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Diane Patterson

@dianepatterson.bsky.social
705 followers 1.9K following 2.3K posts

She/her. Novelist, writer, fan of amaro. Stanford, USC, Seton Hill. Has no idea what’s going on but will probably get a degree in it. Trans rights are human rights. Multi-coastal (NYC, her own mind). Needs another cup of coffee, back soon.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Sure, the 2024 election was one too, but 2026 might be the clearest intelligence test ever presented to the American electorate. Taken at face value, he's saying he stole hundreds of billions from the gov't, hid it somewhere Congress can't reach, and he pinky swears he will give you a piece. Really.
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every thriller and scifi writer in America: "Um, am I in trouble for having this in my Notes for like ten years?"
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Me to 2014 Anna: yeah you spend most of your days really incandescently angry at Democrats and tech bosses in sex cults. 2014 Anna: …what Me: the pope’s pretty cool though 2014 Anna: WHAT
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Xingcat @xingcat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nobody wants to hear this, but Christmas season has begun. I received my annual Bonne Mamn advent calendar today.
A Bonne Maman advent calendar.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The hellscape that is Mamdanistan
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the trailer that all the major platforms refuse to run as a paid ad:
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm not reading this because I canceled my subscription ages ago, but my first thought on seeing it is that it's just fucking misogyny, b/c iced coffee, esp flavored, feels very female-coded, like seeing a candidate with one automatically brands them as an unserious woman or (horrors) feminine man.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Now after spending a lot of time in September in Berlin and Munich I want to return to learning German, because…well, do we really need reasons for learning things?
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Serial Experiments Abigail @popeguilty.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Game of Thrones started in 2011 which means the first wave of Khaleesis will be getting their driver's licenses next year
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just one of my favorite videos ever
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Few things say "billionaires are so cloistered they are incapable of behaving like normal humans" quite like "I couldn't pump my own gas because I don't know my own ZIP code"
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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
it really needs to be more openly discussed that all the people advocating for “we should be fine with losing basic skills if we get more systems thinking” are men, meaning socialized to expect to be able to offload basic tasks of daily living onto a wife as part of their compensation for existing
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Boosting again for people getting COVID vaccines (thank you for getting vaccinated!!) because my mentions are full of people finding it helpful. There is way more detail (and citations!) in the thread both up and down but this is the key info!
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Carrie-Edmund Laben @carrielaben.com · 24/09/2026
In this context "family" has always been a term of art for controlling women and children and making kinship into a miniature version of the top-down control of an autocratic state. When a politician says "family" they never mean anything else.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kids used to (or maybe still do?) do this in the reviews of books at Bn.com
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Online Bookstore: Books, NOOK ebooks, Music, Movies & Toys
Barnes & Noble’s online bookstore for books, NOOK ebooks & magazines. Shop music, movies, toys & games, too. Receive free shipping with your Barnes & Noble Membership.
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Ray Beckerman @raybeckerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. theintercept.com/2026/09/23/d...
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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
JFK gate crew apparently didn't get the notice there's a gigantic jet outside their door waiting to deplane. Today, if possible.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The designer of Schiphol needs to be tried for high crimes.
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Matt Mitovich @mattmitovich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Presented without comment.
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So confused. How was Pro Publica able to uncover and report this bribery scandal and administration cover-up without being at the White House and having the president assuring them they are stupid piggies? hhttps://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Greg @infomatisk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Not a secure app: A security researcher decompiled the White House’s new official app and found some alarming stuff buried in the code, including a hidden GPS tracking pipeline, JavaScript loaded from a random GitHub account, no SSL certificate pinning... www.androidheadlines.com/2026/05/a-se...
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A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming
Recently, The White House launched its own official app on iOS and Android, claiming that it gives users "unparalleled access to the Trump
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An idle comment made to my sister in Prague two years ago brought me to this moment
A stein of Augustiner beer at Oktoberfest
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Le Cagle @lecagle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you are *not* prepared for what this technology company is called, nothing can prepare you
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UK installs AI facial scanning technology at residence halls
The University of Kentucky is installing artificial intelligence facial scanning technology on several campus buildings.
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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good morning, it’s the 21st day of September
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Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)
YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine being this white, Christian, and male
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This lady is very tired and would like you to stop asking those personal questions
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Stories like this have, for ages, treated men's desire to harm women as a sort of background noise, a weather we just normalize and accept and try to work around. Feminism is among other things a process of denormalization.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
11,000 people singing "So What?" is pretty cool #Oktoberfest
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Giant Oktoberfest crowd singing "Sweet Caroline" — "So good! So good!" This is why I'm here. Well, that, and the beer.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
msnow is currently doing a segment about hasan piker being a problem for dems
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Dilek Sayedahmed @dileksayedahmed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I truly, deeply, sincerely do think the guy flipping burgers at McDonalds should be able to afford rent, bills, and groceries with his paycheck alone. That's kind of the whole point of having a job and I can't believe this is considered a radical position.🤷🏽‍♀️
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I’ll take any excuse to recirculate this
TOLKIEN Vs. LEWIS: ALLEGORIES


