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

@cstross I live in Norway; socialism is the air I breathe 😁

We’ve got most of the same underlying issues of modern democracy yet to be solved over here as well (money in politics, no ranked-choice voting, billionaires, overconsumption..), but at least we’re long past debating whether or not the job of the state is to keep its citizens educated, healthy and safe.

**** Elon's Soviet style post-event alteration of Twitter policy to attack NPR ****

Let's be clear what just happened. Elon Musk apparently was unhappy about at least one NPR story. So he arbitrarily slapped NPR with the "state affiliated media" label usually reserved for propaganda outlets under government editorial control like Russia's RT and the Chinese Communist Party newspaper. NPR only gets a tiny percentage of its funding from the government, which conservatives have long been trying to zero out completely. Voice of America, BBC, and "Stars and Stripes" are not so designated, despite being under government editorial control.

Worse, Elon *retroactively* moved after the fact to specifically remove NPR from the section of Twitter policy that explained that outlets like BBC and NPR were not considered to be government-affiliated media.

He continues to respond to official queries with a poop emoji.

No media organization or advertiser is safe dealing with him. Nor is the U.S. government. End these relationships as quickly as practicable, before you regret being in bed with his twisted sensibilities.

#AmazingUkraine
#Odessa

Wisconsin Hit By The Biggest, Bluest Wave Ever https://crooksandliars.com/2023/04/wisconsin-hit-biggest-bluest-wave-ever?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Russian media reports that Cisco destroyed the equipment worth almost 1.9 billion rubles that it had to leave behind before closing its business in Russia.

Cisco,. You did a fine thing.

I see you
#dogsofmastodon
#Mondog

Wednesday....pssst..your 'n' is in the wrong place, I think.

I love that our idea of what Raptors looked like, was somehow way less cartoonish than the reality.

This scary boi looks like he just saw some Froot Loops, and he's got to follow his nose.

The earth laughs in flowers-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shop Wall Art Home Decor: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/growing-up-happy-painterly-style-joseph-s-giacalone.html
#springtime #springforart #ayearforart #flowers #flowers #floralphotography #meditative #NaturePhotography #PeaceAndLove #painterly #photopainting #mastoart

This is "Corona Zephyr Keyboard": a handsome old typewriter I wanted to capture it in gritty, moody black-and-white. Also a great greeting card! Available here in multiple forms form my Pixels gallery: https://jon-woodhams.pixels.com/featured/corona-zephyr-keyboard-jon-woodhams.html #PhotographyIsArt #ArtPhotography #ContemporaryArt #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #AYearForArt #MastoArt #FediGiftShop #Artprints #prints #TheArtDistrict #SpringIntoArt #BuyIntoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #ArtForInteriorDesign #ArtForInteriorDesigners #BlackAndWhite

Again, the reason as to why Cotham switched is either so impressively unethical or so cynically banal (or both!) that it has to be discovered
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RT @AndySpecht
As a Democrat, @triciacotham accused the GOP of "wanting to play doctor," saying "my womb and my uterus is not up for your political grab."

As a Republican, Cotham is now telling @WBTV_News she's open to supporting new abortion restrictions in North Carolina. #ncpol
https://twitter.com/AndySpecht/status/1643617411332034560

“They are now coming after a former president of the US. If they come after him. I promise you, they will come after you.”
~ Kyle Rittenhouse, on Twitter 4/4/23

Rittenhouse,
You Kool-Aid-besotted clown, go pound sand. I’m a Black man living in the United States of America. “They” have been coming after me since centuries before I was born.

Shut up and sit down. Read a respectable history book, you little shit. You don’t know anything other than breaking the law and getting away with it.
#Trump

There's not a doubt in my mind that if Mr. Rodgers had known about trans kids, he would have invited them onto his show, shown them love, and taught a lesson to all of his viewers about pronouns.

@QasimRashid

To recap: Republican forced pregnancy and the criminalization of women is as popular as a foot-blister, and the GOP attempt to recreate support with "hey lets hate homos again" is greasing their exit chute.

Wave bye bye to the GOP, this is their last hurrah.

We're Going. To. Kick. Them. Out. ⚽

Meet Kaipo. We're officially a two golden retriever family now.

#goldenretriever #puppy #dogsofmastodon #dogs