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

This one is special to me.

My memories are haunted by the many times my parents would ask "what is wrong with you."

Even after escaping those difficult years, sometimes verbal scars are the slowest to heal.

"There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in."

- Chris Colfer

#Pride

If Biden was 110 years old and in a coma he’d still be a better president than anyone the Republicans are putting forward, and it’s not even close.

@DarkSheepArts @andy_twosticks @actuallyautistic

Probably linked to how we (cis western males) are raised. We are taught not to cry nor to express fear, and channel all that into anger. Because a good man should be aggressive. Meaning everytime we feel a bad emotion, we interpret it as anger.

Except when anger is not an emotion you naturally tend to express. Then you are left with nothing and turns everything inwards, because you are afraid to show other emotions, leading to anxiety, and sometimes when it's too much, anxiety attacks...

(I don't know if that scenario makes sense, I just speak for myself here)

Feel badly now. I was excited to help support an employee group around #neurodiversity. Unfortunately it quickly resulted in my being pinged by folks about the setting up of a meeting. I rapidly went into #anxiety and just tapped out. My son, less frequently now, talks about feeling like a #failure. This is that feeling. It sucks. I need to give myself the space to accept my limits and be kinder to myself, but right now I may just have to wallow in it a bit. #ActuallyAutistc @actuallyautistic

Another #car from the archives. I'll admit being a fan of the #Transformers was part of my reason for doing this one. 😉
Prints can be found here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/classic-red-lamborghini-on-a-rainy-night-mark-tisdale.html

#DigitalArt #lamborghini #sportscar #MastoArt #ArtMatters #lgbtqartist #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

The reason we have LGBTQ Pride Month is not to celebrate our pride but to insist on our right to exist without persecution.

I stand in solidarity with my trans brothers and sisters and their right to exist without persecution.
#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023
#TransRightsAreHumanRights

Ok! Hello! I am allowed to be a person again! Good morning everyone, happy pride! Have a dog photo!

It's #Newstodon Friday again, the day where #news organizations who are active here on #Mastodon show you their best work!

#JOURNALISM SUPER FRIENDS ASSEMBLE!

@damemagazine @TexasObserver @kcts9 @themarkup @thexylom @mongabay @TucsonSentinel @Chron @ProPublica

Montana's drag ban was applied to a transgender person doing public speaking. No music, no dance, just a trans person and a podium. This is what they want. They want us to be removed from public life. This is identical to what Hitler did with the Nuremberg Laws. Eventually the punishment for us simply existing in public spaces will be jail time. If that makes you uncomfortable, please speak up to whomever will listen. Fixing this requires cis support.

When you leave your dog alone for a minute.. 😅

The #Bible has been removed from libraries in Utah after a parent used a new law that permits the removal of "pornographic".

The parent argued that the Bible contained topics such as incest, bestiality, genital mutilation, and infanticide, making it pornographic under the new definition set forth in Utah Code Ann. § 76-10-1227.

A GOP lawmaker expressed "sadness" regarding the situation.

https://www.ksl.com/article/50657730/davis-district-pulls-bible-from-elementaries-junior-highs-due-to-vulgarity-or-violence

#BookBans #USA

Jupiter has something like 90+ moons. I'm not going to count.

When I started astronomy they told me 60.

We just keep learning more and more.

Anyway, the big 4 can be remembered
"I Eat Green Cows" (Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto)

A lot of the others also have names.

I'm just telling you all this so I can show you this gif of some moons orbiting Jupiter.

Good morning Mastodon! I’m a reporter and editor for @gbhnews focusing much of my time on social justice investigations. I read government documents and spreadsheets for fun! Also: typewriters. It’s Friday; here’s an Underwood.

@ScottSoCal Indeed! I think what I was thinking but didn’t have room to type, was that schools completely disregard the second and third order schedule impacts of their decisions, and act surprised when one raises concerns. So I like to turn it around and suggest they offer me their free times and I’ll fit them in instead. I just had to do this with NPS therapist. Ridiculous. @actuallyautistic

I am valiantly resisting starting a Well Actually with a stranger on the internet over one of my pet peeves: defining every possible action with some resource-based motive as "capitalism", including those in eras before the concept of capitalism was even invented.

I swear, it's the leftist version of calling the government doing anything good "socialism”. WORDS HAVE MEANINGS*, people! Augh!

(* Subject to usage, so when misused, their meaning broadens--and we lose clarity/precision. Sigh.)