David Pottel
@drpottel.bsky.social
Just a middle-aged guy in the Boston suburbs.
Grain-fed skeets since September’23
Grain-fed skeets since September’23
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David Pottel
@drpottel.bsky.social
· Apr 5
A nation filled with second lines would be a wondrous thing
The North Shore discourse tonight is gonna make me spend money I shouldn’t on a three-way tomorrow.
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
The North Shore discourse tonight is gonna make me spend money I shouldn’t on a three-way tomorrow.
I grew up in the south and now live on the North Shore of Boston.
This is not trying to be barbecue. Completely different thing and, like barbecue, the right one is amazing.
This is not trying to be barbecue. Completely different thing and, like barbecue, the right one is amazing.
I’m Southern. This is blasphemy.
November 19, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I grew up in the south and now live on the North Shore of Boston.
This is not trying to be barbecue. Completely different thing and, like barbecue, the right one is amazing.
This is not trying to be barbecue. Completely different thing and, like barbecue, the right one is amazing.
Sort of a dumb question, but are there independent editors? Independent fact checkers?
And I get that the dollars (nonexistent) get split even more.
I know nothing about journalism other than as a consumer. Just wondering if theres a way to create collectives of independents with skills?
And I get that the dollars (nonexistent) get split even more.
I know nothing about journalism other than as a consumer. Just wondering if theres a way to create collectives of independents with skills?
I worry about the emphasis on independent journalism we have right now because:
1) it’s not a sustainable business model to hold up an entire industry
2) they don’t have editors or fact checkers to provide checks and balances on their reporting
3) institutional journalism is still important
1) it’s not a sustainable business model to hold up an entire industry
2) they don’t have editors or fact checkers to provide checks and balances on their reporting
3) institutional journalism is still important
November 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Sort of a dumb question, but are there independent editors? Independent fact checkers?
And I get that the dollars (nonexistent) get split even more.
I know nothing about journalism other than as a consumer. Just wondering if theres a way to create collectives of independents with skills?
And I get that the dollars (nonexistent) get split even more.
I know nothing about journalism other than as a consumer. Just wondering if theres a way to create collectives of independents with skills?
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The first Calvin and Hobbes comic appeared in newspapers 40 years ago today, on Nov. 18, 1985.
#CalvinAndHobbes
#CalvinAndHobbes
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
The first Calvin and Hobbes comic appeared in newspapers 40 years ago today, on Nov. 18, 1985.
#CalvinAndHobbes
#CalvinAndHobbes
November 18, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I read this and my internal monologue was:
“This actually decent writing. At least I can follow it. There’s a clever turn of phrase. Enough about the bamboo already.”
Then realized I’d just come off a bunch of Nuzzi’s excerpts and my idea of “good writing” had been dragged way down.
“This actually decent writing. At least I can follow it. There’s a clever turn of phrase. Enough about the bamboo already.”
Then realized I’d just come off a bunch of Nuzzi’s excerpts and my idea of “good writing” had been dragged way down.
oh my god you have to read this until the end www.telos.news/p/part-1-how...
Part 1: How I Found Out
Olivia had just returned from a reporting trip—at least that’s what she told me it was—and her Herschel backpack, the one with the flap that never quite closed properly, was tossed beside our bed, its...
www.telos.news
November 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I read this and my internal monologue was:
“This actually decent writing. At least I can follow it. There’s a clever turn of phrase. Enough about the bamboo already.”
Then realized I’d just come off a bunch of Nuzzi’s excerpts and my idea of “good writing” had been dragged way down.
“This actually decent writing. At least I can follow it. There’s a clever turn of phrase. Enough about the bamboo already.”
Then realized I’d just come off a bunch of Nuzzi’s excerpts and my idea of “good writing” had been dragged way down.
As I was saying…
Maybe first order of business is a definition of “emergency” and exercising a congressional check such that POTUS can’t use emergency powers on anything they feel like it.
bsky.app/profile/prop...
Maybe first order of business is a definition of “emergency” and exercising a congressional check such that POTUS can’t use emergency powers on anything they feel like it.
bsky.app/profile/prop...
It’s so stupid, but when this is all over, we’re gonna have to codify rules for *everything*.
For example, if the Speaker doesn’t swear in a member-elect within 14 days of the election being certified, the House Minority Leader can swear them in.
For example, if the Speaker doesn’t swear in a member-elect within 14 days of the election being certified, the House Minority Leader can swear them in.
November 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
As I was saying…
Maybe first order of business is a definition of “emergency” and exercising a congressional check such that POTUS can’t use emergency powers on anything they feel like it.
bsky.app/profile/prop...
Maybe first order of business is a definition of “emergency” and exercising a congressional check such that POTUS can’t use emergency powers on anything they feel like it.
bsky.app/profile/prop...
