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

Hopefully #SunsetSunday will become a thing on here and I thought I'd add one of my husband's photos as a contribution.

This is the west coast of the #IsleofWight photographed during one of the most extreme sunsets I've ever witnessed. Our son said it looked like a volcano had erupted in the sky!

#sunset #LandscapePhotography

I call this one and of Dreams...I've given the #landscape a quilted effect. I live close to the ocean and mountains so they're often in my #artwork - and now after, working on "quilt" artwork, I'm thinking maybe I should learn how to do the real thing.

Art is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/land-of-dreams-quilted-peggy-collins.html

#art #ocean #mountains #britishcolumbia #canada #color #AYearForArt #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #peggycollins

@lednabm @bsonder

Also from the article:

The Satanic Temple was founded in 2014 and says its mission is to “encourage benevolence and empathy, reject tyrannical authority.” A member should also use “practical common sense” and stand up for justice, according to its website.

There are congregations around the country, and they tell those interested that if their goals are to “sell my soul, get rich, join the Illuminati, etc.” they should “look somewhere else.”

She's right, the shooter was part of a gang, her gang...

People use the word "exponentially" ever more often, in my experience. Very often they just mean "a large number", which has little to do with exponential _growth_. Let's use exponentially for things that behave exponentially. Only.

The Middle Bay Lighthouse in #MobileAlabama more or less as it originally looked when built in 1885. It's still standing but the lantern was removed decades ago.

Prints on my site here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/mobile-alabama-middle-bay-lighthouse-mark-tisdale.html

#Alabama #lighthouse #DigitalArt #MobileAL #GulfOfMexico #coast #nautical #MastoArt #ArtMatters #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

1. Take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.

2. If that offends you, pray for me to stop saying "take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself".

3. Take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.

4. Ask yourself why your thoughts & prayers didn't make me stop saying "take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself".

5. Repeat until you take your thoughts & prayers and go fuck yourself.

"But that influence was dark and malign. For the sake of contestable political issues, he abandoned necessary moral virtues, and he taught his followers to do the same."

I'd invite French to recognize that the Christian right does not need to be "taught" to abandon moral virture as it pursues raw power. This is encoded in the DNA of the Christian right.

Ask those of us they've targeted, like queer folks. We'll explain it to you.

#TuckerCarlson #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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9 May 1939 | A Dutch Jewish boy, Marcel Jacobs, was born in Enschede.

He was deported to Auschwitz in February 1943 with his mother Rika and his 7-year-old sister Marlene. They were all murdered in a gas chamber after the arrival selection.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts

Media literacy tip:

The surge of climate-change conflicts will be presented to us as "ethnic tensions lead to violence" in the newspapers.

The rise in climate refugees will be presented to us as "migrants seeking work."

When you try to read a new situation using the language of the old broken economic system it's hard to see what's happening.

This guts me…

BY THOR'S HAMMER!
It Is Time!

Before you lay your head to sleep tonight, please say a prayer or send a good thought to the heroes of Ukraine who are ready to lay down their lives in the coming counteroffensive against the Russian invaders.

Lest we forget, freedom isn't free; it is the selfless acts of everyday citizens who stand to defend their, and our freedoms, no matter the country.

EVIL SHALL NOT STAND when justice is at hand!
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news

I’m not gonna lie or pretend otherwise…the Allen, TX shooting has me scared about going anywhere where lots of people are. Living in America is terrifying.

This is one of my favorite images on the internet

A coworker of mine has three owlets in a nest in a tree near her house and now the entire company is obsessed with them!

We now have a Slack channel dedicated to them and get updates every morning 😂

#Owls #Cute #Outside #Trees #AltText

The most exhilarating part about skinny dipping is when all of the water park attendants start chasing after you.

There's really only one test to being my friend, and that is, when I say whatever's on my mind, especially when it's completely random, nonsensical and bordering tactless (but not offensive), that you don't react like something's gone wrong. My need to be randomly absolutely stupid is not negotiable.
No better way of enduring existence yet.

One of the unexpected perks of sharing your work online is that you start to see commonalities that you might otherwise miss, such as how predominant this soft aqua/turquoise palette is throughout my art. This expressive-drawing-based work reminded me of a glorious avian aerial ballet: "Murmuration." Find it here: https://jon-woodhams.pixels.com/featured/murmuration-jon-woodhams.html #AYearForArt #FediGiftShop #ContemporaryArt #AbstractArt #CreativeToots #ArtForInteriorDesign

May native wildflowers in our garden. This after a neighbor cut down massive privets on the property line, flooding the yard with sunlight. Seeded the area with wildflowers and nature did the awesome rest.
#nativeplants #wildflowers #prairie #naturephotography #nature

There are no entirely ethical pharmacy chains in the US, but with Walgreens policy on mifepristone, pharmacist privilege to refuse filling medications, etc, consider:

1. Reporting pharmacy management to corporate for review
2. Non-chain alternatives
3. CVS as an option.

This goes for #misogyny targets like mifepristone and methotrexate, as well as #neurotypical bigotry targets like #ADHD medications.

#fascism