Patrick Johanneson 🚀 🇨🇦
@patrickjohanneson.com
Part-time prevaricator. 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
you can't smoke in the frickin' maternity ward anymore, I'd call that a win
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 22h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
#Breaking: Lloyd Robertson, one of Canada’s most recognizable news anchors, dies at 92
Longtime Canadian journalist Lloyd Robertson dies at 92: CTV News
Lloyd Robertson, former chief anchor at CTV, covered events from Royal Weddings to the 9/11 terrorist attacks during career in broadcast spanning over six decades.
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The soundtrack to Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey introduced me to Primus, and I've never been quite the same. www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Oh...
Primus - Tommy The Cat (Official Music Video)
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Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · yesterdayName your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack.
psst wanna see one hell of an o-uchi-gari? www.cbc.ca/player/play/... (starts at 3:41—I've rarely seen someone get that much air on this particular throw) #Judo #CommonwealthGames
Kyle Reyes wins Commonwealth Games judo gold via an ippon
Toronto's Kyle Reyes beat England's Max Gregory in the men's -100 kg gold medal judo final, at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games.
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"Today is August 4, 2026". Happy "There Will Come Soft Rains" Day!
Gad I love ballads (ie, story songs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV6Y... You must be the first in ninety years to meet his death By way of antique archaic black powder pistol's breath
Corb Lund - Priceless Antique Pistol Shoots Startled owner
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I adore any building that goes hard AF for no reason but pure love of the game. This one is doing the absolute most, & I love that for all of us. Architects: Olsen & Urbain, 1925
Bluesky is a "liberal bubble" because fascist chuds can't get traction without algorithmic assistance and because people here trained themselves to block "debate me" trybois the instant they roll up
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
My current #WIP 's narrator has received a bunch of his high-school diaries and is now, from 30 years later, re-reading the things he wrote down and recalling the things he left out. He's trying really hard to be honest, but it's not any easier in 2018 than it was in 1988.
🌱 Charlie (Chelizabeth) Delta 🦊🪻@charliedeltawrites.bsky.social · 2d agoTell me more about your #AwesomeCharacters Your character is writing their memoirs! How honest are they being? Are they playing up their heroism and the drama? Are they leaving anything out? Why? What tone will it have? #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts
The 12yo is interested in #Smaugust, a month of drawing dragons, named in honour of Smaug, from The Hobbit. He couldn’t find a prompt list which really inspired him so he made his own. I am sharing it here in (complete with his illustration!) case you want to play along.
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
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Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
I like most of the things I write. If I had to pick a favourite it might be "Exit Interview" because it was such fun to write. patrickjohanneson.com/story/exit-i...
Exit Interview
Stella Laine, deputy head of Human Resources, tented her fingers, looked me in the eye, and said, "Your time on Earth is nearly up, Benjamin."
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Ellipsus@ellipsus.com · 2d agoWe all have one... or do we? Let us know!👇 (Art by Guillermo Martí Ceballos)
At the start of June, I crashed my bicycle but good, and wiped out hard on the pavement at the bottom of a hill. I'd seen a guy mowing his lawn at the top of the hill, so (once I established that a broken wrist was the worst of my injuries) I walked back up the hill. 1/3
☀️@stel.energy · 4d agoquote this with a time a bystander helped you out
Star Trek Into Darkness is on the television. What a hollow spectacle.
I was sure I watched a lot of TNG,in my youth, but every day it seems like there's a screenshot from an episode I have *zero* recollection of.
Amanda Wong@amandawtwong.bsky.social · 3d agoGod, this episode terrified me when I was nine
I'm not, to be sure, saying I endorse this, but I do recall, decades ago, a writer wryly commenting that we should do away with copyediting altogether, perform a basic check for spelling errors and other typos, and find out "who can write and who can't."
Instagram just tried to show me an ad for a seniors' home in British Columbia. Keep flailing, there, #TheAlgorith™.
In the theatre: The Odyssey Anywhere: Guardians of the Galaxy
Sophia_Nyx 🏳️⚧️@sophianyx.bsky.social · 4d agoName the last film you've seen.
has it really already been 40 years since I didn't see this in the theatre
Ken Plume@kenplume.bsky.social · 2y agoOn August 1, 1986, Howard The Duck premiered in theaters. NEVER FORGET.
