Sam Pottle

@dribrats.bsky.social

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Confront the authoritarian impulse wherever you find it. At least *notice* it.

Iceberg lettuce at a podium in front of Number 10 Downing Street
Rod Blagojevich, after his sentencing hearing in 2011.
Cleavon Little and Alex Karras, from Blazing Saddles
Hand-lettered sign from "Roger and Me". Blue lettering on raw plywood, attached to a telephone pole. Rabbits or Bunnies Pets or Meat Dessed[sic] 2141 Amy <arrow pointing right> For Sale
In Memoriam OTIS S. SMITHERS, January 23, 1918 HARRISON M. WARD, January 24, 1918 VICTOR R. NEWHOUSE, October 9, 1918 HALORD BODDEN, December 9, 1918 JOHN E. MARTIN, December 12, 1918 BURNETT SMITH, December 16, 1918 DAVID BETTIS, January 19, 1919 EDGAR W. PETTIT, February 22, 1919 LISLE L. BEST, April 9, 1919 HARVEY FREEL, July 30, 1919 Too late now to try to say-- Too late now to seek to do-- Words we owed you on the way, Deeds we should have done for you; Too late now to grasp your hand, Yet I think you understand. Soldiers' grieving sets its trace In the heart, not in the eyes; Though tears furrow not the face, Who knows what embosomed lies? Tears were not for us to give, You who died, and we who live. How can we weep who know not What the day for each may bring? How deem yours the harder lot In this world's vain sorrowing? Only this we know at last: You to nothing worse have passed. As storm-driven ships that meet, Cross each other's ways and part, Shout "Ahoy!" through wind and sleet, Vanish--yet heart touches heart, Even so with us befell. Hail! O comrades, and farewell! Mayen, January 21, 1919.
Cover for FTL: Advanced Edition. Depicts a top-down view of a player ship which is being boarded, is on fire, and has multiple damaged systems. Which is pretty typical.
"Fuck You, Make Me" in the style of a Waffle House sign
"Por que no los dos?" girl
Dark-haired man wearing a karate gi.
John Goodman, wearing a suit and hat and carrying a shotgun, walks down a hotel corridor that is on fire. Caption: "I'll show you the life of the mind!"
@dril tweet: "the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
Formal portrait of William III of England
IBM Model F keyboard
A blue Muppet sits on a stoop.
Scruffy man with a mustache in a watch cap, snarling. Behind him are a chain-link fence and an abandoned factory.
Photo of the front cover and spine of volume 1 of The New Book of Knowledge. The white cover has a stylized tree logo in gold on a blue background.
Jimmy Walker pointing upwards. The caption reads "DYN-O-MITE!"
A million gulls on the ice on Lake Erie. The Cleveland East Entrance Lighthouse, with its distinctive red band, is in the background. Photo by Ian Adams.
Doonesbury cartoon. A well-dressed woman is speaking on the phone. Panel 1: 'I'm sorry, but Rick's not home. May I ask who's calling?' 'Halberstam. David Halberstam. I want to interview him for my next book..' Panel 2: 'Rick? For a book? What sort of books do you write, Mr. Halberstam?' 'I write tomes. Tomes about power. Tomes like "The Best and the Brightest," and "The Powers That Be."' Panel 3: 'They're massive books, big, very big, towering best sellers, 750 pages, sometimes more, that's how big they are. The kind of books about which men like to say, "I own them."' Panel 4: 'Oh. Do these men read them?' 'Very few. Only the best.'
Sickos meme
Three girls in a convertible. Macro text: "Get in, loser. We're (number) going up."
Kevin's mum and dad, in their last moments, holding a scorched toaster oven. Inside is a black lump of concentrated Evil.
Spalding Gray sits at a table in front of a microphone. A notebook and a glass of water are on the table.
John Travolta is sipping a $5 milkshake through a straw. It has whipped cream and a maraschino cherry on top.
Jeremy Clarkson is momentarily concerned
Lalla Ward as Romana, wearing a straw hat
Close-up of Daffy Duck. Macro caption reads "Despicable."
Gravestone Annette S. Dau. of F.A. and M.S. Pottle July 5, 1921 Aug. 6, 1922
Victorian advertisement for "sanitized tape worms". EAT! EAT! EAT! & ALWAYS STAY THIN Slender woman in a diaphanous dress stands behind a large pile of commercial food products.
Owlship from Watchmen
A gladiator shouts to his audience. Macro text reads "Are you not bored?"
Malcolm MacDowell pointing a sci-fi gun
Pizzagate conspiracist Jack Posobiec, meanwhile, was visibly irate over the tweets about Vance and immigrants before attempting to exert on-air pressure on Pope Leo XIV to openly support Trump. "We need to see from the jump, from the absolute jump, whether or not Pope Leo is interested in working with President Trump or—as we can see from his Twitter feed—working against him," he said during the broadcast of his Real America's Voice show. "As a representative of Catholics all around the world, perhaps he'll understand that it was Catholics who delivered the White House for President Trump," he concluded. "And perhaps, just perhaps, the new pope will listen."
View from Fox Islands toward Popham Beach in Phippsburg, Maine.
Marty McFly, in front of the town clock.
Film poster for The Manhattan Project (1986), which was set in Ithaca, NY. A boy stands with a bicycle. He is carrying a box in his hand. He is silhouetted against the lights of many police cars and helicopters in the background. Text: Paul Stevens' high school science project has gotten a little out of hand. He just built an atomic bomb. Now he's got 11 hours to make sure it doesn't work.
Label art for an IPA called Fetch, from Foundation Brewing. A drawing of a cute dog with a tennis ball in its mouth, and a Frisbee flying in the background.
Big Bird with Mr. Snuffleupagus
Frances McDormand as Chief Marge Gunderson in Fargo (1996)
Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito, in "Goodfellas"
Al Pacino, in The Godfather Part II
10mm ratchet wrench
Adam West as Batman, shown from the waist up, gritting his teeth and holding a bomb over his head.
Albert Brooks in "Broadcast News." Macro text: "I say it here, it comes out there"
An assortment of potato varieties at a market
Headshot of the actor James Cromwell
A Piper Archer on a grass field, with its engine running. Two people are visible in the cockpit.
Dominique Pinon as Le Curé in Diva(1981).
Sir John Soane's Museum, at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields. Brick house with projecting façade of white Portland stone.
Image of a Secchi disk with attached string
Norway Brewing Company Mr. Grumpypants Oatmeal Stout with Coffee Image of grumpy-looking brewer drawn by Ghostshrimp