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Laurence

@pdxpatterman.bsky.social
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Comic patter baritone based in Portland Oregon. Artistic Director of @lightoperapdx. Opinions my own.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h
“‘Mark, we have two minutes left. I want to be respectful, but I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future and what’s coming,’ the publicist said.”
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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide
“I’d like to move on and talk a little bit about the future,” the publicist said.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 14h
You can’t make this shit up. Trump spent years telling Republicans that voting by mail was corrupt, rigged, and fraudulent. Now that the bottom has fallen out from Republicans, suddenly he wants them to vote by mail. Reminder: Trump has already been voting by mail.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h
If you're in these states, *TODAY* is deadline to register to vote. Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas. Even if you think you've registered: doesn't hurt to check! And there's a lot happening across them. A thread with stakes on each. ⬇️
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 15h
Badenoch, last month: Why is PM obsessed with Thatcher? SO WEIRD! I was not even born. He wants to take us back to the 70s. Badenoch, this week: I'm like Thatcher, a new Thatcher, possibly possessed by Thatcher, LOVE Thatcher, Thatcher was right, and I'll take us back to the 80s. Tory Conference:
Actual Thatcher outfits on display.Priti Patel displaying Thatcher merchandise.Limited edition Thatcher toby jug, £47.50Telegraph: "BADENOCH: I'LL TURN BRITAIN AROUND LIKE THATCHER"
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The Cavalcade Of Asshats Murders Civilians For Sport @mers0274.bsky.social · 18h
Maybe they need to fact check better about Mr Long Time Democrat.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 05/10/2026
"It's so good you can't even tell it's AI!" 1) No it isn't 2) Yes you can 3) Even if it was good the very fact you say "you can't even tell" means that if people did know they'd react in a different manner, meaning the entire enterprise relies on deceit.
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Colin Peters (spoopy version) @colinpeters.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“I asked ChatGPT and it told me I didn’t do a sexual harassment.”
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 05/10/2026
The Atlantic is terrible, yet again.
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Laurence @pdxpatterman.bsky.social · 21h
There was a kids cartoon on in the U.K. in the late 80s /early 90s called Stoppit and Tidyup. There was a character on that show called I Said No who I found absolutely terrifying! XD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoppit...
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Stoppit and Tidyup - Wikipedia
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There is a reassuring fantasy among those who have critiques of unfettered left-wing governance that right agrees with these critiques and will temper the left when in power. But the contemporary right isnt that, it's an apocalyptic doomsday cult that lives in an alternate reality.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let's stop using anodyne labels like "the immigration debate" or "controversy over migrants" and start referring to things accurately. "Expelling children who, by law, are entitled to remain in the country" or "imprisoning toddlers in concentration camps" or "pogrom"
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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IF or WHEN the dems have the majority in both Houses We the People have to be up in their shit, on their asses, screaming at them like they owe us money Remember, Trump was a one term POTUS...and now we're back in the shit. Because nothing changed, nothing really got DONE. Accountability.
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frank n furter @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social · 23h
if not friend why friend-shaped and do friend-things
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
Biden quietly intervening to stop Bolsonaro Sr's coup is one of the only times I can think of where anyone on "our side" did this type of intervention bsky.app/profile/wren...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
Putin reached across borders in 2016 to help Trump come to power and MBS did again to help Trump retake power in 2024. There's absolutely no countervailing force opposing Trump from the outside.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 22h
One thing that Trumpism has made clear over and over again is that the global far right understands itself to be in a ideological alliance the helps itself across borders, and the center and left largely do not.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My experience trying to bring @talkingpointsmemo.com to TikTok has really made me cognizant of what a serious threat censorship from right leaning social media companies and their clunky AI is for all of us. talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...
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TikTok Doesn’t Want Us To Talk About the News
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 05/10/2026
If you can't get through a simple purse snatching without the fucking Batman showing up to stop you, that's God's way of saying you shouldn't be a criminal.
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WTFIWWY Live - Buttkicking Begins - 9/28/26
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🌳🧵/ As the Conservative conference gets underway, our briefing on attitudes to Kemi Badenoch and the party. In short: opinion towards Badenoch has improved since last autumn, but the wider party is still viewed with suspicion.
