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

100 Leopards to Ukraine!

Denmark's Acting Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen said this at a briefing with Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov at the Ukraine – Odesa Media Center.

"We will start delivering Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine before summer. And then, hopefully, looking half a year ahead, it will be possible for us to donate about 100 Leopard 1 tanks, and that, I'll say, would be a substantial thing for Ukraine's army," Poulsen said
#Ukraine️ #Russia

https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3694099-denmark-to-donate-100-leopard-tanks-to-ukraine.html

i have tried to like V8

i really have

but this is a put-on, right?

V8 fans?

y'all are just messin' with us, right?

RIGHT?

White man commits mass murder
•Media: He was a star athlete!

White teen commits mass murder
•Media: He was an average kid!

White man commits rape
•Media: He was a 3X all American!

Black teen murdered
•Media: He was on drugs

White supremacy in media is alive & well. Smh.

If I want to give a genuine, nuanced answer to a hard question, I have to break eye contact, look away, and usually drastically change my body language as I process and share a response

Which is the exact opposite of what most neurotypical people expect to see from someone being genuine and openly honest

I should probably share that more, in case there are people who don't pick up on that

There are only a handful of topics where I will avoid either giving an honest answer or explaining why I won't. Those are not typical conversation topics.

@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

Going to get a vintage CD player. They just have that extra acoustic warmth and depth you can't get with streaming.

@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