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

Hey mastodon world, I'm #newhere. My name is Kathrin, I'm a travel photographer from Germany. One of my favourite images is this one here of a field full of red poppies. I took it this summer in Blankenburg, Harz Mountains, Germany. I've never seen such a beautiful field before!

I sell my photography (and digital abstracts) as prints, jigsaw puzzles, on pillows, ornaments, journals etc (links in bio).
https://kathrin-poersch.pixels.com/featured/red-poppies-all-around-kathrin-poersch.html

#RedPoppies #FlowerPhotography #BuyIntoArt #poppies #photo #flowers

@juddlegum

REPUBLICANS: Business must not be hamstrung by intrusive government regulations!

ALSO REPUBLICANS: We'll tell you where you're allowed to invest your money.

Scientist: St. Patrick's day is bad because driving snakes out of their natural habitat disrupts the balance of the ecosystem

"Actually, it's a metaphor for driving out pagans"

Scientist: oh, I'd have to do an environmental impact study on pagans before I could comment on that

Russian Transfer of Ukrainian Children 'a War Crime': UN Probe
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/14400
#Ukraine #UkraineRussiaWar #UkraineUnderAttack #UkraineWarNews

Friendly reminder that using those 'fancy text' generators to make your name or the text in your posts all pretty makes them inaccessible to screen reader users.
to you, they're just cute lettering you can just skip over. For a screen reader user like me, depending on various things, they could come out as
'mathematical small bold k mathematical small bold a mathematical small bold r mathematical small bold a',
'letter 126b letter 17dj letter 13y7dwiz'
or nothing at all.
I'm not sure off the top of my head how they appear on a Braille display but it's bound to be a right mess.
I don't particularly call any of those pretty, do you?
Plain boring text that is accessible to everyone is the new pretty.

Good morning! Anyone want to be accountabilibuddies today? I have a ton of things I need to get done and I bet some of you do too! Let's do it together!

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

Remember Bridget Walker a 6 years old who saved his 3 years old sister from a massive German Shepherd. Got 90 stitches over his body but save his little sister. A true little warrior, proud of him. This is a 6 years old who has earned all of my respect.

Nailed it.

One of my almae matres now has a building that looks like bamboo steam baskets for dumplings. (Wasn’t around when I studied in 2013-14) #ntu #singapore #nanyang

@dgar

#Ukraine
Kyiv

Imagine being a priest or a nun, and devoting your whole life to something that doesn’t exist - wasting the only life you’re going to get, in the mistaken belief you’ll get a ‘better ‘one when you die.
This explains why the priests and nuns in my school growing up were such evil, sadistic excuses for humans - they knew the mistake they had made, but couldn’t get out of the cult., and it slowly poisoned them.
In that, I take some form of comfort knowing that they hated their lives, like all the kids hated them😑

Hard work.

I spent my day working outside in the yard laying SOD. I ordered a way too expensive pallet of SOD that was supposed to arrive tomorrow, but it came this morning.

While I was taking a break in my backyard, I noticed this Red Spotted Purple Butterfly and started chasing it around. I guess you could say that I get distracted easily. I'm outside working and ... "look butterfly"😂. Anyway, I wanted to catch it in the air, and I actually got a pretty good shot except one wing was out of the frame. But this photo of it on the lawn isn't too bad, and the bottom side of the wings is more colorful than the top.

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #butterfly

I was just out running an errand and drove by a pileated woodpecker on a telephone pole. I didn’t have my camera but stopped and snapped a pic through my windshield. Just as I was ready the woodpecker moved. It’s not a good pic … C’est la vie. 🙂

I’m sitting in my back yard. The pigeons are here. Sorry 😞, I didn’t notice Ben’s photobomb. 😂

“I wanted to honor the providers as people. They’re not anti-family. They’re about taking care of people and meeting people where they need to be met.”

In the new #documentary Plan C, showing at #SXSW, director Tracy Droz Tragos illuminates the struggle to ensure people can access #abortion medication, even as info sharing is under fire from #Texas. @sarahutch visited with Droz Tragos and site co-founder Amy Merrill: https://www.texasobserver.org/plan-c-abortion-pill-medication-censorship-documentary-sxsw/

#news #ReproductiveHealth #film #movies #Austin

russian authorities have committed a wide range of violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in various regions of Ukraine, many of which amount to war crimes, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine said in a new report Thursday.

Read more here🔗 https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/03/war-crimes-indiscriminate-attacks-infrastructure-systematic-and-widespread?fbclid=IwAR1UZzrxs-VI7IZUEpanmxmvjeh61oxScGLrqr2_xRYH_dvMUKYTE4GMMv0

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine