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

Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) worked closely with Martin Luther King Jr. for decades as a planner of the Montgomery bus boycott and as the primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington. A confidant and adviser, he introduced MLK to Gandhi’s principles of nonviolent resistance. His role in the civil rights movement was largely relegated to the background, however, because he was gay. In the 1980s, he became a public advocate for gay and other human rights. #BlackFriday #LGBTQ

So, I'm finding out the hard way that if you start a new Mastodon server, nobody can find you.

This is a shameless request for some boosts so some of the bigger instances see me.

#mastodon #twittermigration #mastodonserver #findme #helpimtrappedinawell #imlonely

How about this Christmas you try to worry less about getting what you want, and more about wanting what you already have?

To Recap:
•72% of GA WW voted for Kemp over Abrams—a Black woman
•57% of NC WW voted for Budd over Beasley—a Black woman
•57% of FL WW voted for Rubio over Demings—a Black woman

But right now as Black women on TikTok follow other BW for solidarity—WW are outraged b/c apparently that's unfair to WW🤦🏽‍♂️

Imagine denying incredible BW access to the halls of power, but feeling discriminated against because you're not centered in a conversation on a social media app. smh we have work to do y'all.

My dog came back in from the evening’s bio breaks in record time tonight. I’m sure that had nothing to do with it being 16 degrees outside.

#SanAntonio #Texas #OddBits

"This is just like 1987!" I scream at the shocked city council.

"What, you've never even read the book, by George Orville?!"

Hi Mastodon! Well I reached 100,000 followers! Thank you so much, I love you all!
As promised, I have brought the mighty Mastodon back from extinction, so watch out! They’re out there stomping around and tooting like crazy! 💨

A week ago I wrote about how the black lives matter movement wasn't exactly new-- how it was linked to a longer history of police brutality and fighting back against that brutality.

One of the most difficult things to understand about racism in America is how few of the worst atrocities are recorded, well known, brought to justice.

A story my dad told me made this terribly clear. 🧵

Oh, I have to hear that Elon Twitter spaces Tesla shareholders, meeting audio.

Muslim mathematician Muhammad ibn Musa Al-Khwarizmi is known as “The Father of Algebra” so here's a "halal" way to say Merry Christmas to our Christian friends :)

I'll have to try this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Do not get these confused.

They’d better call the first designer baby Gene Hackman.

As I sit here with a log crackling in the fireplace, absentmindedly stroking the dog's head, my eyes are drawn to the handmade stockings hanging from the mantel, then to the tree, with its myriad sparkling lights, and I think to myself, boy, would my rabbi be disappointed in me.

when you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you because the abyss has to poop