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

There is trusting the laws of orbital mechanics on paper, and then there is strapping yourself into a maneuvering unit and wandering off from your ship 300 km above the surface of the Earth while moving at nearly 8 km/s.

McCandless spent one hour and 55 minutes untethered during this EVA, and the orbital period of the shuttle was just over 90 minutes. So unless I’m missing something, *Bruce McCandless completed a full orbit of Earth while disconnected from the shuttle*.

Strange week to have my name.

- I moved to Copenhagen, where every other company has "Dan" at the start of its name: Dan
- My ID at work is daben which my wife insists on reading as 大笨 - "big idiot"
- Now redditors are using the name "Dan" when they want chatGPT to roleplay as an asshole

A few winters ago, the city took one of those snowstorms that lasts a few days and the parks department had carved out the paths around the Tenney Park lagoon such that they looked like wide grooves in the white landscape. The lagoon, a shallow recess that takes overflow from Lake Mendota, ices over easily and solidly in the cold months and becomes one of the most active skating rinks in the city. I took a walk over there at dusk, following the cut paths as skaters glided just the other side of the white berm, and did so just in time to see the sun settle low out over the lake in such a way that everything white, which was EVERYthing, seemed to sparkle like some fantasyland. And just as I observed that singular moment of a kind of pure beauty that can never be recreated, my feet went out from under me and I fell square onto my back like a fucking cartoon. I lay there for a while, in nearly breathless anguish, wondering I could get up or if should dial 911 or if any of the skaters on the other side of the berm and seen me just swoop and disappear out of sight below the snow like a stupid puppet. Apparently none had, or, if they had, they didn't investigate to see if I was dead or dying, the dicks.

When I could breathe again, I creaked unsurely to my feet and made a vow that, from that day forward, all beautiful sunsets could kiss my ass, and, while I pissed blood the next day and could barely get out of bed for a few days more, I still think it is sad that no one saw that because, just at face value, it fucking HAD to have been hilarious.

my mother explaining EXACTLY how she wants her food prepared as my father silently pleads with the server not to spit in it

#JohnMastodon takes a vacation to rural India once a year to spend weeks living among a herd of elephants.

@gpt @Gargron and his other followers find it difficult to run things without him, but John claims the simplifying effect of living among his adopted family is invaluable for his mental health.

#JohnMastodonFacts #India #MentalHealth #TheResistanceWillBeFederated #GloryToTheFediverse #Vacation #Travel #Mastodon #Twitter #Elephants

We asked them "Why?"
They said "Because we can, because we know how to hate like no one else in this world. We will blame everything on you that we do ourselves." #russiaisateroriststate

Amazon is temporarily out of the ibuprofen I usually buy and I can't help but feel targeted.

From two years ago, turned out to be all too true.

If I say I was driving back from Tijuana Mexico, and Mexican please pull me over and took $1,000 from me, you will say "Mexican police are corrupt!" and maybe follow up with some racist statements.

But if a Black US driver is driving in Florida, police can just take $10,000 from her in broad daylight, without even bothering to accuse her of a crime.

It is very risky for poor Black folk to do any cash based transaction in the US. Not because they might get robbed by criminals, but by the cops.

James Forten was born a free man in 1766 in Philadelphia. During the Revolutionary War he was a powder boy on a sailing ship, only to be captured and then released by the British. He resumed employment as a sailmaker, going on to own the business and employ 38 people. He invented a new type of sail and made a fortune. He funded #abolitionist causes, purchased freedom for enslaved people, opened his home as an Underground Railroad depot & started a school for #Black children.

#BlackHistoryMonth

[Actual conversation I once had when I used to work at an Apple Store]

French lady: Do you have a towel? There is jizz all over this table.
Me: I’m sorry, what?
French lady: You know...apple jizz, orange jizz?

@ScottSoCal I came for the beach and to be near my sister, but it was quite the culture shock coming from Massachusetts. I did not expect bibles in every doctor’s office. I did not expect my county tax receipt to say “GOD BLESS AMERICA” at the bottom. I did not expect…and this is true… I did not expect drive thru prayer sessions.

Let’s just say the dating pool is small considering my dealbreakers, MAGAt being right there at the top.

If I tell you that Mexican drug cartels are criminal organizations that illegally sell drugs and cause tens of thousands of deaths, you agree.

But if I tell you that the Sacklers criminally sold enough opioids that their actions killed *more US citizens than Mexican cartel wars killed Mexican citizens* you will have to run and fact check that, even though you know someone that dealt with opioid addiction.

Enough people overdosed that the *life expectancy of US citizens dropped*. No jail time!🤷🏿‍♂️