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Ricki Tarr

When you get a unplanned phone call:

This is a scene from a movie there's a very 80's looking man with blonde hair, middle aged, and wearing a sweatshirt. He picks up a Garfield phone, says, Go to Hell, into the receiver and then hangs it up.
Ricki Tarr

My friend sent me this picture of us, and it's cute, but I can't stop thinking that it looks like one of those pictures that they show right before they turn it black and white, and say:

They were just a normal group of friends...until they weren't

If you have a picture like this you should share it, because it would make me laugh!

A picture of my friend Pat, my hubs, me, and Cam. We are standing in front of a cave entrance.
@pineywoozle (s) for HARRIS

@RickiTarr Pretty sure this one would be under “There were obvious clues” LOL -

My friends have forbidden the use of their photos online, especially the BT. I did get him to hold our adorably huge cat for a pic l wanted to photoshop into a drawing. I’m allowed to use this version, cause even he was laughing when it was obvious that the image was a frightened toddler in a snow suit being held by his giant abductor.
🤣 🤣 🤣
#FredTheWonderCat
#CatsOfMastodon

Fred our giant cat being held under the arms by the BTs huge hands & looking like a mildly terrified toddler.  Every part of the person holding him is obscured except the arms and one eye just above & behind Fred’s face.
Ricki Tarr

I know it looks like shit out there, but Missouri just ended the state ban on abortion in a citizen led initiative.

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caranmegil🍵drinker

@RickiTarr@beige.party i know...that surprised me. granted, it surprised me when we blocked such a thing here in kansas

justsusan

@RickiTarr won’t matter if they make it a national ban.

Granneman - Hell yes I voted!

@RickiTarr @lisamelton Or legislature has a history of using fuckery to ignore or subvert voter-led changes. So I’m expecting this to mean next to nothing ultimately.

Ricki Tarr

I was raised in a household where abortion was the biggest possible sin. I was progressive over all, even when I was still pretty religious, but abortion was a wedge issue. What started changing my mind was the realization of who was actually getting late term and partial birth abortions. Seeing beyond the idea of abortion, to the people who actually needed them, was fundamental to my understanding of it.

I think Pete handled this perfectly:

Pete Buttigieg with the only acceptable answer RE: “late term abortions:"

Buttigieg: | think the dialogue has gotten so caught up on where you draw the line that we've gotten away from the fundamental question of who gets to draw the line and | trust women to draw the line when it's their own health. Chris Wallace: So just to be clear, you're saying you would be okay with a woman, well into the third trimester deciding to abort her pregnancy.

Buttigieg: Look, these hypotheticals are usually set up in order to provoke a strong emotional --

Wallace: It's not hypothetical, there are 6,000 women a year who get abortions in the third trimester.

Buttigieg: That's right, representing less than 1 percent of cases. So let's put ourselves in the shoes of a woman in that situation. If it's that late in your pregnancy, then almost by definition, you've been expecting to carry it to term. We're talking about women who have perhaps chosen a name. Women who have purchased a crib, families that then get the most devastating medical news of their lifetime, something about the health or the life of the mother or viability of the pregnancy that forces them to make an impossible, unthinkable choice. And the bottom line is as horrible as that choice is, that woman, that family may seek spiritual guidance, they may seek medical guidance, but that decision is not going to be made any better, medically or morally, because the government is dictating how that decision should be made."
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Steve Dallape ☑️ 🌎

@RickiTarr Anti-abortion people never stop to consider a woman's motive, her reason for getting an abortion. Sure, there's always talk of "the mother's health", but it's perfunctory and glossed over. They always assume that women who get abortions have selfish, evil motives. They take it for granted that the abortion is being casually employed as a kind of after-the-fact contraception, for convenience sake, when that is probably very rarely the case.

Norbi Peti

@RickiTarr I wasn't sure what to think about abortion but I know women don't do it for fun, like it must not be an easy decision...

Josh

@RickiTarr Wow, that's a really good response.

