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

Every so often, patience is rewarded. For 30 minutes I watched this tricolored heron fishing in a canal. He would be very still, tense up, then take wing & pounce on the fish. He then ventured down by a reflection of a yellow blossomed tree and I captured him in a ‘dance’ above the water.

Find it here -- https://chrystyne-novack.pixels.com/featured/water-dancer-i-chrystyne-novack.html

#AYearForArt #ArtMatters #NaturePhotography #BirdPhotography #Birds #Bird #GiftThemArt #FediArt #FediArt #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifeWednesday #Nature
#Artbooster

Intro: I'm a software engineer (oracle, pl/sql, apex, js, forms), geek, like dogs, beer and metal. Left-leaning, liberal, anti-fash. Meet Luna. 😍 #dogsofmastodon #introduction

The Washington Post now flags journalists' profiles as verified on Mastodon.

#LoseYourIllusions 🙈🙄😿😹

I’m kinda wishing Mastodon will eventually break the stranglehold Twitter seems to have on writers. It’s almost like people are too afraid to give up, and lose their followers. I have a fraction of followers here, but still get more #Engagement. Anyway, rant over. If I said this on Twitter, I’d probably get suspended, assuming of course, anyone was paying attention to what I wrote. #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #twitter #writers #wip #migration #cats #catsofmastodon

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?"