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

A little thank you for the love & kindnesses from those who read and shared (& subscribed to) this week's Substack, and from those who tagged me on International Women's Day. It means a lot :)

(I meant for this to be a selfie, but Rufus (claws and all) photobombed.)

#ThankYou #WaterlooRegion #InternationalWomensDay2023 #WomenLeaders #InvisibleWomen #FoodWriter #Hospitality #Restaurants #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #PlatinumHairDontCare #SilverHairDontCare

https://open.substack.com/pub/cardamomaddict/p/a-womans-place-in-the-kitchen?r=5fkat&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Clean water is a fundamental human right.

While extremists work to weaken water protections across the United States, House Democrats remain committed to ensuring every community has access to clean water.

I'm enjoying my second day on Mastodon. Now to figure out the lingo. What is tooting? For some reason, I keep thinking that people are just really proud of farting. #introduction #Mastodon

it’s incredible to me that some birds can just glide so casually in the air. and the fact that each feather is likely sensing the air movement and adjusting accordingly is mind blowing. these northern harriers glide so slowly for how graceful they are. it’s wild. big fan of harriers over here.

#birds

Hello Mastodon 👋🏻

I came from Twitter where I had a modest following making Dad jokes and commenting on current events and politics.

I’m fascinated by this extraordinary decentralized network and it gives me a little hope for the internet like I had back in the 90s.

#introduction #twittermigration

Hey, just probably time for a gentle reminder. You don't owe your oppressors sympathy.

When the Nazi who has been planning your genocide for decades suddenly and unexpectedly takes a nosedive at his glitzy hotel dinner and ends up hospitalized, you are not required to extend him compassion.

Spitting in the face of fascists who would happily support your eradication is a moral good, actually.

Fuck a censure! #JennaEllis should be disbarred!

Ex-Trump attorney admits statements about 2020 election were false and is censured by judge https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/09/politics/jenna-ellis-former-trump-attorney/index.html

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My dog died this morning. In my arms. She was 17. The house is empty.

If loving you is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
#Funny #Humor #LOL # Humour
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Just saw a BBC headline that reads, "Why do Chinese billionaires keep disappearing?" and my first thought was, "And how can we make this a global trend?"

@ScottSoCal
This impulse to debate someone else's life is really amazing to me.

And folks willing to open the door to that without interrogating it *at all.*

Saw a post on a different platform saying states should vote on abortion.

My eyes rolled so hard I think they're stuck.

Full reproductive freedom should not depend on zip code.

Either people with a uterus are free like those without -- or we're not and that's a goddamn problem.

We are sad to note the passing of civil rights activist Kevin Alexander Gray, who died at his home in Columbia, South Carolina, on Tuesday March 7. Gray was a longtime supporter and adviser to The Progressive.

Click the link to read his interview.

http://bit.ly/3JsMGRS

Get a prenup.
#Funny #Humor #LOL #Humour
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The year is 2029.

A general election is round the corner.

A racist shivers in his unheated house eating cold turnip soup. He got it from a food bank. He wanted tomato soup.

It's his last meal in his house as tomorrow, he's being evicted. He's unable to pay his mortgage. He works two jobs but doesn't get paid much.

But he's happy.

The Tories said they would stop the boats.

They didn't.

But they said they would.

They'll probably do it next time.

So he'll vote for them again.

@martychan Marty I was duped by #Mastodon , I thought it would be just a bunch of us old fossils (hence the name). But I love it here, one of my original Toots was that it is Canadian Twitter, kind, polite but not afraid to have a good discussion over a cold beer.

I am totally new to @Mastodon in terms of its usage, but I am totally aware of how it works.

My last few days experience:

1. I am totally stunned by its utility, freedom and control.

2. Instances/Servers - decentralisation has always been a key issue on other social networks.

3. I have lots of followers on Twitter, and I am ready to ditch that as a Twitter algorithm is becoming ad-centric and illogical shadow banning.

4. Though it has been years since the Mastodon existed, I must say one thing it will take a few more years to be fully adopted in the mainstream as the majority is unaware about centralized and decentralisation of tech and ownership of their content.

5. The Mastodon community is amazing. No doubt why it's trending on other platforms

Lastly, I would like to say, I will be moving to this platform permanently and utilize every functionality that it possesses.