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

Queer update: Still feeling splendidly queer.

Ironically, it’s my stunning humility that makes me so much better than everyone else.

@ScottSoCal but vast sequences of DNA are identical for plants and humans

Inspired by little free libraries, I made a little free art gallery

#art #artwork

I'm a 59 year old African American woman. I've desegregated a town, a school system and many other spaces. When I discuss racism in this nation, I'm not going to ameliorate my speech for the comfort of anyone. I don't exist to comfort others about the reality of what I was born into - what we all live in together. If that's a problem for you, I suggest you embark on some self-reflection to determine what your actual role is within this system.
#racism #politics #blackmastodon

@eric I was spanked and I am not fine. When my kids push my buttons, especially when tired or fed up, I feel the urge to lash out, but I never have. I control myself because I know the only thing I'd accomplish is to permanently damage my kids trust in me.
I have never, and would never hurt them. But that programming is still in my brain, and I hate it.

Though honestly, it's gotten easier over the years. Controlling reactive anger is a skill.

An #introduction:

By day, I’m a content writer and graphic designer for a company that supports veterans in getting their disability ratings increased.

By night, I write young adults novels and play #videogames.

I’m a big #hockey fan. My teams are the Chicago Blackhawks and the Seattle Kraken, but I’ll watch any game that’s on.

Other hobbies include reading as much as possible, #crochet and other fiber arts, #drawing, #hiking, #bullet journaling, and napping.

Oh, and I'm #bisexual 🏳️‍🌈

Warning, yo

That’s twice this week that I’ve walked into Mastodonia only to find…

::gasp::

People discussing my books! One witchy novel series, and one non-fiction magic book.

This is seriously an author’s dream.

#bookstodon #WritersOfMastodon
@bookstodon

If you want to survive on Mastodon, here's what you gotta do. On the first day, go up to the biggest account you can find and kiss them on the lips

In the 1989 film "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," Chekov, posing as the commanding officer of the Enterprise, speaks with the renegade Vulcan, Sybok, on Nimbus III. Sybok requests that Chekov and his first officer transport down to the surface. The fact that Chekov does not respond with "Beam me down to the Paradise City, where your blood is green and the girls are kitties" is why Star Trek V is widely regarded as the worst of the franchise. #StarTrek

@ScottSoCal Excellent idea. I was going to get a jetboil anyway for coffee on my photo hikes so it can double for emergencies. Can't beat California for earthquakes, mudslides and wildfires though they probably don't happen in the same location (throw in some rattlesnakes for good measure).

My guess is that:

1. Life changed the composition of the atmosphere, weathering of rock, the seas everything. So it's just not the same now.
2. Nothing as simple as early life, which might not even have cell walls could cut it in the hurly burly of a modern puddle. So maybe it happens but never goes anywhere.

But I don't think this explains ALL life having a common ancestor as DNA suggest. Even plants and people have some common DNA.

Is there some other factor?

@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.