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

Now, you have to understand these were the days of blogs, and people were less savvy about IPs and VPNs. This probably wouldn't happen today... but the IPs were both from the Department of Defense in DC!

These guys were hate blogging urban planners on company time. Sending them an email seemed too direct.

They had their own blog and would link it and I figured they were tracking back clicks when soon after mentioning them and linking to them on another blog they showed up. I hatched a plan.

I went to another planner's blog and left a comment mentioning them again and linking so they'd track the link back. Then arranged for my husband to respond with something like "who are these guys?"

I responded with "They're from DC, department of defense, everyone knows they keep a trashy blog and don't do much at work but surf the net."

They never commented again. A year later the blog was gone.

It was fun and my husband said "I feel like a hacker."

Good times.

Today I discovered my dad has been going to bookshops every day, buying two copies of my book Letters From Brenda on each visit, and then giving them to strangers in the street. That’s one of the most Dad things ever. God bless him.

Mister Dugg Dogg went to the spa earlier this week and the groomer gave him a tie instead of a bandana. He is very dapper, don’t you think? #dogsofmastodon #dapperdog

Last night, my son across the country was locked down in a hotel in Hood River, OR due to a police standoff. He had to stay hidden for hours and listen to gunfire and hope for the best, there wasn't a damn thing I could do but call him.
I've never felt so helpless and scared. I hate this country.
#USA
#ItsTheGuns
#GunViolence
#AmericaSucks

Duggar family on abortion:
•2013: Abortion is “Baby Holocaust”
•2015: Rally against abortion!
•2020: March for Life!
•2023: “Due to complications we had a procedure to remove the baby & pretend it isn’t abortion.”

Healthcare for me but not for thee. This is the right wing movement in a nutshell. Revolting hypocrisy, which apparently is the point.

https://people.com/parents/jessa-duggar-reveals-she-suffered-a-miscarriage/

PSA

Thoughts & tasks are like buzzing bees inside my head.

I can either remember what tasks I have to do or have the focus/desire to do those tasks, but almost certainly not both at the same time.

I call this principle Heisenberg's uncertainty bees 🐝

#AuDHD #neurodivergent #spoonie

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

Just gonna leave this here.

Everyone on Mastodon: I cannot believe how much Twitter is trying to charge for API requests.

Me, pretending to know what an API is: This will be the final nail in Twitter's coffin.

I’ve become old enough to realize Walter Peck from the EPA was 100% right to try to regulate the Ghostbusters’ storage containment unit.

By @JuliusGoat: “At a certain point, it seems to me that we have to conclude that what such people are actually advocating for is not to use sunlight to expose and disinfect our society of bigotry, but simply to have a society in which bigotry is free to dance in the sun.”

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

Growing up fundy can prime us to feel at home in situations that seek to usurp our autonomy.
SHARED ELEMENTS OF CULTS:
1. Authoritarian control
2. Extremist beliefs
3. Isolation from society
4. Veneration of an individual.
CULT CATEGORIES: Doomsday, Political, Religious, & Sex. An additional group bordering on cult territory is LGATs (Large Group Awareness Trainings), which typically fall under "human potential" or "self-awareness," such as the infamous NXIVM cult. #criticalthinking #cults

This is the first thing I ever painted for my wife, an oil on canvas of her greenwing macaw Jasper. When we met I had a greenwing, as well - just one of the many ties that bound us together. She was pretty blown away by this 💕 #parrots #BirdArt #artist #ArtistsOfMastodon

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