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

Today in Bristol, a lynch mob of far right scum bags targeted a hotel housing refugees. It was not the police who prevented them from reaching the building and unleashing violence/attempting to murder them, but a large group of antifascists. The videos look very intense, there was a lot of fighting as the small number of police present stood by and watched. Folks on the ground reported that police on horses didn’t arrive until the far right was roughly 15 feet away from the front entrance.

The antifascists held their ground and bravely put their bodies on the line to protect the people inside. Aside from their often thankless bravery, this kind of work is extremely scary and causes trauma that remains with you for a lifetime. But it is *the* only way to get rid of fascists. I know it’s not for everyone, it shouldn’t be, but it’s necessary work. Scary times, but folks like these always give me hope.

@ai6yr Only people who disable their ad blockers are allowed to read about these evacuation orders.

Eldest daughter just turned up with 'friend' (new girlfriend, soft introduction as she's just split from boyf of 7 years) to collect her sis (17) to go to Pride Brighton tomorrow. Such a lovely event. Used to take the kids when they were young and knew a couple of the organisers. It's quite funny - they're taking my nephew who's secretly enby but also openly gay now (my BiL is a little intolerant but coming around, but enby is a step too far for him at the mo). My eldest has always been a little cross with me about being too tolerant, and it feels like she wanted a big coming out drama and was annoyed when we were all fine, so told me off for calling her gay when she was pan/bi etc. But split (very amicably) with her fella because..... she's decided she's gay! I win! I win the gay wars! Only joking. Fwiw I've just never been bothered about it. No idea why. Just built that way. Everyone assumes I'm gay and I don't bother to correct them. I love the gays! Can I say that? Most definitely NOT! Lol. But I'll say it anyway. So to all my gay brethren and sistren and othren and nothren, I say.... 👊

Happy Pride, mother effers. X

Hillbilly Elegy was once regarded as “the key to understanding the disaffection of the white working class that had swept Trump to his shocking victory.”

Now it is seen as “poverty porn” that “paints him as an opportunist and the place he came from, and claims to represent, as a sinkhole that no self-respecting person would be caught dead in.”

#USPol

/1 🧵

https://slate.com/culture/2024/07/hillbilly-elegy-jd-vance-movie-netflix-trump-vp.html

I should be a newspaper editor

Gift link in case anyone wants to read the full story: https://wapo.st/4d8qF7c

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said Saturday that he will no longer appear at a previously scheduled debate on Sept. 10 and will only debate Vice President Harris, the likely Democratic nominee, if she agrees to his terms: a debate on Sept. 4, hosted by Fox News, with a “full arena audience.”

#wussout #coward

With lots of help from @Pineywoozle and with credit to @Shonin for adding the hashtag, I’ve settled on the design in the photo for the Mastodon for Harris #NewBanner I will use. Various folks have created other options. I say let all the flowers bloom.
If you would like an svg formatted version of the below, dm me with an email address for you. cc @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

If you find yourself wondering why your feed on Mastodon is incredibly hostile or toxic, spend a few minutes going through the worst offending posts and see who's posting or boosting them.

I did this and discovered that the worst offenders were a small handful of accounts that were constantly boosting or posting very negative stuff. Once they were removed from my feed (it was like only like three or four accounts), everything improved dramatically.

#feditips #feditip

It’s insane that a handful of white men can create this much trauma and drama for the entire planet.

Toilets that signal *what* the infrastructure is, rather than *who* can enter.

📍: Bruges, Belgium

As a weirdo, I have mixed feelings about the use of 'weird' to attack the far right.

Obviously, it's accurate. Also it seems to rattle them, and I appreciate that.

I just can't help worrying about people reinforcing the stigma against weirdness without registering what they're doing.
#WeirdPride
https://oolong.medium.com/weirdness-and-the-right-b6c0af5642cf

@EugeneMcParland

The sun from yesterday evening, July 31

#solar #astrophotography

“I Love My Black Job”: Simone Biles Seemingly Takes Swipe At Donald Trump After Olympic Triumph
#News #Politics #Sports #2024Olympics #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Olympics #SimoneBiles

https://deadline.com/2024/08/simone-biles-black-job-donald-trump-olympics-1236029839/

@GottaLaff Barr was an active puppeteer in the coverup of Trump crimes. He must be investigated.
The coverup of the corruption was more extensive than I imagined, and I have an active imagination.
Wow.

Harry: "Whenever I search for "Kim and Paris" I get these two random people, who even are they? It seems one is a Cardassian?"

How do you pronounce it?
(pls boost for reach)