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Mats Holberg

@RickiTarr This is making me think of the friend—very connected in the porn industry—who told me I could do big business on onlyfans. I laughed like yeah right and then—making it slightly less flattering—he said, ‘No, there’s a market for everything!’ Haha.

Ricki Tarr

Sometimes, people make fun of guys for doing stuff like this, but I think it's way more cool to do something you are passionate about, that is actually constructive, than buying guns for a self-created Apocalypse and harassing women online, because they won't have sex with them.

Nerds rule!

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acm

@RickiTarr you should see what the Mummers get up to in Philly -- and most of them are frat bros!

Nick Poole

@RickiTarr I agree but unfortunately those communities are not mutually exclusive

Ricki Tarr

Homelessness should be illegal, but for the state, not the Homeless. If your State is run so poorly that you have a significant number of Homeless, then you are committing a crime against the people that live there. You've let rent get higher than wages, you aren't adequately funding mental and physical Healthcare, you're under providing Unemployment benefits and Disability, you're not regulating unnecessary layoffs.

Are there going to be a few people who still choose Homelessness, maybe, but these are problems with solutions 99% of the time.

Homelessness should be illegal, but for the state, not the Homeless. If your State is run so poorly that you have a significant number of Homeless, then you are committing a crime against the people that live there. You've let rent get higher than wages, you aren't adequately funding mental and physical Healthcare, you're under providing Unemployment benefits and Disability, you're not regulating unnecessary layoffs.

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EmeraldNova

@RickiTarr this is literally the best description around this problem I've seen. Very well said.

Ehay2k for Harris

@RickiTarr

And busing homeless people from your state to another should be illegal.

Niall in Raglan :laserkiwi:

@RickiTarr yes. This articulates a feeling I've held but never managed to turn into words.

Ricki Tarr

Sometimes Octopi will capture sharks, and just hold onto them for awhile. Scientists speculate that it's to clean parasites off them. What do you think they're up to?

Ricki Tarr

I can only imagine this man's lawyer rubbing his hands together, and laughing maniacally:

 Tom Gara © ) A man sued his employer for racial discrimination, settled the suit, took the settlement check to the bank to cash it, then the bank didn't believe the check was real and called the cops on him, leading to another racial discrimination lawsuit 

 Detroit man settles race discrimination lawsuit, then bank won't cash Detroit man had just received his settlement check from a race discrimination lawsuit But when he went to the bank to deposit . police 

Infinite money glitch
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Claire BlueVoter

@RickiTarr
Unfuckingbelievable! I hope this man becomes a multi-millionaire!!! Everybody’s racism should have a severe consequence & this man MUST be the beneficiary!!!

Mary Hilton

@RickiTarr His lawyer is very, very rich right now.
"Keep doing this to my client! We like easy money!"

Ricki Tarr

Smart people will tell you to find an Expert; dumb people will always have an answer.

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Jigme Datse

@RickiTarr I'm suspicious of anyone claiming to be an expert, they always seem to be in the latter category.

JackieM

@RickiTarr and a truly passionate nerd will get super excited they don’t know and force you to research it with them endlessly until you figure it out (or collapse) because they assume you’ll be as fascinated as they are by the hunt of discovery and all you wanted was just a stupid answer.

Ricki Tarr

Kitty met the house pups. The older dog Storm, took a sniff, and went to take a nap. But Sass the younger dog was very excited, and a bit nervous. Sass really wants to play, and gave the kitten a tongue bath, but gets jumpy when she mews. Overall she seems happy to not be the youngest anymore.

The kitten with a big wide open mewing mouth
Sass standing close but not too close to the kitten
Sass giving the kitten some serious side eye
Sass getting it's nose close to the kitten but looking a bit nervous
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adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

@RickiTarr

Funnily enough the ARM chip (inside the vast majority of phones) was designed by a British trans woman: Sophie Wilson.

