Ricardo Cortés

I won’t be posting or RTing here anymore. For now I’m bluesky not threads. And here’s my first 5 books so I can pin ‘em…

@NYCTSubway We need this info on Bluesky. Some of us are trying to leave this horrible X platform. Please build a Bluesky account so we have options. Thank you.

Northbound E trains are running with delays after we addressed a signal problem earlier in Queens.

@NYCTSubway For much of your audience, twitter/x in no longer a helpful platform. Please open a Bluesky account so we can follow this important info elsewhere.

Canarsie-bound L trains are delayed while we request NYPD and EMS for someone in need on a train at Jefferson St.

@Maggie_McNeill Yeah, Threads was designed to distance itself from “politics” & “hard news,” which says to me: “we want milquetoast conversations bc we’re afraid to support discussion of anything controversial.” A feckless waste of a potential communication tool, IMHO. theverge.com/2023/7/7/23787…

@Rmcortes I was mocking Facebook's Twitter clone "Threads", which from what I've heard is basically like if Facebook and Twitter had a child which favored Facebook, and you don't get to pick who you follow.

Whenever good-meaning people contribute to this platform, each contribution entrenches it into a critical infrastructure that we can’t escape. The overlord here has shown he will shut down dissent to his agenda, and his agenda is foul.

@NYCTSubway I love, monitor, and use your account daily. Please open a Bluesky account so we can get this info elsewhere. Bc this twitter place often is terrible and getting worse.

L trains are delayed in both directions while we address a signal problem near Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy.

@prisonculture “The stand-up tactic, as opposed to walking out all at once, would allow the U.A.W. to stretch its eight-hundred-and-twenty-five-million-dollar strike fund, so that the strike could go longer and wider if progress wasn’t made.” Source: 3rd paragraph of newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

In researching my @CoffeeCocaCola book, I learned the wild history of @CocaColaCo’s hand in the UN negotiations on the prohibition of coca. Read my illustrated book for more info, or see an essay I posted about it here: rmcortes.medium.com/how-coke-chang…

“People in publishing often talk about ‘child-friendly’ books, which suggests something consoling, sweet and kind of nostalgic. But that’s a smokescreen, because those qualities attract parents and teachers more than children,” via @janetmanley lithub.com/let-the-kids-g…

bro what the fuck is a limited edition strawberry

Remember this image when Proud Boys talk about Western Civilization.😏

This is a great video. Also, I met BC once promoting @justaplant (my children’s book @ marijuana) & she was very supportive/encouraging. I offered her a copy but she insisted on buying it, and FOLLOWED UP days later by email to make sure she could purchase a copy of my book. 🙏

no stopping can stop me

1954: @CocaColaCo VP Ralph Hayes thanks Harry Anslinger for the offer of “wrecking crew” support, amidst UN negotiations wherein Anslinger will protect The Coca-Cola Company’s legal supply of coca leaf in perpetuity via adoption of the Single Convention Treaty.

1948: Maywood Chemical, coca 🍃 leaf import and processing partner of @CocaColaCo, thanks Harry Anslinger for his help in sharing maps of Peruvian cocaine factories.

I wrote a paper for English class arguing that regardless of one's beliefs on the morality of abortion, a film implicitly arguing that it was wrong BECAUSE it looked revolting was a moral idiocy, and that the same argument could be used to argue for a ban of open-heart surgery.

it's physically almost impossible for me to cry these days but this article made me cry slate.com/human-interest…

“These books are typically upbeat, didactic, and unimaginative.”

@Hiker_Gabriel bsky-social-ixtlt-2teb5

@Rmcortes Id love an invite