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

There is no force stronger than the one keeping that tiny hair on your phone screen no matter how hard you blow on it.

Imagine being a prehistoric human and you figure out how to make a cool new knot. Talk about an epic gamer moment

Gosh! I won the Ace Hardware tool set and I didn't even enter!

"No employee of the federal government, that I’m aware of, is allowed to accept these kinds of gifts. If [Clarence] Thomas was in the House, if he was in the Senate, if he was in the White House, if he was anywhere else in government, this would not be allowed. If he was a lower court judge, this would not be allowed. And frankly, he should resign over this."

~ Ian Milhiser

#ClarenceThomas #SupremeCourt #corruption #ethics
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https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/3/supreme_court_corruption_scandal

a slow easy drift
gentle lightness of being
Sea turtles return...

**I love this time of year when the sea turtles come to lay eggs. It makes beach walking extra special! I am inspired.

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/slow-drift-sea-turtle-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #mastoart #nature #fediart #AYearForArt #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #haiku #smallpoems #sea #sealife #seaturtle #seaturtles #turtle #turtles #ocean #beach #beachlife #climate #climatechange #globalwarming

Thus Tooted Zarathustra

#RuinABook
#HashItOut
#HashtagGames

@selzero

#PewPewPew #HappyHappyBirthday! | #ThreePhaserSalute

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@Teri_Kanefield
Thanks for this.
I was a victim back in the late sixties early seventies &, according to the police, it was all my fault somehow & they refused to even file a report (I was 16 & grabbed off the street while walking to school).
A few years later, as a married woman trying to divorce an abusive spouse, I was told by the police that I was essentially his property & he could do to me (he had beaten me ‘til unrecognizable) as he wished (they also wouldn’t take/file a report).
We can’t go back to this. We just can’t.
This was only 50 years ago.

A bit more on my #antitheism

I am actively against ALL forms of organised religion.
That, however, does NOT mean that I am against people who say that they belong to those religions. I like Homo Sapiens. I used to be one myself.
I am also not against personal religion - If you want to believe in an afterlife or higher power to bring you peace or comfort, then crack on.
But if you form a religion (esp based on the Abrahamic religions), I will have a problem with it.
#ReligionPoisonsEverything

Thinking about how "catcalling" from construction workers is -a lot- less common than it was when I was a teen, many years ago.

Know why? Because enough MEN decided to not hire construction crews who turned into utter predatory assholes when teenaged girls walked by.

Guys: if you know your co-worker/neighbor is a bigot, or a fascism supporter, I implore you to ostracize them in as many points of life as you can..

We all have points of privilege: and they matter.

As a white LGBT person, I obviously am not gonna have much sway with anti gay folks, but I -have- personally kicked a racist LGBT person out of my house during a party because they insisted upon being racist.

It may be we can only do small actions, but they can really add up to big impact. That concludes today's lecture.

@AnnieBuddy @StillIRise1963

Damn right, they need to be stopped.

I keep saying this: They want 1830s with smartphones and ChatGPT. Blacks and mulattoes in chains, Latins in the fields, queers in closets, and everyone else in Christian churches and married parents by 17. #BlessedBeTheFruit #TheNewGilead

Fine specimen of a man at the gym. I think. I didn't look. Didn't want to be creepy. Maybe it wasnt a man. Could have been a woman. Definitely upright and human. Might have been a post with a jacket hung on it. I saw a lot of shoes too. #EyesDown

Found the forest where Home Depot gets their two-by-fours.

Kinda feel like its not too much to ask that by 14 months into this war Milley should have consulted at least one map of Ukraine by now 🤦

@coffeepine
Pusheen agrees

”The million-dollar question is now: how do we make sure the Observer is here in another seven decades?”

Our Editor in Chief @gabrielarana spoke with The Guardian, for World Press Freedom Day, about the importance of keeping publications like the ours alive: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/03/blocked-censored-jailed-or-laid-off-why-its-never-been-harder-to-be-a-journalist

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #journalism #JournoLife #nonprofit #NewMemberMonth

@TonyStark

Respectfully, “vote wisely” is encouraging— but not enough. As a nation, we haven’t reached 70% voter turnout since the 19th century. (electproject.org)

2024 puts the choice between maintaining our constitutional Republic and actual MAGA-GOP fascism on the ballot.

Getting out the vote MUST BE our priority, particularly in the reality of active voting suppression laws and strategies.

#gotv
#BidenHarris2024

Microsoft acts like it’s lost all institutional knowledge of the Internet Explorer court case, which is pretty weird because I was twelve and the institution of me retains knowledge of it https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23709297/microsoft-edge-force-outlook-teams-web-links-open

DYK the term 'scientist' was coined in 1834, specifically, to describe a woman of #Science b/c referring to her as a 'man of science' seemed at odds?

"Whewell coined 'scientist' not just as a gender-neutral term bt to celebrate 'the peculiar illumination of the #female mind: ability to synthesize separate fields into a single discipline...like an 'artist.'

Imagine if synthesizing minds had dominated the course of #history over the last 2k yrs?
#Marginalian #women

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