Patrick Heron

MA native living in DC.
* financial analysts
* beer/wine aficionados
* hockey!
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[Patrick Heron @patrickheron]

@NerdHalen @TheWhiskyAGoGo Love the manual trans-trem

[Pantheon Media - Where Fans Belong @PantheonPods]

R.I.P. #DickeyBetts. #Allmans #AllmanBros #AllmanBrothers #SouthernRock @allmanbrothers

[Greg Buster @Gregnus__2024]

This cover of Radiohead’s “Creep” is one of the best I’ve heard. He knows the pain of lost love.

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@historyrock_ Just yes.

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@PeteBlackburn Beer and Foreigner FTW! Hope you enjoyed!

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@hwinkler4real @YNB Wait! That's not Ellis from Die Hard??!!

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@clownworld Technically this is in Emeryville. Literally around the corner from Pixar Studios. Not deep in the "hood"

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@GChernack @Wizards Must be in da front row!

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

#Ohio Congressman Greg Landsman goes through some of the far right’s budget requirements…

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@BruinsNetwork *Love* the energy and effort he brings. Getting PP time is almost inevitable and the points will come!

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@BruinsCapSpace A little lost and overwhelmed, but it's only game 2

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

My God. Stop what you're doing and watch this.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Here's a guy that's figured out the game of life.

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@spittinchiclets Ranks up there in best tilts in a while

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@BurnishBeerCo disappointing. Looking forward to this.

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@BenStiller Yeah but did he ever try to drag Walton and Lanier up and down the court for 48 minutes!

[gaut @0xgaut]

ok this is absolutely *wild*

using AI to live translate and sync your lips

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I have never needed to retweet a factuality more

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Patrick Heron @patrickheron]

@FrankMikeDavis1 Old school AirPods

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@historyrock_ The song RTL was my introduction that rocked my world (and still does). As a 14 yo that was the sound I didn't know I needed.