An Owl in Daylight
@paulrpotts.bsky.social
Neurodivergent dad raising 7 adorkable kids. Long COVID and climate realist, eco-anarchist, gardener, writer, podcaster, musician. "Hope is a discipline." -Mariame Kaba @paulrpotts on the Xitter
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Artistic nudity? No, no, AUTISTIC nudity.
I’m bare-ass naked obliviously explaining the issues that plagued the Mark 14 torpedo during WWII to someone who got bored of this fifteen minutes ago and would very much like to bone already
I’m bare-ass naked obliviously explaining the issues that plagued the Mark 14 torpedo during WWII to someone who got bored of this fifteen minutes ago and would very much like to bone already
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Artistic nudity? No, no, AUTISTIC nudity.
I’m bare-ass naked obliviously explaining the issues that plagued the Mark 14 torpedo during WWII to someone who got bored of this fifteen minutes ago and would very much like to bone already
I’m bare-ass naked obliviously explaining the issues that plagued the Mark 14 torpedo during WWII to someone who got bored of this fifteen minutes ago and would very much like to bone already
I keep telling people this. They say "you've changed" because they imagine that back in high school, I thought the same way they did. I did not. My political views and values were formed early and have not really changed that much.
It is not as exciting as smearing "elite liberal arts colleges," but empirical evidence shows that on average young peoples' political positions shift little to not at all in college. Family, social class, etc. all shape their worldviews far more.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...
How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani’s World View
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I keep telling people this. They say "you've changed" because they imagine that back in high school, I thought the same way they did. I did not. My political views and values were formed early and have not really changed that much.
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Marc Laidlaw's new album is out. "Dank Carinval." That's DANK, okay, not DARK. Great stuff. "David's Not Himself Tonignight." music.youtube.com/watch?v=kla5...
David's Not Himself Tonight
YouTube video by Marc Laidlaw - Topic
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October 1, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Marc Laidlaw's new album is out. "Dank Carinval." That's DANK, okay, not DARK. Great stuff. "David's Not Himself Tonignight." music.youtube.com/watch?v=kla5...
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Yom Kippur is a day of reflection, of forgiveness, of restoration. This year, may we all pray for a better, kinder, more peaceful future.
Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.
Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.
October 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Yom Kippur is a day of reflection, of forgiveness, of restoration. This year, may we all pray for a better, kinder, more peaceful future.
Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.
Wishing all who observe across the five boroughs and the world a meaningful, easy fast. G’mar chatimah tovah.
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Has anyone written about how postmodernism has just completely consumed the right? It's obviously consumed liberalism too but that's predictable; what's wild is seeing the people who are supposed to believe in Truth constantly subjectify everything
October 1, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Has anyone written about how postmodernism has just completely consumed the right? It's obviously consumed liberalism too but that's predictable; what's wild is seeing the people who are supposed to believe in Truth constantly subjectify everything
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Today I got to witness a co worker type up a prompt that was like a page long to get three lines of blatantly incorrect code
October 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Today I got to witness a co worker type up a prompt that was like a page long to get three lines of blatantly incorrect code
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I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
September 30, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I know we're desensitized, but it's important to note, again, that today's events would have led to the immediate impeachment & removal of any president from at least Truman to at least Obama. We're hundreds of miles on the interstate past Richard Nixon's high school prank-level crimes compared to 👇
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Hegseth's statements themselves are possibly prosecutable
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Hegseth's statements themselves are possibly prosecutable
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TED CRUZ on Brendan Carr, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel: “It is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don't, and we're going to threaten to take you off air if we don't like what you're saying.’”
September 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
TED CRUZ on Brendan Carr, ABC and Jimmy Kimmel: “It is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don't, and we're going to threaten to take you off air if we don't like what you're saying.’”
How did I miss this important but in retrospect completely obvious revelation? boingboing.net/2025/08/13/s...
Stephen Miller's wife shares that he only eats mayonnaise
The entire JD Vance interview on Katie Miller's podcast is a desperate attempt to humanize not only Vance but the whole cabinet of weirdos.
boingboing.net
September 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
How did I miss this important but in retrospect completely obvious revelation? boingboing.net/2025/08/13/s...
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My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
August 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
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"Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn't be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you."
August 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
"Your belief that all humans should be treated with equal respect shouldn't be conditional based on whether or not individual people are nice to you."
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Love it. 79 year old man starts worrying the next big deal will be at the Pearly Gates. Fill your cup, mate! Do good while you can!
(But just so you know, if you think the lawyers down here are tough, just you wait till you meet Heaven's legal eagles! Discovery is gonna be HELL!)
(But just so you know, if you think the lawyers down here are tough, just you wait till you meet Heaven's legal eagles! Discovery is gonna be HELL!)
August 19, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Love it. 79 year old man starts worrying the next big deal will be at the Pearly Gates. Fill your cup, mate! Do good while you can!
(But just so you know, if you think the lawyers down here are tough, just you wait till you meet Heaven's legal eagles! Discovery is gonna be HELL!)
(But just so you know, if you think the lawyers down here are tough, just you wait till you meet Heaven's legal eagles! Discovery is gonna be HELL!)
Watching liberals blather gibberish about Israel and Palestine is horrifying. It's like an AIPAC handler got falling-down drunk and vomited up a word salad in a hotel bar at 4am, to the edification of no one but the extremely patient bartender.
August 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Watching liberals blather gibberish about Israel and Palestine is horrifying. It's like an AIPAC handler got falling-down drunk and vomited up a word salad in a hotel bar at 4am, to the edification of no one but the extremely patient bartender.
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Home Depot is raising its prices because of *checks notes* tariffs.
Weird.
Weird.
August 19, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Home Depot is raising its prices because of *checks notes* tariffs.
Weird.
Weird.
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I got my hair cut. I thought you guys might like to see the results!
August 16, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I got my hair cut. I thought you guys might like to see the results!
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![Personal life
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Well, Cuomo asked for a fight. He got it.
August 12, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Well, Cuomo asked for a fight. He got it.
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Oh your car is as big as a whale? Where are you going, the Climate Change Shack?
August 10, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oh your car is as big as a whale? Where are you going, the Climate Change Shack?
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ICE is behaving as if it is an unaccountable secret police. Proving they’re accountable has to be the top priority of Democrats and states everywhere.
August 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ICE is behaving as if it is an unaccountable secret police. Proving they’re accountable has to be the top priority of Democrats and states everywhere.
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"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle.
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ...
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"
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part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
August 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
part of my resentment towards LLMs is to do with them crowding out anything else we could be talking about. there are so many things I could be reading to get better at my craft but I'm presented with "you should actually get worse at it on purpose because nothing matters any more"
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The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
The Real Reason the Economy Might Collapse | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
August 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend.
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared
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