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

The Apostrophe Protection Society, founded to preserve the "much-abused" apostrophe, has shut down. It's founder John Richards's has said that "ignorance and laziness's" has won.

My fav thing about Boba Fett is the way he tells you a piece of information and then snaps his fingers and says, "And that's a Boba FACT."

#StarTrek meets the #PrincessBride.

(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)

#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Picard #Jokestodon #StarTrekTNG #StarTrekPicard

@StillIRise1963

I'm a 52 year-old cishet Canadian man of Tamil descent. I feel tired every single day. I loathe the MAGA/Brexit nostalgia, the longing for days when things were concretely worse for so many (including me & mine).

But I remember that there are so many — black, indigenous, trans — who tolerate worse indignities (and also larger systemic cruelty & injustice) daily just existing even now.

I pick myself up, breathe deep, & press on. Gotta do the work. For everyone.

Are trans women women?

Boost for Yes.
Favorite for Obviously!
Delete your account for No.

I don’t have an unwanted pregnancy.

I’m not in Ukraine getting hit by Russian shelling.

I’m not facing ethnic cleansing in Tigray.

I don’t have a disability.

I’m not gay.

➡️ But I defend everyone’s rights.

✅ Because that’s what universal human rights are all about.

This scene from #GalwayCity popped up in my memories from one of the other places the other day and I'm still proud of this #Sunny Morning view.

#Galway #CountyGalway #Ireland #IrishArt #Cityscape #GoodVibes #DigitalArt #Painting #MastoArt #FediArt #ArtMatters #AYearForArt #FediGiftShop #MarkOnArt

You can find this here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/streets-of-galway-on-a-winter-morn-mark-e-tisdale.html?product=art-print

I had a coworker named Aja who is of mixed race and absolutely beautiful and some creepy guy kept trying to get her to tell him her race and she would NOT give him the satisfaction and the conversation went something like this:

Creep: So, where are you from?
Aja: Chicago.
Creep: No, where are your parents from?
Aja: Chicago.
Creep: Okay, well Aja is a really exotic name, where is that from?
Aja: A Steely Dan song.

I’ve got a new song up! The track “Stars of Diamond” gets its name and intro from Carl Sagan. ✨

#LoFi #Trap #HipHop #BoomBap #CarlSagan

https://youtu.be/pTz0c_ymtF4

incase anyone is wondering where i’m at, my office is just behind that hill! 🌈

Trans people have always existed and even sometimes been publicly celebrated, and there's infinitely more cases of trans people being victims of violence and abuse than perpetrators.

But the narrative that trans people are new and dangerous never goes away because it's so useful to authoritarians, who take advantage of the prurient-puritanical mores and ignorance they foment by subverting education and journalism.

Necessity is the mother of invention!

Ukrainian troops strike from rocket launchers mounted on pickup trucks.
#Ukraine️ #Russia

OLD THREAD REPOST

As #LGBTHistoryMonth draws to a close, let's celebrate the sapphic urge to spend the 1920s prolifically creating beautiful female gaze art of your wife. Here is a thread of some of Gerda Wegener's paintings and illustrations of her wife, Lili Elbe.

Portrait of Lili Elbe, 1928

New #introduction for new instance!

I'm Tonya Marie, a mid-50s trans woman originally from Texas but now safely ensconced in Seattle. I'm a semi-retired #math teacher and occasional coder, but my passion is being a housewife for my loving wife.

When I'm not #cooking, #baking, or keeping house, I love #boardgames and both computer and tabletop #RPGs (particularly #pathfinder).

I post livetoots of various cooking and baking endeavors under the hashtag #WhatIsTonyaMarieCooking.

In a world of Scott Adams, be a Charles Schulz.

Zimmy has spent the last hour latched to this treat. An old dog savoring every blissful moment. #DogsOfMastodon #dogs @petabites

I hate it when I go time traveling and forget to bring my pastport.

This morning I was unfollowed and blocked by someone because I apparently boost too many posts from other accounts. While admittedly it does sting a little, it's understandable; since 2022-12-01, I've posted or boosted almost 16.5k. The math for that isn't complicated.

I firmly believe that every single person here on the fediverse is entitled to follow, unfollow or block whomever they wish; one of the best, if not THE best aspects of this is how we are our own algorithms. I owe no one a follow and no one owes me one either.

Having said that, I wanted to make clear to everyone that yes, I am aware I'm active to an excessive extent. I boost things that I enjoy, or I find hilarious, thought-provoking, heartbreaking, or any combination of these things - sometimes even ALL of them.

I feel camaraderie with many folks on here and the amount of creativity and talent to be found here is truly staggering. To me, the posts I boosts aren't just mundane text, they are ARTISTIC creations.

So, in summary - if I'm posting/boosting too much, then I offer my apologies. But I have no intention of stopping - quite the opposite. So if you need to mute, unfollow or even block - I encourage you to do so now before I cause psychic trauma.