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

Shell reports highest profits in 115 years!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-64489147

Every day, I have more and more questions.

Why am I in this room?

What part of my leg made that noise standing up?

If I don’t go to the toilet now, when will I next be close to one
I’m prepared to use?

Where did I put the to do list I wrote yesterday?

How did I get a bruise there and not notice?

Why am I, once again, not wearing the right glasses for the distance I need to see?

Does the colour of my underwear support the level of confidence I have that this is just a fart?

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not ready to talk about Black history. I want to talk about white US history.

Q: "Why don't Black people build any generational wealth? Newer immigrant groups seem to be doing just fine? Must be a lazy and shiftless people!"

A: Because for most of US history, white folk have *intentionally* destroyed the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the US and stolen all the wealth.

Greenwood. Allentown. Seneca Village. Rosewood. Freedmen's town.

#BlackMastodon

Look, I'm not asking you to support my Patreon because my facts hopefully bring a little joy to your day.

I'm not asking because it's cool to support small creative projects.

I'm not even asking because I can barely afford to pay rent.

I'm simply asking because Ruby demands that I buy more treats. I'm afraid to tell her no. She may be small and cute, but she has a very threatening aura.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 63.

UK based research examining a selection of store bought ‘bee friendly’ plants showed that the majority of them had been treated with a cocktail of #pesticides/fungicides & were actually harmful to bees/#butterflies/#insects.

#bees #bee #beesofmastodon
#beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary
#bumblebees #solitarybees
#naturereserve
#nature #organic #vegan #savingbees #photography

80% of the Wagner Group's "troops are killed, missing, deserted or surrendered." Those who have been captured are suffering from diseases ranging from AIDS and syphilis to tuberculosis and pneumonia that -- due to danger to Ukrainian medical staff -- often must go untreated.

It doesn't sound like the Wagner Group's raping and pillaging paid off in the end. Karma is a Ukrainian.

https://www.jpost.com/international/article-730301

#Ukraine #WagnerGroup #Ukrainian #Russia #Russian #Putin #News #war

Wagner Group posing. https://libretooth.gr/@stopgopfox/109795082973319791

@suttonsc @ScottSoCal @5ciFiGirl
#Firefly #Serenity

I am officially deceased after reading this Wall Street deli owner's response to the question of whether he asks his customers for stock tips:

Hunter Biden's legal team is on the offensive, demanding state & federal investigations into the dissemination of material from his laptop, & threatening a defamation lawsuit against Fox's Tucker Carlson for allegedly failing to correct false statements.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-laptop-investigations-retractions-rudy-giuliani-fox-news/

@ericpierce @ScottSoCal @5ciFiGirl Also, now I'm watching Firefly again. 🤎🧥

@ScottSoCal @MariaHill
Another result of gridlock in DC
We can't have nice things bc fossil fuel co's are concerned how their pollution makes them look

@PeggyJoan I think I'm going to go with an outfit consisting of:

A skirt precisely one inch above the knee, in the loudest pattern I can find. A high-necked T-shirt with no writing, possibly with holes in - this does not seem to be specified. Men's shoes, with socks. Neon ones preferably. Plus leggings worn as a hat.

#NASARemembers: 20 years ago #OTD, Feb 1, 2003, at 8:59am ET, space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry. The entire crew perished.

Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon

We will never forget. https://go.nasa.gov/3YezowF
#NASAhistory

She might be on to you.
#Humor #Funny

When I get impatient that my doggo wants to sniff everything on our walks, I remember that this is his social media and he’s just doomscrolling.

The 117th Congress was Democratic with President Biden signing bills into law. Congress was able to pass a $35 monthly cap on insulin for Medicare patients and some other limited price controls on prescription drugs, but it doesn't help privately insured or uninsured patients. Unfortunately, there's still the filibuster and not even all 50 Senate Democrats (we have 51 now ​) are fully on board with all pharma bills. (The Manchin family has pharma involvement, of course.)

Here comes California to the rescue with a plan to make its own insulin. Insulin is cheap to make but the three big pharma companies keep finding ways to extend their patents by creating new delivery methods. California plans to hire state employees to make the insulin and sell it at cost. (Good state jobs!). California can then sell it to other states. There's precedent; Massachusetts makes its own vaccines.

Pharma claims it likes competition but wait for the lawsuits.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23574178/diabetes-insulin-pen-injection-cost-california

It sure sounds like Donald just admitted to the whole Stormy Daniels scandal in his latest bizarre social media post.
And Stormy wasted no time in mocking him for it. 🙌

Read her epic takedown here: https://www.comicsands.com/trump-admit-daniels-payment-2659337750.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

I just saw a chicken toting a Chanel bag so I’m starting to question these egg prices