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

Hi new followers!
Welcome to the other side!
Got any questions?

My mastadon link at my pinned tweet on Twitter is now warning anyone who clicks on it that the sight may be “unsafe.”
You know what actually feels unsafe right now? Musk on Twitter.

I’m glad we’re *maybe* giving Patriot missiles to Ukraine. But it’s not entirely clear to me how that helps Ukraine win this war. They need long-range missiles. Why aren’t we providing them, but Iran can?

8. Once I realized this, I shut up so Katie and Drew could ask him questions. Musk basically ignored the questions and kept repeating, "no doxxing" and "no special rules for journalists"

When Drew pressed him, he quickly bolted.

He does not like to be challenged or questioned.

Love letter to #Mastodon:
It’s weird how the brain (well, mine anyway) got so used to associating social media to doomscrolling, that coming here almost like a warm blanket on my brain.
I open this app and find incredibly smart, witty and empathetic folks who find each other by searching hashtags. What a concept!

#progress report

So almost 24 hours on Mastodon and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Excited to have almost 100 followers

Bluebird had become so unpleasant.

There are great people on there, but it's getting through the boatloads of bots or RWNJ's that was it's downfall.

I would liken it it to Andy in #ShawshankRedemption crawling through hundreds of feet of raw sewage to get out to the blessed rain outside. #freefromtwitter

Pour one out for the turducken tonight.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Hey,
Thank you for boosting other people’s posts so generously! So much good stuff. I have a great home feed! 👏👏👏

➡️ There’s no AI/algorithm. It’s up to us to boost! 🎉

➡️ Keep in mind to also boost #BlackMastodon, #Indigenous, and #PoC (People of Colour) posts. Make an effort to follow people with different experiences and backgrounds. (If you feel uncomfortable, sit with it, read, learn.)

#Tip #MastodonTip #FediTip #TwitterMigration #BIPOC #Boost

https://www.yahoo.com/now/ap-breakthrough-entertainer-tenoch-huerta-152433726.html #BlackPanther #Namor #TenochHuerta

When the loudness of the world cannot listen to your heart, the quietness of nature keeps its ears and arms open for you.
From the lake near my cabin in the wilderness of the Yukon, I am dispatching joy, hope, healing and positivity.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/nSMI1JtM7ts

Books by James Baldwin, one of America’s greatest intellectuals, humanists and activists (he was also a film critic* and historian) that I highly recommend. Well, I highly recommend all of them including the one in my photo. Here are just a few of the other Baldwin books you must read:

Go Tell It On The Mountain
Notes Of A Native Son
No Name In The Street
The Devil Finds Work*
Another Country
If Beale Street Could Talk
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen
#jamesbaldwin #bookstodon #reading #books

Great news!

In a landmark judgement, the Barbados High Court has issued a ruling that decriminalized consensual same-sex relations.

Barbados becomes the 3rd Eastern Caribbean country in 2022 to strike down discriminatory legal provisions and decriminalize gay sex, after Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/13/barbados-high-court-decriminalizes-gay-sex

FRIENDS: We are MeidasTouch, the unapologetically pro-democracy organization many of you know from Twitter, YouTube and elsewhere.

With the chaos at Twitter, we want to build our platform here on Mastodon to make sure we can continue to spread our message.

Can you please BOOST this post, FOLLOW our account and encourage your followers to do the same?

@stopgopfox Utterly appalling. GQP are so goddamned fucked up.

I hate that I have to avoid someone because they signed up for a multi level marketing scheme.
Damn you Nana.

God will never give you more than you can handle, unless you were born in the wrong place or don't have money. That makes God super mad.

I made a joke to one of my employees about something being ‘truly ironic, Alanis’ but he just looked at me blankly, so for making me feel really old and out of touch there’s someone who ironically won’t be getting a promotion any time soon.

Dark Brandon is back!

After Donald Trump unveiled that his "major announcement" was the Sad! release of his collectible digital trading cards, President Biden showed him what a real presidential announcement looks like.

Well played, sir! 👏

https://www.comicsands.com/biden-trolls-trump-announcement-cards-2658972177.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Nothing is stopping you from writing a great novel right now other than not having any original ideas or the discipline to write a certain number of words each day or talent