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

Just another day of feeling absolutely small, invalid, insecure and useless while working to have mass positive influence, with incredible creatives, engaging with wonderful supporters and collaborating with amazing people of underrepresented communities to raise awareness to our struggles and positively influence.

Nothing new here, just, struggling to exist today

Why are you on Mastodon? What brought you here?

I’m here because I want to help build a friendly community and be part of it. What’s interesting in your world? I want to hear about it. Who are you? I want to know. What makes you smile? What did you learn today? What are you working on? I want to connect with people like you, people who have taken the time to find this rather special social network.

Why are you here?

#Mastodon #community

#AmazingUkraine
#VolynRegion
04 of April 2023
Snow
https://sl8.online/post/2NvrzVdOyfGrtvxTNDhoMIvva7H

Txiki graduates from Positive Pets! We've learned lots in leaps and bounds. We are so lucky he is a super calm dog.
#DogsOfMastodon

Eric Trump claims his fellow airline passengers started hugging him after they heard news of Donald Trump's indictment.

And I'm sure they had tears in their eyes, right, Eric? 🙄

https://secondnexus.com/eric-trump-plane-hugs-indictment?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=2N

"He's brilliant. Ultimately he (Putin) will take over all of Ukraine!"
- Donald Trump

This was Trump's reply when recently asked about what he thought of wanted criminal Vladimir Putin.

Trump doesn't want a democracy, not even here in the US. Trump is a Fascist dictator wannabe who adores Putin and Kim. If given the opportunity, Trump would make himself the third axis of evil in the world.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #Trump #USA #war #MAGA #Politics #Russian #kremlin #EU #NATO

It’s weird how before the internet when you had an idle thought like “I wonder how many episodes of Happy Days they made?” you would just carry on with your life instead of getting trapped in a 3 hour deep Wikipedia hole.

The wonderful @android.gynous made a way better flier for my book launch on Friday the 14th than the terrible one I'd put together. Please come and hang out with us at Green Apple on 9th Ave., it will be a party! I will give away stickers. And if you wanna watch online, the Green Apple events page now has a link to the livestream.

As GOP Pushes for Nationwide Abortion Ban, Judge Blocks Mandate for ACA to Cover Basic Prenatal Care http://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/3/elie_mystal_obamacare_abortion?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

3 April 1943 | A transport of 2,800 Greek Jews deported by Germans from ghetto in Thessaloniki arrived at the Auschwitz camp. During the selection SS doctors sent 2,208 people to be murdered in gas chambers. 334 men & 258 women were registered in the camp as prisoners.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Greece #Thessaloniki

Excellent. Great job everyone. More of this please. #uspol #media https://www.showbiz411.com/2023/04/03/ratings-60-minutes-with-marjorie-taylor-greene-down-33-from-last-week-2nd-lowest-episode-of-this-season

#toriesOut #toryCorruption #bbcBias

It's the "Democratic" Party, not the "Democrat" Party. We don't call it the "Republic" Party. Whether someone belongs to it or not, have enough maturity to call it by its real name. #USpol #politics

The First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska discussed the preservation of Ukrainian cultural heritage with the Director General of #UNESCO General Audrey Azoulay.

The meeting took place in Kyiv, in the Sofia Kyivska National Reserve.

They discussed the preservation of Ukrainian cultural #heritage and the restoration of the educational sector

(2 Minute) YouTube📽️ 🔗 https://youtu.be/4SrVyRAvWLA

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

Headline - Vatican repudiates Doctrine of Discovery in response to demands from Indigenous people.
This was a doctrine of the Catholic Church in the 15 century that proclaimed ownership and sovereignty over land passed to Europeans because they "discovered" it.
The statement goes on to say "the documents had been 'manipulated' for political purposes by colonial powers 'to justify immoral acts against Indigenous peoples that were carried out, at times, without opposition from ecclesial authorities.' "
In other words, the Church back then was not in the wrong, being infallible. It was others that mis-used their doctrine. At times (as in usually) without opposition by the Church.
Part of the reason I'm no longer a Catholic.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/vatican-reject-discovery-doctrine-indigenous-demands-1.6795728

@ScottSoCal fantastic. well, i'm glad it conditioned itself out of existence and left the components downstream alone :)

Hoping the fediverse can help out: I'm in touch with a Ukranian family in #Toronto who are trying to get their cat (named Milana, in photo) from #Kraków, #Poland to Toronto this spring. They can cover some transport costs but are trying to connect with someone already making the trip. Email milana at hypatia.ca if you can help. Please boost!

#Ukraine #CatsOfMastodon #Canada

I started working on this awhile back (before hospice was announced) and finally finished it. President Carter would be memorable to me no matter what but the fact his home of Plains #Georgia is just down the road makes him even more so.

You can find this here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/jimmy-carter-39th-us-president-mark-tisdale.html?product=art-print

#JimmyCarter #People #DigitalArt #Painting #MastoArt #Smile #FediArt #artistsonmastodon #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #MarkOnArt

“Excuse me, human, you are always prompt about paying #CheeseTax but perhaps you are unaware there is also peanut butter tax? And apple tax and—look, just give me some of whatever you’re eating and we won’t have any problems, okay?”

#MonDog #DogsOfMastodon #corgi

There's one in every crowd.

I love the look of these chipping sparrows. On looks like it's about to start dancing and the others stare as if they can't believe what they're seeing.

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching
#ChippingSparrow