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

@robcinos and 40-something percent of the country love it.

I was always mystified how Nazism took hold and led to such atrocities, but I can see it beginning now.

I'm not in the US but follow US politics intently. As an outsider, it's scary to see.

More than half of LGBTQ parents in Florida say they are considering leaving the state

https://l.smartnews.com/GBpjP/CZDFAO

There are obviously a lot of car lovers out there because there was an overwhelming response when I posted the #car photos. Well, let's see how you respond from these #junkyard #auto pics. There is a great classy junkyard (if there can be such a place) in the south & they have some amazing classic cars sitting in acre after acre...It's a photographer's dream...

#cars #car #classic #vintage #rust #Ford #Oldsmobile #art #MastoArt #Wednesday #photo #photography #artist

The Arkansas Senate just passed a bill that classifies drag as an adult-oriented performance and therefore restricted to strip clubs.

This means FULLY-CLOTHED drag performers (and by extension, trans people) cannot, in public places, sing, dance, do karaoke, or perform in any way without being subject to this new law. It is nothing short of the criminalization of trans people existing in public life.

Antidote to that Times story: "Teenagers deserve a measure of privacy and autonomy to work out their identities, gender or otherwise, even if some of their choices and decisions seem like bad ideas to the adults in their lives." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/23/opinion/trans-kids-privacy-gender-identity.html?smid=tw-share

Because these moments are for the birds... How grateful I am to be among them. My heart filled to bursting. #LekwungenTerritory #Bushtit #birds #birding #pnw #wander #wonder

#drag #murderer #acab

When you catch your fellow airline passenger typing a racist e-mail about you... 🤦 SMDH

https://www.comicsands.com/tiktokker-plane-racism-incident-westjet-2659295549.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Hey human behind a screen, I hope you're doing good. Here's a song I wrote about trying to hold a relationship together while experiencing derealization on both sides of the relationship, which led to him being really cold to me and for me to feel extremely insecure amongst other things. It was a hard time, in a better place now. Hope you like the song, and treat your loves ones like lovers, family and friends, never like strangers. ❤️
https://youtu.be/hXPtGQZ3D2I
#dpdr #derealization #mentalhealth

If they’re not grown in Brussels, they’re just tiny sparkling cabbages.

Yes, I'm going on today about the attempt in ND to ban what they consider to be "sexually explicit" materials. Libraries do not carry porn. Period. Unless they're a pornography archive, in which case children are not allowed inside. What they are deeming porn is anything about LGBTQ people. The existence of LGBTQ people is not inherently sexually explicit. What they really want, is for LGBTQ people to NOT EXIST. Removing books is just the start of erasing LGBTQ people from the public sphere.

Der Spiegel says the Germans are planning on sending at least 14 of their own Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. A recent review of German military assets determined that the Germans have 139 available to send.

Addendum: it's as dastardly as it is clever to label everything with LGBTQ characters living their lives "sexually explicit." First, it makes being LGBTQ sexually explicit, second it primes people to side with the book banners because who wants sexually explicit materials where a kid could get hold of them? It turns librarians into wicked smut peddlers, even though simply being LGBTQ is not inherently sexually explicit, or even inherently sexual.

The critical issues affecting us today don't include 'leftover' classified documents. Both Biden and Pence had confidential data in their possession as a matter of their official duties, whereas Trump absconded with our nation's highest secrets as a private citizen, refused to return them after National Archive and DOJ requests and a raid by the FBI who found many more. That, to me, demonstrates willful defiance of the law.

History should offend. That is how we recognize injustices, atrocities, mistakes, and corruption. But we are now drowning in a sea of what seems to be the rule, not the exception: Widespread foreign corruption in this country's law enforcement agencies. That a select group of people controlled by foreign agents should decide how this country and world operate is beyond reason. A cataclysmic societal event looks inevitable.

That sucking sound is the water quickly receding from the beach.

@kevinrns @brittlestar

I think a new #introduction is in order.

My name is Erin Beatrix. Erin to my friends, Beatrix to my acquaintances. I like video games, mostly indies, but I'm currently playing #FFXIV. I also like #ttrpgs, but it's been a while, and building model #Zoids but that's a pricy hobby. I also post #NSFW because I'm a bit of an exhibitionist.

I'm married (complicated), but polyamorous. Overall pretty lonely, truth be told.

I'm agoraphobic and autistic, have CPTSD, and I forget what spoons look like.

Just to be clear, when the New York Times reported that the FBI saw “no link between Trump and Russia” — a week before the 2016 election — the FBI agent who was just arrested over ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska was heading up the investigation.

#uspollitics
#BlackMastodon