Biquette the goat, sold to an abattoir after she stopped producing milk but was rescued by punks and then spent 10 years watching grindcore bands. She could come and go as she pleased and, in the words of her rescuers, “escaped death, lived punk”. Absolute legend.
To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵
The real reason banks want to eliminate WFH: it makes insider trading more difficult. Lololol it's super cool that these are the folks managing our entire economy. https://t.co/TiBuLttX5w
@rachbarnhart@CityRochesterNY There are tons of articles about UBI and its success in bringing families out of poverty. It's not Rachel's job to Google stuff for you. "Poor ppl are lazy," say folks who can't enter three letters into a search engine 😆
"We found evidence suggesting that fine particulate matter (PM2.5) can reduce attention in adults within just hours of exposure. This is a very quick turnaround between exposure and decreased cognitive performance." https://t.co/VhPwRjHDOL
it looks like another lovely spring day to REMIND YOU DELINQUENTS TO STOP "RESCUING" BABY ANIMALS. THEIR MOMS ARE MOST LIKELY NEARBY SO JUST MIND YOUR BUSINESS.
FAWNS, DROP EM'.
BIRDS, LEAVE EM'.
RACCOONS, DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.
ARMADILLO?¿? ARMADILL-NO.
turns out the disabled Twitter employee who Elon publicly ridiculed for asking about the status of his employment sold his company to Twitter for ~$100 million, and the deal was structured in a way which requires payment for the entire deal upon his termination—whoops 🤣
“The 27 Worst Things About Going To Stock Photo University” - something I made years ago and I just found it archived, and I’m pasting it here in a thread