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

@Ulrich_the_Elder I live in Sweden and we have a lot of free or almost free services. We have affordable healthcare, free healthcare for children, social security etc.

A visit to the ER costs $30. Same cost for an ambulance ride. There is a yearly max cost for prescriptions of around $230. There's also a maximum cost of visits to doctors etc of $130.

I've never heard of a Swede who went bankrupt due to health care bills.

It’s the media stupid.
For two years all I hear about was her emails, yup the ones that led to zero crimes and zero charges.
Now that trump has admitted to espionage, the same media can barely be bothered to report about it.
A fascist traitor who killed a million people, tried to steal an election, attacked the Capitol and committed grave crimes against America; is free to run for president again. Something is very wrong with a country that would allow this.

This is what allyship looks like.

@bioluminescently @actuallyautistic Oooh thank you for sharing this! I will check it out! My book also has a list of resources that this website is perfect for.

Do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades consider themselves to have a "low" pain tolerance, but in fact, have been shown to have a high one?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

We have a houseguest, and she turns out to be Right Wing. She's my wife's friend, but I could not stay silent. She had started in with J about the "Border Crisis" and J shut that right down, to her credit, but I felt it wasn't enough.

I told our guest about a fascinating book I was reading, that it was good, but traumatic. It was about the Mezote Massacre in El Salvador, and how soldiers trained by the C.I.A. to prevent leftist incursion, were told to frighten the villagers, and instead, tortured and murdered 800 to 1000 people.

Then I left the room.

She hasn't said anything along those lines since.

I think we have to speak up, even when it's uncomfortable or might be seen as "impolite."

T'challa by Tina Lawson ✊🏿 #blackwomen #blackartist #blackhair #melaninmagic #blackjoy #blackhistory #blackfuturity #blackmastodon #blackfediverse #blackfedi #blackfriday

happy pride! by law you have to boost every 🏳️‍⚧️ woman and also tell me I’m cute (sorry I don’t make the rules)

It's funny how we let dogs into our homes/lives. They've got big teeth; big heavy paws with claws. They used to be dangerous.

But I'm doting on this guy, calling him Schmoopie face and Bubba and Fartacus. Diligently feeding him treats by hand, checking his ears, teeth and poops. Wiping his ouchie spots. Leaning over him as he sleeps, watching his chest rise and fall, listening to him snore. The only person I do this for is my 79 yo father. After heart surgery.

We probably have a lot of conditions for the people we let into our lives.

But dogs...we open our hearts wide. We scoop them up and never look back. We take their love and run.

#dogs
#dogsOfBayArea #DogsOfMastodon
#BensonUpdate

One of the tough things about being Black in tech is that you can be outstanding in your field yet be treated quite poorly due to unconscious bias.

People interpret rules more strictly or differently than they ever have before just for you. And pointing out potential bias just creates new problems.

https://thephd.dev/i-am-no-longer-speaking-at-rustconf-2023

My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.

Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.

It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography

@ScottSoCal
Agreed. Aside from his power to invoke the amendment there was also the very real problem that the courts could delay its implementation just long enough to get in on causing a default.

@ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es @dougiec3@libretooth.gr The other simple fact is that budgets between now and 2025 will have GOP input. I don't love that, but that's reality. Biden didn't give up anything that wasn't a fait accompli.

@PatternChaser @Pathfinder @Zumbador @actuallyautistic the only thought i have is that knowing i was autistic didnt help make me less embarassed.