ScottinSoCal ๐บ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ณโ๐ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
We enjoyed several #monarch butterflies last year. The milkweed all survived the winter, so we're looking forward to more this year. This one crawled onto my hand to expand its wings and let them harden - it tested my patience to hold still that long.
Brand new eclosure in the front yard. Small, but healthy. #monarch #butterfly #garden #photography
My cartoon in today's @NZStuff & in print The Dominion Post and Waikato Times and syndicated across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Another devastating loss for people displaced by Cyclone Gabriel.
#CycloneGabriel #NoPets #Trauma #Heartbreak #Aotearoa #NZ #ClimateCrisis #NewZealand
What GOP will regulate:
โขGunsโ
โขBanksโ
โขRailroadsโ
โขMortgagesโ
โขFood & waterโ
โขToxic dumpingโ
โขCarbon emissionsโ
โขCOVID safety rulesโ
โขBillionaire tax ratesโ
โขCampaign donationsโ
โขDialogue on racismโ
โขWomenโs bodiesโ
โขContraceptionโ
โขHistory booksโ
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Dogs are pack animals, and physical contact is incredibly important to them. You're the pack leader, and she wants to always know you're there, even when she's asleep.
QAnon manages to fold nearly everything in the news into their conspiracy theories, so that's just business as usual for them.
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says Feds Wonโt Bail Out Silicon Valley Bank
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(QAnon thinks this is evidence proving their conspiracy about the entire banking systemโs imminent collapse, so thatโs annoying, but whatever
https://www.thedailybeast.com/treasury-secretary-janice-yellen-says-feds-wont-bail-out-silicon-valley-bank?via=ios
Park nearby I donโt get to often. Itโs #silentsunday, #springflowers
8 years of missing you, Dad. This photo makes me laugh because itโs so decidedly un-Pratchetty. Weโre looking in the same direction & thereโs hugging (ish.) Itโs the kind of pic that, in a movie, one or other of us would look at wistfully before tooling up to go rescue the other one #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname
What Iโm hearing about Thiel & croniesโ role in the SVB crash sounds like another instance of how multi-billionaires are essentially potential Bond Villains but they donโt need a doomsday device beyond their own greed โฆ they can do enormous damage just by weaponizing finance.
If you gave billionaires 2 trillion in tax cuts 4 years ago, YOU need to pay your bills. You donโt get to leave the poor and working families holding the bag. #VoteBlue2024
If your friend is offended by it, he/she should say something. If I said that to one of my friends, we'd both laugh about it.
i said "look who the cat dragged in" to my friend before when he appearead unexpectedly and only now I learned that the saying is actually ironic and a bit unwelcoming.
i feel like a piece of shit.
In a contract review meeting with a new-but-well-known company wanting to buy something from the company I work for:
Me: This section on data deliverables is vague. It says you want data delivered with each item, but it doesn't define what data you want.
Them: Oh, you know, just what you'd normally put in.
Me: Contracts are usually pretty detailed about this. Are there any specific requirements?
Them: Um, not really. Just whatever would normally be delivered.
Yeah. Sure.
Wait wait wait wait
Let me get this straight...
LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"
Really?
In every dream I've had of flying, it's always felt like a muscle I had to tighten in my brain that allowed me to fly. I'd just lift up and soar, and I was never afraid, even though IRL I'm terrified of heights.
I can neither confirm nor deny that I've tried to do the same thing while I was awake.
I'm somewhat jealous (but not too much, because I never had to worry about income.) I work in what was defined as a "critical industry", so we never closed.
I did get two 14-day "work from remote" stints, before the vaccine and tests were available.
I just realized that today is the third anniversary of our first day in โquarantineโ when my husband and I mostly just put on dumb outfits and got as weird as possible to kill time.
We lived in a tiny condo and our only outdoor space was our parking space, so weโd go have picnics in our parking space or use it to pretend like we were on vacation in Vegas to terrify our friends by making them think we were being super reckless.
We also bought a selfie stick to pretend like we were on vacation in our tiny apartment which is pretty much the only way Iโd ever justify using a selfie stick.
TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!
Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!
Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!
Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- ล ฤลลงลง ฤ - ๐บ๐ฆ ๐
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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