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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Filling out my ballot. Blue wave on the way!

Close up of a Florida mid term election ballot with Angie Nixon getting picked (as she should be). Blue Wave bitches!

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Coincidence? I think not. And please note the antonyms.

A Thesaurus page listing synonyms for "Trumped-up."

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds..." - Henry David Thoreau

A lone man sits and fishes from the edge of a deck on top of a stack of brightly colored sheds. As he reels in a catch he quietly converses with a nosy cloud. The cloud is tough to nail down.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A few years back I made some flip books for the Illinois Library Association's summer reading program. They gave me zero art direction and total creative control with one exception. "Make one a robot." I LOVE working with them.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Happy International Lighthouse Day

A uniformed man standing on a rock in the ocean leaning forward with his hands at his sides. His mouth is opened wide and a bright cone of light is shining out as a seagull and a fish look on.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Trojan Tree "We didn't think this thing through."

A tree built out of sheet metal and plumbing supplies.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it." - Nietzsche

A person standing in front of a red curtain while balancing four books on top of their head.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

July’s buck moon — named for its alignment with the growth period of male deer antlers — will grace the sky this week. Here’s how to see it. When it gets dark go outside and look up.

A young girl holding the full moon on a string

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

And then someone tipped him over.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Jo Nagai, a ten year old prodigy in Japan, researched and proved that butterflies pass memories down generationally. Meanwhile I don't know why I'm standing in the kitchen.

A man reading a newspaper while his shadow examines a passing butterfly.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

BREAKING NEWS: South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham will not be seeking reelection.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I don’t know about you, but I’m still calling it the name it was assigned at birth.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This was published in a newspaper. (A newspaper is a printed publication consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence.)

A newspaper clipping. It says "An Arkansas town wants to keep its phone booth. (A phone booth is a glass stall with a landline inside.)

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

BREAKING NEWS: Trump Announces New Color

A box of green crayons labeled "reflecting pool blue."

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Accidentally reversed the L and R on my earbuds. I caught it in time but my doctor says I'll need to wear my head in a sling for the next week.

A man whose head has accidentally been twisted like a wrung out washcloth patiently waits to return to normal. He set out to be a good example but ended up a horrible warning after reversing his left and right earbuds. Take heed!

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Two Item List 1. Flashlight 2. Robot

A robot with a flashlight head looking to it's left and casting a dramatic cone of yellow light.

The same robot with the same flashlight head now casting its cone of yellow light onto a rough pencil sketch of a robot standing at a bar while holding a robot cocktail. It's all good, he is legal.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

There are three windows at the counter of my local post office. Every time I have ever visited I have gotten either the left or the center window. Today for the very first time in my life I got the right hand window. I can’t wait to write in my journal tonight.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Some time between 5:00 pm yesterday and 7:00 am this morning I lost my wallet. Last place I remember using it was at a gas station. Called them to see if any kind soul found it and turned it in. Nope. Tore apart the car. Not there. Tore apart the studio. Not there.

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I never looked at things and drew them until I went to art school. Before then I just thought of things and drew them. I still feel most comfortable working like that. It might not be the best way.

Astronauts have landed their rocket ship on a strange world and are checking out the alien life forms. Let's hope they are friendlier than ICE

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Patrick Girouard @pgirouard.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

What's invisible and smells like carrots?

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