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

good morning my friend just sent me this and now I have faith in the future again 😂

“It’s on the banks, it was in the soil, it was in the vegetation. You would pull up vegetation and there were pellets embedded all in the roots. It was unbelievable.”

Longtime Gulf Coast activist Diane Wilson just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her long-time fight against Formosa #Plastics. Our #Environment Writer @delger asked what's next: https://www.texasobserver.org/diane-wilson-goldman-environmental-prize-seadrift/

#news #Texas #GulfCoast #ClimateChange #pollution #water #politics #USpol

@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic I have similar reasons to smile as I look back, but it got even better after I went back to coding for a (serious) hobby.

My highlight was having lunch with the inventor of the web in his local pub, just me and him, as he likes to meet in person rather than just collaborate online. I was working on something to do with his project Solid.

Nothing I did is in space yet, but I got back to doing some code this morning, so who knows. 😄

🎶 i'm not internationally known

@StillIRise1963 @Steve

Not only that, but when the news has to appeal to popularity for clicks and views, it ceases to be news.

There is really absolutely no need for 24 hour news networks. They are mostly a cancer on public discourse. And, frankly, they repeat the same shit all day. Only they do so in huge swaths of pundit segments and silly talk shows.

They aren't news. And when something big breaks, they cut into their programs just like any other station can.

24 hour networks seem to exist, mostly, for bored politicos and terminally online types. It's almost like they try to project this air of always giving news, when, in reality, they just recycle the same points dozens of times an hour, for hours on end, in between viagra commercials.

I can't say this country seems better informed or more civic minded than I remember it being before the rise of infotainment and 24 hour news channels. In fact, it seems much worse off.

@ScottSoCal Actually Goldwater kicked off the Southern Strategy before Nixon. Has been a long haul degradation & seems there's no bottom as MTG is now in full control [of McCarthy as puppet.]

Growing up, my Math teacher said I was average.

That was just mean.

@ScottSoCal agreed...just quoting author. But in context of the 'conservative mindset' today, it's not such a stretch to characterize the Reagan Era POV as about 'optimism & responsibility' as compared to the now Republican base: extremist evangelical, anti-human rights, violence forward, QAnon believing, lie-championing, & Russia-sympathizing/supporting.

@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic that's cool. I had similar, found computers at the end of the seventies and my interest became the path to my career.

The current Supreme Court lacks credibility. It operates in secrecy without a Code of Ethics, a majority of its members were appointed by Presidents who lost the popular vote, and Clarence Thomas’ behavior reveals a culture of corruption. There are solutions if there is political will:
- Code of Ethics
- Require disclosure of all gifts
- Require release of tax returns before and during tenure
- Expand the Court to 13
- Term limits
#supremecourt #politics #USpol

Bit of a long shot, but could my good mastodon follower folk give me some boosts?

I'm starting work on a documentary podcast series about the future of space; renewable/sustainable technologies, commercialism in the sector and the public's perception of it all.

I'm hoping to connect with people who know space to complement my client's contacts, so any signal boosting would be appreciated!

I want to tell parents of trans kids under attack in the red states something:

This is simply horrifying. Like you, we can't understand how any politicians could stoop so low as to attack the most vulnerable among us.

You are strong, and we will fight for and beside you. And though we may lose these initial battles, your love and strength will help win this in the end. I know that to be true.

Don't let the mainstream media twist the narrative. They need their story. They need the drama and conflict. In their business model of profit over truth and the public interest, they are only in search of revenue-generation.

#BidenHarris2024

The 2024 race for the WH & Congress will literally be the race between Democracy vs Fascism
The past 2 yrs makes I even easier to make my choice:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/therecord/
#BidenHarris2024
#VoteBlueToSaveDemocracy