Patti White
@pattiwhitepatti.bsky.social
Writer, retired, living in the deep South.
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"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
October 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
"Kathy, Ich am lost," Ich seyde, thogh methoughte she was sleepinge,
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
"Ich am hollowe and hurtinge and knowe not wherfor"
Countinge the cars on the Newe Jersey Turnpyke
Thei have all come to looke for America
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This graf does so much work.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
This graf does so much work.
@nytimes.com #Comey
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@nytimes.com #Comey
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The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies.
For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH
For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH
September 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Fall 2025 Black River Chapbook Competition is now open for unpublished chapbooks of poems or prose, 16-36 pages long! Open to writers at all stages—the winner receives publication, $500, and ten book copies.
For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH
For submission details and past winners, visit our site: buff.ly/SwRgCtH
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die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
December 16, 2024 at 2:05 PM
die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie
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This year and last year weren't particularly easy years for me for various reasons (mostly work). So last year I made a list on my phone of some of the really great days I had that year, and I've done the same this year.
It really improved my perspective on the whole year, I really recommend it!
It really improved my perspective on the whole year, I really recommend it!
December 11, 2024 at 7:36 PM
This year and last year weren't particularly easy years for me for various reasons (mostly work). So last year I made a list on my phone of some of the really great days I had that year, and I've done the same this year.
It really improved my perspective on the whole year, I really recommend it!
It really improved my perspective on the whole year, I really recommend it!
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
projects.propublica.org
March 22, 2024 at 1:25 PM
I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
projects.propublica.org/claimfile/
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Goal of the protagonist in:
French novel: "to fall in love"
British novel: "to get married"
Russian novel: "to become a great man"
American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"
French novel: "to fall in love"
British novel: "to get married"
Russian novel: "to become a great man"
American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"
December 3, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Goal of the protagonist in:
French novel: "to fall in love"
British novel: "to get married"
Russian novel: "to become a great man"
American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"
French novel: "to fall in love"
British novel: "to get married"
Russian novel: "to become a great man"
American novel: "to kill that fuckin' whale, man. I want that GOD DAMN whale to die. FUCK, I hate whales so much!!"
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They will halt on January 20, 2025 when Trump takes office, noting the “threat to democracy and freedom of expression posed by the cooperation between the president of the most powerful country in the world, Donald J. Trump, and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk…”
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 AM
They will halt on January 20, 2025 when Trump takes office, noting the “threat to democracy and freedom of expression posed by the cooperation between the president of the most powerful country in the world, Donald J. Trump, and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk…”
The dark rainy day in NYC really makes the colors of the parade show up. Seems richer (if unpleasant) somehow.
November 28, 2024 at 4:17 PM
The dark rainy day in NYC really makes the colors of the parade show up. Seems richer (if unpleasant) somehow.
Little girl at my neighborhood park came over to me, asked me what my name was, and when I told her she said “that’s not a good name”. Now I am left to consider how ill-named I am and to rue my very existence.
November 26, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Little girl at my neighborhood park came over to me, asked me what my name was, and when I told her she said “that’s not a good name”. Now I am left to consider how ill-named I am and to rue my very existence.
Ow. Just sitting here with an extremely prickly pocket and realizing I put a handful of push-pins in there during a decorating frenzy.
November 25, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Ow. Just sitting here with an extremely prickly pocket and realizing I put a handful of push-pins in there during a decorating frenzy.
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Raise your hand if you’re totally okay with sending Elon Musk to Mars. ✋
November 25, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Raise your hand if you’re totally okay with sending Elon Musk to Mars. ✋
My holiday decor has been minimal for the last decade or so, but I am buying flameless candles and lighted garlands now — I need more light. The early darkness is heavier this year.
November 23, 2024 at 9:17 PM
My holiday decor has been minimal for the last decade or so, but I am buying flameless candles and lighted garlands now — I need more light. The early darkness is heavier this year.
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Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
November 23, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Literary critic: Difficulty and Opportunity: Liminality and the Cup in the Cultural Imaginary, 1789-1914
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My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.
November 20, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Word of the day. Or week. Or next four years.
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Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
November 19, 2024 at 4:46 PM
Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.
Dilemma: I want just enough political news to keep up with developments, so I followed a few analysts and reporters: but now the BlueSkeets are all reposting all the political news and it’s just too much.
November 20, 2024 at 2:26 AM
Dilemma: I want just enough political news to keep up with developments, so I followed a few analysts and reporters: but now the BlueSkeets are all reposting all the political news and it’s just too much.
I thought I was re-reading A High Wind in Jamaica, but now I think I must have been remembering some other book involving children and pirates because wow — that was really something.
November 19, 2024 at 9:13 PM
I thought I was re-reading A High Wind in Jamaica, but now I think I must have been remembering some other book involving children and pirates because wow — that was really something.
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Watching a Hallmark Christmas movie in which our heroine is an "archival historian," which everyone can agree is an impressive title.
November 14, 2023 at 7:36 PM
Watching a Hallmark Christmas movie in which our heroine is an "archival historian," which everyone can agree is an impressive title.
I feel like there’s been an alien invasion. We are now waiting for the Americans to save us, except we ARE the Americans and no one is coming. We are just watching the cities burn. That’s what this feels like.
November 18, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I feel like there’s been an alien invasion. We are now waiting for the Americans to save us, except we ARE the Americans and no one is coming. We are just watching the cities burn. That’s what this feels like.
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Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30.
Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.
Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.
November 18, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Men’s pants: Your waist is 30 inches, therefore you are a size 30.
Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.
Women’s pants: Your waist is bad inches, you have wide hips, a small butt, short legs, a prehensile tail, and we don’t like your face. Therefore you are a size whatever the fuck we want, but only at this store.
Can some explain how to use the starter packs? I click on one and it wants me to join BlueSky (already here, obviously) and won’t let me click on the names listed.
November 17, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Can some explain how to use the starter packs? I click on one and it wants me to join BlueSky (already here, obviously) and won’t let me click on the names listed.
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This is Meatball. He's going home for the very first time. So excited to have a human of his own. Thinking about what he's going to call you. Maybe Bob. 12/10
November 15, 2024 at 7:11 PM
This is Meatball. He's going home for the very first time. So excited to have a human of his own. Thinking about what he's going to call you. Maybe Bob. 12/10