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@flabbergastone @empathy13 You have a severe problem. What could possibly be wrong with taking an old dog out in a stroller? Geez dude.

I had a dog that had cancer as well back in the day. I played ball with her till she couldn't. My dogs are like my kids. I never give up on them and don't force on what they don't want to do. Dogs are loyal and mans best friend. Don't take that away from them! They are friends to the end.

@rajivkhaneja I, I, I…. Yawn. We can’t possibly be as impressed as you are.

I grew up the kid of immigrant parents who scraped together enough to send me to private school. I was surrounded by kids with nice cars and ski trips. We didn’t have that kind of money. My allowance was $10 a week, and by grade 4 I was using my paper route money to trade stocks at the kitchen table with my dad. At 13 I taught myself to code. At 14 I built pollit.com, one of the internet’s first online polling tools. It blew up. Millions of polls, massive traffic, clients like MTV and The New York Times. By Grade 11 the company was doing millions in revenue and I was hiring adults while still going to high school. I needed to run ads on all that traffic to make money, but every ad server on the market was built for big companies with big budgets. A teenager couldn’t afford any of them. So I built my own. At 17 someone offered me $2.5M for everything. I said no and went back to chemistry class. That ad server became AdButler. Today it handles over 100 billion ad requests a month for companies like Costco, HP, The Home Depot, and Microsoft. It’s been named one of the Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies by the Financial Times and a Top Growing Company by the Globe and Mail. Nearly three decades in, it’s still bootstrapped, still profitable, zero outside funding, and 100% uptime since 2017. I took everything AdButler generated and kept building. I co-founded Arvita Therapeutics where we’re developing mRNA cancer therapies for people with Neurofibromatosis Type 1. I’m opening Mari, a diagnostic imaging clinic. Through DoubleBlind Capital I invest in early-stage startups and have backed more than a dozen companies across SaaS, consumer products, and healthcare. I also own restaurants, a mobile home park, and commercial real estate. I like building and buying things that generate real cash flow in the real world, not just on a screen. I’m currently renovating a waterfront home in Victoria, BC. It’s the same city I grew up in, started my first company in, and never left. Everything I’ve built has been from here. Three things 28 years of building taught me: Your first company won’t be your best idea. It will lead you to your best idea. I built a polling tool to get traffic to my website. The traffic needed ads. The ads needed a server. That server became an 8-figure company. That company now funds cancer research. You can’t connect the dots looking forward. Saying no to money is harder than making it. Turning down $2.5M at 17 felt insane. But every time I’ve chosen long-term ownership over short-term cash, it’s paid back many times over. The hardest financial skill isn’t earning money. It’s not taking it when someone puts it right in front of you. Build the machine, not the product. Products come and go. What lasts is a system that generates cash flow and lets you point it at things that matter. I built an ad server. It gave me the freedom to fund cancer therapies, open a clinic, and invest in a dozen startups. None of that happens if I sell at 17. I write about this stuff here. Follow if you’re building something.

@janeg032 @AndyBurnhamGM I can’t understand this world we live in. What is the matter with the human race? This is precious and priceless and impossible to watch

all this is being dug up, NewHey Quarry in Rochale, Manchester buzzards rabbits tadpoles, frogs peregrine nest site you name it, it's there @AndyBurnhamGM why Andy ? the place hadn't been touch since 1980 nature moved in, please leave it Alone

@waynehhsiung Wayne, couldn’t we all band together and buy the remaining beagles from them? Aren’t they being forced to shut down in July? We could raise the money…

Nearly 25,000 people have signed to support the Ridglan rescue in just the last few days. The message is clear: THE PEOPLE WANT THE PUPS OUT!

@JenniferGa29345 @_TruthZone_ Weight of the country? 😂

@_TruthZone_ Maybe having a brother that sold you down the river, a father and wife with cancer and the weight of the country pressing down on you

How is this possible????? 😳

@SageKnowsAll Honestly, she chose this life so I don’t feel for her. And, her evil abuse of Meghan means she deserves what she is getting.

I actually love this for her and I’m not ashamed to say it.

@orlaminihane @ctm1961 @07Maggi @AllisonPearson @pinkladies_uk The face of pure evil.

@ctm1961 @07Maggi @AllisonPearson @pinkladies_uk Labour MP Tonia Antonazzi

Tonight the House of Lords will vote on an Abortion Bill allowing termination up to birth. Murdering a perfectly legitimate beautiful life. We have fallen to new depths of depravity if this is passed. 💔 @AllisonPearson @pinkladies_uk

@SamaHoole I love this. I do worry, as I always have, that the suffering at the ‘end’ cannot be controlled by the farmer, and that the farmer ultimately does not care about this suffering. I would love to know that this isn’t true, that the farmer makes sure the ‘end’ is not horrific.

