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

Empathy is good

SB 458 is one of the most extreme anti-trans bills in the country. Please take 3 minutes today and call the Capitol switchboard to say no to SB 458! 406-444-4800.

Here are some points you can make when you leave a message for your senator on SB 458. ☎️ Call 406-444-4800.

#MTLeg #MTPol #MTNews #Montana #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Intersex #MarriageEquality #LGBTQIA #MontMastodon

in the yard
they whisper
messages or songs
i hardly know
but i listen
lest i miss the magic

#poetry #magic #BlackAndWhite #art #MastoArt #ayearforart #springintoart #writing #writingcommunity #photo #trees #fineart

@skrishna @ScottSoCal agreed - their story, with Adira too, I feel has been presented sensitively and yet with normality.

As with your original post - which has moved me incredibly too - representation matters, to all :-)

As an older white straight male growing up in the north of of England, seeing anything outside that monoculture was important and vital, I've seen what happens to people who don't let these things in...

@ScottSoCal @skrishna

When I saw this scene, I announced that it was the gayest Star Trek moment - gayer than Jadzia Dax's kiss.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?

The banks didn't fail because of wokeism- they failed because of Trumpism. Trump and GOP repealed regulations that would have 100% prevented the bank collapse. Once again Dems cleaning up the GOP's mess

I’ve heard it said that phishers leave in bad grammar or errors to help limit potential victims to people who are impaired or not paying attention. But today’s email demanding payment from “Bit-Defeder® Secuirty” took that a bit far.

“Liberal, liberal, liberal.” I remember when Ronald Reagan used the term as a slur during a speech in 1988. That dreaded “L” word. Many Americans lump “liberal” together with the words “bleeding heart” and incorrectly believe it means people who are just plain soft on things like spending and crime.

But true liberal values are actually what hold our democracy together and the loss of them threatens our future as a democratic republic. Today’s piece looks at the state of Florida under Governor Ron DeSantis and how it is a prime example of the illiberal threat to our system. You can read my latest Substack here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/illiberal-florida-desantis-war-democracy

The proper term is “Christian Nationalism” - thanks.

The real CEO… (by u/BullTerrierMomm)

Or perhaps, just perhaps, the nation’s supposedly leading business newspaper would have better seen these failures coming if they had focused more on market, economic, and business conditions and less on obsessively rooting out the woke menace of women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and veterans(!) gaining token admission to the corridors of power and wealth.

I have a task in my notebook saying "Text Andrea" which I wrote as soon as I woke up and arranged my tasks. I have no idea who this is. I looked over my emails and messages everywhere, customers, supporters, no sign of an Andrea I would need to text today. So I asked my partner and he said "I met an Andrea in my dream", so we realised, it's one of those times that our dreams overlap, it happens a lot, and my mind when I just woke up definitely knew about Andrea. But who the fuck is Andrea now?

Good morning, beautiful people! Rise and shine! #sunrise from my office window ☀️

A wee selection of 330 million year old marine molluscs 🖤 #MolluscMonday

Please stop slut shaming pie.

Oxford commas seem great until you confuse a list for a clause because you’re a complete idiot.

A dangerous new proposal at the #Texas Legislature would potentially empower militia groups to act with impunity—and full legal immunity—at the #border, reports @justinmiller.

Opponents call it a dangerous vigilante move that will get innocent people killed. https://www.texasobserver.org/border-militia-bill-reveals-texas-gops-scheme-to-expand-state-enforcement-powers/

#immigration #news #TXlege #USpol #politics #HumanRights #police #GregAbbott

Well there you have it. Desantis is Putin's agent. As is Trump and every member of the Republican Party.

If you want to save the world from dictatorship, stop wasting your Blue vote in a Red State and move to a Swing State before the voter registration deadline for 2024.

#PackSwingStates

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/ron-desantis-says-protecting-ukraine-not-vital-us-interest-rcna74795

It's strange how anachronisms can creep into your speech when you get old enough. "Waiting by the phone", you know how many people have done that in the last decade? None people, that's right.