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Steve Patterson

@steve-patterson.bsky.social

Nerd. Retired. Amateur pogonotropher. Here for the vibe; I'll try to keep up. "With great power comes great voltage and/or truly excessive current." No DMs. God is real unless declared an integer. [ old nerd humor, don't worry about it ]

created September 14, 2024

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Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Desperate times call for desperate actors.

30/8/2025, 4:14:52 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

L. Ron did okay... low probability of success, but pretty lucrative if successful.

28/8/2025, 6:40:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Why now?

28/8/2025, 6:37:43 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

So if my business model is "stealing food from supermarkets," when I get caught, I should just claim that "incarceration will destroy my business" and they'll let me continue? I don't think so. Theft is theft.

28/8/2025, 6:35:50 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Somebody let the crackers out of the barrel, and now I wish they were monkeys instead.

27/8/2025, 6:32:17 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Crackers with barrels?

27/8/2025, 5:49:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Communism is classless, which I'm fairly certain we're never going to go to (oligarchy and communism cannot coexist). But it's definitely socialism, straight out of ol' Karl's playbook. Donald Trump -- Marxist. But it's okay with his base 'cause he hates the same people they do?

26/8/2025, 11:12:28 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

vs. anti-vax, roadkill-hoarding shithead with a dead worm in his brain.

26/8/2025, 7:39:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

"not talking" should also be on the table.

26/8/2025, 7:35:01 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

And brown people commit way fewer crimes per capita than orange people.

24/8/2025, 10:44:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Might need to be a recurring treatment.

24/8/2025, 5:23:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

Happy Independence Day, Ukraine! May you soon be free of the Putin-pox!

24/8/2025, 1:18:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Under the sand trap at Trump's Bedminster golf course.

22/8/2025, 10:46:01 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

LOOK I SAID I'M SORRY! I didn't recognize you. Maybe we can do better in the next life.

22/8/2025, 6:05:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Alcohol. Lots and lots of alcohol.

22/8/2025, 3:47:45 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Kmart isn't opening stores in any of the former-Confederate states. (Or anywhere else... see how easy that was?)

21/8/2025, 2:28:18 PM | 0 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

But we're pretty sure who he's doing (although still not why), and that explains the MTG post.

19/8/2025, 7:24:05 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

United States Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. Pretty sure she's neither Rebellion nor Invasion nor a threat to public Safety.

19/8/2025, 7:08:57 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Missing from this photo: Wayland Flowers

19/8/2025, 2:36:56 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

To be fair, that's just one item on a very long list of things Trump has no clue about.

19/8/2025, 2:29:38 PM | 14 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Something wrong with her hearing... it ain't _thank_ you that they're saying...

19/8/2025, 4:24:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I'll take "Shit That Never Happened" for $400, please, Alex...

18/8/2025, 9:59:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

movie sheet ad for the film,
18/8/2025, 7:27:50 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Don't kid yourself. He was always Putin's bitch. The clown part is his side hustle.

17/8/2025, 8:26:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Looks like we're gonna need a bigger Jolly Rancher.

16/8/2025, 1:03:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

So is your bike. And so is the beach.

13/8/2025, 7:52:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Diddlin' Don's in Alaska today; should be safe to come out.

12/8/2025, 3:57:41 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture phil (@philjamesson.com) reposted

discovered the Immortal Noodles

package of noodles that says Best before:YYYY.MM
10/8/2025, 10:05:55 PM | 3749 264 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

"I don't tan, I stoke."

11/8/2025, 2:07:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah, Rex, the only thing that distracts from your handsomeness is your stunning intellect.

10/8/2025, 5:28:29 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

No wonder Melania won't hold his hand.

10/8/2025, 12:33:22 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Just imagine how much it'd suck if she were sober.

7/8/2025, 3:49:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess that depends on whether they take the "RINO" label as dismissive closure, or just the beginning of a lasting, festering resentment (and as it is MAGA we're talking about here, I'll bet it isn't the first one).

7/8/2025, 3:42:22 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

They can still be both... hand tools or power tools?

