Ryan A

IT guy. car restorer-er. lover of comedy. respect for women and women's rights. #blm #progressive #resister #bluewave🌊🌊🌊 #LGBTQally. he/him/his

[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

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[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

DNC airs new “Freedom” ad to kick off the Democratic Convention

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

If you think the absolute worst picture of you is the big
"orange" one with your chin pulled way back, you're wrong. It's the one of you doing your impression of Serge Kovaleski.

[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

Love this

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is a beautiful letter from Fiona Apple explaining to her fans why she must postpone a concert date.

I am impressed at the way she was instantly able to make the decision to choose love over her career. Indeed, the world needs more of this.

Enjoy the story...

“It's 6pm on Friday, and I'm writing to a few thousand friends I have not met yet. I'm writing to ask them to change our plans and meet a little while later.

Here's the thing.

I have a dog, Janet, and she's been ill for about 2 years now, as a tumor has been idling in her chest, growing ever so slowly. She's almost 14 years old now. I got her when she was 4 months old. I was 21 then — an adult, officially — and she was my kid.

She is a pitbull, and was found in Echo Park, with a rope around her neck, and bites all over her ears and face.

She was the one the dogfighters use to puff up the confidence of the contenders.

She's almost 14 and I've never seen her start a fight, or bite, or even growl, so I can understand why they chose her for that awful role. She's a pacifist.

Janet has been the most consistent relationship of my adult life, and that is just a fact. We've lived in numerous houses, and joined a few makeshift families, but it's always really been just the two of us.

She slept in bed with me, her head on the pillow, and she accepted my hysterical, tearful face into her chest, with her paws around me, every time I was heartbroken, or spirit-broken, or just lost, and as years went by, she let me take the role of her child, as I fell asleep, with her chin resting above my head.

She was under the piano when I wrote songs, barked any time I tried to record anything, and she was in the studio with me, all the time we recorded the last album.

The last time I came back from tour, she was spry as ever, and she's used to me being gone for a few weeks, every 6 or 7 years.

She has Addison's Disease, which makes it more dangerous for her to travel, since she needs regular injections of Cortisol, because she reacts to stress and excitement without the physiological tools which keep most of us from literally panicking to death.

Despite all this, she's effortlessly joyful & playful, and only stopped acting like a puppy about 3 years ago. She is my best friend, and my mother, and my daughter, my benefactor, and she's the one who taught me what love is.

I can't come to South America. Not now. When I got back from the last leg of the US tour, there was a big, big difference.

She doesn't even want to go for walks anymore.

I know that she's not sad about aging or dying.

Animals have a survival instinct, but a sense of mortality and vanity, they do not. That's why they are so much more present than people.

But I know she is coming close to the time where she will stop being a dog, and start instead to be part of everything. She'll be in the wind, and in the soil, and the snow, and in me, wherever I go.

I just can't leave her now, please understand. If I go away again, I'm afraid she'll die and I won't have the honor of singing her to sleep, of escorting her out.
Sometimes it takes me 20 minutes just to decide what socks to wear to bed.

But this decision is instant.

These are the choices we make, which define us. I will not be the woman who puts her career ahead of love & friendship.

I am the woman who stays home, baking Tilapia for my dearest, oldest friend. And helps her be comfortable and comforted and safe and important.

I need to do my damnedest, to be there for that.

Because it will be the most beautiful, the most intense, the most enriching experience of life I've ever known.

When she dies.

So I am staying home, and I am listening to her snore and wheeze, and I am revelling in the swampiest, most awful breath that ever emanated from an angel. And I'm asking for your blessing.
I'll be seeing you.

Love,
Fiona”

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

to recap —
Trump is a genius but you can't see his grades.
Trump is healthy but you can't see his medical reports.
Trump is rich but you can't see his tax returns.
Trump won Georgia but you can't see the proof. in fact, he's such a chickenshit that after bragging about holding some big stupid news conference next Monday, suddenly he doesn't want to talk about it any more because his lawyers told him to shut his big dumb reckless mouth before he digs himself into deeper shit.
what a pathetic fucking coward

[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

@heycuri Hope it is for you, too!

[Sam Schwartz @samschwartz03]

This is a picture of me and my cousin Alex. Alex was murdered in his English classroom by a gunman using an AR15.

Alex‘s death is considered “collateral damage” to the gun lobby. In fact, Republicans want to make it easier for mass shootings to occur, by allowing guns to be easily purchased by anyone.

On July 1, permitless carry will go into effect in Florida. Anyone legally allowed to own a gun can carry it, concealed, without a license.

Let’s look at some examples of what you DO need a license for in Florida:

Want to drive? You need a license.
Want to go fishing? You need a license.
Want to hunt? You need a license.
Want to go boating? You need a license.
Want to own an assault rifle capable of slaughtering 49 people in 5 minutes?
No license required.

Up until now, in order to obtain a concealed weapons permit in Florida, you had to take a class, go through a background check and apply for a license. Ron DeSantis and his cabal of yes-man Republicans have now done away with all of that.

I literally can’t think of a worse way to combat the gun violence/mass shooting epidemic in this country. Not requiring a permit will lead to more guns on the streets of Florida. Republicans truly are a group of the dumbest people on the planet.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court issues decision in Moore v. Harper. The Court rejects the independent state legislature theory, ruling that state courts have the power to review election laws and maps enacted by state legislatures. https://t.co/g6UJySp48L

[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

@ruemcclammyhand I was born with that expression..still got it.

[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

@heycuri Did the eat/sink-the-rich orca gang get them?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

I can’t stop laughing at this. 😂

[Ryan A @nullproj3ct]

@duchess_banana Not yet

[Keith Boykin @keithboykin]

Trump hosted Kyle Rittenhouse after he killed Black Lives Matter protesters.

Greg Abbott wants to pardon Daniel Perry, who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester.

Ron DeSantis is fundraising for Daniel Penny, who killed a Black man on a subway.

This is the Republican Party.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Wow. In 4 minutes, former U.S. Marine Marksmanship Instructor and Arizona Sec. of State @Adrian_Fontes dismantles the right's Second Amendment lies. Watch this till the end.