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

Good morning everyone and Happy Friday! Today I have lots of errands to run and things to tend to. I'll try and work on some art later. Traffic to my site has been super slow past few days, so not sure if folks are just busy or bored with my stuff already or what, but hopefully I can get things moving there again.

Here is a viking cat to start your day!

Inventions you didn’t know black women invented. Well now you know. Part One. #blackhistorymonth 2023.

New server so now seems like a good time for introductions. After 14.5 years on that other site, it feels odd to start over.

I lead technical teams by day, I read transit reports by night, and I curl on the weekends.

I’m a #computers #transit #elections #publichealth nerd, an amateur contributor to #curling #cycling #politics #cities #urbanism #sustainability, and a #science #data #democracy #lgbtq #gaydad #publictransit #equity advocate.

Anti-fascist, anti-racist, feminist. He/him

Hi!

russia’s disinformation

“They have been investing massively, much more than we invest in fighting against disinformation… #Disinformation and #propaganda outlets are today a weapon of the kremlin. And this weapon is a weapon – it hurts, it kills. It kills the capacity of the people of understanding what is going on, and, as a consequence, the position of governments and the decisions of international organisations.”
- #EU Vice-President Josep Borrell

Source🔗 https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/disinformation-opening-speech-high-representativevice-president-josep-borrell-eeas-conference_en

#Ukraine

@skaly good god this is wonderful

LOGGING ON

Me: I'll just take a quick beach selfie.

@ScottSoCal @ferrous@weirder.earth you could! And I could respond 'oh sure, I know a Helen or two! Hey, I see you're in southern California - do you know Kate?'

I bet this scrawny kid in a satin shirt and earring could never have imagined meeting two kings in two days. #Zelenskyy #Zelensky #Zelenskiy #Zelenskyi #Belgium #Brussels #UK #England

For those wondering about Mister Stinky, he's had a bath (after this pic) and been checked for a chip (no chip). The shelter agreed he looks like he's not been loose very long and probably had a home. He's fostering with Michelle for now and another dog that was playing nearby (Ms Stinky?) was also rescued by another passerby, apparently.

Happy almost weekend, Mastodonians!

#ACAB includes gender police. Minnesota, get yo ass to the senate building today at 12:30! The trans refuge bill will be heard. I have meetings today w/3 fams w/trans kids; one of them left a hostile state to be here. Fash are winning. Let’s keep their reach out of Minnesota and #ProtectTransKids

Woman quotes Adolf Hitler in anti-trans speech at Posie Parker rally #trans #selbstbestimmungsgesetz

https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/16/newcastle-let-women-speak-rally-adolt-hitler-trans-speech/

My friend is a #teacher and she and her husband are starting to make #educational songs on #YouTube focusing on #inclusion & #diversity.

Everybody ❤️ PIZZA!

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@ScottSoCal @therobburgessshow Elon has entered the chat

I have a friend who sometimes does pet/house sitting and one time she was watching a house and two cats for a couple, but one of the cats was outside at the time she got to their home (let’s call that cat Midnight).

They said it was normal and to just let the cat back in whenever it returned, so when Midnight finally appeared at the patio door later that night, my friend let them in and went to bed.

Over the rest of the weekend, Midnight and the other cat were sort of at odds with one another, but my friend did her best to keep the peace as much as possible.

At the end of the stay, the owners came home and my friend let them know everything went well, but that the cats were kind of weird with one another and asked if that was normal.

The owners seemed concerned, so they looked over at where Midnight was hiding, paused, and finally said “uh, that’s not our cat.”

@rchusid
After Reagan, I voted for a "none of the above" candidate until Obama. To me, voting for a Republican today is akin to voting for Christian Nationalism or, Klan as my grandmother called them. She would rise from her grave and snatch the hair from my head the male pattern baldness did not touch if I did.

When they high-fived each other over denying benefits to veterans suffering from burn pit exposure as they did the 9/11 workers, I now would not pee on them if they were on fire.

#ToonDrop
#Biden #Dems #GOP
#StateOfTheUnion #Politics

#MakeItPurple

New account, so I suppose I should do another of these #introductions posts!

I'm Fergus, an autistic science teacher living in Edinburgh. I'm also lots of other things, which I might sometimes feel like an impostor to draw attention to, but I suppose I will anyway. Depending on how you define/gatekeep each of these, I'm some kind of writer, community organiser, photographer/videographer, programmer, web developer, sculptor, giant-puppet-maker, podcaster...

I'm bi, lazily genderqueer, white and Green. Capitalism and kyriarchy are destroying our environment and our humanity, and I resent feeling the need to spend so much of my time fighting the effects of that.

I'm also @ferrous@weirder.earth but it was stressing me out that so many of my friends were on instances that are blocked wholesale over there, even though I get why they're blocked.

On Twitter I'm MxOolong (I haven't quite left yet) and my own site is oolong.co.uk - I've used variations on 'Oolong' online for about quarter of a century now, on account of my love for the tea, but I've started feeling a bit weird about it, and 'ferrous' pleases me. I do contain iron! It's true!

If you've read this far, say hi?