Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026To be honest though, it's not that interesting. Data doesn't exactly have a voice, but he does have an affect. And he very much abandons that affect whenever Brett spiner wants to do a ridiculous characterization, like an '80s hack doing a stand-up routine. But I can still try 010 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026@seanfranco.bsky.social just wait until you hear me do it in person 110 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026When @barackobama.bsky.social was president, the country had the emotional capacity to get excited about things like the cronut 020 2
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Playing #Hades2 and picked up a boon from the coffee shop. Hestia. Demeter is going to be furious. 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A Crazy Taxi movie? Sometimes the dreams you didn't even know you wanted come true. 010 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026This joke wasn't finished in The Next Generation, so I gave it a shot. In the episode, Data says the first line "A monk a clone and a Ferengi decide to go bowling together..." and then is interrupted by the captain. The rest is what I just came up with. #TheNextGeneration #StarTrek #TNG 121 2
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Black to move, black resigns after finding themself in an impossible situation. #chess 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Got my second salesforce Nonprofit Consultant certification tonight! #Salesforce #Nonprofits 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026OMG I can't believe this. In 2011 I wrote a short film -- as a joke, there was a video game being played in the background we called "DinoSwords!" where you could only hear roars and sword clashes.... That game is now a real thing! #Dinoswords #Dinoblade 010 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Asking just to be heard is the smallest boundary in the world -- but it's also the most important. 000 0
Reposted by Adam Vatterottnick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 02/07/2026america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc) 1322572642 2.6K
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Yeah this is important. Third spaces are critical to building community and human connection. Everyone benefits from these spaces. 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Tech CEOs, if you're going to make videos with AI instructors -- do they HAVE to look like real people? Can't you make them look like cartoon characters or something? It's weird. Faking people is weird. #Salesforce #Agentforce #Creepyforce 000 0
Reposted by Adam Vatterottlikeluke @likeluke.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I wonder what the German word for "Podunk" is 011 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026(as ten Brinke puts it: "A relatively small number of people are bringing the rest of us down") I'll stop there for today. You can follow her at @leannetenbrinke.bsky.social #poisonouspeople #psychopathy #hope #community 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026(I hope to come back to this thread later and keep listing takeaways. But I want to share some interesting data points. Some researchers estimate that 10-20% of people would score high on some psychopatic traits. BUT that we understimate people's tendency to behave ethically...) 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026(#2, continued) as ten Brinke describes in the book -- groups seek confidence and competitiveness in chaotic environments. We have to shift what we value -- and, linkeding to #1 -- pay more attention to who actually cares about others... 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Big takeaway #2: "We can learn how to prevent dark personalities from occupying positions of authority in organizations and society." This is the one that I think is the most difficult, because.... 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Big takeaway #1: "Listen to people who actually care about others." Listening is a skill that must be practiced! ... 110 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026(Side note -- I agree with Conan O'Brien's expression during his Harvard grad speech -- that we are in a culture of extreme narcissism. I think these notes will help address that, too) ... 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I'm currently re-reading 'Poisonous People' by Leanne ten Brinke -- A researcher who has studied psychopthic traits in people (not just clinical psycopaths). This book does have a mission that the world can be a better place if we understand and take power away from these traits. 🧵 ... 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I feel very alone and could use a mutuall benefical friendship to get some moral support getting through to the next chapter. 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026So, for anyone who meets me or sees me or has known me in the past -- please feel welcome to reach out. I am not a different person than I was in the past, but I currently feel like I'm drowning, vulnerable, without a life raft. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026I'm going through some horrible things, and planning on leaving the midwest for the first time. I'm traumatized by experienced I've had that were invalidated by most people around me. So, I'm looking for new close friendships with people I can trust as I try to restart my life. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Naturally ADHD makes it hard to focus while reading. It ALSO makes it difficult to find THE ONLY BOOK I AM TRYING TO GET THROUGH WHERE IN THE WORLD DID I PUT IT I HAD IT LIKE TWO DAYS AGO #ADHD #ThisHappensAllTheTime 010 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026... can look like the end of a relationship. Or melodrama. Or someone's choice instead of someone expressing pain when something is pressing on an open wound. 010 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026... It's easy for them to look unstable or unreliable. When really they're just having a bad hour or bad afternoon or bad day. But they're a bad day looks different and sometimes that one bad day or bad hour or bad minute... 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026So those who experience it still act weird, and then the people around them feel estranged or maybe feel uncomfortable interacting with that person with PTSD. I mean, I wouldn't blame them. The behaviors that you get from people healing from trauma don't always make sense and so... 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026But they don't know that that is part of it. That after decades of conversations about PTSD and about it being an important thing that Americans should know about and understand, too many people still know nothing about how to support it. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026That if my PTSD is triggered, I feel the best thing for me to do is give myself space because I'm emotional and I don't want to upset anybody around me. But the problem is that walking away from people is also upsetting to them. They feel rejected or powerless. But they don't have to feel that way. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Where was the discussion about how even if I know that PTSD symptoms are being triggered, other people don't understand that they should wait several hours or a day before they follow up to try and support me. That I would need space until then, but that no one knows to check in the next day. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I think we had tropes about loud noises triggering a veteran's PTSD and then they hide under the table re-living the experience of being bombed. But there was no discussion about how PTSD can make it difficult to know whether or not you're around safe people or in a safe environment. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026We never talked about how PTSD can interrupt and otherwise nice evening with people you feel safe around. We never talked about how PTSD changes how you feel about things technically unrelated to the trauma, but have enough in common to make it much more difficult to process. 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Why didn't anyone talk about how incredibly weird PTSD is? Like, I've been working in the nonprofit sector for about 14 years. I worked at a non-profit that worked with veterans for 4 years. We talked about how debilitating PTSD can be. We never talked about how weird it is. #PTSD 100 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026"This would be better if there were any stakes" is the epitome of a Voyager episode review 110 1
Reposted by Adam Vatterott🎃 𝔖𝔢𝔞𝔫 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔬 ✒️📖🎲🦺🚉 @seanfranco.bsky.social · 28/05/2026…advice: Kai Winn must step down from power to be redeemed. But it has always been power and not faith that has driven Winn. Faith was a side-effect the whole time, and now she has directed her faith to the Pah-wraiths. That can’t be good. Juggernaut is the story of Torres trying again to control… 111 1
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026My biggest flaw is that friends feel like family. But it also enriches my life to be so open and connected. 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Kind of crazy how even though the Late Show is dead that still just makes it ...the late ...show. #LateShow #TheLateShow #ComicsUnleashed #ComicsNewLeaseOnLifed 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Good joke distracting from that unnecessarily epic minimalist cat design on the right 000 0
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Trying to come up with Minute Cryptics that entertain me. Here's what I got today: "It seems like she does it ...a lot," expert examines. (7) www.minutecryptic.com/custom/a0259... #MinuteCryptic #CrypticClue #puzzlesetting #puzzlesminutecryptic.comMinute CrypticSolve a clue with a hidden meaning 020 2
Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This is an easy one. Take the survey, STL. Deadline is tomorrow: nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... #stl #stlouis #tornado #CaraSpencer @caraspencer.bsky.social @stlouis-mo.gov 010 1