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

White privilege is Marjorie Taylor Greene calling to end the USA and then getting invited on Fox News to sell the idea. Imagine if AOC or Ilhan Omar said the same thing?! My new article on how Greene's call to end USA conjures up reasons given by the traitors of the Confederacy: https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/white-privilege-is-marjorie-taylor

#FridayFeeling

It was a delight to join #Brighton’s own @marcthevet in support of @APDAWG1, to learn about the vital work of rescue dogs & urge continued support of our rescue organisations and shelters. And even more of a delight to hold little Charlie!

#UKRescue

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1629106385915895808

I weigh at least 17 squirrels

I just finished the interview.

I'm so pumped!

I want to say, "You like me, you really, really like me!"

I hope I get it.

Today my photo essay, Are You OK? The Lives of Young #Trans Texans, for @TexasObserver, created in collab with photographer Jesse Freidin and TXO Creative Director Ivan Flores, got named a finalist for an ASME 2023 National Magazine Award in the Service and Lifestyle Category: https://www.texasobserver.org/trans-kids-youth-are-you-ok-photos/

I'm thrilled to tears at this honor. These kids are so important and I'll do anything I can to use my talents to elevate their voices and protect them. I hope being recognized in this way (& my recent GLAAD award nom) sends a small message to other publishers who are choosing to platform anti-trans bigotry instead of the voices and stories of actual transgender people.

(CW for eye contact, but please look these young #transgender people in the eyes if you can—what they have to share is so important!)

#photography #nonbinary #LGBTQIA #queer

Please stop laughing at CatGPT. Please stop sharing this picture. It's not funny. This is a slippery slope. It might only meow for now, but what's next? What will our cats do if CatGPT takes their jobs? Do we really want artificial intelligence to sleep all day? To scoff at the $50 worth of cat food you just purchased? To knock your full glass of water over and feel zero remorse when it shatters on the floor? Call me a Luddite, but I believe we must destroy CatGPT to protect our feline friends.

Over 200k Russians have died. Under 20k Ukrainians have died. Russia is losing. Putin so vastly underestimated the resolve of the Ukrainian people and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It needs to end. Or the Russian people should revolt.
#PutinWarCriminal #PutinsWar

Today is one year since Russia illegally invaded Ukraine.

Few of us really knew much about Ukraine.

One thing we did know was that President Zelenskyy was blackmailed by donald trump.

Had Zelenskyy strayed from his morals, we easily be in the midst of donald’s second term now.

We would no longer be part of NATO, and I have no doubt donald would have sent American troops to help Russia topple Kyiv.

Our good fortune of having ousted donald from office is, in part, due to President Zelenskyy being a man of morals and courage.

Without aid from the USA, he knew Russia could annex Ukraine, and he did the right thing despite risking the annihilation of his nation.

That’s one of the reasons why I stand firmly in support of the aide we have given Ukraine.

We still have a chance to save our democracy, because Zelenskyy is a man of integrity. donald could not corrupt him.

That means something.

#ukraine

is it love? i bet it’s love

The problem with the #media is still 'the unfamiliarity of [its] almost entirely white decision-makers with ppl. different from themselves. [It's] not just about black ppl. or #Hispanics or poor ppl. or #LGBTQ [It's] an insensitivity to the interests & concerns of non-elites, whoever they may be. The problem with the #US #Press is learning how to be relevant to the concerns of ordinary ppl.'
see link for article:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/story/2021-10-03/the-medias-treatment-of-blacks-a-story-of-distortion

#BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #Prejudice #Racism

Marianne Williamson… is running again… in 2024…

Let the hilarity ensue.

🤣☠️

PSA: Before you defederate an entire instance due to Russian bots posting Nazi spam, check first to see if it's a Ukrainian instance and whether all the spam is from the last 24-48 hours or so. Russians are hijacking Ukrainian instances (sometimes during power outages) and posting Nazi spam to get these instances defederated. You can limit the instance and suspend individual accounts until the admins are able to clean up.

#FediBlock #FediAdmin

A quick #introduction - hello, #newsjunkie here, #journo for life, with the ever excellent BBC World Service. Keeping an eye on most news, breaking or moving.
At the end of the first day here have already managed to mess up my account by changing servers and lost all the excellent people i have followed 🙃 quite the learning curve

@me @SecularJeffrey @Ronathan2

Walk briskly away!

Hi! I'm new here. My name is Eva.

I'm 40 years old, married, and childfree. I speak English and German. I love dogs, old video games, and music. I still buy CDs.

I'm a long-time vegetarian, now vegan. I live in Florida. I have been working from home since before it was cool.

Nice to meet you all! #introductions #introduction

I’ve been making some more #papermache #birds. It was meant to be 3 #starlings, but as I sculpted them, one of them turned out to be a green woodpecker, and I was powerless to argue!
#workinprogress #art #ayearforart #handmade #papiermache

In the wake of the recent train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Republicans like Marco Rubio are trying to rewrite history and somehow blame Pete Buttigieg for the disaster.

Now Pete is firing back with receipts and I am so here for it: https://www.comicsands.com/rubio-blames-buttigieg-ohio-derailment-2659455458.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Today is the 3-year anniversary of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man who was lynched while jogging in Georgia. Although his killers were (eventually) convicted, that isn't justice as it doesn't bring him back to his family or take away the terror that such hate crimes cause all Black people to feel. Cases like his are on my mind when I go for a jog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ahmaud_Arbery

@halfcocked @VPS_Reports

Print banned books on guns.