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

Once, I saw a post asking, "Who the hell buys mild cheddar cheese?" but I want to know who spends all night thinking of new ways to judge others?

not just me right? cool, cool

#covidIsNotOver #MaskUp

I don't mean to brag, he said, bragging, but the cover to my upcoming novel Starter Villain may be the best book cover ever. Also the book is coming out on September 19 and you can totally pre-order it now if that's a thing you like to do. Also, also, the cover artist is Tristan Elwell and he did a fantastic job, which should be obvious because after all it is the best book cover ever

Charlie

Right now, Charlie is talking to me and nudging me. He wants to go for a walk. But I think I'll wait for it to warm up a bit.

In this photograph, I'm standing at the back door and Charlie is giving me the border collie stare as he creeps slowly toward me. Anybody who has a border collie probably knows what I'm talking about.

He had to trample through one more mud hole before coming inside. It rained for a straight week. Winter gets messy in the backyard. This is something we live with as well as his shedding. I positioned a mop at the small back door Foyer. But he's worth it ☺.

#photo #photography #photographer #dogs #dogsofmastodon

@1finekitty

I dont want to spoil the ending, but if being a justice isnt worth the pay, that is Thomas admitting to taking money to increase his pay.

No that it needs admitting, arrest the Corrupt Justice.

What if we just consider “desire to own an AR-15” a mental health issue?

Fuck Russel Brand.

That is all.

So here's my #Introduction:

I'm an old broad.

In my life I've done some stuff.

AS in Computer Science 1984.
BA in Philosophy in 2001.
Retired IT pro after 28 years as a programmer/analyst and business analyst.

Attempted to start a union, a co-worker ratted me out, was fired when I refused to discuss it with the employer, was reinstated with back pay per the NLRB.

To be continued ⤵️

👀 Via @LRozen:

the suspected #Texas mall killer had a profile on a Russian website? #Russia #shooting https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/us/texas-mall-shooting-mauricio-garcia.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/us/texas-mall-shooting-mauricio-garcia.html

"T always has gotten away w/it. I share your frustration. it’s fucking maddening. he always somehow has managed to dance btwn the raindrops

but things are different now

look: he’s been indicted. he’s on trial for rape. those are pretty big fucking deals

things are happening. there’s too much going on for something not to stick

you can’t dance between the raindrops in the middle of a shit storm"

"let's check in on D T's deepening legal hell"
by @jefftiedrich https://open.substack.com/pub/jefftiedrich/p/lets-check-in-on-donald-trumps-deepening?r=yteu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Logic says the screw I just dropped should be somewhere by my feet, but science says it's under the couch in the other room.

The #Metaverse - the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world - has died after being abandoned by the business world.

It was three years old.

https://www.businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead-obituary-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-tech-fad-ai-chatgpt-2023-5

#tech #Facebook

This is No. 508, new work from me. I held this one back for some time, revisiting it, modifying it, toying with the colors and textures, trying to get it just right. I sometimes have to remind myself that there's not one right answer when it comes to art, and I am letting this little bird fly free. Find it here: https://jon-woodhams.pixels.com/featured/no-508-jon-woodhams.html #AYearForArt #BuyIntoArt #AbstractArt #FediGiftShop #ArtForInteriorDesign #ArtistsOnMastodon #ContemporaryArt

A friend just called from jail and asked me to post Bond. Not sure how it will help, but I'll do anything for a old friend.

My doctor told me I’m at risk of heart disease because I eat too much sodium.

I was like, "Na."

"All I have ever been asked by friends and colleagues and loved ones in the Jewish community is to stand beside them against antisemitism.”

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/remarks-at-adl-together-against-hatred

@autism101 @actuallyautistic yep, and a wardrobe mostly of clothes I haven't taken out since I moved last (ten years ago).

I have a favourite type for each kind of clothing item and then buy lots the same. Anything else in the wardrobe is unlikely to be touched unless needed for a social setting which is hardly ever.

