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

Good morning Trekverse happy weekend to you all! Hope it's a good one for you whatever you are up to 🖖
#StarTrek #StarTrekMemes #Memes

Today marks 3 months on #Mastodon. The most delightful aspect for me is our high community engagement.

On #Twitter I suspect my posts got buried. A journalist reached out last Fall to ask why I was shadow banned & I had to search what that meant.

This place isn’t set up as a race for RTs & likes & posts aren’t typically composed to spark outrage. It feels like an ongoing conversation & I’m even getting to know some interesting new folks.

At least, that’s been my experience. I like it here.

Nightly address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of #Ukraine 28/01/23

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Ukraine needs long-range missiles – in particular, to remove this possibility of the occupiers to place their missile launchers somewhere far from the front line and destroy Ukrainian cities with them.

Thank you to everyone in the world – politicians, public figures, journalists, and ordinary people who insist with us that there cannot be any taboo in the supply of weapons

Full Address🔗 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/shob-u-teroristiv-ne-bulo-vidchuttya-bezkarnosti-ukrayini-po-80661

If you’re online whining that Pink Floyd, Star Trek, and Star Wars have ‘gOnE wOke’ then you were never a fan of any of those things.

HourlyOtters present:

My heart breaks for Black Mothers, Black Fathers, Black siblings, Black grandparents & the Black community as a whole for having to bear witness to police brutality, enduring yet another heartless assassination of a Black young man in the name of the "law" by people just doing their "job" in a systemic racist jerking circle designed to target minorities, ensuring they're at a disadvantage before a fair verdict.

What kind of justice is it when a routine traffic stop becomes a death sentence?

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Can't watch the entire video of #TyreNichols brutal murder at the hands of police.

It's too painful.

His family doesn't want you to remember how he died.

His family released a video of Tyre Nichols doing one of his favorite things he truly enjoyed: skateboarding.

Let's remember him as he lived. ❤️

#BlackLivesMatter

H/T: @Tizzyent

As far as I can tell, no Drag Queens were involved....

Full List of Texas Pastors Charged With Abusing Children This Year

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-texas-pastors-charged-abusing-children-1765910?s=09

I am making Jambalaya for dinner and it isn't because Sisko is the best captain but it's also not NOT for that reason. #ds9

I’m thinking delivery is going to take a bit more than 15 minutes.

So #SaturdayMug is a hashtag here? OK, I can play along. This is one of my favorites, with artwork by Sandra Boynton.

Scientists have discovered a trove of nearly 600 obsidian hand-axes that were crafted more than 1.2 million years ago in Ethiopia by an unknown group of hominins. This pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by 500,000 years.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zx77/archaeologists-discover-12-million-year-old-workshop-in-mind-blowing-find

A surge in obsidian exploitation more than 1.2 million years ago at Simbiro III (Melka Kunture, Upper Awash, Ethiopia)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01970-1.epdf?sharing_token=6H7hHA4WeId5DJPKN5nRg9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NGmuX0lR0PD9NHM-U5P9w1k72oVvbMm7gEpl_5Bp2o2UaQ3DcebYmzK6wfn2a39cM-wvM3ZY6gpkneT-JpG-o9c1gCDJYJGYPEdvxYNq5bOQR7dKaucu81HthZ8VIC84ljA_PxgYAvTUjjqUjKMc3Y3YGajfKQnc6MK5qr_IZvDQ%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.vice.com

Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

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Let me clarify. When I say that other drivers are the worst, I don't mean any of you, of course. You're no doubt, excellent, courteous drivers.
It's those guys over on the bird site.. horrible drivers.

I think the real reason Willy Wonka gave Charlie the chocolate factory is because he knew how many lawsuits were about to happen.

Not to mention the many questions that ICE probably had about the Oompa Loompa's work documentation.

#DeepThoughts #Masticate #WillyWonka #Litigation

Seeing all the white people harping on about their support/allyship with #BlackMastodon is legit exhausting and drowns our black voices. I’m hoping #BlackMastodonAllies gains adoption.

A really good article that drives home the point.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/21/us-police-violence-traffic-stop-data