Patrick
thebrazenbeard.bsky.social
Patrick
@thebrazenbeard.bsky.social
This is where my musings live.

3 Simple Rules to Engaging With My Middle-aged Ass:
🚫 narrow-mindedness
🚫 politics
🚫 bigotry (except toward Flat Earthers; they're my 1 exception)

https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B0CBK6NHJL
Coming soon to a bookstore near not you, the long-awaited collaboration between JK Rowling & Fred Durst:
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Right before we did this, 16 asked what happens if it doesn't break. I said I hadn't considered it, but I had thought about "what if it breaks evenly."

It means we both get a wish
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
$6/lbs for ground turkey?
Not for my cheap ass.

I got a 10lbs yield from a 16lbs bird for $18, and I'm making bonus turkey stock.

Take that, grocery prices!
November 16, 2025 at 5:40 PM
My buddy spotted this in the wild today
November 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Morning, Bluesky peeps
November 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
"They're just going to ask you trivial questions like 'what kind of animal would you be?'"

Me preparing the supply chain liaison for an interesting lunch:
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Here's a 1-week meal plan I created with my GPT. It includes:

• shopping list
• meal prep
• recipes
• storage
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
If you need more reasons to not use Facebook/Instagram/whatever else "Meta" is. I finally broke down and deleted mine last week.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/m...
November 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
November 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Zoom in and the first tag you see is how your November will go

I'm going to have quite the macrbe morherhood.
November 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
October 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
STOP 🛑

Mandatory wallpaper check!

(Please note:

My teenager's face is not really that blurry—unless he got into the 'shine again... 🤔)
October 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Today I leaned:

Gear oil smells so bad because of all the sulfur-based additives.
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I'm watching The Dead Zone (first time watching) and noticed something you don't see too often:

Something was more expensive 20 years ago than it is today.
October 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Inquiring minds need to know:

Is this "baking" contest done with ovens—
Or should it be more blunt?
October 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
If you see this, post a pic of you in glasses
October 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I was low key bummed that I was going to hand out candy without a costume this year.

@violetisdelicious.bsky.social said my hair looked like Jesse Custer's. It reminded me that, while I technically use this getup for official reasons, I do have a costume on standby.
October 23, 2025 at 9:04 PM
I read that as "make It into something ambiguous," and this image was the first thing that came to mind.

I'm not going to admit how much time I spent making my vision come to life. 😅
October 15, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I had to hang yet another urinal divider that was ripped from the wall.

This has happened enough times over the last decade that I decided to make a pictogram for it.

Consider this a Public Service Announcement:
October 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Be sure to consider my nomination in the next election for Supreme Overlord
October 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In my new thing that I will 100% forget later:

#ThursdayTheories

Once every Thursday, I'll share one of my wild theories about something.

Here's one on the elusive Bigfoot:
October 2, 2025 at 12:51 PM
September 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM