Rachael 🧩

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Enabler 😌🗝️🧷 ⚙️arts & sciences worker bee⚙️ won’t be surprised if it’s a dream 💭

Catherine O’Hara in an SCTV sketch called “Women Say the Darndest Things”
Trump and Mamdani standing next to each other at the White House. Trump in oversize suit and probably shoe lifts standing barely taller than Mamdani
Daniel Kibbelsmith • I don't think we've spent enough time considering the positive side of having a president with dementia. MillennialMike @mikemill... • 1h Probably would trade a pardon for a single peppermint candy at this point. Daniel Kibblesmith • @kibblesmith.com He listens to whoever the last person he spoke to is and we rarely try simply being that person.
Cuban born artist Edel Rodriguez’s latest cover for The New Yorker, an illustration of a smiling Zohran Mamdani riding the crowded subway.
Tweet from Halli @iamharaldur saying: I don't know if I can think of a worse defence against being called a pedophile than to say you stopped being friends with another pedophile because he stole a teenager from you.
Debbie Harry in a beret and gloves on a train in 1973, reading a newspaper with the headline WOMEN ARE JUST SLAVES
Excerpt from quoted Atlantic article reading: During his time out of office, Trump praised Putin as a "genius" and said repeatedly that, once back in the White House, he would settle the Russia-Ukraine conflict in a single day. He has since sought a summit with Putin that could turn into a made-for-TV moment to announce the end of the war—and a long-covered Nobel Peace Prize for himself. ("He really wants a Nobel Peace Prize," Bolton told us. "He'll take it for Ukraine, he'll take it for Gaza, he'll take it for Pakistan-India. He's not particular.") Highlighted are the words, “He really wants a Nobel Peace Prize”
Sunday Telegraph newspaper front page from 1 week before the Australian election with a picture of conservative leader Peter Dutton and the headline I CAN STILL WIN with subhead LIFTS THE LID ON HIS SOFTER SIDE. Above it is a large picture of a coffin from Pope Francis’ funeral.
Tshirt that reads GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY from place of the same name in Los Angeles
Our 10 year old rescue dog swimming at the beach in the sunshine
Our beautiful golden 10 year old rescue dog swimming at the beach
An English family go to to the pub and see something unexpected
July 2024 clip of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull speaking about his time dealing with (at the time) former President Donald Trump
Cover of April 2018 issue of New York magazine titled “It’s the Corruption, Stupid”
Two pictures of Jeremy Strong, one at the SAG awards in a green suit & the other at the Oscars in a brown suit with caption by Zack Bornstein: “The half an avocado I cut open & tried to save for later.”
A picture of Zelenskyy in 2022 and Churchill in 1942 at the White House, both wearing military clothing
An Instagram post promoting tourism to the USA saying “why not go to Universal Studios Orlando to their new park called Epic Universe”
Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, talks about Elon Musk’s bid to buy Open AI, to which Altman responded with an offer to buy ‘Twitter’ for a tenth of the price.
Cover of “HELLO!” magazine with Melania Trump
A suggested follow from today’s Instagram: JD Vance
Headline from Le Monde which reads in English: Trump believes, like Putin, that the vocation of the strong is to devour the weak. Illustration by Edel Rodriguez
Harvey Dent / Two Face from Batman
Headline that reads: Michelle Obama Isn't Sick - She Just Hates Trump By Margaret Hartmann from Intelligencer Subhead: Michelle Obama did not love Trump's first inauguration and will not be at the second one.
Cover of The New Yorker from November 11th 2024 featuring an artwork by Barry BLitt with a below-view of the Statue Of Liberty walking a tightrope
Char Miller, the WM Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History at Pomona College, in Claremont California talks about the impossible task of firefighters during the LA wildfires
Rupert Wainwright performing “Going To A Town” with Folk Bitch Trio
Jackie G perfectly lip reading Emma Stone’s table conversation at the Golden Globes
List of possible prizes, with all but ‘eternal life’ crossed out: Empathy Being liked The love of their father Eternal life
List of prizes with everything crossed out except the last option, ‘eternal life’ Empathy Being liked The love of their father Eternal life
Mark Zuckerberg wearing a rare hand made Greubel Forsey watch
Ann Telnaes cartoon rejected by the Washington Post prompting her to resign, depicting: Mark Zuckerberg/Facebook & Meta founder and CEO, Sam Altman/AI CEO, Patrick Soon-Shiong/LA Times publisher, the Walt Disney Company/ABC News, and Jeff Bezos/Washington Post owner.
