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Patrick Ford

@psford.com
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I like flying fake planes and skiing real mountains. Camera and video game nerd, old and new. I work on computer stuff for a company that does money stuff. #Boston #YNWA

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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 30/09/2026
More than 1/4 million dollars when it was all said and done. Gotdamn! So happy to be even a tiny part of this community.
Grandpoobear standing in front of a tv pointing at a frankly absurd number - $238k raised for Wings for Life
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 27/09/2026
Watching a twitch stream where one guy is speed running Wind Waker dressed as link, 20 other dudes are shirtless around him cheering, they're in a hot tub, and they've raised $130k for spinal-cord research Cheers to @grandpoobear.bsky.social and co Dudes rock
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 20/09/2026
Weird. I'm on the same version and can see it when I click my name in the lower left.
Menu popup in Claude Code. 'Usage' is highlighted.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 14/09/2026
Probably my favorite part of Thanksgiving - I had like 8 different versions in my camera roll to choose from.
A hand holding half of a thick Thanksgiving sandwich. It features turkey, gravy, stuffing, and a chunky cranberry chutney. It was not long for this world.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 22/08/2026
Adventures in harness noodling with Claude... To be clear, I have no idea what difference it "learned the hard way" regarding "what I found" vs. "what it is" today. I'm all for personal growth, though.
Deep Thoughts from my harness/dashboard saying "The page asserts what it found as though it were what exists" 

me: this is some existential shit
robot: The board's whole epistemology in one line — it spent months confusing "what I found"with "what is" and today it finally learned the difference the hard way. Waiting on your verdict; the watch is listening."
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 22/06/2026
All this hand-wringing about Fable and Mythic and censorship, while Google has seemingly turned off code auditing with Gemini?
text from a chat with Gemini in:

Me: wait, you can't audit my code?

Robot: That's correct. I cannot perform security audits, vulnerability analyses, or adversarial code reviews on specific targets like a GitHub repository, even if it is your own code.

I am, however, happy to help you explore general security concepts. For example, we could discuss:

