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

Bombus terrestris queen hiding from the rain 🌧️

When you take a taxi in Tokyo, it's now pretty standard to have an air quality monitor inside.

The drivers all mask and there's plexiglass separating the driver and the passengers.

You may argue about the effectiveness of each of these measures, but it's clear that this is a society responding together and adapting to a new reality.

This is living with the virus: trying to mitigate it's harm. Instead of pretending it does not exist.

#CovidIsNotOver

Do you remember using these exact video tapes?

Good morning! #DailyGiggle

„My Alone Time Is For Your Safety" is today's tee on qwertee

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How To Effectively Child Proof Your Home.

Step 1: Birth Control

Popular misconceptions about Ukrainian history: Crimea is russian

russia touts the myth that Crimea has always been russian in order to justify its invasion and annexation of #Crimea in 2014.

According to this myth, russia's annexation was a "correction" of a historical mistake, but the truth is that Crimea was under russia's rule only for a fraction of its long #history

(60 Second) YouTube📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/6CwmSDNGTmE

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#StandWithUkraine

I reject the comforting fiction that this could not happen to me, or to you.

That is part of what allows it to persist, to escalate.

This most recent murder is an escalation. No excuse of the killer being a cop. Just “a marine” who cares if he was a marine? Why is that little nugget always repeated as if it has any meaning?

Brownshirts self appointed violence spigots. Are we to treat every ex-cop and “military man” as exceptions to the rule of law? It is disgusting that the police hesitated

#cats

I don't know what the squirrels in my back yard are up to *exactly* but I feel like I'm the one who's going to wind up in jail for it.

"By the morning, all the debris had been swept away, with Kyiv Zoo opening to visitors. The animals will be monitored over the coming days and if necessary given anti-depressants in their water. In the meantime they would get extra apples and nuts.

One mother had taken her son to see the chimpanzees. “He’s 11 today. Last night’s attack was terrible. But I promised to take him to the zoo and a promise is a promise,” she said, as a monkey swung from a branch."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/16/ukraine-russia-targets-kyiv-with-massive-overnight-airstrike

No, please, continue explaining actuarial tables.

#Funny #Fun #Humor #LOL #Humour #Cat #Cats

As predicted, CNN’s Trump townhall was a big mistake and they got fourth in the ratings two days after the event; losing to Newsmax.

As it turns out, feeding your audience shit and telling them it’s caviar isn’t a great business model. While I don’t think ratings should be a goal for news orgs, it’s hilarious that they blew that too.

And the joke is that they’re the ones trapped in a silo, unaware that we hear from #Trump every damn day so their event wasn’t special.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cnn-ratings-dropped-below-newsmax-041203576.html

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#dog #dogsofmastodon #dogs

@ScottSoCal @GottaLaff I graduated Catholic HS in '99. Lowest 5% of my class. Hated school bc it never made sense to me. I received Classical Ed. It was horrible. Not until college in Hawaii did I fall in love with learning, so much so, I made it my career. #DietDonald doesn't get that America fell behind with classical Ed and education is not a one size fits all system. We want free thinkers who critically analyze subjects with facts and research. The kids of Florida are in trouble.

As a poet, author, and lecturer, Baltimore, Maryland–born Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was a household name in the 19th century. Not only was she the first Black American woman to publish a short story, but she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer that co-founded the National Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

https://www.pbs.org/video/frances-ellen-watkins-harper-torahu/

#BlackMastodon #politics #Maryland #BlackJoy #BlackTwitter #Histodons #History

Teachers pay taxes.
Nurses pay taxes.
Bus drivers pay taxes.
You pay taxes.

The Mormon church is a real estate holding company with a Political Action Committees as a hobby.

Tax them.