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

Funny Transformers idea -

Unicron is coming, everybody is freaking out, lots of shots of him approaching the planet ominously... but when he gets there, it turns out he's the size of a beach ball and just starts nomming on the ground and angrily threatening doom to all the transformers towering over him.

Then a squirrel attacks him.

Rep. Garcia called for an investigation into fraudster Jared Kushner to determine the circumstances behind a $2 billion pay out to Kushner from the Saudi Government just months after leaving the Trump White House.

The case for the investigation by stating that:

Kushner pushed his way into a job in his father-in-law’s administration with no experience.
Kushner prioritized pushing out the Secretary of State in order to “cozy up” to the Saudi Government.
There are records of a $110 billion arms deal between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia that was inflated at the direction of Kushner.
Months after Kushner’s departure from the White House, the Saudi crown prince overruled his own investment advisors and sent $2 billion into Kushner's companies' bank account.

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/rep-garcia-why-did-saudi-government-give-kushner-2-billion

Subtootin' the obvious here but

Nazis aren't the big problem.

The problem is "nice" people who reinforce the status quo.

FYI that CVS has appointments available for the new COVID vaccine. I just booked mine for this Saturday.

If you don’t have a CVS nearby, just check the websites for your local pharmacies to see if they have it yet.

Stay healthy and safe, friends!

Taxing the rich isn’t radical. It isn’t even new.

The current top-bracket tax rate is 37%.
But in 1965, it was 70%.
In the 1950s, it was over 90%.

NOT taxing the rich is what’s new.

🤗

Charlie making himself comfortable.

Republicans on a state Senate committee voted to oust the
nonpartisan administrator of elections in Wisconsin via @Hredman

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/brief/senate-committee-votes-to-fire-wec-administrator/

I often forget how some cyber habits I have can upset people. This happened today:

Colleague - You're going to [vendor name] event in [USA place] next month. They really should give us lighter notebooks for these trips. How will you take your work PC with you?
Me - I don't. There are sensitive apps and info there. I can lose it. Also, border controls could happen. No way.
Colleague - Huh, so... what will you do?
Me - I use a spare 13" low-end notebook with a fresh linux install, no personal data, no company data. It's light and now it's worth just a few euros.
Colleague - Hah, there's your smartphone anyway!
Me - No way either. Spare Nokia dumbish-phone. The most advanced thing on it is Snake. Maybe.

This didn't end well.

Some quick thoughts on the bullying of autistic people, and indeed, all people

https://www.theautisticcoach.com/autism-blog/on-bullying

@actuallyautistic

My thanks to @Slate for chatting with me on the What Next podcast about the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers sedition trials and sentencings.

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next/2023/09/proud-boys-leaders-convictions

When you'd rather be doing anything else but put up with their shenanigans because you love them #mondog

#Transphobia in the is on the rise – and the #press is to blame.

An increase in #public #AntiTrans #sentiment in the #UK has been #fuelled by #hostile #coverage of #trans #issues by #rightwing #newspapers.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #CultureWar #Media #MoralPanic #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes #Transphobia

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/09/09/transphobia-uk-press-media-negative-coverage/

What are the "life-changing" or "health implications" of asking to use a different name or pronoun?

Will a child explode if you use they/them pronouns? Call them Bill instead of William or Karen and a leg will fall off?

It's all bullshit. Protect trans kids.

#OnPoli #TransRightsAreHumanRights

the only proof we need about how bad climate change is gonna get is elon musk claiming that its not gonna be too bad

Happy to announce that I am a recipient of the IRC postdoctoral fellowship award.

https://research.ie/assets/uploads/2023/09/GOI-Awardee-list-2023.pdf

My project titled "STALWART" will be at University College Dublin (UCD, Conway Institute) under the supervision of Dr. Ronald Halim and in collaboration with Prof. Oskar Modin at Chalmers University.

I am very excited to learn new concepts, gain more skills, and make new friends!

#GOI2023 #LoveIrishResearch

I love my smart TV. I love the way it takes a long time to boot up because it's trying to refresh the advertisements on the home screen. I delight in the way it randomly restarts because it's downloaded an update without asking me, each of which makes the TV slower and slower with every subsequent install. I adore the way it buries the apps that I want to use, and that I use without fail every single time, below the apps that it's being paid to promote and which I have never touched in my life and would never use without the cold metal of a glock pressed hard against my sweating temple. I am infinitely thrilled by the way the interface lags constantly, due to the need to have one thousand unnecessary animations rendered on hardware ripped wholesale from a ten year old phone. I feel myself borne aloft on wings of pure joy when I am notified that my data will be collected and analysed to determine my useage patterns. Even now I am writing this from a field of beautiful flowers and soft luscious grass as I lie and look up happily at the bright blue sky, smiling happily to know that this is the future of technology