Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦
@patrickjohanneson.com
Part-time prevaricator.
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
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I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
Avatar by @badguybirnie.bsky.social's kid
Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante
I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
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Hi, I'm Patrick. I write SF/F, I take photos—largely in the dark—and I wrangle websites for my spending cash. I keep a blog over at patrickjohanneson.com, though I cross-post most everything here too.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
#Introduction #PinnedPost
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Bond writers: “we can’t just bring Bond back to life, it’s too unbelievable, the audience won’t go for it!”
Also Bond writers:
Also Bond writers:
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Bond writers: “we can’t just bring Bond back to life, it’s too unbelievable, the audience won’t go for it!”
Also Bond writers:
Also Bond writers:
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
and I *still* hate the ribbon bar
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
and I *still* hate the ribbon bar
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
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Remembrance Day
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Remembrance Day
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Chat, I have to attend two days of an AI Summit.
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chat, I have to attend two days of an AI Summit.
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
if it can be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
Q: What is the biggest risk for AI industry?
A: Regulations.
A: Regulations.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
if it can be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
It's weird that people think you can write without reading. I've always liked the way @stephenking.bsky.social put it:
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
Every time I say this, I get some type of backlash, but to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader. Yes, read your niche, but read widely too. I read poetry, horror, graphic novels, picture books, and non-fiction, too. It's only made my writing better.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's weird that people think you can write without reading. I've always liked the way @stephenking.bsky.social put it:
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
Corporal George F. Johanneson, sometime in the early 1940s.
Found here: digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/ob... (along with a few other relatives)
#RemembranceDay
Found here: digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/ob... (along with a few other relatives)
#RemembranceDay
November 11, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Corporal George F. Johanneson, sometime in the early 1940s.
Found here: digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/ob... (along with a few other relatives)
#RemembranceDay
Found here: digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/ob... (along with a few other relatives)
#RemembranceDay
Convincing you to read my short fiction with some first lines. Share yours if you'd like.
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Convincing you to read my short fiction with some first lines. Share yours if you'd like.
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
I've seen the quote attributed to Twain, but that is possibly (probably?) apocryphal. At any rate:
"A [person] who doesn't read has no material advantage over one who can't read."
"A [person] who doesn't read has no material advantage over one who can't read."
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I've seen the quote attributed to Twain, but that is possibly (probably?) apocryphal. At any rate:
"A [person] who doesn't read has no material advantage over one who can't read."
"A [person] who doesn't read has no material advantage over one who can't read."
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Are you thinking of the talus?
Caucus is another word for "rooster".
Caucus is another word for "rooster".
No, that’s raucous. Caucus is the large bone in the ankle that articulates with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneum and navicular bone of the foot.
No that's Porthos. Caucus is disagreeably harsh or strident, hoarse.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Are you thinking of the talus?
Caucus is another word for "rooster".
Caucus is another word for "rooster".
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A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.
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bookmarking this for later
November 10, 2025 at 4:45 AM
bookmarking this for later
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The decommissioned Dow Planetarium on a slushy freezing rainy night in Montréal.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The decommissioned Dow Planetarium on a slushy freezing rainy night in Montréal.
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man tell me you wouldn't instantly pony up fifty cents to read about a space robot laser blasting a guy at his own wedding. we used to have proper comic book covers in this country.
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
man tell me you wouldn't instantly pony up fifty cents to read about a space robot laser blasting a guy at his own wedding. we used to have proper comic book covers in this country.
The Tower: his dog Fizzgig
Slow Apocalypse: his son Jake and his best frenemy Benoît (also his relationship with his wife Jane is deeper and more comfortable than just romance)
Slow Apocalypse: his son Jake and his best frenemy Benoît (also his relationship with his wife Jane is deeper and more comfortable than just romance)
What non-romantic relationships are most important to your MC? #WritingPrompt
November 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Tower: his dog Fizzgig
Slow Apocalypse: his son Jake and his best frenemy Benoît (also his relationship with his wife Jane is deeper and more comfortable than just romance)
Slow Apocalypse: his son Jake and his best frenemy Benoît (also his relationship with his wife Jane is deeper and more comfortable than just romance)
Fun fact: I literally found a typo in a dictionary.
(We had a big ol' Webster's dictionary with brown faux-leather covers. At the back of the dictionary was a list of the American presidents up to Bush I, and the column detailing where they were born was labeled "Brithplace".)
(We had a big ol' Webster's dictionary with brown faux-leather covers. At the back of the dictionary was a list of the American presidents up to Bush I, and the column detailing where they were born was labeled "Brithplace".)
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Fun fact: I literally found a typo in a dictionary.
(We had a big ol' Webster's dictionary with brown faux-leather covers. At the back of the dictionary was a list of the American presidents up to Bush I, and the column detailing where they were born was labeled "Brithplace".)
(We had a big ol' Webster's dictionary with brown faux-leather covers. At the back of the dictionary was a list of the American presidents up to Bush I, and the column detailing where they were born was labeled "Brithplace".)
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August 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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LRP: good morning to angels in disguise
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
LRP: good morning to angels in disguise
okaye
WRYTE
WEIRDE
BOOKES
WEIRDE
BOOKES
November 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
okaye
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jeff goldbloom: thread
November 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
jeff goldbloom: thread