She however did not lose her job when she transitioned back in the 90s. Nobody had to apologise.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_W

Phones are just so woke 😆

Ricki Tarr

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

This is your reminder that people who really love you, treat you well every day, not just on special occasions.

Ricki Tarr

Mastodonians making casual conversation with friends and relatives during the Holidays:

Four YouTube videos entitled:

Capitalism will never be sustainable 

Oil and Coal companies have known about climate change for 40 years

Vertical Aquaponic farming can feed the world's population sustainably several times over

Voting with your dollars won't stop ecological collapse
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@RickiTarr

I would totally do that if I hadn't gotten hoisted by a metaphorical landmine early on in the festivities.

For now, I'm just celebrating the fact that the holidays are over. Cheers to everyone who made it through another unpleasant holiday mostly intact 🥂

We're officially 365 days away from Christmas again! Let the healing commence ❤️‍🩹

Ricki Tarr

One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them.

I'm sorry this was so ranty!

One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life...

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YFNA

@RickiTarr The latest episode of the Srsly Wrong podcast, called "Ecological Luxury" is about this very topic! Def worth a listen

Ricki Tarr

The entire Star Wars Franchise was purchased for 40 billion dollars less than Twitter. I think about that sometimes.

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bassplayer

@RickiTarr And Disney ran it into the ground. Musk is the deranged owner driving his company into the ground, disney is the souless corporate entity doing the same by hiring talent challenged people.

Orin

@RickiTarr @int0x80 Somethings cost isn't necessarily indicative of its value.

Theosoreass

@RickiTarr but the result is the same value wise🤔

Ricki Tarr

What is it called when something makes you laugh, but also makes you want to cry a little?

Asked chat ai to sing the opposite of the star spangled banner...

I'll type what it produced here...

" Oh, the shadows we cast in twilight gloom, At the land that divides us, our hearts find

no room. The stripes of discord, the fields

of disdain, We March to the dissonance, a fractured refrain.

With no gleaming stars, just darkness above, No unity we find, no binding love. Where freedom falters, and justice bends, In this shattered land, our hope descends.

The flag of division,we unfurl high, A symbol of discord, where truth and trust die. No land of the free, no home of the brave, Only chains of discord, a nation enslaved."
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Matt

@RickiTarr So you're saying that we can use LLM as a tool to help us reframe our narratives, to consider ourselves from opposing perspectives and uncover the questions that will reveal our deeper truths? That countless iterations of sacrifice and struggle have dragged the collective potential of our species from surviving the tar pits to scaling the very heavens and now we have the tools that will carry our wearied, broken souls over the line, to our brightest possible future?

Ricki Tarr

The idea of owning land is so weird. At one point, someone just murdered enough people so that no one questioned them when they said it belonged to them, and we just kept on doing that, I guess.

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AndyTiedye 𓀥

@RickiTarr Nomadic hunter-gatherers were mostly communal. Land ownership (along with the ownership of "water rights") came along with agriculture.

SearingTruth

@RickiTarr

"When I was three or four years old my father tried to explain the concept of America and nations in general.

And at one point he told me that the land in our country belonged to all of us.

This piqued my interest.

Recently we'd been moving about regularly and in some places I had my own room and in others I did not, so I innocently asked ‘Where is our land?.’

I will never forget the look of perplexed amazement and surprise on his face. In fact it is one of my earliest recollections.

And it was the first time he could not explain injustice to me.

And the first time I even knew what injustice was."
SearingTruth

@RickiTarr

"When I was three or four years old my father tried to explain the concept of America and nations in general.

And at one point he told me that the land in our country belonged to all of us.

This piqued my interest.

Recently we'd been moving about regularly and in some places I had my own room and in others I did not, so I innocently asked ‘Where is our land?.’

Simon Brooke

@RickiTarr
And the concept of land ownership is so damaging to society and to the world. It's bizarre that we've allowed it not only to be adopted at all, but to become pervasive.

#LandReform
#LaTierraEsDeQuienLaTrabaja

@LillyHerself

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