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

@stopgopfox

no one does cowardice better than ted

DISMAYED to have to say this but apparently I need to:

JKR is a virulent transphobe who has SAID OUTRIGHT that purchasing Harry P*tter merch = supporting her views

if you buy the new game you’re hurting us and are not an ally

My fellow trekkies/trekkers will get this instantly. #StarTrek #ElonMusk

#Otter

AOC was on fire yesterday as she angrily called out the real reason her GOP colleagues voted to remove Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Her epic takedown of their shameful vote is a must-watch: https://www.comicsands.com/aoc-omar-removed-from-committee-2659369599.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

All the embroideries I made of my dog (so far)

#embroidery #threadpainting #xstitch #crossstich #pontocruz #bordado #broderie #mastodog

3/3 The bendy tree in full Summer leaf

#Trees #iPhonePhotography #Photography #Nature #Resilience

My 75 year old mother in law recommended watching #Wednesday on Netflix...I respect the opinions of this retired RE and history teacher and yet again her son and I were not disappointed! It was a brilliantly acted series - both the young and more established members of the cast were spot on in getting the #AddamsFamily vibe. It also felt very 90’s...which makes me feel old, but happy!

Feeling inadequate because everyone on Mastodon appears to be a professor or a doctor or a rocket scientist?

Follow me and feel better about yourself, for I have the intellect of a clever potato.

@stux

Parents need to pay attention to that gaming-Twitch-Alpha male podcast/incel-Holocaust denier-far right pipeline.

I'm not kidding.
Because that's where the radicalization of young boys happening.

@ScottSoCal unfortunately, when you look back you see a lot of subtle transphobia (and also just shaming on appearances, especially weight) in the books? Like Rita Skeeter was always described as looking masculine and having “mannish hands” for example. Her characterization of lycanthropy in her words as an HIV allegory too, especially as Lupin was the exception to werewolves who generally side with Voldemort, and Fenrir who “converts” children. 😬

Happy Birthday to this meeb on #MonDog ! (Okay, yesterday, but close enough.) She’s eight years old now, but the vet tech thought I meant eight months because she’s so excitable. 🥰🐾

Does anyone else use the term “meeb” or did my husband and I make it up? It means an animal that’s cute and goofy. She’s being very meeby in this picture.

#DogsOfMastodon #corgi #DogBirthday

how to seal a leaky bucket

Julian Khater, the man who assaulted United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on January 6, 2021, was just sentenced to 80 months — nearly 7 years — behind bars. Officer Sicknick died the following day. Sicknick's mother, Gladys, told the insurrectionist, "You attacked my son like he was an animal. You are the animal, Mr. Khater. How does it feel to be headed to jail because of a bald-faced lie?"

If #trans people are telling you to not buy Hogwarts Legacy or Harry Potter products, and you do regardless, to me it reads as you prioritize your own comfort and nostalgia over the very real danger that trans people are facing now, danger that is propagated by JKR and other TERFs. #LGBT #HogwartsLegacy #HarryPotter

Some inktober prints I usually sell at cons! (and occasionally online when my Etsy store is open) #crow #owl

About the book I’m reading at present:

“How do sandhoppers inherit an inbuilt compass from their parents? How do crabs understand the tides? How can the death of one winkle guarantee the lives of its companions? What does a prawn know?
In ‘Life Between the Tides’ Adam Nicolson explores the natural wonders of the shoreline. This is an invitation to the water, where marvellous things wait an inch below the surface.”

These are my nearest rock pools. The fascinating shoreline.

#sea #biology