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

The things this tortilla has seen.

About ten years ago, a friend of mine got married at the Phoenix Zoo and it was actually pretty cool because the package included a couple of zookeepers bringing out some animals to pet.

At some point in the night, I noticed people starting to gather around a zookeeper who had set up a kiddie pool with a little armadillo waddling around in it.

As the zookeeper was talking, I sat down next to the kiddie pool and the armadillo came over and began climbing all over me and I was seriously living my best life with that little cuddler until I heard the zookeeper say:

“So, uhhhhhh, as I was saying, armadillos have been known to carry leprosy, so if you intend to touch the armadillo, please only use the tips of your fingers and ensure you use hand sanitizer after.”

The good news is that I don’t have leprosy yet; however, if I do get it, it will have been worth it.

@ScottSoCal Well, I did watch that GIF about thirty times...

I'm with you, but humans famously need to examine the relationship between justice and violence.

This weekend I plan to...

Guess I should put up a flare for this more publicly - my current job just announced layoffs, so if you're looking for a mid or senior level software engineer in the US, ideally remote or at least east coast, hit me up

I can pick most code up quick, but if you're doing modern web work, that'd be huge - I've worked on Spring Boot, React, Vue, a little ASP.NET and ColdFusion, lots of Python scripting, etc etc.

Just looking to get my options here - I think I'll be fine but you can't be too sure

"The nazis want a day of hate."

"That's terrible. Let's kick their asses."

"We have to respond to hate with love."

"I love kicking nazi asses!"

"Let's start over..."

I appreciate you.
You’re always there when I need you,
You feed me, when I am hungry,
You’re so cool, like Clarence Worley, yet
You’re smoking hot when I turn you on,
Your gray exoskeleton smooth to the touch.
I am your biggest fan, and
You’re literally a fan with a metal basket,
Divine and holey.
You’re an air fryer.
I love you, air fryer.
Happy Valentine’s Day to the air fryer.

Aside from getting kids to chant words, It’s the *GOD* part, folks.

Christofascists on the march: example 8756:

‘Arizona House passes a bill that would force children to say the Pledge of Allegiance’ https://flip.it/E52.EJ

WORLD UNITED!!!

The world famous Sydney Opera House is lit up to show Australia's rock solid support for Ukraine in its struggle against Russian aggression. 24/2/23

SLAVA UKRAINI⚡
#Ukraine️ #Australia

White privilege is Marjorie Taylor Greene calling to end the USA and then getting invited on Fox News to sell the idea. Imagine if AOC or Ilhan Omar said the same thing?! My new article on how Greene's call to end USA conjures up reasons given by the traitors of the Confederacy: https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/white-privilege-is-marjorie-taylor

#FridayFeeling

It was a delight to join #Brighton’s own @marcthevet in support of @APDAWG1, to learn about the vital work of rescue dogs & urge continued support of our rescue organisations and shelters. And even more of a delight to hold little Charlie!

#UKRescue

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1629106385915895808

I weigh at least 17 squirrels

I just finished the interview.

I'm so pumped!

I want to say, "You like me, you really, really like me!"

I hope I get it.

Today my photo essay, Are You OK? The Lives of Young #Trans Texans, for @TexasObserver, created in collab with photographer Jesse Freidin and TXO Creative Director Ivan Flores, got named a finalist for an ASME 2023 National Magazine Award in the Service and Lifestyle Category: https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-kids-youth-are-you-ok-photos/

I'm thrilled to tears at this honor. These kids are so important and I'll do anything I can to use my talents to elevate their voices and protect them. I hope being recognized in this way (& my recent GLAAD award nom) sends a small message to other publishers who are choosing to platform anti-trans bigotry instead of the voices and stories of actual transgender people.

(CW for eye contact, but please look these young #transgender people in the eyes if you can—what they have to share is so important!)

#photography #nonbinary #LGBTQIA #queer

Please stop laughing at CatGPT. Please stop sharing this picture. It's not funny. This is a slippery slope. It might only meow for now, but what's next? What will our cats do if CatGPT takes their jobs? Do we really want artificial intelligence to sleep all day? To scoff at the $50 worth of cat food you just purchased? To knock your full glass of water over and feel zero remorse when it shatters on the floor? Call me a Luddite, but I believe we must destroy CatGPT to protect our feline friends.

Over 200k Russians have died. Under 20k Ukrainians have died. Russia is losing. Putin so vastly underestimated the resolve of the Ukrainian people and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It needs to end. Or the Russian people should revolt.
#PutinWarCriminal #PutinsWar

Today is one year since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine.

Few of us really knew much about Ukraine.

One thing we did know was that President Zelenskyy was blackmailed by donald trump.

Had Zelenskyy strayed from his morals, we easily be in the midst of donald’s second term now.

We would no longer be part of NATO, and I have no doubt donald would have sent American troops to help Russia topple Kyiv.

Our good fortune of having ousted donald from office is, in part, due to President Zelenskyy being a man of morals and courage.

Without aid from the USA, he knew Russia could annex Ukraine, and he did the right thing despite risking the annihilation of his nation.

That’s one of the reasons why I stand firmly in support of the aide we have given Ukraine.

We still have a chance to save our democracy, because Zelenskyy is a man of integrity. donald could not corrupt him.

That means something.

#ukraine

is it love? i bet it’s love

The problem with the #media is still 'the unfamiliarity of [its] almost entirely white decision-makers with ppl. different from themselves. [It's] not just about black ppl. or #Hispanics or poor ppl. or #LGBTQ [It's] an insensitivity to the interests & concerns of non-elites, whoever they may be. The problem with the #US #Press is learning how to be relevant to the concerns of ordinary ppl.'
see link for article:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2021-10-03/the-medias-treatment-of-blacks-a-story-of-distortion

#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Prejudice #Racism