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

Made myself a desktop background out of the upcoming app icon. Sharing for anyone else that wants to use it.

High resolution:
https://d.pr/i/6wDaBv

If the Right ever succeeded in getting queer people out of public life they would immediately switch their rhetoric to talking about how suspicious it is that the gays are all hiding who they are from honest Americans

*to the tune of Shout by Tears For Fears*

Cat
cat
Little potat
He wants to know where the treats are at
Come one
He's meowing at you
Come on

I live in a relatively poor, conservative and LGBTQ-phobic country but to be honest the US still seems like a dystopia in comparison whenever I hear about what's going on there.

Everything I'm not:

#punk

My husband also likes pools. For example, here he is in the pool and he’s just been chilling like that for hours.

Spring

"Stupid cabbage."

- me, a very smart and capable person, after pulling the cabbage out of the fridge by the wrong end of the produce bag and then bobbling the cabbage as it fell out until it dropped to the floor and then going to pick up the cabbage but bobbling it again and then accidentally kicking the cabbage across the floor

I, for one, am someone who’s become even more liberal as I grow older. #MyGeneration

https://mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/109388786354322429

I work on #Excel, and this still cracks me up every time I see it

@ChrisMayLA6

👆 I've worked at many management levels in "the thing" in which I supposedly have "expertise". I wouldn't even TRY in anything else.

I have 1,000x the experience, detailed knowledge, insight and 'feel' for the 1 "thing" than I have for *anything* else (which, in practice, means *everything* else).

Having expertise in 1 thing informs you as to how NOT EXPERT you are in everything else; or at least it should, if you're doing it right...

In 1968, at 30 years old, Lynn Conway transitioned. In doing so she lost her wife, her children, and her job at IBM. She continued on, living authentically as her true self and continued her career as an electral engineer. In 1978 she became an associate professor at MIT and taught a course in VLSI (very large scale integration) that became the basis of the Mead-Conway VLSI Design Methodology, changing how we design integrated circuits. In 1985 she became a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, and later the associate dean of engineering.

32 years after transitioning, Conway came out publicly as a transgender woman. Since than she has been a advocate for transgender people in the tech sector. In 2020 IBM formally apologized for firing Conway for being trans, over 50 years after the fact. Just a bit of #transHistory I learned today.

#history

Banning books that show Michelangelo's David's penis makes perfect sense when you remember that this country was founded by sexually repressed ideologues who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean because the Catholic Church and the Church of England weren't sufficiently conservative for their tastes— and upon arrival to North America, engaged in genocide at continental scale

I'll take it

Thanks to some weird conversation with @the_etrain I am inspired to watch #bullDurham tonight!

I actually have this on DVD (crazy right?) if anyone else has access to this movie via any medium and wants to do a lil co-watch party let me know.

It is 4:30pm my time (EST) and can start it anytime in the next 3hrs.

Ping me if yer down and I will wait for ya!

#slugLife #couchWarriors