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Adam Vatterott

@aadzie.bsky.social
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Puzzler, musician, comedian, and nonprofit consultant from STL, MO.

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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
To 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
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Challenge accepted
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@seanfranco.bsky.social just wait until you hear me do it in person
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Feels good to laugh.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When @barackobama.bsky.social was president, the country had the emotional capacity to get excited about things like the cronut
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Playing #Hades2 and picked up a boon from the coffee shop. Hestia. Demeter is going to be furious.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Crazy Taxi movie? Sometimes the dreams you didn't even know you wanted come true.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
This 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
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Black to move, black resigns after finding themself in an impossible situation. #chess
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Got my second salesforce Nonprofit Consultant certification tonight! #Salesforce #Nonprofits
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
OMG 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
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Asking just to be heard is the smallest boundary in the world -- but it's also the most important.
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nick andersen @nicktheandersen.com · 02/07/2026
america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)
a bloomberg info graphic showing four different dramatically declining types of spaces in order 'Bars and Nightclubs' 'Bowling Alleys' 'Marinas' and 'Movie Theaters' from 2001 to 2025 text on top reading 'Fewer Places to Relax and Socalize' 'US establiments per 100,000 people' 'Note: movie theaters includes dirve-ins.' 2025 population data based on US Census. Sources US Bureau of Labor Statistics, World Bank, US Census'
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Yeah this is important. Third spaces are critical to building community and human connection. Everyone benefits from these spaces.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
A tale as old as time...
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Tech 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
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oh good!
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Oh no
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
How'd you do??
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likeluke @likeluke.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I wonder what the German word for "Podunk" is
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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
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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...)
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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...
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Big 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....
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Big takeaway #1: "Listen to people who actually care about others." Listening is a skill that must be practiced! ...
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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) ...
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'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. 🧵 ...
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I feel very alone and could use a mutuall benefical friendship to get some moral support getting through to the next chapter.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
So, 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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Naturally 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
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
The new job clearly treatin ya good 🫠
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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.
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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...
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
So 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...
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
But 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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
That 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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Where 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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I 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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
We 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.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Why 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
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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
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🎃 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…
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
My biggest flaw is that friends feel like family. But it also enriches my life to be so open and connected.
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Kind of crazy how even though the Late Show is dead that still just makes it ...the late ...show. #LateShow #TheLateShow #ComicsUnleashed #ComicsNewLeaseOnLifed
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
All my exes live in Chex mix
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Good joke distracting from that unnecessarily epic minimalist cat design on the right
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Trying 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 #puzzles
minutecryptic.com
Minute Cryptic
Solve a clue with a hidden meaning
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Adam Vatterott @aadzie.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This 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
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