Common iOS vulnerabilities to watch out for (such as insecure data storage, improper certificate validation, or injection flaws).
General best practices for secure coding in Swift.
How to integrate automated security scanning tools (like SAST or DAST) into your GitHub Actions pipeline to help catch potential issues automatically.
Let me know if you would like to explore any of these topics.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 11/06/2026
Press x “doubt” meme
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 13/05/2026
Hey, credit where it’s due - they’re up 50% in the last 6 hours
Screenshot of WaPo’s “make it make sense” account showing it has twelve (12) followers here.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 05/05/2026
It seems pretty manageable to me. This lot is near my apartment - maybe 1-2 cubic meters of reinforced concrete per post?
Google Street View image of a parking lot with solar panels above. The supports are concrete at the base, then steel I-beams.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 25/04/2026
I have my complaints about the T, but credit where it’s due, their API is SO good! I made this app but your board is much cooler.
iPhone screenshot of a live MBTA map showing the western ends of the B, C, and D lines on a dark mode map. The very end of the E line is visible. All lines have active trains, except the B line which is empty.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 27/03/2026
Totally fits in the hole just put it in
Walmart sales page for am MCM-ish planter - a ceramic pot in a wood frame. The ceramic planter has a drainage hole, but if you need to keep moisture in, they advertise a plug, "Silicone Plug - Totally fits in the hole just put it in."
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 20/03/2026
Worth a shot
A big beer (24oz Modelo)
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 19/03/2026
welcome
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 18/03/2026
Hmm, my deck may be problematic
A TCG card of the Boers. "Boers are the descendents of the proto Afrikaans-speaking Free Burghers of the eastern Capetyopiea in Southern Africa during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries." ATK 8602, DEF 5461.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 17/03/2026
An eldritch horror of a face created by DLSS 5, with a nail embedded in the left side of it's head, a la Happy Gilmore.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 14/03/2026
This is your fault, @ybbaaabby.bsky.social and @jerf.xyz
A mechanical keyboard being assembled with a handful of switches installed.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 27/02/2026
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
The Alps, from Imterlaken, Switzerland. Towering mist shrouded mountains behind a grassy field.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 23/02/2026
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 11/02/2026
@peark.es @proptermalone.bsky.social So like, is there a place I need to register for a membership card, or does that just show up?
A pristine, freshly delivered can of Washington State University Cougar Gold cheddar cheese. It is in what can only be described as a gigantic cat food can, just shy of two pounds at 30oz. The white and yellow diagonal striped label surrounding the can features I dark green oval with the logo, "Cougar Gold" in large letters, with a stylized cougar glyph to the right." It sits on a cork desk mat atop a light pine desk, in front of a keyboard and monitor stand.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 31/01/2026
These jabronis from @giantbomb.bsky.social and @minnmax.com have raised over $185k in the last 4hrs to support scared and vulnerable folks in Minnesota. The money goes to veap.org, helping those folks with food, utilities, and rent. I love indie games media so much. www.givemn.org/story/qexfdf
Jeff Grubb, Dan Ryckert, Jacob Geller and Ben Hanson all wearing black shirts with flames and foam(?) flame wigs. They're sitting around a table on the MinnMax set, with "ICE out of Minneapolis" signs on the wall. They look like lunatics
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 29/01/2026
WFT YouTube algo? I finish watching a dumb Get Smart clip and the next videos it recs are a Mick Foley video I started watching but didn't complete, a new episode of GB Blight Club, which I plan to watch next, and then sandwiched in the middle, a video with four (4) views caping for Woody Allen?
Screenshot of a browser window at the end of a YouTube video, suggesting 3 videos to watch next. The one on the left is Mick Foley doing a tier-list of things he got hit with in wrasslin'. On the right we have a resplendent Mitch Tolkoto from Giant Bomb in black sunglasses and a blonde wig. Then inexplicably in the middle is noted scumbag Woody Allen's face, and the video apparently has to do with Diane Keaton. It has 4 views.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 28/01/2026
"Let me replace the single-phantom approach with a multi-depth mirror" Response from Opus 4.5, or a plea to the DM?
The problem is clear - one phantom row isn't enough when the blob radius is 1.6x cell size. I need to place phantoms at 2 rows deep, and also mirror the second-from-edge row. Let me replace the single-phantom approach with a multi-depth mirror.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 26/01/2026
Again, fuck Tim Cook
The marketing blitz for Brett Ratner's Melania Trump documentary is underway. The White House screened the film privately on Saturday for a scattershot assemblage of VIPs, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, boxer Mike Tyson, and the queen of Jordan, The Hollywood Reporter scooped. Included with admission: "glossy, commemorative black and white popcorn boxes for guests, served by gloved waiters so they won't get fingerprints on them."
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 25/01/2026
I hope employees at Apple spit in Tim Cook’s face as they pass him in the halls.

