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

A reminder: some states (including Nebraska) have enacted voter ID laws since the last election.

Make sure you have a legal ID so you can vote.

Make sure your voter registration has your current address.

Make sure you're still registered, even.

DO IT NOW.

Edit: https://www.vote.org/voter-registration-deadlines/

#uspol

for those still unsure, the National Center for Transgender Equality (which ran the 2022 US Trans Survey I’ve talked about) and the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund combined to form Advocates for Trans Equality

and they just released this

https://transequality.org/news/advocates-trans-equality-endorses-vice-president-kamala-harris-president

"especially for those in the news industry – who might actually benefit from what the New York Times Editorial Board considered an 'exciting' contested Democratic convention.

Glaringly, Black women were missing from the calls for Biden to step aside. The graphics showing the legislators calling for Biden to step aside were telling. Most were men. All were white."

#KamalaHarris #Biden #media
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"Perhaps what needled me more than anything was that most of the people publicly calling for Joe to step aside were white men, or folks in the so-called 'donor class,' or members of the punditry. Folks who certainly want to win, and who would certainly suffer under a Republican administration, but who wouldn’t feel the full brunt of Project 2025 and –"

~ Michele Hornish

#KamalaHarris #Biden #media
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/the-grassroots-speaks-with-a-unified

#Ukraine

Via Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz
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Modern Turing test

MAGA is going to have an absolute conniption fit in November when, according to Constitutional law, and in front of Congress, Vice President Kamala Harris certifies the electoral win of President Kamala Harris.

This is my candidate for best headline from the US presidential race so far:

A wide ask here so please boost: my grandfather is trying to get rid of an old business computer, and I was wondering whether any vintage computer people might want it. It was purchased for $50k from The Ultimate Corporation in the early 80s. This ran the Pick operating system, and my best guess is the hardware was originally manufactured by GE or Honeywell. It's about the size of a half-rack and currently lives in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. It has sat covered in plastic in a chemical warehouse for the past 35 years. Where do people usually post stuff like this other than here? Thanks!

#RetroComputing

I knocked over a plant in the kitchen, but my cat saw me, so I had to spray myself with water to show that the law applies to everyone.

No movie has ever grossed this much money at the US-Canada box office in under 36 hours. No movie anywhere. And this is REAL LIFE. This is US. We are writing and making HERSTORY. We must vote like we’ve never voted before for it November 5. WE WILL WIN. SHE WILL WIN. #Harris2024 #kamalaharris #harris #vote

Register: https://vote.org

Mastodon for Harris has surpassed $40,000 raised, with 600 contributions ranging from $1 to significantly more. I have increased the goal to $45,000 - considered $50,000 but I hardly dare to think we could raise that in under two days.

The boosts and posts spreading the word are so helpful. And thanks non-U.S. friends and followers for tolerating all the U.S. politics in their feeds.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

On 23 July, 2006, my oldest son, Ryan, deployed to SW Asia, called me. His vehicle was in a convoy on its way to Mosul, where I’d been in 2004.
Despite being just weeks from coming home, the kid volunteered for the mission because, he said, he wanted to see some of what I’d seen in northern Iraq. Then, he had to go and said “I love you, dad.” Those were the last words my oldest son ever said to me. A little more than a week later, Ryan was KIA.
#Coping
#Grief
#Dates
#PTS

"Harris Leads In New Survey After Biden Drops Out."

NEW Reuters/Ipsos poll:

TWO-WAY
Kamala Harris 44%
Donald Trump 42%

THREE-WAY
Kamala Harris 42%
Donald Trump 38%
RFK Jr. 8%

Democrats are in array.

Republicans are regrouping.

#Harris2024💙#ImWithHer #VoteBlueDownBallot

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-vs-harris-2024-polls-harris-leads-in-new-survey-after-biden-drops-out/ar-BB1qv7uq?ocid=BingNewsSerp

What To Do When People Post Good News or Something Positive:

Favorite or Boost

Leave a nice Comment

Scroll past and do nothing

Literally nothing else!!!

We all know life is hard, and plenty of other bad things exist. Allow people to enjoy their moments not suffocated by fear and anxiety. Hope is important, stop shaming them for it.

Hey folks, I’m on a new instance using GotoSocial and having issues migrating from my other instance.

Would you mind sharing this post so I can federate and regain connections? Thanks!

#AskFedi #Federation #GotoSocial

Whatever your political goals are, who's more likely to be able to be swayed in your direction, Trump or Harris? What are the odds?

For anything I care about, the odds of me doing anything to change Trump's mind is zero. For Harris, it's a small, but non-zero value. Mystery third option is unknown, but unlikely to be meaningfully greater than with Harris.

So I've got either:
1) 50% chance of having no influence
2) 50% chance of having a marginal influence
3) ?????