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

#haiku #sorrow#ivy
I remember you.
The spring of life, now passed on.
A sea full of tears……..

@ScottSoCal
The snacks have possession. The people just need to share their space.

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/06/27/i-dont-think-i-could-handle-forever/
Just read A Short Stay in Hell. Good, quick existential read. Makes me wonder why people want to live forever.
#Books, #Musings, #Zoroastrian, #eternity, #fiction, #Infinity, #Scott L. Peck

They longed to test these alternate histories. And it was for this purpose that a copy of the earth in the year 2016 was made.

3/3

#microfic #microhorror #horrorstory #horror

Not everyone was happy with humankind's "golden age."

When technology made disease and sickness a thing of the past. They whispered about how suffering nourished the soul.

When mandatory work became obsolete they grumbled about "work ethic" and "soft men" and confidently waited for civilization's fall. A fall that never came.

In fact, it seemed that it was their philosophy, the one that regarded suffering and hierarchy as essential that might vanish.
2/3

::It is against the galactic treaty on the rights of living, thinking beings to:

1 Keep a person in ignorance of the wider worlds of humanity.

2 Hide technology that could save lives or ease suffering.

3 Lie to people about the year or time period.

4 Attempt to "recreate" people from history who have left no instructions for rebirth.

None of this stopped the Old Earth Collective. 1/3

The strawberry tunnel is paying off! #garden #gardening #strawberries #homegrown #OrganicGarden

I spent a long, long time trying to decide who I want to be on this platform, and decided to just post what I want. I am not theming my blog. Ask me a question, and I may answer. My likes are long, and they include: Asian TV shows, science, plants, teaching, philosophy, anime, science fiction, dance, open culture, fan fiction, writing, DNA, movies, cooking, Sherlock Holmes, animation, romances, dogs, cats, wildflowers, and singing. The photo is of my pet fly, Victor. #intro p.s. He's not a pet.

@DamienMarieAtHope
Here is a panel explaining how insurance works:

Surveying people generally around by curiosity:

Are you currently living in
the United States of America?

From reading posts made by proud #Christians it seems the thing they want most is to protect their children from pedophiles.
From reading news reports about clergy being arrested, it seems that proud Christians are the least successful people in the history of the world.

@Brutus @philip_cardella @makkhorn

Yes....Smith will shock America and the world when he presents the shit we don't know. He did not lay all his cards out...Wait for it..Tangerine Caligula is going down.

"This is about saving cities. Without commuting office workers, the office buildings go empty, they become worth a fraction of their cost, and retail cannot survive."

https://innovationnation.blog/p/its-companies-fault-we-dont-want

God it's depressing that people believe this is the true nature of downtowns.

Cities predate commutes. The hollowed out core that triples in population, swelled to bursting with bored and unhappy suburbanites during work hours, is a modern abomination made possible by cars and structural racism.

What's killing downtowns is that we spent so long on this awful vision of work and spent half a century strangling inner city infrastructure to subsidize incredibly expensive suburban lifestyles.

Want to make downtowns viable again? Convert dead office space to apartments and schools and colleges and other spaces people can work *and* live in.

Good luck with your rezoning applications though.

One of the many reasons actual doctors and scientists shouldn't debate RFK Jr: because he constantly lies about everything, even simple indisputable facts.

He claims comparative studies aren't done on vaccines.

Yes, they are. Here's one showing the efficacy of the COVID vaccine, and one showing autism is *less* common in kids who received the MMR vaccine.

His whole shtick relies on repeating lies until the audience starts thinking they might be true. No use in helping him.

"He's been a very naughty boy and can't come out to play. Now shoo!"

- Elon's mom, probably.

@adelinej @Pathfinder @actuallyautistic Yeah I almost wrote in my initial post, "Just because you invented the word, doesn't mean you own its definition for all time." Language evolves -- thankfully!

Important, via Elie Mystal:

I just want to say again that it is important that we do not *WASTE* this opportunity at democratic self-government the Court has by a thin margin allowed us to keep.

Essentially the Court is saying that they won't ruin democracy by judicial fiat, but *the people we elect* still absolutely can, if we elect the wrong people.
I know most of the people who follow me are already voters. But still, VOTE for people who want your votes to count. #SCOTUS

✔️ Via WaPo:

Ex-congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) offered a blunt assessment of her former profession Monday night: “What we’ve done in our politics is create a situation where we’re electing idiots.”

The Gorn from Star Trek but the lizards they look like are geckos. Just completely unthreatening and friendly while they do their space murder