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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Me: *laughing screaming laughing screaming*

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Confabulation is a sign of brain damage and/or dementia.

confabulate
verb
con·fab·u·late kən-ˈfa-byə-ˌlāt
confabulated; confabulating
Synonyms of confabulate
intransitive verb

1
: to talk informally : chat
2
: to hold a discussion : confer
3
: to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication
A major characteristic of brain-damaged patients is the tendency to confabulate—to hide and dissemble about their damage.
—Peter R. Breggin

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No one need cry for Maria Bartiromo. She should be fine given "[Foxnews] has paid news anchor Maria Bartiromo a massive $70 million since 2014." www.tvinsider.com/1230455/fox-...

Fox News is in the middle of a lawsuit, which has brought to light some interesting behind-the-scenes details, including how the network has paid news anchor Maria Bartiromo a massive $70 million since 2014.

The revelation came in documents disclosed as part of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News. The files, obtained by TheWrap, include transcriptions of the deposition in which Bartiromo, a defendant in the suit, was asked about her salary.

“And so is it fair to say that you, from when you first started working at Fox through sort of the upcoming contract in 2025, you would have stood to be compensated over $70 million?” Bartiromo was asked during the deposition.

She answered, “Yes.”

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🫨It's just like when Captain Kirk and Spock killed Landru. Who will guide us now?! Whatever will we do!

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

what you describe is more or less the dictionary definition of a psychopath

psychopath /sī′kə-păth″/
noun
A person who engages repeatedly in criminal and antisocial behavior without remorse or empathy for those victimized.
A person with a personality disorder indicated by a pattern of lying, cunning, manipulating, glibness, exploiting, heedlessness, arrogance, delusions of grandeur, sexual promiscuity, low self-control, disregard for morality, lack of acceptance of responsibility, callousness, and lack of empathy and remorse. Such an individual may be especially prone to violent and criminal offenses.
A person diagnosed with antisocial or dissocial personality disorder.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition •

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

also comes in a handy t-shirt 🤩

ACLU Know Your Protest Rights T-shirt available at https://shop.aclu.org/know-your-rights-protest-tee-black/

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What a chump. MAGA is about gov't based not on data or evidence but on rumor and anecdotal often second-hand individual experience. Senator, there are exhaustive multi-year studies analyzing efficacy and side effects of Covid vaccines, like this one: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Key Points
Question Are COVID-19 mRNA vaccines associated with the long-term risk of all-cause mortality?

Findings In this cohort study including 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated individuals, vaccinated individuals had a 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19 and no increased risk of all-cause mortality over a median follow-up of 45 months.

Meaning These national-level results found no increased risk of 4-year all-cause mortality in individuals aged 18 to 59 years vaccinated against COVID-19, further supporting the safety of the mRNA vaccines that are being widely used worldwide.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

so instead of educating young people to become teachers we will put them to work in factories manufacturing robots that will take over all the teaching jobs.

photo of robot teacher sitting at table with smiling children in our hypothetical dystopian future

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What happens to AI when there is no longer any original content to feed it? I'll ask AI:

Search Assist
AI can experience model collapse, where the data it generates becomes polluted and leads to a loss of quality and accuracy in its outputs. This occurs because AI models rely on original content to learn and generate new data; without it, they may misinterpret reality and produce inferior results.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

GenZ Challenge: drive 75 mph in heavy traffic whilst trying to read a paper map

hipster driving car while reading a large unfolded paper map

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Amen. Nationalism is *not* the same as patriotism. I hope Dem candidates draw a sharp distinction between the two during the midterm campaigns. (and you know this definition is legit because it's from the AMERICAN HERITAGE dictionary).

nationalism /năsh′ə-nə-lĭz″əm, năsh′nə-/
noun
Devotion, especially excessive or undiscriminating devotion, to the interests or culture of a particular nation-state.
The belief that nations will benefit from acting independently rather than collectively, emphasizing national rather than international goals.
The belief that a particular cultural or ethnic group constitutes a distinct people deserving of political self-determination.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition •

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

it's nuts that some people feel attacked by the mere existence in their midst of people different in some way from them

xenophobia
noun
xe·no·pho·bia ˌze-nə-ˈfō-bē-ə ˌzē-
Synonyms of xenophobia
: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/xenophobia

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

the memories come flooding back

cover of Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

"Limited authority?" Limited how?

Constitution of the United States
Fifteenth Amendment
Section 1

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude–

Section 2

The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

See Art. I Sec. 8 of the Constitution (power to declare war) and Sec. 5(b) of the War Powers Act.

