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

I've been super emotional today for no known reason.

Hello out there!

During the #twittermigration five months ago I joined Mastodon and now with the #calckey surge going on, I'd thought I’d check out what this side of the #Fediverse is all about.

I’m a data #journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. My work focuses on data visualization and storytelling, analysis and investigative journalism.

I’m also a recent dad and an avid #skier, #cyclist and general lover of anything to do with #mountains.

I used to tweet a lot, mainly about news in #Calgary, #Alberta, #Canada, and especially about COVID-19 #data during the first two years of the pandemic. But I quit Twitter in December 2022 because it just became too much.

@ScottSoCal Well, we needed to know when Diaper stock was going to rise....

Our friends at @texastribune picked up the story from us: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/24/sid-miller-agriculture-department-texas-anti-trans-dress-code/
and reprinted the entire dress code policy for those who wish to see the entire document: https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/1b355128e99f3d7ef0fc260db35f4df5/Dress%20Code%20and%20Grooming%20Policy.pdf?_ga=2.217282963.425595656.1682370506-411444715.1679887173
@oconnell #LGBTQIA #Texas #transgender #Transphobia #queer #agriculture #politics #news

Good.

The administration actually speaks out all the time, it just doesn't get the coverage.

Biden goes after GOP on book bans, school funding at Teacher of the Year event |
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/3966955-biden-goes-after-gop-on-book-bans-school-funding-at-teacher-of-the-year-event/

#TheLastofUs #star #BellaRamsey #quits #Twitter: “Thank you my #gay #army”

As of this #writing, it is unclear if Ramsey left over Twitter’s verification subscription service.

— I hope she makes her way to #mastodon

#Women #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Representation #Culture #TwitterMigration

https://www.gaytimes.co.uk/culture/the-last-of-us-star-bella-ramsey-quits-twitter-thank-you-my-gay-army/

There are bumblebees and hummingbirds in the wisteria and I guess I live on the patio now. 😍

Oh no... Sad news

#Newhart #BobNewhart

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/ginnie-newhart-dead-bob-newhart-1235400983/

A pebble full of wee fossil gastropods for #MolluscMonday 🐚

From really bad to much worse🚨, now we'll need to support Manchin, assuming he's running: GOP Gov. Jim Justice set to launch bid for Joe Manchin’s Senate seat in West Virginia this week-: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/24/jim-justice-to-run-for-joe-manchin-senate-seat-in-west-virginia.html

BREAKING: Ron DeSantis drops out of presidential run to apply for prime time position at Fox News seeking “Arrogant racist willing to spew angry right-wing rhetoric; facts not required.”

I'm a former Marine, former retired Fire Chief. I used to work with NDW Fire Department. I've lived in every state on the East Coast, Greece, Italy and Iraq. I am handicapped but I get around ok. I've met some cool people but Martin Luther King III is the biggest and best person I've met so far.

In case you haven't heard, Red Hat is laying off people today, and I'm one of them. My 'career' as a Hatter lasted just over 15 months, much less time than I had planned or expected.

Many of you know me well, and know that I have extensive background in open source software, project management, open source business, and lots of related activities. If you're aware of any opportunities which may be of interest, feel free to send them my way via any channel you like.

Boosts much appreciated, of course, and thanks in advance!

dear #mastodon,

which timeline/feature do you tend to spend the most time on?

p.s. please consider boosting for a more meaningful sample size.

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Awww Tuckums got canceled? CHEEZE 'IM!

👉 Always 🧀
👉 Be 🧀
👉 Cheezin' 🧀

#BrieBest #CheezeEmAll #b3d #tucker

@ScottSoCal even with the cloak! So many ships!! Also, plenty of time from the moment those two shot the cloaking device until they got to the bridge! 😁 I’m just kidding here. It doesn’t really matter 😆

#potatoLife #love is:

noticing an extraordinarily large cheeto deep in the party-size bag

using chopsticks to extract it from the sea of average-sized cheetos

offering it to your partner excitedly, interrupting their zoom meeting in the process

and then dropping it on the floor while trying to feed it to them ​

(he ate it anyway because he's grown to expect things like this from his potato ​)