A few years ago there was an offer on Slazenger T's, all kinds of colours £3 each. I still have many waiting in their packs until I've worn the others out.

narrator: and what happened next surprised no one

Hey awesome humans. Hope you have a nice Monday:)

OK, an #introduction: dwenius = plord = Paul, been online forever, and have enjoyed it pretty much the whole time. I still miss Usenet; I still mourn LJ (DW is great, but the communities did not transfer the way they seem to be doing with Mastodon?); I'm mildly annoyed at the prospect of losing birdsite, where 15 years of careful follow curation gave me a mostly positive, energizing, low-doom-quotient timeline. So, show me your pets being clowns, or the wildlife in your yard, tell me what you are reading or listening to, boast about your awesome friends and the cool things they did. I'm here for it and will boost.

Currently living in VT with my best beloved @anne, by way of 15 years in S.F. and Berkeley, after quite abruptly fleeing northern VA (perhaps a story for another time..."Gallivanting around the countryside in a state of howling delirium can be highly instructive in myriad ways" - (misquoting) Grant Morrison).

I still talk about my kids like a new father, even though they are 25, 19, and alllllmost 17. I'm told this is endearing? whatevs, not gonna stop now. They are amazing human beings, and I'm so very glad to share this earth with them.

My personal blog went offline quite a while back and I haven't finished the work to resurrect it. I will self host it with Ghost; there are a few technical hurdles left to sort out and free time is scant. At /very/ irregular intervals I am apt to drop a lengthy blog post over at One Post Wonder, a lovely little social site with a one-post-per-day policy, run for many years now by a friend; almost all those are private though, so you'd have to sign up to follow me there. Only you can decide if it's worth it!

I collect music obsessively; my #AmbientHouse, #GoaTrance, #TheOrb, #Ultramarine, and #jamband (several flavors) libraries are approaching reference-quality, and I have literal terabytes of live jazz. I'll listen to almost anything (that is not a request or a challenge...).

Currently in heavy rotation: the latest #Polyphia release "RTYWD", a live #FionaApple concert from 1997, "Flood" by #TMBG (after seeing a great, thrice-COVID-delayed concert a month ago), and "Heads" by #Ott.

Never far from the rotation since they were released (desert island list I guess?): #TheOrb "U.F.Orb", #Ultramarine "Bel Air", #Material "Hallucination Engine", #Yes "Close To The Edge", a #SteveKimockBand live recording from the Great American Music Hall on 12/29/04, and #Seefeel "Quique".

Last concert: #TheCometIsComing
Next concert: #Covet

I could go on (and probably will). I'm 99% likely to spin up a second account on heads.social specifically to segment the music fan stuff...

I play guitar half-decently and modular synth like a relentlessly tinkering gnome, including making my own pedals and synth modules. I have shamelessly copied #SteveKimock's entire rig up to and including the #Two-Rock and handmade #ScottWalker guitars but alas, gear is no substitute for talent. The Modular is built around a set of #Wiard modules from Grant Richter and Cary Grace, and includes a bunch of bespoke 1-of-1 type specialty modules. The most recent adds to the studio are a Koma Komplex sequencer and an Erica Synths DB-01. Most of my output is ephemeral live performances (I'm in parts of https://garciapeoples.bandcamp.com/album/100-years-of-solid-dudes for example) but there will be actual releases here. Soon. This decade for sure. I'm getting closer. While you wait, check out the 30 minute "Quadrone" video in my bio, which was a one-take jam I recorded on the modular for an all-night-stream early on in the pandemic.

I have a separate side-hustle tying custom flies and building heavy duty fly rods for people who enjoy suffer^H^H^H^H^H^H chasing pike, musky, and other large North American apex predator fish (Shop link and IG in bio for the 3 people on earth who may be interested).

That I'm still even here to ramble on like this is thanks to the miracle of modern OTC neurotransmitter catalysts, the gift of several years with an extraordinary therapist, and the love of my family. In hindsight, running away from my problems for several decades was a flawed plan. I'm much better now.

I have been reading less lately, absolutely no good goddamn reason, but I am currently waiting for the next volume of #Monstress, hoping for another Innsmouth Legacy novel from @r_emrys, tracking N.K. Jemisin and @aliettedb releases, and keeping current with #GirlGenius both online and by backing every KS for the print versions.

I do not talk about my job or employer online except for vague complaints about broken software/processes. This is a fertile field for the tilling...

OK done for now. Tootles.