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Department of Exasperation

@patrickcentral.bsky.social
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UX Designer, voiceover guy, freelance imagineer, technology user I have opinions on matters of varying importance

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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
She'll always be Irma to me
a screen grab from the 1987 teenage mutant ninja turtles show with Irma holding 2 ice cream cones and looking befuddled
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I don't know why mcbragg makes me think of this board game we had
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I know the feel
A 3d printed face place system for a 2-gang light switch box A 3d printed face place system for a 2-gang light switch box A 10 Forward sticker placed on the faceplate system and installed in the wall to make a Star Trek style label for everyday light switches
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
an 80s Zayre storefront
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The logo for the video game Broforce, with a roided out bald eagle flexing biceps and American flags slathered among blood and fire and carnage
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@starfleetdesign.bsky.social You ever do this sparkly metal one? I just got this CD from a liquidator on eBay and it struck me as you
The cover of a "Sound effects from the original tv soundtrack" CD for Star Trek, featuring stills of the TV show and a picture of the ship under a shiny golden airbrushed Star Trek logo
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
A pink cartoon blob from webcomic name saying “oh no”
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
a star trek animated title card with the text "Jason of star command will reuse this music"
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
A fake title screen for Star Trek Deep Space nine with the title “20 years of VR hell” which is a reference to other trek titles and a legitimate synopsis of a real ds9 episode
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
"I want you to go in that bag, and find my wallet." "Which one is it?" "It's the one that says:"
a brown wallet with simulated embroidered text in a DOS font reading "Bad command or file name"
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Compliance!
A screenshot of the Flight of the Navigator ship with similar lines to the b21 depicted in the quoted post
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
It will soon be time for *parties* I am in very strong need of a distraction and this should do quite nicely
an email subject line stating "Your items for FREE STARS: Children of Infinity have shipped!"
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Art is therapy
The words “the waters where we knock out boats” in the style of a very famous campaign yard sign
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Working on an internal team thing for work like (I stole this from paintingpawnee on tumblr because I did not trust bluesky to embed it properly)
Pictures of Marc Brandanowicz from Parks and recreation, posed next to an inoffensive simple painting of an old man on a bench in a park, with the quote below "I'm not saying this is any good. I'm saying that this'll win. It's mass appeal. It's like what motels put up, and it hangs there for years, and no one ever throws acid at it."
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
A windows settings dialog indicating "There are no AI components currently installed"A proxmox VM management dialog used to create a new snapshot of the Virtual Machine to return to this exact state in the future, with the label "unfucked" and description "post OS install, bullshit removed"
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
*cartoon horse exhale sound*
a google trends graph showing a huge spike in searches for "el centro ca" in the last day
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Never gets old
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Even my main hobby project has a significant debt to you, to the point that the custom font I made for it is called MDOkuda Medium in your honor. Always wanted to tell you that at a con or something, but I’m taking the opportunity to say thanks now.
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Abracadabra
2 Lego sets of vintage televisions, one with a custom replacement screen for the Atari game Yar’s Revenge, the other with a custom replacement screen of a test pattern
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
@amerrill2.bsky.social justice wanted to say thanks again for this Dragoncon 96 I believe
A signed picture of Brak reading “Patrick, you can’t go outside & play- you’ll blow up! - Brak aka Andy Merrill”
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Sunday afternoon, it's chilly, and I have time to sit under a blanket and click virtual lego together. Recharge for the upcoming horrors, friends.
a render of a tiny lego retro style television from set 40744 with a replacement screen that is a color test pattern made up of carefully arranged lego tiles
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
@roomonthebroom.bsky.social new Breen variant beginning exposure and contact tracking
A tweet on Twitter dot web site from psychological terrorist Neil Breen: 

