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

You ever have a dream with another person in it and, the next time you see them, you keep staring at them and telepathically asking if they want to talk about it, but they’re not responding because they’re clearly too embarrassed about the super weird stuff that happened in the dream?

Social media is a powerful tool with the potential to amplify both positive and harmful messages.

As a Member of Oversight Dems, I will utilize every opportunity to question social media executives about their plans to combat disinformation campaigns and hate online.

People who don't speak a word of German are far too confident in their ability to assassinate baby Hitler if given the opportunity to time travel.

Took the dog for a walk this morning.

So tired that I just tried to drink coffee through a mask. Guess I just reinvented the French press.

Every so often, patience is rewarded. For 30 minutes I watched this tricolored heron fishing in a canal. He would be very still, tense up, then take wing & pounce on the fish. He then ventured down by a reflection of a yellow blossomed tree and I captured him in a ‘dance’ above the water.

Find it here -- https://chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/featured/water-dancer-i-chrystyne-novack.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #Bird #GiftThemArt #FediArt #FediArt #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifeWednesday #Nature
#Artbooster

Intro: I'm a software engineer (oracle, pl/sql, apex, js, forms), geek, like dogs, beer and metal. Left-leaning, liberal, anti-fash. Meet Luna. 😍 #dogsofmastodon #introduction

The Washington Post now flags journalists' profiles as verified on Mastodon.

#LoseYourIllusions 🙈🙄😿😹

I’m kinda wishing Mastodon will eventually break the stranglehold Twitter seems to have on writers. It’s almost like people are too afraid to give up, and lose their followers. I have a fraction of followers here, but still get more #Engagement. Anyway, rant over. If I said this on Twitter, I’d probably get suspended, assuming of course, anyone was paying attention to what I wrote. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #twitter #writers #wip #migration #cats #catsofmastodon

Man: Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
Fish: (pulls a gun)
Man:
Fish:
Man:
Fish:
Man: (nervously) Look, it’s . . . it’s a metaphor . . . I never meant to . . . overfishing . . . it wasn’t supposed to happen . . . please . . . I have a family . . .
Fish: This ends NOW!

“Don’t play the wizard game from the lady who doesn’t respect my humanity,” and “Don’t buy chicken from the people that want to exterminate people like me” seem like such a low bar for people who are supposedly allies to clear.

Yet here folks are.

The volume of people telling vision-impaired users "fuck off, your engagement doesn't count" by skipping image descriptions is starting to get depressing again.

A rare sighting of a North American Albino howling shitgibbon...

Please boost even if this isn't for you. On Mastodon, favoriting is not like 'liking' on the other site. All it does is it tell the writer you liked it, there is no algorithm.

Trying to reach #transit #transport #publictransit #publictransport people and #BehaviouralScience #scicomm people on Mastodon

Just finished "#Transport for Humans", a readable and fun application of behavioural science to #transit problems.

Highly recommended to anyone interested or involved in #PublicTransport. Nudges, counterintuitive ideas that work and more!

*Bus routes on the side of buses*
*Information and reassurance for delays*
*Doors that close when advertised (or later) not 2 mins before posted departure time*

Full disclosure
@rorysutherland is an old friend 🙂

@TransportAction @Transport_EU @TransportOnline @transportationalternatives @transenv @TransportLab
@transitmap @transit @transitdiagrams @TransitForMD

👋 made it to the elephant zone!

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
#StarTrek #BlackHistoryMonth

Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.

On 23 February we will host an online seminar dedicated to the persecution of Roma & Sinti, the history of the so-called Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and the contemporary contexts of functioning of Roma communities.

Details & registration: https://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/roma-experience-of-extermination-educational-session-online-23-february-2023,1602.html

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Zigeunerlager #history #histodons @histodons #Roma #Sinti #Gypsies #genocide #education #seminar #online #Nazis #ww2