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

@Zumbador @TheGreatLlama @actuallyautistic

I’m the only person on this platform in the autistic community who is attacked and insulted with such regularity. It’s caused me much dysregulation and harm. This isn’t really about qualifications, all autistic people are qualified. No one else is asked.

It’s about autistics who internalize NT norms that everyone is lying. They don’t know much about autism or the autistic brain, which is no fault of their own. They don’t like what I have to say. It’s uncomfortable. I know. So they try to use every other excuse in the book to malign me and literally harm me.

The ban on #trans women in #chess is hitting me particularly hard.

I'm a chess enthusiast (in keeping with my careful curated rep as an expert strategist).

It's just this wtf moment that pulls the wind right out of my sails.

I know really well that lots of folks don't like us. But ... how are we ever gonna overcome a level of pure unhinged bigotry that says we can't be trusted play chess?

Obviously ALL women should be insulted by this move.

Cat break!

1. It gladdens my heart that a couple of shitheads who sought to avoid the wrong kind of press actually put their names into national headlines by trying to silence this paper

2. I’m quite ignorant of the process required to obtain warrants, but it seems the prosecutor not being informed of this one demonstrates how very, very shady the whole thing was.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/kansas-prosecutor-says-material-seized-in-police-raid-of-marion-county-newspaper-should-be-returned

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#dogsofmastodon #dogs #cartoons #Humor #Cartoons #humour #DogsOfMastodon

Made the CEO laugh today!

He asked where the box cutter was so I showed him… and he politely asked if I was going to need it. I said, “If I need it that bad, call the cops!"

@philip_cardella @mrcompletely This is why they're book banning and trying to take over school boards.

And then there's this guy, making the implicit threat of violence against women explicit (Locke is a pastor in Mt. Juliet pop 39k)

Morning everyone, buenos días a todos, bonjour a tous.

This is a #ThrowbackThursday #TBThursday #Tbt and a #thirsttrapThursday also... From some summers ago at the #nudistbeach down my house. Nowadays you can still go #naked there but it has been invaded by dressed people so it is a bummer.

The previous homeowners had plastic grass in this planter, and I always thought about replacing it with real plants. 10+ years later, I finally did it. Fittonia and sansevieria. The sansevieria are tiny propagated babies right now and I’m looking forward to seeing them grow. #Houseplants

At five years old, I couldn't grasp the concept of a scapegoat; all I understood was that, because of Japan’s aggression that pulled the United States into the war, my family and I had to leave our home at gunpoint, taking with us only what we could carry. As I got older, I understood scapegoating for what it is: a channel for hate, blame, and bigotry.

My lifelong mission has been preventing this from happening again, yet my heart aches as the LGBTQ+ community faces it now. We've fought for our rights to live, love, and be ourselves—a vibrant, misunderstood, and often mistreated rainbow of identities.

I have seen where scapegoating, if left unchallenged, leads. And it is a very dark place. This week, I chose to share my story with you in the hopes that we never repeat the heinous mistakes of the past. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/takei-scapegoating-lgbtq-japanese-internment

This is Arp 271, a pair of spiral galaxies locked in a gravitational dance. In a few billion years the #MilkyWay and the Andromeda galaxy might look like this!

This is the very last #photo ever taken with the VIMOS instrument at ESO's Very Large #Telescope in #Chile, back in 2018. After I finished the decommissioning procedures that night, I decided to take one last image as a farewell, and this was the result.

➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1821a/

#astrodon #astronomy #space #astrophotography