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

For those questioning the accuracy of my tweet. Here are the survival rates on the Titanic by class. Third class had the worst survival rate.

And for those saying just stay home and be 100% safe, you realize that not everyone can do that, right? We need to demand that our schools and places of employment are COVID safe.

Entertainer, childhood literacy advocate, and scientific philanthropist Dolly Parton was born #OTD in 1946.

Mostly known for singing and songwriting, Dolly's Imagination Library program has distributed over 100 million free books to kids around the world.
https://dollyparton.com/imagination-library

Normally I do #OTD posts for scientists and mathematicians, or important discoveries. But Dolly Parton has done as much as any living person to promote childhood literacy so I am proud to include her on the list.

maybe one of these days i'll have the #words (and #spoons) to write an actual, original, coherent post again

but recently my brain has been all like... dkjfghkdf alkdsdkfjls fsdkfjhskdfj hskdfgdskdf sjdhgf gklhjldjlaskj ehwrtbyjslkflbk slkfgdfirfjglsjdfnlslna AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA kjhgdkfhgdk dfkgupwrutpwtovg lsdfkjdf

as you can see, #today is not that day

First real #Biomechanics lecture today was a hit! I'm pumped for the rest of the course now!

#streetart Mural on Salvador Dalí and Vincent van Gogh by @nesui.src in Malaga, Spain.
#art #mastoart #fediart

Can't say I blame them.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

There should be a banned book club offering students discounts on any book they are blocked from reading.

Only the ol' farts will know what this is. #Cars #Floorboard #DriverSide #WhatIsThis
(tags are the clues)

Whoops I forgot to post a selfie today so here’s a quick happy hour shot #trans #selfie

Gonna watch Star trek now. I'll get back to following everyone when I'm supposed to be working tomorrow. Good night! 🖖

Supreme Court report on the leaked Roe decision carefully declines to say whether the justices or their spouses were interviewed by investigators, or whether their communications were vetted. So, presumably not. What a total sham that makes the "investigation". https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/us/politics/supreme-court-leak-roe.html

Being gay isn’t political. Being trans isn’t political.

Acting on your white supremacy fantasies is political. Using your religion to control others is political. Voting to continue the oppression of others is political.

In case you were wondering

This would be funny if they didn't actually have power. The fact they have power is scary. This is what our government looks like these days.

A Literal Shit Show: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s Bathroom Brawl Nicely Sums Up the State of the GOP | Vanity Fair

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-bathroom-fight

Love, not hate. We must not hate those who harm us, but we must to everything in our power to stop evil. Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. Forgiveness does not mean acceptance and approval of harm. Forgiveness is the path to healing and release from the past. Desmont Tutu Dalaj Lama #MLK

#DogsOfMastodon I thought I'd cuddle a bit with Tilly. I'm careful to ask permission, though. She's in the ottoman, a hollow footstool with a hole for small pets to enter. A crocheted blanket gives her privacy, keeps it warm, and she can peek through the holes.

I dropped a pillow near it for my head, lay on the floor, then gently put my hand inside but to one, empty side as an invitation.

It took half a minute, but then Tilly sniffed my hand, then lay on it. I went to sleep this way. Time spent on important things.

@AnEnglishHuman classic example of a woman's breasts migrating to her shoulders. Quite typical during pregnancy.

Nature is beautiful.

The toughest part of posting a toot on Mastodon that gets absolutely no love is convincing yourself that everybody is out for coffee at the exact same time.