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

When you start dating someone new, how long should you wait before telling them you have kids? One year? Two?

Stop using the phrase “culture wars.”

Their tactics are attacks on human rights.

Allow me to explain. It's really quite simple if you pretend you are wealthy political donor.
Republicans dumped nearly $1T since 2015 to change the Republican party to the Trump party. Trump continues that control but the money is now split. Republicans have been trashing the US economy for over 2 years with constant pressure to force the economy into recession. So far that has failed.

Now, suddenly, we have a small bank fail and yet another Republican effort to destroy the US Economy.
#gop

You like my new slipper/shoes from Montane?

I haven't worn any type of shoe since 1999 😮 I had surgery to cut my tendons in each ankle in 97 that they used to do for boys with Duchenne. It was a complete waste of time and made my feet weak and painful, so I stopped wearing shoes for 24 years.

#Shoes #Disability #Disabled #Health #Healthcare #Duchenne #Sheffield #Mastodon

Unbreakable🇺🇦❤️‍🩹

"Nonetheless, right-wing depravity on this issue is quite evident in South Carolina, where more than a dozen lawmakers have signed on to a bill that could result in a death sentence for anyone who has an abortion."

"But he said men who impregnate shouldn’t face punishment for an abortion.

“Different feelings, different people,” Trump said."

"South Carolina Republicans float the death penalty for abortion"

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/abortion-death-penalty-south-carolina-rcna74957 via @Msnbc

#Depravity #TheCrueltyISThePoint

@msnbc@mastodon.social

Whenever my husband eats something today, I am going to say "Eat two, Brute."

We can't forgive student loans because students knew full well what they were getting into but yes, let's bail out banks because golly shucks gee whiz banking is just too difficult for the poor little bankers to wrap their heads around.

Bullet proof safe room for US schools.

Tell me again how drag queens are the problem.

(I predict we are less of 5 years away from Republicans suggesting US children should attend school in full riot gear to protect against school shootings - rather than address the gun issue, of course. Kids love riot gear! It comes in cool colors!)

#SchoolShootings #GunControl #GunCulture #GunViolence #USPol

🔗: https://www.wbrc.com/app/2023/03/13/new-safe-room-system-cullman-protect-students-staff-case-active-shooter-emergency/

Before you close a web page make sure you scroll up to the top, so it’s in the right position for the next person

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