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

20 December 1943 | The 63rd transport from occupied France arrived at Auschwitz with 850 Jews.

After the selection made by SS doctors 223 men & 112 women were registered in the camp. The remaining 505 people were immediately murdered in a gas chamber.

Among them was a 4-year old boy Gerard Levy.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #France #people #children

Twitter mood.
"You stupid fking @&$%#& redneck interbred loser go fk yourself."

Mastodon mood.
"Wow man, the colors. I can see the colors dancing out of the speakers."

I hope this mood lasts.

you know what? I don’t think I’m gonna let that guy put a chip in my brain after all

Tonight you will be visited by three spirits, and you won’t believe what number three tells you!
- A Christmas Clickbait.

Me: [digging through clothes basket]

Wife: Do you see a black tank top in there?

Me: No. but there’s pink.

Wife: No, black.

Me: I have grey, pink, purple, green, teal, brown, something I’ll just call baby vomit.

Wife: It has to be the black one.

Me: We’re just going to the dump to get rid of some cardboard.

Wife: The. Black. One.

Until fairly recently, we didn't consider it a huge accomplishment to keep the government funded for another year. That was the bare minimum Congress should be doing.

Then Republicans decided to use brinksmanship for everything, every year, no matter the circumstances.

House (and some Senate) Republicans would like nothing more than to obstruct this omnibus bill until January so that they can better obstruct it then. Which, of course, would shut down the government and the economy and stop further aiding Ukraine. Someone benefits from all that, and it isn’t any of us.

But this is what happens every time you give control of at least one house of Congress to Republicans.

Congress releases major spending bill with election reforms to prevent another Jan. 6-
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-releases-major-spending-bill-election-reforms-prevent-another-rcna62469

#books #reading

Too many words. Come at me with fewer words.

Okay, this time I want to know about weird #books! What is a book (or books) you liked or found interesting but would have a hard time recommending to the average reader because it's just too "out there"? I need more #weird books!

@bookstodon

I'm at the library, and three women are loudly discussing the trials of their kitchen renovations, and I'm gonna need bail money.

Dear fellow #TwitterRefugees, I haven’t been here long, but want to offer a word of warning: If you begin your post with “Buckle up,” “I don’t know who needs to hear this,” or “Louder for those in the back,” #Mastodon will delete the contents of your phone and schedule a lawn care crew to do five hours of leaf blowing next door.

I’m an immigrant and need y’all to stand with DACA immigrants. Dems have 15 days to pass DACA protections. We cannot leave DACA’s fate to MAGA extremism. Please raise your voice.

Sign & Retoot this important petition from United We Dream: https://bit.ly/3Yjp4EH

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

We may never be able to match the incredible achievements of #JohnMastodon, but the European Union still plays its part!

We are proud funders of Mastodon through the Next Generation Internet initiative (@EC_NGI).

Open,
Interoperable,
Decentralised,
Trust based.

More info: https://www.ngi.eu/blog/2022/11/24/how-ngi-supports-open-interoperable-decentralised-and-trust-based-internet-applications-through-fediverse-projects-like-mastodon/

Ken and I have been talking about whether or not to post photos of Rai on our social media accounts. We don’t want to expose him to the sort of vitriol and hatred that is possible online, and at the same time, we want to celebrate him, and we want to share images of our family as a way to advocate for same-sex parenting and surrogacy. So we don’t know the answers yet, but I wanted to share where we are with it at the moment, which is weighing all of the different factors at play.

Who wants a bag? LOL. #SpellingMatters

I test-drove a @Tesla@twitter.com a few year’s back. It was wondrous. I wouldn’t be caught dead in one now. I don’t give my money to Trumpers.

Jesus does not approve of [liquor] advent calendars, Doris.