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Low country lover of cats, Trek, and Eurovision. Floridian by birth, Richmonder by choice. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸ‰

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Latest posts by ryanbrazell.bsky.social on Bluesky

Fuck you, Bluesky. I’m out.

13.12.2024 18:26 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m almost 42 and let me tell you, it just keeps getting better.

12.12.2024 02:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
ONE PERSON WITH A PISTOL JUST SHOOK THE RULING CLASS MORE THAN DECADES OF PEACEFUL ORGANIZING

ONE PERSON WITH A PISTOL JUST SHOOK THE RULING CLASS MORE THAN DECADES OF PEACEFUL ORGANIZING

The only way to save ourselves is to save each other

The only way they stay in power is by keeping us at each other’s throats instead of theirs

11.12.2024 08:26 β€” πŸ‘ 604    πŸ” 204    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 7

The most infuriating part of 68,000 people dying each year because our healthcare system denies them care is that no one is ever held accountable for those deaths.

We've not only normalized the predatory actions of the health insurance industry, we've passed laws to protect it.

10.12.2024 21:17 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 90    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 7

the childhood trauma thing is a large part of why i was denied hrt in the early β€˜00s. it sent me back in the closet for well over a decade and i didn’t actually access hrt until 2022. cruelty upon cruelty

10.12.2024 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well-known Virginia Tech professor dies at 81 Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

10.12.2024 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9586    πŸ” 2534    πŸ’¬ 327    πŸ“Œ 922
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Union workers at Manhattan's Strand Bookstore on strike After months of failed negotiations, union workers at the Strand Bookstore in Manhattan are off the job. It's the first strike at the iconic shop since the early 1990s.

Workers at the Strand are on strike

08.12.2024 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 482    πŸ” 172    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 10

Hey, I dunno, maybe we should focus more on increasing human intelligence and not making machines smarter. We generate our own electricity and only need about 3.7 liters of water a day to conjure galaxies, poems, songs, books, movies and great ideas like universal health care.

07.12.2024 04:31 β€” πŸ‘ 891    πŸ” 217    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 10

I will sit down and watch this movie anytime and anywhere

08.12.2024 02:25 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

hallmark christmas movie:
a handsome young man goes to the big city during the holidays to kill a ceo and finds nation's love along the way

07.12.2024 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 4341    πŸ” 443    πŸ’¬ 63    πŸ“Œ 17

The CEO of the company that made the backpack contacted the FBI and identified the bag almost immediately.. Don't buy PeakDesign backpacks or bags..

07.12.2024 19:17 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Murdered Insurance CEO Had Deployed an AI to Automatically Deny Benefits for Sick People Before United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was murdered, a lawsuit filed against the firm revealed just how bad its claims-denying was.

β€œThe algorithm in question, known as nH Predict, allegedly had a 90 percent error rate β€” and according to the families of the two deceased men who filed the suit, UHC knew it.”

06.12.2024 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 164    πŸ” 54    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 5
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i’m gonna just watch this at least once a day and i recommend everyone do the same

06.11.2024 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 39509    πŸ” 19368    πŸ’¬ 582    πŸ“Œ 1764

So like. Who is the Ticketmaster ceo?

05.12.2024 20:33 β€” πŸ‘ 675    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 26    πŸ“Œ 36

without qualification or exception, the mere act of having billions of dollars makes you a mass murderer by default. you have hoarded resources while others went without and died for it.

06.12.2024 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 1799    πŸ” 359    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 8

FAFO

06.12.2024 01:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

every accusation is a confession

06.12.2024 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute.
Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun.
Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction.
"If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term.
Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.

Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ammunition every minute. Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief, Bradley Wendt, was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit. A jury convicted Wendt earlier this year of conspiracy to defraud the United States, lying to federal law enforcement and illegal possession of a machine gun. Wendt is unapologetic and has appealed his conviction. "If I'm guilty of this, every cop in the nation's going to jail," Wendt told CBS News just days before a federal judge sentenced him to a 5-year prison term. Wendt's crimes appear to be part of a nationwide pattern.

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

05.12.2024 12:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9572    πŸ” 3340    πŸ’¬ 392    πŸ“Œ 902

This is a genuinely massive piece of good news. Well done Lina Khan, Alvaro Bedoya, and the rest of crew at the FTC.

03.12.2024 17:24 β€” πŸ‘ 151    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

THEY TOLD US IN 2017 THAT THEY WERE COMING FOR OBERGEFELL AND THAT THEY WOULD USE TRANSGENDER PEOPLE AS A WEDGE ISSUE TO ACCOMPLISH IT

this is why we are furious at all politicians and pundits demanding we be sacrificed

03.12.2024 01:45 β€” πŸ‘ 447    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

I knew he was a cop but I didn't know until recently that Gene Roddenberry was a speechwriter, and essentially a nepo hire, for the "unambiguous racist" Los Angeles police chief Bill Parker, who popularized the phrase "the thin blue line" as a euphemism for the police

03.12.2024 00:42 β€” πŸ‘ 64    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Biden has done worse than delivered nothing on prison reformβ€”he’s taken steps back by being so parsimonious with pardons and clemency, doing nothing on death penalty, and overseeing expansion of federal prison system

03.12.2024 01:04 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œY’all let me know when you’re ready to be for real.”

03.12.2024 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Reskeets aren’t endorsements, but I hear you. It’s tough to speak frankly about what is, without dousing the spark of what could be.

03.12.2024 01:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

if you're in line to eat a billionaire, stay in line to eat a billionaire

03.12.2024 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You know what would make cars safer? Crash dummies shaped like women!

All dummies have the proportions of the average man in 1970. The woman dummy, rarely used, is the size of a child and ONLY tested in the passenger seat.

There was a growing movement for reform in late 2019…

02.12.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

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