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

Democracy Rule of 80:
Every 80 years without fail America has had to overcome authoritarianism. In the 1780’s it was a monarchy. In the 1860’s it was insurrectionists trying to establish a slave-based empire in the Americas. In the 1940’s it was global fascists with supporters on our own shores. And in the 2020’s it is a global push for authoritarianism. Why 80 years? Maybe because most who witnessed and stopped it the last time have passed. Now it’s our turn to save and renew Democracy.

Despite abundant evidence to the contrary, people don’t seem to understand that today’s “conservatives” actually do run psyops… as do hostile foreign governments.

Biden’s too old, Trudeau *can’t* win another election, and a thousand other talking points are fed to us to keeps people divided, to stop us from talking about what really matters - our plans, our values, what we have and will accomplish - and to create the hopeless apathy that keeps voters home on election day.

#ABPoli #CDNPoli

“You don’t turn your back because of ONE performance! What kind of Party does that? It’s been a masterclass. 15.6 million jobs…the only thing the last 3 Republican presidents have in common is RECESSIONS…This President has DELIVERED.”

—California Governor Gavin Newsom on President Joe Biden, last week

https://tinyurl.com/cyaazdpu

#MAGA #SCOTUS #Project2025

My camera stopped working today. At 1st I thought it was my wildlife lens but now it's a problem w/ all my lenses. I had issues 2 yrs ago. Back then the repair cost was cheap.

Just checked my shutter count (it's insane I can't get that info from the camera). It's a whopping 182,317. I think the useful life for my Nikon model is 100,000.

Question (for photographers only, please):

If you had limited funds would you use for repair? Or would you buy a new camera?

Please boost.

248 years ago tomorrow America declared independence from a tyrannical king, and now Donald Trump and his allies want to make him one at our expense.

HELL NO!

#WeBackBidenHarris
Video shows Project 2025 planning a bloodless coup against our Democracy.

A rainy night in Savannah from the archives. ❤️

Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/the-historic-savannah-theatre-mark-tisdale.html

and on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1742079362/savannah-theatre-art-print-savannah

#DigitalArt #Savannah #Georgia #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #FediGiftShop #MarkOnArt

Fun fact: it turns out it doesn't matter if you have a 2.4 gigapixel camera if you LEAVE THE LENSCAP ON

The New York Times normalizes extremism again, this time finding a "both sides" way to ponder the corrupt Supreme Court's overturning of the rule of law, by giving presidents (well, Trump anyway) total immunity from prosecution for crimes they commits in office.

This may be a new low in the Times' democracy-who-cares era.

#MAGA #Project2025 #StopProject2025 #scotus

@GatekeepKen @msnbc @NYT MSM is in the pocket for whoever is pushing Trumpie down our throats. I call it the "Hillary" treatment! They have LOST all credibility. Trust your own common sense and instincts. Trumpie & cronies have shown you who they are, LISTEN to their own words, look at his past actions and VOTE for sanity, not hype!

In some ways, it looks like something from a Sci-Fi movie, except that, rather than being dystopian, it is a rugged, wild landscape of silence, shadows and light, rich color, and timeless beauty.

To live in a place like this would be challenging, but to visit it, to even know that it exists, is a privilege.

It is, indeed, as if the gods lived here.

Valley of the Gods canvas print -- https://2-steve-henderson.pixels.com/featured/valley-of-the-gods-steve-henderson.html?product=canvas-print

#nature #utah #travel #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #landscape #sunset

@Melissabeartrix the build quality of Chinese brand EVs is excellent, and they are way cheaper

Under the weight of all this crushing Fascism, I want to remind everyone that I’m a badly underfunded teacher in a badly underfunded alternative school in the poorest city in New England. I could use your support to continue helping kids prepare for this fucking awful world that is being dropped on them.

https://www.patreon.com/PunkPedagogy/posts

Here’s a couple of my students building a hot air balloon together. The one holding it just graduated and is headed to college!