Thankful Potato
@sentientpotato.bsky.social
• pronouns they/them
• spouse @zomduckie.bsky.social
• former poli sci prof (courts & methods)
• (now in med research)
• posts politics, theology, & bad jokes
• be nice & do what you can to help others
• older than you, shake my fist at clouds often
• spouse @zomduckie.bsky.social
• former poli sci prof (courts & methods)
• (now in med research)
• posts politics, theology, & bad jokes
• be nice & do what you can to help others
• older than you, shake my fist at clouds often
Pinned
(My quote from a more involved private convo but generally applicable & evergreen)
I don't think any human should want for food, shelter, medical care. No exceptions. I think conservatives disagree with that, and I find it immoral on a personal level and disastrous in human cost on the policy level
I don't think any human should want for food, shelter, medical care. No exceptions. I think conservatives disagree with that, and I find it immoral on a personal level and disastrous in human cost on the policy level
This is without exaggeration one of the most soulless sentences I have ever seen
Screen shot in case they change it
What the FUCK
Screen shot in case they change it
What the FUCK
November 14, 2025 at 5:49 AM
This is without exaggeration one of the most soulless sentences I have ever seen
Screen shot in case they change it
What the FUCK
Screen shot in case they change it
What the FUCK
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
the thing that strikes me about this — again, besides it being false — is the venom and disrespect for the people who come here to work and build better lives. they aren’t “servants.”
JD Vance: "Democrats' idea was the way you get more prosperity is that you import more and more low wage servants."
November 14, 2025 at 5:47 AM
if only it were that easy jimmy
November 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
if only it were that easy jimmy
literally one of the most depressing songs i've ever heard
(neutral valence? idk lol)
link.deezer.com/s/31BcAG59kK...
(neutral valence? idk lol)
link.deezer.com/s/31BcAG59kK...
Bring You Back
Hawthorne Heights - song - 2010
link.deezer.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:41 AM
literally one of the most depressing songs i've ever heard
(neutral valence? idk lol)
link.deezer.com/s/31BcAG59kK...
(neutral valence? idk lol)
link.deezer.com/s/31BcAG59kK...
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DOGE ATE MY HOMEWORK
WHITE HOUSE: FEDERAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM MAY HAVE PERMANENTLY BEEN DAMAGED WHITE HOUSE: OCTOBER JOBS REPORTS LIKELY NEVER RELEASED
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
DOGE ATE MY HOMEWORK
thinking about a buffy/angel rewatch again
(i do so once every few/several years)
(i do so once every few/several years)
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
thinking about a buffy/angel rewatch again
(i do so once every few/several years)
(i do so once every few/several years)
look at this
My umbrella doesn't fit all the way in my backpack so now I look like I'm carrying around a very suspicious friend
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
look at this
I love that some people (obviously the person I'm quoting would be among them, but I'm also just talking about broader Bluesky users) see the site as some sort of tech philosophy experiment (that I've just never bothered to read up on)… then most everyone else oblivious, just posting hog & bad jokes
The core of the Atmosphere is using the PDS to store user's records, just like desktop apps use the filesystem.
Desktop apps interoperate using files. Atmosphere apps interoperate using repo records.
That's the ethos that I highly doubt will ever change.
Desktop apps interoperate using files. Atmosphere apps interoperate using repo records.
That's the ethos that I highly doubt will ever change.
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I love that some people (obviously the person I'm quoting would be among them, but I'm also just talking about broader Bluesky users) see the site as some sort of tech philosophy experiment (that I've just never bothered to read up on)… then most everyone else oblivious, just posting hog & bad jokes
Play of the game:
SPITINMYMOUT
SPITINMYMOUT
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Play of the game:
SPITINMYMOUT
SPITINMYMOUT
I don't know about undergrad admissions, but I can tell you there were several great job candidates and prospective grad students who chose not to go to UT Austin in no small part because of the regressive Texas laws
Blue state guidance counselors should be careful to explain to college hopefuls how regressive the laws are in some of these party schools. A young girl could be walking into a nightmare.
