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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 7h

it'd be nice if we could quit using "AI" to produce the "elbows up" memes, too

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 11h

tubes that branch and re-merge at impossible angles, all weirdly glossy

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 14h

"The 'Real-Time Rail' marketing rollout didn't go well, boss." "What? Whyever not?" "People were a little confused by the slogan"—checks notes to be sure—"'Got Caboose?'"

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 14h

if you're gonna put "Rail" in the name, it better involve train tickets, IMHO

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 15h

I have two questions: 1. Are trains involved? 2. How is this not just Interac?

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Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦 @patrickjohanneson.com · 15h

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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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

They want as much money as they can get before the whole thing collapses.

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

...what if it's been so long since I looked at a project that the second draft feels like it might well be a first draft?

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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

it's a coming-of-age story based loosely on the life of Mark Critch, one of the 22 Minutes anchors this is the final season, IIRC

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

22 Minutes, Son of a Critch, and now North of North. #CBC

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

The line "I changed by not changing at all" comes to my mind every time I'm anywhere near my hometown

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

yeah, I'm coming back from a broken wrist (Now With Titanium™!) so I did some ju-no-kata, some gripping, and some pretty tentative ukemi

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

I love how their clearance page has a $2700 bandsaw next to a $2.50 pea-pod splitter.

Screenshot from Lee Valley's clearance page, featuring a bandsaw for $2679.99 (marked down from $3350.00) and a pea pod splitter tool for $2.50 (marked down from $4.20).

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

I don't know about "best", but one that I still think of quite often was Top of the Food Chain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_...

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Top of the Food Chain - Wikipedia

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

...though really, anywhere that's dark enough is pretty good. (This is about a ½ drive from my house, for example.) patrickjohanneson.com/2023/09/17/m...

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Milky Way - Sept. 16, 2023

A couple more hours in the dark.

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

I'm still stubbornly wearing shorts, but I've put slippers on my chilly li'l feet. Sigh.

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

How am I supposed to be mad at a li'l grape-chewing hedgehog? I just can't.

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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

Counterpoint: what'd you do with my grapes?

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

my first thought was, That must've been quite the accident

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

every single one requires suspension of disbelief, and who's got time for THAT?

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

worst show with best opening theme song? Littlest Hobo

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

I'm not getting up at 4am to eat worms, and I'm going to die. This dud is getting up at 4am to eat worms, and he too is going to die. I feel like I'm the winner here.

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