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

@autism101 @actuallyautistic

Also, I can scale the intonation of the "ok" to fit how truthful I feel comfortable being.
"ok."
"ok..."
"ok!"

Shortly after midnight I woke up because a bright light shined directly into my eyes. I got up, totally confused and realised that all the lights containing the dimmable Phillips Hue lamps were shining at maximum power. This happened because of the settings in the hue app on how to react to power failures. If you are using these kind of lamps, maybe you should check the settings too.

American Evangelicalism: For when you're a shitty judgy wrong prick but you don't think other Christian sects are racist or Nazi enough.

Fuck Jason Aldean,
and if you’re a fan of his,
Fuck YOU, too.

Be a better person.
Listen to Tim McGraw; he’s a decent person whose art, music, and values are more in line with America’s best qualities and greatest promises.
#JasonAldean #RaceBaiter #RaceBaiting #CountryMusic #TimMcGraw

The second you realize there isn’t a cake or any balloons.

#Funny #Fun #Humor #LOL #Humour

I made car necklaces for #caturday 😸

"Your decision to rewrite history to ingrain #WhiteSupremacy into the minds of children is a colossal step backward and an insult to Black people, descendants of slaves, and the intellect of the American people." #Florida #education https://www.commondreams.org/news/florida-slavery-education

You know, Nixon called Watergate a witch-hunt, too.

Who’d a thunk it?

Morgan Stanley credits Bidenomics for 'much stronger' than expected GDP growth https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/21/bidenomics-spurred-stronger-gdp-growth-morgan-stanley.html

You ever feel like you're waiting for the other shoe to drop, and the sky is full of shoes?

@ScottSoCal @KimPerales Here's an excellent resource on sundown towns for anyone interested in learning more.

James "Loewen started working on sundown towns in 1999. Having grown up in Illinois, he knew he would do more research in that state than any other, simply owing to his familiarity with it. He anticipated finding maybe 10 sundown towns in Illinois and 50 across the nation. He had no idea." https://justice.tougaloo.edu/sundown-towns/

Many people are surprised to learn that ants sleep. Even more surprising is the evidence that suggest they may dream (RAE is a sleep state found in ants and bees chattered by Rapid Antennae Movements and possibly similar to the REM sleep in mammals)

Ants sleep frequently and in funny locations. Generally they will rest their thorax and gaster on the ground, fold their antennae and be very still. They nap for 10min up to an hour. Queen ants will sleep for up to 4 hours at a time.

@ScottSoCal Yes, you’re correct, it happens throughout America. We need to continue to expose the horrific behavior & crimes & work toward eradicating systemic racism.

@toxtethogrady

We cannot afford winning close elections, Georgia, Montana, Nevada, and all the many places where attempts to defeat majority votes with bad faith are red flags that voting alone is not enough. Vote like your life depends on it, because it does!

cc: @StillIRise1963

Aldean’s song has resonated with ppl who idolize small-towns, but he’s actually legitimizing vigilantism & violence, blaming Black people for crime & more diverse big cities. #DEI can lead to unity, respect & a stronger nation: There’s a reason that Black people still talk about “sundown towns” in the South & Midwest, places that aren’t safe for us to be after dark -it’s precisely bc of a kind of glorification of small-town tribal violence that’s in Aldean’s song & video. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/21/tulsa-race-jason-aldean-true-crime/

Berlusconi dies and suddenly Italy has a cocaine surplus

🤔

@ScottSoCal @actuallyautistic

Reminded me of the scene with the Grissini (T'Pol using fork and knife to eat it).

After recently rewatching TNG, I feel as if these scenes are little discourses about personal/social perspectives.

Archer IMHO is the "typical American", who takes his (personal) culture for granted.

"Why are foreign delegates offended by a shared meal?"
"Why doesn't T'Pol eat meat?"
"Why are people offended when my dogs pees on their holy tree?"