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

@ScottSoCal

This guy?

Teach me something useful about a subject you know very well.

Doesn't have to be a detailed lesson, in fact ideally just a few words or a single post.

Boosts appreciated, 2023 is coming and I'd like to get smarter. Maybe we can all get a bit smarter.

I'll start:

My job is voiceovers and I can tell you with absolute confidence that reading your writing out loud is like a magic trick for better proofreading.

The mouth stumbles on mistakes the eyes glide over.

I think it’s pretty shameful to say that Trump slept with a porn star…

Stormy Daniels was also a porn DIRECTOR!

I am occasionally reminded that I now own more than a non-trivial number of stained glass windows.

(Context, in case you don't know: http://scalzi.church)

I'm worried about crime, so I asked a friend from Texas what I needed to defend my home. He said a 9mm, a couple of clips, and a box of shells. I put it together pretty quickly. Still not sure how it's supposed to work, though...

Kazakhstan Seizes Russia's Launch Facility at Baikonur

The most efficient place to launch rockets is close to the equator, far away from populated areas. The Soviet Union chose the open steppes of Kazakhstan to build its Baikonur Cosmodrome. After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Roscosmos continued to use Baikonur, blasting its Soyuz, Progress, and Proton rockets from the facility. Earlier this month, Kazakhstan seized Russian assets at Baikonur, alleging that a subsidiary of Roscosmos called TsENKI hasn't been paying its bills. This could put future rocket launches in jeopardy.

https://kz24.news/news/ekonomika/arest-rossiyskogo-imuschestva-na-baykonure-nevesomost-dlya-proekta-soyuz-5.html

Prototype toy idea for the Adult Happy Meals

BIG NEWS: Moments ago, New Mexico's legislature adopted the New Mexico Voting Rights Act.

—significantly expands rights restoration, enabling thousands to vote
—strengthens ballot access for Native voters
—makes Election Day a holiday
—strengthens AVR
https://boltsmag.org/new-mexico-voting-rights-package/

“He has a battle rifle”

This from Uvalde law enforcement talking on coms while 19 children and 2 teachers were left to be massacred

Law enforcement has full body armor and better weapons

Yet 376 officers waited safely for over 77 minutes summoning courage to… beat and restrain parents

There’s your “good guy” with a gun

Ban assault rifles. Hard reboot law enforcement.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/03/20/uvalde-shooting-police-ar-15/

@indigenous_commentator these

Choosing to not prosecute trump would be a far more “political” choice than choosing to prosecute him. #ArrestTrump

So I think this is probably a scam by Twitter to get phone numbers from users so they can sell them to telemarketers.

In the last few months I’ve received 4 speaking invites:
•One to speak on the Black American experience—I said no & referred a Black scholar
•One to speak on Iranian women—I said no & referred several Iranian women
•One to speak on Arab American students—I said no & referred an Arab woman & activist
•One to speak on my experience in Turkey providing earthquake relief, on a panel with a Turkish scholar—I said yes

Lesson: You don’t need to be a voice for the voiceless—just learn to pass the mic.

One way to way to battle all this injustice is to stick up for each other! #TransRights aren't the only ppl that are under fire right now!

#SaveICWA #TransRightsAreHumanRights #WeAreStillHere #Indigenous #LandBack

The conference topic - #Afrofuturism - felt so momentous that I decided to celebrate sartorially whenever I could. This was the outfit for my reading:

Minnesota's House passed the "Reproductive Freedom Defense Act," which shields women who travel to the state for abortions. The bill prohibits state courts & law enforcement from cooperating with authorities outside Minnesota #SomeGoodNews

https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/03/20/minnesota-house-passes-abortion-shield-bill-to-protect-women-from-out-of-state-bans/

No matter the fancy card name ("Sapphire", "Edge", etc.), it's all a personal line of credit with an outrageous interest rate.

Nice packaging, though.