Patrick Frawley
@geisty.bsky.social
Currently on therapeutic leave.
Be good to everyone. This world is too much.
He/him/his. Contemnit procellas.
Be good to everyone. This world is too much.
He/him/his. Contemnit procellas.
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Patrick Frawley
@geisty.bsky.social
· Apr 8
"Maybe working on the little things as dutifully and honestly as we can is how we stay sane when the world is falling apart." - Haruki Murakami
Went to my primary-care doctor today for the first time in three [sic] years. Said years have resulted in a blood pressure reading that is basically OMG over WTF; a subsequent hasty EKG showed that everything was circulating just fine, so this is basically hyperstress crossed with genetics.
So,
So,
September 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Went to my primary-care doctor today for the first time in three [sic] years. Said years have resulted in a blood pressure reading that is basically OMG over WTF; a subsequent hasty EKG showed that everything was circulating just fine, so this is basically hyperstress crossed with genetics.
So,
So,
NYC safety fears:
- NJ drivers, especially turning left
- inexperienced/inattentive CitiBike riders (this is real, crashed into me)
- icy sidewalks
- pickpockets? sorta, not normally
- elevators making weird mechanical noises
The sob-story hustlers and chuggers are more quality of life.
- NJ drivers, especially turning left
- inexperienced/inattentive CitiBike riders (this is real, crashed into me)
- icy sidewalks
- pickpockets? sorta, not normally
- elevators making weird mechanical noises
The sob-story hustlers and chuggers are more quality of life.
Been thinking a bit about the right wing view of NYC as dangerous and realized I have my own totally irrational safety fears. 1) people doing pull ups on scaffolding. Stop doing that! I walk under scaffolding faster because i don’t trust it
September 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
NYC safety fears:
- NJ drivers, especially turning left
- inexperienced/inattentive CitiBike riders (this is real, crashed into me)
- icy sidewalks
- pickpockets? sorta, not normally
- elevators making weird mechanical noises
The sob-story hustlers and chuggers are more quality of life.
- NJ drivers, especially turning left
- inexperienced/inattentive CitiBike riders (this is real, crashed into me)
- icy sidewalks
- pickpockets? sorta, not normally
- elevators making weird mechanical noises
The sob-story hustlers and chuggers are more quality of life.
Worst cipher of the decade.
Hegseth: "Maximum lethality -- not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct. We're gonna raise up warriors. Not just defenders."
September 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Worst cipher of the decade.
Skyscrapers, pizza.
September 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Skyscrapers, pizza.
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead Glonzo.”
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover Glonzo.”
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic Glonzo".
September 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead Glonzo.”
If you were writing a parody of a totalitarian takeover you’d edit this out of the first draft for being too obvious.
JFC the timing on this Lutnick headline
*LUTNICK: US ECO NUMBERS WILL GET BETTER AFTER STAFF CHANGES
*LUTNICK: US ECO NUMBERS WILL GET BETTER AFTER STAFF CHANGES
September 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
If you were writing a parody of a totalitarian takeover you’d edit this out of the first draft for being too obvious.
Can anyone tell me if this actually means anything?
from @daveweigel.bsky.social over on Twitter.... what is going on at the Abundance conference?
September 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Can anyone tell me if this actually means anything?
Sii in pace, grande uomo.
Italian fashion legend Giorgio Armani, king of a high-end lifestyle empire, has died at the age of 91 "surrounded by his loved ones", his company said Thursday.
u.afp.com/Sdfz
u.afp.com/Sdfz
September 4, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Sii in pace, grande uomo.
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Ted Cruz, Man of the People, thinks you get Domino’s Pizza by going to the store and waiting in line, yes.
Also - there’s a line at Domino’s?
September 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Ted Cruz, Man of the People, thinks you get Domino’s Pizza by going to the store and waiting in line, yes.
QOTD: What should Kamil buy for the sake of glorious gratifying Experience?
As I get older, I feel like I want to explore new automotive dimensions. I had all kind of Hondas, BMWs, and 4x4s. I had a WRX and a W126. Maybe I should get stanced Infiniti? A big Benz? Maybe some big old American coupe that hasn’t rusted out yet? Something British seems delightfully tempting. 🤷♂️
September 2, 2025 at 3:20 PM
QOTD: What should Kamil buy for the sake of glorious gratifying Experience?
Midengined Corvette declared woke, EO to have it be front-engine again.
What is Trump’s announcement? Wrong answers only.
*TRUMP TO MAKE ANNOUNCEMENT 2:00 PM ET TUESDAY: WHITE HOUSE
September 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Midengined Corvette declared woke, EO to have it be front-engine again.
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RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
September 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
Just turned 52. Starting my thirteenth year teaching and the seventh managing the sub-calculus part of the department, which is orders of magnitude longer than I’ve been anywhere else.
And thus year is sizing up to be a contender for most insane of all.
