#elon is so raggedy

[chaneajoyyy]

Y’all this Twitter update is so ridiculous but not surprising with the upcoming election…

[serial-unaliver]

im sorry PLEASE elaborate on "let women be mothers" i need to know what kind of trench warfare is happening on femisogyny tiktok rn........ youre like a raggedy young messenger bringing news from places i am not brave enough to go

LMAO okay so basically this article about a tiktoker whose account is called "ballerina farm" went viral because she and her husband have some sort of nightmare romcom backstory and her life was not as carefree and enjoyable as viewers were lead to believe. the husband is heir to jetblue and after ballerina farm girl rejected him, he used his connections to get a seat next to her on a plane, which she thought was fate. they got married pretty young and have EIGHT children which she cares for by herself and according to her husband the domestic labor has left her exhausted in bed for long periods of time before (not sure why he would share this). apparently ballerina farm girl had things going for her before getting with this guy--she even got into julliard. then this video of her millionaire husband getting her an apron collecting eggs for her birthday instead of plane tickets she wanted (come on, plane guy!). what's also crazy is this guy is dedicated to maintaining his humble (lol) family on a farm fantasy so they lack resources they could otherwise afford while having random overpriced stoves or whatever. anyway, tl;dr tiktok collectively learns these booktok plots don't have the ideal ending in real life.

fast forward and audio of the woman who wrote the article is released and she says basically that she opposes the 'tradwife' lifestyle, which now has people saying the article is probably biased and this means the marriage and husband are actually perfect and ideal.

keep in mind I did not voluntarily learn any of this information, it just kept coming up on my tiktok fyp, so if this writeup is too vague it's because I don't feel like doing in depth research on ballerina farm girl legacy beyond that. you can find a ton of info already by just searching "ballerina farm" on tiktok though.

also why do all ultra-wealthy heirs seem to have something uniquely psychologically wrong with them? like this family's life is crafted in a way that's very removed from reality, it's practically roleplay. didn't elon musk do something similar?

[marisatomay]

the bird app is having A Day because that raggedy bitch elon removed verification for everyone who isn’t subscribed to twitter blue which means that some of the most famous people in the world, news organizations, and governments (tom cruise, the new york times, the white house, etc) are now unverified EXCEPT it appears that he has left some celebs—whom he either hates or were quite vocal about never paying for twitter (ie stephen king)—verified so they would get bullied for paying for twitter because he’s a 50something middle schooler who has never been told “no” until very recently. anyway. can’t wait for the lawsuits to roll in. i’ll get the popcorn.

[teler-of-gallifrey]

New superhero idea: Crime guy (not to be confused with crime man) Possess super speed, telepathy, telekinesis, and shapeshifting, and uses them solely to commit egregious amounts of theft. Absolutely cleans out all those stacking/key/claw games at arcades and then distributes all the shit to the kids. Absolutely cleans out casinos (and they can't ban them, because they look different every time). Shoplifts an entire grocery store and the donates all the shit to a food bank in another country so it's harder to trace. Does the same with electronic shops (though these need to be jailbroken and scrubbed of any potential tracking/identification features). Robs an atm and distributes the money to the homeless(this would involve a long, convoluted process of laundering the money by shuffling the atm money with other sources to make it nigh on impossible to track. If your raggedy old five dollar bill was mysteriously replaced by a brand new one, that was them). Slaps Elon Musk in the back of the head with a spatula and leaves dog shit in his pillowcase. Just nice, wholesome crime.

[away-ward]

