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

Churches should be taxed just like corporations. Because basically that's what churches are, companies selling religion to bring in money. And if we make corporations pay taxes, then —

Oh, wait, I forgot. We don't actually make corporations pay taxes, do we?

Never mind.

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/mormon-church-multibillion-investment-fund-sec-settlement-rcna71603

What can/should Big Journalism do? For starters:

-- Fox "News" and its employees should be kicked out of any press organization or association in which they hold official status or membership.

-- News organizations that care about journalistic integrity should announce publicly that they will not hire from Fox.

If you’re in #wisconsin please go #vote today. I know it’s a February but this is a hugely important #WI Supreme Court election.

If your instance has enabled it, there's a translate option in the advanced web interface. Not that the original post must be marked as the correct language (shown here as DE for Deutsch or German in the upper right). You can specify your language below the post you're writing.

Sure, after his presidency, Jimmy Carter could have just retired to a country club, put out petty diatribes insulting his "enemies," and played lots of golf. Instead, he decided to help build living spaces for people who needed them. He talked the talk and then walked the walk.

This is what it looks like to lead by example.

#JimmyCarter #HabitatForHumanity #Service #WeekendThoughts

Moved from .lol so an #introduction is in order.

Hello! I'm John. I'm usually found wearing big round glasses and shorts, and doing the ✌🏻 sign.

I've been learning how to draw since late 2021 as a form of therapy. Sometimes, I draw my followers/community. I will post some of it on the next toot.

expect some memes, terrible attempt at being funny, self-deprecating jokes as a way to cope.

oh god, I don't know what else to say. this feels like the first day of class all of a sudden..uh selfies?

She’s about 2 years old now, and after a whole lot of love and attention, she’s finally learning that she’s going to be safe and free to be herself.

#Dogs #DogsOfMastodon

I found it, the worst candy:

“You always told me it takes time. It has taken my father’s time, my mother’s time, my uncle’s time, my brothers’ and my sisters’ time, my nieces’ and my nephews’ time. How much time do you want for your ‘progress’?” —James Baldwin

#BlackFriday #Mastodon #BlackMastodon #JamesBaldwin

WHEN LAWYERS NEED TO HIRE LAWYERS

#EvanCorcoran, attorney to former President Trump, has secured his own lawyer as the #DOJ investigates the former president's handling of classified documents discovered by #FBI officials at his Mar-a-Lago…

#MOG
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-attorney-hires-his-own-attorney-as-doj-classified-documents-probe-ramps-up/

Slava Ukraini Slava Heroiam
Five fighters from the Azov Kharkiv and two fighters from Dozor engaged in a night battle near Bakhmut with Wagnerites. The battle lasted for three hours, resulting in the death of 35 mercenaries, after which the enemy retreated to their original position.

Seven men held off an unknown number of human animals and killed 35.
Slava Ukraini. Slava Heroiam

Just a reminder! If you pre-order PROMISES STRONGER THAN DARKNESS from @foliosf, the following things will happen:

🐗 I will sign/personalize on the pub date, and you'll receive the book ASAP after that. They ship all over the USA.

🐗 I will draw a terrible doodle of a cat doing whatever job you specify. ANY JOB.

🐗 Folio will donate 10 percent of proceeds to the TGI Justice Project which works with vulnerable trans ppl, and I will match.

LINK: https://www.foliosf.com/charliejaneanders

I find all behavior suspicious.

The Vitamin D my doctor thinks I need🌞
The Vitamin D I really need 🍆

Not me crying out of happiness because kind people on Mastodon made it possible for me to start a small business out of my jewellery making hobby that then also helps me in new art production 🥺
https://www.etsy.com/shop/GenderlessBySkaly?ref=search_shop_redirect

The hell is wrong with some people? Don't come flying into my replies to lecture me about nonsense. "Remember all the times..." No, I don't, because I don't have the slightest clue who tf this is. Also, I've been criticizing NYT for years. Between this and the person who freaked tf out in my replies telling me I need to "listen to actual trans people" or whatever (I. Am. Trans. WTF), some of you are not helping.