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

KQED News just confirmed with Cal DSS that if you're on food stamps and you lost food due to storm damage or power outages, you can get replacement funds on your EBT card. Sacramento Food Bank was the first to talk about this, and KQED called DSS to confirm.

Call your case manager within 10 days of the loss.

https://twitter.com/LomeliCabrera/status/1613674137851170817

#CAwx #Storm

@ScottSoCal @Tbsa

It’s Friday! Please share something good that happened to you this week.

If you don't know this story, you should read up on it.

Meek Mill’s case is a prime example of a racially biased judicial system. That the "judicial" system can be wielded like a weapon and that the system is wielded against non-white people is something we as a nation need to expose and deal with. It's not okay. It's not right, and it shouldn't be excused or justified by anyone.

This was part of a series of pardons issued by outgoing Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf. It matters.

Meek Mill Pardoned By Pennsylvania Governor-
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/meek-mill-charges-pardoned-pennsylvania-governor-1234660671/

If one person punches another person in the face and says it's OK because punching is their shared culture, ask the person who's been punched if they agree.

The Taliban thugocracy has responded to the Afghanistan chapter of our new World Report by saying universal human rights are not wanted in Afghanistan.

I’d be willing to bet at least half the population thinks otherwise – the half called women and girls, whom the Taliban treat as sub-human animals.

https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2023/01/13?story=paragraph-4886

@RFancio @mathewi @cjr we need to rid our press of this reported perception “It seems that some Mastodon users aren’t all that receptive to the ways in which journalists tend to use social networks” https://www.cjr.org/analysis/journalists-want-to-recreate-twitter-on-mastodon-mastodon-is-not-into-it.php

I for one welcome the press on #Mastodon - while acknowledging that generating controversy for clickbait is a nuisance. Objective and well-researched reporting is needed #FreePress

A self-proclaimed "Alpha-Male" MAGA bro is melting down about the new "feminist" M&Ms packaging.

Honestly, it's not entirely clear to me whether he is punking us or really is this much of a snowflake. Watch and you be the judge:

https://secondnexus.com/nick-adams-m-m-boycott-feminist?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

Yesterday, someone I was helping told me in a very insulting way to stay in my lane.

Today, I'm enjoying the freedom watching a train hurtling toward a bridge that might be out without feeling any responsibility for anything that might happen.

Not my problem, yo. 🤷

Can we all pledge to go 'camera off' during zooms in 2023, please??

Powerful ocean waves.
Water and wind.
A powerful combination.

#friday #ocean #waves #wind #nature
#landscape #photoart

This week #Mastodon will pass 9,000,000 users. Every day we're growing and each post you create, or like, or reshare helps us arrive at the future we want.

#TomFord (new queer neighbour) is about to make life even more awkward for Trump at Mar-a-Lago

In 2019, a tweet went viral with a quote attributed to Ford that claimed he didn’t want to dress Melania because she’s a “GLORIFIED ESCORT”

#MOG
https://l.smartnews.com/LojB1/kZiJLL

Today the Trump organization was fined $1.6 MILLION after being convicted for 17 felonies, including tax fraud. In a related story, I lost a quarter today when it fell onto the subway tracks.

Someone's worried no one will show up! #Trump #2024

The ex-president plans a smaller event than his usual big-arena rallies. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-campaign-south-carolina_n_63c1a554e4b0cbfd55f2d7c9

¡ɐᴉlɐɹʇsn∀ ɯoɹɟ doʇdɐl ɐ ʎnq I ǝɯᴉʇ ʇsɐl ǝɥʇ sᴉ sᴉɥʇ

"Hey, can you switch instances? Your admin favorited a joke that I didn't appreciate once. Might need to block you otherwise. Oh, and that crowdfunding platform you use? Back in 2006 they let an organization I don't personally align with use their platform. You should abandon that. Also, -"

Shhhh. Let people enjoy things. I am all for being socially conscious but we can't boycott everything. We are so tired. Please go outside.

Thank you @gretathunberg for your support in #Germany! 💪 🌍

Excellent news though
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https://masto.ai/@rbreich/109683169755128560
rbreich@masto.ai - Your feelings about Musk aside, this isn't something to celebrate. Our focus should be on fixing an economic system that allows one person to gain such massive wealth.
Despite losing more than the rest of us can even imagine, Musk is still the second richest person in the world.
RT @business@twitter.com
Elon Musk's wealth wipeout hit a new milestone: he became the first person ever to lose $200 billion https://trib.al/EaJ0Vtz

"Is... Is it okay to be weird?"
The witch studied the young woman.
"No."
"No? I thought you'd understand."
"Don't be weird," the witch said. "Be yourself."
"But..."
"Now, some people may call that weird, but that's their word, not yours. Be yourself, however that is."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic