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Patrick LaSalle
@patricklasalle.bsky.social
History nerd researching LGBTQ rights in Oregon. Movie obsessive, sci-fi geek. Future cat dad. (he/him)

No Constitution, No Union!
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I'm fond of saying that political reporters are basically sports reporters who don't understand sports at all
January 2, 2026 at 5:36 AM
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Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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🥂
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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HAPPY HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎆
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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We’re gonna win.
January 1, 2026 at 5:10 AM
December 31, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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DEPLOY TSAR BOMBA
December 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
When I was doing research for my Master's thesis, I ran across the only book that had anything significant to say about Ballot Measure 9. Nothing else came remotely close. I started going through it, seeing all the information and quotes. I was excited. But something was off...
This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible.

I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”
looking up the source of quotes, whether for a book or a video script, is great for figuring out when a quote everyone "knows" and has repeated for ages is actually just weird bullshit someone else made up
December 29, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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looking up the source of quotes, whether for a book or a video script, is great for figuring out when a quote everyone "knows" and has repeated for ages is actually just weird bullshit someone else made up
July 31, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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December 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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jeremy strong in the springsteen movie looks like they made an oscar bait minions adaptation
December 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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heard this one second hand like ten years ago but a friend of a friend (bald white guy) told some noisy teens on the subway to quiet down and one of them looked at him and said “suck my pussy uncle fester”
What's an insult you'll never forget?
December 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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um...
December 25, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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“Like prime, but with human beings”
December 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
December 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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lmfao, amazing
This was posted yesterday by a retired senior officer and now corporate leader. If AI cannot even generate a map of the US accurately what is it all about?

Lunacy.
December 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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It's a whole genre it's beautiful
December 21, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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New Illustration: "We Beat 'Em Before..."

Taken from a British WW2 poster, the original features a WW1 German soldier at the top. I just swapped it for the Nazi soldier it had at the bottom.
December 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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This is why no one intelligent should back newsom. His actions are being used as a cudgel to ban trans care
Alabama rep cites Gavin Newson's vote to out trans kids to parents as precedent that the federal government should follow
December 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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Josh O’Connor calls THE LAST JEDI “so beautiful.”

“The end of that movie - how anyone could be a Jedi... I just remember seeing that movie in the cinemas and I wept of that last image with the boy. It’s just one of the most iconic images in cinema”

(Source: @letterboxd)
December 17, 2025 at 7:14 PM