6/8/2025, 3:17:52 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

A golden ballroom is more important than... Nope. I got nothin'.

6/8/2025, 3:16:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Texas -- The One-Star State

4/8/2025, 7:00:46 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Amateur. :-)

A box of
4/8/2025, 12:35:28 PM | 26 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Think he'll chicken out? Again?

4/8/2025, 1:25:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Different when it's other people's money...

3/8/2025, 6:35:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

What, he stayed on the plane? I find Bill Clinton's "...but I didn't inhale" to be far more credible.

28/7/2025, 5:46:19 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Chuck Todd is a demented fool who is hurting journalism.

27/7/2025, 6:50:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

OMG, it's finally happened! Traditional Wisconsin billboards advertise any _three_ of: cheese, adult toys, fireworks, and souvenirs. The line between them is blurring, or possibly erased.

26/7/2025, 10:56:12 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

A parody of the
25/7/2025, 9:51:58 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

What, Ewoks again?

23/7/2025, 7:58:57 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Gobby Don, the Great Orange Whale

22/7/2025, 1:46:37 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Where Everybody Knows Your Name ("Cheers" theme) Hawaii 5-0 The Wild Wild West

21/7/2025, 11:58:35 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

Happy Birthday to @jonb-2149.bsky.social for those who celebrate. 76, I believe, if you're keeping score.

21/7/2025, 4:22:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I go with, "I'm experiencing a problem, and hoping you can help me with it." Or words to that effect. The usual response is on the order of, "Certainly! Let's see what we can do!"

17/7/2025, 11:18:08 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Other times, you pour them into a bowl and eat them with a spoon.

17/7/2025, 10:57:16 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Garnished with glass and bleach.

17/7/2025, 3:17:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Benny Bell will live forever.

17/7/2025, 3:14:34 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

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16/7/2025, 2:51:06 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Briefly wondered if maybe this is 3D chess... that it's Bill Clinton implicated and not TCF... doesn't fly, though; Democrats would gleefully watch a bus go back and forth repeatedly over Clinton if he were the pedophile.

15/7/2025, 6:43:38 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture skinskin (@skinskintainan.bsky.social) reposted

重層のくも #art #photo #photography #sky #sunset #clouds #EastCoastKin ©️skinskin

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15/7/2025, 4:17:49 PM | 347 33 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

If TCF is enjoying some sort of supernatural protection, it ain't from God, that's for sure.

13/7/2025, 8:50:31 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

GROJ: Get Rid Of Junk sale. Not the misspelling it seems to be. I thought everyone knew this.

13/7/2025, 8:46:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Luca (@lucagalletti.bsky.social) reposted

I like it when humans aren't destroying stuff.

12/7/2025, 7:42:29 PM | 191 71 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Same.

13/7/2025, 8:32:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

If we're going for "supernatural intervention", my money's on a force other than "God"... maybe Satan's backing Trump? That would explain so much...

13/7/2025, 1:29:32 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Tee Vixen Sutton (@vixenbite.bsky.social) reposted

Snort laugh. We need humor

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13/7/2025, 11:11:42 AM | 10043 2782 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

The text
11/7/2025, 9:26:11 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air a new episode on Thursday, July 10, 2025, with guests Clarissa Ward and Michael C. Hall. The episode is an original airing, not a repeat. It was originally broadcast on June 25, 2025" Okay, I feel a little less threatened by AI.

11/7/2025, 3:28:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump: Just wait until you see what I do to agriculture!

10/7/2025, 7:39:42 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

According to your detractors, you've had WMV so many times, it's either chronic or you should be immune by now.

10/7/2025, 7:38:26 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Bluesky is somewhat asshole-resistant, so adoption may be slower (but vastly better).

9/7/2025, 10:38:05 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Because the term"coprophagous annelid" would just go in one ear and out the other (and so would a coprophagous annelid, come to think of it).

3/7/2025, 11:14:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

Just wrote a perl function named "atomic" and the syntax amuses me.

3/7/2025, 8:23:11 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

To parody a former network slogan, "CBS Caves."

