Patrick Brennan
@patrickmbrennan.bsky.social
Apprentice Greybeard. Aspiring Playwright. Wannabe Gamedev.
I have a friend who is using "AI" to "write" "his" "novel". I cannot persuade him that this is a bad idea. And the text is pure drek. What are we doing to ourselves?
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I have a friend who is using "AI" to "write" "his" "novel". I cannot persuade him that this is a bad idea. And the text is pure drek. What are we doing to ourselves?
we are hurtling toward a reckoning, when we must ask ourselves whether we are willing, as a nation, to continue to tolerate all this just in order to maintain stephen miller's erection
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
we are hurtling toward a reckoning, when we must ask ourselves whether we are willing, as a nation, to continue to tolerate all this just in order to maintain stephen miller's erection
they voted for bread and circuses, but now the clown has taken the bread.
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
they voted for bread and circuses, but now the clown has taken the bread.
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Did women ruin the workplace? I sat down with the authors of “Women Ruined the Workplace” and “Women Should Be Stay At Home Housewives” to get some answers.
-Ross Douthat
(I’m only very slightly exagerating)
-Ross Douthat
(I’m only very slightly exagerating)
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Did women ruin the workplace? I sat down with the authors of “Women Ruined the Workplace” and “Women Should Be Stay At Home Housewives” to get some answers.
-Ross Douthat
(I’m only very slightly exagerating)
-Ross Douthat
(I’m only very slightly exagerating)
If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...
If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere
“New York millionaires are plotting their exit from the city after the election of Zohran Mamdani, the socialist who plans to increase the taxes of...
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 6, 2025 at 11:30 PM
If New York City Is No Longer Going to Be an Unaffordable Police State Run by Crooks, I’m Taking My Hard-Earned Sex-Pest Dollars Elsewhere www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/if-...
Dear Ross:
fuck off.
then fuck all the way off.
no, all the fucking way off.
then fuck you,
you fucking wanker.
fuck off.
then fuck all the way off.
no, all the fucking way off.
then fuck you,
you fucking wanker.
November 6, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Dear Ross:
fuck off.
then fuck all the way off.
no, all the fucking way off.
then fuck you,
you fucking wanker.
fuck off.
then fuck all the way off.
no, all the fucking way off.
then fuck you,
you fucking wanker.
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DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump newrepublic.com/post/202813/...
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump
Details in the files are reportedly even more damning for Donald Trump than previously indicated—and it was already bad.
newrepublic.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
DOJ Admits to Republicans That Epstein Files Are Even Worse for Trump newrepublic.com/post/202813/...
I am 100% confident that "ross douthat" has complained about being forced to learn how to pronounce "zohran mamdani"
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am 100% confident that "ross douthat" has complained about being forced to learn how to pronounce "zohran mamdani"
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Sympathy for former prince and the royal family.
Nothing about the women brutally assaulted.
Nothing about the women brutally assaulted.
Trump on Prince Andrew and the Epstein scandal: "I feel very badly. I mean, it's a terrible thing that's happened to the family. That's been a tragic situation. And it's too bad. I feel badly for the family."
November 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Sympathy for former prince and the royal family.
Nothing about the women brutally assaulted.
Nothing about the women brutally assaulted.
Does it make you happy to know that more children are starving now? Are you tired of all the winning yet?
November 2, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Does it make you happy to know that more children are starving now? Are you tired of all the winning yet?
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today in pocket theatre, i write abt 'normal' writing. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
'normal' plays
theatre's default obsession
open.substack.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:49 AM
today in pocket theatre, i write abt 'normal' writing. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...
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This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
December 5, 2024 at 6:22 PM
This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.
I'm having trouble pronouncing "McWhorter". Do you say the "wh" like "whore" or is it like "wanker"?
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm having trouble pronouncing "McWhorter". Do you say the "wh" like "whore" or is it like "wanker"?
chapter 3,287 in the sad saga of our slowly-growing realization that 99% of all online spaces exist not to help us but to exploit us
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
One app, 60 men, 26 dates: my adventures in alt-right dating
There’s no question that we’re living — and looking for love — in contentious times, where extreme political ideologies have all but divided parts of the dating pool. Or have they?
www.cosmopolitan.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
chapter 3,287 in the sad saga of our slowly-growing realization that 99% of all online spaces exist not to help us but to exploit us
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/...
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Stop Humanizing LLMs
October 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Stop Humanizing LLMs
I see that CBS News has wasted no time in getting on board with the plan to sell a new war to America. Fuck you, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
October 27, 2025 at 7:54 PM
I see that CBS News has wasted no time in getting on board with the plan to sell a new war to America. Fuck you, @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy
"in U S and A, king does not have to dissolve parliament, parliament dissolves itself"
October 26, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"in U S and A, king does not have to dissolve parliament, parliament dissolves itself"
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Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Kid3 is going to another city for a mock trial tournament with her college team this weekend. Just found out that the hotel they are using is housing an ICE team. She’s got her passport card, which establishes she’s a citizen (since adoption, by law). Hope that’s enough. Fuck ICE scum.
chat is adderall a diuretic
October 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
chat is adderall a diuretic
Fun fact: that jet doesn't have a "bomb bay" or a "storage tank" or any such nonsense. king trump's pilot's seat is just open, like a toilet, and the guy's basically incontinent anyway, so it all works without all that extra stuff
October 21, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Fun fact: that jet doesn't have a "bomb bay" or a "storage tank" or any such nonsense. king trump's pilot's seat is just open, like a toilet, and the guy's basically incontinent anyway, so it all works without all that extra stuff
Act I. donald trump commands the Marine Corps to conduct a live-fire exercise over a busy California highway over a busy weekend when jd vance will be in town, in order to demonstrate, I guess, how big of a big man he and jd are.
October 21, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Act I. donald trump commands the Marine Corps to conduct a live-fire exercise over a busy California highway over a busy weekend when jd vance will be in town, in order to demonstrate, I guess, how big of a big man he and jd are.
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here's today's post: "stop it, you mean old No Kings protesters. you’re making MAGA cry" — boo fucking hoo, diaper-babies.
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stop it, you mean old No Kings protesters. you’re making MAGA cry
boo fucking hoo, diaper-babies
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October 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
here's today's post: "stop it, you mean old No Kings protesters. you’re making MAGA cry" — boo fucking hoo, diaper-babies.
thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter so you never miss a post —
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new england journal of medicine published the results of our clinical trial! 🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again
The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.
www.bbc.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
new england journal of medicine published the results of our clinical trial! 🧪
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...