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

"I haven’t seen this level of mass enthusiasm for a Presidential candidate since the Obama '08 campaign. The party is united, and energized. They don’t want to spend a few weeks evaluating who the candidate with the highest favorability rating might be. They want to stand together, declaring in one voice 'We won’t go back' and defeat the existential threat posed by Trumpism."

~ Dave Karpf

#KamalaHarris #Biden #Trump #Democrats
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https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/why-the-open-convention-proposal

@ScottSoCal @Tharpa @locksmithprime @otownKim @Lightfighter I’d suggest Dylan’s Knocking on Heaven’s Door but no one would answer him

I had 35,000 music lovers following me at that other site before Elon Musk ruined it. Please follow me here and help spread the word in the Fediverse.

One of the things I liked about Elizabeth Warren's campaign is that she bought the same blazer in a bunch of different colors and paired it with black shirt/pants like she was a Starfleet Admiral.

@locksmithprime @JonChevreau @otownKim @Lightfighter Jesus, that sounds so freaking awesome, I hope you're right. It certainly tracks, according to google. 👍

Dear NBC news — Trump and allies aren’t sharpening race and gender based attacks.

They are sharpening RACIST and SEXIST attacks. When you attack someone based on race or gender you are a racist and sexist.

These fucking editors tie themselves in knots to seem neutral on Trump but spent a month pretending Biden was senile.

#Techbros:

Andreessen makes it clear -expects presidential attention -getting since he was 23. Given the number of times Andreessen & Horowitz make refs. to various meetings with various pols, it's easy to get the impression -mostly insulted -they're being treated like ordinary constituents.

Looking at a simple trade against personal liberty -abortion, the rights of gay & trans ppl & possibly democracy itself -IN FAVOR OF #crypto, #AI, & a tax policy they like better.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations

[heaven]

darwin: *looking down*
angel: what’s going on?
darwin: watch this

@ScottSoCal Yes, it’s so terrible. And he just dismisses the fact that his child was suicidal as if it wasn’t really true because of his own feelings about her transition. What a horrible person.

I know everyone has their thing. That one book they're crazy about. Mine happens to be Dennis E Taylors Bobiverse series. I cannot tell you how much I want to be a Von Neumann probe, fired far out into deep space beyond the Oort Cloud and away from all of this. Just replicant versions of myself to chat with in a VR pub. Much like how I treat Fedi.

Anyway - should anyone be interested.... there is finally a release date for book 5 (Not Till We Are Lost) - Sept 5 2024. The Bobiverse Series has also been optioned to Lord Miller Prods/Universal, so fingers crossed there.

The right is fearful about the prospect of a Black woman becoming president. The right is no champion for Black folks to vote either. Closing voting centers, purging voter registrations, etc. They can and will try some shenanigans . Make sure you are registered to vote. Pay attention to deadlines.

https://youtu.be/erjhZxwf7cc?si=rAwVo5qm2F6Ljtcz

Musk not only deadnamed his daughter, but he doubled down on the deadnaming and justified it by saying he was doing it because his son was dead.

Oh, he also blamed COVID for his giving parental permission for her to transition and the “woke mind virus” (which he vows to kill) for her decision to do so.

He said all these things in a lengthy interview on X.

People legitimize that site by using it, giving Musk a bullhorn.

#lgbtq #LGBTQIA #Musk #X

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-says-his-transgender-daughter-was-killed-by-woke-mind-virus

“She will not show up for the Prime Minister’s joint session of Congress… She’d rather address in the summer a sorority, a colored sorority, like she can’t get outta that!”

— Brian Kilmeade, on Fox & Friends, criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris.

#Racism #Misogeny #Fox #FoxNews #BrianKilmeade

Is this useful? I've been thinking about how to point out the adoption of a term to cover for racism.

a few things on this board make me smile every time I look at it

I'm OUT for Kamala Harris and you should be, too!

JOIN THE LGBTQ+ UNITY CALL Thursday at 9pm ET! Vice President @KamalaHarris has been a champion for our community. That's why Advocates for Trans Equality, the
Task Force Action Fund, Alice B. Toklas LGBTQ Dems, and the Human Rights Campaign are rallying our communities nationwide to UNITE to win this election!

Register and join LGBTQ+ people and allies for a call on Thursday, July 25. #OutForHarris

Link to join below!

https://act.hrc.org/page/154061/petition/1?ea.tracking.id=sm_adv_HarrislgbtCall

Caitlin had a little lamb... ❤️

▶️ 3:33 clip plays in the post.

#Nature #Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TiUz4QORm8&list=WL&index=4&ab_channel=TheDodo

You know all those headlines about the amazing amount of money being donated to Harris for President and allied groups? Never underestimate how important small dollar donations are to that total. If you have donated to #MastodonForHarris or spread the word, you are an important part of #HarrisForPresident #harris2024.

Join in!

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

Well played, Parisian tourist shop.

Holy crap, I caught a pic of a bee in flight!

Also:

My neighbor, with a heavily fertilized and watered lawn and a couple flowerpots on life support: How do you get so many bees?

Me, with a yard full of flowering plants: How do you cultivate the bees' land?

Long-term goal: no grass, only bees.