2/7/2025, 5:49:18 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Wait, didn't his current wife get in on some false pretenses? I suppose tossing her out that way avoids the pre-nup...

1/7/2025, 9:26:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Intentional Constitutional Evisceration

30/6/2025, 12:38:50 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Oh c'mon, now; his obsession with his press coverage is not the reason he can't function. Doesn't help, but I'd guess it has more to do with a high BAC, or maybe a little bit of withdrawal.

26/6/2025, 5:19:43 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I have a tendency, from time to time, to say stupid things. Not particularly of a racial/sexual nature, but stupid nonetheless. I wish not to be found out, so sometimes I choose to remain silent.

24/6/2025, 2:21:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Wouldn't you just love it if to counter any airborne threats, anti-aircraft missile systems are installed near the facilities he frequents, and one day, due to transponder failure, he gets shot down by an actual Patriot (missile)?

22/6/2025, 8:53:47 PM | 6 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Welcome to DHS -- the Department of Homeschooled Security.

22/6/2025, 8:51:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

There is a Russian *tool* in the White House. The mole is just there to report back on said tool.

22/6/2025, 7:56:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

There WAS a deal; Trump tore it up. And then acted surprised that Iran didn't want to waste time on another document Trump could just trash at will? Vile.

22/6/2025, 1:15:06 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe not an earnest answer: because they're too fugly to go out in public otherwise.

21/6/2025, 6:32:28 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Your concern is greatly appreciated (and extremely warranted). My country is not well. Always good to have a friend looking out for us.

21/6/2025, 4:25:59 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

We get it (lots of us, anyway). Sorry that it has to be this way. Stay safe, 🇨🇦!

21/6/2025, 3:27:35 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

So he's going to apply a model trained on... well, basically crap, to "fix" the crap so it is somehow crap no longer, and then retrain the model on the new, re-crappified crap. Sounds like a tremendous waste of energy.

21/6/2025, 3:20:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Varmint.

16/6/2025, 2:41:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

With a little luck and a bit more cholesterol, maybe his next parade will be lead by a hearse?

14/6/2025, 7:18:11 PM | 10 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

This was early; it got denser quickly. #NoKings #Naperville

A bunch of people standing around in protest of President Trump's abuse of his position.
14/6/2025, 6:50:03 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

I guess I never realized that the Village People is now a girl band.

13/6/2025, 6:45:22 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

Too much, d'you think?

The words
13/6/2025, 2:43:39 PM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

There can't be that much left to gather there, can there? Just wondering, really, what's left in that despotic abyss...

9/6/2025, 8:02:59 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Some grade-A level trolling, there, Peter.

9/6/2025, 7:59:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Yup.

9/6/2025, 6:40:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Lost Spark Art & Photography Studio (@thelostspark.bsky.social) reposted

Good Night 🌊 #Photography #PNW #sunsets #Ocean

Sunsetting with the fog rolling in, on the mighty Pacific Ocean.
5/6/2025, 2:16:22 AM | 262 22 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

With much respect -- and McMahon IS a tuber -- someone should look up the word "allude"; it is not a replacement for "elude".

5/6/2025, 12:47:07 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

Flowers against a brick wall
3/6/2025, 4:18:03 PM | 18 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Taco dude's a bit transgenic himself; pretty sure there's poultry DNA in there somewhere.

1/6/2025, 11:14:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

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1/6/2025, 10:35:06 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Either that, or he's just a putz who peaked some time ago.

31/5/2025, 3:25:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social)

A certain convicted felon claimed that if Hillary Clinton won the election,there'd be a taco truck on every corner. This TACO thing feels like an acid-induced closure to the prophecy.

30/5/2025, 3:20:17 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

But which got laid first?

30/5/2025, 3:16:22 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Honestly, wouldn't you be surprised if it didn't?

29/5/2025, 8:27:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

[movie trailer voiceover voice]: "Donald Trump and J.D.Vance ARE.... too weak."

29/5/2025, 7:21:28 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Steve Patterson (@steve-patterson.bsky.social) reply parent

Now where's my damn Slinky?

29/5/2025, 4:31:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view