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

Trans rights are under threat. This is “a road test for authoritarianism” in the US, says Imara Jones, as the GOP is working to “demonize and stigmatize an entire group of people in order to build the type of society that religious zealots want.” #velshi http://ow.ly/gX7n50NgeBx

Brand new eclosure in the front yard. Small, but healthy. #monarch #butterfly #garden #photography

My cartoon in today's @NZStuff & in print The Dominion Post and Waikato Times and syndicated across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Another devastating loss for people displaced by Cyclone Gabriel.

#CycloneGabriel #NoPets #Trauma #Heartbreak #Aotearoa #NZ #ClimateCrisis #NewZealand

What GOP will regulate:
•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says Feds Won’t Bail Out Silicon Valley Bank

🤨🤨🤨 👏👏👏

(QAnon thinks this is evidence proving their conspiracy about the entire banking system’s imminent collapse, so that’s annoying, but whatever
https://www.thedailybeast.com/treasury-secretary-janice-yellen-says-feds-wont-bail-out-silicon-valley-bank?via=ios

Park nearby I don’t get to often. It’s #silentsunday, #springflowers

8 years of missing you, Dad. This photo makes me laugh because it’s so decidedly un-Pratchetty. We’re looking in the same direction & there’s hugging (ish.) It’s the kind of pic that, in a movie, one or other of us would look at wistfully before tooling up to go rescue the other one #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname

What I’m hearing about Thiel & cronies’ role in the SVB crash sounds like another instance of how multi-billionaires are essentially potential Bond Villains but they don’t need a doomsday device beyond their own greed … they can do enormous damage just by weaponizing finance.

If you gave billionaires 2 trillion in tax cuts 4 years ago, YOU need to pay your bills. You don’t get to leave the poor and working families holding the bag. #VoteBlue2024

i said "look who the cat dragged in" to my friend before when he appearead unexpectedly and only now I learned that the saying is actually ironic and a bit unwelcoming.

i feel like a piece of shit.

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?

I just realized that today is the third anniversary of our first day in “quarantine” when my husband and I mostly just put on dumb outfits and got as weird as possible to kill time.

We lived in a tiny condo and our only outdoor space was our parking space, so we’d go have picnics in our parking space or use it to pretend like we were on vacation in Vegas to terrify our friends by making them think we were being super reckless.

We also bought a selfie stick to pretend like we were on vacation in our tiny apartment which is pretty much the only way I’d ever justify using a selfie stick.