John Arrington

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Manhattan bike riding fool. Spice aficionado. Bass player. Deeply concerned for the Republic. Pro decency. Black lives matter. Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦
More voter registration stats: #kamalharris
*Hey, good job there, used car salesman

Bezos and Musk have it deeply wrong.
The problem isn't that we need a trillion people to have more Einsteins or Mozarts.

The problem is we don't nurture and protect the ones we have.

Stephen Jay Gould wrote: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops".

It's a cat's life... #caturday #funny
No, no, no. In my youth I was a NY Times copy editor. I would not have permitted this—no one would. We’re not inside the heads of Trump’s lawyers. They SAY they believe the judge is biased, but that doesn’t mean they really do.
If you handle a baby bird, its parents will reject it. Not because it smells like human, but because it was you specifically

Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill Perform a Stirring Version of “Fairytale of New York” at Shane MacGowan’s Funeral: Watch Their Send-Off

Also Nick Cave sings "A Rainy Night in Soho.”

https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/glen-hansard-lisa-oneill-perform-fairytale-of-new-york-at-shane-macgowans-funeral.html

Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill Perform “Fairytale of New York” at Shane MacGowan’s Funeral

On Friday, Glen Hansard & Lisa O’Neill performed 'Fairytale of New York' at Shane MacGowan's funeral, giving the Pogues' frontman quite the send-off. The moving performance took place before a packed church in Nenagh, a country town in Ireland.

Open Culture

(Shamelessly pilfered from @gaborfari)

#immigrants #imag

It's insane how much Elon Musk is spiraling down into I don't know what kind of monster..  

Instead of "making up" for the terrible mistakes he keeps making he just says "fuck you" against the people opposing him!

If you are still on Twitter with a business or government account you really need to ask yourself if you want to be associated with that because at this point the things Elon does and says sets the stage for Twitter

Twitter is done.. really