Pat Rafferty

Closed up shop. Nothing to see here, move along.

[Pat Rafferty @prr]

@rob_sheridan I hate what this place has become! Would you consider cross-posting tweets to Mastodon? (e.g., with https://t.co/FXV0MG1vNo)? I’m getting out of here, but I don’t want to miss your posts.

[Pat Rafferty @prr]

@cabel Turn on that https://t.co/FXV0MG1vNo crossposter! It’s a good half-step to getting the hell out of here. @foozmeat approved! (You crossposting would certainly make it easier for *me* to leave.)

[Pat Rafferty @prr]

@cpragman @siracusa Twitter should probably start a Patreon.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Shell reported Q3 profits of $9.5 BILLION. And Republicans not only did nothing to stop it, but they carried water for those fuckers by helping them pretend that high prices were due to inflation, and not just pure unadulterated corporate greed.

[Pat Rafferty @prr]

@Jonathan_Maus @BikePortland I’ve got bad news for you about billionaires…

[Ayman @AymanM]

Yet again, the media has not learned its lesson from 2016. The NY Times writing about an antisemitic, anti-democratic, election denying, pro-insurrectionist, QAnon believer as if she were an underdog sports figure returning from an injury.

[Ally Maynard @allymayn]

Fox News and Facebook did to our parents what they said video games would do to us.

[Alex Zielinski @alex_zee]

Your daily reminder that the Portland Police Bureau was never defunded, and currently has the largest budget in Portland history.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Average Weekly Wages
1973: $873
2022: $813

Median Home
1973: $30,200
2022: $433,100

Monthly Rent
1973: $108
2022: $2,002

Tuition and Fees at University of California
1973: $150
2022: $13,104

Boomer: But why can't the slackers pay for college & pay off their loans like we did?

[Pat Rafferty @prr]

@kajerstin Where’s this photo from? That’s the most revealing picture I’ve seen of what it looks like inside now.

[Pat Rafferty @prr]

@OhColeman That reminds me of a one season UPN scifi show from 1996 that I still haven’t watched (Homeboys From Outerspace).

[Janel Comeau 🍁 @VeryBadLlama]

government: hey is it cool if we spend $115,000 to house this poor person for a year

voters: wtf?? absolutely not

government: but what if I told you they had a small amount of marijuana and need to be punished

voters: in that case absolutely, spend as much as you like

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: If the punishment for breaking a law is a fine, then that law only exists for the poor.

[jo lampert @jolampert]

There is no ‘teacher shortage’. There are thousands of qualified experiences teachers who are no longer teaching. There’s a shortage of respect and proper compensation for teachers allowing them to actually teach.

[William Buecker @wcbuecker]

I know no better arguments for banning AR-15 type semiautomatic rifles
Than 400 cops being afraid to take on an 18 year old with one

[Sophia Benoit @1followernodad]

This country sucks shit but at least it’s almost over.

[Irin Carmon @irin]

This Ohio tragedy is, among many other things, a lesson that there is no account deemed sympathetic enough to break through to people who simply do not care about the suffering they’re causing. Instead we get denial, misdirection, or attacking those who told the story.