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

All over the country, there are emergency responders and workers actually, actively taking care of life.

To all the emergency responders, snow plow drivers, utility workers, medical professionals, service workers, and those like the people who showed up here to take care of freezing, mistreated migrants- to all people that had to brave the elements to the benefit of others, thank you. The public owes you debt of gratitude.

On the other hand, scorn should be heaped upon Greg Abbott. Oldest trick in the authoritarian playbook: scapegoat and demonize a racial group. Give your angry supporters--for whom you feel nothing but contempt anyway, by the way--someone to feel superior to. Frees you from the need to actually do anything for them, doesn't it?

It's ugly and wrong.

Migrants from Texas dropped off outside VP Harris' home on freezing Christmas Eve-
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/migrants-texas-harris-house-christmas-eve-rcna63204

Kari Lake’s attorneys were just hit with a SANCTIONS filing after losing their frivolous election lawsuit.

The “finding out” stage for Kari Lake continues.

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy

New episode of the God Pod is out! Share this with your friends so that everyone can discover this awesome podcast.

The God Pod Day After Christmas Spectacular!

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The lap of nature is an endless love. For some moments, I forgot about the sub-zero cold of the north. Nature's embrace and pure air in lungs made me meditative. I had to close my eyes to feel the depth. From my winter wonderland, I am sending you hope, love, warmth and joy 🧡

Friends:
The men, women and children who perished in extermination camps had *lives*. They were grandparents, musicians, rabbis, schoolgirls, craftsmen, mothers, shopkeepers, toddlers, artists. They played, created, dreamed, wondered, wrote, cooked, studied, taught, cared for others, were imperfect, and were loved.

We must not forget them.
@auschwitzmuseum

A big thank you to my social media followers for sponsoring this artillery piece in Kherson, Ukraine, with the help of @SignMyRocket@twitter.com. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1607420220729135104

Reflecting on the total disaster of a year that I spent trying to teach Middle School. Besides the self knowledge about my adolescent classroom management abilities, the main takeaway was the recipe for Rum Cake that I got from the Home Ec teacher after a particularly lovely staff Christmas lunch.

@ScottSoCal I haven't! I'll have to give it a look - maybe after I go through the 700 pages in this book that keeps giving.

Can finally reveal the #MontyPython project I was working on as a #ChristmasPresent

The #ThreeHeadedKnight, the #BlackKnight, #TimTheEnchanter and the leader of the #KnightsWhoSayNi from #HylandMiniatures

#painting #miniaturepainting #MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail

It's now 719 days since Donald Trump's Jan 6 terrorist attack. Not only has Trump not been charged with even one crime, he's now running for President where he's actively spewing more lies to delegitimize our democracy. Long past Time to INDICT TRUMP!

My humor is so subtle, you won’t even know you’ve laughed.

Under Trump, Zelenskyy was extorted, weakened and made more vulnerable. Under Biden, he's been celebrated and supported

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/zelenskyy-finally-gets-white-house-respect-sought-earned-rcna62906?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma

[christmas chat]

Daughter: “Mom, why don’t you ask your Mastodon friends why you never meet any men you like?”
Me: “Well, for one thing, that might hurt my brand on Mastodon.”
Daughter: “Oh sweet Jesus. You think you have a brand on Mastodon? No wonder you can’t meet anyone.”

🤣🤣🤣💜

In response to someone whining about "kids today" on another site, I dug out this quote again:

"Our Earth is degenerate in these later days; there are signs that the world is speedily coming to an end; bribery and corruption are common; children no longer obey their parents; every man wants to write a book and the end of the world is evidently approaching.”

It's from an Assyrian clay tablet. circa 2800 B.C.E.

Humans don't change, only technology does.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ten-notable-apocalypses-that-obviously-didnt-happen-9126331/

I’m an editor at Gannett. I manage 4 reporters and lead the investigative and data work at the Asbury Park Press in NJ.

This week, I’m on mandatory furlough.

I appreciate the time with my family, but it is a truly horrid time of year to take away a portion of anyone’s salary.

I make $70K a year. I’m grateful for it. But I’m a single dad with two kids. It hurts.

The employees of this company deserve better. At the very least, they deserve to be paid what the company agreed to pay them.

Putin is coming to the realization that it's a lot harder taking over Ukraine than the GOP.