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

Man: Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
Fish: (pulls a gun)
Man:
Fish:
Man:
Fish:
Man: (nervously) Look, it’s . . . it’s a metaphor . . . I never meant to . . . overfishing . . . it wasn’t supposed to happen . . . please . . . I have a family . . .
Fish: This ends NOW!

“Don’t play the wizard game from the lady who doesn’t respect my humanity,” and “Don’t buy chicken from the people that want to exterminate people like me” seem like such a low bar for people who are supposedly allies to clear.

Yet here folks are.

The volume of people telling vision-impaired users "fuck off, your engagement doesn't count" by skipping image descriptions is starting to get depressing again.

A rare sighting of a North American Albino howling shitgibbon...

Please boost even if this isn't for you. On Mastodon, favoriting is not like 'liking' on the other site. All it does is it tell the writer you liked it, there is no algorithm.

Trying to reach #transit #transport #publictransit #publictransport people and #BehaviouralScience #scicomm people on Mastodon

Just finished "#Transport for Humans", a readable and fun application of behavioural science to #transit problems.

Highly recommended to anyone interested or involved in #PublicTransport. Nudges, counterintuitive ideas that work and more!

*Bus routes on the side of buses*
*Information and reassurance for delays*
*Doors that close when advertised (or later) not 2 mins before posted departure time*

Full disclosure
@rorysutherland is an old friend 🙂

@TransportAction @Transport_EU @TransportOnline @transportationalternatives @transenv @TransportLab
@transitmap @transit @transitdiagrams @TransitForMD

👋 made it to the elephant zone!

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.
#StarTrek #BlackHistoryMonth

Waiting for someone to make an artisanal search engine that only indexes manually verified websites written by humans. Farm-to-table organic search results, handmade with 100% certified human creativity, like your grandparents told you about.

On 23 February we will host an online seminar dedicated to the persecution of Roma & Sinti, the history of the so-called Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and the contemporary contexts of functioning of Roma communities.

Details & registration: https://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/roma-experience-of-extermination-educational-session-online-23-february-2023,1602.html

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Zigeunerlager #history #histodons @histodons #Roma #Sinti #Gypsies #genocide #education #seminar #online #Nazis #ww2

When they write to me that 🇷🇺 have created amazing art and culture.
This is the grave of M. Leontovych, he composed "Shchedryk" now known as "Carol of the Bells".
He was murdered by a Soviet agent.
🇺🇦 culture was killed and stolen for years so that the world would not hear about it.

I’m 100% fine with trans women in my bathroom.
It’s the Republican men in my uterus that are the problem.

I do not understand men how people in their late 40s can date teenagers because I am 30 years old and whenever anyone under the age of 20 enters my field of view the only thing I feel is a powerful urge to tell them how many songs used to fit on an MP3 player

What imagery could you write a poem around?
#Poll #Polls #Poetry

sometimes, the abyss says, "really? a whole closet and you went with THAT?"

That which doesn’t kill you still hurts a lot, and it’s not a cool experience

The way you behave when the only audiences you’ve ever sat in were Pig Races and Demolition Derbies.

#House #GOP #Seditious #MTG #StateOfTheUnion

Trying to find people I relate to on Mastodon. Please boost if you:

-don't believe in palindromes.

-once saw a psychic who told you that you will die in a tragic mini golf accident.

-think that cops should give you one chance to rock, paper, scissors your way out of a speeding ticket.

-microdose bananas to keep your potassium levels stable.

-constantly say sorry whenever you're walking just in case you bump into a ghost.

I do sing the anthem (off-key, and with a suspect falsetto for that high note. Hey, we can't all be Prince! Some of us have to be Barry White. OK Biz Markie).

But I'm making an informed choice, because I know white US history.

I don't judge Black folk or folk of any color that choose not to sing it, as "un-American" or "un-patriotic."

For some folk, American patriotism means unquestioning loyalty to the ideals of a white supremacist America. For them, anti-racism itself, is anti-America.

Me trying to explain mastodon to my friends and family #newhere #fediverse #blackmastodon