Ear Rick

@ericlars2.bsky.social

I build stuff all day and write short stories and novels at night. BLM LGBTQ safe space 200 yards from the Kickapoo. I love you until I don't. Old GenX, awesome at hacky sack. 💙💞🌈 Crypto, illuminati, MAGA, over-boobing-it, and DMs = Automatic BLOCK!

The Bernie Moreno/Max Miller thing sticks in my craw. How many times has this asshole conveniently looked away from abuse when it wasn't his own daughter? He hasn't been making noise to get the Epstein files released. Yeah, not until it happens to them. I'm glad he's taking a stand but....

Good morning #BreakfastCrew Resisters! Happy Monday!🌸🌼🌺 Tucked among the tall pines is this stone & timber house with a lovely waterfall & pool for today’s Virtual Meet & Greet!💦🌲☀️ Coffee, Tea, Juices & Cocktails ready!🍹☕️🥂 Meet new friends.👫👬 Everyone welcomed! Comment ✍️ & say Hi! 👋 #BlueCrew🦋

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It’s National Watermelon 🍉 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Watermelon is a delicious summertime treat! Quick fact; The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred about 5,000 years ago in Egypt Watermelons were often placed in the burial tombs of kings to nourish them in the afterlife. We will be okay ❤️🦊

1882 US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration
1900 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded in Akron, Ohio, by Harvey Firestone
1908 French brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000-year-old Neanderthal man, known as the "Old Man of La Chapelle," at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France
1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War l
1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding
1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice
1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies
1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days, making landfall in North Carolina and traveling to the Great Lakes
1977 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, and within weeks, thousands are ordered
2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks
2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 21/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide
2022 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death

Wow! I can hear a pack of coyotes going nuts right now! I live on the edge of a village and I've never heard them do this during a summer afternoon. Weird!

NEW: Sen. Bernie Moreno has finally broken his silence, accusing Rep. Max Miller of being “a danger” to his daughter, saying he “needs serious psychological help,” and that he “should not serve in the House of Representatives.”

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OMG this is the best! PNK brought Eric Adam's (yes, that Eric Adams) to Wisconsin Rapids to help pitch their data center to the public. They weren't having it. At the end, she 👇 asks for a pic with Eric, he said yes, and she turned around to show the back of her shirt....and click! 🤣🤣 Fuck you Eric!

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Its National Friendship Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today we celebrate our friendships and encourage you to connect with the friends in your life Sometimes life gets in the way and we forget to call or make plans, but a true friend will always be there when you need them We will be okay ❤️ Foxy

1610 English explorer Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson
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1864 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing
1865 Lewis Carroll publishes the children's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
1939 Albert Einstein writes to US President FDR informing him of recent research on fission chain reactions making possible the construction of "extremely powerful bombs"
1943 Gene Roddenberry pilots B-17 'Yankee Doodle' which crashes on takeoff, killing two
1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur "Chuck" Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.
1973 "American Graffiti," directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland
1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24
2018 Apple becomes the first American publicly listed company to reach $1 trillion in value
2021 70% of American have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot, a target President Joe Biden had hoped to meet by 4 July

✈️ Show up. 🤝 Lift each other up. 🗳️ Engage voters. 💙 Protect democracy. The Good Trouble Squadron believes democracy is built by ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things—together. We're working hard, laughing often & making a difference one conversation at a time. Ready to join the crew?

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