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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 10h

From the sublime, ridiculous, sublimely ridiculous Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter

Maxine Shreck (played by Murielle Varhelyi), a vampire wearing shades and talking on a cell phone (the fact that she's out in broad daylight is kind of a plot point)

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Neuroscientist here. I have studied the brain for 40 years. I make serious use of machine learning and AI in my research. Sam Altman is full of shit. These machines are not conscious, any more than a movie of a train coming out of the screen is a train. AI does remarkable things but isn’t real.

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 30/09/2026

Helen: Why do I have heartburn? Siaja: Because you make your own wine? I have *got* to watch more North of North.

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 30/09/2026

Probably something off Master of Puppets, but this one is phenomenal too and needs to be better known. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgL3...

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Metal Church - Rest in Pieces (April 15, 1912)

YouTube video by Kaenan Carpenter

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

For the evening crowd

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 30/09/2026

My dad was a shop teacher, and probably at least a third of the items in the shed at home were from Lee Valley.

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 30/09/2026

Artist! Quote with your art with the best shadows! I'm pretty happy with how the silhouettes worked out here. #MilkyWay #Panorama #Astrophotography

A panoramic photo of the Milky Way above a calm lake, with spruce trees silhouetted on the lower left

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 30/09/2026

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them. —Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social

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Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I am not first and will be far from the last to say this: I have purchased so many books because I saw them recommended or publicized here on bsky. I cannot urge you all enough to KEEP TALKING ABOUT BOOKS. I know it's easier to talk up someone else's book, but this also means you, the shy author.

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 29/09/2026

last night was my first time in a judo gi since June 1st, and I didn't overdo it please clap

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WildGorillaMan @wildgorillaman.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

Black and white pic of two nuns. The first holds a book open and looks upwards excitedly. The other looks up holding a pair of binoculars

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I wonder how many parkour athletes just get written off as suicides.

This guy for sure, holy shit.

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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FieldExplores (Gator Days) @fieldexplores.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 28/09/2026

I literally learned about the "Choosin' Texas" song on last night's Weekend Update, which apparently means I live in a bubble (the bubble is "Canada")

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 28/09/2026

Universal Language — it's pretty much entirely in Farsi and French. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nb...

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Universal Language clip

YouTube video by Eye For Film

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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Best experienced not as a headline but as a random sentence in your feed

A New York Times headline by LIA LEENDERTZ
Maybe We Should Leave Birds Alone

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Jake Lawrence @timecowboy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

some creatures you might find in the woods.

Two panels; top is of some glowing sprite type creatures huddled together in the grass and the second is a big black serpentine creature with blank yellow eyes moving slowly through the forest.

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Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not the point of this conversation, but URLs do not belong in alt text. They're not usable links and for screen reader users, they're also unreadable. Either they get read out letter by letter, as gibberish or they just get skipped. Please put the URL in the same post as the image or a follow-up.

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/01/2026

"ai" is not a genie that can't be put back in a bottle, it's a pillar of smoke that dissipates unless you keep burning money

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm not someone who's going to defend every aspect of Last Jedi, me and that movie are "it's complicated", but basically everything with Luke and Rey is great and Johnson absolutely nailed the thematic brief.

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Telephone Friend @ironyhat.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Best railcar graffiti I've ever seen

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

GenAI evangelists: there is no deskilling. You become as a god, a machine god, you- Every GenAI CEO: no one needs to know how to read and also I don't know how to put my pants on anymore

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 09/05/2026

drake meme with geordi from star trek.
no panel says AI, bad, isolating, makes language boring
yes panel says Hating AI, good, brings people together, makes language interesting

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day

Take five minutes to not destroy civilization

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Zoe Tunnell ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I adore that for all the minutia and dense, intricate lore and backmatter of Star Trek Stardates have never fuckin made sense and never will and everyone is okay with it

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 25/09/2026

a Wendy's sign in such disrepair it looks like a melting horror movie thing

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 25/09/2026

JJ Abrams is way more interested in questions than answers

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 25/09/2026

i have in fact added prints of this to my shop/inprnt IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING 🇨🇦 aplante.com/shop 🌎 www.inprnt.com/gallery/apla...

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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K.O. @kopanda.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 25/09/2026

Let's talk about just about *anything* else

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 25/09/2026

Reminder: If you're in Canada and want to do something for 9-2-5 (aka Dolly Parton Day), you can donate to her Imagination Library. www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...

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Chris Washington @cwashington.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It was always prophesied that he would return to us! 🌞

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Still one of the greatest contributions that homestar runner ever made to culture at large is this image

The good graphics!!!! Still from homestar runner

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 25/09/2026

tonight I rode my bike for the first time since I broke my wrist in early June 0.44km, just basically around the block it felt soooooo good you may clap if you wish

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