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

This is St. Mark's Lighthouse on the #Florida coast. I did this one sometime last year as it was one of my Mother's favorite lighthouses - one she visited with her parents as a child.

Find prints, etc. here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/floridas-historic-st-marks-lighthouse-mark-tisdale.html

#lighthouse #Coast #MastoArt #CreativeToots #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

A big mistake that liberal minded folks are making is buying into the "I just don't understand" lie & dog whistle that bigots keep using.

Stop trying to teach them or to explain. This is the interaction they want.

You don't have to "get it" or even like it, to respect people & their right to live their lives how they want.

I don't understand sports fanatics and yet I'm not trying to pass laws to stop tailgate parties & ban face painting your team colours.

#Rights #LGBTQ #Bigotry

Life has hard times and loss. I had to deal death from a very early age as I lost my Dad at 10 to suicide, then his brother who was my favorite uncle a year later and a year after that their Mom and my sweet Granny. Grief work is special to me. I want to bring comfort.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/let-me-be-comforting-poetry-and-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #mastoart #fediart #artwork #death #loss #grief #grieving #comfort #life #poetry #poem #writing #writer #tulips #flowers #flower #AYearForArt #spring #hope #faith #friends #friendship #artwork

Ted Cruz laid out a sinister scheme in the lead-up to Jan. 6 to overturn a 224-year tradition of transferring power from one president to the next.

Ted Cruz is unworthy of the United States Senate.

Hey all, new instance new intro post.

I’m a 30 something educator in the PDX area. I like #reading 3 books at a time, watching too many dumb sitcoms #WWDITS #BobsBurgers #30Rock forever. But the media love of my life will always be #StarTrek especially #DS9. Also big fan of #BeckyChambers and #AlexisHall

I’m a proud #gay man engaged to the best, silliest guy. Sometime explorers.

Amateur #iPhone #Photography will be appearing here from time to time. #Apple user but big #FOSS fan.

Part 1: I felt like doing a new #Introduction post as I never pinned my original one. I'm Mark a #DigitalArtist and #Photographer - I've been doing this around 15 years now, most of that time it's been my only gig. I feel like I've been starting over the past year as I spent the past 5 years taking care of my Mom who is in the late stages of dementia. Last spring I had to face it was no longer something I could do at home. Luckily she's very close and I walk over to see her almost every day.

Shout out to the DMV agent who, when my mom said no to voter registration, looked her dead in the eye and said, "They're going to take away your grandchildren's rights, you need to register." and now my mom is finally registered to vote.

finally finished restoring my Nana's singer sewing machine, had to let the case dry for five months, then consolidate the wood, match original varnish, find the right drawer handles, fill holes. while my engineer took the machine to bits and gave her a good clean and replace a few parts. ain't she pretty #sewing

Our local garden center gifted us this purple pansy on earth day. We are still looking for just the perfect spot to plant it. But first I had to take a portrait of this beauty. #Pansy #SpringFlower #Gardening #EarthDay

#FediGiftShop https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/Single-Large-Purple-Pansy/1166259

#MastoArt #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

Teams is like Microsoft sat down with CIA counterrevolutionary strategists and asked, 'how can we ensure nobody ever organises anything worth a damn ever again?'

This made me chuckle 😂😂

So, uhh, this definitely needs to change.

“The #FDIC and #SEC are currently unable to retract executive pay from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank leaders … The rules only require executives to return their bonuses if their awards were based on errors in their companies’ financial statements. Neither bank made an accounting mistake large enough to require a formal correction…”

#lawfedi @law #svb #podcast

https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/tues-425-apple-win-over-epic-coinbase

"In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches...

No large rocket complex on the planet exists that doesn’t contain one or both of these energy suppression systems.

SpaceX’s orbital pad, by way of comparison, is but a 30 ft tall stand situated 400 feet away from Methane storage tanks and 500 feet away from ecologically sensitive low tidal flats."

#Ecc is time for payback.
Do not let the suffering and sacrifice that so many #USA citizens took to end our insane 20th century wars be in vain.
Denounce and boycott all the corporations and governments that do not declare their public support behind #Biden for 2024.
It is not a #USA issue, it is a #World one and no matter how you feel about, sacrifices must be done.
And make sure your direct representatives know the cost of not boycotting #USA corporations and Billionaires that will not publicly announce their full support behind #Biden.

“Their calculation is the same as it was for Jews in the 1930s: It doesn’t matter if we end up in a homeless shelter far away, it is still safer than living under this fascist government.”

-Brynn Tannehill describes the human tragedies beginning to unfold under violently extreme Republican rule.

#Fascism #RepublicanExtremism

https://newrepublic.com/article/172097/republican-plot-end-trans-america

This is a small thing, but a nice thing: For years, our local small market in our little town had all the basics of life - but only the basics. It was recently sold, and the new owners have started bringing in little luxury items. I end up buying a lot of them because I want to encourage them to keep doing it, so I don't have to leave town to get, like, nice cheeses and stuff.