November 14, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don't know about undergrad admissions, but I can tell you there were several great job candidates and prospective grad students who chose not to go to UT Austin in no small part because of the regressive Texas laws
This is the case at all Texas state universities btw not just A&M
At UT Austin I can say they have been actively and intentionally moving toward this since at least 2021
At UT Austin I can say they have been actively and intentionally moving toward this since at least 2021
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
This is the case at all Texas state universities btw not just A&M
At UT Austin I can say they have been actively and intentionally moving toward this since at least 2021
At UT Austin I can say they have been actively and intentionally moving toward this since at least 2021
will the rest of the world just form a new allied powers and invade us already
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
will the rest of the world just form a new allied powers and invade us already
"oh my god you post like 10x more than me—"
it's not my fault you don't have much to say 🤷
it's not my fault you don't have much to say 🤷
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"oh my god you post like 10x more than me—"
it's not my fault you don't have much to say 🤷
it's not my fault you don't have much to say 🤷
deal!
“i sure hope a solar flare knocks out global computer infrastructure” my brother in christ you and your 7.9 billion closest friends would die instantly
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
deal!
Skeet of the Day 🥇
#PotatosSkeetOfTheDay
(yes this is a day with many days i literally do not give one shit because that's the reality we're living)
#PotatosSkeetOfTheDay
(yes this is a day with many days i literally do not give one shit because that's the reality we're living)
Imagine being one of the dipshits that has spent the last year downplaying each step in the escalation ladder of fascism. 10 months in and we are at the brink of an expansionist war for nothing but asserting the fact we can rapacious annihilate brown people in our part of the hemisphere.
November 14, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Skeet of the Day 🥇
#PotatosSkeetOfTheDay
(yes this is a day with many days i literally do not give one shit because that's the reality we're living)
#PotatosSkeetOfTheDay
(yes this is a day with many days i literally do not give one shit because that's the reality we're living)
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not to be alarmist but in any scenario where this isn’t just more “dudebro waving his dick around to look cool” posturing basically implies that the scale of mass murder by the US armed forces in LatAm is about to accelerate through the roof
November 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
not to be alarmist but in any scenario where this isn’t just more “dudebro waving his dick around to look cool” posturing basically implies that the scale of mass murder by the US armed forces in LatAm is about to accelerate through the roof
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this was made obvious when miller and rubio basically came to agree on this vs Ric Grenell
this is what they’re doing because the had the threadbare awareness to not topple the Mexican government. This is literally their idea of moderation.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
this was made obvious when miller and rubio basically came to agree on this vs Ric Grenell
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Rubio and Miller need to answer for these crimes. It may not happen soon. But they will need to answer.
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Rubio and Miller need to answer for these crimes. It may not happen soon. But they will need to answer.
That's right Senator Smith!
ALSO: Chuck Schumer should be ousted too.
ALSO: Chuck Schumer should be ousted too.
ALSO: Cannabis should be legalized federally too.
Leave our breweries alone.
November 13, 2025 at 10:56 PM
That's right Senator Smith!
ALSO: Chuck Schumer should be ousted too.
ALSO: Chuck Schumer should be ousted too.
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There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
I continue to disagree with this. The goal of mass detention is mass deportations. A private prison company leasing 100 beds to ICE gets paid the same if the beds are filled by 100 people for a year each or 1,000 people for a few days each. They don't earn more with long-term detention.
It's not about deporting them. It's about detaining them indefinitely and enriching Prisons for Profiteers and the grift the Convict in the Oval Office collects per detainee.
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
There's a tendency among a certain type of poster to assume everything they hate about politics and the state can be blamed on avarice, and I'm here to tell you it's actually worse than that.
my politics are that i just want a world where there are no 17 year olds desperate enough to let Matt Gaetz exploit them
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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The American people voted in 2024 under the understanding they were bringing Epstein back
November 13, 2025 at 7:37 PM
The American people voted in 2024 under the understanding they were bringing Epstein back
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i think this is maybe literally true and the social glue connecting trumpworld to competent people who act like they have things to lose was rape
Oh god is the reason why Trump is so much more unstable term 2 is because Epstein is dead???
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
i think this is maybe literally true and the social glue connecting trumpworld to competent people who act like they have things to lose was rape