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

As the United States heads toward running out of cash in a few weeks, here's a reminder how this happened:

* The law says what tax rates are, determining revenue.
* Each year laws are enacted that direct money to be spent a certain way.
* An older law limits national debt.
* Republicans drove up the debt during the Trump Admin (tax cuts, airline bailouts, etc) so that the limit is about to be reached.

The laws are logically incompatible.

Neighbor said he needed a flash drive so I showed him my boobs as I rode my Vespa past his house

Cat meme. Photo of Tabby cat on her side. Nine yellow and brown chicks standing on her. Her look is like one of horror. “Cat with Chicken Pox.”
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #catsoffediverse #Humor

Last night my respected mother Tahira Rashid passed away.

إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ‎

From God we are & to God must we return.

This is our prayer as Muslims. A reminder that we are here due to the Grace of God & we belong & return to Him.

She is survived by her husband, 4 children, & 11 grandchildren. I owe her so much, yet so much remains. I don’t know what to think or feel. I’m numb. I’ll have more to say later perhaps. For now I’ll be taking time offline.

Requesting your prayers for her.

Accidentally watched a movie on Hallmark and before it was over my virginity had grown back

RS jamelle bouie

if papers wrote about daniel penny the way they have written about jordan neely this headline would read “unemployed college dropout says he would kill on subway again” https://t.co/ukbB2b16jW

i just realized - Word is infuriating because it's so neurotypical. it has certain ways it wants you to do things but it doesn't tell you. i end up spending more time trying to understand the current format and trying in vain to persuade it to understand what i want, while it makes unexpected reactions to everything i do

Some hospitals refusing to mask anymore because they claim people are likely to get #COVID elsewhere anyway. That's a dereliction of duty. Regardless of what is happening elsewhere, no one should ever have to risk their health while seeking medical care. Do no harm.

Yesterday I made a wee loop of some figures dancing by a river, & only realised after posting that I'd made a #RiverDance and should have, you know, done the *proper* dance.

So I decided to give it a go.

It did not go well, but it made me laugh so...

#silly #river #video #loop #dance #drawing #animation

It was a simple sandwich merely existing in a sub shop. One day a man chose the sandwich & left. There were traffic jams, errands, & phone calls. After many obstacles, the man was home. He put the sandwich on the table. It was the end of the hero's journey.

If the GOP has decided drag & trans folk existing is the wheel they want to break this country on

I’m thinking cis men need to start wearing sparkly eyeshadow

One shade is about .99 at CVS

Simple, straightforward, & in this case, truly, they can’t arrest you all #shadowprotest #shadowban #drag #transrights #ally

"Hamburger Mary Sues Florida Governor over State Senate Bill 1438 - Protection of Children

"After much consideration, the owners of Hamburger Mary Orlando have decided to file a lawsuit against our Governor for signing Senate Bill 1438 - Protection of Children.

"This bill has nothing to do with children and everything to do with the continued oppression of the LGBTQ+ community."

Here's the Go Fund Me for the legal defense fund. https://www.gofundme.com/f/legal-defense-fund-for-hamburger-mary-orlando

[at the gym]

Me: WOOOO, this power smoothie ain’t working or this machine is set too heavy

Trainer: this *points to the gym mat* is a barroom floor, that *points to smoothie* is your third frozen margarita, and that *points to bench press machine* is Sal, the bouncer

Charter schools made big gains in legislative session - Hoosiers? Reed Hastings and the Walton family spend to sow distrust in Indiana's public schools, thinking it will boost “education freedom” and their larger libertarian agenda. https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/charter-schools-made-big-gains-in-legislative-session/ #privatization

@Npars01 @MugsysRapSheet @SrRochardBunson Because they think they'll have air conditioning after the apocalypse.

No, really.

Their brains are so fried by money, they think they will remain rich even if civilization collapses. If they ever understood that civilization is what makes them rich, that understanding is long gone. They believe they'll still own stuff when the fallout settles.

It's like thinking gravity doesn't apply to you because you have a private plane.

Yep yep yep..

The fact that so many on the right are more afraid of books than they are of guns is proof positive that the pen really is mightier than the sword.

..so ok, this rented U-Haul crashes into the White House security fence not once, but twice.. they actually backed up and tried again, and reports say it "may have" been intentional 🤔
A Nazi flag was found inside. I almost think this was done just for exposure because in all honesty, what was their endgame strategy here. No weapons or anything. Maybe they wanted to test it's strength.. a scouting mission of sorts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/box-truck-crashes-into-security-barriers-near-white-house-2023-05-23/