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

Yesterday I was very irritated so I read some Shakespeare and today I am sorely vexed.

Welcome to your 40s. Shopping for a gravy boat is now considered a fun little activity.

Why does “I’m up for it” mean the same thing as “I’m down for it”?

The cat printer ran out of toner!

A belated Happy International #haiku Day to you all.
#poetry

I am a macro wildlife photographer, jciv on Flickr & iNaturalist. Spiders are my favorite subject, but I also like flies, moths, & butterflies. I am not an expert, but I like sharing what I know.

I am a founder of #Arachtober, a celebration of spiders during October, starting in 2007 on Flickr. It spread. I really loved the interaction with entomologists and arachnologists on Twitter. Read about Arachtober at LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/52555-arachtober-social-media-spiders-photos.html

#selfie #introduction #spider #macrophotography

Dominion didn't settle with Fox. Jury selection is underway.

Excellent.

From FB:
Finally my winter fat is gone, now I have spring rolls.
#haha #humour #funny #weightloss #health #winter

Happy Bathday to David Tennant!

Black 🖤 Love 👇

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I’m reposting this. This long poem I wrote yesterday is the best thing I have ever written. I love it so much that I want the whole world to read it. Please boost! And I would love to hear comments.

The Day We Laughed at Colin’s Funeral

The day we laughed at Colin’s funeral
The truth I saw was bigger than us all.
It was Billy who began it with that face
Recalling Colin mocking old Miss Grace...

https://medium.com/@glennmitchell_97461/the-day-we-laughed-at-colins-funeral-17263848773b

#poetry #LGBTQ #NaPoWriMo

becoming ungovernable

@design_law You laugh, but this was a whole thing after WWII, during 'Atoms for Peace'. Super seeds for your atomic garden, anyone?

Our rights are being stripped away and Feinstein is blocking judges from being confirmed

Resign. Whatever legacy you had is gone.

Extremely lukewarm take based on hearing a song over the airport speakers: The Sammy Hagar era of Van Halen is underrated. Did it hit the highs of the David Lee Roth era? No. Was it super-consistently listenable, with really catchy rock singles? Yes. FIGHT ME, or don't, if this opinion matters to you we're both old and will get winded after ten seconds of exertion.

So, now we’ve got police going to the wrong address and shooting innocent civilians, and white civilians shooting innocent black kids who ring the wrong doorbell. The persistence of hate narratives and shoot-first-ask-questions-later knee jerk reactions show how absolutely dangerous an #NRA fueled gun society is. Their answer: More Guns! Because “guns aren’t the problem. People are the problem.” My question: So why in God’s name would you give guns to the problem?
#guns #guncontrol #gunviolence

The odds are very high that 2023 will be the hottest year you have ever experienced, and potentially the most catastrophic. That's because the probability of a new El Niño phase starting within a few months is now pegged at around 80%.

See -- https://news.yahoo.com/el-ni-o-watch-issued-183352479.html

I'll have more to say later this week about how bad things could get and what you might do to prepare. But for now, just be aware that this is no joke, we are genuinely in a climate emergency. 🚨

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency

Hat thief
#Shetland #Shetlandpony #horse

To be clear, Clarence Thomas isn't sitting at the kitchen table with TurboTax. At this level, he's got accountants and lawyers, and there is zero chance that he didn't understand what signing documents 'under penalty of perjury' meant. These were nothing more than attempts to conceal bribes, mired in his firm belief that he'd never be held accountable.

Republicans should be the ones to push him out.

The Supreme Court justice who resigned in disgrace over his finances-
https://wapo.st/3A5c0b5

"Disney's first tweet after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis threatened to build a prison next to Disney World."

Rooting for a problematic global corporation wasn't on my 2023 bingo card, alas here we are.