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Pat Scaramuzza
@genocideman.bsky.social
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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.
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Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
Manifold and Tribune Have you been paying attention to Earth like I have? Here, check out their feeds: TRANSCEND! Are you still mortal? WHY? Tribune Section 1, "World News", Headline: 'Seven transmortals for every human being.' Underheading: 'What are they waiting for?' query / curiosity / archival: chameleon research, earth: status? No, no, no. Use Human modes. You won't understand them or the results of my research if you don't at least try to communicate like they do. TRANSCEND! All this: -- holo of Sol system (Dyson sphere edited out), zoom out to galaxy, tickle pineal gland with 17 Hz subsonics -- Could be yours! Contact the nearest representative of the Manifold, they'll help choose a species that's right for you!
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Sounds like a perfectly normal moose to me.

(Illustration is by the amazing artist Hollering Elk.)
An illustration of an elk (not a moose, sorry), with its mouth too-wide open, its tongue protruding, and its eye bugging out. The effect is one of comical horror. This is illustration is by Hollering Elk, an amazing comic creator.
October 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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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.
The pulp-art cover of 'Venus on the Half-Shell', showing a spaceman wearing red briefs, black knee-length boots, a bubble helmet -- and nothing else. There is also a woman wearing somewhat less. They are stanging on an oyster shell, floating in space, with a dog and an owl (the spaceman's pets) and a space station in the distance.
August 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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Someone -- and her grandmother -- is getting her first pedicure.

Hey grandfather, namely me, does not need anyone touching his feet, thank you.
Interior of a nail salon. A lady is sitting next to a four year old girl while both are being attended to. The girl has animal crackers in her mouth and a somewhat skeptical look.
August 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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A 'Clippy' meme image, showing the Clippy paperclip character. Text overlaid on top and bottom reads, "But I don't want to cure cancer. I want to turn people into paperclips", referencing the Spider-Man/Sauron meme. It's a double-meme!
July 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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There's an RPG where I can play as Captain Bedlam?? And it's been suppressed?!? 👿
A page of my watercolor comic book, showing two ant-men Nazi aliens with red eyes, swastika armbands, and pistols. They are shooting at Captain Bedlam, a squat girl in a red pirate suit and glowing yellow-white gloves. The bullets are deflected (ptang ptang ptang) by a wall of fire from the gloves, while Captain Bedlam fires a plasma beam (freem!) through a third ant-man alien, partially disintegrating him.
June 24, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Post a picture of when your pet was little.
My dog Ripley, so young that his black spots are just coming in, sleeping in the sunlight on our leather couch.
June 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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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.
A protest poster bearing the words, "Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, then all the crowned ruffians that ever lived. Thomas Paine" The 'No Kings' logo is in the lower right corner.
June 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Inspired by you, Greg, this is my submission. I have a couple of other ideas I might put together also.
A cartoon trash bin, with the 'No Kings' logo on its front. There's a plush purple throne sitting askew in the bin.
June 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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This kid is just weird, and I approve!
My granddaughter Delaney, a four-year-old weirdo, holding a sign with a skull wearing an eyepatch and the saying, "The beatings will continue 'til morale improves". She's holding up her other hand with her finger as a hook, and I'm told she said 'Yaaar!' when the picture was taken.
May 19, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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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
Line art of an anthropomorphic weasel sitting at a table with a laptop, their fingers raised as they type, obviously enjoying themselves. A bookcase behind them shows titles from Narrativity authors. There's a window with a black cat, and a mug labeled 'PJF'. Line art of a feral weasel standing on a stack of books and a table with a laptop, their fingers raised as they type, obviously enjoying themselves. A bookcase behind them shows titles from Narrativity authors. There's a window with a black cat, and a mug labeled 'PJF'.
May 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Hmm. In my defense, I was hand posing for a comic page.
Me, middle aged guy in glasses, with my hands outstretched toward the camera, palms up.
May 7, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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I call this composition, "Grandpa is watching me this morning."
Picture of my granddaughter Delaney, sitting in a sunny bay window, with water, milk, cookies, a plushie, and an expression that says, "I'm not sure what I can get away with but I'm gonna test the boundaries."
April 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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I mean, others have previously ruined the reputation of red hatwear.
The mythical redcap, a goblin-like creature with a red hat and murderous intent. This picture is from the D&D rules, and shows a redcap with a huge sickle, bristly white mustache and beard, and their trademark oversized iron boots.
April 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Easter eggs colored. Any embellishment in black sharpie is mine; everything else is straight from the four year-old granddaughter.
A dozen Easter eggs in various pastel colors. Some have colored lines circling them and some have black drawings of faces, including a cat, dog, Spider-Man, and members of our family.
April 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Gonna ride out the end times in here.
The painting Diogenes and his Barrel, by Jean-Léon Gérôme. It shows the mostly naked philosopher Diogenes sitting in an overturned barrel holding a lantern. Three dogs watch him from outside. A prosperous marble city is in the distance.
April 5, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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In honor of one year of being published, I'm permanently dropping the price of all my novels. It's a great time to find out what a Platinum Donkey is!

