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

@escarpment @gringene

There is a theory that plant cells somehow... ate... but kept alive photosynthetic bacteria that are now the chloroplasts. Likewise what is up with the mitochondria with their own genetic system?

Is this the result of symbiosis gone wild?

Will Acropyga ants someday merge with the little obligate mutualist (domesticated er myrmesticated) mealybug they carry on their nuptial flights?

Today my husband asked me (because he thinks I know every damn thing for some reason)

"why can new life just start evolving now in some primordial soup from scratch like it did long ago? Why aren't there many different evolutionary trees with different starting points? Why one big tree?"

uuuuh I have some guesses but I don't know. 🧵

A few pics from the Picard season 3 premiere…

Ban Russia and Belarus from the #2024ParisOlympic and Paralympic Games.

"Russia is an outcast staging an unprovoked, aggressive, illegitimate, illegal war against Ukraine. And we should not allow the regime to have laureates from their country", says @gahler_michael.

Watch⤵️

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EPPGroup/status/1624755206511820805

@ScottSoCal I had a friend in Germany who made jewelry and he doesn't have any online presence, which I find very odd. He had a very unique name (Russian), so I'm sure he'd be easy to find if he was out there.

Norfolk Southern has a history of lobbying against safety regulations. Two years ago the union said that they were understaffed, that "just in time" BS was dangerous. And now an Ohio town is contaminated with toxic gas.

*very sarcastic slow clap*

This isn't getting enough news coverage despite lots of explosions and fire-- so if you don't know what I'm talking about please look it up.

Hi everyone! I’m new to this platform. I am a queer, self-taught artist, designer, and zinester living in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia, Canada). My work revolves around radical love of the weird wildness of nature as a pathway to overcome self-criticism and truly come to love ourselves and others. Here are some of my favourite paintings from this year. #art #artist #introduction

Good morning from Dreadful Acres. Just had a fight with my coffee machine because yet again it brewed — contrary to my explicit instructions — a whole coffee without a cup under the spout. Naturally I have taken to my bed to recover from this trying episode. Which is why today’s sunrise is once again photographed through my dirty bedroom window.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that #God has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct God how to put them right.
—Christopher Hitchens

#atheist vs #faith

During the first weeks Covid pandemic when we weren't 100% sure power stations would continue to run I seem to have tooled up on powerbanks but also three devices with cranks to power mobile phones and a little bit of solar. #powerbank

When they say ‘shake what your momma gave you’ I wave my therapists bill over my head.

My dogs are far better people than most of the people I have met in my life

#Introduction Once I made a list of all the paid jobs I'd ever had and it was quite long. Highlights: couple of years in #theatre; #RestaurantManager; film & television production & distribution; #FilmArchive owner; reviewer; #MagazineColumnist.
Unpaid? voluntary performing arts #promoter, arts organisation board member, #community association member, #litterpicker #mum and #granny.

The reason why many of you are just hearing about #TyreNichols is that his death does not fit the narrative of the “unarmed black man killed by racist white police officers” headline.

Tyre Nichols was beaten to death by 5 black #Memphis cops during a routine traffic stop.

Reports are that they beat Tyre Nichols until bones were protruding out of his skin. The victim was unrecognizable to his family.

This behaviour cannot be reformed.

@MKSinSA @ScottSoCal you too may be an introvert with ADHD. But you didn't hear that from me

Trying my hand at a bit of black and white #photography. The 87 Tram, with its unique design and styling, seemed like an interesting subject!

#BlackAndWhitePhotography #BerlinPhotography

@iyalei i have so many masculinities, each of them gay in a different way

Happy Whiskers Wednesday from Orion.
Black cat, laying on a red blanket with a teddy bear with red heart nose.