Gerald is suffering. Gerald does not know he is suffering because Gerald is, by every available welfare measure, having an extremely pleasant time on 40 acres of Herefordshire permanent pasture. But the suffering is happening. The suffering must be happening. The suffering is the point, and the point must be made, and so the suffering is inferred from first principles and applied to Gerald regardless of what Gerald appears to be doing, which is grazing in the south corner with the relaxed ears and unhurried movement of an animal that has no particular complaint with its circumstances. Let's review the evidence for Gerald's suffering. The vet came in November. Her notes: cortisol within normal range, no avoidance behaviour, condition excellent. Her private assessment, offered to the farmer afterward: "He just stood there and looked at the field the whole time. I've never had a bull just stand there like the exam was irrelevant." Cortisol is the stress hormone. Gerald's stress hormone is: normal. Gerald's response to an unusual procedure: look at the field. The man who walks past at 7:15am has been watching Gerald for four years. His assessment, offered to his wife in October: "Something is just getting on with it. Without complaint. In all weathers. In the same field." He didn't say this looked like suffering. He said it looked reliable. Gerald's arrangement with the farmer: Healthcare: provided. The vet comes to Gerald. Gerald does not come to the vet. The vet comes to the field. This is, by most measures, better healthcare logistics than the farmer has. Food: provided. Forty acres of permanent pasture plus silage in winter. Gerald has never gone hungry. Gerald has never had to find food. Gerald has never competed for it. Shelter: available. The hedgerow on the west boundary. Gerald uses it when the weather is extreme. Gerald's definition of extreme weather and the farmer's definition differ somewhat. Protection from predators: absolute. There are no predators in Herefordshire that Gerald needs to worry about. Gerald's wild ancestor spent a significant proportion of his existence being anxious about wolves. Gerald has not thought about wolves once. Gerald's amygdala is, as a result, considerably less exercised than his evolutionary heritage would have predicted. Gerald's end will come. This is true. It is also true of every living thing, the vegan included, and the manner and timing of that end is, in the context of an animal that has lived four years in a permanent pasture improving the soil, browsing hedgerows, supporting dung beetles and bumblebees and lapwings, and standing in the south corner in all weathers doing the job, not the moral catastrophe it is presented as. Gerald has a deal. The deal is: the farmer provides the field, the food, the vet, and the protection. Gerald provides the work: the grazing, the manure, the soil improvement, the biodiversity, the beef. Gerald is not a prisoner in the deal. Gerald assessed the south corner on arrival in ninety seconds and has been satisfied with the arrangement ever since. The anthropomorphism is projecting the suffering of a caged industrial animal onto an animal that lives on 40 acres of English countryside and has never once, in four years, done anything that looks like suffering. Gerald is in the south corner. Gerald is fine. The suffering is in the narrative, not the field.

@ZandiSussex At least she isn’t cosplaying Meghan again…

Good Grief!😱Just when I thought things couldn’t possibly get any worse, she turns up wearing an elevator operator’s uniform.🤭

@megha_lilly Yes, don’t tell anyone which town lest it be overrun…

Moved into our house in the middle of nowhere in some mountains where I have a courtyard with a lemon tree, can hear church bells every day and can see every star in the sky at night. This is heaven on earth.

@waynehhsiung They aren’t picking up…

Beagles rescued from animal experimentation are playing for the first time in their entire lives. While 22 dogs were saved, 8 dogs were taken by the authorities. TAKE ACTION: Call the Dane County Sheriff’s Office and ask them to return the 8 rescued beagles taken from the arms of activists who were carrying them to safety. Dane County Sheriff’s Office 115 W Doty St Madison, WI 53703 📞 (608) 284-6800

@GrahamSmith_ Entire country needs an overhaul… broken all around.

Man watches rugby. Puts it down as work.

@TennisChannel TC please stop with the interviews during a match! I just want to watch the match!

Insane reflexes from Rybakina 🫢 #TennisParadise

@NoKingCharlie Honestly, this is just too hard to watch… so embarrassing 😳

Another PR Stunt

@WSJ Harry was supposed to stay and be at the mercy of his brother for money, like Andrew is to Charles. Plus he wasn’t allowed to do the projects he wanted. Good job Harry, for taking your life back from these parasites.

The strained relationship between Prince Harry and Prince William is both an ordinary story of siblings growing apart and a referendum on the world’s most famous hereditary institution. 🔗 on.wsj.com/3NxyOdK

@ZandiSussex @NSome1ne I was always taught to accept a gift even if I didn’t want it… William was a complete jerk not to take the coffee.

More evidence that Willy & Kate don’t live together … because how do you not know what coffee your husband drinks?🤷🏽‍♀️ “ … but her efforts were rejected by Wills who wanted a decaf.”🤭

@TandCmag Another idea stolen from Meghan.

Kate Middleton’s Sky Blue Button Down Is Quickly Becoming a Royal Wardrobe Staple townandcountrymag.com/society/tradit…

@FarmingUK What happens to them next is not so cute…

First triplets, just 3 days old! 🐑 🇬🇧 📸 Jac Hyde

@Missy_Store @mm6242963946705 @brendankirotee @khykheloormuur Omg this new generation. How sad that instead of celebrating love they want them to abort… I can’t wrap my head around that.

@mm6242963946705 @brendankirotee @khykheloormuur It has happened na, what would you have them do now?

@johnstretch @ElaineM11584892 Not really the same thing 🤭

@ElaineM11584892 Before I became Captain I sailed with many Captains who I had little respect for but I always respected the position

I don’t understand how people believe “royals” are special in some way. I never will.