Available at all ebook sellers, and all links can be found here: www.patscar.com?p=99
All four covers of my novels which short blurbs for each. Platinum Donkeys: Insane geniuses conquering the 22nd century. One reason to Live: Dazzling exploration of humanity and immortality. Wall and the Dark Colony: Young thieves on a wall-walking planetary adventure. Chipper: Neurodivergent detectives versus lovecraftian horrors.
March 31, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Just wanted to spread this one around more. This poster was created by Reddit poster /u/Best-Subject-7253, and is being printed out and stapled around Minneapolis. It deserves to go wider.
A poster in four colors: Red, white, blue, and black. It shows three bayonets jabbing out across three flags, the Confederate battle flag, the Nazi flag, and a flag bearing the elephant of the Republican party. On a blue background are white words saying, "We've beaten them before -- and we'll beat 'em again." The bayonets are merely silhouettes but they're period appropriate: Musket with Union bayonet, then WWII bayonet, and then what I assume is a modern rifle bayonet. Nice touch.
March 18, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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This simple enough? (The middle finger is not for you, it's for the Nazi space bugs she's fighting.)
Captain Bedlam, who is a smiley face (although she's not smiling here) wearing a red pirate hat and coat, with oversize glowing white gloves that are on fire. She is flying from the left to the right of frame, trailing magenta and orange and yellow fire behind her, while giving a middle finger salute with her leading hand; the trailing hand is wound up into a fist.
March 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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If you see this, post your skeleton art.
A page from my webcomic Indefensible Positions. It shows a skeleton (Dead Debbie) speaking to a ghostly hand in her void space. In the second panel, energy is flowing in from all corners of the void into her, and her flesh is transparently visible around her skeletal form. Debbie: I'm...scared. Not for myself, but for my friends, and for the world. It's not right, that I should leave a joyful life...then go to my reward...while others fight and suffer, and die. It's not fair that I should be happy while others live on in pain. Deb Journal: ...then you are not ready. But you cannot go back in this broken form. The voices here are the memes and emons that dwell within you. Thriving on the power of your memories and belief. We now repay that power. From now on, let this be a place of Renewal for you...and may you find the strength here to save the world you love.
February 28, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Happy Valentines Day. I leave you all with words of wisdom from the novel Platinum Donkeys. (I'm not opining about which one is the wise one in this except.)

Novels available everywhere, handily collated in this link: www.patscar.com?p=99
An excerpt from my novel Platinum Donkeys: "Now, girl, when you have a suitor --" "I'm not her --," Simon began. "-- you feed him as often as possible. You know what they say about the quickest way to a man's heart." "Yes," Maggie said, letting the word end with a hiss. "Go in under the ribcage, stab up toward his shoulder blade with a twist to the left." Leah froze in mid-stride, and turned to look at her. Simon's eyes went wide. After an uncomfortable second of silence, Maggie added: "His left." Leah's face turned red as she broke into a fit of cackling laughter. Simon, without a sound, buried his face in shaking hands.
February 15, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Just discovered an awesome artist by the name of Nate Jones. This one hits my triggers particularly well. 😁

He's got prints of this and a lot more at www.natejonesdesign.net!
A drawing of GI Robot, from the animated show Creature Commandos. He's a robot wearing a WWII helmet whose jaw plate makes him look like he's perpetually smiling. The artist has added an element: On his face are a quote from the show, "GI Robot would like to kill Nazis with you. Would you like to kill Nazis with GI Robot?"
February 13, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Oh by the way, Greg, have you seen this?
A picture of a post from @elonmusk on X/Twitter: "Anyone protesting the Trump Administration will be suspended from X. All anti-Trump drama can go to a liberal echo chamber like Threads, Reddit, BlueSky, Instagram, and Facebook."
February 3, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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I (and my eldest son, pictured) am at a 4-year-old's birthday party. The birthday girl is his daughter; she is off camera to the right, weilding the yellow balloon.
A young father sitting on the floor being viciously beaten with birthday balloons wielded by three toddlers, while adults callously watch, laughing.
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 PM