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

Today I bought the collection of comics "Way for Victory". Funds collected from the sale will be transferred to the "Army of Drones" project.

If a fetus is a person given abortion laws then isn’t putting a pregnant woman in jail, illegal detention of a person that hasn’t been convicted of a crime?

A legal argument I bet ChatGPT couldn’t have come up with. 🤔

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/02/22/pregnant-woman-fetus-jail-roe/

Enough hail fell this morning to make it look like it has snowed

#CoosBay
#ORWX

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany alongside her brother Hans. Hans was also killed.

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 @histodons

if you want me to be open to new ideas, please try to make them less stupid

Does anyone else like music?

How do you like your experience on Mastodon so far?
#techhub #mastodon
Please boost for reach

Dear non-trans allies:

"I can't talk for the trans community" is a good answer made better when it's followed by "but I support them fully and fight by their side for their rights".

Your silence or ambivalence in this trying times is seen as support by our detractors.

“Storms make trees take deeper roots.”—Dolly Parton 🦋

Here’s a toot for ya!

So is someone going to sue Kevin McCarthy and Fox News for this deal to hand over all the Capitol security footage from Jan. 6 to (checks notes) Tucker Carlson exclusively? How is that even remotely legal? @aclu

Churches should be taxed just like corporations. Because basically that's what churches are, companies selling religion to bring in money. And if we make corporations pay taxes, then —

Oh, wait, I forgot. We don't actually make corporations pay taxes, do we?

Never mind.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/mormon-church-multibillion-investment-fund-sec-settlement-rcna71603

What can/should Big Journalism do? For starters:

-- Fox "News" and its employees should be kicked out of any press organization or association in which they hold official status or membership.

-- News organizations that care about journalistic integrity should announce publicly that they will not hire from Fox.

If you’re in #wisconsin please go #vote today. I know it’s a February but this is a hugely important #WI Supreme Court election.

If your instance has enabled it, there's a translate option in the advanced web interface. Not that the original post must be marked as the correct language (shown here as DE for Deutsch or German in the upper right). You can specify your language below the post you're writing.

Sure, after his presidency, Jimmy Carter could have just retired to a country club, put out petty diatribes insulting his "enemies," and played lots of golf. Instead, he decided to help build living spaces for people who needed them. He talked the talk and then walked the walk.

This is what it looks like to lead by example.

#JimmyCarter #HabitatForHumanity #Service #WeekendThoughts

Moved from .lol so an #introduction is in order.

Hello! I'm John. I'm usually found wearing big round glasses and shorts, and doing the ✌🏻 sign.

I've been learning how to draw since late 2021 as a form of therapy. Sometimes, I draw my followers/community. I will post some of it on the next toot.

expect some memes, terrible attempt at being funny, self-deprecating jokes as a way to cope.

oh god, I don't know what else to say. this feels like the first day of class all of a sudden..uh selfies?