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

for my #throwbackthursday, here’s a downtown LA roof party in 2018 with my main bitches. #tbt

Who is more of a threat to kids? Drag Queens or Youth Pastors?

https://thegodpodcast.com/drag-queens-vs-pastors/

Shameless self-promotion time. Occasionally I'll get inspired and write a sci-fi short story and post it to Reddit. I would appreciate it if you read it and left constructive feedback. Thank you.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/11lmv05/epistolary/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Pro-tip for participating in capitalism as a purchaser: put the stuff you want in your cart and then leave it. Many sites have cart-rescue jobs that run and send out enticements to return and finish your order. Sometimes the discounts are significant.

https://tulsaworld.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/oklahoma-senate-passes-bill-to-restrict-access-to-library-books/article_ea7eb616-bd1d-11ed-9c3d-239ba826b3fe.html

When i make a delightful post that everyone adores

I wanted to see if ChatGPT could put me out of the job, so I asked it to write a funny fake fact. To my surprise, it literally just plagiarized one of my own facts. Nearly word for word. I'd say my position remains safe for now.

I do not say this lightly: the people organizing the push to eradicate trans people from public life are white Christian nationalists, who are the intellectual descendants of the Nazis--who were also, among other things, white Christian nationalists. Yes, this includes Rowling who openly associates with these people.

This is commonly known in trans communities but many otherwise well-meaning cis people still think this is hyperbole. It is not.

https://hachyderm.io/@rain/109873122589910404

@mekkaokereke It is important to understand that gender equality does not mean that men are giving up nice things. Patriarchy hurts majority of men as well, just in different ways. Many "male privileges" are upon closer examination no privileges at all.
Patriarhcal roles reserved for men are quite narrow and make their lives less safe and more lonely.

The discrepancy in how the label “activist” is applied in mainstream media reporting and commentary is really striking - and this is true for all different kinds of issues: Conservatives are concerned parents or citizens - people on the Left or perceived as progressives are “activists.”

https://twitter.com/notabigjerk/status/1633497574236643330?s=46&t=1xecvNVImNo8TKt3oEvqnA

People storming school board meetings are “concerned parents,” which implies that their motives are genuine and just, basically shielding their “concerns” from political scrutiny; but students protesting a racist speaker are always “activists,” never “concerned young people.”

Seeing protests in France, my initial thought was, "Man, the French are protesting AGAIN." But then I realized they protest so often because they are SUCCESSFUL at it, unlike in Western countries where our voices are often ignored. They are successful in implementing longstanding social and legislative changes. What's the difference?

I did a deep dive.

https://boushmiriam.substack.com/p/let-them-eat-brioche-the-art-of-french?sd=pf

“I can’t understand a word you’re saying.”-Seb. probably. #cats #catsofmastodon #blackcat

1️⃣ In satellite images, my team spied some interesting curved rock beds in this area, which may have come from a meandering river.
2️⃣ #MarsHelicopter flew over the area to scout it out.
3️⃣ Now I’m here doing science up close.

How’s that for teamwork?
#PerseveranceRover

Throwback to one of the wildest (and luckiest) shots I've ever taken.

On approach into London several years back, the position of the sun & clouds created a halo around our plane's shadow as the sun highlighted the Tower Bridge. I'm still kicking myself for using my iPhone instead of my good camera, but I didn't expect the clouds to part. Lesson learned! 😒 😆

#Travel #TravelPhotography #London #WindowSeat #Photography #Rainbow #Thames #TowerBridge #UK #Throwback #ThrowbackThursday

86% of fentanyl convictions at the US/Mexico border are of US CITIZENS, not immigrants.

Like this guy. One of the Charlottesville tiki torch Nazis. Caught smuggling 33 pounds of fentanyl at the border.

THIS is who's smuggling fentanyl.

Charlie was howling about us being gone again. So we used the audio on the cam (see thread) to try to reassure him. His ears while he listened! But it worked, he lay down!

#dogsOfMastodon

They mowed one of Missy's favorite corn fields. #DogsOfMastodon #SpringerSpaniel

The harm Fox has caused to America, viewers, employees... is unfathomable. Punitive damages should be in the BILLIONS$: Filings have shown that Fox’s top execs admonished members of the news team for their “disrespect” to the network’s audience. A text exchange with former Fox producer Phil Vogel, who told her he was taking a pay cut & forgoing 6 weeks paid leave to get out of the network bc “I couldn’t defend” their voter fraud coverage to his daughter-: https://www.mediaite.com/news/its-a-sht-network-new-texts-reveal-ex-fox-news-reporter-claiming-network-muzzled-her-for-fact-checking-trump/