One of my companies informed me they cancelled a $2m conference in Florida. Why ? They didn’t feel they could pass on the incremental cost of tariffs. So they are cutting expenses. That’s a city that lost a ton of tourism revenue. The cost of tariffs isn’t just the cost of the tariff
Looks like Trumpty-Dumpty had a great fall Splat! From the wall [street] See what I did there?
one of the things i truly believe is that a significant portion of this country is in the grip of a death cult
"The vaccination has stuff we don't trust," said the father of the 6-year-old girl who died from measles at the end of last month. Tom Bartlett visited with a family confronting an unthinkable tragedy:
haven’t bread posted in awhile
Grateful for Bluesky today!
Our parents taught us that rather than speaking ill and being judgemental, a much better approach to life and relationships is to look for the best in people. It’s a lesson I have carried with me ever since. Heres’ my thoughts on the power of kindness: bit.ly/3QXs6vI
Good night, Bluesky. Sleep well. Here is Spice to keep you company until we meet again.
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Stupid: hurting others while hurting yourself.
It’s amazing to find out at this late date how much the rule of law depended on people simply deciding, on a voluntary, daily basis, not to break the law.
One thing that the general public is not that aware of re: Tesla is that *they do not manufacture their own battery cells* They lease space in their factories for third-parties such as Panasonic. A lot of people invested in Tesla because they thought Tesla was vertically integrated re: the cells.
Here are some nice mushrooms
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We simply cannot allow our increasing comfort with the word “butt” obviate our need for adorable, polite regional synonyms! We have to fight for “heinie”! Protect “tush” at all costs!! Don’t let “derrière” slip away into the cold, dark night…
Well caring deeply about politics turned out to be a mistake. Time to instead become emotionally invested in a field where I’ll never be let down: sports
A quick post-cruise refresher from me before I do any serious delving into any particular current events: Fuck fascists Fuck -phobes Fuck wealthy sociopaths Fuck immigrant-haters Fuck sexists Fuck anyone who wants to invade Canada and/or Mexico Fuck vaccine deniers Fuck this administration Etc, etc
Happy Anniversary to the Engineer, created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch, who you can see played to sinister perfection by puppy in human form Gaby de Faria in this July! 🦾
I proposed to my then girlfriend using the comic strip back in 1999 and today I’ve been married to my beautiful wife Kara for 25 years! Happy anniversary to my best friend and the love of my life! www.penny-arcade.com/comic/1999/0...
Oh man. He was always just a wonderfully kind person and I’ve read him for 20 years. What a loss.
On the anniversary of Lobo, I can't help but think of a text I received from Jason Momoa on the morning it was announced Peter & I were the heads of DC Studios…
Something I love about Patreon is that it’s a good alternative for creators to earn income instead of doing ads, which results in MORE ART instead of more ads If you haven’t looked at Patreon yet I’ll list some folks I’m subbed to below, and feel free to look at mine 😁 Patreon.com/luke_venechuk
On March 2nd, the Blue Ghost lander became the first commercial spacecraft to execute a fully successful landing on the moon's surface.
❤️ Doing it for the graph.
This is my new favorite Grok stat
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly (Columbia Journalism Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Speaking at in conversation with soon — 1pm in Ballroom D!