Dan Diamond • @ddiamond.bsky.social • 1h
On tonight's White House agenda:
Trump and guests will get a private screening of MELANIA, the documentary about the First Lady, @thr.com reports.
Attendees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, Mike Tyson, per the article.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 21/01/2026
Real heads know the PiPP!N was onto something
The Pippin game controller, a stupid boomerang shaped thing with round d-pad on the left, a a trackball in the center, and four face buttons on the right, but in a stupid vertical diamond pattern instead of the usual rotated square pattern.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 18/12/2025
Lol, pretty close!
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 17/12/2025
I had assumed it was a reference to this, but I honestly don't know, which does indeed say something about this stupidest of timelines
Screenshot of classic Twitter post from user actioncookbook on November 7, 2017:
USERS: we love twitter but it has problems
TWITTER: great we'll fix them
USERS: do you want to know what they are
TWITTER: absolutely not
USERS: you're alienating the people who actually use your product
TWITTER: likes are now florps
USERS: what
TWITTER: timeline goes sideways
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 14/12/2025
Screenshot of iOS weather app that’s been altered so the temperature looks like line-drawn testicles against a snowy background. This is because it is cold as balls.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 02/12/2025
I'm watching the Linus^2 video, and this was Linus(T)'s response to a question about AI. I genuinely question whether my guy understands why people take photographs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0...
I'm like, that's reality. Deal with it. That genie is out of the bottle. You're not, you're not getting it back, and you're not getting it back whether [sic] you're a photographer who's out of work. Those things are gone, right? Because you can fake pictures so much better now.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 28/11/2025
Just finished this bad boy.
Thanksgiving sandwich with toasted bread, sliced turkey, stuffing, and horseradish cranberry sauce.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 28/10/2025
@janochoa.bsky.social's doctor right now
Screenshot of noted lunatic Naomi Wolf posting on Twitter, "No! No!!"
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 07/10/2025
(In my defense, I did go see ‘One Battle After Another’ yesterday at one of 4 theaters in the world playing it in VistaVision, and it was a 25 min walk. Cities rule)
“I’m in this picture and I don’t like it” meme.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 23/09/2025
I had to look up what aerophagia was, and cheers to the Cleveland Clinic for calling a fart a fart, lol. Looking into this myself, so I've really appreciated you posting about how it's going for you.
Search result screenshot from the Cleveland Clinic as of August 16th, 2024. The limited summary reads, "Aerophagia involves swallowing so much air that it collects in your gut, producing unpleasant symptoms. It may cause excessive burping or farting, bloating and gas pain."
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 18/09/2025
Same. And you better believe I told them why.
Screenshot of an email from Disney+ and Hulu confirming my cancellation of their services.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 18/09/2025
Okay, fine...
Screenshot of the first paragraph of an email from the Onion, welcoming me as a new member.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 18/09/2025
Missed the game but just watched the highlights and damn. The Captain. Virgil. Simply incredible. (As a side note I will say the new kit is not good. That "e" makes my eye twitch...)
Liverpool football players celebrating after a goal against Atletico Madrid. Andy Robertson's back is visible, displaying this year's LFC kit that inexplicably uses a font where the letter e is lowercase when all other characters are uppercase. The numbers also look dumb as hell.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 18/09/2025
good call
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 14/08/2025
Jasper from the Simpsons holding a paddle in front of a class saying “OH, YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT'S A BLOCKIN'”
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 31/07/2025
Saw Drive-By Truckers, Deer Tick, and Thelma and the Sleaze tonight in the woods of western MA. It was nearly 100° before the sun went down, but what a show. Shit's fucked these days, but seeing live music with good people is a pretty decent temporary salve.
Red tinted outdoor concert stage at night.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 26/07/2025
Sam L Jackson pointing a gun at someone's head in Pulp Fiction in the "Say What Again" meme. Text reads "SAY 'CWISPY' AGAIN, I DARE YOU."
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 03/07/2025
Jasper from the Simpsons holding a paddle saying, “Oh, you better believe that’s a blockin’.”
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 01/07/2025
Jasper from the Simpsons with the caption, “OH, YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT'S A BLOCKIN'.”
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 12/06/2025
A nine year old selfie, shot with the Bitcam app. I'm skinnier and wearing sunglasses.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 12/06/2025
RIP Bill Atkinson. For years my pfp has been a selfie shot using Bitcam from @iconfactory.com using Atkinson's dithering algorithm, because it just looks so goddamn good.
A white guy with short hair smirking at the camera, dithered to black and white pixels.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 04/06/2025
Jasper from the Simpsons holding a paddle with the caption, “Oh you better believe that’s a blockin’”
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 01/06/2025
Hell yeah! I’m keeping this one (blueberry) that’s about to go into the oven for myself.
An unbaked lattice-topped blueberry pie about to go in the oven.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 29/05/2025
Ok, sure. (very quick and dirty) cc @grubb.wtf @danryckert.com and @tolkoto.com
Photoshop of Jeff Grubb holding comically large fake money and shaking hands with his hero, Bubsy.
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 22/05/2025
Here you go for future use (made this a while ago)
Jasper from the Simpsons holding a paddle with the caption, “oh, you better believe that’s a blockin’”
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 22/05/2025
Headshot of Werner Herzog
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Patrick Ford @psford.com · 02/05/2025
A hand holding a small whiskey glass (a glencairn) with a couple of fingers of Breckenridge Distillery’s Sexy Motor Oil bourbon in it. The bottle with a stark black and while label is behind the glass.
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