making my money being pretty and witty 🧡

Your friends are the ones with matching scars.

[making my money being pretty and witty 🧡 @0vrthinkerbell]

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost.

- J. R. R. Tolkien.

[Papita Criolla ☻ @evelyncarmona]

La vida adulta me pide mucho y yo solo quiero estar 24/7 con mis gatos 🫠

[Taylor Swift Updates 💎 @swifferupdates]

💬| “A woman who has no peers when it comes to shattering records as a writer, singer and storyteller, a singular artist and a genuine phenomenon”

- Steven Spielberg on Taylor Swift as she’s inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame

[Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats]

📍 SF Bay Area

Carol & Hubert are a 10-month-old brother and sister pair who would love to be adopted together. They're both so sweet and fun! Now that they're big kittens, nobody wants them.

Can you share to help them find a family by their 1st birthday? 🩷

[making my money being pretty and witty 🧡 @0vrthinkerbell]

@LaCrazyCatLady_ Te admiro profundamente 💖

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[kira ☁️ @kiralovestaylor]

“i built a legacy that you can’t undo”

[making my money being pretty and witty 🧡 @0vrthinkerbell]

@ailoviutl Hola!! Alguna novedad??

[Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats]

there is no such thing as ethical breeding and there is no excuse to support cat breeding. You cannot say you are an advocate for cat welfare or rescue if you support breeding. Just want to make that clear 🫶🏼

[making my money being pretty and witty 🧡 @0vrthinkerbell]

@gabyplatas @Lacasadeazul @sarahiso Hoy me salió en mis recuerdos en fb de cuando compartí al Sr. Papita! Me dio por buscarlo porque lo último que supe es que lo tenías tú @Lacasadeazul! Qué gustazo que tanto él como Joaquín tengan hogares perfectos para ellos. Gracias por tanto 🥰

[Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats]

who else up celebrating the one year anniversary of plummeting 5 stories down to the pavement and somehow surviving!!! oh just us?? it's a party over here!

[Alina @Alina_Gag]

Comparto fotos y texto de @Legallypau (contactarla directo 🩷)

Adopción especial 🤍

Hola, soy Baco. Tengo 9 meses y desde muy bebé me lastimé muy feo… no tuve atención a tiempo, pero nunca perdí las ganas de vivir.

Con ayuda de mis veterinarios empecé terapias y poco a poco

[Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats]

We are now forced to close intake and not help anymore cats until we find homes for the adoptable cats in our care. We literally have no more space and I'm having to say no to cats who will die without us.

all these kittens are still here.

Please share.

📍 SF Bay Area

[envozmx @envozmxoficial]

#8M
"Mi otro sueño es que en mi país, no exista un solo macho más", dijo desde el templete en el Zócalo José Castillo, papá de Esmeralda Castillo, joven desaparecida en Ciudad Juárez en 2009.
📹: Karla Rodríguez

[Hatsumi Nonaka 🇯🇵 初美 @HatsumiNonaka]

No, el problema no es que un padre quiera celebrar a su princesita.

Si un empresario honesto trabaja toda su vida y decide gastar 45 millones de pesos en los XV de su hija, es su dinero y está en todo su derecho.

El problema es cuando ese lujo ocurre en uno de los estados más pobres del país y la sospecha inevitable es que ese dinero no salió del trabajo, sino del erario.

Cuando empresas públicas como PEMEX están en crisis, mientras hay hospitales sin medicinas, escuelas abandonadas, la seguridad nula, emprendedores que no encuentran apoyo… ver contratos millonarios caer siempre en los mismos círculos y después ver fiestas de millones genera indignación.

Y lo más preocupante no es la fiesta.

Lo más preocupante es ver cómo poco a poco nos quieren convencer de que no pasa nada, de que “cada quien gasta su dinero como quiere” y que cuestionar eso es envidia o resentimiento.

No.

Porque cuando el dinero público termina convertido en lujo privado, lo que estamos viendo no es una celebración o a una niña feliz.

Es corrupción normalizada.

Y un país que normaliza la corrupción termina perdiendo mucho más que dinero: termina perdiendo su futuro.

[making my money being pretty and witty 🧡 @0vrthinkerbell]

@TELMEXSoluciona @infinitum Son correctos. Gracias

[making my money being pretty and witty 🧡 @0vrthinkerbell]

@infinitum a mediodía que salí de casa tenía internet pero afuera de mi coto estaban 3 camionetas de Telmex. Desde media tarde reportaron los vecinos que no había internet y siendo las 21:30 casi, seguimos sin internet.

Pueden ayudarnos?

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

NEW NEWS!!!!

RT to win a @newheightshow hat signed by @tkelce and to help him win the #WPMOYChallenge

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

1 RT = 2 votes for TE1‼️

Vote for @tkelce in the #WPMOYChallenge presented by @Nationwide!

[El arca de Satoshi @arca_satoshi]

Chaplin en shock porque a pesar de ser tan guapo y hermoso -el mejor michie de todo el munnnndo- aun nadie pregunta por él. 😔

Sabemos que ser +LEU puede ser el motivo de que nadie le quiera dar una chancito pero les prometo que él mas que nadie merece y necesita una familia. Cada dia se deprime más y en su situación eso no es bueno. 😕

¿Le ayudan, porfi? Les prometo que un #RT sí puede hacer la diferencia y lograr que su familia ideal lo vea, porque nuestra esperanza dice que sí, que sí hay una familia para este muchachito tan hermoso. 🥹🥰

Info al WhatsApp [phone]
#CDMX

[Friends of Bear Cat Rescue @feederofcats]

📍 SF Bay Area

Well, it looks like all of our sweet, purring kittens will be spending their first Christmas without a family. But maybe they'll have better luck in the new year?

All kittens are fixed, vaccinated, and microchipped.

https://t.co/tOxH8MvD27