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

🎵It’s like THUNDER! ☁️💥🎵
🎵LIGHTNING!! ⚡️🎵
🎵That fuel intake valve needs tightening!! 🎵

“I want to make a difference in the world by speaking out and spreading hopeful messages. I want to send the message of ‘you are not alone and you are safe’ to other transgender kids.”

- Rebekah Bruesehoff

George Santos is only in trouble because he stole money from rich Nassau County Republicans. Rookie mistake.

My shadecloth experiment is working beyond my wildest dreams!

It's 1) grippy enough for ramps that an old rat can climb 2) easy to clean and 3) not tempting for them to chew.

I built a big spiral ramp all the way up the cage. The central atrium, as it were, is filled with many shadecloth safety nets to catch silly old buggers who like falling off edges of said ramps.

The younger rats still climb up the sides, or race round in a big spiral, so they have more running space which is great.

I made a small heated space for Maurice, and as you can see he's found the warmest spot which is actually just *above* the warm box.

Today, after his breakfast, I bundled him into the black plastic penthouse bed right into the top of the cage which he can't reach even with the ramps. You can't see him in the picture, he's underneath Jasper, the handsome young fellow with the whiskers.

#RatsOfMastodon #rats #PetsOfMastodon

BROKEN: Dominion lawsuit cost Fox News more than the Murdochs can handle.

Fox News is scrambling to stay financially afloat after posting record losses in the wake of the landmark $787 million Dominion Voting Systems settlement. https://washingtonpress.com/2023/05/09/broken-dominion-lawsuit-cost-fox-news-more-than-the-murdochs-can-handle

#BrianTylerCohen

Trump SNAPS, issues UNHINGED response to court loss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maMeYnBPMvA

I like my Presidents winning Pulitzer's and the Nobel Peace Prize, not Losers, with convictions of Sexual Abuse and Defamation.

Just to be clear, in a functioning democratic system, this man's own party would vote unanimously to expel him from the House and bar him from returning.
In the system we have, not a single Republican is going to vote to expel him. It's not even clear they'll have the opportunity, since McCarthy probably won't allow the vote to happen.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/10/george-santos-charges/

The House is back in session this week.

I’m ready to work with my colleagues in Washington for the people of #OH11 and everyday Americans across the country.

When Elmer Stewart Rhodes and the rest of the Oath Keepers who went on trial for seditious conspiracy are sentenced later this month and into June, I will have coverage from the courthouse for emptywheel.

The Oath Keeper sentencing schedule (Group 1):
Thomas Caldwell - MAY 24 @ 1:30PM ET
Stewart Rhodes - MAY 25 @ 9:30AM ET
Kelly Meggs - MAY 25 @ 1:30PM ET
Jessica Watkins - MAY 26 @ 9:30AM ET
Kenneth Harrelson - MAY 26 @ 1:30PM ET

Street Art

"When you're a star, they let you do it."

Not today, sparky.

E. Jean Carroll was brave enough to face a system that victim shames, and a former president who used his platform for further attacks. Trump wasn't even brave enough to testify. Over $5 million awarded to #EJeanCarrol.

I wish I were feeling this upbeat about the temperature. I'm #HotHotHot for all the wrong reasons. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhZba-P7R18

#Music #BusterPoindexter #80s #IAmMelting #OhWhatALife

@meredithw @StillIRise1963
Voting for the "lesser of two evils" is how you get LESS EVIL!

Why do people struggle to understand that?

@SocialistStan @asbestos tiresome children will be tiresome and childish

Wow! My credit card has 5,290,563 points, I'm so excited, but I can't decide if I will get the pencil topper or the kazoo.

You have to see this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USqBg4-_XOo&feature=youtu.be

(tiny soft mouse voice): i'm so... heckin...
(ferocious dragon roar): SLEEEEEEEEEEEPYYYYYYY ​