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

@parkermolloy Musk and Murdoch,
sitting in a tree,
N-A-Z-I-I-N-G.

US friends, take note. I went to vote in Berlin today and this was the line in front of the polling station. “But wait! There is no line!” Indeed. There is no line because there need not be one. Because it’s about how polling is organised. If you are standing in a line for hours in order to exercise your democratic rights, it’s because someone wants you to.#polling #democracy #righttovote

I don't regret my doctorate. I don't.

But if I had everything to do over again, I would *never* get a PhD.

It narrows your options in ways you'd never imagine. But that's not why.

The process of getting a PhD--at least, at this point in time--is inherently abusive. It's cruel. And it demands that you accept the abusiveness, the capriciousness, the lack of control over your own life and your own destiny, as both appropriate and inevitable. That you internalize the abuse and perpetrate it against yourself, without end. That service to others is everything, that you don't deserve time to yourself, that you never,ever deserve a vacation from your work, that your only human value is in whatever knowledge you have--knowledge which is constantly devalued and denigrated by others.

The PhD process is nothing short of hazing.

I love teaching at university. It is a great joy in my life. But it wasn't worth the price of admission, and I can never get off of this ride now.

Think twice before you walk this path.

Just back from the UCU picketline in Cardiff today. Here we are demonstrating the British Sign Language sign for "STRIKE", which can also mean "REVOLUTION" *hint hint* 😘

We are on strike against casual contracts, overwork, underpay and inequality. ✊

If you traveled back 250-500 years what #wildlife could you see near you? After a four year research project, I can tell you the answer in Britain and Ireland and it is quite exciting! (🐺​🐆​🐰​🦈​​🦐​🐍​)!

My Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife will be published in June, but I have special permission to share some of my findings before that, so I will be releasing one map each month here. Here is a list of previously released ones: https://historyandnature.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/atlas-maps/
#gis

Ok, I finally figured out "Superb Owl Sunday"!

#SuperbOwlSunday #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #Birds #Owl #Owls

Score! 😀

Finished my Crimson Seed Talisman from #EldenRing - been working on it on and off since the beginning of April

#fediart #metalworking #electronics #maker

😆😆

I washed the car with my dad.

He wanted to know why I couldn’t just use a sponge and hose like a normal person.

The party don’t start til I walk in, look around nervously and pull out my phone

#SignsOfTheTimes

How to tackle Sunday afternoons properly courtesy of Tallulah Dog... #shihtzu #dogsofmastodon

As the U.S. military shoots down UFOs after the balloon incident, I'll mention that the Stargate program used some pretty iffy cover stories.

Fight on, SG-1.

(Yes, I know that's not how it works but I grew up watching the X-Files and Stargate, okay? Let me have this.)

#ArtOfUkraine
Victoria Nekrasova Ukraine 🇺🇦
https://www.facebook.com/groups/728067234874282/permalink/909475336733470/

While everyone is distracted with "aliens" a major environmental catastrophe is unfolding in #Ohio
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/11/health/ohio-train-derailment-white-noise/index.html
https://www.newsweek.com/fox-dies-owners-arms-after-ohio-train-crash-releases-toxic-gas-1780529

Some technical info about the event here, and testimonies about animals dropping dead.
https://cen.acs.org/safety/Safety-questions-remain-Ohio-train/101/i6

#vinychloride #environment #spill #disaster #chemicals #transportation #derailment #EastPalestine

It’s not vehicle speed that kills, it’s vehicle *momentum*. A smaller car going faster may deliver less impact than a large vehicle going slower (momentum = velocity * mass).

We already have the (table stakes) technology to apply geo-fence-based speed throttling. And this should definitely take momentum into account. So if someone decides to use a 40% larger-than-average car in cities, their speed limit should be throttled to be 40% lower-than-average. Momentum-based limits!

me: pendants annoy me

him: why?

me: they think they know everything

him: I think you mean “pedants”

me: *under breath* fucking pendant

@wjmaggos @jbouie "you can understand the reason for the law, even though it can cause psychological distress"?

You mean, even though these laws will kill kids?

Because we have the receipts. This has been studied. There is *no* debate in psychology or medicine anymore: preventing trans kids from transitioning kills a *huge* portion of them, and the number who desist are vanishingly small--of all kids who transition, 97.5% still ID as trans as adults, and virtually all of that 2.5% who desisted were extremely early transitioners and went back to their AGAB by the time they were 10--so, before any medical intervention.

There's only one reason for those laws, and that reason *is to kill trans people*, friend. They even named one "The Millstone Act," after the Biblical method of execution by drowning. Genocide experts say their arguments are genocidal.

Please stop both sidesing and listen to the experts.

https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/2/e2021056082/186992/Gender-Identity-5-Years-After-Social-Transition?autologincheck=redirected

https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/bills/3730.htm

https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice