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Patrick McLaughlin

@McPatrick@mastodon.social

mastodon 4.7.0-beta.1

AKA elsewhere Ogrepat.

Unitarian Universalist minister.

Interests include, but are not limited to:
#Antifascism
#Antiracism
#Beer
#Brewing
#Cats
#ClimateChange #ClimateTwitter
#Cooking
#Dogs
#Gardening
#History
#LanguageLearning; currently using:
#DuolingoArabic
#DuolingoFrench
#DuolingoItalian
#DuolingoSpanish
#DuolingoUkrainian
#NHPolitics
#Politics
#PoliticalTheory
#Religion
#RPGs
#SciFi
#Travel
#UnitarianUniversalism
#USPolitics

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Joined October 28, 2022

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Jul 13, 2026

Replying to @jnl@hcommons.social

@jnl@hcommons.social It was bad already. It’s gotten worse. And is likely to get more so.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @CommonSparrow@mindly.social

@CommonSparrow@mindly.social @stux@mstdn.social LOOK! TERRAISTS!

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @jnl@hcommons.social

@jnl@hcommons.social Jésus wept.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @ScottMGS@justme.masto.host

@ScottMGS@justme.masto.host Gee. I can’t imagine why...

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @Tendar@newsie.social

@Tendar It’s a bad look to be the *knowing* receiver of stolen goods.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Mumbles something about *structural* issues.

But yes.

And I don’t even know what the referenced decision is.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Clearly they’ve learned from some of the best.

Also, I read that to my spouse, who guffawed — and agreed that it sounds so much like our Teen2.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Ugh.
Sounds like a torment of the damned.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @skribe@aus.social

@skribe@aus.social @mhoye@cosocial.ca It was the best of timelines, it was the worst of timelines...

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

I mean… I kinda wish I could, just for the rise. But the only time I’ve been portrayed (to my knowledge) as Jesus was when a (Utah) Mormon coworker asked if I would model for him. It was only later that I learned he was entering a church competition of images of Jesus in Gethsemane.

Which was just so damned funny, I let it all go. Somewhere in Utah, I’ve added to the images of white Jesus.

I apologize.

And still chuckle.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Ahhh, je t’adore, ma amie.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 14, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social I assume that this refers to what it would take to impeach.

That would be a lovely outcome.

Not among the probable ones, I fear. Hero Republican isn’t a status that more than a couple of them seem capable of aspiring to.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 05, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

I look like shit in any Eastery colors.

I promise a colorful shirt and socks that have eggs and bunnies on them (which I did *not* purchase for myself).

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social @zeblarson@hcommons.social

I gave up on perfection for Lent some years ago. I’ve since concluded that the belief in it, and desire to achieve it (and thus: ASAP; bring on the rapture) is an evil. Pretty, but an evil.

I’m for improvement. And then more improvement.

(Aw, fuck.) Semper reformandum, in fact

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Over a decade in NH — as an active participant and even a candidate — and I still didn’t think I really understood it.

Enough that I’m not convinced that it’s actually possible to.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Here, my beloved friends, we see the outlines of an unbridgeable theological divide.

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 03, 2026

@jnl@hcommons.social

Will there be cheese and beer?

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Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026

Replying to @jnl@hcommons.social

@jnl Ah, we should have waved across PHX. Flew back in today… and have now returned to the eyries of Flagstaff. And yes, it’s anti-pedestrian.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Dec 16, 2023

Replying to @wikipedia@wikis.world

@wikipedia@wikis.world

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Aug 20, 2023

Replying to @aral@mastodon.ar.al

@aral@mastodon.ar.al And this is why our Davids — the “serious” columnists who really never say anything useful, but do a lot of bland both-sides damage — penned columns about how people lack niceness and we need to restore niceness. We need lovely people who will go along nicely with the fascists.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Apr 27, 2023

Replying to @jbf1755@mastodon.social

@jbf1755@mastodon.social Their fee-fees were hurted.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2023

Replying to @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io

@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io I knew bits of this — but not all of it, and not the full context you’ve described. Thanks. And now i will go read the *whole* transcript.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Dec 19, 2022

Replying to @paulg@mas.to

@paulg The flavor of David Brooks is way too strong here. Musk is a dick. He’s a bigot. He’s an authoritarian. He’s been a complete ass to the people employed by Tesla and SpaceX — who are the ones doing the wonderful things. Leave him in Qatar, without access to the internet.

Patrick McLaughlin @McPatrick@mastodon.social · Nov 06, 2022

Replying to @erikanolte@toot.community

@erikanolte@toot.community if a metaphor helps, think of instances as being villages (if small), towns, or even cities). You can see and hear most of what goes on in the village easily. It’s your neighborhood. And you can get to know and follow individuals in other towns. And track public conversations between communities on a subject (hashtag).

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