I have just completed my new theatrical Indie feature film. I have submitted it to various film festivals for their consideration. It is a mystery, drama, action genre film. It is my 7th Indie film as producer, writer, director, actor. I self-fund my films. No website yet. Follow
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I agree with your tenets, but made this one as a mosh of our universe and the fiction to aid the camouflage
A facsimile of a grocery store meat label for an “ugly bag of mostly water” priced in strips of GPL
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Putting together a super diplomatic and career advancing visual for a work document, just normal office job in a normal time where things are going normal thing
A picture of a horse running behind a man on a card doing a wheelie, with the cart labeled "great ideas to validate" and the horse labeled "the means to validate them"
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
The orange serendipity in me recognizes the orange serendipity in you
An orange cat in the bubble window of a cat sized space rocket, sporting a face that indicates he has internalized the horrors of the boundless void
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
What is your favorite Star Trek Duo?
An image of the Star Trek characters Picard and Guinan at the bar in ten forward
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I did t-shirts of this (great minds think alike) but I think I overdid it with the iconography, I like this
A pennant reading DEEP STATE in the style of college sports or baseball, with an outline of the US surrounded by the Laurel leaves from the United Nations logo
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social cleaning out my parents house and I found my first introduction to you
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
@mrgan.com I love the industrial timelessness of the current CAT but wow does this have whimsy
A close up of a logo with interlocking letters shaped like a caterpillar made of the letters in caterpillarA very old Caterpillar Thirty track based farm tank / ride on tool
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I say this, but with this face
A screen grab from Breaking Bad where a character screams in agony about the perpetual getting away with horrors by a monstrous other character
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
@wolvendamien.bsky.social I enjoyed the contrast drawn here
Actual Pink Ranger @PinkRangerLyra

Venom is an example of a villain who evolved into a hero because he was popular with readers and writers decided to rehabilitate him. By contrast, Magneto evolved into a hero because every decade since Reagan it's harder and harder to pretend he's wrong
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Thank you! groß was where my high school German got me, but it's been a lot of years. Does this read without significant effort? (again, thank you for your time)
the phrase "das ergebnis ist zu gross" in a stylized font
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
@planetghostbusters.bsky.social emptied out a pen cup and lookie what relic I found
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I got a kittenish cat after my dear friend of almost 17 years passed last week. I was afraid I wouldn’t be able to bond with the new guy and he’d fight with the other remaining cat. Things can work out still
2 cats in a sunny window sill, one curled up on the others’ butt
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
A bodged together spacecraft made from an old carnival ride that runs on science and friendship: the thunder road
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I found the Okuda nod there and Blass confirmed you and he and Kit are in as well
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
A photo of Lance Henrikse  in a bow tie from the movie Spitfire
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
People in their 40s fortunate enough to have retirement 401ks set up, looking at those balances
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
@wilwheaton.net Ordered the parts and then did another one. Bricklink Studio is a hell of a drug.
A Lego retro TV set with a low resolution approximation of the game Adventure! on its screenA Lego retro TV set with a low res approximation of Yar’s Revenge on its screen
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This reminds me, I never thanked you for inspiring this tshirt design - this episode has always also been one of my faves
A series of rings joined into a bubble shape representing the universe in a warp bubble
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Mine is a Vansky brand and it’s cheap but has worked amazingly well.
Collection of Florescent neon green LEGO pieces glowing with black light
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
@rob-sheridan.com UV flashlight for curing solder mask is a hell of a drug
A glowing neon green VHS tape with a glitched skull label
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Cash App deciding to finally give up the main thing that made it better than Venmo, as a part of “streamlining their offerings” that somehow also ends up “letting them gorge on that sweet sweet float of unclaimed balances” Everything is ruined by the worst people and I hate it here
A cash app notification indicates that Auto Cash Out will no longer be supported on or after March 26, 2025.
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I made shirts when I first beat the game and joined that club. Grats to her!
A parody of the NASA meatball logo with the text being SPACE and the end of the rocket swoosh having the Space Core character
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Name a show you’re positive no one remembers, but you 📺
A futuristic motorcycle surrounded in fog, with wireframe graphics of the cycle and pictures of characters, with the logo STREET HAWK
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Post a photo you took with no context to bring some zen to the timeline.
A fiery looking cloud reflecting the last moment of a sunset on the ocean horizon
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Winning the 2025 media war means simpler rallying cries that if someone objects, you can clearly ask which part they are against and file them accordingly West Wing debates about magic phrases and nuance have been dunked on by the felonious dog they allowed to play basketball for too long
A distressed American flag flanked by the words No Kings No Masters Only People
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
A distressed American flag, with stars worn to fractured circles and thin lines for stripes, flanked by text reading

NO KINGS
NO MASTERS

ONLY PEOPLE
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Department of Exasperation @patrickcentral.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
@tvaziri.com this is an actual photo from a flight I took this morning, but my first thought looking out the window was “wow, these matte lines look like shit”
A through-the-window shot of an airplane wing at high altitude where the lighting and shadow mismatch makes it look like a bad compositing job of a model in a movie
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