Noah Patton

@noahpatton.bsky.social

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Baltimore City. Disaster Recovery Advocacy @ the National Low Income Housing Coalition. Esq. These are my personal opinions, there are many like them, but these ones are mine.

Excerpt from Gary Paulson's book "Guts" describing a child killed by a deer

Text with Canadian maple leaf embellishments saying "Joe Pera Talks To You About the Rat Wars of Alberta, Canada (1950-Present Day)" above a drawing of a rat

Tiffany thought a lot about words, in the long hours of churning butte. Onomatopoetic , she'd discovered in the dictionary, meant words that sounded like the thing they were describing, like cuckoo. But she thought there should be a word that sounds like the noise a thing would make if that thing made a noise even though, actually, it doesn't, but would if it did.
Glint, for example. If light made a noise as it reflected off a distant window, it'd go glint! And the light of tinsel, all those little glints chiming together, would make a noise like glitterglitter. Gleam was a clean, smooth noise from a surface that intended to shine all day. And glisten was the soft, almost greasy sound of something rich and oily.

A scene of clone troopers from the star wars prequels landing but all their heads are the Maryland flag

Bernie Sanders, arms raised with brick in hand, slowly bricking up a wall to encase Mayor Pete, whose face grimaces. There is bottom text that says: "For the Love of God, Montresor!" And below it "'Yes,' I said, 'for the love of God!'"

Luke Nichols of OutdoorBoys YouTube fame on the frozen tundra. A mountain is behind him under blue sky. He is wearing Inuit/Yupik-style snow goggles, a brown fur jacket, brown cargo pants, yellow gloves, and a low-caliber rifle for scaring off polar bears.

I'm Going to Become the Joker 50+ times

I'm going to become the Joker

Map showing the hourly wage needed to afford a two bedroom rental home by state

New next generation ACELA trains, blue and Grey with a red strip along the side. Sitting in baltimore penn station.

The movie poster for the film "In the Heat of the Night"

Flag of frederick county, alternating yellow, red, white, and black

A group of people smile at the camera as they sit around a brown-paper covered table eating MD-style crabs, the upturned tray says "crabs" in a stylized script.

A MD general assembly bill entitled "Criminal Law - Witchcraft - Exoneration" sponsored by Delegate Bagnall

Newcastle v. Aston Villa, score by Newcastle at 2min and a red card from J. Durán at 32min

Homer Simpson sitting on a car looking into the night sky where the faint image of Jack Karlson mid-arrest.