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

This is what conservatives sound like when they complain about cancel culture after saying or doing racist, sexist or otherwise abusive things.

russia brings destruction and decline to the world. They free people from life and well-being. Pure evil that wears a mask of benevolence. #StopRussia

🎥 tetiana_donetska

majestic. my snail familiar is alive and in need of a shell to call home

A very good sign, from a #Democratic win in a #SpecialElection in #NewHampshire yesterday .

This clear, blue victory follows a tie between the same 2 candidates just 3 months ago and a failed effort not to have an election at all by some Republicans in New Hampshire.

It’s another victory for local grassroots efforts and for organizations like #PostcardsToVoters which ran a campaign for this race. And of course, a victory for the district.

Stay involved.

Democrats romp in do-over of key New Hampshire race that Republicans tried to cancel-
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/2/21/2154287/-Democrats-romp-in-do-over-of-key-New-Hampshire-race-that-Republicans-tried-to-cancel

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became an adult, I realized how sexy Vulcans are

Today I'm feeling grateful for my #neurodivergent brain, for its endless creativity and curiosity, for the empathy and straightforwardness it lends to my life, for its astonishing speed and power.

I'm sorry that I spent so many years unaware of its unique nature, trying to make it be something else. But I'm glad we have more time together, and I look forward to continuing to learn how to care for it and make the most of it. ♾🧠💖

#SelfLove #NeurodivergentJoy

Religion is what happens when mansplaining gets out of control.

Mask completely off. For the love of God, help your friends and family get the fuck off Twitter.

Toxic positivity repulses me! But right now, I need all the ‘Positive Vibes’! The sunbeams and happiness. I need to get through this.

This is so hard, the most difficult thing I've ever done.

Thank-you for reading.💗

#ActuallyAutistic #Autistic #Shock #surgery

Why do people always focus on George Santos' flaws? We rarely talk about his achievements, like brokering peace between North and South Korea or inventing the smallpox vaccine

@ScottSoCal I can relate 100%. Let’s hear it for #RealityBasedThinking !

That's a fact! 👍

“Everybody lets you down, but that’s not the whole story. You stay friends because you make each other better.” Promises Stronger Than Darkness, coming April 11 from Tor Teen. #books #writing #yafantasy
#ya #spaceopera #booktodon

Not sure who needs to hear this but if you used any amount of public power or a large platform to sell dumb people a provably false narrative that made a lot of them sick or dead, it's entirely ok and appropriate that people make fun of you when you get sick and/or die.
https://news.yahoo.com/gop-ex-sen-inhofe-retired-184534096.html

Just finished Tales From the Loop. Highly recommended 👍

OK. Internet storytime.

Years ago my husband had an urban planning blog we ran the server ourselves and mostly it was pretty tame. But he started getting comments from these two weird libertarian trolls. Some of it was passably "debate" some was just rude and nasty. I considered blocking their IP addresses since they were always the same. But then thought better of it and decided to look up the IPs. What turned up blew my mind!🧵

Now, you have to understand these were the days of blogs, and people were less savvy about IPs and VPNs. This probably wouldn't happen today... but the IPs were both from the Department of Defense in DC!

These guys were hate blogging urban planners on company time. Sending them an email seemed too direct.

They had their own blog and would link it and I figured they were tracking back clicks when soon after mentioning them and linking to them on another blog they showed up. I hatched a plan.

I went to another planner's blog and left a comment mentioning them again and linking so they'd track the link back. Then arranged for my husband to respond with something like "who are these guys?"

I responded with "They're from DC, department of defense, everyone knows they keep a trashy blog and don't do much at work but surf the net."

They never commented again. A year later the blog was gone.

It was fun and my husband said "I feel like a hacker."

Good times.

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.