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

Aida Rostami was a doctor who treated protesters until she was tortured and murdered by Iranian officials.

Dec 12, after taking care of several wounded protesters in Ekbatan, Aida left a protester’s house to get medical supplies and was never seen alive again. Officials told her family to pick up her tortured body a day later. Just like that.

She was 36.

This is the face of theocracy. We must all fight to keep religion out of our respective governments. Or else.

@amandacsb2

With Grimace, its milkshake brings them ALL to the yard

So it seems like having 1 egotistical man, who's convinced the world is conspiring against him & his personal vision of openness, & who opaquely subjects us to his random whims & personal dislikes, in charge of internationally important services, is probably a bad idea. Crazy.

Dear white friends: It's Black Friday when Black Mastodon celebrates its cultural heritage.

Follow the hashtag periodically today. I've already enjoyed music I haven't heard since I was a teenager; I've also seen some great artwork and bookmarked some reading material.

Expand your world with #BlackFriday every week. Boost Black and BIPOC voices as you do so.

And follow @BlackAzizAnansi who's made a great start increasing Mastodon's cultural diversity.

#BlackMastodon #BlackFedi

@ScottSoCal I completely get that. Especially living here in deep Red Texas. I always try to keep my work life and my social media life separate. Not only is it necessary for my mental health but my possible physical well-being as well.

This holiday season remember that the cancelled child tax credit—which slashed childhood poverty by 30%—would've cost only $1.7T over the next decade, while the ever expanding Defense Budget will cost around $9T over the next decade.

Children are suffering and starving now because corporate bought politicians would rather by bombs than bread.

We can thank GOP & Manchin/Sinema for this cruelty and grotesquely misplaced priorities. A reminder that our standard must be justice above all else.

Sometimes I take photos of works-in-process...

#art #wip #drawing #graphite #pencil #portrait

Hi new followers!
Welcome to the other side!
Got any questions?

My mastadon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.

I’m glad we’re *maybe* giving Patriot missiles to Ukraine. But it’s not entirely clear to me how that helps Ukraine win this war. They need long-range missiles. Why aren’t we providing them, but Iran can?

8. Once I realized this, I shut up so Katie and Drew could ask him questions. Musk basically ignored the questions and kept repeating, "no doxxing" and "no special rules for journalists"

When Drew pressed him, he quickly bolted.

He does not like to be challenged or questioned.

Love letter to #Mastodon:
It’s weird how the brain (well, mine anyway) got so used to associating social media to doomscrolling, that coming here almost like a warm blanket on my brain.
I open this app and find incredibly smart, witty and empathetic folks who find each other by searching hashtags. What a concept!

#progress report

So almost 24 hours on Mastodon and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Excited to have almost 100 followers

Bluebird had become so unpleasant.

There are great people on there, but it's getting through the boatloads of bots or RWNJ's that was it's downfall.

I would liken it it to Andy in #ShawshankRedemption crawling through hundreds of feet of raw sewage to get out to the blessed rain outside. #freefromtwitter

Pour one out for the turducken tonight.
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Hey,
Thank you for boosting other people’s posts so generously! So much good stuff. I have a great home feed! 👏👏👏

➡️ There’s no AI/algorithm. It’s up to us to boost! 🎉

➡️ Keep in mind to also boost #BlackMastodon, #Indigenous, and #PoC (People of Colour) posts. Make an effort to follow people with different experiences and backgrounds. (If you feel uncomfortable, sit with it, read, learn.)

#Tip #MastodonTip #FediTip #TwitterMigration #BIPOC #Boost

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When the loudness of the world cannot listen to your heart, the quietness of nature keeps its ears and arms open for you.
From the lake near my cabin in the wilderness of the Yukon, I am dispatching joy, hope, healing and positivity.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nSMI1JtM7ts

Books by James Baldwin, one of America’s greatest intellectuals, humanists and activists (he was also a film critic* and historian) that I highly recommend. Well, I highly recommend all of them including the one in my photo. Here are just a few of the other Baldwin books you must read:

Go Tell It On The Mountain
Notes Of A Native Son
No Name In The Street
The Devil Finds Work*
Another Country
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen
#jamesbaldwin #bookstodon #reading #books

Great news!

In a landmark judgement, the Barbados High Court has issued a ruling that decriminalized consensual same-sex relations.

Barbados becomes the 3rd Eastern Caribbean country in 2022 to strike down discriminatory legal provisions and decriminalize gay sex, after Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/13/barbados-high-court-decriminalizes-gay-sex