Patrick "I'm Patman" Sponaugle
@patman.bsky.social
I used to spend a lot of time on Twitter as patman23, but Elon Musk turned it into the proverbial Nazi Bar.
I used to blog a lot about Game of Thrones, but that's just sad to bring up, I feel. (I'm happy to talk about Game of Thrones though, pleasantly.)
I used to blog a lot about Game of Thrones, but that's just sad to bring up, I feel. (I'm happy to talk about Game of Thrones though, pleasantly.)
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November 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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this one, this is the one
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 PM
this one, this is the one
The hillman swung his battle axe, and the wizard's head flew through the air.
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The hillman swung his battle axe, and the wizard's head flew through the air.
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
Across the chamber, trying to stay inconspicuous in the shadows, the wizard's 20-foot python thought "Holy Shit! Who's gonna feed me now?"
#MicroStory
I always love being reminded of this story.
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
Arizona pair celebrates decade of friendship that started with wrong text
From text to tradition: Jamal Hinton and Wanda Dench mark 10th Thanksgiving together after accidental invitation.
www.azfamily.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I always love being reminded of this story.
The old peasant had two skills: stone-working and knowing not to report to work when the monarch’s secretive projects were nearing their completion dates.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
November 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The old peasant had two skills: stone-working and knowing not to report to work when the monarch’s secretive projects were nearing their completion dates.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
The dark zone wasn’t exactly a Dyson Sphere, a theoretical structure built around a star. It was a senses-shatteringly huge structure built around a black hole.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The dark zone wasn’t exactly a Dyson Sphere, a theoretical structure built around a star. It was a senses-shatteringly huge structure built around a black hole.
#MicroStory
#MicroStory
Happy Blackagar Fridayagon to the Inhuman consumers of Attilan.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
November 28, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Happy Blackagar Fridayagon to the Inhuman consumers of Attilan.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
Everyone else should just refrain from consumerism today. There is power in silence.
I'm falling asleep.
November 28, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I'm falling asleep.
I honestly feel that I don't get enough credit and respect for that time I single-handedly prevented the invasion of Earth by Martian monstrosities. A thing that absolutely can't be proved that it didn't happen.
VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans
November 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I honestly feel that I don't get enough credit and respect for that time I single-handedly prevented the invasion of Earth by Martian monstrosities. A thing that absolutely can't be proved that it didn't happen.
Historically accurate!
happy Thanksgiving! in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, “Now by God I’ll see if I can’t cut up this turkey without farting!”
November 27, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Historically accurate!
@jonswoe.bsky.social Hey, I hope you have an outrageously happy birthday today.
November 27, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@jonswoe.bsky.social Hey, I hope you have an outrageously happy birthday today.
Thanks, everyone.
Also, hang in there.
Also, hang in there.
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thanks, everyone.
Also, hang in there.
Also, hang in there.
The Butlerian Jihad is paying off dividends.
Well I didn’t intend on poking it and I have little desire to talk about AI here again.
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
The Butlerian Jihad is paying off dividends.
“Mordrugh, this tribunal is not here to listen to your views on the benefits of necromancy -“
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
“Mordrugh, this tribunal is not here to listen to your views on the benefits of necromancy -“
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
“Living beings require too much land and effort directed to their existence! My laboring dead are so much more productive. Can’t you see?”
“We are here to judge you for poisoning the wells.”
#MicroStory
“You shouldn’t have cursed them with plagues if you didn’t want them to leave you,” the river god observed.
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
November 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“You shouldn’t have cursed them with plagues if you didn’t want them to leave you,” the river god observed.
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
The god of the lowlands recognized that truth, but still -
“A lowlander’s soul belongs to me.”
The god of the highlands laughed at that.
#MicroStory
A PRE-THANKSGIVING GIFT!
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
A PRE-THANKSGIVING GIFT!
Just spending my Sunday evening playing my favorite (free-to-play) MMO, City of Heroes. I'm having my Superman-homage flying strongman try to solo a Task Force in the beautiful (but often empty) Shadow Shard.
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Just spending my Sunday evening playing my favorite (free-to-play) MMO, City of Heroes. I'm having my Superman-homage flying strongman try to solo a Task Force in the beautiful (but often empty) Shadow Shard.
I could do anything I wanted to do tonight - I chose to watch the 2022 movie PREY and I have no regrets.
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November 23, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I could do anything I wanted to do tonight - I chose to watch the 2022 movie PREY and I have no regrets.
🏹 👾
🏹 👾
Do not let this Space Moss come to Earth!!!
'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth
'We were genuinely astonished': This moss survived 9 months outside the International Space Station and could still grow on Earth
"This study demonstrates the astonishing resilience of life that originated on Earth."
www.space.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Do not let this Space Moss come to Earth!!!
@doublephq.bsky.social
If you subtract the first ten minutes from the recent Pluribus, that episode was 10/10 great.
With those ten minutes included, the episode was transcendent- 11/10 great.
I challenge you two to watch TV better, you slackers.
If you subtract the first ten minutes from the recent Pluribus, that episode was 10/10 great.
With those ten minutes included, the episode was transcendent- 11/10 great.
I challenge you two to watch TV better, you slackers.
November 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@doublephq.bsky.social
If you subtract the first ten minutes from the recent Pluribus, that episode was 10/10 great.
With those ten minutes included, the episode was transcendent- 11/10 great.
I challenge you two to watch TV better, you slackers.
If you subtract the first ten minutes from the recent Pluribus, that episode was 10/10 great.
With those ten minutes included, the episode was transcendent- 11/10 great.
I challenge you two to watch TV better, you slackers.
This math might check out.
what if Trump thought that he was Lin Manuel Miranda
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This math might check out.
In honor of my blog being hammered by Chinese bots, here is a blog post from 11 years ago that featured an outstanding spam comment - one that I did not approve to appear (because I’d be inundated by spam I’m sure) but I did write a post about:
This Spammer Knows Quality
Okay, like most people who blog, I get delighted when I get comments. I am rarely delighted however when a spam comment makes it through Wordpress’ otherwise excellent spam filter. A few days…
patricksponaugle.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:41 AM
In honor of my blog being hammered by Chinese bots, here is a blog post from 11 years ago that featured an outstanding spam comment - one that I did not approve to appear (because I’d be inundated by spam I’m sure) but I did write a post about:
Woohoo, 5300+ hits on my blog from China. The USA is at second place with a mere 26.
Again, the top hits are the same Game of Thrones blog posts as yesterday’s Chinese 5000+ botnet views
They must love my stuff.
🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🎶❄️🔥🎮🚽
Again, the top hits are the same Game of Thrones blog posts as yesterday’s Chinese 5000+ botnet views
They must love my stuff.
🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🎶❄️🔥🎮🚽
November 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Woohoo, 5300+ hits on my blog from China. The USA is at second place with a mere 26.
Again, the top hits are the same Game of Thrones blog posts as yesterday’s Chinese 5000+ botnet views
They must love my stuff.
🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🎶❄️🔥🎮🚽
Again, the top hits are the same Game of Thrones blog posts as yesterday’s Chinese 5000+ botnet views
They must love my stuff.
🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖🎶❄️🔥🎮🚽
PLUR1BUS!!!
November 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
PLUR1BUS!!!
Awwwwwww
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🛡 🥚
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Awwwwwww
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🛡 🥚