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

Today I discovered my dad has been going to bookshops every day, buying two copies of my book Letters From Brenda on each visit, and then giving them to strangers in the street. That’s one of the most Dad things ever. God bless him.

Mister Dugg Dogg went to the spa earlier this week and the groomer gave him a tie instead of a bandana. He is very dapper, don’t you think? #dogsofmastodon #dapperdog

Last night, my son across the country was locked down in a hotel in Hood River, OR due to a police standoff. He had to stay hidden for hours and listen to gunfire and hope for the best, there wasn't a damn thing I could do but call him.
I've never felt so helpless and scared. I hate this country.
#USA
#ItsTheGuns
#GunViolence
#AmericaSucks

Duggar family on abortion:
•2013: Abortion is “Baby Holocaust”
•2015: Rally against abortion!
•2020: March for Life!
•2023: “Due to complications we had a procedure to remove the baby & pretend it isn’t abortion.”

Healthcare for me but not for thee. This is the right wing movement in a nutshell. Revolting hypocrisy, which apparently is the point.

https://people.com/parents/jessa-duggar-reveals-she-suffered-a-miscarriage/

PSA

Thoughts & tasks are like buzzing bees inside my head.

I can either remember what tasks I have to do or have the focus/desire to do those tasks, but almost certainly not both at the same time.

I call this principle Heisenberg's uncertainty bees 🐝

#AuDHD #neurodivergent #spoonie

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

THEY’RE FUCKING DEAD

Just gonna leave this here.

Everyone on Mastodon: I cannot believe how much Twitter is trying to charge for API requests.

Me, pretending to know what an API is: This will be the final nail in Twitter's coffin.

I’ve become old enough to realize Walter Peck from the EPA was 100% right to try to regulate the Ghostbusters’ storage containment unit.

By @JuliusGoat: “At a certain point, it seems to me that we have to conclude that what such people are actually advocating for is not to use sunlight to expose and disinfect our society of bigotry, but simply to have a society in which bigotry is free to dance in the sun.”

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

Growing up fundy can prime us to feel at home in situations that seek to usurp our autonomy.
SHARED ELEMENTS OF CULTS:
1. Authoritarian control
2. Extremist beliefs
3. Isolation from society
4. Veneration of an individual.
CULT CATEGORIES: Doomsday, Political, Religious, & Sex. An additional group bordering on cult territory is LGATs (Large Group Awareness Trainings), which typically fall under "human potential" or "self-awareness," such as the infamous NXIVM cult. #criticalthinking #cults

This is the first thing I ever painted for my wife, an oil on canvas of her greenwing macaw Jasper. When we met I had a greenwing, as well - just one of the many ties that bound us together. She was pretty blown away by this 💕 #parrots #BirdArt #artist #ArtistsOfMastodon

I feel like I’m being cancelled simply for having odious opinions.

@ScottSoCal Sounds fun. What is your field of expertise?

Tell us a strange sounding expression from your field of expertise, dear #histodons

Here is mine, from #bookhistory: at some point, you will likely find "defeated and dead copies of a book" offered in the antiquarian book trade.

Oh dear. This old clip of Sly Stallone taste-testing 'Trump Water' just resurfaced and...oof...yeah, that tracks 😬

Watch it here: https://www.comicsands.com/sylvester-stallone-tastes-trump-water-2659460211.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=SAND

On my way to Oslo to hang out outside Ministry of Petroleum and Energy.

In support of Sámi land rights.

Sámi rights are threatened throughout the Nordic Countries.

Land theft and suppression of self-determination.

We're still here.
#LandBack

@DangerousFruit @djwfyi I would have to say yes, as I am extremely good at being an occasional extrovert to the point where people who haven’t known me for long look at me like I am lying when I say I am an introvert. They have only seen me when I am “ on” which is only .2% of my life.

The Mormon Church is being fined 5 million because it hid a 32 billion dollar investment fund. This was not accidental. The SEC proved that both the investment firm and church went to great lengths to knowingly hide these assets. For the folks playing along at home, that’s a fine of 0.016% on the investment. Imagine lying on your taxes and you hid an extra $100K offshore and the IRS said “No sweat, pay us $15.63.” If there are no other repercussions, that’s not a fine, that’s encouragement.