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

Hi Tooters, I am an artist on the internet, and I paint #dinosaurs a lot, so you should expect that. I also paint and draw other things, like trains, aliens, robots, gods, ugly old people, people with long shoes, long cats, and landscapes.

I have created two books with Memo Kosemen & Darren Naish: All Yesterdays, about how we portray dinosaurs, and Cryptozoologicon, about mystery animals.

My website: https://johnconway.art
My patreon: https://www.patreon.com/johnconway

#introductions #artist #painting

My twitter followers and engagement continues to drop. I can’t open the app w/o some other ad polluting my feed🤢
By contrast this Mastodon community continues to ignite robust dialogue and offers little comfort to racists and bigots. (Also my better half Ayesha is now writing some great Mastodon threads on women’s rights so I hope y’all follow her too).❤️✊🏽 
Twitter keeps dropping the ball—but I’m feeling more & more hopeful Mastodon will more than fill the gap Twitter has left. Thank you all.❤️✊🏽

For anyone, that’s wondering about my particular situation first let me say, that I am OK. My basic needs are met. I just have nothing beyond that. If you want to understand my story, I wrote about it a few months back in a very long thread here...

https://mastodon.social/@Mrfunkedude/109348944147094320

Be warned, reading this may change the way that you see me.

If you want to give something to me, please give to someone who needs it in your life instead. You helping someone you love is the best gift you could give me.

Do you know where bees go during the #winter? Read this short extension article to learn about some of the different overwintering strategies used by #bees! https://extension.psu.edu/where-do-bee-pollinators-go-during-the-winter/

“I have an old english bulldog” just makes me think your pup can recite Beowulf.

Sean Hannity et al. didn’t believe it for a second…

But they sowed doubt with their viewers.

There’s a special place in hell for #FoxNews.

#politics
#TheBigLie

https://www.yahoo.com/news/testimony-hannity-other-fox-employees-131646430.html

I want to write about myself here, I am a very good person I respect my parents and other people. I am very friendly and I like to make new friends. I like to travel to other countries and I like to try new things in my life. x🧡

Well hot dang, I've gained over 500 followers on Mastodon in just three days.

I never expected to receive such high quality support for such Low Quality Facts on here.

Watching for Santa 🐾
#DogsofMastodon

@Stonekettle at least he didn’t spend his money on a giant psycho tattoo of Richard Nixon on his entire back. Also, this feels like a good time to talk about the difference between personal money and government money. Clearly these insurrectionist republicans do not see a difference. If there’s a pot of money, they’ll grab it. There is no public good or communal purpose.

@ScottSoCal @Wildethingy is that imaginary as in Mr X was imaginary or as in he had a great imagination and after finding out his dad wasn’t really his dad he created a wild fantasy about his true father and managed to convince billions that it was true?

Another day, another escalation in the MAGA civil war.

This time, MTG–who has been publicly feuding with her former BFFs Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz–is getting called nasty names by one of Trump's most fervent MAGA minions.

Think we're gonna need more popcorn... 😂

https://www.comicsands.com/alexander-trailer-park-hood-rat-2659000795.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

The best way to find every AA battery in your home is to need a pair of AAAs.

When it's cold in my winter wonderland, tees are forever friends. They smile all year round, even at -40C/-40F, in the beautiful boreal forest. They make lungs joyful with their refreshing air. Trees and I, together, are sending joy, hope, healing and warmth to the world. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Wo5TCPvgpfY

Desperately trying to recover my inner calm after an encounter with a mansplainer earlier today.
#DailyDiva
#DespondentDiva
#CustomerServiceFail

ByteDance used TikTok to track my location — and the locations of two of my colleagues — to try to find our sources. We reported on this back in October, but kept things vague to protect sources. Today ByteDance admitted it, so we can say much more:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/emilybaker-white/2022/12/22/tiktok-tracks-forbes-journalists-bytedance/

Upgrades people, upgrades! ⚡

In a spacewalk lasting 7 hours and 8 minutes, @NASA_Astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio successfully completed installation of the fourth of six new solar arrays to augment the @Space_Station's power supply. https://go.nasa.gov/3VdeYSU
#NASA