Section 5(b) states that when the President
reports an introduction of U.S. Armed Forces into active or
imminent hostilities, or such report is required under
Section 4(a)(1) but not made, the President must terminate
such use of U.S. Armed Forces after 60 days unless
Congress (1) has declared war or specifically authorized the
action, (2) has extended the 60-day period by law, or (3) is
physically unable to meet as a result of an armed attack on
the United States

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Trump, Iran war arcade-style video game installed on National Mall www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

Image from satirical video game re Trump's war against Iran

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Amazing how a little fear of electoral accountability works to open Republicans' cold cold hearts.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Explainer why narcissists like to hang out with losers (Living With A Narcissist drirene.com/10_nar.php)

The Narcissist is very much attracted to vulnerability, to unstable or disordered personalities or to the inferior. Such people constitute more secure sources of better quality narcissistic supply. The inferior offer adulation. The mentally disturbed, the traumatized, the abused become dependent and addicted to him. The vulnerable can be easily and economically manipulated without fear of repercussions.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I read it in Peter Griffin's voice🙃

Family Guy's Peter Griffin seated at a desk in suit and tie with an image of gears and the words What Really Grinds My Gears with text overlay THE POPE IS WEAK ON CRIME

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

It's striking how similar Iran's bargaining posture has been to Sam Spade's in The Maltese Falcon.

Spade: If you kill me, how are you gonna get the bird? And if I know you can't afford to kill me, how are you gonna scare me into giving it to you?
Gutman: Well, sir, there are other means of persuasion besides killing and threatening to kill.
Spade: Yes, that's, that's true. But - they're none of 'em any good unless the threat of death is behind them - do you see what I mean? If you start something, I'll make it a matter of your having to kill me or call it off.
Gutman: [chuckling] That's an attitude, sir, that calls for the most delicate judgment on both sides. 'Cause as you know, sir, in the heat of action, men are likely to forget where their best interests lie and that their emotions carry them away.
Spade: Then the trick from my angle is to make my play strong enough to tie you up, but not make you mad enough to bump me off against your better judgment.
Gutman: By gad, sir, you are a character.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

"Foreigners refuse to assimilate."

screencap website of The Heritage Foundation - commentary border security, "Diversity Isn't Our Strength When Millions of Foreigners Refuse To Assimilate"

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

"Trump screamed at me that he would do whatever he wanted."

4. The parties were held at a New York City residence that was being used by Defendant Jeffrey Epstein. Each of the parties had other minor females and a number of guests of Mr. Epstein, including Defendant Donald Trump at four of the parties I attended. I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old.
5. Defendant Trump had sexual contact with me at four different parties in the summer of 1994. On the fourth and final sexual encounter with Defendant Trump, Defendant Trump tied me to a bed, exposed himself to me, and then proceeded to forcibly rape me. During hte Course of this savage sexual attack, I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop but he did not. Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Americans will find creative ways to express their feelings such as by adding colorful sayings above or below the signature such as "should be impeached" or "s8cks *ss" and the practice may become so popular prizes will be awarded for creativity and people will resume using currency for the laughs.

meme with image of $100 bill with black box over Trump signature above text "If you get a dollar bill with Trump's signature on it, black it the tf [sic] out with a Sharpie. He prefers his name redacted.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

fwiw Former NY Congressman Barney Frank wrote about this in his memoir (Frank: A Life In Politics) labeling it Republicans' "starve the beast" strategy.

The Republicans' unanimous opposition to any tax increase in Clinton's first term—in the face, for example, of Alan Greenspan's assertion that it was economically necessary—marked the next stage of their effort to starve the beast. By keeping government revenues low, they would force the kind of program cuts they could not win on the merits. In their post-1992 right-wing posture, the GOP was on the way to perfecting a politically potent two-step—delegitimizing the government while defunding it in a mutually reinforcing cycle.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I mean, if I were ever to write anything half as insane as this to a federal judge I would likely be immediately disbarred.

Judge, please pardon me for being so direct, but your order of January 28 did not merely contain some errors, as you anticipated it may. Assuming the statistical sample we chose is as representative of the whole as I believe it likely is, the information compiled by others for your order was far beyond the pale of accuracy for an order that would be wielded so publicly and so sharply. The lawyers in my civil division didn't deserve it.

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Steve Potts @otispott.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Read for a refresher on what happens to a nation when its people carelessly hand power to those with really bad intentions, it may seem eerily familiar. Also THIS REALLY NEEDS TO BE A BOOK so MAN UP PUBLISHERS! I would buy this book and copies for everyone I know.