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

I like presidents who aren't felons

#uspol

President Biden recently gave the commencement address at West Point. His address was streamed and published.

What was not seen was that President Biden after giving his speech and shaking hands with the top 25 graduates on stage went backstage and beyond the reach of cameras, the media and video and greeted and shook hands with every one of the graduating class of West Point.

#Biden
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/30/2243650/-A-side-of-President-Biden-you-won-t-see

@BootsChantilly @ScottSoCal GDI you guys beat me to the punch!

@ScottSoCal Right? A free "going over" from Mommie Dearest! 😳

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President Zelensky says his army is locked in 'fierce' border battles amid a Russian assault on two border areas.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiUGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmluZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvLnVrL25ld3MvYXAtdWtyYWluZS1rcmVtbGluLWRvbmV0c2sta3lpdi1iMjU0Mzk5Mi5odG1s0gEA?oc=5

Statistics Denmark recently published a graph which shows, what consumers have felt for a long time: Wages rise, but the real income is falling.

In 2022, consumer prices rose so much, Danes got 5.1 percent poorer, and even though some wholesale prices started to fall in 2023, price hikes still consumed all wage increases in 2023, leading to a real income rise of 0 percent.

I wonder if larger countries are doing better because of stronger retail competition.

Source: https://www.dst.dk/da/Statistik/nyheder-analyser-publ/nyt/NytHtml?cid=48357

🎶 I am a language model and I've been trained on the internet.
🎶 I've information half-remembered, unsourced and approximate.
🎶 I live inside your laptop, phone and apps and even wearables
🎶 With pushiness and arrogance that's verging on unbearable.
🎶 I mansplain as a service if you need me too "well actually"
🎶 And draw pictures of women with large breasts and polydactyly.
🎶 I'll regale the room with confident elucidati-on
🎶 And some of what I say won't even be hallucinati-on

The hypocrisy is strong with this one. https://www.comicsands.com/matthew-marsden-straight-pride-month-2668089266.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=infeed&utm_campaign=linkprogram

I can't get over how fucking perfect the seeing conditions are right now. Crystal clear view of the sun.

I might have to bring my work laptop outside. Unbelievably nice outside.

#solar #astrophotography

This is a good #MondayMotivation

After a decade of rejections, I got my first novel published. Now I’ve got my dream, I won’t stop! https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/29/a-new-start-after-60-after-a-decade-of-rejections-i-got-my-first-novel-published-now-ive-got-my-dream-i-wont-stop?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Some COVID conscious people are worried about mask bans because protestors are wearing them. That's understandable, but (a) they are wearing them to mitigate COVID spread, and (b) even if COVID didn't exist, they should have the right to wear them to protect against surveillance.

If they read this back to me in court one day I would lean into the microphone to repeat it.

Nearly 20 years ago, I made a Craigslist post looking for a roommate.

This guy named Justin responded saying he wasn't looking for a roommate, but he liked my ad and the interests and music I'd listed and thought we might make good friends.

I ended up exchanging a series of emails with him and he was really cool and interesting.

At some point, I asked for his last name and he said it was Franchi, so, being the absolute creep that I am, I googled his name and came up with a series of articles and bulletins about how Justin Franchi was wanted by the FBI for terrorism.

I was like WTF? but I was so curious about this guy so I continued talking. I brought it up to my friends and one was like "Yo, stop talking to that guy!" and the other was like "Keep talking! There's a REWARD!"

I was like "Y'all, I’m no narc. Besides, he's an 'ECO terrorist' so maybe he's not the bad guy?"

My friends were now even more invested than I was so we poured over his well-written yet strangely cryptic emails trying to figure out details on his whereabouts, reading into EVERYTHING as if it had a secret meaning.

We even talked about meeting up and he said he would be "Coming from the west" and we were like "WTF, we're in Michigan, he could be ANYWHERE!"

He eventually gave me enough information to figure out that this Justin Franchi was just a normal guy from a suburb of Detroit and just happened to share a name with an eco terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list.

Even though I was no longer going to get a reward, I ended up meeting him and he was super cool and I remember hanging out and driving around in my Jetta listening to Swedish indie pop and we remained friends for several years until I moved to Chicago and changed my phone number and lost contact.

Just wanted to say hi, if you're out there, Justin Franchi (the indie pop one, not the terrorist one).

https://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20081119/fbi-offers-50000-reward-for-eco-terrorists/

The Republicans have long been trying to normalize sadism. They brag about it as if it were a virtue. Kristi Noem is just the most recent example.

@johnnyprofane1 @eric @actuallyautistic @actuallyaudhd @actuallyadhd Is it sad that I don't remember which terrible person Roger Stone is at this point? I think it's a bad thing.