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

I feel like I’m being cancelled simply for having odious opinions.

@ScottSoCal Sounds fun. What is your field of expertise?

Tell us a strange sounding expression from your field of expertise, dear #histodons

Here is mine, from #bookhistory: at some point, you will likely find "defeated and dead copies of a book" offered in the antiquarian book trade.

Oh dear. This old clip of Sly Stallone taste-testing 'Trump Water' just resurfaced and...oof...yeah, that tracks 😬

Watch it here: https://www.comicsands.com/sylvester-stallone-tastes-trump-water-2659460211.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=SAND

On my way to Oslo to hang out outside Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

In support of Sámi land rights.

Sámi rights are threatened throughout the Nordic Countries.

Land theft and suppression of self-determination.

We're still here.
#LandBack

@DangerousFruit @djwfyi I would have to say yes, as I am extremely good at being an occasional extrovert to the point where people who haven’t known me for long look at me like I am lying when I say I am an introvert. They have only seen me when I am “ on” which is only .2% of my life.

The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.

“We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”
— #jimmycarter #presidentcarter

Ukraine, we are with you.

We have been with you in this existential fight from the beginning.

You have become the centre of our continent.

The place where our values are upheld. Where our freedom is defended. Where the future of Europe is written.

Слава Україні

#StandWithUkraine

Starting to think it might be too late to become a nun.

From https://twitter.com/choochoobear/status/1629884152387457027

#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.