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

@lpdahl2 I never expect anything less from Chunk Toad.

After all, if Rethugs are held accountable for their crimes, whoever will he keep booking for his useless driveling show?

So Marjorie Terminal Grievances is now calling for insurrection 2.0, but with guns.

Egads, these mediocre, angry, lost white folks.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-makes-shocking-comments-about-armed-jan-6-if-i-organized-it-we-would-have-won/

Remember folks, he has a trans daughter.

I've been away from twitter for two weeks. And have ZERO regrets for that decision.

ME: Is the fish here boned before cooking?

WAITER: That's just an ugly rumor, and anyway we fired that chef last week.

ME: ...what?

Aaaand we are still masking in indoor public spaces ... Never stopped

Transphobia and COVID denial in a single tweet. Words like these get people killed. We so urgently need to build more just and accountable online spaces.

#Twitter #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #COVID #PublicHealth

Rather than spend $8 on an an antisemitic, Covid-denying homophobe, why not spend $5 instead to support my ongoing Ukraine war updates & humanitarian fundraising ($80,000 raised to date), which I’ve been doing non-stop and full-time since Russia invaded? https://www.patreon.com/aravosis/membership

@QasimRashid the "Happy Holidays" was a trend to help non-christians feel welcome and included in the Christmas spirit like every Christmas special claims is a major point of the holiday. It was instantly shouted down by evangelical Christians and supremacists who wanted to draw very clear lines of who is not welcome and Fox uses the "war" to pull the battle in every year and push more "others" out

They should call themselves “alfalfa males” because everything about them is pretty much eventually horseshit.

Let’s be clear. There’s no “war on Christmas” and no one is trying to ban saying “merry Christmas.”
Case in point. I'm Muslim. It doesn't offend me when people wish me Merry Christmas. Offensive is when MAGA politicians brandish weapons of war while kids are shot dead in school and claim that's the Christmas spirit.

If you don't get why that's a problem, y'all need Jesus, and common sense.

My grandfather, #KarlWeingberger, who died from sepsis OTD in 1941. He had been a highly respected lawyer in Würzburg, Germany. My grandmother, Ruth and two young children were deported to #Auschwitz in 1943. My mother had escaped on the #Kindertransport and was the only one of the family to survive. @auschwitzmuseum

A relative of mine, at least we think of him as such.

Fell down in the care home he lives at and couldn't get back up, he's only in his early 50s and in general is quite healthy. He's slightly intellectually disabled.

He was taken to hospital where they found he has covid.

He was able to ring my cousin, but his speech was slurred.

A Nurse told my Cousin that "It's not looking good".

I don't know much more than that.

Wear your masks.

We've progressed to the, white people demanding Brittney Griner needs to be shamed, part of the racist wing-nut pandering to its bigot base...part of our program..

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jesse-watters-wonders-if-brittney-griner-is-proud-of-being-responsible-for-freeing-the-merchant-of-death/

“Watch what you say,
they’ll be calling you a radical,
a liberal,
fanatical, criminal.”

Supertramp. The Logical Song. 1979.

Kyrsten Sinema single-handedly stopped Democrats from ending a tax break for hedge-fund managers and private equity executives.

Meanwhile, she received ~$1 million in donations from Wall Street.

Don’t be fooled: Sinema isn't “independent.” She's beholden to her donors.

If I leave out a comma it's because I
don't want you to breathe.

I'm noticing a lot of "I'm bored of Mastodon, I'm going back to #Twitter" posts.

In case they are genuine, here's what I've found works:

⚫ try to post content, not complaints. People want to engage with you, not your gripes

⚫ try to learn. If you're putting in an effort to be part of the community, the community will welcome you

⚫ Try to avoid posting links to tweets, definitely don't cross-post. People want Mastodon content

⚫ Reply! Reply! Reply! Everyone wants to know someone's reading and considering their content, even you

⚫ Don't lurk. Many of us check for a filled out profile, avatars, and posts, before we follow someone back

⚫ Chill. It's a big new world that doesn't serve everything up to you

⚫ Avoid the trap of rebuilding Twitter here

Feel free to link this post to people struggling with Mastodon. It's what I've found works, and may not work for everyone

BATMAN'S FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF
• denial
• anger
• bargaining
• dressing up as a bat with your underwear on the outside to fight crime
• acceptance

Growing up, Sesame Street taught me the importance of education, empathy, and kindness.

Bugs Bunny, on the other hand, taught me that revenge on my enemies should be quick, clever, and brutal.

now i lay me down to sleep.
i pray the lord my soul to keep.
if i die before i wake,
please throw my phone into a lake