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

@ScottSoCal @Wildethingy is that imaginary as in Mr X was imaginary or as in he had a great imagination and after finding out his dad wasn’t really his dad he created a wild fantasy about his true father and managed to convince billions that it was true?

Another day, another escalation in the MAGA civil war.

This time, MTG–who has been publicly feuding with her former BFFs Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz–is getting called nasty names by one of Trump's most fervent MAGA minions.

Think we're gonna need more popcorn... 😂

https://www.comicsands.com/alexander-trailer-park-hood-rat-2659000795.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

The best way to find every AA battery in your home is to need a pair of AAAs.

When it's cold in my winter wonderland, tees are forever friends. They smile all year round, even at -40C/-40F, in the beautiful boreal forest. They make lungs joyful with their refreshing air. Trees and I, together, are sending joy, hope, healing and warmth to the world. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wo5TCPvgpfY

Desperately trying to recover my inner calm after an encounter with a mansplainer earlier today.
#DailyDiva
#DespondentDiva
#CustomerServiceFail

ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/

Upgrades people, upgrades! ⚡

In a spacewalk lasting 7 hours and 8 minutes, @NASA_Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio successfully completed installation of the fourth of six new solar arrays to augment the @Space_Station's power supply. https://go.nasa.gov/3VdeYSU
#NASA

And here’s the link to the SF Standard article discussing the fake COVID doctors that were just exposed. To be clear, the accounts mentioned in this article are newer than the ones I was looking at in 2020, but they share similar characteristics — and when it comes to digital astroturfing, where there are a few, there are usually many.
https://sfstandard.com/technology/these-doctors-pushed-masking-covid-lockdowns-on-twitter-turns-out-they-dont-exist/

You’re a seriously lovely bunch of people here, so you deserve a treat, and it’s the festive season, after all. I present all the #goodbois from a recent trek along the Annapurna circuit in #Nepal.

#DogsOfNepal #DogsOfMastodon

For people who call it Xmas, do you also refer to our Lord and Saviour as Jesus X?
Because that would be cool.

Gillian Keegan on #Channel4news claims local government pension schemes for teachers is 23.6%.

It isn't, LGPS currently provides between 5.5% and 12.5% of your pensionable pay.

She seems to be making figures up out of thin air.

Either she, with her £10,000 Rolex watch, has no real-life experience, or she is just another lifeless ghoul of Conservative exploitation.

Maybe both? 🤷‍♀️

#ukpolitics

Shame money can't buy a man class, decency, and good character. Not like he can afford it if it did.

One of our neighbors who we don't know that well, or even exchanged names with, just dropped off a gift for our dogs because they bring him so much joy 😭😭. So kind!!!

#dogs #pets #dogsofmastodon #joy #kindness #bulldog #bullybreed #pitbull

Can’t wait to watch #TheBestMan tonight! So excited for this mini series. Perfect way to start the holiday break 🥂#BlackMastodon

I had no idea Moose could even hold swords.

#Canada

I realized that Mastodon has given me a little hope for our world in that I'm seeing more thoughtful, intelligent, talented people and less trolls, bigots, and trump cult zombies.

Thanks.

#twittermigration

Folks: Elon Musk is now targeting MeidasTouch on Twitter. It’s more important than ever that we grow our platform here on Mastodon. Please consider boosting this post and telling everyone you know to follow us. Thank you for your support!

This just came in the mail and I don’t know how to be anything but gauche about it. Really proud to work at NBC News alongside such brilliant colleagues. (BRB changing all my bios to Emmy award winning.)

@onyiakabz

Here's an agreement that favors all:

Russia ends its invasion of Ukraine and completely withdraws from Donetsk, Luhansk, and the Crimea.

It returns the Ukrainians it kidnapped, especially the children.

It hands its war criminals over for trial.

And it pays reparations for the damage it has inflicted on civilian lives and infrastructure.

That's the best-case scenario for Russia.

If it chooses not to accept this very generous offer... the Russian federation will soon defederate.