A Potato 🥔
@potatosusername.bsky.social
TV! Dramatic arts! Crosswords! Sandwiches!
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Since I’m here now, an intro:
Insufferable nerd with a BA in Underwater Basketweaving and a PhD in Underwater Basket Literature.
I love: tv, dramatic arts, crosswords, Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, mid-10s SVU, Tick Tick Boom, your dogs, the Mets, and stress cooking.
Insufferable nerd with a BA in Underwater Basketweaving and a PhD in Underwater Basket Literature.
I love: tv, dramatic arts, crosswords, Rumours-era Fleetwood Mac, mid-10s SVU, Tick Tick Boom, your dogs, the Mets, and stress cooking.
Florida-horned anteater
Only a tiny fraction of Americans can name this country
December 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Florida-horned anteater
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This just gave me a flashback to when Trey and Matt did their "woops climate change real actually?????" episode
Resistance libs welcomed South Park into the anti-Trump fold with open arms. Our founder Evan Urquhart was a bit less joyous to see the anti-woke edgelords of South Park recognize, at last, the dreadful pandora's box that widespread anti-wokeness opened up.
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
South Park Mourns the Death of Woke — Assigned
An adult cartoon that reveled in the anti-woke backlash reckons with its impact.
www.assignedmedia.org
December 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This just gave me a flashback to when Trey and Matt did their "woops climate change real actually?????" episode
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Berkeley met Santa Claus today
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Berkeley met Santa Claus today
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En dashes: They’re here to serve.
Ah, the famous Christmas tradition of right wing men drinking cum.
December 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
En dashes: They’re here to serve.
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excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
December 5, 2025 at 6:14 PM
excited to award my kids the Burger King Peace Prize this weekend
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I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA
December 5, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I'm so SO sorry to do this but it's stuck in my head and this is the only way to get it out. Please know I hate myself for doing this more than you ever could hate me for it: COVFIFA
I didn’t know #nytxw Puzzle Mania came out so early this year! My holiday season doesn’t start until I’ve begun solving the Super Mega Big F’ing Crossword
December 4, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I didn’t know #nytxw Puzzle Mania came out so early this year! My holiday season doesn’t start until I’ve begun solving the Super Mega Big F’ing Crossword
I guess the B really does stand for bacon
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I guess the B really does stand for bacon
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The Renee Richards factoid that keeps poking my brain, is that the guy who outed her as trans, who previously outed Elizabeth Carmichael as trans, was Dick Carlson - Tucker's dad.
I guess transphobia runs in the family.
(Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above)
archive.ph/obLAU
I guess transphobia runs in the family.
(Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above)
archive.ph/obLAU
December 4, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The Renee Richards factoid that keeps poking my brain, is that the guy who outed her as trans, who previously outed Elizabeth Carmichael as trans, was Dick Carlson - Tucker's dad.
I guess transphobia runs in the family.
(Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above)
archive.ph/obLAU
I guess transphobia runs in the family.
(Link to Dick Carlson's obit which briefly recounts the above)
archive.ph/obLAU
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Happy to join @natanlast.bsky.social and Wyna Liu for a fun crossword event sponsored by JASA in NYC on 12/7. Come one, come all! Your ticket includes a copy of Natan's new book ACROSS THE UNIVERSE and supports a great cause. jasa.org/events/cross...
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Happy to join @natanlast.bsky.social and Wyna Liu for a fun crossword event sponsored by JASA in NYC on 12/7. Come one, come all! Your ticket includes a copy of Natan's new book ACROSS THE UNIVERSE and supports a great cause. jasa.org/events/cross...
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I definitely love having to explain that when an ancient Jewish prayer talks about Israel it’s not a reference to the modern nation-state
December 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I definitely love having to explain that when an ancient Jewish prayer talks about Israel it’s not a reference to the modern nation-state
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
www.burnsnotice.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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We are disgusted to see yet another round of slanderous attacks on @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social , join JFREJ in sharing your support for @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ❤️, sign your name at jfrej.org/msrachel
Tell Ms. Rachel: We've Got Your Back!
Right now, we are watching an alarming increase in attacks on educators, artists, and activists from the federal government. As Jews, we must speak out against this effort, especially when it is being...
jfrej.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:28 PM
We are disgusted to see yet another round of slanderous attacks on @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social , join JFREJ in sharing your support for @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social ❤️, sign your name at jfrej.org/msrachel
I don’t believe in the supernatural and align myself with various woo-debunking movements. Would my murder by a bigfoot / lake monster be ironic or apt? 🤔
Capricorn: On the plus side, your death will prove that at least one cryptid is real.
December 1, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I don’t believe in the supernatural and align myself with various woo-debunking movements. Would my murder by a bigfoot / lake monster be ironic or apt? 🤔
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if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
December 1, 2025 at 12:53 AM
if you ask students to list the causes of the Irish famine and they just say “the Irish are demonic” can you really not fail that kid?
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if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 12:43 AM
if this is discrimination, I’m genuinely unsure what you’re supposed to do when a student responds to a prompt with some religious gibberish
I’m only the kind of doctor who can do an emergency scan of your sonnet but also my mom had Addison’s disease so I know the idea that a bath soak “erases cortisol” is extremely stupid
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
I’m only the kind of doctor who can do an emergency scan of your sonnet but also my mom had Addison’s disease so I know the idea that a bath soak “erases cortisol” is extremely stupid
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my unequivocal playwright hero. I loved his work so much. all I have ever wanted to do with my life was write something that made other people feel the way “Arcadia” made me feel. what a titan
Oof. He was truly a master, from Rosenkrantz & Guildenstern to Arcadia to Leopoldstadt—just a lifetime of tremendous, thought-provoking, hilarious work. RIP. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
my unequivocal playwright hero. I loved his work so much. all I have ever wanted to do with my life was write something that made other people feel the way “Arcadia” made me feel. what a titan
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Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.
November 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Stoppard's stage directions for the desk clutter in Arcadia lives rent free in my head. A playwright and director who truly understood all parts of a theatre production working together to make magic. Rest in peace.
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November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
November 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
“It makes me so happy. To be back at the beginning, knowing almost nothing.” -Arcadia, Tom Stoppard, zichrono l’bracha
I built up so many swears on my old twitter account goddamnit
@potatosusername.bsky.social has swears! They've used 87 profanities in their last 1,179 posts.
🥇 "ass" (16 times)
🥈 "goddamn" (11 times)
🥉 "hell" (10 times)
🥇 "ass" (16 times)
🥈 "goddamn" (11 times)
🥉 "hell" (10 times)
November 29, 2025 at 2:22 AM
I built up so many swears on my old twitter account goddamnit
November 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM