David Pottel
@drpottel.bsky.social
Just a middle-aged guy in the Boston suburbs.
Grain-fed skeets since September’23
Grain-fed skeets since September’23
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David Pottel
@drpottel.bsky.social
· Apr 5
A nation filled with second lines would be a wondrous thing
Reposted by David Pottel
I knew that President Trump’s grading himself on the economy reminded me of someone else!!!
December 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I knew that President Trump’s grading himself on the economy reminded me of someone else!!!
“you will be visited by three spirits”
the spirits:
the spirits:
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
“you will be visited by three spirits”
the spirits:
the spirits:
It’s just vibes all the way down.
“Did we add or lose jobs the last moth?
“Umm … add? Yes we definitely added jobs”
“Did we add or lose jobs the last moth?
“Umm … add? Yes we definitely added jobs”
🚨 Federal jobs data may have vastly overstated jobs creation, swinging US from net job creation to net job loss over past 6 months
“The real number could be something more like a loss of 20,000 jobs a month”
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
“The real number could be something more like a loss of 20,000 jobs a month”
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
Fed Chair Jerome Powell Says U.S. May Be Drastically Overstating Jobs Numbers
Powell said that Fed staffers believe federal data could be overstating job creation by up to 60,000 jobs a month—which suggests the jobs market might be shrinking.
www.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
It’s just vibes all the way down.
“Did we add or lose jobs the last moth?
“Umm … add? Yes we definitely added jobs”
“Did we add or lose jobs the last moth?
“Umm … add? Yes we definitely added jobs”
It’s just vibes all the way down.
“But I was born in Nepal!”
“Yeah but you *seem* Bhutanese”
“But I was born in Nepal!”
“Yeah but you *seem* Bhutanese”
Mohan Karki's family and others with Nepali ancestry were persecuted and driven out of Bhutan in the 1990s. Karki himself was born in a refugee camp in nearby Nepal. Yet, the U.S. government claims he is a Bhutanese citizen and seeks to deport him there. n.pr/4iX0SCQ
This refugee's family faced persecution in Bhutan. Now, he could be deported there
Mohan Karki's family and others with Nepali ancestry were persecuted and driven out of Bhutan in the 1990s. Karki himself was born in a refugee camp in nearby Nepal. Yet, the U.S. government claims he is a Bhutanese citizen and seeks to deport him there.
n.pr
December 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
It’s just vibes all the way down.
“But I was born in Nepal!”
“Yeah but you *seem* Bhutanese”
“But I was born in Nepal!”
“Yeah but you *seem* Bhutanese”
Faneuil Hall is a shrine to American democracy. Second only to Independence Hall regarding the importance of events that happened within the walls.
This is an absolute disgrace.
This is an absolute disgrace.
“Officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Faneuil Hall is a shrine to American democracy. Second only to Independence Hall regarding the importance of events that happened within the walls.
This is an absolute disgrace.
This is an absolute disgrace.
Age yourself with your first rig
I am also old.
I am also old.
December 7, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Age yourself with your first rig
I am also old.
I am also old.
Pulp Fiction was genuinely sort of mind blowing when it was first released. Still think it’s great.
Hot take but Tarantino has exactly one great film (Jackie Brown) a few decent ones and then the rest are a collection of great scenes in kinda mid movies
December 7, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Pulp Fiction was genuinely sort of mind blowing when it was first released. Still think it’s great.
Why is Alabama punting on 4th & 2 at this point?
December 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Why is Alabama punting on 4th & 2 at this point?
New sentence ⬇️
Sorry…receiving a correction…it’s when all the big titty ladies choose to defederate
Ddexit is what they call it when Dat Denmark gonna leave the EU
December 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
New sentence ⬇️
I say this every time someone brings it up:
Trump will never spend a single day in jail.
Trump will never spend a single day in jail.
Trump has been trying to go full dictator this entire time, if he could just do it he already would have. His public support plummeting isn’t going to make the task easier
Reality Time:
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
If Trump truly intends to go full dictator, it'll happen in the next 11 months. The way he's destroying the country, there is a full on GOP bloodbath coming next Nov, and when that happens and Dems take ALL of Congress, he knows he's going to be impeached, removed, and jailed.
December 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
I say this every time someone brings it up:
Trump will never spend a single day in jail.
Trump will never spend a single day in jail.
More like “trashed panda”. Amirite?!?
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
More like “trashed panda”. Amirite?!?
As a young kid (maybe 5?) my dad permanently lost hearing in one ear from what today we’d consider a routine ear infection.
But penicillin hadn’t been invented yet, so there was no good treatment other than to have him suffer for weeks in the hospital.
Is there an anti-antibiotics movement too?
But penicillin hadn’t been invented yet, so there was no good treatment other than to have him suffer for weeks in the hospital.
Is there an anti-antibiotics movement too?
my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
As a young kid (maybe 5?) my dad permanently lost hearing in one ear from what today we’d consider a routine ear infection.
But penicillin hadn’t been invented yet, so there was no good treatment other than to have him suffer for weeks in the hospital.
Is there an anti-antibiotics movement too?
But penicillin hadn’t been invented yet, so there was no good treatment other than to have him suffer for weeks in the hospital.
Is there an anti-antibiotics movement too?
