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0% chance this gets approved in 2023, with our goldfish attention spans.

America was supposed to be Art Deco - a thread of 10 iconic Art Deco designs 🧵 1. "Mercury" - a streamliner passenger train which operated between 1936 and 1959

It will never make sense to me

@doworkdontsleep @KUTV2News Honestly this needs to be investigated it happens every 3-6 months, ‘randomly’ and then something magically pops up a year later.

@KUTV2News Pretty random how all these random fires keep taking out abandoned structures that are sitting on prime real estate for mega apartments in downtown slc Wonder how that keeps happening, so random.

BREAKING: Nearly four dozen firefighters called to large fire at abandoned building near downtown Salt Lake City. kutv.com/news/local/mas…

Apple announces new port for the iPhone 15

Okay, @Adobe made a perfect TikTok. It’s so charming. They found signs in New York & redesigned them in Photoshop. So, so good. - story first, product second - creator-made for the brand - shows a human use case - repeatable series Read my analysis: futuresocial.beehiiv.com/p/perfect-tikt…

This fun @Airbnb campaign could run and run and run, right? See more on Elisabeth Bassett's site: elizabethbassett.com/airbnb-categor… #CopywritersUnite

Blasphemy

@dancaroselli I want to cry 💔

Americans: •Cancel student debt! •Cancel medical debt! •Make insulin free! Most of Developed World: •What is student debt? •What is medical debt? •Insulin is already free! What GOP calls “socialism”—even conservative parties in most developed nations call a “human right.”

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: The Bible has been removed from all elementary and middle school libraries throughout the Davis School District in Utah after a parent utilized a new law that permits the removal of "pornographic" books from school libraries. The removal of the Bible was requested due to it being "one of the most sex-ridden books around." The Utah Legislature in 2022 approved a contentious bill HB374, which lawmakers have described as a way to weed out content found to be pornographic from K-12 libraries and classrooms. Utah Parents United, a conservative parents rights lobbied strongly for the passing of HB374. The parent argued that the Bible contained topics such as incest, bestiality, genital mutilation, and infanticide, making it pornographic under the new definition set forth in Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227. A GOP lawmaker expressed sadness regarding the situation.

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When Tina Turner left her first husband - who was also her boss, captor, and brutal tormentor - she snuck out of their Dallas hotel room with a single thought in her mind: "The way out is through the door." From there she fled across the midnight freeway, semi-trucks careening past her, with 36 cents and a Mobil gas card in her pocket. As soon as she decided to walk out that door, she owned nothing else. When she filed for divorce, she made an unusual request. She didn't want anything: not the song rights, not the cars, not the houses, not the money. All she wanted was the stage name he gave her - Tina - and her married name - Turner. This was the name by which the world had come to know her, and keeping it was her only chance to salvage her career. Things could have gone a lot of ways from there. She could have labored in obscurity for decades, maybe making records on small labels to be prized by vinyl connoisseurs in Portland. She could have stayed in Vegas, where she first went to get her chops back up, and worked as a nostalgia act. And, of course, given what she had been through, she might have ... not made it. What happened instead is that Tina Turner became the biggest global rock star of the 80s. I'm old enough to barely remember this, but if you aren't, it was like this: The Rolling Stones would headline a stadium one day, and the next day it would be Tina Turner. A middle-aged Black woman - she became a rock star at 42! - sitting atop the 1980s like it was her throne. She managed this because of whatever rare stuff she was made of (this is a woman whose label gave her two weeks to record her solo debut, Private Dancer, which went five times platinum); because she decided to speak publicly about her abusive marriage and forge her own identity, and in doing so give hope and courage to countless women; and also because - in a perhaps unlikely twist for a girl from Nutbush, Tennessee - she had her practice of Soka Gakkai Nichiren Buddhism, to which she credited her survival. She remained devout until the end. Tina's second marriage - to her, her only marriage - was to Edwin Bach, a Swiss music executive 16 years her junior. Of him, she said, "Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame." In 2016, after a barrage of health problems, Tina's kidneys began to fail. A Swiss citizen by then, she had started preparing for assisted suicide when her husband stepped in. According to Tina, he said, "He didn't want another woman, or another life." He gave her one of his kidneys, buying her the remainder of her time on this earth and perhaps closing a cycle which took her from a man who inflicted injury upon her to a man willing to inflict injury upon himself to save her from harm. Born into a share-cropping family as Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she died Tina Turner in a palatial Swiss estate: the queen of rock 'n roll; a storm of a performer with a wildcat-fierce voice; a dancer of visceral, spine-tingling potency and ability; a beauty for the ages; a survivor of terrible abuse and an advocate for others in similar situations; an author and actress; a devout Buddhist; a wife and mother; a human being of rare talent and perseverance who, through her transcendent brilliance, became a legend. Will Stenberg

Within 48 hours, @MichelobULTRA turned that iconic photo into a cinemagraph-style video with their line: "It's only worth it if you enjoy it." It immediately became their most-shared social post in over a year. twitter.com/MichelobULTRA/…

GUNLOCK FALLS RESURRECTED💦 After roughly three years without water flow, Southern Utah's Gunlock Falls has been brought back to life! DETAILS: bit.ly/43BPN1N 📍: Gunlock, Utah 📷: Carson Patterson via kutv.com/chimein

@AliVallarta Publik in the aves, blue copper common, honeysuckle (SLC)

I was meh on the Gondola until this winter. It's now clear that it does next to nothing to address the canyons sitch. Mandatory shuttles literally SAVED Zion. Parking structures at I15/80/215. 4x4 shuttles, snow sheds and buses on weekends. Should have been done in the 1970s.