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

There is no such thing as an unlimited right. Slander, libel, death threats, hate speech, perjury, false reports to law enforcement -- there are many forms of speech that are illegal, and HAVE to be illegal for society to operate. Finding those boundaries is difficult, and requires constant consideration. But pretending that there is an unfettered right to speak unconstrained by how it can can cause harm to others is childish.

Some pretty day lilies to brighten up your day!

This photo gets better and better the more you look at it (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

Herschel Walker just got trolled so frigging hard. Well done,@TobyMorton !!! 😂👍 https://god.dailydot.com/herschel-walker-website-troll/

WHAHEY! Thank you for helping me reach 5000+ Mastodon followers. It is daunting trying to rebuild from the birdsite, but dear god that gormless, formless, aspirational-fascist shit-head who owns it is unbearable. Unbearable.

Good Morning

The Clearest Image of Jupiter ever taken by Juno spacecraft

Folks have mentioned that Twitter is an extremely important space for sharing #protest news across the world and as a result we should keep preserving it despite the takeover.

I get it, I am #Iranian, I have relied heavily on twitter for news sharing re protests in #Iran over the years.

But what you are missing is that those same activists and protesters are MOST vulnerable to the new Twitter regime. Misinformation campaigns will be easy, and #Putin/#China/Islamic republic will use it.

There are not very fine people on both sides.

I cannot stress strongly enough that genocides do not start with death camps. That’s where they end.

No, they start with dangerous rhetoric that whips up violence against marginalized groups.

People like Walsh, Pool, Shapiro, Carlson, Raichik, etc. absolutely know this. They are fomenting a genocide against trans and queer folks, and it is working.

Tucker Carlson is once again using his platform to spread anti-LGBTQ+ lies, this time about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

After he claimed Secretary Pete somehow "lied" about being gay, his husband Chasten ably clapped back with a much-needed truth bomb.

Read Chasten's response here: https://www.comicsands.com/chasten-buttigieg-carlson-gay-lie-2658790963.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Amazing photo from #China - the people stand up to Xi, some demanding he step down. Photo of two professors from Fudan University.

Our 9-year-old son came home from school & said that some boys at recess offered to play with him if 'he hugged & kissed a girl.'

He responded to them, "No, that's inappropriate," & told us he didn't mind not being able to play with those boys after all. Afterwards his teacher shared she was happy he stood up to peer pressure.

Y'all—it's never too early to teach boys about consent and boundaries. Have the conversation. Then have it again. And again. Boys will be the boys we teach them to be.

It’s been six days since Trump dined with two antisemites and a Holocaust denier, and Trump still hasn’t criticized either man by name or their ideology.

🍑Georgia voters! Have you made your plan to vote for the Senate runoff election yet? Make your plan today: http://iwillvote.com.

Oh myyy, a big piece on my life and my legacy work in “Allegiance” in The Guardian today. Of course, they are hyping up the drama around unimportant pop gossip, but glad to see the story and this musical getting great press as we head into rehearsals next week!

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/nov/28/star-trek-george-takei-on-william-shatner-love-and-life-as-an-enemy-alien

For tickets to see me live on stage starting in January and to April of 2023, visit https://allegiancemusical.com

Mississippi is America’s Blackest state. It’s mostly white MAGA Govt annually rejects $1B in Federal $ for Medicaid. Now the last hospital in a rural part of MS is about to close—devastating Black & low income people.

MAGA racism & cruelty on full display. Like the old saying goes. Republicans claim government doesn’t work—then they get elected and prove it.
https://nbcnews.to/3EMk43p