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

@paul Imma get a big stack of "Government Funded" bumper stickers and label every Tesla automobile I encounter

So, Twitter decided to pull a DeviantArt move and change its Terms Of Services to include anything you post there on their AI dataset, to re-publish your art and benefit from it without your consent or compensation.

TIME TO DELETE YOUR ART PORTFOLIO ON TWITTER

I will only leave my contact information there, nothing else.

#Twitter #artistsonmastodon #TwitterAlert #AuthorsRights #AI #DeleteTwitter

An #anthropologist attends a #CPAC conference ( #conservative #RightWing #America) and reports on their findings of the attitude towards #trans folks.

This being @SAPIENS_org, it is well thought through, fully supportive of trans folks and focused on debunking some of the #myths that the right perpetuate.

I'm really pleased to see serious #academic #writing focused on supporting trans folks. Will the right wing read this? Probably not. Will people who are unaware of the attacks trans folk experience every day read this? Quite probably. Will it help to increase understanding, empathy and allyship? I sincerely hope so.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/transphobia-myths/

My husband and I had very different upbringings where my parents didn’t have a lot of money and his parents did have money and were able to buy him whatever he wanted.

For example, my husband once told me a story about how he pretty much asked for every Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toy in existence and complained that his parents got him “MOST of them, but not ALL of them.”

Meanwhile, I have a memory from when I opened my Christmas present to find ONE roller skate:
https://beige.party/@Alice/109971418134568029

#Informatiker
Was sind acht Hobbits? Ein Hobbyte!

My dogs like to play a game I call ‘Shame Land Mine.’ What they do is, they lie somewhere where I have to walk and for which there is no alternate path. To win I have to accidentally step on them or kick them while trying to navigate around them. After I make contact with them, they look at me like I have desecrated their ancestors tombs. The worse I feel, the more they win.

“Could you possibly be more gay?”

Narrator: They lived to regret those words, for he could, indeed, be infinitely more gay.

I have a joke about trickle down economics, but 99 percent of you won’t get it.

"They said it was "for the children" but it's not for the children" is not the slam dunk own you think it is so long as you're still accepting the basic premise that my existence is something we need to have a debate about because it MIGHT somehow harm children. You're doing the fascist's work for them; attack the argument at the source - WHY is it okay to imply a whole subset of society EXISTING harms CHILDREN?

DO FUCKING BETTER PLEASE MY LIFE DEPENDS ON IT.

I'm so grateful for the support and community building enabled just by being here. Mastodon is the best, most pleasurable experience of being online I've had in years. It feels like the old collaborative web I remember.

We can continue to show the power and potential of the fediverse by supporting TXO's Spring Membership Drive: https://texasobserver.org/join

In addition to becoming a member, you can help by boosting or making your own toots!

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #JournoLife #nonprofit #journalism

For the longest time #photography was my only creative outlet. Often I was stuck taking pictures at noon during lunch. Noontime light is far from ideal. But this swallowtail #butterfly landed on a #purple #thistle in perfect bloom. It was one of those moments that makes a photographer smile. How often does nature present us with a scene of vivid complimentary colors? I have a stack of these photos. Every one of them is gorgeous because of the subject. ❤️🦋

Hey y'all!

During the day I'm an old guy transitioning slowly into an IT career, but in the meantime, I'm into historical tabletop wargaming, miniature painting, 3d printing, the arts, philosophy, space and sciences, and a good bit more!

#introduction #miniaturepainting #miniatures #3dprinting, #historical_wargaming #TooFatLardies #Bolt_Action #28mm #Chain_of_Command #15mm #resinprinting #airbrush #scalemodeling #stoicism

@hannu_ikonen I was young during the Reagan years. I remember lots of folks being angry, but didn’t understand why. Looking back, I’m stunned how he started things that would destroy this country and turn it into the current vampire capitalism hellscape. In many ways, he was worse than Trump.

I’m not getting more conservative as I get older, like the GOP thinks we will… I’m now all ‘seize the means of production, comrades!! Smash fascism, smash racism, smash capitalism!!’ 😡👊

Sometimes I like to watch old interviews with musicians.

Often I’m surprised by how different my perception of them is compared to the reality. I’m sure to a large degree that’s an intentional curation, making gods out of men.

I was just 13 when Kurt Cobain died in 1994, so at 27 years old he just looked like a grown ass man to me.

Watching his interviews now, he looked so young and even childish. Not a bad thing, just a reflection on how our perceptions can change as we age.

@GottaLaff On April 21st

The largest student protest in Florida's history will take place.

Students across the state will walk out of their classrooms to learn a piece of history banned by Florida's legislature, sign an active voter pledge, and enroll in a virtual African American history course.

Learn more at Walkout2Learn.org
#Florida #DemCastFL #LetThemLearn #FReadom #FreedomToLearn #TeachTheTruth

Fox News will likely try to recoup the $787 million settlement by negotiating higher carriage fees with cable providers.

Those providers will then pass the extra costs to you by increasing your monthly bill, even if you never watch Fox News

Fox News lies

You pay

Different.

I wanted to get a look at the feathers on the brown pigeon that's been coming around. So I sat outside and waited for the pigeons to fly to the bird feeders and finally got a couple pictures. I chose this one because at least you cans see its head.

The thing that I notice, right of the bat, is the tail feathers. When the feathers are fanned out, there is a gap with one feather in the middle. I haven't noticed this with other pigeons. Usually, when the tail is fanned out there is an arc of feathers. So ... it makes me wonder why. Did the pigeon lose those feathers or is it just the way they are?

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #pigeon #RockPigeon #RockDove #dove

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For example, the autistic tests ask whether you copy characters on TV, to know how to socialise. That’s autistic scripting. I thought I didn’t script, because I didn’t copy TV characters.

But by interacting with other autistic people I realised that scripting is so much more than that. That thing where I rehearse interactions with people beforehand? That’s scripting. Or where I quietly rehearse a phone call before I make it? Scripting.  

Where are these autistic spaces? Right here on mastodon there’s the actually autistic group https://a.gup.pe/u/actuallyautistic

On reddit, there’s r/autisminwomen.com which despite its name is not just for cis women, but open to trans and nonbinary as well. r/autism is also good, although there are some gatekeepers who disparage self diagnosis, so be aware.

If you are looking for resources for autistic adults have a look at: https://mashadutoit.com/2023/01/16/resources-for-adult-autistic-people/

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#ActuallyAutistic #autism