Ranty text block: Another scene i remembered from rereading corrupt and punk57: ryen describing rika's clothes at their condo building(?) that led to me thinking, "why do people always put rika edits in the best, sexiest and prettiest clothes? Because as much as this girl was said to be "pretty", her fashion style was ugly as a rat, like shitty af. She always looks like a 33 years old extremely rich suburban mom who got no taste in fashion and wore dull ass colours but still everything is designer thing" Like that was my first thought every time i saw Rika edits, and how i remember her in books. I almost confuse her with em's high school no-choice aesthetic because of how bad pd tried to make rika look "not other rich girls" by not dressing up much and kept on going with the narrative of "oh alex looks hot, but me (rika)? Ew" 🙄 im sick of stories like this because it reminds me of Rubi (a telenovela) where Rubi's hot rich girl friend kept on complaining about her looks, and was jealous of rubi (similar to alex's style here) when that girl friend can literally hire someone to style her, or build up her confidence and wear something even sexier or hotter than rubi (alex) because they got all the money that rubi (alex) never had. But nooooooo they had to wear ugly ass outfits 😭 i hate it here. Aside from that, i can totally see Winter and Banks rocking hot and pretty designer wears, because all thats left for winter was for someone to doll her up and banks to feel safe in her feminity and trying out more quality clothings, but Rika??? That girl really needs some personal stylist because why was she be making so much money and still be dressing like that? 😭 i genuinely hate it!!! This is a rich people story, why was she looking raggedy?? She could literally be cute and hot with her style, but noooo her outfits always gotta be ratty af, even elon musk has got more style than her and it's saying something because elon's outfits WERE.NOT.IT. I cant imagine how yikes rika looks every time she wore outfits that dont match her luxurious cars (especially before she met alex, and sometimes, even after, case in point, that punk57 scene), and readers supposed to look at rika and be like "wow, fashionista!" when she never really gave us anything to fawn over for?!! Her fashion is as dull as her personality, and she had no valid excuses for it because all her life, she was always sureounded by beauty and luxury. Emmy had excuses bcause of her lacking money & at home situation etc., but rika? It couldnt happen Only for two reasons being one, she didnt want to be called a slut or looked down by her society, or two, because trevor that scum kept on harrassing her on what she should do, and because she was a pushover, it was har to not push him away, BUT! BUT! but even then, there's so many hot, cute, pretty or beautiful modest fashion??? Modest fashion is one of THE most popular style for rich people because they associate modesty = being classy, so i still dont understand why rika was raggedy. Idk this really irks me. I'll let you know if i have more irk-inducing things from DN. Though i don't think i have the energy to shit on killswitch because that book was exhausting 😭 damon torrance was exhausting, i pray for winter, every five seconds to get away from him.

Out of all the character’s, Rika’s style has struck me as the oddest. I can only recall two specific moments that made me question things.

One was when she was getting ready for school and she wore like boots, a sweater, and a scarf. Which, knowing it’s October and is probably a bit chilly, isn’t all that odd but I felt weird to layout her outfit like that.

The other was in Hideaway when she shows up for the sleepover and she’s wearing an avocado shirt and matching shorts, while everyone else was in sexy wear. It felt very “I’m main character/not like other girls” energy. And Michael comments that his mom bought those for her and he can’t believe she still has them, like it’s so cute. I couldn’t shake the idea that PD saw these PJs in rl and thought they were cute, so immediately wanted to put Rika in them because Rika’s soooo quirky like that.

I tend to let it go a bit in Corrupt, because I thought some of Rika’s storyline and character development was getting away from people that controlled her.

Her fashion style was ugly as a rat, like shitty af. She always looks like a 33 years old extremely rich suburban mom who got no taste in fashion

Remember in the first scene when she’s racing back to the Crists’ and Michael’s mom as laid out a white dress for her to wear. Rika isn’t that excited for it?

It feels like Rika dresses like a 33-year-old woman with no taste because she’s being dressed by a woman in her 40s who thinks this is what a young lady of a respectable class who is going to marry her son would wear. And Rika specifically indicates that it’s not her style as a 19-year-old who wants her independence. So, I can let it go.

Meeting Alex, who is the same age as her, was probably an eye opener for how someone who decides how they present themselves could dress. It is no excuse for the rest of the series, but like I said, I never paid attention to Rika’s style. I never saw her as a “fashionista” and in fact, if any of the characters were, I’d say it was Alex.

Rika could have afforded a personal shopper or a stylist, but I think after breaking away from the Crists’ control and Michael wanting whatever she wanted, it meant she dressed however she wanted without thinking “is this fashionable?” Which is fine. I don’t really care, and I don’t have a fashionable bone in my body. I can’t expect rich people to have it just because they have money, and I wouldn’t expect all people in their 20s to care. Fashion and being stylish is such a person-to-person thing, so I guess it never really mattered to me.

It couldnt happen Only for two reasons being one, she didnt want to be called a slut or looked down by her society, or two, because trevor that scum kept on harrassing her on what she should do, and because she was a pushover, it was har to not push him away,

The slut shaming and Trevor were most definitely factors in how Rika dressed in her teenage years. Probably past down from Trevor’s mom, like I said before, the idea of this is how a young lady dresses.

