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

i think one of the biggest reccuring flaws i see in people i meet is that they form an opinion or feel entitled to say something about a subject before they even researched this subject properly.

people who claim communism won't work because of ussr don't know that ussr wasn't really communist at all, and there are leftist models of society that are vastly different from it

people who think that blm is a racist organization wanting special rights haven't researched black history

The Supreme Court won’t say whether it questioned justices and their spouses about the Dobbs leak. No wonder the court’s credibility is in freefall. If the court didn’t question Clarence and Ginni Thomas, it’s because the court didn’t want to know the truth.

Isn’t “hands on the wheel and be able to take over in case the machine does something wrong” *more* stressful and cognitively difficult than just… driving?

I was looking at other dogs on the internet.

I have a question for people using screen readers (boosts appreciated).

I make jokes and usually use a "*" to differentiate between stuff that is happening and what the person is saying. And sometimes I use square brackets to describe the setting of a scene. For example in this one:
https://ohai.social/@cookie_mumbles@ohai.social/109382171180214977

What do people who use screen readers prefer? My phone's voice-over doesn't pronounce quotation marks or square brackets but I do like to make the context clear somehow that's not annoying

I have sychic powers.

Eg. You're now thinking, "it's spelt psychic, moron."

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#dadjokes

“My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.”

Frank Zappa

@trumpet Looks like a suspect server.

Which Trump backed MAGA politico is more of an embarrassment?

A. Dick groping closeted gay homophobic fake religious Matt Schlapp
B. Shape shifting closeted drag queen serial liar, fraud, thief George Santos

STOP USING “REFUTES” AS A SYNONYM FOR “DENIES.” I just saw a headline claiming George Santos “refutes” new allegations against him. Needless to say, he hasn’t refuted anything. He’s denied allegations, and is almost certainly lying. Sloppy usage misleads readers.

@lain tru?

Everyone else's cats play, and fetch, and chase lasers...

Mine are like "Fuck you. Pet me."

Boop my dog’s nose. #dogsofmastodon