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

@rebeccabguinn @ScottSoCal @TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe this fight reminds me of the fight for gay rights. As I remember there was a concerted effort to portray gays as child molesters before 2006. The online left were able to reference a lot of data showing most pedo’s were hetero and then Mark Foley, several other sex scandals, all built up and voilà, Speaker Pelosi. 2008 Dems were still wishy washy.

@rebeccabguinn @ScottSoCal @TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe by 2012 all mainstream democrats were for marriage equality and by 2015 Obergefell. But it took normalizing being out, and seeing gay relationships in mass media, overcoming AIDS stigma and all the way back to stonewall.
I want the party of the disenfranchised to fight for the most marginalized. Stand up for the truth that we’re all equal.

@ScottSoCal @rebeccabguinn @TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe
The GOP has to have an "other group" to demonize so they can divide us and continue to install an autocracy. We see this with the attacks on immigrants. On women's rights to choose. Then the whole CRT scam as an excuse to eliminate black history from being taught in schools. Now transgender people are under siege.

If we don't stand together, Rebecca, we all lose. That's the point.

Something I did last year that features a cheeky #rat in a mosaic style. Veni Vedi Rattus?

Prints and more here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/the-immortal-rat-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

#DigitalArt #RatsOfMastodon #Rats #animals #pets #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

Scientific American talks about #StochasticTerrorism which I believe is the tool being used by the right to generate a plausibly deniable #AntiTrans #Genocide

How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence

Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it’s affecting our humanity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/#

Actually, a wolf in sheep’s clothing would be pretty cute.

Pro-Russia propagandist unmasked as New Jersey tropical fish seller (David Millward/Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/17/propagandist-donbas-devushka-sarah-bils-unmasked/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230417/p84#a230417p84

#ArtOfUkraine
#SergioKushanov Ukraine 🇺🇦
https://www.facebook.com/groups/261697434336505/permalink/1613006615872240/

Today is #YomHaShoah, #HolocaustRemembranceDay. We mourn our families and others who didn’t survive the genocide. 6 million Jews. My grandfather’s 4 sisters (Chana, Devorah, Ethel, Malka), and his parents were all murdered. Photo is one of his murdered sisters. He came to Canada to escape #antisemitism. #NeverAgain

We added #Mastodon to Embedly. So now Mastodon links embed more naturally on #Medium and every other service that uses Embedly to handle embeds.
https://blog.medium.com/now-you-can-embed-mastodon-posts-in-medium-stories-99b11d0baa7f

Happy launch day to Valerie Fridland's "Like, Literally, Dude"! A book that made me say, "Wow!" multiple times.

It's not often that a language books surprises me these days, but this one did. (And yes, that's my blurb on the cover that reads "Smart and funny—I loved it!")

Get ready to listen to Valerie talk about my favorite parts of the book on tomorrow's Grammar Girl podcast.

Having a new book come out is like having a child! Will they grow and be welcomed???

"Stories from Puglia: Two Californians in Southern Italy"

https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Puglia-Californians-Southern-Italy/dp/1913680649.

#TravelItaly #Italy #Italia #Travel #Travelwriting #travelblog #Puglia #share #adventure #traveling #tourism #explore #travelgram #trip #expats #expatItaly @bookstodon @gncif #bookstodon

gotta tell you that not only am I tired of the right wing trying to legislate my friends and family out of existence, but I'm also tired of both the complacency of some on the left and the abstraction of trans rights into some kind of strategic tool that should be just *dropped* because "middle america doesn't get it"

you don't have to understand someone else's gender identity, but disregarding them as irrelevant because you don't "get it" puts you squarely in the same camp as desantis and trump and the rest of the far-right, because you're denying their essential personhood. if you're repeating right-wing talking points, that should be a huge internal red flag and you should probably examine some things at length

trans rights means exactly what it says. it's not a left wing talking point -- it's the human recognition of other humans as humans and accepting them for who they are. you don't have to "get it," but yeah, you do have to treat people who are just trying to live their lives as people