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

It's a metaphor, people. It's not like Ron DeSantis is an actual twisted, hollowed-out sociopath, a former Gitmo torturer who kidnaps migrant children, claims slavery was vocational school for blacks, and pushes laws that promote #LGBTQ+ teen suicide. Oh wait.

Re: deadnaming

I explained to my mother that deadnaming and misgendering is like farting. If you do it by accident, and apologize, people will forgive you.

If you keep doing it, people will suggest you get that taken care of, maybe recommend you seek treatment, and ultimately avoid you.

If you bend over, stick your ass in their face, and let it rip though, then you shouldn’t be surprised people think you’re a clueless, hostile asshole.

(This is from an old post, but I wanted to keep it.)

no one in lord of the rings follows osha guidelines. Not a fucking handrail in all of middle earth

Have I told you all about my stepfather dying? I can’t remember.
Anyway, it’s still happening. He was sent home from the hospital yesterday to die at home. My Mom has been lying to him (& herself), telling him he’s “getting better”, and that’s why they’re sending him home. I’m glad for him that he’ll be home with his dog, and happy for his dog that they’ll be together. But nobody’s prepared, nobody has any kind of handle on what’s happening or how to deal.
I feel confused. As a kid/teenager, I always thought this time would feel victorious, but it’s not like that at all. I don’t feel “sad”, exactly; more like disappointed and ashamed that all of our lives have sunk to this level, that we all outlived our “successful” years and now we’re all at varying levels of failure. Nothing is going to get better for any of us. My sister and I are going to have to add supporting and caring for our Mom to our responsibilities. I can’t even imagine how that’s going to work.
I feel like she’s cheated herself and my stepfather out of consciously facing end-of-life, by assuring him he’s “getting better”. It’s all so weird.
This post is not looking for sympathy, I just wanted to update you on the situation. Thank you, #FediverseFamily.

No charge of treason here
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2023-08-01/health-experts-warn-of-growing-evidence-that-leprosy-is-endemic-to-central-florida
#Jan6 #Insurrection #TrumpLies

omg!!!!!! my book I THOUGHT YOU LOVED ME is a staff pick at powell's books in portland, oregon???? DREAM COME TRUE! 😭

THANK YOU fieldmouse press and all the folks who crowdfunded my book and made it happen! i am so effin grateful!

Again, to remind everyone to whom this might apply, if you're mad about the #trumpindictment because you invested most of your personality in demonstrable fascist horseshit and justifying a massive criminal conspiracy to end constitutional democracy in the United States, let me offer these solemn words of counsel: Fuck you.

Trump tried to overthrow an elected government in 2021, and may actually face justice for it. He's made it clear in his 2024 campaign that he will rule as a dictator if elected.

If Big Journalism won't finally take a stand -- in its news coverage, not just in its commentary -- to protect democracy (and by extension journalism), then it'll be directly complicit.

You can't be a mere observer about some things. This is one of them.

Raise your hand if you weren't indicted today for attempting to overthrow the republic. 🤚

Maybe this is petty of me but I don't care
I think it's pretty awesome that the newest #TrumpIndictment is 45 pages. 😂

BREAKING NEWS: Former President Donald Trump has been indicted on FOUR CRIMINAL CHARGES by a federal grand jury for his role in trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

A: Conspiracy to Defraud the United States

B: Conspiracy to Obstruct an Official Proceeding

C: Obstruction of and Attempt to Obstruct an Official Proceeding

D: Conspiracy Against Rights