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Patrick D. Fletcher

@pdfletcher.bsky.social
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Dad of two. Programmer-writer at Snowflake. Musician. Occasional sailor. Language enthusiast. Medievalist, which includes SCA fighting, woodwork, armoring, and medieval/ Celtic/ tribal music. In the Greater Seattle area.

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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Here's something you can check for yourself. I went to Google Trends, typed in Cole Allen, chose Israel, and checked searches for the last month. Searches spiked on April 2.
Web searches for the last month for "Cole Allen" from Israel, showing a peak on Apr 2.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Friendly reminder: If you wait for Trump to die before you buy the champagne, there won't be any left for you.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Happy Monday.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
TIL there's an islet off Denmark called Saltholm ("Salt Islet"). The Øresund bridge would have been shorter going over the island, but it was a wildlife sanctuary, so it goes around it and over an artificial island built for the purpose, which they of course called "Peberholm" ("Pepper Islet").
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I happen to live in Jayapal's district. With this and the Superbowl, Seattle is taking no prisoners this week.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
"A German friend said part of the reason for their generous benefits was that the state hoped to protect itself from fascism, which is typically born from desperate economic straits. I think about that a lot."
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
theneedling.com/2026/02/03/s...
theneedling.com
SPD Asks for Special Chair to Sit in If They Have to Just Watch ICE Brutalize People
Upset that they’re not allowed to help ICE agents violate people’s constitutional rights—only document them doing it—today Seattle Police Department officers asked Mayor Katie Wilson if they can at…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
TIL: Other languages have their own versions of Pig Latin where sounds are interjected into words, like Farfallino (Italian), Jeringoza (Spanish), and Langue de Feu/ Javanais (French)...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Honestly been wondering this very thing lately. Maybe all that inauguration money from big tech pacified him for a while? theneedling.com/2026/01/20/u...
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Uninvaded Seattle Beginning to Feel Like Trump Doesn’t Even Think It Has Antifa Anymore
As the city watched the Trump administration focus its ire and extrajudicial forces on just about every other liberal bubble in the country, today an insecure Seattle admitted it’s beginning to won…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
My incredible B, communing with jellyfish every six years or so:
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
See a Poe thing, post a Poe thing.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Fantastic Four was amazing- even better than Thunderbolts/ New Avengers, if D is to be believed. They missed a golden opportunity to do this scene though, since Malkovich as Red Ghost was cut from the movie:
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The Needling, pulling zero punches. theneedling.com/2025/06/12/t...
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Trump Adds Insult to Injury as He Reboots ‘Strangers with Candy’ without Stephen Colbert
In a twist of the knife after successfully getting his top-ranked late-night show cancelled, President Donald Trump is reportedly also already rebooting cult comedy classic ‘Strangers with Candy’ a…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I posted this as a comment on someone's post on Facebook, and FB took down my comment immediately, because "Nudity". Further evidence that FB is reactionary against anything non-conforming. www.cracked.com/article_1978...
cracked.com
5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women: Update
Go to the front page of any mostly male discussion site like Reddit.com and see how many inches you can browse before finding several thousand men bemoaning how all women are gold-digging whores (7,50...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Shel Silverstein anticipating AI hallucination back in 1981...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Silja is judging me from the catio for staying up too late organizing the garage...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
theneedling.com/2025/05/27/p...
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Phew! City Always Has Enough Seattle Police Officers Around to Harass Queer Community
Despite years of citing severe staffing shortages as the reason Seattle police can’t respond fast enough or at all to many serious crimes, today Mayor Bruce Harrell assured Seattle residents that t…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
TIL that while the plural of "Goose" is "Geese" because it's Germanic in origin, the plural of "Moose" is not "Meese" because it's Algonquin in origin, which would make its original plural "Moozak"... nisinoon.net/grammar#anim...
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Nisinoon
The website for the Algonquian Components Project (Nisinoon)
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A closeup of the last Hewlett-Packard product I'll ever buy. HP pushed a firmware update to my printer that disables 3rd party cartridges, so my new 120 bucks worth of ink is now trash. A new printer costs less than a set of official HP cartridges, so the printer is also now trash.
