Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦
@patrickjohanneson.com
Part-time prevaricator.
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https://patrickjohanneson.com/
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I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
He/him 🇨🇦
https://patrickjohanneson.com/
Avatar by @badguybirnie.bsky.social's kid
Ukrainian wheat field header by Alex @aplante.com Plante
I'm also on Mastodon — https://mstdn.ca/@pjohanneson
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Hi, I'm Patrick. I write SF/F, I take photos—largely in the dark—and I wrangle websites for my spending cash. I keep a blog over at patrickjohanneson.com, though I cross-post most everything here too.
#Introduction #PinnedPost
#Introduction #PinnedPost
November 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Again, Bluesky binds (bans/suspends) but does not protect liberal, left-leaning, or marginalized voices, and protects but does not bind (ban/suspend) regressive, right-leaning, racist, transphobic, or abusive accounts.
It's not the act of banning, it's the naked prioritizing that's the problem.
It's not the act of banning, it's the naked prioritizing that's the problem.
November 14, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Again, Bluesky binds (bans/suspends) but does not protect liberal, left-leaning, or marginalized voices, and protects but does not bind (ban/suspend) regressive, right-leaning, racist, transphobic, or abusive accounts.
It's not the act of banning, it's the naked prioritizing that's the problem.
It's not the act of banning, it's the naked prioritizing that's the problem.
A book from the 80s that I love
(this is the one that introduced me to William @greatdismal.bsky.social Gibson)
(this is also the first trilogy I read 2-1-3, but weirdly not the last)
(this is the one that introduced me to William @greatdismal.bsky.social Gibson)
(this is also the first trilogy I read 2-1-3, but weirdly not the last)
November 14, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A book from the 80s that I love
(this is the one that introduced me to William @greatdismal.bsky.social Gibson)
(this is also the first trilogy I read 2-1-3, but weirdly not the last)
(this is the one that introduced me to William @greatdismal.bsky.social Gibson)
(this is also the first trilogy I read 2-1-3, but weirdly not the last)
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Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those who celebrate.
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I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
history is a fucking joke lmao
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this is how you get outbreaks of Mad Oreo Disease
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
this is how you get outbreaks of Mad Oreo Disease
there look to be a lot of #StorySeeds in this here thread
Long ago on the hell site I made long list of historically interesting things to use in dnd ttrpgs and I'll start dragging them over here starting with
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
2000 years-old sapphire ring presumably belonged to Roman emperor Caligula, depicting his fourth wife Caesonia.
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 PM
there look to be a lot of #StorySeeds in this here thread
I'd never seen this ad before, but now that I have, you should too
Truly no advert has ever stuck in my mind like this one. Every moment of it has popped up again and again in my mind for seven years now. Now and again I post it in the hope that sharing will act as some kind of purgative. It never does.
youtu.be/1YBP8v6fi2w?...
youtu.be/1YBP8v6fi2w?...
Life is Short, Have a Diet Coke | Because I Can | Diet Coke GB
YouTube video by Coca-Cola Great Britain & Ireland
youtu.be
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I'd never seen this ad before, but now that I have, you should too
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![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Aurora in the city, Nov. 12–13, 2025
As seen from the spare bedroom.
As seen from the spare bedroom.
Aurora in the city, Nov. 12–13, 2025
As seen from the spare bedroom.
patrickjohanneson.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Aurora in the city, Nov. 12–13, 2025
As seen from the spare bedroom.
As seen from the spare bedroom.
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Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.
November 13, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Reminder that anyone who says "a writer must do this," "a writer cannot do that," is WRONG.
November 13, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 AM
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
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Convincing you to read my short fiction with some first lines. Share yours if you'd like.
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
November 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Convincing you to read my short fiction with some first lines. Share yours if you'd like.
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
(All these stories—and more—are free to read on my site: patrickjohanneson.com/fiction/)
Remembrance Day light show
The aurora was *everywhere*.
The aurora was *everywhere*.
Remembrance Day light show
The aurora was *everywhere*.
patrickjohanneson.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Remembrance Day light show
The aurora was *everywhere*.
The aurora was *everywhere*.
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i fully agree with this theory and in my actual field, british architectural history, The Problem is that Salisbury Cathedral is built on top of a lake and no i am not exaggerating
between this and the FSO Safer (another ship at serious risk of exploding) I’m convinced every field has its “yeah, this is the problem that keeps me up at night” and I’m on a quest to learn about all of them
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
i fully agree with this theory and in my actual field, british architectural history, The Problem is that Salisbury Cathedral is built on top of a lake and no i am not exaggerating
Coyotes howling, and northern lights bright enough to read by. I could get used to this.
November 12, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Coyotes howling, and northern lights bright enough to read by. I could get used to this.
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Bond writers: “we can’t just bring Bond back to life, it’s too unbelievable, the audience won’t go for it!”
Also Bond writers:
Also Bond writers:
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Bond writers: “we can’t just bring Bond back to life, it’s too unbelievable, the audience won’t go for it!”
Also Bond writers:
Also Bond writers:
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No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
“Standards will be eliminated or severely cut back. Bari has told people that she wants to get rid of standards and is shocked that they have so much power. She asks ‘What’s the point of standards?’
November 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
and I *still* hate the ribbon bar
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
The distance in time between now and when Microsoft Office replaced drop down menus with the ribbon bar at the top is the same as the distance between then and the fall of the Berlin Wall
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
and I *still* hate the ribbon bar
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
(fortunately I don't use MS Office very often)
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Remembrance Day
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Remembrance Day
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Chat, I have to attend two days of an AI Summit.
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
November 11, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Chat, I have to attend two days of an AI Summit.
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
Should I live-skeet this amazing event?
if it can be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
Q: What is the biggest risk for AI industry?
A: Regulations.
A: Regulations.
November 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
if it can be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
it should be destroyed by oversight
It's weird that people think you can write without reading. I've always liked the way @stephenking.bsky.social put it:
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
Every time I say this, I get some type of backlash, but to be a good writer, you have to be a good reader. Yes, read your niche, but read widely too. I read poetry, horror, graphic novels, picture books, and non-fiction, too. It's only made my writing better.
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
It's weird that people think you can write without reading. I've always liked the way @stephenking.bsky.social put it:
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time—or the tools—to write.