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

Nobody gives a shit any more…which is fine because that’s a terrible present.

Life will never be the way you want. It is like always moving water which does not flow within two banks. Despite all those plans and strategies, it will choose its own course. Accepting unexpected paths is joy. From the path near my cabin in the Yukon, I am dispatching joy, hope, healing and positivity.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5zcuQMDWFCs

The way to honor those murdered in the Holocaust is to stand up to hate everywhere. Don’t be silent. #HolocaustMemorialDay

In Georgia -- and other states controlled by Republicans -- protest is being turned into a criminal act. This is only the latest attack on democratic values and norms from a party that sees abuse of citizens, with impunity, as a key way of staying in power. https://theintercept.com/2023/01/27/cop-city-atlanta-forest/

Here is a dad joke for everyone:

What kind of shoes do frogs wear....

Open-Toad!

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

"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'

@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