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How do Britons see the Conservatives and Kemi Badenoch, ahead of the party’s 2026 conference?
Although attitudes to Kemi Badenoch have improved over the last year, the Conservative party’s image remains poor
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Laurence @pdxpatterman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Arrested Development But It Might Work For Us
Alt: Arrested Development But It Might Work For Us
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Laurence @pdxpatterman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh. Oh no.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many people already dealing with parents/grandparents with the toxic combination of diminishing mental faculties, online radicalisation via social media and AI slop, and chatbot seduction. Unfortunately we are now all getting to see what happens when one of those cases is the president of the USA
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Danielle Blake @abradacabla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A common theme that drives me absolutely wild with elections/polling these days: 1. Right wing wrecks everything 2. Left of centre figure elected 3. Left of centre can’t fix all the damage in 5 seconds so the right wing, who have got 10x worse in the meantime, lead polls again/win next election
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 04/10/2026
hard not to despair at the state of the world!!! if I had to pick between nice-but-flawed Lula and The Failson Of The Worst Man Bolsonaro I would find it easy! how do these decisions keep being a toss-up! they should not be a toss-up! ahhhh!
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Will Sommer @willsommer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
New development this afternoon: Ben Shapiro's pro-ICE movie has lost its right to film in a Montana town, after city officials voted to suspend their filming permit. bsky.app/profile/will...
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/10/2026
When the Trump administration started dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system earlier this year, scientists, fishermen and Congress fought back. On Saturday, a 238-foot ship set sail to reinstall the first batch of monitors in the waters of the Pacific.
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
True to form, this appears to be shit A.I. “art” because actual creatives are almost never Conservatives. Why is that…? www.aol.co.uk/articles/and...
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Andy Burnham and Angela Rayner brutally mocked at Conservative conference - AOL
The Tories have revealed an alternative history of Britain, which brutally mocks Labour and Reform.
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Today is the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street so why not explore the story of what did (and didn't) happen on the most famous day in British anti-fascist history in this uncommonly concise episode of Origin Story
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Jack @jhol95.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Pretty dark day for the party when the motion looks set to pass despite opposition from MPs and former leaders practically begging not to do this. Crank takeover is complete and the party is lost for now.
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Laurence @pdxpatterman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Gumichan the Laughing Bird Says No
Alt: Gumichan the Laughing Bird Says No
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
this is the most video game villain coded shot I think I've ever seen irl
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M SiFEAR @msipher.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Ah, one of the other appeals of conservatism. That the horrors and sins you commit will be ignored, and in fact were the right thing to do, because you're on the Right Team. There are no bad actions, only Bad Teams.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Mad Bastard @madbastard-v2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So.... do these accounts start with any seed money in them? Because if they do, it occurs to me that having a process of "we closed the account, and the account holder has no claim to any money in it" could be abused, particularly by this administration.
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 04/10/2026
Remember the battle of Cable Street. London, 4 October 1936. Also remember that they shall not pass. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_...
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
George Santos would not only have dropped that child he would have punched him in the face because George Santos doesn't go half way
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‘Good God’: Vivek Ramaswamy becomes laughing stock after nearly dropping child
Republican Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was ridiculed en masse Saturday after nearly dropping a child at a GOP rally in Vandalia, Ohio.Video of the rally, at which President Donald Tru...
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Labour was polling a little over 30% when these articles were written. It is genuinely strange that the Conservative Party is not being subjected to the same obituaries by op-ed given its frequent sub-20% polling.
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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 04/10/2026
... did that squirrel just teabag an owl
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
he knows his voters.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 04/10/2026
Here’s a story from today and one from February.
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held steady @heldsteady.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not very libertarian to be this bad at picking up an 8 year old.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
vivek’s a republican, shouldn’t he be better at grabbing kids
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Okay another day another stream of consciousness reverie
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Laurence @pdxpatterman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m running ghost tours at the McMenamins Grand Lodge every Thursday in October if you’re looking to fill an evening! 👻
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