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

The pursuit of knowledge is admitting that you do not know everything. You do not have to prove that you know it already. This is a very human characteristic. An open mind is better. I would never say to a Klingon that I know more about Klingon opera than they do. This would likely end up with them reaching for their bat'leth. Yes I may have seen their opera. Yes I might have read a book. But it is their culture and it is my responsibility to “listen,” not try to prove what I know. 🖖

Today, Seva performed again at the New Year's concert🎄 Small artists were given such gifts)
#Ukraine

There are many people on Mastodon who are good and smart and cool and who genuinely care about marginalized communities. There are also many of those same people who, for whatever reason, don't add #AltText (aka "captions") to the images they post.

Let's change that!

It's easier to do than it seems, and there are tools like @PleaseCaption that will remind you. Plus more people will get to enjoy your posts and some users will only boost image posts that include alt text.

My flight’s about to take off and I’m worried about what would be known as my last words if the plane were to crash because I want to be remembered as intelligent, thoughtful, and well-spoken, so 
YOLO, bitchezzzzzzz!

Pennsylvania Republicans are at it again, ignoring standard democratic protocols and claiming a majority that they failed to win at the ballot box in order to jam through a series of state constitutional amendments in a matter of weeks.

Accepting election results and ensuring a peaceful transfer of power is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Republicans in the state House should take heed of their loss, step aside and allow the Democrats to take their rightfully won majority and stop trying to force through the very policies that lost them the election in the first place. That’s how a functioning democracy is supposed to work. #Pennsylvania

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/26/pennsylvania-politics-are-heated-it-soon-could-be-utter-chaos-00075521

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Sounds unhealthy, but I'm no doctor.
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My wife decided to do a double-play-for-the-holiday special edition of Doing Olivia’s Makeup (still workshopping the name, but can’t help feeling the acronym may be appropriate at least), & in honor of a nice sunny day after the recent storms went with a rainbow theme #transjoy

I hope your day was Merry and bright and you found reasons to love yourself just as you are. You are beautiful as you are. ❤️
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What fresh hell is this?

Well, dadgum! Busted for lying to pad your resume and reputation?!?!

This Republican must be planning a run for the White House!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I want to go back in time to a year before all of my friends were pregnant and constantly talking about being pregnant.

Oh, to be 12 again.

“Forget sexy! We’re bringing measles back!!!”

-anti-vaxxers

Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish he'll be buried in student loan debt and can't get a job with his fishing degree

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Nobody gives an eighth of a fuck that Pence is running for President. He's a spineless non-entity, like a beached jellyfish you'd recoil from at the beach, going "Aughhh!" Though I'm all in favor of piling Republican money onto useless bonfires. #politics

GOP: “We’re not White Christian Nationalists!”

You: Are you white?
GOP: Yes

You: Are you Christian?
GOP: Yes

You: Do you support ‘America First’ nationalism?
GOP: Yes

GOP: “But we’re not White Christian Nationalists!”

@godpod it was my grandmother's birthday before that nonsense, so this year I'm planning as are the rest of my family in thinking about grandma white!