TOLKIEN 

PROFESSOR TOLKIEN! IS IT TRUE THAT YOU WROTE YOUR NOVELS AS AN ALLEGORY FOR THE
FIRST WORLD WAR? 

NO. NEVER. ASK ME THAT AGAIN AND I WILL CALL THE POLICE.

LEWIS 

IF EVEN ONE PERSON READING THIS DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THE BIG LION IS JESUS, I WILL SET MYSELF
ON FIRE.

reparrishcomics
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more mr. nice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
general buck turgidson fired for telling pete hegseth to cool it on the psychosexual stuff
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The global cost of automobility Automobility is one of the most powerful forces shaping modern societies, economies, and environments While motorists often underestimate the true private costs of car ownership, the social costs are diffuse and largely hidden, distributed across entire populations.
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Elizabeth Cantwell @eccantwell.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
John Carpenter’s PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1987)
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 17/09/2026
Look outside. Do you see snow? No?  Well, you will soon. You might also see $30/hr more in your pocket if you become an emergency snow shoveler.  Registration begins Saturday, September 19th. Sign up by November 30th for access to paid orientation and expedited payment processing.
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Emergency Snow Shovelers - DSNY
Emergency Snow Shovelers are called on after heavy snowfalls to remove snow and ice citywide from public areas like bus stops, crosswalks, fire hydrants, and step streets.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
KAEPERNICK: The part that I hope people take away in this moment is what Robert Kraft and what they’re saying by denying Macklemore is they are openly colluding. They also want people to know that if you take an action that they don’t agree with, they will come for you.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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With respect, your coverage of Coxon misses the real story. Rationalists are not merely a
"tightknit community of AI safety advocates" and effective altruism is not just "a philosophy focused on doing good in the world," as you write. They are part of a cult of eugenicists. Please, please read the work of Timnit Gebru and Emile Torres on TESCREAL - an acronym including rationalism and effective altruism -- and the roots of these cult beliefs, their founders (including Bostrom), and their funders. They have mangled the meaning of "safety" -- not the environment or economy or education but looney beliefs about selecting the right people to secure the far future: eugenics. It is odious. And it's not being reported. I wrote about it here and discuss it regularly on my two AI podcasts. Happy to help point you to sources.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I'm fed up with incomplete, credulous reporting like this. I sent the email below to reporters. Journalists: Google TESCREAL before you write about these dangerous nutters. The Anonymous Math Geek Who Quit Anthropic—and Became the Face of AI Safety www.wsj.com/tech/ai/jaco...
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Darius Baktash @sol-cantus.myatproto.social · 17/09/2026
Having worked on a similar decision tree process **twenty years*** ago, let me just say that the first step in addressing toxicity is to not give bad actors the benefit of the doubt. This starts by not allowing Nazis and anti-trans bigots on the platform at all.
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Bread and Rosie @rosiemund.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It's wild how many times I've been told I have to be considerate that some people had bad experiences with cyclists when I've lost a loved one to a driver, am frequently nearly killed by drivers, & have seen the horrific damage that drivers can inflict on human bodies & they just tell me to shut up.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2026
the thing that stands out to me is less the Dem spread than the fact that the GOP seems stuck in the low 40s. if that holds, and if undecideds/double-haters break for Democratic candidates in the final stretch, you are looking at a total collapse for the congressional GOP
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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Motherfucker is holding the Kennedy center hostage
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Dak @dak.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I ordered a large pizza for dinner and the delivery guy said 'enjoy the party,' so I had to yell 'food's here guys' into my completely empty hallway.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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