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

Terrifying to think that dropping migrants off in the freezing cold without necessary clothing, food, shelter, with no warning for local officials, on Christmas Eve, is the thing Republicans think they need to do to get ahead in their party.

Greg Abbot intentionally chose Christmas Eve to attack migrants seeking shelter. Fascist losers like him get off on the hypocrisy of claiming to be Christian.

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Imagine celebrating a whole-ass holiday about how the founder of your religion was born in a barn because his parents were fleeing and spending it... treating the people who have fled to your country like this
https://wjla.com/news/local/migrant-buses-dc-texas-vice-president-kamala-harris-home-naval-observatory-christmas-eve-cold-weather-18-degrees-illegal-immigration-border-security-crossing-undocumented-greg-abbott

Today 83,000 Texans lost power and prices surged by 400%

Greg Abbott had YEARS to fix this

Instead of fixing ERCOT and the shitty power grid, he spent all his time policing our vaginas

Flying to fancy campaign fundraisers

Building a useless wall

Not attending Uvalde funerals

It is important to remember what this day is about.

Let us praise cheeses.

The Jetsons was such a good show.
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@ScottSoCal I would have never believed the utter rot of our system by corporations and an entire corrupt political party. The Framers never conceived of a political party so craven and corrupt that they’d elevate a blathering criminal such as Trump to the highest office in the land. Nope. Never.

My wife & I don’t do Christmas gifts (why would we when we can just buy whatever we need or want during the year). But this year I came out to find a bunch of presents for me. When I said we aren’t supposed to get presents for each other, she said “Olivia hasn’t gotten a lot of presents. I thought she should get some things.” I really am so lucky sometimes 😍

Actually, the tax returns of all Supreme Court justices should absolutely be made public. That should be a requirement to be one of the nine people with lifetime appointments who make final legal decisions for the rest of the country.

How can anyone say with a straight face that climate change is a hoax?

‘Buffalo reports more winter storm deaths as it digs out from disaster’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/25/buffalo-winter-storm-blizzard-us/

From Joan Egeland on Twitter The Taliban has forced NRC, Save, Care and many others to suspend operations in #Afghanistan. Banning NGOs from employing women crosses a humanitarian red line. @NRC_Norway cannot and will not operate without our 470 female staff https://www.nrc.no/news/2022/december/afghanistan-nrc-appalled-by-the-closing-of-universities-for-women/ngos-condemn-afghan-de-facto-authorities-ban-on-women-ngo-workers/

25.12.2022, #video:

"We are not waiting for a #miracle because we are creating it ourselves" - #Christmas greeting by #Zelensky #Ukraine

When I began using the bird site in 2008, retweets had to be done manually by copying and pasting the text of someone's post into your own post. The retweet button came along the following year. Built-in quote tweet functionality didn't arrive until 2015. The history of both features is worth knowing about as users here on Mastodon debate the upsides and downsides that eventually resulted from them. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet

10 Image #CaptionTips from a transcriptionist:

1. Any words are better than nothing.
2. You don't need to say it's "a picture of…" screen readers will already say it's an image.
3. Start with the framing or format (i.e. close up, landscape, meme, text).
4. Think about the reason you're posting the pic and describe that first, add background details if you have time.
5. Pretend you're talking to someone on the phone and want to tell them about this cool thing you're looking at.
6. Transcribe any and all text in the image, even if it's the only thing you do.
7. If you've described the image in your post, you don't need to copy and paste it again in the caption. But again, don't leave it blank, just put something like "as described."
8. You can add small subjective notes, but don't give too much interpretation of the image in your own opinion.
9. Caption jokes are fun, as long as they still describe the image objectively.
10. Use punctuation, and capitalize words properly. A lot of us have interacted with this tech when calling customer service or talking to Siri, so keep in mind that you're writing for a computer to read, and it needs all the help it can get.

I am a bundle of nerves right now but I will get through it

to you all

You deserve the best today and every day

Left this out for Santa last night. Our son was thrilled to find the cupcake half eaten and milk finished this morning

Wondering what astronauts do for the holidays?

The Expedition 68 crew shares their plans aboard the @Space_Station. Check out other ways we’ve celebrated in space: https://go.nasa.gov/3jvgFha
#NASA