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Pat Scaramuzza
@genocideman.bsky.social
Scientist, author, artist, madman. He/Him.

Creator of the comic 'Genocide Man', which is a celebration of life, believe it or not.

Day job is a calibration physicist for the USGS Landsat program. But here I'm mostly about art, writing, and politics.
Woke up in afib, I guess;
heart rate 154, pain in my chest.
Got it to 50, then normal 75,
so I guess I'm still alive.

Should sleep some more, I guess.
Hard to do when death's within your chest.
Two steps forward and I'll be fine.
When I take a step back, forgive my whine.
November 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I know I'm going to make enemies of people I admire, but I think this is the precisely wrong take on generative AI. 🧵
November 18, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Breaking news: I'm hearing reports that Ghislane Maxwell had a horse named Bubba, and I can't stop laughing about it. 😆 #Bubba #WhoisBubba
November 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I'm honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Errata is never published.
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

The drives were clicking.
October 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I've just been cocooning in games lately, and I made a mistake with Rimworld. It's a fine game, but if you've played Dwarf Fortress then Rimworld is deeply boring. Yes, lots of things can happen but you'll never see anything like that insanity of a dwarf fortress spiral.
September 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Quote this with a book you read way too young that explains why you are the way you are.

Hahahaha! I think I was eleven when I read this. Soft porn -- and *weird* porn -- definitely had an effect on this young boy's development.
August 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Someone -- and her grandmother -- is getting her first pedicure.

Hey grandfather, namely me, does not need anyone touching his feet, thank you.
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Just wanted to point out that we are on the timeline that now has an 'Official Porn Bot of the United States Government'.

So that's FUN.
July 15, 2025 at 1:27 PM
You all know that I'm avoiding the news,
and I fell into a hole of Rap Battles on YouTube.
The flows are pretty good and the disses are fine,
but I'm worried that these songs are affecting my mind.
I'm talking in a rhythm and what's even worse,
everything I say is in two-line rhyme verse! 😁
July 12, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Post a picture of when your pet was little.
June 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My second submission. I think I prefer this one. Graphics can be misunderstood; words are clearer, and being a quote from a famous advocate of liberty gives a strong impression.
June 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Pour a bottle out for Landsat 7. At 1808z today, they switched my boy off.

L7 was the first satellite program I worked in and the first space launch I attended. While L7 had its problems I'm proud of the work we did calibrating it into the most accurate land cover satellite of its era. Vale, L7!
June 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This kid is just weird, and I approve!
May 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Here are two versions of a promo I made for Narrativity, the best little writing convention in the Midwest. Which one do you like better?

Narrativity is June 26-29 in Minneapolis this year! Hope to see some of you there! www.narrativity.fun
May 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
You can hate the MCU movies all you like, but Thunderbolts* was an excellent film that was the most emotional sci-fi work I've seen a long while. Thoughtful, timely (since everyone is depressed these days), and with fantastic emotive acting. Gotta give the MCU makers credit on this one!
May 7, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It's the First of May, and you all know what that means! Passing around this song is mandatory:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1GD...
Jonathan Coulton - First of May (Lyrics)
YouTube video by Jonathan SK
www.youtube.com
May 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I call this composition, "Grandpa is watching me this morning."
April 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
By the way, the perfect ratio for Paas Easter egg colors is one color tablet, one teaspoon of baking soda, and then one half cup of vinegar. You get the fun volcanic explosion (mix this in at least a two cup container) and then you're left with a useable dye.
April 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Easter eggs colored. Any embellishment in black sharpie is mine; everything else is straight from the four year-old granddaughter.
April 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Gonna ride out the end times in here.
April 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This may be a hot take, but aside from the entertainment of their incompetence I don't care what Trump's administration does with the economy. The economy can be fixed. It's a sideshow.

I care about the damage Trump does to civil rights and democracy. Everything, everything else is a distraction.
April 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Ha, ha! This barrel of stupidity has no bottom.
He put tarrifs on BIOT.

BIOT is now Diego Garcia, an American military base.

He tariffed a fucking US military base.
Dead people telling the President to pursue a trade war with an uninhabited island is real George III territory
April 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Um, it needs to be widely known that the US administration is asking policy advice from ChatGPT. Like, everyone needs to know this is how it was done. Historians need to engrave this on certain tombstones.
guess where they got their weird trade deficit math from?

i went to the pit for y'all and brought back the screenshots with alt text
April 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
"Whatever helps us stay productive is what really matters right now. There’s still plenty of time left for 1933 to be our year. Politics will come and go, but I’m sure when I look back on this period, what I’ll remember most will be the work that I completed on schedule."
I’m a German Citizen in 1933, and Is It Just Me or Is It Really Hard to Get Any Work Done Right Now?
Guten tag. I’m just wondering if anybody else can relate to this feeling I’ve been having that I just can’t shake. It’s only Tuesday, but what a we...
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April 3, 2025 at 4:30 AM