Jeff, colourful old coot

@pattersonjeffa.bsky.social

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Trotskyist, omni, skeptic, into Tolkien, Brust, MCU, history. Avid indoorsman. Grandfather, husband. Woke AF. Please no DMs if I don't know you.

A man with long curly grey/red hair, grey beard, top hat with green lit up goggles, wearing an open vest and holding a walking stick. With a Steam Powered Giraffe Walter Worker in make-up.
My 82-0 roster: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander Bradley Beal Vince Carter Elvin Hayes Wilt Chamberlain.
My header. Background is a needlepoint saying "punch your local nazi." Bio: Trotskyist, omni, skeptic, into Tolkien, Brust, MCU, history. Avid indoorsman. Grandfather, husband. Woke AF. Please no DMs if I don't know you.
Man in front seat: "Fibonacci was a pretty influential Italian mathematician." Woman in back seat: "He's more influential than the next two Italian mathematicians combined." Man in front seat turns and looks shocked.
Screenshot. Google AI overview of the word "disregard". "Got it! Consider it disregarded. Let me know what you'd like to work on instead."
Merlin, the red handheld game from the 80s
Janelle Monae
San Diego gas prices ranging from a low of 6.19 to 6.69.
Crude line drawing of a person standing at a computer. Dialogue: Person: say "i am alive" Computer: >I AM ALIVE Person: oh my god.
1937 Minneapolis May Day parade
Screenshot of blank bluesky, only saying InternalServerError
Picture of Willem Dafoe as Jesus. Caption reads, "you know, I'm something of a doctor myself."
Shot of Sheriff Brody from Jaws, on the boat, captioned, "we're going to need a smaller violin."
Dune poster reading Twin Peaks instead .
Top half: Skeletor reclining captions: Trent Reznor's name backwards is Ron Zertnert. Bottom half: Skeletor running awayo caption: until next time!
Pokopia logo style reading Twin Peaks.
A donation receipt for trans Continental pipeline
Title page of old book: First edition. Ducks: And, How to make them pay. By William Cook.
Best Buy ad saying, "Remember, turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99."
Rik, Vyvyan, and Neil from the 80s show "The Young Ones".
Old comic panel, woman tied up on floor. Panel reads: As her eyes become accustomed to the dimness, she sees -- And then she exclaims, "HAM!"
Image alt text stats for 2025: 27 total images, 100% have alt text, 0 missing alt text, 138 character average alt text length (from Anisota's Annual Bluesky Harvest) .
Xkcd cartoon. At the foot of a large tree, stick figures. One is saying, "did you know the mighty redwood is actually the same species an broccoli and kale? It's just a different cultivar." Another is responding, "wow!" Caption reads, "every year or two, botanists add another plant to brassica olerecea and see if anyone calls them on it."
Picture of Richard Nixon captioned, "Random Dick Pic".
All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion. -- Jean de la Fontaine.
Quote from Donald Trump in 2013. "A shutdown falls on the president's lack of leadership. I mean problems start from the top and they have to get solved from the top. A shutdown means the president is weak."
"As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and a complete narcissistic moron." HL Mencken The Baltimore Evening Sun July 26, 1920.
Dril tweet: The wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron" .
Headline: Charlie Kirk: "It's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment." Subhead: Kirk: "Having an armed citizenry comes with a price, and that is part of liberty."
Headstone from the 19th century with a dozen children's names on it. Labelled Childhood Before Vaccines.
A white stone wall with a patch of white bricks. Caption reads: Definitely coming back here when I unlock bombs.
Brownish gray yarn being knit into a shawl with periodic lacing. Still on the needles.
Omni flag, five stripes, top to bottom: Light pink Dark pink Black Dark blue Light blue.
Picture of an Ankylosaurus
Sign reading: For the first time in history, you can simply post "he's an idiot," and 99% of the world will know exactly who you're talking about. The background appears to be a cartoon of Trump.
Picture of Richard Nixon captioned, "random dick pic".
A rabbit mounting a chicken, captioned "and that's how easter eggs are made."
Pie chart labeled "you may ask yourself." Segments: how did I get here?, how do I work this?, where is that large automobile?, what is that beautiful house?, where does that highway go to?, am I right?, am I wrong?, my god! What have I done?
A gray knitted shawl, still on the needles
A tuxedo cat sitting on a Mouse Trap game box.
"It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul; for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book 6.
Two stores next to each other in a strip mall. Left is Cremation Society of Illinois, right is Jets Pizza.
Bearded man (me!) with long curly red hair, a top hat, with brass goggles.
Tweet from The Substack of Boba Fett reading: Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "I think we're supposed to give this food to the poor" and every adult convert is like "The Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."
A tweet from Isi Breen reading, "Elon Musk has tweeted 1800 times in the last 6 days"
Headline from BBC Sport: Man Utd's youngest ever player Gaskell dies aged 84.
Sign in front of Indian Hills Community Center reading: Someone threw A jar of mayo At me I was like what The Hellman?!
A dachshund wearing mail armour
Merriam webster post, take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever word you land on is your word for 2025. Mine is FLAWLESS.
3 volumes, the collected poems of jrr Tolkien.
A truck by B & Q DIY labelled "you can do it". It's crunched trying to pass under a clearly labelled low bridge. Caption reads, "no you can't"
Picture of pipe, dude looking shocked, ceci n'est pas une pipe?! Whale thing made to look like a typical clickbait YouTube thumbnail
Headstone with lots of children's names, labelled, childhood before vaccines.
A sign. Coca Cola logo on top half, reading FLORIDA STYLE PIZZA on the bottom half.
Scooby Doo character unmasking "AI" to reveal "Exploited Human Labour"
Screenshot of an African American family with the headline CALEB DOWNS' BUCK-IQ
A skinny young man sitting at the base of a tree. Black and white yearbook photo
Black and white photo of the Star Trek character Spock giving the Vulcan salute, with the caption, "Don't play with Super Glue"
Meme, childhood before vaccines, featuring a headstone from the 19th century with a dozen names on it.
Meme reading: Theiyr're Take that, grammar police!