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

Beam me up, Scotty
#DogsOfMastodon
#dogsofmastodon
#StarTrek

@StillIRise1963 Two blocks west and two blocks south of my mom’s condo in Midtown Atlanta…my niece’s preschool is in lockdown.

This stuff is literally getting closer and closer to home: mom just happens to be out of town today.

I like these kinds of notifications... 😍Proud that the (ex) Galactic President himself has liked my post! 🤩
@garthderby

I had a follower on Twitter with about 100 followers who once replied to news of a celebrity losing a pet with the hashtag and "I cried a bit".
That cunt Ben Shapiro picked this out of the trending hashtags pile and dunked on him for his "lib tears". In the first hour he got 13 000 notifications. All from Shapiro's dogpile shitbros - and, by fuck, they are a cruel and vicious species.
He locked his account and then deleted it. Later, I heard he'd tried suicide.
I took this up with Trust & Safety. Suggested they should rein in people like Shapiro, by locking their accounts to get deletions, or put them on a warning list to be suspended if they didn't stop this type of behaviour.
You wouldn't believe the utter bullshit I heard in reply. The gist of it was: "Fuck the victim. Everyone here is nasty. If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. And it's ridiculous to let 13k trolls an hour make you consider suicide. Other people - including TWITTER EMPLOYEES - get much worse."
All for an innocuous comment about a celeb's dog.
These are the people being quoted saying they hope BlueSky succeeds. Listen to them.

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 🤦