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

@kevinrns #gop wants to increase the #domesticsupplyofinfants for what? Factory slavery ?

Today is one of those days when I’m reminded to keep the toilet lid closed when I’m not using it.

*note to self: buy new toothbrush

"Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) signed into law this week legislation that rolls back significant portions of the state’s child labor protections.
...
A bill advancing in Iowa would allow 14 & 15-yr-olds to work... in meatpacking plants and would shield businesses from civil liability if a youth worker is sickened, injured OR KILLED on the job."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/08/huckabee-sanders-arkansas-child-labor/

#Republicans claim to care about protecting #children, but the #GOP only cares about protecting corporate PROFITS.

As shared on that other site: Just got a letter officially letting me know I'll be promoted to Full Professor!

Asian-Americans who vote Republican have Stockholm syndrome.

https://secondnexus.com/gop-representative-china-loyalty-test?utm_source=buffershopgrid&utm_medium=viral&utm_campaign=gtakinsta

I'm still looking for a job. Anybody need a programmer in the San Francisco Bay area? I'm a python programmer with experience in C/C++/Java/JS, I've done a bunch of CI/CD/SRE in the recent years, lots of tooling and back end web dev, and I've got a good deal of amateur experience doing reverse engineering and embedded development.
(I've done devops work but I'm trying to move away from that because too often it turns into just "ops", and I am a programmer.)

Ukraine war: Latvia sends cars seized from drunk drivers to help Kyiv https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64903201

Welp. Guess it was bound to come for me eventually. I was hit by the most recent round of layoffs at the tech company I work at. So if anyone in my network in Toronto hears of comms/PR or writing gigs, hit me up!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshmcconnell

#toronto #topoli #techto #opentowork #layoffs #tech

@ScottSoCal @DrOinFLA @Wildethingy

I've lived in my house for 13yrs and have 3 light switches that I still have no idea what they're for.

Attention stoners: Texas might be the next place to move.

Texas just took a big step towards decriminalizing weed.

Read about it here: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/weed-cannabis-texas-17827910.php

#cannabis #texas #news

In our history textbooks, we learned that European settlers pushed westward, displacing Indigenous tribes until sadly they were no more. But this is wholly inaccurate.

The “Indians”—as Columbus infamously misnamed them—are still here in America. They number well over five million according to the 2020 census. And yet, as hard as it is to admit, a genocide of Indigenous people and cultures continues in this country even to this day, as Native children are removed from their families and tribes to live in primarily White, Christian homes.

That continuing assault is today’s subject in The Big Picture. Head over to #TBP to read now: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/indigenous-genocide-foster-care-icwa

All veterans deserve the resources and services to succeed in civilian life.

This week, my staff met with Wounded Warrior Project to talk about mental health services for veterans and the new health care and benefits available through the PACT Act.

To all who served, thank you.

We need to stop taking anyone seriously, that tell us to "tolerate" people who want to take away other people's civil rights. That's not what tolerance is.

Today in Labor History March 9, 1902: Actor Will Geer was born. Best known for his role as Grandpa Walton in the long-running series, “The Waltons,” Geer also appeared in the groundbreaking film, “Salt of the Earth,” which portrayed the struggle of Mexican American workers at the Empire Zinc Mine. Because of his activism on labor and political issues, he was blacklisted in Hollywood for many years. In 1934, he became a member of the Communist Party. He also met LGBTQ activist Harry Hay that year and they became lovers. Together, they supported the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and demonstrated against fascism and for workers’ rights.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #communism #lgbtq #SanFrancisco #GeneralStrike #antifascism #blacklisted

How about this idea…

Conversion therapy for bigots?

Six years ago today. Any day now, I'm sure.

I bought this bird house end of Fall last year, hoping to entice a Spring inhabitant. It was too close to my feeder. So 2 weeks ago, I moved it. Within 2 days, a resudent birb took up housekeeping! Can't wait to see who emerges!