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

Tennessee congressman Andy Ogles, who represents the district in which the Covenant School mass shooting occurred yesterday, sent thoughts and prayers to the families of those who died in the shooting. Have a look at the Christmas card he and his family sent to friends last year, a photo of which is included in this article.

#guns #MassShooting #Tennessee #AR15 #AmericanExceptionalism

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/andy-ogles-covenant-school-christmas-card

Yesterday, the last of our littermate, sister cats passed away.

In 2005, we adopted two of the cutest, sweetest kittens *ever* from the county animal shelter. It took almost a month before Lucy and Ethel were trusting enough to let us pet them but after that, they knew they were "home". They never fought or raised a claw to each other or to us. Not once! Lucy passed in November. Ethel followed yesterday. We'll miss them dearly! ♥️ ♥️

#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #RainbowBridge #LucyAndEthel

#IAmDB

#Theists:
Please demonstrate that your #god has had any tangible effect on Earth.

Take your time.

____________________
an #atheist vs #faith

Just read a story about a food company successfully growing "mammoth meatballs" from mammoth meat lab grown from mammoth DNA.

Have we learned nothing?

You don't tug on Superman's cape
You don't spit in the wind
You don't open the mummy sarcophagus
and you don't grow mammoth meat.

This is how zombies happen, people.

Peter Thiel, 2009: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.”

Presumably he was referring to the freedom of oligarchs like himself to be unconstrained by taxes and regulations.

In this narrow sense, he’s correct: Oligarchy is incompatible with democracy.

@ScottSoCal @Pepper @TonyStark As is true with all of the right's dearest "freedoms"

They only ever extend to people they like doing things they like.

Tweets mentioning the hateful anti-LGBTQ+ ‘grooming’ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over the platform

Just five accounts driving the ‘grooming’ narrative generate up to $6.4m per year for Twitter in advertising revenue
One of these accounts, James Lindsay, was reinstated by Musk after previously receiving a permanent suspension before the takeover

Tweets mentioning the hateful anti-LGBTQ+ ‘grooming’ narrative have jumped 119% since Elon Musk took over the platform, new analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found.

https://counterhate.com/blog/twitter-makes-millions-as-anti-lgbtq-grooming-narrative-jumps-119-under-elon-musk/

#Twitter #Groomer #LGBTQ #Hate #Profits

Phonebank for abortion rights which are at stake in Wisconsin Supreme Court Election
#WISupremeCourt #JudgeJanet Protasiewicz https://thedemlabs.org/2023/03/28/phonebank-for-protasiewicz-to-protect-abortion-rights-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-election/

If my kids have to do gun shooting drills & practice where to hide in case a shooter comes into their school with an assault rifle to shoot them, your white kids can handle learning about what your ancestors & their ancestors did to black people in our country til 60 years ago.

i spent years thinking that i wasn't "really" trans

i "wanted to be" a girl

i hated "being" a boy

i fantasized about magic or science that could change my body

but somehow i still thought i wasn't "really" trans

bc i didn't say it

(scared)

and didn't transition

(super scared)

but i was ALWAYS trans

even before i said it

even before i transitioned

even before i knew the word

there's no legal amount of pride merch you have to own before you're 'really' trans

you are trans enough

@cwnidog @bigheadtales @Lowie

Oof, didn't expect the potential closure of the @TexasObserver to be one of the first things I'm posting about! Many of you have probably seen by now that our board voted quite suddenly a couple days ago to close the publication and lay everyone off. The staff is holding an emergency fundraiser to convince the board otherwise! We have raised $150k in less than 24 hours, and are hopeful. More details here: https://texasobserver.social/@TexasObserver/110101912371078713

Hey -- boost this one for reach, huh? I'm looking at potentially hiring a contract game designer to help me with some innovation projects over the next year at PlayStation's Future Forward Concepting team. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, lets chat.

@TonyStark A child leaving home for school in the morning might not return home alive, owing to too many guns being too easily accessible to too many people who would use the guns to shoot at school children and school staff and first responders.

How about my parental rights to have my kid come home alive, Republicans, if you care so much about parental rights?

New report shows Elon Musk making millions by enabling spread of "groomer" lie about #LGBTQ+ people. If he's been around in the Middle Ages, he'd have monetized the blood libel against Jews. https://counterhate.com/blog/twitter-makes-millions-as-anti-lgbtq-grooming-narrative-jumps-119-under-elon-musk/

Good morning, Fediverse! We'll be getting fresh content up on our website this afternoon! Thank you so much to everyone—so many folks are sharing about our fundraiser and giving so generously, we are all incredibly moved. 🤠

Please keep sharing our fundraiser, which will either cover magazine expenses or go directly to severence for laid off TXO staff. https://www.gofundme.com/f/laid-off-texas-observer-journalists-and-staff

A lot of people are asking about long term plans for the publication. ... (🧵 1/?)

#SaveTXO #journalism #nonprofit

@TonyStark Turns out "The Council for National Policy" is another one of these Reagan-era "socialism for conservatives" organizations.

They take in unfathomable amounts of rich peoples' money and use it to create safe, reality-challenged spaces where Republicans can share their imagined grievances.

An Illinois Catholic school teacher & Boy Scout leader has pleaded guilty to grooming multiple children.

#NoDragQueensDetected

Former Rockford teacher, scout leader enters plea deal in sex case https://www.rrstar.com/story/news/crime/2023/03/27/former-rockford-teacher-scout-leader-enters-plea-deal-in-sex-case/70052959007/