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

Beware the ides of march.

@ScottSoCal @stina_marie LOL my partner and a friend of ours have their birthday today, and this is exactly how I will serve the salad at our celebratory dinner!

DE-HAIR the Ides of March

I am shaving my long hair and bushy beard to fight childhood cancers by raising money on behalf of #stbaldricks foundation

I raised over $24,000 this year and over 8 years I have raised, by myself, over $200,00 for the cause

#cancer #childhoodcancer

What’s the plural of octopus?

Today, Bewaaaaaaare.....
(I hope at least two of you get this joke.)

#meme #funny #TheSimpsons #MargeSimpson #beware #Omens #TheIdesOfMarch #JuliusCaesar #MotherSuspiriasMorningMeme

I'm sorry, were any of you planning on telling me there used to be a species of penguin that was 6'7" (2m) tall and weighed 250 lbs (115kg) called Mega Penguin or was I supposed to just find that out on my own

Tyson Foods to lay off 1,700 workers, close two chicken plants

One plant is in Arkansas, a state which didn’t pass relaxed child labor laws fast enough for Tyson

Your reminder, this is the same Tyson Foods being sued because managers bet on which workers would die from Covid 19 outbreaks in their cramped facilities

* Tyson Foods annual gross profit for 2022 was $6.668B, a 2.18% increase from 2021

I won’t buy Tyson chicken or any of their products. Who will join me?

#SaveICWA #ICWA

Who is this?

Much of the bird hunting I do is from my backyard. I sit out there with my camera and watch the bird feeders and surrounding trees and shrubs. I take a lot of pictures, mostly chipping sparrows and cardinals. I see birds off in the distance and snap a picture thinking it's probably a sparrow. But occasionally when I look through the photos, I have to ask myself, "what is this?" That is the case with this pine siskin, I've never before photographed one, so I had to identify it first.

"Flocks of tiny Pine Siskins may monopolize your thistle feeder one winter and be absent the next. This nomadic finch ranges widely and erratically across the continent each winter in response to seed crops. Better suited to clinging to branch tips than to hopping along the ground, these brown-streaked acrobats flash yellow wing markings as they flutter while feeding or as they explode into flight." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #birds #birdwatching #PineSiskin

"Ukraine short of skilled troops and munitions as losses, pessimism grow"

Catchy headline.

Just an observation - Isabelle Khurshudyan, co-author, is a foreign correspondent previously based as a correspondent in the Moscow bureau.
Paul Sonne, co-author, was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Moscow.

BTW, from the same article: "And the situation for Russia may be worse. During a NATO meeting last month, U.K. Defense Minister Ben Wallace said that 97 percent of Russia’s army was already deployed in Ukraine and that Moscow was suffering “First World War levels of attrition.”

The urgency of Western nations stepping up and supplying critically needed military and civilian aid can not be stressed higher though.

#Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

Gift article 🔗: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/03/13/ukraine-casualties-pessimism-ammunition-shortage/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE1NTA5MjQiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjc4NzY2NDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjgwMDYyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2Nzg3NjY0MDAsImp0aSI6IjUyNDhhNzE4LTJkMDYtNGU5Ni04NTEzLTY3NTI0OTIyZTFiMSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS93b3JsZC8yMDIzLzAzLzEzL3VrcmFpbmUtY2FzdWFsdGllcy1wZXNzaW1pc20tYW1tdW5pdGlvbi1zaG9ydGFnZS8ifQ.zjshsmfLEYteH206laWrCwbiWdpQuSbeAx1nG2Q1AT8&itid=gfta

They're going to come up with some definition that works for the right like "You woke it when you see it" but hopefully non-Fox adults have been embarrassed sober on this.

What does woke actually mean?

It's a craft beer way of saying the n-word. And everyone knows it and the right loves that they don't have to admit that.

@mgs @gruber

• the ‘Digital Gilded Age’ is a bitch

• #PayPal Mafia fingerprints all over this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia

• real Bond-Villains-are-a-doin’ vibe:
"Thiel’s Founders Fund Withdrew Millions From #SiliconValleyBank”
https://news.yahoo.com/thiel-founders-fund-withdrew-millions-005223894.html
A generation of Thiel funded startup competitors *p00f*

• screw US security laws, virtually no laws governing #AI

• zero sympathy for #SiliconValley #VC’s, especially the #Libertarian #TechBros
Play in 4 Acts on 1 Page

• we’re in the shit fellas

@lolgop

It's almost as if they never really thought it through. A catch-all for right-wing grievance doesn't quite work.

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/this-is-gonna-be-one-of-those-moments-that-goes-viral-conservative-pundit-short-circuits-when-asked-to-define-wokeness/

We have a next-generation spacesuit! Axiom Space has unveiled their brand new spacesuit, designed for Artemis astronauts who will return to the lunar surface.

https://www.axiomspace.com/axiom-suit

#space #artemis #spaceflight

I'm doing a thing. It's a small thing, kind of dumb, but it's funny and I think you'll like it.

Check it out. Share it around. Boost the signal. Launches next week!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mortaine/exit-pursued-by-a-bear

#cocainebear #ttrpg #oneshots

In 1933, the Detroit News wrote this condescending headline about Frida Kahlo. #FridaKahlo #condescending #ArtHistory

I was let go from my job yesterday. If you know anyone that has a need for a creative yet pragmatic #AgileCoach, #ScrumMaster, #ProductManager, #ProductOwner type of #Agile worker, let me know! (Boosts for reach appreciated!)

For the sake of empathy, I ask you all to take a second to consider things from the perspective of Conservatives:

Inflation is out of control. Housing is unaffordable. The healthcare system is broken. Everyone is drowning in student debt. Ecosystems are collapsing. We're constantly on the brink of war.

So naturally, one would ask, how can we even hope to solve these daunting and complex issues if we do not have detailed information on the genitals of every American citizen?

@ScottSoCal 😂🤣😂