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

So, every week or so, instead of making my own lunch, I grab a pocket sandwich from G.P.S. (https://goo.gl/maps/e5ubtzfDfDw9FWdb9), and always really enjoyed their food, and the lovely couple that ran it.

Normally I go there, as it's right across the street, but I ordered in like 3 times when I felt incapable of leaving my place.

Today I went by there after groceries, and I forgot them there. Not wanting my food to get cold, I quickly ate, and at that moment, the owner rang my bell with my groceries in hand

I'm not sure that means what you think it does...

Brewding: That dark feeling that comes over you while you wait in line for coffee.

Leonard Nimoy at a #NOW rally in 1989. His sweater reads "PRO-CHILD, PRO-FAMILY, #PROCHOICE". His sash reads "HONORED GUEST". His pin reads "HONORARY SISTER".

#LeonardNimoy was #Jewish and spoke fluent Yiddish. His parents were first-generation #Ukrainian Jewish #immigrants who fled the Soviet Union and he was born in 1931 in Boston. Jewish activists have always been at the core of support for #abortion rights.

#MayHisMemoryBeABlessing.

https://www.tumblr.com/delphinidin4/690529825685946368/his-sweatshirt-reads-pro-child-pro-family

#socialmedia #tumblr

Maurice's breakfast and supper are now established rituals.

He's fed separately from the other rats because they have no respect for old age, they steal his food right out of his mouth. I put him in a container on the sofa where he can eat in peace. He's not been great about drinking enough water so these days he gets mushy food.

This morning's meal was a wet mix of carrots, oats, sorghum, egg, and avo. Maurice *loves* avo and he's very skinny so he can have as much as he likes.

He insists that I put his green igloo cover over him while he eats. I think it makes him feel less exposed.

He always manages to get a good portion of his breakfast on himself, especially his tail for some reason. The other rats form a reception party at the cage door ready to give him a really good wash when he returns to the cage.

I think he enjoys the grooming, so everyone wins.

#rats #PetsOfMastodon #RatsOfMastodon #today

Seems like a good day for a reminder of how quick studios are to screw over writers. In 1999, NBC moved a series from their regular network to Sci Fi Channel. My pay went from $240,000 to $0. Because my contract paid "per broadcast episode" instead of just "per episode."

The series ran. I just got nothing.

I think of bears as my spirit animal. I rarely see them in the area I moved to a few years ago but I used to see them often on my hikes where I used to live.

#bear #animals #naturelover #AYearForArt #mastodonart #fedigiftshop #mastoart #fediart #BuyIntoArt #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery

NO GODS NO KINGS:

Putin claims he’s cancelling public celebrations over safety fears. The truth is more humiliating https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/putin-cancelling-public-celebrations-safety-fears-ukraine-war?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

To be clear... you don't gotta RSVP, you can just show up. If you do RSVP at Eventbrite, you'll make us feel super happy and we'll know how much space to save. <3

see art here: https://theglasspixel.art/images/2023/04/98-finncoole.html

#NotAI #Art #AbstractArt #MastoArt #BuyIntoArt
#FediGiftShop #AYearForArt #CreativeToots

And you thought cats were bad. 🤭🦜🥰

Something’s been on my mind of late.

And it’s that the GOP is in a death spiral.

Since the shocking election result of 2016, we’ve watched the GOP underperform repeatedly in elections, losing the House in 2018, the White House and the Senate in 2020, and then failing to retake the Senate in 2022 in a “red wave” that never materialized.

One thing is clear to anyone looking at this objectively and dispassionately: Americans in the center—the independents and moderates who decide elections—have had enough of the extremists in the GOP.

Read my thoughts here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-extremism-party-death-spiral

If your experience of the Fediverse is that it's just like Twitter in how much antisemitism you experience, that's why I founded Babka and Babka Social, because that was my experience too.

Just having federation doesn't make it safe for Jews online.

Babka makes a deliberate and focused effort to address antisemitism. It takes continuous hard work and dedication by myself, my staff, and the incredible volunteers who make Babka operate.

#Babka #Jews #antisemitism #jewdiverse #mazeldon

Only two animal drawings left in this listing, pandas and poison dart frog, good little Father's Day gift ideas, if you are outside the UK, order as early as possible!
Original drawing - mixed media Animals https://etsy.me/3NvMh3p via @Etsy
#panda #frog #drawing #FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots

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I’m okay with this war.