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

Enormous bird dropping - 50p for scale.
(on top of a wall!)

Happy Father's Day to all the dads who may not have been present during procreation, but got here as soon as they could.

@ScottSoCal @ratcatcher @veroalgoz @kacey @actuallyautistic
Well so are {{{ and }}} ! As Led Zeppelin pointed out, "sometimes words have n>1 meanings". 🙂

@ratcatcher @veroalgoz @kacey @actuallyautistic
Yeah, those are BRACES.

I propose a moratorium on pizza until this country gets its act together!

@StefanThinks
I never say this, but, you should delete this.

I wrote about why Twitter has become a national security threat, and how its owner keeps making decisions that help violent autocrats and harm democracies around the world. Currently, Musk is not only re-platforming Kremlin-linked accounts — he’s amplifying them, despite Russia’s continued involvement in war crimes and the distribution of terroristic content.
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/kremlin-twitter-accounts-get-a-boost

That is good to know.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Lonely ...

I've been wondering whether or not to use this photo. Sometimes, it takes the right mindset to see the beauty in a moment. The bird looks like a white pelican, and it's perched on what is probably some sort of navigational sign. That's Calcasieu Lake in the background, it's a large brackish lake to the east of the refuge. Locals call it big lake.

I'll need to make a decision on whether for file this in landscapes or white pelican. I don't have a seascape file, but the need may arise. Thus is the stressful life of a retiree.

"Sabine National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1937, is one of more than 560 refuges within America's National Wildlife Refuge System. Located eight miles south of Hackberry, on State Highway 27 in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, the refuge occupies the marshes between Calcasieu and Sabine lakes in southwest Louisiana." - fws.gov

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #WhitePelican #landscape

I doubt anyone here needs this reminder but:
The first person EVER diagnosed as autistic iirc passed away recently.

My point is that you should remember while we have always existed there wasn't a name for us until fairly recently.

Why is the diagnosis rate higher than it was 20 years ago? If I had to hazard a guess: in the short time science has recognized ASD they've learned more about it, so (hopefully) less people are slipping through the cracks.

Remember though: if you don't have an official diagnosis or mustn't get officially diagnosed for whatever reason: if you self diagnosed yourself as autistic, you're autistic. Congrats!

#ActuallyAutistic

"Why debating clearly established facts on which the vast majority of scientists and scientific literature agree - even if you're invited to do so on the Joe Rogan
show - is a Very Bad Idea" by my colleague @andrewdessler.

Andy speaks from his personal experience, responding to the harassment our fellow Texan Peter Hotez is receiving for refusing to "debate" vaccine dismissive and non-scientist Robert Kennedy Jr. https://theclimatebrink.substack.com/p/the-science-of-debate-a-reflection?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

I kinda began to realize more what it means to live as whoever I want to be. “Be who you want to be” sounds so easy in practice but even after coming out, it was difficult for me because I was a bit of a conformist. I think I’m finally getting over that hump! I initially went by she/they when I first decided my new name, Melody, but I was afraid that presenting as anything less than very feminine all the time would make my identity fraudulent, so I went by she/her, which made me happy, but it wasn’t the complete truth. This is an extremely long thread for a slight pronoun and identity update, even if I still prefer she/her most of the time. A year ago, “Genderfluid Woman” would have felt conflicting to me, but it just makes sense now. And again, why not choose a direction that makes me happy? Melody, she/they, genderfluid woman. Isn’t she cool? They’re just doing what makes them happy now!

THE #PROPAGANDA AGAINST OUR #COMRADES THE #ORCAS HAS STARTED AND THE #ELITES IN THEIR #YACHTS ARE #AFRAID. THE #WHALES NEED OUR UNCONDITIONAL #SUPPORT IN THEIR TIME OF #STRUGGLE FOR #LIBERATION

Wishing my American friends a happy #juneteenth ! I also wish you continued strength & courage while the USA comes to terms with the changes needed to become a safe & inclusive nation for everyone. #racism #poverty #justice #safety #inclusion #love