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
Letters from an American
May 5, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
MAY 6, 2023
Todayโs job numbers came in higher than expected, with the U.S. adding 253,000 nonfarm jobs in April. Unemployment fell yet again, to 3.4%, matching a rate not seen since 1969. Black unemployment is at an all-time low of 4.7%. For Hispanics itโs 4.4%, and for Asian Americans, 2.8%. The rate for adult women is 3.1%. Average hourly wages rose 0.5%.
This good economic news didnโt come from nowhere. The Biden administration has focused on building infrastructure, bringing supply chains home, and bolstering new manufacturing. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Act, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act have invested in workers.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/may-5-2023?r=fyvv4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
56 years ago, a young woman secretly jumped onto the road to run the Boston Marathon.
Girls were thought too weak to run that distance. We could spend 15 hours in labor, but were too weak to run 26.2 miles. 
Kathrine Switzer paved the way for me to take up marathon running, which I did for a number of years.
She had fortitude.
And she insisted on wearing her lipstick - which I did, too.
Thank you, Kathrine!
https://kathrineswitzer.com/1967-boston-marathon-the-real-story
A #London scene that I did about four years ago. Yes, I think I've mentioned I need a 12 step for Red Phone Boxes. LOL
Find prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/london-under-the-stars-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print
#BigBen #TelephoneBox #PhoneBooth #UK #British #MastoArt #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt #DigitalArt #Painting
@ScottSoCal
Yeah it's fun and cute but it's a toy. Plus it probably would not be protected by copyright since it was not written by a human.
@Richard_Littler
Objectively, I have no issue with that, and I'd add some kind of balancing tariff, like the US had for phone service. Everyone with a phone paid a small fee to build and expand phone service in rural areas, where the cost to provide service would make it out of reach.
But the conservatives (Republicans for me, Tories for you) would never let that stand.
I want to set out the ideas I would vote for and hope to spark a reasoned, polite debate.
Principle 1
"All services and products essential to the functioning of our society and the wellbeing of the population should be in public ownership, not for profit and all surpluses reinvested to improve the service to the consumer. That's health, education, finance, energy, water, broadband, communications, transport etc. with no opportunity for private profiteering."
Discuss ๐
#ukpolitics
@Vopo @Richard_Littler @actuallyautistic
I asked an AI to create an article about ESD sensitivity (something I do for work, and have done for a couple of decades). It started out all right, then went off on some weird tangent that had little or nothing to do with ESD, and ended with something about paranormal activity.
Not exactly something I'd present to a room full of PhDs and EEs.
The yogurt is looking a little furry. Best to avoid it.
Iโve been standing in front of my refrigerator looking for something to eat since 1993.
re: Nail discussion
@yam@strangeobject.space
I spend most of my day in front of a computer, and if I forget to clip my nails the repetitive impact does start to hurt. I carry a nail kit in my backpack for those times.
Have you ever come up with an original way of doing something, only to be told it wonโt work?
image: @lifeinanautismworld
Today is the 109th birthday of #ViolaFletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. It is also the day the City of Tulsa and other defendants once again try to dismiss her case for #reparations. #BlackMastodon
Blind woman born and raised in Nebraska, now living in Baltimore where I work as the Education Programs Coordinator for @nationsblind. I love to sing and am trying to figure out how music fits into my life. Also into #knitting, cooking, and baking, and have managed to keep my pandemic #sourdough starter alive and rising decent bread. I enjoy creating things from scratch, dreaming about future possibilities, and working to make dreams reality. #introductions
๐ Hi! I'm Jamie, a trans fem cyberpunk fox girl! I'm a Synthwave musician, photographer, fursuiter, latex enthusiast, Twitch streamer, and retro computer dabbler. Welcome!
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Support!
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#introduction #introductions
Wikipedia swearing but justified
"Bullshit asymmetry principle" - OK this is my favourite @wikipedia phrase this week
The only freedom you have in Texas is the freedom to murder a lot of people quickly.
Why aren't non-religious people screaming at school boards and using the rights anti-trans and anti-"CRT" technique to get rid of religion in schools. Our side plays way too nice with people who only know how to be horrible assholes. It's time we stop worrying about their feeling or what the right-wing media will say and just f'n stand up against Christian fascism. #boycottTexas
cant overstate how easy it is to explain adults doing consensual weird stuff in public to kids. "oh some people like doing that!", you're done. everything that adults do is fucking deranged nonsense to kids, going to work makes no sense, it's not hard to explain at all. you want something hard to explain to kids, try death!
- 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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