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

Horsehead and Flame

Image Credit & Copyright: Jason Close

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221229.html #APOD

I know exactly who needs to hear this, so:

Hating LGBTQ+ people isnt bold or edgy or alt-anything. It’s one of the oldest hatreds out there, & almost every evil regime sharpens its claws on us

Precisely *because* we truly harm no one but make some deeply uncomfortable. Thus: an easy target enough will overlook, justify, or downplay.

@ScottSoCal I know someone connected an RSS feed aggregator to a morse receiver a few years back... it'd just start tapping things out whenever something new showed up. Not sure it's been done the other way though.

I can relate.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

the 4 types of national anthems:

- Gosh, This Sure is an Attractive Piece of Land We've Got Here

- That One War in Particular was a Doozy

- We Only Sing Parts of This Song Now Because the Other Verses are Racist

- We Speak French and We Will Fucking Kill You

Tulsi Gabbard's head is so far up Putin's ass she can see Sarah Palin's house.

“What the US has to do is to know your enemy. You have to look at Josh Hawley, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tucker Carlson. Russian media was showing clips of Carlson and understand that if Russia is on your side, you're on the wrong goddamn side, Russia means absolutely no good to the United States of America. Russia is your enemy.”-Paul Niland on @radicalizedpod
https://open.substack.com/pub/heidicuda/p/know-your-enemy-a-radpod-interview?utm_source=direct&r=1tfo38&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

As Miss Universe approaches, Ukraine–which has had more important concerns this year–sent 2021's runner-up to represent Ukraine in the pageant.

And her fierce outfit is the perfect representation of the nation's strength and resilience in the face of Russia's invasion.

Brava! 👏

https://www.comicsands.com/ukraine-national-costume-universe-pageant-2659015302.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Memo to the media:

Stop letting politicians get away with calling asylum seekers "illegal immigrants" or saying they're not coming to this country "the right way." Seeking asylum is legal. Presenting themselves at the border & requesting asylum is "the right way" to seek asylum.

What? A small flock of Scaly-breasted munia in my yard 👀 never happened before!
#backyardbirds #birdwatching #birding #nature #wildlife #birdphotography #birdnerd #birds

Federal prosecutors looking into George Santos' seemingly sudden wealth, sources tell ABC News https://abc7ny.com/george-santos-income-wealth-federal-prosecutors/12623759/

Short rant.

Southwest Air has cancelled ~70% of its flights in an epic meltdown this holiday season.

Remember, Southwest took $3.7B in federal aid from 2020-21.

It’s CEO got a pay raise to a $9.1M package in 2022.

Yet Southwest employees are working 16 hour shifts & threatened w/termination if they refuse overtime or call in sick.

Socialism for the wealthy. Capitalism for workers.

Stop trusting billionaires. Start holding them accountable. And start protecting workers.

End Rant.

Everyone liked things that came out/happened in 2022; here are some of mine:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2022/12/28/some-things-i-liked-in-2022/

28.12.2022, #video:

#Buryat #Russian tells how they killed people in #Mariupol.

"It didn't matter that one hundred thousand civilians died there. Glory to Russia!"

#WarCrimes #RussiaIsATerroristState

Lakota families on Pine Ridge have been snowed in without adequate heat, water, and food. Some are burning their clothes to stay warm.

Please help if you can: donate or boost.

Mvto.

https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/organizations/organizations-firstfamiliesnow/

#Indigenous #Native #NDN #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest

Ukraine’s representative to the Miss Universe pageant was a little different this year.

Incel influencer Andrew Tate tried to come for Greta Thunberg, and she absolutely murdered him with her reply. Thank you, Greta. 😂 😂 😂
https://god.dailydot.com/andrew-tate-greta-thunberg/

That feeling when you have to move to Spain because you’re an Iranian woman in public, at a chess tournament, without a hijab

Sara Khadem is a hero