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

Here's a break from the TFG news.

Democrats have been asking for seven years why the media haven't been coming to food coops, Pride, and downtown summer festivals to find out what Clinton and Biden voters think instead of spending so much time at the small town diner to find out what the red hat brigade wants.

So many candidates tout their small-town values. Paul Waldman suggests that we want candidates with big-city values. Cities are complicated and ever-changing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/06/13/small-town-values/

Hey, folks: In two weeks I will have a short story out, in a collection called "Far Reaches" that also features Ann Leckie, James SA Corey, Nnedi Okorafor, Rebecca Roanhorse and Veronica Roth. Each story is free for Amazon Prime/Kindle Unlimited subscribers; $1.99 for everyone else. Details at the link:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/06/13/coming-in-exactly-two-weeks-slow-time-between-the-stars-part-of-the-far-reaches-collection/

Another reply person is arriving soon. I'm sorry, my shift is over. Union rules.

FACT: Donald Trump has now been arrested more times than he has won an election.

All Five Eyes countries should be filing charges of espionage against trump and his personal lackeys for exposing our national security secrets and intelligence apparatus to his Saudi pals and others. Extradite and nail this scumbag. 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇳🇿🇦🇺 #TraitorTrump

"How dare you suggest we are neo-Nazi terrorists, let's see how funny your little leftist jokes are on the Day of the Rope when we redeem this nation by exterminating you and everyone who does not properly bow to our messianic ubermensch leader" is not the best argument someone can make but a whole bunch of white revanchist dimwits are typing some iteration of it right now all across social media.

Keep in mind... this happened to a NINE YEAR OLD little girl.

If women don't live up to the #patriarchy's standard of femininity, old white dudes will want to see your kitty to make sure you're a *real* girl.

Trans women were the easy first target in a move to get all women back in line.
https://www.castanet.net/news/Kelowna/431500/Girl-9-accused-of-being-trans-at-Kelowna-track-meet

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I'd love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

@ScottSoCal
It's not the size of the chopper!! It's how you maneuver it!!

Look. Let's not get bent outta shape. We'll let Kid Rock do a dick helicopter in the Rose Garden and we'll call it even. A tiny little dick helicopter. Then we walk away.

Thanks to someone in North Carolina who is getting a framed #LandCruiser print!
Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/classic-toyota-land-cruiser-fj40-mark-tisdale.html

#DigitalArt #Painting #Toyota #FJ40 #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

It is an incredibly dangerous time for trans people. If you are given a forum at the White House you should act like an damned adult and not hurt the movement for instagram clout.

https://news.yahoo.com/transgender-activist-rose-montoya-goes-110233222.html

New truck decoration.

Rare Blue Carpenter Bumble Bee (Xylocopa Caerulea).

via Brian Roemmele from Twitter