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

I’m happy to say that @TexasObserver reached $200,000 on their GoFundMe!

Journalists around the world, are you seeing this?

Biden said: Under my economic plan, no one making less than $400,000 will pay more in taxes.

But you know who will?

Billionaires, multi-millionaires, multinational corporations, and businesses with massive stock buybacks who have gotten away with low-to-no taxes for too long.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

GuN lAwS dOn'T wOrK.

Oh really?

Chart source: https://www.ft.com/content/aa5fe164-bae9-4293-97b0-78f8369aadd6

I added the dates the US assault weapon ban was passed and expired. See any differences?

@ScottSoCal (Also I don't think all four were really trans anyway)

@ScottSoCal I want to teach everyone some basic statistics so badly! 😂

Not gonna lie, the newest step in the ongoing demonisation and scapegoating of trans people -- the reaction to this mass shooting in Nashville -- is deeply, deeply frightening. I'm so glad I don't live in the US but many innocent people do, and they are going to bear the brunt of this witch-hunt. I do not like where this goes.

On April 3, you will meet the team of astronauts flying to the Moon on the #Artemis II mission.

These explorers will pave the way for future lunar landings and our next giant leap — human exploration of Mars. https://www.youtube.com/live/mua1Lysc_JQ?feature=share
#NASA

New handmade jewellery additions!

Any support helps greatly with my music and music videos productions that are centered around mental health, the climate crisis and gender.

Plus they make for wonderful gifts for you or someone you love! ❤️

Get yours on Etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/GenderlessBySkaly?ref=search_shop_redirect

#shophandmade #shop #handmade #art #jewellery #necklace #artist #artists #etsy #musician #musicians #nonbinary #Wednesday #photo

The schadenfreude is strong with this one

JAGMEET AND THE NDP HAVE DONE IT!

Jagmeet won progressive commitments when Trudeau needed support for his minority government, and Jagmeet and the NDP won a promise for FULL DENTAL CARE for Canadians. Today Liberal partners delivered on that promise.

Congratulations to Jagmeet! And The NDP!

#DentalCare #Jagmeet #Canpoli #BCpoli #ONPoli #NDP #Liberal

When Native's have the last word...🤭

Hi. As a large language model created by thousands of years of adversarial evolution pressure, I am capable of basic tasks, such as posting memes and watching videos. How many I be of assistance?

What if meetings are just a conspiracy by extroverts to suck the life force from regular people?

Once again, I'm writing a #limerick using a haiku prompt:

When his company's website was hacked,
Its CISO summarily packed.
They'd ignored his advice,
Not just two times, but thrice.
He was blamed (no surprise) and then sacked.

#575Prompt #Hacking @aethelshane

#Limericks #Poetry #TinyPoems #SmallPoems #Poets #Prompts #Prompt #WritingPrompt #Poem #AmWriting #MicroPoetry #Writing #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #Technology #Computers #Business #Employment

It's funny that some people still say "Mastodon is the new Google+" and predict that this "too" will die eventually. They are just forgetting that Google+ was hosted by Google and killed by Google. Mastodon is hosted by no one in particular so it really can't be killed unless all the thousands of servers are killed.

No one is saying that "Internet will die eventually". The same pricinples apply for Mastodon, because to permantently be wiped out would mean an extinction level event. Ironically enough, mammoths died of extinction but Mastodon will prosper. #Mastodon #SocialMedia

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.