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

For anyone who wondered how he could sleep at night...

Dating is cool and all but have you ever tried adopting a dog? #purelove #dogsofmastodon

3/ "“In one instance, a black student was refused entry to a football game because she was wearing a ‘Black Lives Matter’ shirt; and was advised that she could not enter with it on,” the lawsuit states. “However, a white student was allowed entry at the very same event with a shirt that read, ‘Stomp on My Flag; I'll Stomp Your A**’. There were no repercussions for that white student.”"

2/ "They say school admins “engaged in egregious pattern of delib ignoring complaints” about..“2 students scrawling racial epithet across lockers in baseball locker rm; noose hung in ftball locker rm; students wearing Confederate flag attire; white student wearing full Hitler costume during spirit wk after obtaining prior approval frm teacher; white students open use of racial slurs incl ‘n-----’; overtly racist remarks by white tcher & open & notorious display of Confed flags in building.”

No words... Thread:

"3 Black high school students in #Georgia filed a federal #CivilRights #lawsuit against Effingham County School District, alleging “deliberate indifference” to racial animosity and an unconstitutional dress code that prohibits the wearing of any clothes bearing #BlackLivesMatter messaging. #BLM #legal #news 🧵 1/...

https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/01/09/lawsuit-georgia-school-district-barred-high-schoolers-wearing-black-lives-matter

4/ !! 😳 🤬

"According to the lawsuit, multiple Black students were told that Black Lives Matter messaging constitutes a disruption, while the Confederate flag “represents ‘heritage not hate’ and is a point of pride rather than disruption.” #racism

"Today we will a start a marathon for fair play aimed at clearing the management of international Olympic structures of hypocrisy as well as (preventing) any attempts to drag representatives of the terrorist state into world sport," says #Ukraine President Zelenskyy, announcing a campaign to prevent #Russia from competing in the #ParisOlympics2024.
"It is obvious that any neutral flag of Russian athletes would be stained with blood."

Newscaster: Watch a person of African descent get murdered from the comfort of your breakfast table!
*slow head shake
Don't worry, folks. We've FINALLY realized police officers should be held accountable for murdering Black people, so it's okay to watch this one."

Meanwhile, in my house:

Bob Marley🕯
Redemption Song
https://youtu.be/9ZpxaeICYyg

#KillingSeason
#BlackFriday
#BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse
#BlackTwitter

finally agreeing on who'd get possession of the car, our divorce came to be known in legal circles as 'The Honda Accord'

My latest soft pastel artwork is titled 'Bluebird for Happiness and Lucky Clover' becuase it combines a beautiful Eastern bluebird with a four-leaf clover. One symbolizes happiness while the other is a symbol of luck.
See this artwork now in my online gallery at https://mm-anderson.pixels.com/featured/bluebird-for-happiness-and-lucky-clover-mm-anderson.html and soon on the other sites listed in my profile.
#birds #BirdArt #art #ArtistsOnMastodon #MastoArt #PastelArtwork #FediGiftShop #bluebird #TraditionalArt

@RIDDLES #monkey

Extremists need to stop playing political games with the lives of working people and families.

Democrats stand with the people. Dismantling Medicare and Social Security will never be up for debate.

It’s a shit show.
Everything and anything involving Trump is a shit show.

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1619062754563788821/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1619062754563788821

Ellie found a smol stick on our morning walk. Life is good. ☀️
#dogsofmastodon

Florida’s new student textbook guidelines that prohibit books “that may lead to student indoctrination” actually sound a lot like indoctrination.

#Florida #DeSantis #GOP

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/education/2023/01/27/social-studies-textbooks-how-florida-defines-student-indoctrination/69820000007/

During the #Holocaust, a team of Jewish researchers in the Warsaw Ghetto documented the grim effects of starvation on the human body even as they themselves starved.

"They hoped their research would benefit future generations through better ways to treat malnutrition, and they wanted the world to know of Nazi atrocities to prevent something similar from ever happening again."

Hear more from the researcher who found the book in the library, in our #podcast: https://podfollow.com/the-conversation-weekly/episode/107c5a4291d53c4969264fb901f0215ff947c7b8/view #history

Please
stop what you are doing
and in a calm clear voice say:
“computer, end program,”
for there is a chance
that you are actually
a crew member on a starship
in the 24th century
stuck in a holodeck simulation
of this historic pandemic
the chance is small
but it’s worth a try

Holocaust Memorial Day

‘To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time’

ELIE WIESEL