So maybe like with Em, the rejection of clean, modest style to a slouchier style was a way of rebellion for Rika? I don’t know.

Thanks for the rant. It was fun to read about something that I didn’t notice. Since we’ve been talking about style recently (or me and other anons), maybe it’ll be fun to go through and explain how I do picture the girl’s style like how I did with Em. You guys can offer your thoughts and HCs as well! Maybe we’ll come to a consensus.

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i know we love nuance on here, but price of bitcoin falling below cost of mining is not going to cause problems immediately in the short term

1) the graphics card shortage was a years-long process. it was all fully over and done with and they had moved on to purpose-built ASIC miners by the time anyone on the consumer end buying graphics cards noticed anything wrong with the supply chain. economic bubbles don't pop quickly, they deflate over an excruciatingly long period of time, so everybody can get in their last ditch rugpulls on the dead cat bounce. (if you're saying, wait, how are they going to resell purpose built hardware, great question, they cannot, except to other rubes, but this is beside the point for short term effects. if you're looking for raggedy ass graphics cards on the resale market, you are too late, that was what the consumer market noticed drying up)

2) mining cost is not the same everywhere because electricity does not cost the same everywhere. miners who are buying electricity from the grid will go offline first, miners who are paying more than average for electricity will go offline next, but many mines have their own independent power sources, and mines buying and selling back to the grid, i keep insisiting, was one of the major contributing factors to the texas outage

3) when miners go offline, the cost of mining goes down, incentivizing mining again. literally in the whitepaper

5) better indicators to look for, perhaps, are a) volume greater than march 2020, which could also have a similar incentivizing effect (fire sale for people who believe it will hit $1m someday) or b) elon musk total meltdown. no, seriously, lol. c) if microstrategy ever falls apart it's over. d) cathie wood's ark fund should go first though, probably

[elonscult]

The Awakening - Chapter 2

Thanks for reading this!  

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Chapter 2

“Picture something calming. The beach in Los Angeles” Sabrina thought as she tried to keep herself calm in this stressful situation.

The man sitting across from her sighed and ran his hand through his blonde hair. Thought it wasn’t a particularly hot day, he had his jacket off and his shirtsleeves rolled up.

Alec snapped his fingers in front of her.

“Are you paying any attention?”

Sabrina frowned. “I was”

“Well, what kind of thing does make you feel peaceful?” Alec asked again.

She looked through his shoulder to the tall man sitting a couple of tables away from them. Elon. They hadn’t really talked since the day he stormed out of her apartment and yet in a dark twist, destiny had brought them back together again.  But he certainly didn’t make her feel peaceful.

It was a relatively small party filled with some important business people she didn’t really care about. Sabrina was wearing a black strapless dress as she spoke with Alec.

“Not being here, I guess” she finally answered.

“Right” he said as he held his hands up. Below the sleeves of his shirt, the tattoos that wrapped his arms were visible.

Alec and Sabrina had been friends since forever, it was like a brother/sister kind of thing. It wasn’t unusual to see the pair together in this kind of events, specially because none of them was interested in the high society part of the reunions.

After the toast, Sabrina found herself standing near the bar with Alec by her side talking to some of his colleagues. But she couldn’t keep herself from thinking about Elon, she kept thinking about that night, the way he kissed her and how much she wanted to kiss him back. Sabrina so rarely looked confused that the expression seemed almost foreign on her face.

“Talk to him” Alec said, taking Sabrina away from her thoughts and pointing at someone.

Elon’s tall figure approached the bar next to them, unaware of her presence. He was wearing a suit without a tie, seemed to be distracted about something and Sabrina felt a sudden urge to hold him in her arms.

“Elon” Alec said suddenly. Sabrina’s cheeks burning, he could not have been more obvious.

“Alec! I didn’t know you were here” Elon responded shaking his hand and then looking at her.

“Well, it was good seeing you! I have to go somewhere else” Alec said excusing himself and leaving Sabrina and Elon alone.

He looked at her darkly, as if she had done something stupid. Sabrina suspected that she had. Her nerves were jangling together like wind chimes and she had a sick feeling in the pit of her stomach. The last time she had seen him he had been walking away from her, and now he was standing right there, with his raggedy black hair and bright blue eyes, and his cool sharp beautiful face that gave nothing whatsoever away.

She swallowed against the dryness in her throat trying to find the right thing to say. Then noticed that the ring on his finger was gone.

