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

#Mouse #Resuscitation

This argues that - because of the "perils of a public good in private hands" - not just discussion should move from twitter to mastodon, scholarly institutions should now also create instances in the fediverse that make publicly available: papers, data & code.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00486-3

The white man, who got his trust fund money from owning an Emerald mine in Africa, would like to inform you that...

Did any Star Wars fans out there know Yoda has a last name?

It's Layheehoo.

The unfortunate result of a young bulb raised in a bad environment.

Perhaps it is time to leave atrocious chemical disasters in the lobbies and on the lawns of hedge fund managers.

Garrett T. Morgan invented the first gas mask. He and a team of volunteers used his invention to rescue 32 workers trapped in a gas-filled tunnel 250 feet under Lake Erie. Garrett T. Morgan also invented America’s first traffic light. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackMastodon

Wow. Just finished reading The Terraformers, by @annaleen, and it's amazing. I can't properly describe the #book right now, so please take a look online or even in a real bookstore, depending on where do you live.

I don't usually mention the many great #SciFi and occasionally high #fantasy books I read. Perhaps I'm making an exception because it was only here on #Mastodon that I found out about the author and the book, *probably* via the great @marthawells.

Putin is aware of the discontent of the Russian people who have been affected by the war in Ukraine, so he is avoiding them out of fear. He is now in a state of panic, desperately trying to find a way to win back the support of the people. This is according to former head of the Moscow FSB Yevgeny Savostyanov.

One thing that's being lost in a lot of the coverage related to Scott Adams' racist rant is that he tried to present (the 40-whatever percent of) black people (who participated in this poll) as being outrageous for objecting to that phrase "it's okay to be white."

And if it's a phrase you've never heard before, maybe you take it at face value and go, "Oh, so now they don't even think it's okay for white people to exist?!"

But it's deeper than that. 1/

https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/02/we-are-dropping-the-dilbert-comic-strip-because-of-creator-scott-adams-racist-rant-letter-from-the-editor.html

So I did an #introduction post a while back, but I deleted it because it wasn’t hilarious or absurd. But now I’ve learned you can just be yourself, and that no one on Mastodon is going to make fun of you for having had the phrase “Whoopity Slap” emblazoned across the back of your letter jacket—the one that you earned for your two years on the staffs of both the newspaper and the literary magazine.

Even back then I was proto-tooting by submitting brilliant aphorisms to lit mag like “You can never have too many bagels” and “IOU stands for Immediately Obsolete Underwear”. You should have seen me and my friends celebrating our own high school theme week with special events like “International Alter-Ego Day” and “International Goth Day”. High school was a shitshow but my friends were the best support I could have hoped for given I was literally the only out person at my school. This was in the late 90s.

But enough of my high school panegyrics. Tell me something about your formative years.

I'll make an #introduction post like the rest of the cool kids. 😀

Hi, I’m Adam (he/him, ). I work in #technology, as an #IT director for a consulting firm here in #Chicago.

I love #reading #books and #travel. I’m a #DnD amateur.

Favorite shows: #StarTrek, #Heartstopper, #OFMD, #Archer, #SchittsCreek, #Andor

Lightning round. Good: democracy, equal rights, the #LGBTQ community (especially trans kids). Bad: fascism, the patriarchy, billionaires, book bans.

#introductions

Happy Friday! I’m about to head out to drinks with a couple former coworkers. If you don’t hear from me for a while, it’s because I felt it best not to mix alcohol and social media. 😁

Wishing everyone a nice weekend! 😘

#ScruffWatch #selfie #beard #scruff

If you ask many folk in the US what the population of North America was in 1650, they will start counting up colonists. They have to be reminded that there were *millions* of native Americans living in North America.

They know that indigenous people were here! They just didn't realize that they mattered.

The conversation soon devolves into a pedantic discussion around the word "America."

“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.” -James Baldwin

#JamesBaldwin #BlackFriday #BlackMastodon #BlackJoy

I've seen people saying they don't include alt-text with their art/photos because they don't want to 'explain the meaning' of their work.

Alt text isn't for people who can see your images perfectly. It's for those who can't. Your desire to 'let the viewer decide the meaning' isn't more important than people's disability needs, and the alt text and meaning of the art are mutually exclusive. Get over yourself. If you have the spoons, add alt text. If you don't, use # Alt4Me or .

Day 25: Favorite Discovery episode

Season Two, Episode One: Brother

Love the new Captain Pike

#30DayStarTrekChallenge #startrek

Radical graffiti seen around Dover, UK

Hello. I’m pretty quiet on here, but I would like to connect with other people in the Wilson’s Disease community. A hashtag yielded nothing, so I’m starting it here. If you see this, please amplify. #WilsonsDisease #raredisease #rarediseases #rarediseaseadvocate #livertransplant #liverdisease #wilsondisease

"Why yes, I am Canadian. Why do you ask?"

#CatsofMastodon #MeanwhileInCanada