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Diane Patterson

@dianepatterson.bsky.social
709 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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Maggie @maggiedara.bsky.social · 7h
DC Statehood is a requirement of anyone running in 2028
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
PS -IF YOU CAN, VOTE EARLY There *will* be post-election madness; the more votes banked early, the harder it will be to mess with the results. -IF IT'S AT ALL POSSIBLE, *PLEASE* VOTE/DROP OFF YOUR BALLOT IN PERSON It'll be harder to mess with in-person results. chart via @bittersouth.bsky.social
IG post from Bitter Southerner that reads:

Election day is Nov 3.
EARLY VOTING STARTS:

AL N/A
AK 10/19
AR 10/19
AZ 10/7
CA 10/5
CO 10/19
CT 10/19
D.C. 10/26
DE 10/22
FL 10/24
GA 10/13
HI 10/20
IA 10/14
ID 10/13
IL 9/24
IN 10/6
KS 10/14
KY 10/29
LA 10/20
MA 10/17
ME 10/5
MD 10/22
MI 10/24
MN 10/16
MO 10/20
MS N/A
MT 10/5
NC 10/15
ND VARIES
NE 10/5
NH N/A
NJ 10/24
NM 10/6
NV 10/17
NY 10/24
OR N/A
OH 10/6
OK 10/28
PA VARIES
RI 10/14
SC 10/19
SD 9/18
TN 10/14
TX 10/19
UT 10/20
VA 9/18
VT 9/19
WA 10/16
WI 10/20
WV 10/21
WY 10/6

Check with your local Secretary of State's website for more details.
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jordan [ham] @nursemurderer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
haven’t done my ballot research yet (which is such a wild thing to have to say) BUT I saw this and it made me think that I love how we need a degree in, like, organic chemistry to be able to determine what to vote for to actually vote for what we want
screenshot from voice of san diego insta of man holding sign that says Prop. 41 and 42 were created specifically to kill Prop. 40, the billionaire tax. If either of them gets more votes than Prop. 40, even if Prop. 40 also passes, the billionaire tax will be nullified.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 9h
republicans wrote us off long ago. you dont see republicans trying to win over clinton/obama/biden/kerry voters. and its more of an uphill climb for them. if dems spent 1/3 as much time cultivating their base as they do kissing the feet of republicans hoping theyll change, the party wouldnt lose
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Absolutely 👇 This.......
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you are a member of the republican party who isn’t a Nazi, yes you are. Yes. You are.
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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A book is a podcast you can hold in your hand
Sign at bookstore: Microhistories
Books for when you want a deep dive podcast or PBS docu-series you can hold in your hand.
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 08/10/2026
RFK Jr. is the Trump administration’s Dr. Mengele. A stone cold monster.
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Add Karen Smith to my list of badasses whose mouthy approach I respect. Actions usually speak louder than words. This is a hero, Y'all. Well done, Ma'am. You're gonna kick ass in your new position. ✊📖
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.//Swav Silverhand✘ 🖥️ @suavevillain.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
This is bleak. Damn you gotta offload reading to your own kid too.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yes, I've been busy.
A sticker reading “I Voted By Mail in the city of New York”
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Read the whole thread. "A Nazi trillionaire is trying to buy a seat" seems like it should be a pretty easy Democratic campaign line in just about every race in the country.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Good thread. My therapist says, “Generally parents have earned the way their kids treat them.”
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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 07/10/2026
California makes it official. Balcony solar is now legal.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 07/10/2026
Republicsn crooks are trying to fuck up your vote. Mail your ballot EARLY, or better yet, take it to the post office and make sure it’s postmarked.
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This guy got people from around the world to teach him their favourite dance moves. 📹Ed People
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
very tired of being told it is the responsibility of urban democratic voters never to risk possibly maybe by chance seeming less than respectful of rural red state life and then watching thousands in nebraska cheer on the president joking about a nuclear strike on me and millions of my neighbors
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I dunno if any legislators follow me on here, but if you do: Can we please have some laws forbidding this? With teeth? Penalties that hurt the people who ignore them?
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#California and everywhere else, for that matter👇🏼 VOTE EARLY.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I have just discovered "NFL Red Zone" and it's like they took the most annoying part of football and ramped it up 12000%.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Paul Verhoeven the most vindicated guy to ever exist.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I see some folks asking: what motivates RFK Jr to tell such horrific, dangerous, repulsive lies about the HPV vaccine? Well, he has made $856,559 from suing the HPV vaccine maker (his vaccine adviser, Dr Kulldorff, also got rich the same way) Always follow the 🤑! www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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RFK Jr. plans to keep a financial stake in lawsuits against the drugmaker Merck
RFK Jr. plans to keep collecting referral fees in lawsuits against the drug company Merck even if confirmed as HHS secretary, according to new filings with the Office of Government Ethics.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This line by @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com might be the best short description of "originalism" I've read yet.
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ceej @ceej.online · 02/10/2026
incredible news: we’re having the same arguments over and over for the rest of time
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
<looks at Friday afternoon traffic> Time to increase the congestion pricing fee, Kathy.
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 02/10/2026
The chart explains AI hype more than any chart that's ever been charted.
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Diane Patterson @dianepatterson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watching Mahershala Ali in "Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother" serves to remind us all that Marvel are a bunch of dumbasses
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reminder that literacy tests never tested literacy. They were an excuse to bar people the registrar disagreed with (usually on the basis of skin color) from voting. This is a video of me, a voting rights historian, failing those same literacy tests. www.tiktok.com/@phdrachel/v... 🗃️
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Lets talk #literacytests & #votingrights #vivek #historian #historiansoftiktok #historytok @generic.human🍉
TikTok video by PhDRachel
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/10/2026
Good. This is the bare minimum. calmatters.org/justice/2026...
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They fought wildfires while serving time. A new law gives them a shot at Cal Fire jobs
Gov. Newsom signs a new law will give incarcerated firefighters a leg up when applying to entry-level jobs with Cal Fire.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
That's where I've been for a while. We can't even reach questions about the death penalty itself because we fail essential predicates such as "fair and consistent criminal justice system" and "reliable death penalty verdicts that leave no reasonable doubt" and, as shown tonight, "humane execution."
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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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Night of the 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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