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

If people believe that Jesus is a “pure, white Nazarene.”
Congratulations, you are a Nazi.

If you're a news outlet who doesn't mention the possibility of transphobia as a reason an out trans girl was killed (or even that she was trans), but does mention trans status any time a trans person commits a crime, you are creating an enemy the public can't sympathize with, but only can see as a risk to themsleves.

I am so tired.

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 74.

In some species female bumblebee workers can be up to ten times larger in terms of their mass than other female workers from the same nest.
Larger workers are usually assigned the task of foraging.

#bees #bee #beesofmastodon
#beesanctuaryireland #beesanctuary
#bumblebees #solitarybees
#naturereserve
#nature #organic #vegan #savingbees #photography #savingbees

The Tennessee senate is criminalizing public drag performances (which they helpfully extend to all “burlesque” including “go-go” and “stripping”), because kids aren’t dying from guns, bullying, opiates and state violence, they’re getting dragged to death
https://www.actionnews5.com/2023/02/09/tenn-senate-passes-bill-criminalizing-public-drag-performances/

House of cards, 1919 #artnouveau #serebriakova https://www.wikiart.org/en/zinaida-serebriakova/house-of-cards-1919

@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/