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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 3h

Funny to think Shadyside was the Lawrenceville of its day. Cheap housing and a hangout for 'freaks,' soon to become a fine respectable hood.....lol

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 3h

"Holiday Bar" (straights) Uh, not in my day it wasn't!! Yeah, I know they meant squares. And yeah, crazy to think back to the 70s and how grimy the city still was even then.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

If this is the clear stuff, mixing a little 7Up/Sprite/ginger ale makes it a wee bit more tolerable. (like, well, slightly flat 7Up, Sprite or ginger ale...)

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Today I learned that regional porn magazines existed! (But seriously, had no idea. Sounds like a wild gig.)

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This made me cry. A little for me, but mostly for so many others. Cities and places with resources, support, etc. take in the people other areas of the country discard.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Exactly! We had to understand it well to survive. I studied the people in my hometown/region like I was a sociology major & knowing them was the only way I could pass. So many of us got the fuck out the first chance we could.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Whew it got dusty in here for a second. Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm really feeling like just giving up on writing. My novel is stuck in a ditch. Thing is, it's awfully hard to write about people's social interactions - even fictional ones - when I'm kinda challenged in the social skills department myself.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I read about this in McDonald's memoir a few years ago. I'm glad his son reconnected with him (and his birth mother). www.avclub.com/michael-mcdo...

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58-year-old adopted man finds out Michael McDonald is his biological father

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A Prince fan! I have a good chunk of those on vinyl.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I bet it was Laundry 101 😆

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My man looks like bong water became a sentient being.

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 01/10/2026

'Autumn' entered English in the 1300s. "The fall of the leaves" was shortened to 'fall' in the 1600s.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Fattie beardo here. (For real, though.....)

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I was young when I first saw it too.....but was likely also, ahem, "chemically altered" at the time. I'm imagining how this audience will react if most of them are sober!

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hi, folks. Writer, native Yinzer now in Pacific Time. Thinking of following me? I post on a wide array of topics. If your feed is all reposts from other sources, single topic content, lots of your OF/JFF grind, or just a constant flood of posts I will block, sorry. All the best, though!

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Loved this show. And its theme song.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The second, though, was a small liberal arts school. I was on the school newspaper; we did several stories about campus rape. Every segment of the school's administration, security team, etc. shut our access down at every turn. A member of our staff was one of the victims. They never got justice.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I went to college twice - once in the late 80s, and again in the 2010s to finish my BA (long story). The first had a dozen or so Greek organizations and one known specifically to be the least safe for women, so it was a known thing, an institution even then.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had to look it up and he made the perfect joke about it: "Not today, Cetain!" 😆

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

everyone who's ever joined in an online pile on should read this.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I remember the Jeff Hiller autobiography had an unfortunate typo on the spine of its jacket, and it was found after the first printing and corrected. Knowing Jeff Hiller he probably joked about it, but yikes, seeing that when one's book is on an endcap at B&N would drive me mad...

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Somebody Somewhere is too low. Downton Abbey is ranked way too high. And Wonderfalls is not anywhere on the list. (Though I guess with only 3 aired episodes it had its handicaps.)

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Me neither! I don't know how that could be but....it just never happened. (I mean, I've seen some John Waters movies often enough to recite the dialogue.....)

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Tube Amps for Justice @curiousaudio.us · 24/09/2026

stockard channing was in practical magic with sandra bullock and I'm going to just go ahead and assume she sang 'look at me I'm sandra b' at her at least once

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

she sounds like a CD skipping, but crazier

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Terrible choice for a House rep. Also, a reminder to NEVER use his sticker company.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I thought maybe a "carpet show" was a very special version of a bus and truck show that only true theater insiders get to see.....

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yep. It's just so insane. My husband grew up in Europe and he's shocked at what we pay in the States for most prescriptions, even with coverage.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I live a few hours away from the border and many older residents are going to Mexico for dental services - which, even if they have Medicare or medical coverage aren't included anyway. The price differences are astonishing and the MX dental care is, by all accounts, outstanding.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So....they don't in any way, shape or form understand how insurance works, do they?

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

YES. I can just about deal with "passed away" in an obit if that's the family's choice.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The number of reels/TikToks et al that bleep out normal words is....astonishing. Sure, bleep out a curse word or put in an asterisk. But....dead? "Dead" doesn't need to be bleeped. Nor names of diseases. Is it the filters on social media platforms? Or is it sensitivity gone amok?

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Exponentially worse. We still had functioning print media at the local level back then.

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wrote it with Rob Smigel. And yes, it was pulled from reruns.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I'm writing two 30something characters right now and I am....uh, not thirtysomething. So I feel your pain - need to remember if they would have seen or heard a song/TV show/film.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So exciting! Two books this year! 🙌

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I did terribly during my first attempt at college (as it turns out, skipping HS classes to avoid bullying = terrible academic foundation). BUT I still learned valuable lessons (how to adult, do laundry, cook, mail bills, and function in society). Let them fail, indeed - it's the best way to learn!

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I find anything of that scope from Costco is a 50/50 kind of thing. Half the time it's great, and half the time....it's missing a whole bunch of things or was done cheaply.

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Patrick @onequietcorner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I still remember when Miller was a C-level talent who popped up on TV sometimes (including....a kids show?) in Pittsburgh. The fact that he's had a 40ish year career since - and that it included SNL - is one of the great mysteries of the universe.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.

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