ScottinSoCal 🇺🇦 🕊 🏳‍🌈 @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es

The hypocrisy is strong with this one. https://www.comicsands.com/matthew-marsden-straight-pride-month-2668089266.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

I can't get over how fucking perfect the seeing conditions are right now. Crystal clear view of the sun.

I might have to bring my work laptop outside. Unbelievably nice outside.

#solar #astrophotography

After my dog eats, she makes pet and rub her back until she burps, then she leaves.

This is brilliant. Some rancid TERF emailed the Lib Dem Mayoral candidate in her area with some "polite questions" and got this response.
Bravo Hannah 👏 🤣

#UKPolitics #TransRightsAreHumanRights

This is a good #MondayMotivation

After a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/a-new-start-after-60-after-a-decade-of-rejections-i-got-my-first-novel-published-now-ive-got-my-dream-i-wont-stop?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Some COVID conscious people are worried about mask bans because protestors are wearing them. That's understandable, but (a) they are wearing them to mitigate COVID spread, and (b) even if COVID didn't exist, they should have the right to wear them to protect against surveillance.

If they read this back to me in court one day I would lean into the microphone to repeat it.

Nearly 20 years ago, I made a Craigslist post looking for a roommate.

This guy named Justin responded saying he wasn't looking for a roommate, but he liked my ad and the interests and music I'd listed and thought we might make good friends.

I ended up exchanging a series of emails with him and he was really cool and interesting.

At some point, I asked for his last name and he said it was Franchi, so, being the absolute creep that I am, I googled his name and came up with a series of articles and bulletins about how Justin Franchi was wanted by the FBI for terrorism.

I was like WTF? but I was so curious about this guy so I continued talking. I brought it up to my friends and one was like "Yo, stop talking to that guy!" and the other was like "Keep talking! There's a REWARD!"

I was like "Y'all, I’m no narc. Besides, he's an 'ECO terrorist' so maybe he's not the bad guy?"

My friends were now even more invested than I was so we poured over his well-written yet strangely cryptic emails trying to figure out details on his whereabouts, reading into EVERYTHING as if it had a secret meaning.

We even talked about meeting up and he said he would be "Coming from the west" and we were like "WTF, we're in Michigan, he could be ANYWHERE!"

He eventually gave me enough information to figure out that this Justin Franchi was just a normal guy from a suburb of Detroit and just happened to share a name with an eco terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list.

Even though I was no longer going to get a reward, I ended up meeting him and he was super cool and I remember hanging out and driving around in my Jetta listening to Swedish indie pop and we remained friends for several years until I moved to Chicago and changed my phone number and lost contact.

Just wanted to say hi, if you're out there, Justin Franchi (the indie pop one, not the terrorist one).

https://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20081119/fbi-offers-50000-reward-for-eco-terrorists/

What was my career like?
Pretty much this:

Employer: You didn't understand the assignment.

Me: Oh, I totally did, but your assignment was ill-conceived and would miss the goal, so I did the right thing instead.

Employer: okay, carry-on.

The Republicans have long been trying to normalize sadism. They brag about it as if it were a virtue. Kristi Noem is just the most recent example.

I, for one, would like to hear the graduation speech from the USC valedictorian.

@johnnyprofane1 @eric @actuallyautistic @actuallyaudhd @actuallyadhd Is it sad that I don't remember which terrible person Roger Stone is at this point? I think it's a bad thing.

Any female-presenting person of a certain age who's taught long enough has had students absentmindedly call them "Mom."

Today, amid a rather frenetic last-day-before- the-draft's-due class period, one of my #PhlEd seniors looked right at me and, all unconsciously, said "Alexa, how do I cite..." before he heard his own words and froze in horror.

Via Eric Kleefeld:

Saying this again: Black voters have determined the last three Democratic presidential nominees, but you don’t see media outlets working hard to interview them in diners, and find out what this important demographic actually thinks.

Aaron Rupar:

Fox & Friends this morning featured one million white dudes at a Pennsylvania diner saying the Pledge of Allegiance

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I think my #neurodivergent #actuallyautistic #AuDHD and #ADHD compatriots will find a lot to relate to in here.

Please boost to help me promote it - I put SO MUCH work into this!

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@ScottSoCal

Today's sharp jump looks like a "buy a block of stock today to push up the price"

The ongoing fall is ongoing.