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

Broke the music industry, a few eardrums, and a lot of hope that this sh*t is dying anytime soon.

#JuniorDoctors #strike starts today, and so as before; when your appointment has been cancelled, when your #healthcare has been disrupted, please do not get annoyed at the striking #HealthService staff.

They have gone on strike as a last resort, after years of #tory attrition towards the #NHS and a radical decade long program of defunding of our health service.

Direct your anger & blame towards the #Tories & #JeremyHunt who have been instrumental in causing the #nhscrisis

#SupportTheStrikes

Wouldn't I have to do good before I do better?

So, my partner was sunning hisself on the varanda when he asked me to get him another beer AND open it,. When I asked him if he'd like me to press it to his lips, too, he said, "No but a sippy straw would be nice."

#MaliciousCompliance
#FAFO

@geekyonion @ScottSoCal @peterb If I can be a plant nerd for a moment, I've always found the avocado toast thing to be hilariously strange. Avocados literally grow on trees in California, and anyone who wants to grow them in their backyard can plant one and in a few years have more than they can possibly eat. (We were getting over 2000 avocados a year from a tree at a place we rented a couple of years ago.)

Numbers DON't LIE!

@ScottSoCal I have Fireweed, a purple tall cover that bees love. But I need to put some between my apple trees to bring them close.

@Bluedepth @soc_i_ety

“When the flower blossoms, the bee will come.”

~ Srikumar Rao

#Flowers #Bees #Quote #AltText

Have the banks considered eating less avocado toast?

Trans rights are under threat. This is “a road test for authoritarianism” in the US, says Imara Jones, as the GOP is working to “demonize and stigmatize an entire group of people in order to build the type of society that religious zealots want.” #velshi http://ow.ly/gX7n50NgeBx

Brand new eclosure in the front yard. Small, but healthy. #monarch #butterfly #garden #photography

My cartoon in today's @NZStuff & in print The Dominion Post and Waikato Times and syndicated across Aotearoa New Zealand.

Another devastating loss for people displaced by Cyclone Gabriel.

#CycloneGabriel #NoPets #Trauma #Heartbreak #Aotearoa #NZ #ClimateCrisis #NewZealand

What GOP will regulate:
•Guns❌
•Banks❌
•Railroads❌
•Mortgages❌
•Food & water❌
•Toxic dumping❌
•Carbon emissions❌
•COVID safety rules❌
•Billionaire tax rates❌
•Campaign donations❌
•Dialogue on racism✅
•Women’s bodies✅
•Contraception✅
•History books✅

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen Says Feds Won’t Bail Out Silicon Valley Bank

🤨🤨🤨 👏👏👏

(QAnon thinks this is evidence proving their conspiracy about the entire banking system’s imminent collapse, so that’s annoying, but whatever
https://www.thedailybeast.com/treasury-secretary-janice-yellen-says-feds-wont-bail-out-silicon-valley-bank?via=ios

Park nearby I don’t get to often. It’s #silentsunday, #springflowers

8 years of missing you, Dad. This photo makes me laugh because it’s so decidedly un-Pratchetty. We’re looking in the same direction & there’s hugging (ish.) It’s the kind of pic that, in a movie, one or other of us would look at wistfully before tooling up to go rescue the other one #GNUTerryPratchett #speakhisname

What I’m hearing about Thiel & cronies’ role in the SVB crash sounds like another instance of how multi-billionaires are essentially potential Bond Villains but they don’t need a doomsday device beyond their own greed … they can do enormous damage just by weaponizing finance.

If you gave billionaires 2 trillion in tax cuts 4 years ago, YOU need to pay your bills. You don’t get to leave the poor and working families holding the bag. #VoteBlue2024

i said "look who the cat dragged in" to my friend before when he appearead unexpectedly and only now I learned that the saying is actually ironic and a bit unwelcoming.

i feel like a piece of shit.