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

"I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging."
- Kathy Griffin

Hi! 👋🏻 Thanks for following! I'm a freelance software dev, building WordPress sites, iOS apps, and a little game dev.

In May, I'm doing site redesigns, spending time outdoors, and promoting tech people on Mastodon who are doing interesting things. What is your plan for the month?

Oftentimes trans folks are challenged to defend how we really know what our gender is and we’re held to a high standard of having deconstructed gender and in having an ability to articulate and defend it. So here’s a thought experiment for cis folks:

How do you know that you’re really the gender you say you are? Can you articulate why you are your assigned gender at birth? At what age did you know? How long did you have to spend identifying as your gender before you were sure it was right?

I found this and want to share.

I’ve watched the session in question several times and missed what Zephyr did that was worthy of being banned. But then again, I would be shocked if I read/heard actual solutions coming from any Republicans to any issues that concern most Americans.

Given the last few years or even weeks, what she said seems incredibly tame. Let’s just say something else is going on.

Montana judge denies Zooey Zephyr's request to return to House floor-
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/montana-judge-denies-zooey-zephyrs-request-return-house-floor-rcna82574

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

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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.