Artist / Author / Picture Books / Drug Theory / @justaplant @coffeecocacola @seacreaturessky @gotheftosleep @partyamystery / 🍅
Joined April 2009
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17 Nov 2023
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…
ALT Five illustrated picture book covers. Clockwise from the top: IT’S JUST A PLANT - A CHILDREN’S STORY ABOUT MARIJUANA; A SECRET HISTORY OF COFFEE, COCA & COLA; PARTY - A MYSTERY; GO THE FUCK TO SLEEP; SEA CREATURES FROM THE SKY.
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1 Aug 2024
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.
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26 Oct 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…
🇧🇴Bolivia recently challenged the UN’s coca leaf ban.
This process could end 70 years of racist discrimination of millions of coca leaf users, many of them indigenous people
🌿#ANewLeaf
✍️@John_WOLA @MartinJelsmaTNI
wola.org/analysis/coca-chron…
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3 Oct 2023
“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-get-…
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Ricardo Cortés retweeted
1 Oct 2023
bro what the fuck is a limited edition strawberry
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26 Sep 2023
Remember this image when Proud Boys talk about Western Civilization.😏
24 Sep 2023
An Etruscan Amphora; 6th Century BC.
It is now on display with other repatriated art (almost exclusively Etruscan or Greek) in Aula Ottagona, a part of Baths of Diocletian.
Now used as a exhibition space for National Roman Museum in Rome, Italy.
#archaeohistories
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21 Sep 2023
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. 🙏
14 Sep 2020
Barbara Corcoran reveals how to successfully ask for a raise
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Ricardo Cortés retweeted
29 Sep 2020
no stopping can stop me
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10 Dec 2021
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.
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10 Dec 2021
1948: Maywood Chemical, coca 🍃 leaf import and processing partner of @CocaColaCo, thanks Harry Anslinger for his help in sharing maps of Peruvian cocaine factories.
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14 Jan 2023
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.
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10 Sep 2023
it's physically almost impossible for me to cry these days but this article made me cry
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9 Sep 2023
“These books are typically upbeat, didactic, and unimaginative.”
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6 Aug 2023
it’s honestly kind of insane that people who buy an electric SUV can get over $25k in taxpayer money while people who bike or take transit get nothing
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7 Jul 2023
They literally couldn’t wait a week before admitting that Threads isn’t a place for news or politics. Meta wants all the rewards that come from human interaction without any of the mess or responsibility. It’s a hollow facade built for brands to exchange money for attention.
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4 Jul 2023
It's her day now
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30 Jun 2023
Maximum size of a PDF, version 7: 381 km × 381 km.
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