Fuck them Aggies generally and that state trooper in particular
November 15, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Fuck them Aggies generally and that state trooper in particular
@support.bsky.team
Why do my videos not have any controls?
I can’t even close the video (no X on screen) to get back to the thread. Only way out is to force close entire Bsky app
Why do my videos not have any controls?
I can’t even close the video (no X on screen) to get back to the thread. Only way out is to force close entire Bsky app
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
@support.bsky.team
Why do my videos not have any controls?
I can’t even close the video (no X on screen) to get back to the thread. Only way out is to force close entire Bsky app
Why do my videos not have any controls?
I can’t even close the video (no X on screen) to get back to the thread. Only way out is to force close entire Bsky app
I say live and let die. But that’s just me.
The James Bond discourse just doesn't work on any level for me, what do you mean "the audience won't buy it," they think Timothy Dalton and Sean Connery are the same guy
November 12, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I say live and let die. But that’s just me.
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Do I understand why Democrats held on for forty days and then caved? I do not. My sense of purpose, my focus on doing things I can do in lanes where I can do them, does not drift. My sense of purpose does not depend on elected Democrats leading; they will follow, erratically and begrudgingly.
November 10, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Do I understand why Democrats held on for forty days and then caved? I do not. My sense of purpose, my focus on doing things I can do in lanes where I can do them, does not drift. My sense of purpose does not depend on elected Democrats leading; they will follow, erratically and begrudgingly.
Anybody else enjoying this Aaron Rodgers beat down?
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Anybody else enjoying this Aaron Rodgers beat down?
I really want a ruthless Bad Mother Fucker to be the Senate Leader, but I don’t see it in the current Senate Dems. Am I wrong?
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I really want a ruthless Bad Mother Fucker to be the Senate Leader, but I don’t see it in the current Senate Dems. Am I wrong?
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He’s been assigned the “oh I tried” role for this show. They all know exactly what is happening.
November 10, 2025 at 2:09 AM
He’s been assigned the “oh I tried” role for this show. They all know exactly what is happening.
Make space today to read this thread. You’re going to need some time to sit with it.
To sit with what we have become as a country.
To sit with what we have become as a country.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Make space today to read this thread. You’re going to need some time to sit with it.
To sit with what we have become as a country.
To sit with what we have become as a country.
A computer that only talks about blue bouffants, a Marge language model.
A computer that only talks about non-commissioned officers, a sarge language model.
computer that only talks about canals, a barge language model
November 8, 2025 at 9:06 PM
A computer that only talks about blue bouffants, a Marge language model.
It’s so stupid, but when this is all over, we’re gonna have to codify rules for *everything*.
For example, if the Speaker doesn’t swear in a member-elect within 14 days of the election being certified, the House Minority Leader can swear them in.
For example, if the Speaker doesn’t swear in a member-elect within 14 days of the election being certified, the House Minority Leader can swear them in.
November 7, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It’s so stupid, but when this is all over, we’re gonna have to codify rules for *everything*.
For example, if the Speaker doesn’t swear in a member-elect within 14 days of the election being certified, the House Minority Leader can swear them in.
For example, if the Speaker doesn’t swear in a member-elect within 14 days of the election being certified, the House Minority Leader can swear them in.
Reposted by David Pottel
People really don’t understand how much Real, Serious Money groups like Exxon and Shell are pouring into green energy, not least because of Build Back Better and CHIPS. These guys are in the business of money, not oil, and at this point there’s too much green in green tech for Big Energy to ignore.
November 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
People really don’t understand how much Real, Serious Money groups like Exxon and Shell are pouring into green energy, not least because of Build Back Better and CHIPS. These guys are in the business of money, not oil, and at this point there’s too much green in green tech for Big Energy to ignore.
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"who radicalized you"
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"who radicalized you"
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
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Man. Dick Cheney's been dead like a day and a half and the country is ALREADY healing.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Man. Dick Cheney's been dead like a day and a half and the country is ALREADY healing.
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"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"
Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
"If Republicans want a return to political influence in America's dynamic economic and cultural powerhouses, they're going to have to learn how to appeal to the complex folkways of urban dwellers"
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this is objectively hilarious
November 5, 2025 at 2:05 AM
this is objectively hilarious
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I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I often think about how Cheney wanted revenge for what happened to Nixon, and how we live in the ruins made by that dream.
I’m to that age where I’m either having a stroke or forgot that I put bread in the toaster.
(it was the bread, thank you for asking)
(it was the bread, thank you for asking)
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I’m to that age where I’m either having a stroke or forgot that I put bread in the toaster.
(it was the bread, thank you for asking)
(it was the bread, thank you for asking)