Patrick M Hayes
paedraggaidin.bsky.social
Patrick M Hayes
@paedraggaidin.bsky.social
Reader, Writer, Eater, Gamer, Geek | Arab-American poet with delusions of grandeur | 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇱🇧🇸🇾🇸🇸
As I try to get back into long-form blogging, I'm wondering if Dreamwidth is the right platform. I can control who has access to my posts (which I don't want to be public), but I'm not sure how many potential readers have Dreamwidth or OpenID accounts.

Thoughts?
June 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
May 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
May 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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If only Christian charity were as easy as accessorizing.
May 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.
March 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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March 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Yup.
February 28, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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February 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I voted to reject RFK Jr.'s nomination to HHS.

I cannot in good conscience support someone who denies and will dilute our public health protections, sow distrust in science, and oversee massive cuts to health care programs for vulnerable Americans.
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Trump is attempting to acclimate Americans to expansionist nationalism and naked threats to jail people without cause to force them into line.
Trump’s Angry, Unhinged Rants at Presser Show Things Will Get Very Bad
After Trump unleashes some wildly crazed ideas to reporters, an expert in authoritarian rhetoric says Trump revealed deeper intentions that are dangerously alarming and designed to normalize the…
newrepublic.com
January 8, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Thinking of getting back into long-form blogging.
January 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Hmmm....
December 22, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Sound about right.
December 19, 2024 at 10:35 PM
I am now a published author. You can get my first book (written under my pen name, Allen Darwish), a collection of poetry, here:

a.co/d/0SJ9MAA
Remembering Neptune
Amazon.com: Remembering Neptune: 9780999570036: Darwish, Allen: Books
a.co
December 4, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Pretty sure Baby Jesus would think daily beggars are just as deserving of cheer and figgy pudding as neighbors' children (or friendly neighbors, depending on who's singing). That line has bothered me for the longest time.
December 3, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Yeah...not very proud to be an American right now.
Today, November 25th 2024 is the day we officially learned that justice in America, in fact, does NOT matter. #sad
The moral of the story, kids: It’s fine to try to stop the peaceful transfer of power and incite a mob to storm the Capitol and do all you can to overturn an election as long as you run again and win 🇺🇸
November 25, 2024 at 11:33 PM
It's very depressing to see how many people think "chemtrails" are real.
November 25, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back.

I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.
November 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Confession time: I hate "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (the song, not the show). It's just the most commercial of all Christmas songs! Ugh.

What's your most hated Christmas song?
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 PM
So they're building pickleball courts at Wichita State, and planning on eventually chopping down some old trees for space.

Trees > pickleball, dammit. Find some other place! One thing I miss most about the campus is the foliage. What's next, axe Fiske Hall just because it's old?
November 22, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Dr. Oz + RFK Jr. running actual American governmental health entities = by Grogu's blessed feet, is this really happening
November 21, 2024 at 3:22 AM
Oh no it me
November 19, 2024 at 9:41 PM
Frustration of the Day: recipes that are YouTube videos.

I just want to read it, dang it! Why does everything have to be a video these days? Text is simpler and easier, at least for me.

[old man yells at icloud]
November 15, 2024 at 9:46 PM