Ricardo Cortés

Artist / Author / Picture Books / Drug Theory / @justaplant @coffeecocacola @seacreaturessky @gotheftosleep @partyamystery / 🍅

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

I won’t be posting or RTing here anymore. For now I’m bluesky not threads. And here’s my first 5 books so I can pin ‘em…

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

@NYCTSubway We need this info on Bluesky. Some of us are trying to leave this horrible X platform. Please build a Bluesky account so we have options. Thank you.

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

@NYCTSubway For much of your audience, twitter/x in no longer a helpful platform. Please open a Bluesky account so we can follow this important info elsewhere.

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

@Maggie_McNeill Yeah, Threads was designed to distance itself from “politics” & “hard news,” which says to me: “we want milquetoast conversations bc we’re afraid to support discussion of anything controversial.” A feckless waste of a potential communication tool, IMHO.

https://t.co/ZARsaes87i

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

Whenever good-meaning people contribute to this platform, each contribution entrenches it into a critical infrastructure that we can’t escape.

The overlord here has shown he will shut down dissent to his agenda, and his agenda is foul.

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

@NYCTSubway I love, monitor, and use your account daily. Please open a Bluesky account so we can get this info elsewhere. Bc this twitter place often is terrible and getting worse.

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@prisonculture “The stand-up tactic, as opposed to walking out all at once, would allow the U.A.W. to stretch its eight-hundred-and-twenty-five-million-dollar strike fund, so that the strike could go longer and wider if progress wasn’t made.”

Source: 3rd paragraph of https://t.co/flU336rFoU

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

In researching my @CoffeeCocaCola book, I learned the wild history of @CocaColaCo’s hand in the UN negotiations on the prohibition of coca.

Read my illustrated book for more info, or see an essay I posted about it here:

https://t.co/fFJYiqlVqV

[WOLA @WOLA_org]

🇧🇴Bolivia recently challenged the UN’s coca leaf ban.

This process could end 70 years of racist discrimination of millions of coca leaf users, many of them indigenous people

🌿#ANewLeaf
✍️@John_WOLA @MartinJelsmaTNI
https://t.co/ALmOk9iZW4

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

“People in publishing often talk about ‘child-friendly’ books, which suggests something consoling, sweet and kind of nostalgic. But that’s a smokescreen, because those qualities attract parents and teachers more than children,”

via @janetmanley

https://t.co/ha4G9HYY7k

[rat king 🐀 @MikeIsaac]

bro what the fuck is a limited edition strawberry

[Sanho Tree @SanhoTree]

Remember this image when Proud Boys talk about Western Civilization.😏

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

This is a great video. Also, I met BC once promoting @justaplant (my children’s book @ marijuana) & she was very supportive/encouraging. I offered her a copy but she insisted on buying it, and FOLLOWED UP days later by email to make sure she could purchase a copy of my book. 🙏

[Business Insider @BusinessInsider]

Barbara Corcoran reveals how to successfully ask for a raise

[Kids Write Jokes @KidsWriteJokes]

no stopping can stop me

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

1954: @CocaColaCo VP Ralph Hayes thanks Harry Anslinger for the offer of “wrecking crew” support, amidst UN negotiations wherein Anslinger will protect The Coca-Cola Company’s legal supply of coca leaf in perpetuity via adoption of the Single Convention Treaty.

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

1948: Maywood Chemical, coca 🍃 leaf import and processing partner of @CocaColaCo, thanks Harry Anslinger for his help in sharing maps of Peruvian cocaine factories.

[Maggie McNeill @Maggie_McNeill]

I wrote a paper for English class arguing that regardless of one's beliefs on the morality of abortion, a film implicitly arguing that it was wrong BECAUSE it looked revolting was a moral idiocy, and that the same argument could be used to argue for a ban of open-heart surgery.

[James F. Thomas (of IDLEWILD) @james_f_thomas]

it's physically almost impossible for me to cry these days but this article made me cry
https://t.co/BCpTuQHFdZ

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

“These books are typically upbeat, didactic, and unimaginative.”

[Ricardo Cortés @Rmcortes]

@Hiker_Gabriel bsky-social-ixtlt-2teb5