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[Jett @ProtoJett]

Okay so Where the Hell Have I Been Too time. It’s been a slog and a lot of what will be in this is traumatic so TW for abuse of almost all kinds!

[Ron Wright @ronsterd89]

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.

You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

[Dirt Cheap Banks @dirtcheapbanks]

I have built a spreadsheet. It has 847 rows. Each row is a community bank in the United States with a market cap below $200 million, a price-to-tangible-book ratio under 0.85, a non-performing loan ratio below 0.4%, and a CEO who has been in the role for at least twelve years. I update it every Sunday from 6 AM to 11 AM while my family attends church without me. I have visited the headquarters of nineteen of these banks in person. I have eaten a complimentary lobby cookie at each one. The cookies are how you can tell. A bank with a good cookie is a bank that respects its depositors. A bank with a stale cookie is a bank that will be acquired within 36 months at a 40% premium. I am never wrong about the cookies. The cookies have never lied to me. The cookies are the only thing left that tells the truth.

[Kia 🩷 @xevekiah]

Did you know the TV show “To Catch a Predator” was cancelled because they kept catching law enforcement, teachers, preachers, local officials, and other people meant to protect Children?

The final straw? An Assistant District Attorney in TEXAS was courting who he thought was a 13yo boy. He didn’t show for the sting, so they sent law enforcement and camera crew to his home. The police entered, and Louis Conradt shot himself, taking his own life.

Can’t make this shit up.

[No Context Tobey Maguire @OocTobeyM]

Disney just fired the man who designed the visual identity of the entire MCU.

16 years. $30 billion at the box office. And they replaced him with freelancers.

I’m going to put all of Andy Park’s contributions in the comments so you realize who this man actually is.

[Andy Park @andyparkart]

Marvel Studios Visual Development: 2010–2026

End of an era. I was there at the start of a team that broke the mold. 16 years, 40+ films, and 15 films led as Director of Visual Development, I couldn’t be prouder of the history we made.

My journey continues…

#Marvel #AndyPark

[ＲＯＮＩＮＹＯＲＣＨ @RoninYorch]

Anti-A.I. stamps!

For illustrations, comics, photos and all your creative works, printed and digital!

You can download the transparent file in the ⛓️below:

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

truly blackpilling

i went and checked what it means to read below 6th grade level and this means that ~130 million people cannot work out the correct dose on a children's medicine label, can't read their own pay slip, can't follow the instructions on a consent form before surgery, can't locate basic information in a short newspaper article

the average 6th grader in 1850 was expected to have read the bible and understand shakespeare

progress seems inevitable until you realize it isn't and it takes people of extraordinary abilities to make it happen

[Insane Clips @StreetFightsHQ]

This guy is making industrial-strength Beyblades that literally burst into flames when they spin

[nhbbie @JODIEBASTARD]

they been doin this already since the 2000s though man i-WOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHWHAST THE FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUK

[anastasia ♀️ @aletheia327]

She's getting called a whore in the comments for *not* having sex, which I think suggests slut shaming is less about sex itself and more about women always being seen as sexual property--claiming she isn't is taken as evidence that she is; they can't conceptualize anything else.

[goma @soigomaa]

we live on a planet where trees warn each other of danger through underground networks. where octopuses dream. where elephants return to the bones of their dead and stand over them in silence. where bees communicate through dance, showing each other where to fly. where flowers bloom...where crows remember human faces -especially those who were cruel to them - and pass that memory on to their young. where ants build entire cities. where cats purr at a frequency that can help heal bones. where forests, after fires, grow flowers first.

[Jake Lundahl @LundahlHorses]

Civilization was built by people like this, and there is a stunning lack of gratitude in our culture for their work.

In this specific case, at least half of the apple varieties in Brown’s collection were considered “lost” until he personally tracked them down and saved them.

He literally went on quests where he did things like, tracking a lost variety back to a stump of a long-ago-cut-down tree near an abandoned homestead in remote Appalachia, took cuttings from the green shoots coming out of the stump, brought them back and planted them.

Absolute legend.

[Terry Wilcox @Terrilox]

UnitedHealth, the biggest health insurer in the country, ran an algorithm that flagged patients for “too much” therapy. If they had more than 30 sessions in 8 months or twice a week, they denied coverage to save money.

Regulators in California, New York, and Massachusetts called it illegal under federal mental health parity laws because they don’t do this to physical health claims. They settled, paid fines, and kept right on doing it in Medicaid plans across dozens of states.
Insurance companies deciding your care, not your doctor. That’s the policy failure. Read it.

[JimmyTheGiant @jimthegiant]

Man they really fucked up losing to Zohran, now the world can see it is possible to actually do things

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The scariest finding in this paper: the subjects couldn't tell it was happening.

UPenn ran this study on 48 healthy adults. One group slept 8 hours. Another slept 6. Another slept 4. For 14 straight days. They tested cognitive performance every 2 hours from 7:30am to 11:30pm.

The 6-hour group's reaction times, working memory, and sustained attention deteriorated on a near-linear curve. By day 14 they were performing at the same level as someone who hadn't slept at all in 48 hours. The 4-hour group hit that threshold by day 6.

Here's the part that should unsettle everyone who thinks they "do fine" on 6 hours: the subjects' self-reported sleepiness flatlined after the first few days. Their brains kept getting worse. Their perception of how impaired they were stopped updating. The cognitive decline was invisible to the person experiencing it.

The researchers found a hard threshold. Any wakefulness beyond 15.84 hours in a day produces cumulative neurobiological cost. That cost compounds every single day you exceed it and does not reset with a weekend of sleeping in.

About 35% of American adults sleep less than 7 hours a night. 40% of those get 6 hours or less. In 1942 that number was 11%. We built an entire professional culture around a sleep schedule that this paper says is functionally equivalent to pulling consecutive all-nighters.

"I'm fine on 6 hours" is the most common response to sleep research. The first thing chronic sleep debt destroys is your ability to notice chronic sleep debt.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

One billionaire couple owns almost all the water in California.

In 1994, the Resnicks secretly seized control of California’s public water supply.

Now their companies use 150 billion gallons every year while working class people suffer under drought conditions.

[Mohammad @MargBarAmerica]

boycott Wonderful Company brand products, owned by the resnick family. they spent years lobbying DC for war to decrease iran’s global market share of pistachios. this strike was a personal gift to the family, who also donate their money to the IDF.

[Steven Hyden @Steven_Hyden]

Started digging into this, just an absolute treasure trove.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Israel just killed 254 people in Lebanon and is now demanding “strong condemnation” from others.

There is something uniquely obscene about a state that creates mass death in the present
while weaponizing past atrocity to silence criticism in the present.

If you are bombing civilians today,
do not preach to the world about moral decency.