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@patrickdhardy.bsky.social
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aspiring to be the anti-stephen miller of my generation he/him

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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Resharing this classic skeet
@hausofdecline tweet Obama era Macklemore: I'm super duper not gay but they should have rights

Biden era Macklemore: there should be a global intifada
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Uhhh
By applying electrical stimuli to electrodes embedded in the cockroach’s antennae and cerci—a pair of protruding sensory organs at the rear of the abdomen—researchers were able to remotely control the bug’s direction of travel and walking speed.

They were able to steer the roach by stimulating each antenna independently, while stimulating both cerci controlled the pace. The scientists administered different frequencies between 10 and 40 hertz after finding that anything over 50 hertz became ineffective over time.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
As someone who grew up in Washington, went to college in Utah, and now lives in the Midwest, this is pretty dang accurate
Your dialect map
You talk most like someone from Washington -- 56% of your answers match a typical resident.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
BONUS: Percent of people who moved last year declined from 14 to 13 percent from 2019-2021, but when you dig into the location it appears the decline is almost entirely due to within-county moves (interstate and intrastate, different county moves slightly increased!)
Percentage of us movers by type of move 2019 and 2021 showing a small decline in total, almost entirely driven by same state, same county
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This one's not as surprising but still good to see hard data: about 2/3 of moves are within the same county
Pie chart showing moves within the previous year: 65% within county, 17% within State, 14% interstate, 4% abroad
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Over the past 50 years, moving has been declining amongst all age groups but most especially among young people
Bar graph showing share of people who moved in the past year (percent), showing decade-over-decade decline from 1976 to 2016 for all age groups
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Classic tweet the Torment Nexus:
Scifi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Time to update your website, @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social. We're abolishing now
and simplifies the path to citizenship – two goals that are not mutually exclusive. That’s why Josh will work across the aisle to find bipartisan solutions for Iowa. Josh has spoken out against abuses of power from ICE agents, and believes we need an immigration system that provides a pathway to citizenship.

In the Senate, Josh will fight to:

Pass bipartisan immigration legislation that strengthens our borders and simplifies an earned pathway to citizenship.
Secure our border and deport those who come here illegally and commit crimes.
Stop fentanyl from coming across the border.
Ensure regulation and accountability for ICE agents.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Time to update your website, @lindsay4iowa.bsky.social. We're abolishing now.
Lindsay James for Congress website
Keep our Communities Safe 
Reform ICE: ICE has been used to terrorize innocent and law abiding American citizens in cities across this country. We need new leadership, new training methods, and get back to the basics of targeting the worst of the worst.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Just some casual racism from my elected representative in Iowa
Ashley Hinson tweet on Aug 10, 2026

If you didn’t show up for work over half the time, you’d be fired. Josh Turek did that and he’s still asking hardworking Iowans for a promotion. 

But when Josh does show up for work, he votes like he’s Abdul El-Sayed or Zohran Mamdani. 

Iowans will reject him in November.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Abdul El-Sayed's advisors to his supporters when they see Stevens serve up the most obvious dunks:
Daemon to Willem Blackwood: there are things the crown must not be seen to do
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I apologize, University of Iowa admin. I was unfamiliar with your game.
Specifically, de Castro wrote, “hiring has been blocked, expenditures have been subjected to approval requirements that apply to no comparable academic unit, communications have been deliberately routed around the interim director, bylaws have been altered without authorization, and open requests for policy guidance have gone unanswered for months.”
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
My gut reaction to this was that NJ is too white, but looking it up the pop is 2/3 white, dropping to less than half not counting Latinos 🤯 NJ way more diverse than I thought
Census website showing NJ Race and Ethnicity statistics: 66% White, 15% Black, 1% native, 11% Asian, 24% Latino
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
"If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."
Tweet from Lindsey Graham on May 3, 2016
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The winning entry (as voted on by fair fans) of the Iowa State Fair T-shirt design is an AI slop abomination
A logo design for the Iowa State Fair that had a three-utter butter calf front and center, with 250 America's History, a horse drawn carriage with missing legs on a horse, and various other Iowa symbols, including corn
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Me cheering on the lawsuits to destroy the fascist slush fund
Gimli with the caption "never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a cop"
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Maybe my top speed yet 😌
Garmin screenshot showing a Cycling max speed of 27.8 mph
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
The burger king logo but the text inside the burger quotes Luke 11, "If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
They don't know meme but the caption says "They don't know the 1949 1st Presidency statement on race, though unofficial, formed the intellectual basis for maintaining the temple and priesthood ban for decades to come"
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
RIP Dave Van Ronk, you didn't live long enough to see the Internet popularize your idea of brainrot.
He became noted both for his large physical stature and for his expansive charisma, which bespoke an intellectual, cultured gentleman of diverse talents. Among his many interests were cooking, science fiction (he was active for some time in science fiction fandom, referring to it as "mind rot",[6] and contributed to fanzines), world history, and politics. During the 1960s he supported left-wing political causes and was, at various times, a member of the Libertarian League and the Young Socialist League, at that time the youth wing of the "Shachtmanite" Independent Socialist League.[7] In 1964, he was part of a group expelled from the Trotskyist Socialist
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This site is amazing
A chatbot prompt asking the "AI" to draw two trees on a first date and the "AI" responds with exactly that
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Some real chase cards in here
Wikipedia gacha card for Machairodontinae
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
One staffer. That's how many people were assigned to the unit within CENTCOM that is tasked with reducing civilian casualties. Hegseth cut funding, of course.
The U.S. official told NPR that Hegseth's decision to scale back those efforts meant that the U.S. Central Command, which oversees U.S. forces in the Middle East, had only one staffer assigned to civilian casualty mitigation operations. The official also said that due to Hegseth's decision to cut Defense Department funding to prevent civilian casualties, military commands were paying out of their own budget for analysts to do the work that had once been centrally planned.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
It was us.
Although the quality of the video makes precisely identifying the munition difficult, the missile appears consistent with a Tomahawk cruise missile, according to Jeffrey Lewis, a professor of global security at Middlebury College. The U.S. is the only country involved in the conflict known to have Tomahawk missiles, and U.S. officials say the military was operating in the south of the country at the time of the strike.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Is it just me or does this guy look like Professor Professorson from Community
Sean Garrity, aka Professor P Professorson
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Kathy Ruemmler: Did you read David Brooks today? Jeffrey Epstein: he is a pesudo intellectual www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Man from the famous Clickhole article, The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Once you inoculate yourself with the truth that a lot of bad things happen because people are angry, sad, or stupid and sometimes act on impulse in horrific ways due to real or perceived wrongs, nothing can destabilize you. The problem for a lot of these folks is
Thanos: reality is often disappointing
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Guys with a Sickos shirt grins and says "Yes...Ha Ha Ha... YES!"
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Whoever redacted this was sloppy AF. There's contact info in some PDFs that's straight up there in others. Here's Greg's. He doesn't deserve anonymity.
Gregory Brown
Chairman & CEO
GlobalCast Partners, LLC
US: +1-415-994-7851
Tel: +1-800406-6892
Fax +1-310-861-0927
Skype: gbrown1970
Gregory@globalcastpartners.com
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
 Community screenshot with Pierce's racist dad. 
"You've got a wide brow...what are you, Scandinavian?"
Britta: "Yeah, Swedish!"
"Swedish dogs...Your blood is tainted with generations of race mixing with Laplanders. You're basically Finns."
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I forgot I took this screenshot from your previous misadventure with a lizard and the screenshot was too hilarious not to share
Wagatwe Wanjuki: OH MY GOD MY COUSIN SAYS IT'S A LIZARD AND IT NEEDS TO GO OUTSIDE BUT I DONT KNOW WHERE IT IS IN MY ROOM 