And thus year is sizing up to be a contender for most insane of all.
I am 53 years old and I am starting my 26th year as a professor at Princeton, which means I’ve now spent almost half my life here.
September 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just turned 52. Starting my thirteenth year teaching and the seventh managing the sub-calculus part of the department, which is orders of magnitude longer than I’ve been anywhere else.
And thus year is sizing up to be a contender for most insane of all.
And thus year is sizing up to be a contender for most insane of all.
Me: I just need a solid stripped-down basis to build my dream Shelby/Trans Am-influenced Mustang hardtop street racer.
Also me: Not that stripped down.
Also me: Not that stripped down.
Classic Mustang starter kit.
1965 Ford Mustang Coupe Body Shell at No Reserve
September 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Me: I just need a solid stripped-down basis to build my dream Shelby/Trans Am-influenced Mustang hardtop street racer.
Also me: Not that stripped down.
Also me: Not that stripped down.
I’m not even gonna be mad at this putz.
I’m just looking forward to the response.
I’m just looking forward to the response.
Vance goes after NYC mayoral hopeful Mamdani: ‘He should show more gratitude to the United States’
Vance goes after NYC mayor hopeful Mamdani for not showing ‘gratitude’ to the US
www.independent.co.uk
August 31, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I’m not even gonna be mad at this putz.
I’m just looking forward to the response.
I’m just looking forward to the response.
The world is doing everything it can to disabuse me of my love for fast cars, including showing me that they tend to be owned and driven by assholes.
August 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The world is doing everything it can to disabuse me of my love for fast cars, including showing me that they tend to be owned and driven by assholes.
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It's funny how the educational attainment of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation migrant children isn't due to the hard work, resilience and assimilation the right wing beg of our communities. Instead, it's due to the idea we have somehow stolen our grades from the 'white working class'
August 31, 2025 at 10:32 AM
It's funny how the educational attainment of 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation migrant children isn't due to the hard work, resilience and assimilation the right wing beg of our communities. Instead, it's due to the idea we have somehow stolen our grades from the 'white working class'
I need to talk with the algorithm managers at Instagram and try to help them understand that “interested in sports cars” does not mean “show me crypto bros with brand new GT3RSs acting like children in traffic“. Ugh.
August 31, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I need to talk with the algorithm managers at Instagram and try to help them understand that “interested in sports cars” does not mean “show me crypto bros with brand new GT3RSs acting like children in traffic“. Ugh.
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ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
August 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
ultimately i think the central thesis of trumpism might be true nihilism, just the absolute disdain for the idea that anything matters at all beyond winning an argument in the eyes of your supporters. there is no such thing as competence. there is only loyalty and occasionally bad press. that’s it
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Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
August 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
It’s been 20 years? Oy. (I still remember the controversy around them using non-union projectionists.)
To many more.
To many more.
Remarkable lineup of films commemorating the 20th anniversary of the opening of IFC Film Center in New York. I interviewed the people who chose movies about the selection process. And I learned a lot about the specific kind of movie that tends to succeed there. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/moviehou...
Moviehouse on the Edge: IFC Center Picks 20 Films to Commemorate 20 Years in New York | MZS | Roger Ebert
The IFC Center, a five-screen art house cinema in New York’s West Village, is celebrating its 20th anniversary by showing one film from each year of its
www.rogerebert.com
August 30, 2025 at 12:51 PM
It’s been 20 years? Oy. (I still remember the controversy around them using non-union projectionists.)
To many more.
To many more.
Quick history for tonight:
It is of course extremely important to put front and center that Robert E. Lee was literally a traitor and he was a traitor on behalf of the institution of slavery which he strongly supported. But in the battles we have over public memory - which is what the statues and portraits and base names ...
August 30, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Quick history for tonight:
I wonder if he practices these canned responses in the green room. Fake media! Skewed polls! Liberal DAs! Soros Soros Soros! He's playing a rhetorical game, nothing more.
BERMAN: End EV credit- underwater. Boost Medicaid work requirements- underwater. Increase border wall spending- underwater. Increase detention center spending- underwater. End solar, wind incentives- underwater. Reduce SNAP benefits- underwater
JOHNSON: I'm not buying it. Polls can be manipulated
JOHNSON: I'm not buying it. Polls can be manipulated
August 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
I wonder if he practices these canned responses in the green room. Fake media! Skewed polls! Liberal DAs! Soros Soros Soros! He's playing a rhetorical game, nothing more.
Post a random picture, else everything will go bad in September.
August 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Post a random picture, else everything will go bad in September.
It’s still never going to be a loving word from Dad.
"Trump’s biggest reveal is what he shows about those around him; he is a mirror, and not a flattering one, for other people’s souls." @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the "longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
The Sycophancy Must Be Televised
Notes from the longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet.
www.newyorker.com
August 29, 2025 at 12:41 AM
It’s still never going to be a loving word from Dad.