Rick2Tails

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fan of art,comics,animation among other things including treating other people nice as much as possible

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if you took every billionaire on earth and stacked them on top of each other starting at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, that would be great

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Newsletter: The Shareholder Supremacy has eaten the world, turning the tech industry into the playground of do-nothing management dictators that see human beings as assets and the customer as subordinate to growth - all inspired by GE’s Jack Welch. www.wheresyoured.at/tss/

The Shareholder Supremacywww.wheresyoured.at I promise you, everything that's happening makes sense. It all feels so chaotic, so utterly, offensively stupid, so disconnected from reality that it's hard to understand how Meta can run a terrible company with decaying services that's also wildly profitable, or how Meta, Microsoft and Google can proliferate unprofitable, unsustainable

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Don’t forget: -Hottest summer on the record yet, here’s why you peasants shouldn’t use your AC -Have less money? Try the new diet the poors are trying called getting less food -COVID19? Never heard of her - here’s why this chiropractor says it doesn’t exist & masks will turn you gay

Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

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tweeted this four years ago and it pretty much sums up my feelings on this shit

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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"Look, the Wall Street Journal lists all these companies that did poorly after they initiated diversity initiatives." Huh, looks like most of them were also acquired by private equity groups in leveraged buyouts, and then conducted stock buybacks. "YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO ACTUALLY READ THAT FAR!"

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New pod: Andrew Weissmann makes a powerful, disturbing case that Trump's threats to pardon 1/6ers and prosecute his enemies mean that if he wins, our justice system could become unrecognizable. "We certainly won't be the country we thought we had." Listen: newrepublic.com/article/1833...

Trump’s Ugly New Rants About Jan. 6 Pardons Suddenly Seem Very Ominousnewrepublic.com With Trump escalating his threats to pardon MAGA supporters who attacked the Capitol, former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann explains how this shows the rule of law is in deep peril.

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WE AIN'T FOUND SHIT

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When fetch plays you

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Took me a sec 🤠

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Weirdly this also applies to a lot of things that aren’t books

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some things we, as a society, have recently done to teens: -traumatized them with gun violence -vastly reduced their rights to reproductive healthcare -had a moral panic about their genders -abandoned them to the ravages of covid, destroying their immune systems it's not tiktok that fucked em up

New York bans ‘addictive feeds’ for teens - https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/20/24182396/new-york-governor-social-media-law-parental-consent-algorithms

New York bans “addictive feeds” for teenswww.theverge.com States have been taking the lead on kids online safety.

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PUG DREDD

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you put the inside in the outside is it good? darn tootin doin the big fig newton (here's the tricky part)

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burger time!

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Col. Boozy Badger

ALL I’M SAYING IS MAYBE THEY SHOULD STICK TO THE HIGHWAYS WHEN DRIVING THROUGH EASTERN TENNESSEE FROM NOW ON.

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Happy pride from Creator of gravity falls Alex Hirsch who undoubtedly gave his career a dent when he called out Disney's lies. That's allyship! Btw, give gravity falls a rewatch.

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Pixar forcing queer and POC stories to go straight to streaming, then using the lack of theatrical success as an excuse to kill queer and POC stories is the entire entertainment industry in a nut shell.

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Just fold the studio into Disney and kill it already. Make Toy Story sequels till the sun fucking burns out. Love how this shift conveniently happened when more woman/POC were really pushing to direct their own stories. Defining their experiences as not "universal" is saying the quiet part aloud.

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The state of Florida prevented cities from lighting up their bridges in rainbow colors for Pride month. So people did it themselves anyway.

Florida won't light bridges in rainbow colors. So Jacksonville's LGBTQ community did.www.jacksonville.com After the state said its bridges will be lit red, white and blue all summer, LGBTQ supporters used rainbow-colored flashlights on Main Street bridge.

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Millionaire’s Tax: Polls incredibly well, wins ballot measure despite billionaires spending huge against it, now bringing in millions more than expected for education & transit Boston Globe: SHUT UP ABOUT THE MILLIONAIRE’S TAX SHUT UP NO ONE CAN POSSIBLY KNOW IF IT’S GOOD SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

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Your periodic reminder that kerning matters.

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Cliff notes: Professor Pflugfelder taught at Columbia for 28 yrs. Was just trying to enjoy retirement & bingewatch Shogun. Got interrupted by police who he filmed from his own home/block. Arrested and jailed. One of the may “non students” the cops want us to believe were “outside agitators”

A Columbia professor wanted to document history. NYPD arrested him outside his homewww.usatoday.com The professor had just finished his last class to end a 28-year teaching career at Columbia University. Then police arrested him outside his home.

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You'll never guess why pet care has become so much more expensive in recent years. (Answer: It's hedge funds, it's always hedge funds.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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People don’t want to work anymore