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

8 years of missing you, Dad. This photo makes me laugh because it’s so decidedly un-Pratchetty. We’re looking in the same direction & there’s hugging (ish.) It’s the kind of pic that, in a movie, one or other of us would look at wistfully before tooling up to go rescue the other one #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname

What I’m hearing about Thiel & cronies’ role in the SVB crash sounds like another instance of how multi-billionaires are essentially potential Bond Villains but they don’t need a doomsday device beyond their own greed … they can do enormous damage just by weaponizing finance.

If you gave billionaires 2 trillion in tax cuts 4 years ago, YOU need to pay your bills. You don’t get to leave the poor and working families holding the bag. #VoteBlue2024

i said "look who the cat dragged in" to my friend before when he appearead unexpectedly and only now I learned that the saying is actually ironic and a bit unwelcoming.

i feel like a piece of shit.

Wait wait wait wait

Let me get this straight...

LinkedIn wants to generate crappy AI content and then invite me to fix it, for free, under some guise of flattery calling out my "expertise"

Really?

I just realized that today is the third anniversary of our first day in “quarantine” when my husband and I mostly just put on dumb outfits and got as weird as possible to kill time.

We lived in a tiny condo and our only outdoor space was our parking space, so we’d go have picnics in our parking space or use it to pretend like we were on vacation in Vegas to terrify our friends by making them think we were being super reckless.

We also bought a selfie stick to pretend like we were on vacation in our tiny apartment which is pretty much the only way I’d ever justify using a selfie stick.

Finished at last. Behold the rainbow feetsies! #knitting

TikTok: Look! I discovered hot water melts frozen food faster!

Twitter: Look at this TikTok video showing how to defrost your food faster!

Yahoo news: Millions of Twitter users view TikTok video showing new life hack for melting frozen food!

Mastodon: Please read my academic white paper describing the impacts of public school system underfunding

Amazing agility.

Look at this northern cardinal. Despite being in the center of a thick tight tangle of branches it moves with relative ease. Any acrobat would be envious. The bird is making its way to one of my bird feeders. In this photo, I'm not sure whether he's flying to his next perch or simply jumping. I suppose it's probably a combination of both, because he will need to right himself from the dive. Don't you think so?

"The female cardinal sings duets with her mate during courtship and while she's on the nest. During that time, her singing tells her mate when to bring food — and also when to stay away. This warning keeps the more conspicuous male's visits to a minimum, lest his flashy color expose the nest to predators." - abcbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #NorthernCardinal

My friend the brilliant author Rachel Pollack is coming to the end of her life. She won the Nebula, World Fantasy and Arthur C Clarke awards. She is a world renowned expert on Tarot, and her books on Tarot are still regarded as the good standard. She created the first trans superhero, in Doom Patrol in '93. I will miss her very much when she goes. I am writing this at the request of her wife Zoe, to let her friends know that the end is soon, and to let the obituarists know too.

Amen to that.

Bees are volunteers
Treat them kindly.
That is all.

#Pampered #Bees #AltText #Alt4You Added

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I may be too firmly grounded in the space-time continuum to park here.

there were probably more than a few forged permission slips

The thing is that corrupt people think other people are just as corrupt. They’re angry and confused when they don’t find the criminality they’ve been screeching about.

‘Jim Jordan is having a 'rough time' as his House committee hearings flop: analyst https://flip.it/ONvo9F

'Crippled with fear': How Jinjer Duggar escaped Duggar family's 'unhealthy version' of Christianity https://www.alternet.org/crippled-with-fear-jinjer-duggar/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Alright, I’m a sucker for water. Here’s Lake Arbutus in Traverse City, MI. Pretty much the same spot, noon and night.