An almost-empty jar with just two pieces of Christmas shortbread left
A storage container with a few pieces of Christmas shortbread left in it
Sally Field in “Norma Rae” standing on a factory floor holding a sign that says UNION
A pot plant I purchased in order to convince the relatives coming for Christmas that I do not routinely kill house plants. The label says THRIVES ON NEGLECT.
Film of 10 year-old El Guapo the dog swimming around me in the water at the beach
Detail of Donald Trump looking tired and less than enthused sitting next to a grinning, thumbs-up Elon Musk on a private jet
Excerpt from quoted texts with: “You say, "Babysitter rule." And then you do not do it for them, you know why? Because the..”
Cover of “San Francisco” with Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land recorded in July 1970x featuring both players in profile smiling at each other
Two women talking outside a bakery in Barcelona while one of them, the baker, feeds the other woman’s dog pieces of bread
Picture of a child’s arm after a school shooting, where she had hurriedly written “Love Mom and Dad” while she was waiting to see if she would live or die
Excerpt from Caravaggio painting, a woman’s mouth
Time Magazine with Trump as person of the year
Two white sheep together with a black sheep off to the side
Picture of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer with caption “deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable”
Picture of Rudolph the red nosed reindeer with caption “deviation from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable”
Picture of Jesus with a manicured hand with long fluorescent fingernails over his mouth
Picture of Massive Attack’s first album Blue Lines
Cover of Steve Martin’s 1978 album “A Wild And Crazy Guy”
An old-timey pic of Jesus with the caption ‘I HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS’
Two people “agreeing” that the US apparently has the best healthcare in the world - with conditions that you are rich etc Tobias Hildebrandt @trhild... • 1h This is my take: The US healthcare system is the best in the world, if and only if the following two conditions are fulfilled: 1) you are rich. 2) you live in a big city. Keith Taylor @mrkeithtaylo... • 1h Completely agree. If you're wealthy and urban there's no safer place on earth to get sick than
Screenshot of Guardian article on Seasteading plans for a floating city near French Polynesia
Excerpt from linked article with summary points from a book published in 1997 called ‘The Sovereign Individual’ 1) The democratic nation-state basically operates like a criminal cartel, forcing honest citizens to surrender large portions of their wealth to pay for stuff like roads and hospitals and schools. 2) The rise of the internet, and the advent of cryptocurrencies, will make it impossible for governments to intervene in private transactions and to tax incomes, thereby liberating individuals from the political protection racket of democracy. 3) The state will consequently become obsolete as a political entity. 4) Out of this wreckage will emerge a new global dispensation, in which a "cognitive elite" will rise to power and influence, as a class of sovereign individuals "commanding vastly greater resources" who will no longer be subject to the power of nation-states and will redesign governments to suit their ends.
Photo of three young women at a protest with one of them holding a sign that says ‘It’s so bad even the introverts are here’.
Excerpt from news article regarding Brian Thompson, noting that his schedule was widely known
An excerpt from news article on the shooting of United Healthcare’s Brian Thompson, noting that “his schedule was widely known”
David Shrigley work with a big red book entitled NONSENSE & the caption: Stop writing it / Stop reading it
Super weird Truth Social post by Donald Trump of him overlooking a snowy mountain peak with a Canadian flag, captioned ‘Oh Canada’, after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended Mar A Lago and Trump told him that Canada should become the US’s 51st state.
Article from the Atlantic in 2018 headlined “The Cruelty Is the Point” by Adam Serwer
Excerpt from linked study discussion on cardiovascular health noting limits of US healthcare: Trends in menopausal hormone therapy use and cardiovascular disease: During the study period, we observed a decrease in the use of menopausal hormone therapy, followed by an increase starting from around 2016. In Sweden, use dropped after key studies were published in 2002-03,192050 but it stabilised from 2010 to 2016, a trend also seen in Spain,51 Australia,52 Korea,53 and New Zealand.54 Usage rose again after 2017. Updated Swedish guidelines in 2019, further revised in 2021, recommend starting within 10 years of menopause and not after age 60, reflecting new insights into the benefits and risks of menopausal hormone therapy.55 This shift, widely discussed among gynaecologists and general practitioners before its official adoption, likely influenced prescribing habits early on. Additionally, we noted a significant decrease of more than 50% in the incidence of cardiovascular disease, particularly ischaemic heart disease. This pattern is noted in other Nordic countries but contrasts with recent reports from the US, where rates of cardiovascular disease are increasing.56 Disparities between the two settings, such as access to high quality healthcare among people with low socioeconomic status, severe mental illness or immigrant background, most likely contribute to these differing trends. The longstanding Nordic system of promoting equitable and universal healthcare of high quality likely underpins the declining trend in cardiovascular disease observed in these countries.