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

Accurate.

And now, Missouri...

#RalphYarl

One that was inspired by a friend's photo of a carefree moment on the beach. Hope you enjoy.

Find prints, etc. here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/carefree-moment-on-the-beach-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

#Beach #coast #Man #birds #happy #CreativeToots #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

There are still good people in the world, this gives me hope! Happy Tuesday to all 🙋‍♂️💙🙏🦌

Now I know why old people (like myself) are so cranky all the time - it’s from watching a lifetime of injustices perpetuated on those who can’t fight back.
I’m not getting more conservative the older I get, I’m getting more angry at the bloody hateful conservatives 😑

In many ways, my mother was my idol. At Christmas dinner one year, she ordered some guests - a work colleague and her husband - out of our home because the man went on a homophobic rant.
She taught me that it's not "I disagree, but to act would be socially awkward", it's "No. Not in my house".

Just read that it’s law that you have to turn your headlights on when it’s raining in Sweden.

How the hell am I supposed to know when it’s raining in Sweden?

HEY SEXY! KRAFT SINGLES IN -YOUR- REFRIGERATOR ARE GETTING MOLDY BECAUSE THEY GOT SHOVED ALL THE WAY TO THE BACK ON THE BOTTOM SHELF BEHIND THE BAKING SODA!

BREAKING: Andrew Lester, a white man who shot Ralph Yarl once in the head, then a second time while he lay on the ground, has been charged with one count of felony assault in the 1st degree; 1 count of armed criminal action. https://bit.ly/3UHjlaa #RalphYarl #JusticeForRalphYarl #BlackMastodon #Mastodon #usa

@FantasticalEconomics @Heimdall @TonyStark @rebeccabguinn @curiouscatastrophe Human rights don’t have a gender or a color or a race or religion. They just fucking are. #Trans #USPol

My antifascist trilogy is the three *A Song Called Youth* novels (usually referred to as a cyberpunk trilogy), has never quite gone out of print and its latest edition of the three novels is from Dover Books. A Song Called Youth: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra, and Eclipse Corona. ..."A complex, bizarre, and unique vision of the near future, with a kaleidoscopic mix of politics, pop, and paranoia."--Bruce Sterling ...He forgot to mention action.

https://store.doverpublications.com/048681789x.html

This "He Gets Us" billionaire christofascist funded ad propaganda is pathetic.

If he existed, it was before the printing press.

Mythologizing and projecting onto a blank slate is exactly what makes these Nazi fascists so dangerous. Fuck this ad spam.

Hobby Lobby shitstain, we see you.

#fascism #Christofascism

@1finekitty @Frankc1450 It seems crazy given how huge the place is, but Disney could and SHOULD dismantle Walt Disney World and move the entire thing north to a less fascist state — particularly given the absolute disasters climate change will increasingly wreak on Florida over the coming decades. And if Disney left, others would quickly follow suit.

It would be delightful to watch DeSantis explain to Floridians how he single-handedly destroyed Florida’s tourist industry.

I’ve read a lot about the re-emergence of Tulare Lake in Southern #California due to our incredible rains.

But this was new to me: “This vast aquatic ecosystem was paradise to the people who lived there for thousands of years, but it disappeared in a geologic blink of an eye following the arrival of Euro-Americans into California.”

The lake has re-emerged a number of times, “following the motto that ‘You Can’t Keep a Good Lake Down.’”

Cool article:
https://californiawaterblog.com/2023/04/16/lake-tulare-and-its-fishes-shall-rise-again/

h/t @Ottermarie

@rebeccabguinn @ScottSoCal @TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe this fight reminds me of the fight for gay rights. As I remember there was a concerted effort to portray gays as child molesters before 2006. The online left were able to reference a lot of data showing most pedo’s were hetero and then Mark Foley, several other sex scandals, all built up and voilà, Speaker Pelosi. 2008 Dems were still wishy washy.

@rebeccabguinn @ScottSoCal @TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe by 2012 all mainstream democrats were for marriage equality and by 2015 Obergefell. But it took normalizing being out, and seeing gay relationships in mass media, overcoming AIDS stigma and all the way back to stonewall.
I want the party of the disenfranchised to fight for the most marginalized. Stand up for the truth that we’re all equal.

@ScottSoCal @rebeccabguinn @TonyStark @Heimdall @curiouscatastrophe
The GOP has to have an "other group" to demonize so they can divide us and continue to install an autocracy. We see this with the attacks on immigrants. On women's rights to choose. Then the whole CRT scam as an excuse to eliminate black history from being taught in schools. Now transgender people are under siege.

If we don't stand together, Rebecca, we all lose. That's the point.

Something I did last year that features a cheeky #rat in a mosaic style. Veni Vedi Rattus?

Prints and more here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/the-immortal-rat-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

#DigitalArt #RatsOfMastodon #Rats #animals #pets #MastoArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

Scientific American talks about #StochasticTerrorism which I believe is the tool being used by the right to generate a plausibly deniable #AntiTrans #Genocide

How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence

Pundits are weaponizing disgust to fuel violence, and it’s affecting our humanity

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-stochastic-terrorism-uses-disgust-to-incite-violence/#

Actually, a wolf in sheep’s clothing would be pretty cute.

Pro-Russia propagandist unmasked as New Jersey tropical fish seller (David Millward/Telegraph)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/04/17/propagandist-donbas-devushka-sarah-bils-unmasked/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230417/p84#a230417p84