If you’re flying from Boston to Miami on Delta right now, and are in seat 10A, you’re having a bad time.
December 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
If you’re flying from Boston to Miami on Delta right now, and are in seat 10A, you’re having a bad time.
Pick your fighter. Mine is June.
Got my grandma a calendar of hot priests for Christmas. She turns 100 next year.
December 1, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Pick your fighter. Mine is June.
JEJ a solid choice. I’m going with a different three-named Jones, Tommy Lee.
Men in Black, Lonesome Dove, The Client, a Batman movie, a Capt. America, The Fugitive, and of course No Country For Old Men. There are more.
A list so good it’s hard to even take its measure.
Men in Black, Lonesome Dove, The Client, a Batman movie, a Capt. America, The Fugitive, and of course No Country For Old Men. There are more.
A list so good it’s hard to even take its measure.
James Earl Jones might be the one here. Everything from Dr. Strangelove, Hunt for Red October, and Star Wars to The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, and Lion King.
This is a Bill Simmons game, but you’re stranded on a desert island. You can only have one actor’s filmography. You get it all, including cameos. But just the one performer.
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
I’m taking Cate Blanchett: Talented Mr. Ripley, LOTR, Life Aquatic, Black Bag, Tár, Ponyo, Hot Fuzz, Eyes Wide Shut, Thor
December 1, 2025 at 6:03 AM
JEJ a solid choice. I’m going with a different three-named Jones, Tommy Lee.
Men in Black, Lonesome Dove, The Client, a Batman movie, a Capt. America, The Fugitive, and of course No Country For Old Men. There are more.
A list so good it’s hard to even take its measure.
Men in Black, Lonesome Dove, The Client, a Batman movie, a Capt. America, The Fugitive, and of course No Country For Old Men. There are more.
A list so good it’s hard to even take its measure.
What’s the temperature in the greater DC area?
I have no idea looking at the attire shown here…
I have no idea looking at the attire shown here…
December 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
What’s the temperature in the greater DC area?
I have no idea looking at the attire shown here…
I have no idea looking at the attire shown here…
A lot of times it’s fairly easy to decipher the ACARS shorthand. For this one? I got nuthin.
November 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A lot of times it’s fairly easy to decipher the ACARS shorthand. For this one? I got nuthin.
Reposted by David Pottel
I think about this tweet a lot
November 30, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I think about this tweet a lot
Holiday travel is tough on everyone…
November 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Holiday travel is tough on everyone…
Ok fair.
“I’m watching Ghostbusters”
November 29, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Ok fair.
If you’re flying from Providence to Charlotte on American Airlines this morning, you’re having a bad time.
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 PM
If you’re flying from Providence to Charlotte on American Airlines this morning, you’re having a bad time.
Every few weeks or so, I check in on Twitter to see how a big story is being received there (in contrast to BSky)
The ‘Following’ feed is bad but tolerable.
If I click into the ‘For You’ feed it’s like sticking my head in a microwave.
I can literally feel a physiological reaction
The ‘Following’ feed is bad but tolerable.
If I click into the ‘For You’ feed it’s like sticking my head in a microwave.
I can literally feel a physiological reaction
November 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Every few weeks or so, I check in on Twitter to see how a big story is being received there (in contrast to BSky)
The ‘Following’ feed is bad but tolerable.
If I click into the ‘For You’ feed it’s like sticking my head in a microwave.
I can literally feel a physiological reaction
The ‘Following’ feed is bad but tolerable.
If I click into the ‘For You’ feed it’s like sticking my head in a microwave.
I can literally feel a physiological reaction
In all my years watching law dramas I’ve learned you should never ask a question to which you don’t know the answer.
Does Tim Walz know this answer?
Does Tim Walz know this answer?
November 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
In all my years watching law dramas I’ve learned you should never ask a question to which you don’t know the answer.
Does Tim Walz know this answer?
Does Tim Walz know this answer?
Everyone at the outlets on Black Friday
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Everyone at the outlets on Black Friday
If the WH press corps had any spine, they’d collude to hammer on this
“Sir, you didn’t answer the Q from NBC. Again, why did you pardon this man while killing alleged drug smugglers who may only be fishermen?”
“Sir, NBC and WSJ have both asked and you haven’t given a direct answer. Again …”
“Sir, you didn’t answer the Q from NBC. Again, why did you pardon this man while killing alleged drug smugglers who may only be fishermen?”
“Sir, NBC and WSJ have both asked and you haven’t given a direct answer. Again …”
TRUMP: If you’re trafficking drugs to the U.S. via the Caribbean I will kill you.
ALSO TRUMP: If you’re doing time because you helped traffic 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. via Honduras you get a “Full and Complete Pardon.”
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
ALSO TRUMP: If you’re doing time because you helped traffic 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S. via Honduras you get a “Full and Complete Pardon.”
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
If the WH press corps had any spine, they’d collude to hammer on this
“Sir, you didn’t answer the Q from NBC. Again, why did you pardon this man while killing alleged drug smugglers who may only be fishermen?”
“Sir, NBC and WSJ have both asked and you haven’t given a direct answer. Again …”
“Sir, you didn’t answer the Q from NBC. Again, why did you pardon this man while killing alleged drug smugglers who may only be fishermen?”
“Sir, NBC and WSJ have both asked and you haven’t given a direct answer. Again …”