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

@ScottSoCal @UncleDuke1969 If oxygen is good for me, why do my vitamins contain antioxidants?

Do you know how it feels to want to help someone you love but not knowing how?
I wrote a song about this feeling called Hopes, and my queer friends joined me for a video with fire spinning and knives throwing, emphasising the metaphysical aspect of a universe with endless possibilities. If you'd like, have a listen. I'd be happy to hear your thoughts.

https://youtu.be/LOsD7sCqM_Y

#hope #mentalhealth #queer #trans #nonbinary #Family #fire

Now that #NPR left #Twitter and many on #Mastodon are calling for it to come to the #Fediverse, maybe it's time for a recap, what we @heiseonline did?

Our account on mastodon.social (@heiseonline@mastodon.social) was registered (rather "claimed") years ago, but left dormant until #ElonMusk bought #Twitter. Then I started to post a couple of links to #news articles every day. Our web-devs (namely @entropie) verified the account some days later by adding a link to it on heise.de and giving it the green link.

👋 Hello #fediverse! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.

If you think our station and other #NPR stations should have a Mastodon server and a broader presence in the #fediverse, pls boost this post. If you have thoughts, please reply, I want to hear them!

To know me is to wonder what the fuck is wrong with me.

New patch

it seems as if every day science takes another giant leap forward

Anyone I see who's playing along in the "lets carry #StarTrekPicard spoilers around the internet" game gets blocked.
And I don't care how vague these spoilers might be.
This is not a threat, but me telling everybody who wants to hear it or not that I simply have no iota of understanding of that kind of stuff. Go away and find some other thing you can do.

I’m considered a legacy because my dad also attended this traffic school.

“Even if Twitter were to drop the designation altogether, [NPR CEO John] Lansing says the network will not immediately return to the platform. 'At this point I have lost my faith in the decision-making at Twitter,' he says. 'I would need some time to understand whether Twitter can be trusted again.' ” https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

Rosso Emerald Crimson depicts women at ease, their figures emerging from a haze of gauzy gowns and masses of hair. #portrait #painting

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2023/03/rosso-emerald-crimson-oil-portraits/

A coalition of nine media companies, incl. CNN, The New York Times & Politico, have sued for copies of the surveillance videos from the Capitol riot that Speaker Kevin McCarthy gave exclusively to Fox News. In the lawsuit, filed Wed in the US Dist. Court in DC, the media companies demanded that the DOJ’s Office for US ATTYs & the FBI “promptly” provide copies of the footage of the riot on J6-: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/12/coalition-of-media-companies-sue-for-jan-6-tapes-given-to-fox-news-tucker-carlson.html

@indigenous_commentator Words fail me. I feel sick to my stomach for you and your fellow native Americans.

I found my car battery had died, parked in a somewhat rough part of town. I stood beside it with jumper cables in my hand, and tried to catch the eye of folks passing by in their cars. Most wouldn't look at me.

Then a fellow in a van stopped and said, "Need a jump?"... and he helped me out.

I thanked him and offered him a few bucks afterwards. He said, "No way, buddy — just pay it forward!"

That was 35 years ago.

I still remember him. ❤️

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h/t @J3Words

Howdy y'all!

Did y'all know I take commissions? I keep them open all year round, unless I say otherwise. Check out my site at zeiroslion.art for my gallery and commission information!

Still wanna support me, but don't have the money for a commission? I got a Ko-Fi for that, at ko-fi.com/zeiroslion!

#creativetoots #indieartists #smallartists #furry #furryart #anthro #anthroart #monster #monsterart #characterdesign #NSFW #NSFWart

Whats that you say, favoriting a post is functionally useless because there's no algorithm on Mastodon?

Tell that to my instant gratification addicted lizard brain that's getting hit with a tidal wave of dopamine every time my phone vibrates.

The extremist right, which now totally controls the Republican Party, is on the offensive everywhere -- curbing women's healthcare, censoring books, banning dissent, encouraging violence, flouting racism, rigging the election system, and ultimately threatening democracy.

Journalism is covering all of this piecemeal -- noting the individual brush fires but never, ever warning the public that the entire forest is ablaze.

Journalistic business as usual is malpractice.

And time is short.

@DeliaChristina

In 1999 to 2000 I was going through a very rough patch in my life. What with the state of things, I didn't get to see #GalaxyQuest when it was first released. Finally, on a day I was feeling particularly low, and shortly before the movie left the theaters, I canceled work and took myself out to a midday matinée.

I was the *only* person in a vast theater, of a size that no one builds anymore, sitting and waiting for the lights to go down. At one point, I turned and peered up at the projectionist's booth. I saw a shadowy figure moving back and forth behind the window, bending and straightening. This was in the days before automated, digital films. The Phantom Menace had been released digitally in 1999, but the equipment to show such films was extremely expensive and most theaters hadn't converted yet; "projectionist" was still real job.

While I was looking, the figure paused, strode to the window and peered back at me, then disappeared quickly.

I turned back around and continued to fidget and ponder the misfit pieces of my life.

At the top of the aisle behind me, the theater door swung open and banged loudly on the wall. The projectionist strode down the aisle toward me, a tall barrel-shaped man with a thick beard and glasses. My first thought was that the matinee was canceled due to low turnout, and I'd be getting a refund. Just as I'd resigned myself to that, the marching projectionist shouted out in a booming voice,

"WELCOME to your PRIVATE viewing oooooooof GALAXY QUEST!!!"

He stopped in front of my row, and I saw that he had an *armload* of STUFF. One by one, he began presenting each thing to me, and as the pile in his arms dwindled, the one in my lap grew.

"As our SPECIAL VIP Galaxy Quest GUEST today, YOU are entitled to..."

"- A commemorative t-shirt!"
"- A poster suitable for framing!"
"- A limited edition refrigerator magnet!"
"- A button to pin to your lapel!"

The list and the shwag went on. With every ridiculous item, I laughed harder and harder, until there were tears leaking out of the corners of my eyes.

Then he bowed and shouted, "WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SHOW!" and turned on his heel to march back up the aisle and out the exit door.

Alas, of all the shwag only the magnet has stood the test of time. But the humor and kindness of the unknown projectionist lives on.