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

As I sit here with a log crackling in the fireplace, absentmindedly stroking the dog's head, my eyes are drawn to the handmade stockings hanging from the mantel, then to the tree, with its myriad sparkling lights, and I think to myself, boy, would my rabbi be disappointed in me.

when you stare into the abyss and the abyss stares back at you because the abyss has to poop

"This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of Democracy."

Martin Luther King, Jr.
#EmotionalIntelligence #Quotes #Democracy

The #JunoMission spacecraft successfully completed its 47th close pass by Jupiter on Dec. 14, but an on-board computer issue disrupted the downlink of data collected during the pass. Juno is healthy, and the team expects to complete the full downlink soon: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/news/juno-recovering-memory-after-47th-jupiter-flyby
#NASASolarSystem

Please accept this tiny goat.
#GOAT
#TinyGoats
#JoinIn

That's Right, We are One
by Johnny Silvercloud
https://www.flickr.com/photos/johnnysilvercloud/15720304429/

Just 10 minutes till showtime! Join us: https://youtu.be/_QXqiu77ZmE

Our Mastodon instance now has a welcome bot that DMs every new user with some helpful tips! #feditips #mastodon #admin
https://medium.com/@jaxzin/creating-a-mastodon-welcome-bot-9fe94a818506

Hi Tooters, I am an artist on the internet, and I paint #dinosaurs a lot, so you should expect that. I also paint and draw other things, like trains, aliens, robots, gods, ugly old people, people with long shoes, long cats, and landscapes.

I have created two books with Memo Kosemen & Darren Naish: All Yesterdays, about how we portray dinosaurs, and Cryptozoologicon, about mystery animals.

My website: https://johnconway.art
My patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnconway

#introductions #artist #painting

My twitter followers and engagement continues to drop. I can’t open the app w/o some other ad polluting my feed🤢
By contrast this Mastodon community continues to ignite robust dialogue and offers little comfort to racists and bigots. (Also my better half Ayesha is now writing some great Mastodon threads on women’s rights so I hope y’all follow her too).❤️✊🏽 
Twitter keeps dropping the ball—but I’m feeling more & more hopeful Mastodon will more than fill the gap Twitter has left. Thank you all.❤️✊🏽

For anyone, that’s wondering about my particular situation first let me say, that I am OK. My basic needs are met. I just have nothing beyond that. If you want to understand my story, I wrote about it a few months back in a very long thread here...

https://mastodon.social/@Mrfunkedude/109348944147094320

Be warned, reading this may change the way that you see me.

If you want to give something to me, please give to someone who needs it in your life instead. You helping someone you love is the best gift you could give me.

Do you know where bees go during the #winter? Read this short extension article to learn about some of the different overwintering strategies used by #bees! https://extension.psu.edu/where-do-bee-pollinators-go-during-the-winter/

“I have an old english bulldog” just makes me think your pup can recite Beowulf.

Sean Hannity et al. didn’t believe it for a second…

But they sowed doubt with their viewers.

There’s a special place in hell for #FoxNews.

#politics
#TheBigLie

https://www.yahoo.com/news/testimony-hannity-other-fox-employees-131646430.html

I want to write about myself here, I am a very good person I respect my parents and other people. I am very friendly and I like to make new friends. I like to travel to other countries and I like to try new things in my life. x🧡

Well hot dang, I've gained over 500 followers on Mastodon in just three days.

I never expected to receive such high quality support for such Low Quality Facts on here.

Watching for Santa 🐾
#DogsofMastodon

@Stonekettle at least he didn’t spend his money on a giant psycho tattoo of Richard Nixon on his entire back. Also, this feels like a good time to talk about the difference between personal money and government money. Clearly these insurrectionist republicans do not see a difference. If there’s a pot of money, they’ll grab it. There is no public good or communal purpose.