Kelsey Hightower: They need us to live in fear of each other so they can live backwards.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's giving
Bane meme with him facing a man in pink
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Roughly drawn girl saying "wow" with a thought cloud that says "based based based..."
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Meme of SpongeBob pointing to various piles of trash, overlaid with the text of a partial list of sovereign nations the US has invaded.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Painting of Emma Smith with box of popcorn photoshopped in
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Excited to dig into this
Slow Poison by Mahmood Mamdani
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
SpongeBob customer ordering meme but the guy's asking for a kick in the head, bash my window in, steal my phone and sell it while Squidward says "how original" and "daring today aren't we?"
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Seriously, fuck ICE
Another video shows the victim inside the building, lying on the ground bleeding while agents fire what appear to be pepper balls at the back of the head and neck of a man trying to record the incident with his cellphone.

Rees said her nephew told her that the agents pressed his face against the pool of blood and did not immediately call paramedics.

“The other officers were mocking him, saying, ‘You’re going to lose your eye,’” she said, recalling what her nephew told her.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
There was a mole www.reuters.com/business/aer...
Elite U.S. troops, including the Army's Delta Force, created an exact replica of Maduro's safe house and practiced how they would enter the strongly fortified residence.

The CIA had a small team on the ground starting in August who were able to provide insight into Maduro's pattern of life that made grabbing him seamless, according to one source familiar with the matter.

Two other sources told Reuters the intelligence agency also had an asset close to Maduro who would monitor his movements and was poised to pinpoint his exact location as the operation unfolded.
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What all the pro-regime change folks in the Global South eventually learn
Megamind meme of a helpless citizen saying "you have freed us!" And the superpowered villain saying " oh, I wouldn't say freed, more like under new management" with an American flag next to his head
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
4 games that defined my 2025
BalatroDispatchDave the DiverAge of Empires IV
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Handshake meme with the agreement "that's extra" and the two hands are Testicles and Guacamole
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I found this line particularly encouraging
He has already undergone surgery and more operations are scheduled, said Lubaba alhmidi Alkahil, a spokesperson for the Australians for Syria Association, who visited al Ahmed in a hospital late Monday. The "quiet and humble" man was conscious but frail and faced at least six months of recovery, Alkahil said.

Under Australia's national, tax-funded health care system, Al Ahmed, who is a permanent legal resident of the country, is unlikely to face any bills for his care.

In the days since the attack, a pile of floral tributes and notes of thanks has grown outside the small convenience store al Ahmed owns opposite a train station in suburban Sydney. Meanwhile, he has received visits at the hospital from Australia's leaders, apparently telling Chris Minns, the premier of New South Wales state, that he'd take the same action again
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Centrist pundits calling Bluesky users back to Twitter
Wikihow picture showing four animated men doing wolf howls
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Not at all sketchy 🙄
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
The Democratic party will never have the moral high ground until it purges the Clintons from every position of influence
Photo of Bill and Hillary Clinton, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and another man signed by Bill Clinton
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Me 30 min into a work trip
Comic panel of Omni-man with a text bubble saying "I think I miss my wife"
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
It's a travel week for work, which means I brought my leisure: video games and books.
Overhead picture of a Steam Deck, and two library books: South to America by Imani Perry and On Critical Race Theory by Victor Ray
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Guy must be fun at parties
“Why do I think the DEI, CRT stuff shouldn’t be taught is because I don’t believe it helps either minorities or nonminority students,” he said. “Minority students need to know that they’re there by merit. They deserve to be there. And some nonminority students might be left out. There might be reverse discrimination from those policies.”
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Patrick Hardy @patrickdhardy.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
My man Ibn al-Haytham.
Ibn al-Haytham
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