
IG meetcutesnyc
IG meetcutesnyc
November 15, 2025 at 12:37 AM
find someone who will wear a big overcoat with you
IG meetcutesnyc
IG meetcutesnyc
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I'm made of stardust, but I still have to do chores.
November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I'm made of stardust, but I still have to do chores.
It’s way past time to impeach, convict, and remove. And then purge the complicit and the guilty.
Normal this. Because what’s happening now? It’s not normal.
Normal this. Because what’s happening now? It’s not normal.
November 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It’s way past time to impeach, convict, and remove. And then purge the complicit and the guilty.
Normal this. Because what’s happening now? It’s not normal.
Normal this. Because what’s happening now? It’s not normal.
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Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat the bacon
— Piggies, The Beatles
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“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
As ICE Street Raids Ramp Up, New Yorkers Stock Up On Whistles
Taking a cue from Chicago, community groups have distributed thousands of whistles in recent weeks — a grassroots system people in other cities have adopted to help neighbors sound the alarm.
www.thecity.nyc
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”
Republicans and Trump will starve people, bankrupt people, jail people in gulags foreign and domestic, and kill people outright to get their way.
We knew they would. Now we know they do.
We knew they would. Now we know they do.
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Republicans and Trump will starve people, bankrupt people, jail people in gulags foreign and domestic, and kill people outright to get their way.
We knew they would. Now we know they do.
We knew they would. Now we know they do.
Damn!
True. But damn!
True. But damn!
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Damn!
True. But damn!
True. But damn!
This is great news!
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
This is great news!
We are living in the weirdest timeline.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We are living in the weirdest timeline.
It’s because they’re scared of us. Let them bunker-up.
Shoud we be worried that Mark Zuckerberg built a multimillion dollar bunker in Hawaii. That Tr*mp is fortifying the White House bunker. And that several Tr*mp regime members moved onto military bases?
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
It’s because they’re scared of us. Let them bunker-up.
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This is one of those that makes me mad I didn't think of it.
OK, regardless of source, credit where due: That's a great headline.
November 1, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This is one of those that makes me mad I didn't think of it.
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Trump Says a Recent M.R.I. Scan Was ‘Perfect,’ and He’d ‘Love’ a Third Term
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Project 2025 is finally on full display and God has zero to do with it.💀☠️👺💩
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Project 2025 is finally on full display and God has zero to do with it.💀☠️👺💩
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Stupidity at this level should be excruciatingly painful.
When idiot Ron Schneider was born in 1963, the infant mortality rate was 29/1,000. It is now close to 5/1,000. So, no, children were NOT healthier when he was a kid. And he was, clearly, dropped on his head.
October 25, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Stupidity at this level should be excruciatingly painful.