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

Full Moon 20230307-2

I like this one better. The first one showed a little camera shake. What do you think?

#moon

@ScottSoCal Unfortunately, quite likely!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/white-house-urges-states-join-government-wide-crackdown-junk-fees-2023-03-08/
#JunkFees #BidenDelivers #DemsForThePeople

Just a reminder

My cartoon from a recent Private Eye

Sometimes I like to stand in the kitchen and shout things like “aluminum foil is microwaveable, right?” just to watch my husband run.

Happy International Women's day!

I know you know amazing women, or are an amazing woman yourself!
Seeing a person's eyes light up because a gift makes them feel cared for, thought of, appreciated. That is true joy.
I'd be honoured to send you or a woman you love jewellery, a friend, mother, daughter, partner, or any other amazing important woman in your life. ❤️

Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GenderlessBySkaly?ref=search_shop_redirect

#shophandmade #handmade #art #women #womensday #feminism #gift #artist #internationalwomensday

I just stumbled across this pic of Timba, our Malinois (she’s about 45% Malinois, 35% husky, & the rest Chow, Rottie, & pibble), the day we brought her home. She was about 9 mos old at the time. She could barely keep her eyes open, she was so exhausted. It was a big day! #dogs #DogsOfMastodon #malinois #GiantCuddleBeast

W—w-why? W-what does the mirror do??

“Please do not remove your card”

“Please do not remove your card”

“Please do not remove your card”

“REMOVE YOUR CARD! NOW! DO IT NOW! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD REMOVE IT! REMOVE YOUR CARD YOU SONOFABITCH! REMOVE IT!”

Actually Trump’s plan isn’t so secret. He’d have handed Unkraine over to Big Daddy Vlad with a big red bow right after swearing in.

First they came for the trans folks, and nobody stopped them.

Then,

https://newrepublic.com/post/171025/tennessee-house-bill-gutting-marriage-equality

With a legitimate Supreme Court there would be no question this is as blatant a violation of the Establishment Clause, the 1st Amendment, and the 14th Amendment as there is. Literally stating in plain language that you can be denied a marriage by the state because of your religion.

Just read an article about chatgpt "lying" about someone being dead and it's like "I asked it for the link to the obituary but it doubled down on the lie and provided a fake link instead" and I'm begging people to understand that it's a statistical model, it doesn't know it's lying so it can't "double down". The statistically probably answer to "where is the link" is not "I'm sorry I made it all up", it's a link. It doesn't even know what a link is, it just knows vaguely what one looks like so you're basically asking it "generate a plausible looking link to an obituary in the guardian" and it did

The AI isn't malevolent, it's just NOT AI

My paternal grandmother was born in Berlin, Germany in 1900. She was, as was her whole family, Jewish. She was smart and driven. Had her own dressmaking shop by the time she was 25. But, the handwriting was on the wall, and she left home for New York in 1925. She learned English and worked as a dressmaker until she got married to an Italian immigrant she met in English language class. Some of her siblings stayed in Germany. Perished in the camps. Her youngest sister survived and came to America. But she was mentally damaged from that horror, attempted suicide at least once (had a scar around her neck) until she succeeded in drowning herself.

People talk about the horrors of fascism in the abstract. But for my family, it is very real. I think that we all need to speak about it.My generation, the grandchildren of the victims of the Nazis, is old now. I try to tell this story as often as I can.

The attention #tiktok is getting by the federal government seems a little silly to me 🤷🏾‍♂️

On International Women's Day, a perpetual reminder that Trans Women are Women, and embracing them in your feminist space in no way limits or harms it. On the contrary: it grows and enriches it, and shows that you are women who will not allow cruelty and fascism to divide you in your quest for equal rights.

#InternationalWomensDay
#Trans
#transrights

I might not know all the facts, but I really don't understand how people can support CRT in schools. I mean the power draw is high and the resolution is low. They are also really heavy and take up a lot of space. IMHO they should be replaced by LCDs.

"You can be anything you want to be when you grow up" they told me.

"Except yourself", they clarified when I tried to do exactly that.