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Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Wow! Onboard video of the Blue Ghost lander touching down on the Moon two days ago. Multiple onboard experiments are now studying the lunar surface. Details at link. 🧪🔭 www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Last night the thunderstorm took its toll... A tree from two houses down fell on my yard, smashing my deck and obliterating two of my apple trees. Very lucky that it missed the hot tub and the house completely, and that none of my trees were blown down.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
www.thebeaverton.com/2025/02/trud...
thebeaverton.com
Trudeau invites Zelensky to friendly pick-your-brain coffee chat about being invaded by warmongering neighbour
KYIV, UKRAINE - Citing a desire to “connect face to face”, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently reached out to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with an aim to “share some insights” a...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Texas representative filing impeachment articles against Trump over Gaza plan
Al Green, a Democrat, says Trump proposal to ‘take over Gaza’ is a ‘dastardly deed’ amounting to ethnic cleansing
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/for...
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Forgotten Literary Moments in Which a Cat Throws up and No One Wants to Deal With It
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they bought regular kibble, even when specifically asked to get ...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Well, this explains everything. theneedling.com/2024/11/25/a...
theneedling.com
Amazon Clarifies Climate Pledge was Just Pledge to Change Climate, Not Improve It
After weeks of sticking to an unpopular 5-days-a-week return-to-office order despite increased Seattle area car traffic and pollution that seemingly didn’t align with its Climate Pledge goals…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's cookie season! B is selling Girl Scout cookies so that they and their troop can go camping, go to Canada, work on their silver awards, and support their community. B can deliver them in the metro Seattle area, or you can have them shipped to you. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/ellie4...
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Order your Faves on my Digital Cookie Site Today
That's right! You can order your favorite Girl Scout Cookies from me online, all while helping my troop and I do great things in our community and beyond! Check it out.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
theneedling.com/2025/01/22/s...
theneedling.com
Seattle Dusts Off Nazi Puncher Signal
Eight years after one brave Seattle hero reminded the world it’s still very much possible to punch Nazis out cold with your own bare hands, this week the city took Elon Musk’s recent sieg heil as a…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
www.der-postillon.com/2025/01/rasu...
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"Bestimmt nur beim Rasieren verrutscht" – Medien verteidigen Elon Musks neues Bärtchen
Mar-a-Lago (dpo) - Nur einen Tag, nachdem Elon Musk laut Medienberichten "eine hitlergruß-ähnliche Geste" ausgeführt hat, zeigt sich der Multimilliard
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
theneedling.com/2024/11/21/b...
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Bluesky Holdout Just Not Sure If It’s Controlled by Shitty Enough Rich Asshole Yet
Today longtime Instagram, Facebook and X/Twitter user Haleigh Perkins said she’s still holding out on joining new social media alternative Bluesky because she’s just not sure it’s run by a misogyni…
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Tonight is the Wolf Moon- the first Full Moon of the year. If it's clear where you are, you can also see Mars go behind the Moon (occultation) from about 5:45 to 11:00 PST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uq6...
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What's Up: January 2025 Skywatching Tips from NASA
YouTube video by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
www.iflscience.com/unhappiness-...
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
This is thought-experiment territory, but I found it interesting: www.iflscience.com/human-civili...
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Human Civilization At Junction Between An Evolutionary Leap Or An Authoritarian Collapse
A renowned systems theorists who predicted the most significant events in the last two decades offers stark warnings.
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Being a parent of young children in the 2020s is a trip. The things that you think you will have trouble explaining to your children are not the things that you will actually have trouble explaining to your children. www.youtube.com/watch?v=qItu...
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All Your Base Are Belong To Us
YouTube video by zuchini
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
See a Poe thing, post a Poe thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3z4...
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Mr. Raven - MC Lars
YouTube video by hockeyrocks5757
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Patrick D. Fletcher @pdfletcher.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello Bluesky! Obligatory cat pic- here's Silja coming unspooled on my messy desk:
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