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

Frightening: Global warming is causing tornados in California. This alert was issued for Valley Center, CA. Hopefully it didn't touch down:

Never thought I’d ever see this many snowflakes in Florida.

European Far Right/Far Left: Ukraine are Nazis.
Ukraine:
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RT @RabbiUkraine
Today I gave the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, @CinC_AFU, a box of matzah & wished him & all the brave defenders of 🇺🇦 a happy Passover.

May we all be sitting around a table next year together, celebrating a free and united #Ukraine! 🎊

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦🇮🇱
https://twitter.com/RabbiUkraine/status/1641453885981335565

@thexylom @msfreepress
@damemagazine @TucsonSentinel @themarkup @STAT
@ProPublica
@TheConversationUS @gbhnews We're hosting #Newstodon Friday tomorrow, let's make it a party! Refreshments on us!

Thought I saw Jesus in my mango smoothie. Blended for a minute longer and it turned into Meryl Streep. She is so versatile.

Am looking for artists. Want something nice to fill my walls with, and support struggling artists at the same time! Boost please!

russia will lead the United Nations Security Council in April

The Presidency of the United Nations Security Council rotates on a monthly basis between 15 member states.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called the move a "bad joke" and said that the world "can't be a safe place" with russia as head of the #UN Security Council

More here🔗 https://kyivindependent.com/russia-to-chair-un-security-council-in-april/

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine

Sorry Meatball Ron

‘People Are Loving That Disney Honcho Bob Iger Appears To Have Made A Fool Of Ron DeSantis’ https://flip.it/schAnN

I'm not sure who needs to hear this but you don't owe anyone on the internet your real name or a profile image that's a real photo of you.

> Among the unexpected sources of support for the magazine was the “fediverse” [ . . . ] Many comments on the GoFundMe page mention that the donors learned about the Observer through Mastodon – where { @TexasObserver } was one of the first journalistic outlets to set up its own server [ . . . ]

> { @jamescanup }, the magazine’s managing director, responded to the news of the shutdown by [ . . . ] setting up a GoFundMe campaign [ . . . ] donations quickly soared, raising the hope that there might be a way forward for a leftist publication in a deeply red state after all.

> [ . . . ] “There are more Democrats in Texas than there are in any other state besides California.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/20…

/via mastodon.social/@joolia/110109… @joolia

There’s an awful lot of violence, slavery, misogyny, and murder in the Bible. Maybe we should ban that book?

Journalism is maximally profitable when it is maximally useless.

The stories that are the easiest to sell ads against are the ones that are relevant to the most people. The stories that are the most useful to any given person are likely *not useful* to people outside their community.

I don't need National news, excepting in very rare circumstances.

I need local news, which is only covered in very rare circumstances.

Sure! It's good for me to know what's happening in US or Global politics, but what happened at last night's school board meeting or city council or county commissioner's meetings has way more Impact on my life.

The undead are vulnerable to fire?
Buddy, let me tell you what else is weak against fire: goddamn everything. If you need to destroy something, try fire, I always say

A few days ago, @TexasObserver was on its deathbed. Now the crusading nonprofit newsroom is getting a second chance after raising $300,000 in a crowdfunding campaign:

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/29/texas-observer-keep-publishing/

#texas #journalism #news

I’d much rather listen to a guy in drag read “My Two Dads” in a public library than go through another active shooter training or lockdown in my school.

Unlock your spirit.

#spirit
#courage
#blacksheep

Yay!! I picked up my big shy boi from boarding!! We rode the BART back to the neighborhood and now we're people watching, sniffing things, and getting coffee.

I love this lug.

(Mood enhanced also because shenanigans.)