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

@DidiQ
This is Trump’s “big contribution“ to America. His open theft and never-ending lying without penalty have opened the door for even worse narcissists. It seems our country no longer holds wealthy white criminals to account so why shouldn’t others like (and worse than) Trump grasp for power and its resultant wealth?

God: so they’ll be called Sea Urchins

Angel: okay...

G: they’re basically stabby aquatic sand spurs

A: what are sa-

G: but they eat, like, EVERYTHING

A: ...

G: poor orphaned kids will also be called urchins

A: who hurt you

Long time quilter, first time mastodon.art poster

Of all the quilts I've ever made, and there's been A LOT over the last 20+ years, this is my favorite. It was made during the first weeks of the COVID pandemic as a way to bring color into the world during that very dark time

PROFANITY & FABRIC
Completed 2020
WordPlay Letters/Improv Sawtooth Stars
70” x 79”

Marked as sensitive for language. #Introductions #Quilt

How sick is a society that prefers guns to books?

https://mindly.social/tags/AltText

I apparently really enjoy buying seeds, for flowers and veggies. 🌱I’m not nearly as successful at planting them 🌸, and even less successful at coaxing them to maturity 🥒. I do enjoy thinking about it though. 🤭 #gardening

I don’t know if “climate activist” is really the right way to put it. Like, if I’m drowning and trying to come up for air, I’m not suddenly an “oxygen activist”—I’m literally just trying to stay alive. Maybe addressing climate change shouldn’t be viewed as an “activist” position.

Ohrwurm in 3...2...1

@mekkaokereke
Racists in Congress worked on impeachment the night President Obama was elected.

They voted against *anything* he supported. Anything. I don't know how he kept his equanimity, but he did that elegantly and gracefully.

I vehemently abhor them.

We laugh because we know this is what's coming.

"Did that balloon take off from Wuhan?" -- James Comer on Fox Propaganda Channel

Jon Favreau:

Fauci is actually flying the balloon, which contains cash for Hunter Biden

#CusterFox

I had no idea you could "privatize" a public library....

Huntsville Public Library (TX) Privatized After Pride Display

The next time you use any navigation device, software or Google Maps thank Dr. Gladys West. Her contributions to the mathematical modeling of the shape of Earth, and her work on the development of the satellite models that were eventually incorporated into  the Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. #BlackMastodon #BlackHistoryMonth

@ScottSoCal @Toonces
Hahaha, well, now I have this 8-core laptop now, 32Gb memory, with 3 SSD's in it (4Tb, 2Tb, 1Tb SSD). Monster!

But I still love my first Tandon Ad-Pac 80286 with 2 30Mb ejectable harddisks (bricks!) of 1988.

@ScottSoCal How wonderful🤗 15 years is a serious relationship — so, you know how sweet they can be! I’ve rescued a ring-collared dove, for a far shorter time than you, and returned it to the wild (after it healed). Blessed creatures birds, I think of them as angels in (thin) disguise 👼

Just a warning, I am immediately blocking, and sometimes server blocking on, "stop posting about politics if you're a insert profession here" takes. Technology is politics. Education is politics. Security is politics. The people who work in these fields, and more, are intimately impacted by politics. Some peoples' lives, families, and livelihoods are in danger. It's all politics, stop content and tone policing if you're one of the few people who's currently insanely fortunate to be relatively unimpacted. It's asinine.

On our digital collections site someone on staff accidentally uploaded pictures of birds from their phone, with accompanying text from anti-war pamphlets. The result is modern art

In Iran, children's rights advocate Ahmadi Sarvenaz was sentenced to six years in prison.

“It was worth it,” Ahmadi said.

"It’s worth the feeling of belonging to a large, powerful group of people who are trying to take control of their own destiny… I’m still young and in love, and I still laugh like when I was a child. I can’t be any different and I still believe that honoring life is the essence of resistance.”

#AhmadiSarvenaz
#WomanLifeFreedom
#IranRevolution

https://iranhumanrights.org/2023/02/childrens-rights-advocates-mainly-women-targeted-in-crackdown-on-anti-state-protests-in-iran/?s=09

@ScottSoCal @Toonces
Yes, nice!
Extended memory.

One day, I also got some expanded memory. I have over 1 Mb of memory!!! Woohoo.

With the recent death of my mother, I am glad and proud to say that I never have to visit #Florida ever again!

#BoycottFlorida
#DeSantisMustGo

Ukraine is a true inspiration for Europe.

Today, the 24th EU-Ukraine summit took place in Kyiv with Presidents von der Leyen, Michel and Zelenskyy to discuss key issues for Ukraine as it advances on its EU path:

🔹 Ukraine's European path and accession process
🔸 The EU's response to Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine
🔹 Ukraine’s initiatives for just peace and accountability
🔸 Cooperation in the reconstruction of Ukraine

Check the conclusions: https://europa.eu/!cRyPpY

#StandWithUkraine

Kevin McCarthy is in over his head when it comes to Joe Biden - Palmer Report

If Republicans screw up the economy it will be the end of the party.

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/kevin-mccarthy-is-in-over-his-head-when-it-comes-to-joe-biden/48793/