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Patrick H Madden

@patrickhmadden.bsky.social
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Computer scientist, EDA and optimization. I build guitars from kits and write apps in my spare time.

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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Thanks, @tomtomorrow.bsky.social — in this Long National Nightmare, it’s nice to not feel so alone, and to have someone share a dream of a better world.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
It's about time for the GOP to start pretending to believe that the elections were stolen. I wonder what their BS story will be this year.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I'm ranting about stuff over on substack... fessaboy.substack.com/p/dont-belie...
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Don't Believe the "Belief"
Making sense of what Trumpers say they believe...
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
ok let's goooooooo (pre-launch page, sign up to be notified on launch) www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...
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Coming soon: Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow
Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
The Republicans are right to not like being portrayed as entirely racist. On J6, only about half were carrying Confederate flags and chanting "white power." The other half were chanting "Hang Mike Pence," which is totally not racist at all.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Donnie had the Enquirer photoshop Ted's dad with Lee Harvey Oswald, then he and Pence went out to pretend the Cruz-JFK assassination link was real. I wonder who Pam Bondi is putting into the photoshop machine right now. Obama? Biden? Schumer? Rosie O'Donnell? www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhi...
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Trump doubles down on JFK assassination-Cruz dad link
YouTube video by CNN
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was right to push for the release of the Epstein files.
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John @johngoodman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
realistic Star Trek
A comic on the bridge from Star Trek the Next Generation.
Picard: COMMANDER DATA, PLEASE IDENTIFY THAT ROMULAN VESSEL.
Data: THAT'S A GREAT IDEA CAPTAIN!
IDENTIFYING A VESSEL IS A GREAT PLACE TO START - IN ANY TACTICAL OR STRATEGIC OUTER SPACE SITUATION.
THIS VESSEL APPEARS TO BE A 23rd CENTURY KLINGON BIRD OF
PREY! 🚀🦅✨
Picard: ARE YOU SURE?
LIKE I SAID WE'RE... PRETTY SURE IT'S ROMULAN.
Data: ...
Data: OF COURSE! SO SORRY ABOUT THAT, YOU'RE RIGHT!
ON CLOSER EXAMINATION IT'S A ROMULAN VESSEL! CAN I RECOMMEND SOME SOONG™ BRAND PRODUCTS THAT CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT?
Picard cradles his face in his hand in a gesture of frustration.
Data: DID I MENTION THE PLIGHT OF OPRESSED WHITES IN SOUTH AFRICA?
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Gwen Stefani/Hollaback Girl Gladys Knight/Friendship Train Jade Bird/Uh Huh Robyn/Fembot K.Flay/Blood in the Cut Paula Abdul/Straight Up
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
And what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good? Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Guitar wiring day. Firebird kit with triple P90s. I’m having to improvise a bit with some push-pull pots. We’ll see how it goes….
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
They were drinking from a fountain That was pouring like an avalanche Coming down the mountain....
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Don’t let these shakes go on It’s time we had a break from it.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
77 million Americans wanted this. Trump is just a symptom. The root cause is all the people who heard the Access Hollywood tape, watched Charlottesville and J6, and thought "oh yeah, I want more of that!"
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Thank you, Sly. You were your self, and that helped everyone else be themselves too. I'll miss you very much. And funnily enough, there's a riot going on.
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Anna Hughes 🍁 @annaghughes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake
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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs. (“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
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a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with the words i 've seen things you people wouldn 't believe
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 25/04/2025
PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This statement from the NSF is insane. Science is, in essence, designed to separate the true from the false. Understanding how falsehoods spread is key to the scientific endeavor. It is not a violation of free speech to be proven wrong.
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Teresa Van Etten @tvane2710.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
It's important to note that she was selected on merit, or so I'm told. A1. A one. A numeral one. Yeah, that's the big thing that's happening right now.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I added a kill switch to one of my strats (an inexpensive kit build). The current state of the world requires a bit of Tom Morello action (and some Henry Rollins too).
I drilled out a section of the body to fit the push-button switch, and then made a channel to the main control cavity, so that I could run the wires.  One wire goes to the pickup selector (ground), and the other is connected to the output wire.

The pick guard was something that I got from Amazon for $20.  Crazy.  Triple hum buckers, each with the ability to coil split, and then there's also a push-on-push-off ground button.The back side of the pick guard.  I've mounted the kill switch (a push button), but have not wired it up yet.The front side, after installing.  Push the jolly, candy-like button, to ground out the signal wire.  The careful alt text reader might get the reference for the jolly, candy-like button.

