Pat Dennis

@patdennis.bsky.social

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President of American Bridge 21st Century. Democratic opposition researcher. Worked many campaigns.

In the business of political information, so feel free to reach out.

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I can fix her

Moist commute

started reading Michael Crichton's The Sphere last night and I gotta say I'm getting some ominous vibes around this sphere they found.

So much easier to enjoy my weekends when the trails are actually dry

There’s an assumption that the opposite of imposter syndrome is unjustified confidence, but, uh, imho it’s good just to cultivate a sense of informed peace with your weaknesses and have an earnest desire to improve, and bypass either imposter syndrome or unjustified confidence

There's a weird culture of built-in (dare I say occasionally performative) imposter syndrome in the author community and while humility is essential to making good art and being a good person, I think you also need a little self-aggrandizement. Take up space.

I feel like the tyranny of the personal brand is actually just the tyranny of having a good reputation amongst an extended network of peers

“The problem isn’t that people aren’t buying books or listening to music, it’s that less of the money is going to the artists.”

Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to.www.vox.com So you want to be an artist. Do you have to start a TikTok?

Only going to post combative disagreements until I get a single Bluesky engagement

I suspect an alt weekly with tenure would be a somewhat different product

Just gonna say this again — journalism doesn’t need more journalists. It needs more journalism jobs. If you’re rich and want to help journalism, buy a bunch of alt weeklies, set up a trust, and fund them indefinitely.

The problem with coming into a new social network where I get far less engagement is it makes me want to be more and more controversial until I start some arguments

I’m always at risk of sounding like one of those blue check dipshits when I talk about this, but I’m baffled by anti-llmism becoming a liberal shibboleth

"We have millions of monkeys at typewriters. Surely one of them will produce the collected works of Shakespeare."

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Opposition research is simultaneously one of the most intriguing yet least covered tools in politics, so we were especially psyched to talk to @patdennis.bsky.social, president of @ab21.bsky.social, about this not-so-dark art to kick off Season 3 of The Downballot

How Dems track all the dumb sh*t Republicans sayplayer.captivate.fm <p>Republicans have an unflagging ability to lose elections by saying outrageous crap, but someone has to record it all—and put it on blast. That someone is the Democratic opposition research...

Is there anything worse than when you’re nodding along to a pop science influencer, then they start talking about something you know a lot about and you realize you need to question everything else they ever said

https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-sheehy-senate-montana-facebook-lewd-photos-racist-homoerotic-2023-7

No Labels Donor Has Financial Ties to Jared Kushner https://newrepublic.com/article/174207/no-labels-donor-financial-ties-jared-kushner?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Twitter

Threads logo was plagiarized from how my signature looks on a point of sale ipad

one of the first basic web development tutorials i ever did was creating a microblogging service

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-governor-tate-reeves-appointing-his-big-donors-to-state-positions?ref=home?ref=home

yeah i'm a designer label guy

my neighborhood listserv is trying to hatch a plan to ban fireworks nationwide lmao

I just need to know what app the reporters are going to settle on

here's my place in the zuckverse: words edition https://www.threads.net/@patrick_dennis_

takes guts... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world/asia/china-dissident-blog-program-think.html?smid=tw-share

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/7/4/23782603/mississippi-2024-governors-race-brandon-presley-democrat-tate-reeves-republican-ben-jealous-op-ed

is there a tweetdeck-type app for bluesky? reading only one column of content is incompatible with my adhd

i am fundamentally too competitive of a person to be allowed to use eBay. I always end up with 3-5 of the thing I set out to buy, and a smug sense of victory about it

zooming out, it's tough to imagine anything funnier than Twitter sunsetting their "read tweets" functionality