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Craig Patik

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Traveler & web developer. US immigrant in Munich 🇩🇪. Happily car-free. he/him.

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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 23/12/2025
how do they sleep on this tiny ass bed with no pillows
Emma Thompson's character in "Love, Actually" standing next to her and her husband's bed which is maybe 160 cm and has only a duvet on it
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 02/12/2025
“A lot” will never not be funny to me
Gravestone that reads:

Buffy Anne Summers
1981-2001
Beloved sister
Devoted friend
She saved the world
A lot
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 27/10/2025
function validateHypothesis(input) {
    "use ai"

    return "You're absolutely right!"
}
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 26/10/2025
Bilbo Baggins typing into a phone. Then a screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation. Bilbo types, "After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?" GPT replies, "You're absolutely right!"
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 24/10/2025
jump scare
1Password listed as a trending topic on Twitter
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 25/09/2025
weird
GitHub pull request opened by Copilot that begins "thanks for asking me to work on this."
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 29/06/2025
George Michael from Arrested Development laying face down on the ground. Caption: when the Spelling Bee includes I, N, and G
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 18/05/2025
I made a small tool for cleaning up old git branches github.com/patik/git-pr...
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 17/05/2025
We take Eurovision Very Seriously in this house
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 17/05/2025
Abe Lincoln, the first US president to be a dual citizen?
The government of San Marino made United States President Abraham Lincoln an honorary citizen. He wrote in reply, saying that the republic proved that "government founded on republican principles is capable of being so administered as to be secure and enduring".
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 14/05/2025
This TikTok showing Americans in the sauna with street clothes and their phones is wild
At least 3 people sitting in a sauna, each staring at their phone, in street clothes with socks
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 25/04/2025
The European mind cannot comprehend
New Jersey is the home of the New York Red Bulls
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 04/04/2025
and you expect me to keep a straight face?
Info page on Stadion Wankdorf, showing that it's home to Young Boys
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 31/03/2025
An ominous new icon has slithered into WhatsApp
Floating button that’s a ring of blues, purples, and greens. Looks suspiciously like an AI prompt’s icon.
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 28/03/2025
Personal details form on a German web site. The list of titles includes "Dr. phil." so I added a photo of Dr. Phil McGraw
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 22/01/2025
wish I knew how to combine it with this gif
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 14/01/2025
I have not created any dogs yet
screenshot of the shopping cart on emmyundpepe.com: 
• Add to wishlist
What dog are you shopping for?

You haven't created any dogs yet.
Add your dog now
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 09/01/2025
Kicking my Sudoku skills up a notch
Good Sudoku app, with hints that describe how the Empty Rectangle pattern appears in this puzzle
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 14/12/2024
Instagram has reinvented AIM statuses
“Note” feature in Instagram
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 06/12/2024
Didn’t notice it until your post. I like it so far. Now I don’t need the globe icon anymore—just one tap to switch to emojis.
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 03/12/2024
Works for Berhalter too
Gregg Berhalter as USMNT manager, looking mad
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 30/11/2024
It’s unbelievable how consistently this album has had me in its grasp for nearly 20 years
The Postal Service, “Give Up” album
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 26/11/2024
Clearly Arsenal is 20 times better than Manchester City
Champions league scores: Sporting Lisbon 5-1 City, then Sporting Lisbon 1-5 Arsenal
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 20/11/2024
Fake Mark Twain quote: the warmest summer I ever spent was a winter in the U-Bahn
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 19/11/2024
Nice looking but putting 20 stories of parking garage right along the river is a crime against humanity
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 17/11/2024
reassuring the captcha I’m not a schmuck, putz, or schlemiel
German captcha with label “Ich bin ein Mensch”
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 14/11/2024
This genre of video keeps getting absurdly more implausible. Next they will have “Billy Joel hears Piano Man for the first time”.
YouTube thumbnail: “Jon Batiste hears Green Day for the first time”
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 30/06/2024
This is usually the opposite order that I solve Connections in
Yellow is easiest and purple is hardest , with green and blue categories in the middle
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 11/04/2024
I didn’t remember who Habeck was so I googled his name and apparently he’s most famously known as a man who wore a pink jersey
Google search for Habeck with lots of news article headlines mentioning his pink DFB kit
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 03/03/2024
Edinburgh airport is extremely organized. There are clear signs along the way at all times. They have shortcuts for those without checked luggage, private booths to repack your bag after security, info about how long it’ll take to walk to the gate, etc.
Sign above a door that says “no baggage? Straight to departures” with an arrow pointing the way
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 01/02/2024
I would love to know how United Airlines arrived at this sorting order
Date dropdown menu: April, February, September, November, May, October, July, December, January, June
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 31/01/2024
The hand drawn arrows on these U-Bahn Station elevator buttons is a good example of how easily Germany can be more accessible to outsiders without sacrificing its language.
Elevator buttons labeled “O” and “S”. Someone has drawn arrows above each button with a sharpie—O goes up and S goes down.
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 18/01/2024
just look at these totally normal and definitely not ai-generated brand names that will for sure still be on the market in a month
Amazon search results for men's winter gloves. Brand names: AURUZA, TRENDOUX, KELOYI, KynciLOR, anqier, OZERO, ATERCEL, of course who can forget QIFENGL
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 24/12/2023
It’s a psychological trick that plays on our yearning for the Twitter days of yore
Old twitter app icon and the new Bluesky icon which are quite similar
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 23/12/2023
Looks nice next to my customized Twitter icon
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 18/09/2023
Ausländer meme account getting slammed for saying Germany is a downgrade from the US and that people usually move back there 😆
When you ask a US expat why they moved to Germany
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i.ba.go 10h
Very interesting how he is called an "expat" and not "immigrant"
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auslaendervibes 9h
@i.ba.go no US American needs to immigrate to Germany, it's a downgrade.
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fl_gls 9h
@auslaendervibes are you actually serious. Having lived for 6 months in upstate NY I know what a downgrade looks like, in several essential aspects.
And it aint Germany.
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ei.m.y 9h
@auslaendervibes lol downgrade? Are u kidding me?Comments
So if it is us it's expat but if it's a syrian then an immigrant?
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auslaendervibes 9h
@_anasarchy expats are temporary, most US Americans return to the US because it's better economically than Europe.
Immigrant is more permanent.
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alexdamianb 8h
@auslaendervibes in which world the US has better economy these days. Most US people I know want to stay because they realised their country is shit and have been brainwashed into thinking otherwise
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auslaendervibes 8h
@alexdamianb google US GDP, also look up the Average salary of your job in the
US. It will most likely be 2x to 3x more netto than whatever you earn in DE.
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alexdamianb 8h
@auslaendervibes GDP ofc is high because the country has a lot of industry but there's also a lot of inequity. Also the supermarket's costs also are 2x or 3x more than in Germanv. If vou're gonna…
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Craig Patik @craig.patik.com · 06/09/2023
We’re never getting A/C in Germany, are we
World map showing that Germany and most of Europe won’t get much more dangerous heat in 2050 than it has nowDetailed chart of Berlin showing that it will have zero days of dangerous heat in 2050, which is the same as now
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