“Aren’t you ever going to forgive me?“ Elon said.

“I-“ Sabrina said looking away and shaking her head. “Elon, I have forgiven you”

“It doesn’t seem like it. You seem angry”

When she looked back at him, it was with a gentle expression.

“Its complicated” Sabrina said. “I care about you”

Elon felt dizzy. Sabrina forgave him; She cared about him.

“You’ve been ignoring me” said Elon.

“I was a little surprised you hadn’t’ called or texted to tell me you were going away” Sabrina said.

“You never answer my calls or texts” Elon said.

“That hasn’t stopped you before”

“Everyone gives up eventually” Elon sighed. “Besides, it was just a brief trip to Texas”

“I thought you were running away cause you hated me!” Sabrina said.

“Oh Sabrina!” he huffed out a breath of laughter.

“You’re just- you’re so- You annoy me so much and I hate the fact that I really want to kiss you right now”  she shook her head. “See, this is why I haven’t answered your calls, cause we always end up fighting about something”

“But we’re here right now” Elon said.

Sabrina remembered the first time Elon had ever kissed her, against the wall outside his house.

“Its not going to work, it wasn’t working. You have to see that, don’t you?” She said. Her hands now resting on his broad shoulders. He could feel her thumb brush against his neck, over his collar, and his whole body burning.

“Don’t you?” Sabrina said, and she kissed him.

Elon leaned into the kiss. It was quiet. He heard the crunch of her heels on the marble floor as she moved, his hand sliding around to steady the back of her neck. Sabrina tasted like she always did, sweet and bitter and familiar, and Elon parted his lips, to gasp or breathe or breathe Sabrina in, but it was too late because she broke away from him with a wrench and stepped backward and it was over.  

“What” Elon said, feeling stunned. “What now?”

She looked confused again, her head filled with a hundred thoughts.

“I forgive you but I can’t be with you. I can’t. It doesn’t work. We’re just going to keep hurting each other and its too much for you to take on-“ she said.

“Don’t tell me what’s too much for me” Elon said with a deadly tone, suddenly offended. “You always act like everything is my fault, and you had a hand in this too.” He paused. “I apologized and apologized and did everything to make it up to you. And I know I should’ve stayed with you instead of trying to make things work with Camille, but I didn’t! And I’m here now trying to fix it but you just can’t give in”

“I know” she said.

Sabrina walked forward and took one his hands into hers.

“I know its my fault too” she whispered.

Elon looked at her, she looked vulnerable, fragile, she had always been careful to look a certain way, she needed to. It was hard as it is to lead a top tier company and it was harder for her to earn people’s respect, everyone had always mistakenly thought she had earned that spot only relying on her beauty and last name.  

Elon leaned in and kissed her, inpatient to have her in his arms again. And as the kiss intensified Elon found his way to the bathroom door next to the bar, opened it and dragged Sabrina inside with him.

Almost immediately, he lifted her and placed her over the nearest counter, still kissing her, both filled with desire.

Sabrina gently moved her hands from his arms to the button of his pants, unbuttoning it. She needed him. She needed him inside of her, filling her completely. His hands moved all over her body trying to explore every inch of it eventually lifting her dress just enough to be able to spread her legs so he could place himself between them.

“Ive missed you so much” he said, his breath hot on her neck, kissing her soft spot. Sabrina moaned pulling him closer.

Sabrina hurried to pull his shirt up. He raised his arms and helped her get himself out of it. She ran her hands over his muscles and admired his bone structure as he pulled her into a kiss before he separated to finish taking off his pants. Sabrina tried to help him pulling them down and then she ran her finger along the waistband of his boxers. His already hard dick very visible through them.

He pushed the top part of her dress down and  started to nibble on her breasts, sucking one of them and groping and kneading the other one. He then started to position himself, Sabrina feeling him against her entrance as he slowly pushed in. He spreading her legs farther apart, her clit now rubbing against him. Elon started pounding into her as if there was no tomorrow. His growling indicating he was not too far off, her own orgasm building up. Elon’s giant cock pulsating inside of her, pushing in and out relentlessly.

“Don’t stop” Sabrina begged in the middle of ecstasy.

He moaned, right before he bit down the flesh right above her collarbone, pushing her over the edge. Elon came right after her, riding out their orgasms together.

When they caught their breath and managed to dress up again, Elon kissed her on the cheek, wanting to be close to her forever.