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Del Potter PhD

@drdelpotter.bsky.social

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I’m deeply immersed in the intersections of neuroscience, ethnobotany, & pharmacological research, I thrive on leveraging science to enhance human well-being and longevity. After years of scientific writing I’m writing fiction and a cinematic memoir.

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 2d

It always kills me when I hear these country songs about how great Texas and America is. Mfkr, have you ever been anywhere else? STFU.

Ok, I’m done.

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so fucking embarrassing. Aspire to read Don Quixote and One Hundred Years of Solitude in Spanish, dumb motherfuckers. There’s more to the world than monster trucks, Jesus, and guns.4/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 2d

It’s fucking appalling how we are so frightened of diversity and want everything dumbed down to this low level of homogeneity. We are not the fucking center of the universe. Other societies and other people come from incredible civilizations and legacy histories that can inform us. 3/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 2d

I mean really WTF is wrong with us that we don’t aspire to improve ourselves and enrich the way we look at things. Are we really such dumb ignorant hillbillies that we can’t educate ourselves?2/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 2d

This Bad Bunny speaking Spanish issue is ridiculous. People in Europe normally speak several languages. It’s a sign of erudition and intelligence. Are we that lame ignorant and lacking in culture that we can’t make an effort to embrace the perspectives, world views & languages of other countries? 1/

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 9d

They just stand around posing. Not doing. bsky.app/profile/esqu...

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Sep 6

The US government is now straight up posting nazi propaganda.

A retro-style poster shared by the U.S. Department of Labor. It shows a serious young man in a button-up work shirt, standing in front of a map of the United States with construction cranes in the background. The text reads: “Build your Homeland’s Future!” At the top, there’s a link: APRENTICESHIP.GOV.

Another vintage-style poster from the U.S. Department of Labor. A young man in a short-sleeved collared shirt stands confidently in front of oil drilling and construction equipment under a bright blue sky. The bold text reads: “Power the Golden Age!” The same link, APRENTICESHIP.GOV, is displayed above.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9d

There was a time when a President of the United States who falsely said a perfectly peaceful city was "burning to the ground" would be immediately 25th'ed as a crazy person

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9d

Trump on Portland ruling: I wasn’t served well by the people who pick judges. I appointed the judge and it goes like that. If he made that decision—Portland is burning to the ground… all you have to do is look at the TV and read your newspapers.

That judge ought to be ashamed of himself

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Shoq @shoq.bsky.social · 10d

So, have we had enough of Russell Vought and his #Project2025 yet? Have we had enough of the American military in our streets on these ginned up Reichstag fire excuses?

Are you asking yourself WHY only a pitiful 53% of the public disapproves of all this, when we are clearly on the verge of …

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” — Henry David Thoreau

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” — Frederick Douglass

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 11d

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

His ego, fragile as spun glass, keeps the comedy machine running day after day.

He is his own satire, self-sabotaging, self-parodying, and blissfully unaware.

Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

He rages, he sulks, he hurls insults back with all the sophistication of a grade school bully: “loser,” “stupid,” “fake.”

And the angrier he gets, the funnier it becomes. His fury is the laugh track. His indignation is the punchline. 8/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

He is comedy gold. Not because comedians need to exaggerate him, but because all they have to do is repeat him.

And the pièce de résistance? He can’t stand being laughed at.

Ridicule cuts him deeper than investigation. A late-night monologue wounds him more than a thousand editorials. 7/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Every day, Trump and his revolving door of incompetents deliver fresh material, like a bottomless clown car lurching into the town square. Name the subject, hell, any subject, foreign policy, science, healthcare, grammar, and he’ll hand you a joke wrapped in tragedy.6/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Take, for instance, his delusional belief that he deserves a Nobel Prize. A Nobel Prize! For what, creative lying? For pioneering new lows in political discourse? For teaching the world that covfefe is, apparently, a word?5/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

And, in his full grotesque glory, he is President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho from Idiocracy, a professional wrestler turned head of state, the embodiment of celebrity populist politics and weaponized stupidity.

Trump is A Living, Breathing Joke Factory 4/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

He is Adenoid Hynkel, Charlie Chaplin’s farcical dictator in The Great Dictator. He is Rufus T. Firefly, Groucho Marx’s incompetent tyrant of Freedonia in Duck Soup. 3/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

This is a man who struts through politics like a vaudeville reject, petty, cartoonishly vindictive, bumbling, and proudly ignorant. He mangles the English language, spits out childish catchphrases as though they’re policy, and then preens at the wreckage like it’s a triumph. 2/

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · 16d

Let’s Get Real!

No one on the right is funny.

Humor belongs to the left. It’s not even a contest. Every late-night host, every stand-up worth their mic, every satirist with a pulse has been roasting Trump for years.

And why not? He’s the punchline that writes itself. 1/

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Sep 14

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Grace Helperson @catladyprincess.bsky.social · Sep 13

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · Sep 14

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · Sep 12

Quit sanitizing this asshole. Just because we mourn this Nazi the way they want us too doesn’t mean the rest of the Nazis are going to alter the course of their racist project even one bit.

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · Sep 10

next time they should go to a Subway

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · Sep 10

A panicked Trump asks for protesters to be removed from a DC restaurant tonight

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Del Potter PhD @drdelpotter.bsky.social · Sep 1

The WH basically has a small hospital and some of the best doctors&medical staff available. If they’re unable to stabilize his condition there that means: 1)he’s unstable or 2)serious condition, or 3) he’s in critical condition with possible organ failure. Life saving measures weren’t working.