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

finally finished restoring my Nana's singer sewing machine, had to let the case dry for five months, then consolidate the wood, match original varnish, find the right drawer handles, fill holes. while my engineer took the machine to bits and gave her a good clean and replace a few parts. ain't she pretty #sewing

Our local garden center gifted us this purple pansy on earth day. We are still looking for just the perfect spot to plant it. But first I had to take a portrait of this beauty. #Pansy #SpringFlower #Gardening #EarthDay

#FediGiftShop https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/Single-Large-Purple-Pansy/1166259

#MastoArt #ArtCollector #ArtMatters #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt

Teams is like Microsoft sat down with CIA counterrevolutionary strategists and asked, 'how can we ensure nobody ever organises anything worth a damn ever again?'

This made me chuckle 😂😂

So, uhh, this definitely needs to change.

“The #FDIC and #SEC are currently unable to retract executive pay from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank leaders … The rules only require executives to return their bonuses if their awards were based on errors in their companies’ financial statements. Neither bank made an accounting mistake large enough to require a formal correction…”

#lawfedi @law #svb #podcast

https://www.minimumcomp.com/p/tues-425-apple-win-over-epic-coinbase

"In addition to the siting and sizing of the pad, SpaceX does not have a flame trench, nor do they have a water deluge system used to suppress heat and sound energy from any launches...

No large rocket complex on the planet exists that doesn’t contain one or both of these energy suppression systems.

SpaceX’s orbital pad, by way of comparison, is but a 30 ft tall stand situated 400 feet away from Methane storage tanks and 500 feet away from ecologically sensitive low tidal flats."

#Ecc is time for payback.
Do not let the suffering and sacrifice that so many #USA citizens took to end our insane 20th century wars be in vain.
Denounce and boycott all the corporations and governments that do not declare their public support behind #Biden for 2024.
It is not a #USA issue, it is a #World one and no matter how you feel about, sacrifices must be done.
And make sure your direct representatives know the cost of not boycotting #USA corporations and Billionaires that will not publicly announce their full support behind #Biden.

“Their calculation is the same as it was for Jews in the 1930s: It doesn’t matter if we end up in a homeless shelter far away, it is still safer than living under this fascist government.”

-Brynn Tannehill describes the human tragedies beginning to unfold under violently extreme Republican rule.

#Fascism #RepublicanExtremism

https://newrepublic.com/article/172097/republican-plot-end-trans-america

This is a small thing, but a nice thing: For years, our local small market in our little town had all the basics of life - but only the basics. It was recently sold, and the new owners have started bringing in little luxury items. I end up buying a lot of them because I want to encourage them to keep doing it, so I don't have to leave town to get, like, nice cheeses and stuff.

[whispers] fuck me like you were my health insurance

Derpy dog greets a delivery driver.. 😅

🎥 IG: ruffryderthegr

@jwalk1230 @washingtonpost I thought the same. It’s egregious. McCarthy starts a fire in the men’s toilets? “Biden running out of time to put fire out!”
Hell no.
Where are the editors here? This is a contrived “emergency”.

good morning my friend just sent me this and now I have faith in the future again 😂

“It’s on the banks, it was in the soil, it was in the vegetation. You would pull up vegetation and there were pellets embedded all in the roots. It was unbelievable.”

Longtime Gulf Coast activist Diane Wilson just won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize for her long-time fight against Formosa #Plastics. Our #Environment Writer @delger asked what's next: https://www.texasobserver.org/diane-wilson-goldman-environmental-prize-seadrift/

#news #Texas #GulfCoast #ClimateChange #pollution #water #politics #USpol

@ScottSoCal @Bette @actuallyautistic I have similar reasons to smile as I look back, but it got even better after I went back to coding for a (serious) hobby.

My highlight was having lunch with the inventor of the web in his local pub, just me and him, as he likes to meet in person rather than just collaborate online. I was working on something to do with his project Solid.

Nothing I did is in space yet, but I got back to doing some code this morning, so who knows. 😄

🎶 i'm not internationally known

@StillIRise1963 @Steve

Not only that, but when the news has to appeal to popularity for clicks and views, it ceases to be news.

There is really absolutely no need for 24 hour news networks. They are mostly a cancer on public discourse. And, frankly, they repeat the same shit all day. Only they do so in huge swaths of pundit segments and silly talk shows.

They aren't news. And when something big breaks, they cut into their programs just like any other station can.

24 hour networks seem to exist, mostly, for bored politicos and terminally online types. It's almost like they try to project this air of always giving news, when, in reality, they just recycle the same points dozens of times an hour, for hours on end, in between viagra commercials.

I can't say this country seems better informed or more civic minded than I remember it being before the rise of infotainment and 24 hour news channels. In fact, it seems much worse off.