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@citizenpatches.bsky.social

Tried to be a journalist, a screenwriter, a gamer, a saint, and a monster. Will now settle for writing books on a beach somewhere. #ROC #NY #WriterSky #BookSky

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Latest posts by citizenpatches.bsky.social on Bluesky

This is wildly inspirational. I honestly find today’s writers are … completely boring and anesthetized. It’s not just that we’re flattening culture and writing, but people’s personalities too.

23.08.2025 01:09 — 👍 309    🔁 98    💬 9    📌 23
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My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again.

So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels.
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky

21.08.2025 02:22 — 👍 10677    🔁 1627    💬 353    📌 248

The one I'm working on now. The one that I will finally finish by the end of the year, because I said so. #Manifesting #amwriting

(But to answer the question, "Jennifer Government" and "Lexicon" by Max Barry.)

08.08.2025 00:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Adopt A Station - Rescue Public Media Help preserve independent journalism and community programming across America by adopting a public media station. Congress has voted to rescind public media's funding.

This is a great resource

adoptastation.org?fbclid=PAQ0x...

20.07.2025 22:40 — 👍 3721    🔁 1976    💬 74    📌 85

To paraphrase Margaret Sullivan in her fantastic book, "Ghosting the News," just because a given area doesn't have news coverage, it doesn't mean news isn't happening.

More than likely, it means the exact opposite.

11.07.2025 19:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

"more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist."

Uhhh... this is catastrophic for democracy.
www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

10.07.2025 22:23 — 👍 1286    🔁 509    💬 70    📌 27

We called it The Information Age. That's just dumb. The last 30 years in this coubtry has been The Entertainment Age, and that's gotta be the dumbest, emptiest, most damning epoch to possibly live through.

08.07.2025 15:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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I Question America. On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass spoke in Rochester, New York at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

“On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass spoke in Rochester, New York at an event commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It became one of Douglass’ most famous speeches: ‘What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?’”

A must read today from the incredible @sifill.bsky.social.

04.07.2025 15:36 — 👍 210    🔁 69    💬 6    📌 3

Can we try matriarchy now?

06.06.2025 01:08 — 👍 707    🔁 109    💬 26    📌 20
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Bunker Mentality: The billionaires prepping for doomsday Doomsday prepping used to be seen as the preserve of conspiracy theorists and those at the fringes of society - but now it's big business, writes Adam Maguire

Normal is wanting Earth and its people to be healthy, safe, and free from hunger or annihilation.

Not normal is the 1% spending billions on Mars and bunkers and buying governments instead of wanting Earth and its people to be healthy, safe, and free from hunger or annihilation.

This is not normal.

14.05.2025 03:58 — 👍 273    🔁 71    💬 22    📌 4
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We're excited to announce that starting TODAY, the church ruins at St. Joseph's Park in Downtown #Rochester will be open to the public during weekday business hours! A great place to stop by for lunch or just for a few minutes of serenity in this landmark building. #ROC

28.04.2025 12:41 — 👍 154    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 0
Pope Francis: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!"

Pope Francis: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves, or who come from distant lands, bringing unfamiliar customs, ways of life and ideas! For all of us are children of God!"

In Pope Francis’s last public address, he preached care of the marginalized, the vulnerable, and migrants, saying: “I would like all of us to hope anew and to revive our trust in others, including those who are different than ourselves.” May we heed his wish.

21.04.2025 13:35 — 👍 29074    🔁 6952    💬 539    📌 261
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More than 3,000 protesters rally in Rochester to protest President Trump: See the photos Rochester-area protestors rallied April 5, as part of a national movement.

Love sharing how my hometown (Rochester, NY) is standing up. ❤️❤️
www.democratandchronicle.com/picture-gall...

06.04.2025 00:26 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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From Rochester, NY. Who has the power. We have the POWER!

06.04.2025 01:13 — 👍 44    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Careless People #1 New York Times Bestseller“Careless People is darkly funny and genuinely shocking...Not only does [Sarah Wynn-Williams] have the storytelling chops to un...

Just finished #CarelessPeople by Sarah Wynn-Williams. It's an essential read and should be required for social media consumers, proprietors, and anyone who has a remote interest of ethics in entrepreneurship.
us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

05.04.2025 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ThrowbackThursday: In case you missed the news last month, Fisher landed a spot on the board for Monopoly: Rochester Edition! Check out some moments from the official reveal! #Monopoly #RochesterNY #ROC

03.04.2025 12:48 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Bhutanese refugees in Rochester said to be facing deportation crisis Advocates are calling for legislation to protect legally resettled former Bhutanese refugees in the Rochester area from being deported back to a country with a history of human rights violations.

www.rochesterfirst.com/rochester/ic...
This barely cracked the top 10 stories on the local news.

02.04.2025 16:58 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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The Gleeful Cruelty of the White House X Account Welcome to the 4chan administration.

We need to talk about local media and community leaders who profess support for "balance" and "reasoned discussion" and "facts" sending their supporters to the platform that incentivizes this www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

29.03.2025 12:08 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
The sun shines through a cloudless blue sky on the St. John Fisher University campus, the spire of Kearney Hall in the distance.  A round bench and table sit in the courtyard of LeChase Commons.

The sun shines through a cloudless blue sky on the St. John Fisher University campus, the spire of Kearney Hall in the distance. A round bench and table sit in the courtyard of LeChase Commons.

A blue sky for Bluesky. Photo by Fisher senior @nataliebyrd.bsky.social #StJohnFisherUniversity #RochesterNY

24.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.

Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

21.03.2025 00:31 — 👍 46332    🔁 6733    💬 491    📌 135

I know we've got some big, big priorities to address...

...but anybody else on Bluesky playing #Pathologic3 tonight? #GamingSky #PCGaming

18.03.2025 02:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ally Maynard tweeted:

“Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.”

Ally Maynard tweeted: “Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.”

Still true.

17.03.2025 19:59 — 👍 3722    🔁 825    💬 102    📌 32

Bluesky is the place for science.

13.03.2025 23:01 — 👍 4101    🔁 511    💬 78    📌 31
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Flow wins Best Animated Feature Film at the #Oscars

This is the first Latvian film to win an Oscar.

03.03.2025 00:43 — 👍 2193    🔁 231    💬 31    📌 64

took a break to read bluesky for a bit, and now I need to go back to something less bad: Pentiment, where a town of peasants and workers is about to be annihilated by soldiers for having the temerity to demand that the abbot respect their ancestral rights and human dignity

28.02.2025 18:39 — 👍 38    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

Hey, #Booksky, any recommendations for fiction/mystery/comedy beta readers? I have a book that probably isn't that good, but needs to get published*, and none of my friends will read it.

(*because otherwise I'll go into a spiral and start producing unhinged TikToks that only I find funny)

23.02.2025 15:11 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Academics are the original influencers.

17.02.2025 12:25 — 👍 26    🔁 3    💬 3    📌 0

Scarlet Hollow has been one of my favorite gaming experiences in recent memory. Genuinely shocking (and terrifying) plot twists, moments of laugh-out-loud humor, the wickedly complex branching storylines...please give yourselves a pat on the back if you haven't already. Can't wait for 3/3!

11.02.2025 17:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World

Passage from Carl Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World

Reposting as Sagan is so prescient from 30 years ago.

10.02.2025 17:37 — 👍 8329    🔁 2247    💬 191    📌 129

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