And the very careful picture viewer might notice a Shepard Fairey print of Andy Gill, looking down upon the guitar approvingly.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Goodbye, Clem. You were one of the GOATs.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Man down. Level up. youtu.be/6Kjz89xYmS4?...
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Wet Leg - catch these fists (Official Video)
YouTube video by WetLegVEVO
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 27/03/2025
Trump is now arresting Putin's opponents in the U.S. and sending them back to Russia so Putin can imprison or kill them.
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Ms . Penny Oaken, SkyWitch 🧙‍♀️ @skywitchy.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The thing about planning your military operations at your work desk in the SCIF, like you are hired and paid to do and are expected by law to do, under penalty of treason Is You can’t accidentally CC: the chat to a member of the press Because it’s a SCIF
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Here at Princeton, we’re amplifying our university president’s leadership. It’s time for everyone - faculty, students, staff - to speak out. tl;dr: rights can’t be blackmailed. From me and science colleagues: www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2025...
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To stop intimidation, Eisgruber needs your help
When targeting one institution is a bald attempt to divide and conquer, as is the case with Columbia, it is essential for a coalition or group of institutions and individuals to stand up together.&nbs...
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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
“But what can I do?” Simple, white Dem/liberal. Stop avoiding the conversation. Shut down “economic anxiety” and redirect the conversation by naming their real motivation: white “supremacy.” We can’t do that work for you—white society made it loud and clear that it doesn’t want to hear us.
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Lauren-Ashley Arts @laurenashley087.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I emphasize race because it is at the core of everything. Normie white Dems/liberals need to loudly condemn the way the majority of *white people* vote, and they need to do it in explicit terms. It’s up to the whites.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm sure we're all thinking "how-the-F-is-this-happening." Hard to believe what a catastrophe we're in. The more I ponder, the more it seems like the key "new" thing that Trump & co are doing is that I'll call coordinated lying. It used to be that if you lied, you got called out. Not anymore.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Former Cadence CEO -- interesting move. Lip-Bu is smart and capable, I hope he's able to get Intel back on track.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
When I was born, a black man wasn't allowed to sit at a lunch counter. It's not ancient history. The GOP freaked out with Obama sitting in the Oval Office. I know they'll say that it was the tan suit they hated, but I don't buy it. Something else was really bothering them.
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Girl Melanie @immaculateice.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is why I hate the "I'm tired of voting and nothing ever changes" crowd. Your grandparents ain't even been free the majority of their lives.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
party time!!
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 08/02/2025
1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-25-068: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates NOT-OD-25-068. OD
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We should highlight T's long history of making deliberately false accusations about innocent people. He's pretending the purge of the FBI is to get rid of the bad apples -- but it's the good and honest people he wants gone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhi...
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Trump doubles down on JFK assassination-Cruz dad link
YouTube video by CNN
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
There’s nothing a liar hates more than someone who tells the truth.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I’m about as worried about migrant farm workers as I was about Obama being born in Kenya. It seems obvious to me that it’s all a bunch of BS to rile up the racists, so that they’ll support fascist crooks in hijacking the government.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Recommended reading; the author is local. It’s relevant to the current moment, to put it mildly. TruthIsPublishing.com
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Y'know who didn't get a pardon? Ted Cruz' dad. Before T goes after @adamkinzinger.bsky.social for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping (or whatever it is they're going to make up), he should do Ted's dad first. If that doesn't happen, I'm going to need an explanation why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMhi...
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Trump doubles down on JFK assassination-Cruz dad link
YouTube video by CNN
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Building guitars from kits is a lot of fun. The kits themselves are dirt cheap, less than a hundred bucks each on average. With a bit of (very enjoyable) work, you can wind up with a unique guitar. I’ve got eight builds in the queue, which should keep me busy for the year.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Remember when lying was bad? Man, I miss those days. Anyway, here's a video from 2016. At the time, T had staffers working with the Enquirer, and knew every word was a lie. Mike must have known too. Now we'll be getting this kind of BS every day going forward. youtu.be/oMhi06arV20?...
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Trump doubles down on JFK assassination-Cruz dad link
YouTube video by CNN
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I bailed on Twitter a while ago, and am ready to bail on FB. Threads has a few people I really like, but it looks like it’s going sideways too. Seems ok here *for now*. The Internet has been wildly successful in all the wrong ways. There’s some good, but soooooo much bad.
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Graham C Lester @grahamclester.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
CNN has the story now too: www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/b...
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Meta scrambles to delete its own AI accounts after backlash intensifies | CNN Business
Meta deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots’ sloppy imagery and tendency to lie in chats with humans.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I got to meet Rosalynn Carter in the summer of 1976. We were driving through Plains, GA, on the way to Florida. Stopped in at a grocery store, and she was there getting bread. She signed a peanut bag. I have the deepest respect and gratitude for Rosalyn and Jimmy. They were the absolute best.
Rosalynn Carter's signature on a peanut bag.  She was awesome.
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Patrick H Madden @patrickhmadden.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
This popped up in my music shuffle this evening. Don Dixon should be huge. Everyone should know this song. Sooooooo good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VOw...
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Don Dixon "Praying Mantis" 1985
YouTube video by powerpopmonkey
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