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

And you thought cats were bad. 🤭🦜🥰

Something’s been on my mind of late.

And it’s that the GOP is in a death spiral.

Since the shocking election result of 2016, we’ve watched the GOP underperform repeatedly in elections, losing the House in 2018, the White House and the Senate in 2020, and then failing to retake the Senate in 2022 in a “red wave” that never materialized.

One thing is clear to anyone looking at this objectively and dispassionately: Americans in the center—the independents and moderates who decide elections—have had enough of the extremists in the GOP.

Read my thoughts here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-extremism-party-death-spiral

If your experience of the Fediverse is that it's just like Twitter in how much antisemitism you experience, that's why I founded Babka and Babka Social, because that was my experience too.

Just having federation doesn't make it safe for Jews online.

Babka makes a deliberate and focused effort to address antisemitism. It takes continuous hard work and dedication by myself, my staff, and the incredible volunteers who make Babka operate.

#Babka #Jews #antisemitism #jewdiverse #mazeldon

Only two animal drawings left in this listing, pandas and poison dart frog, good little Father's Day gift ideas, if you are outside the UK, order as early as possible!
Original drawing - mixed media Animals https://etsy.me/3NvMh3p via @Etsy
#panda #frog #drawing #FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots

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I’m okay with this war.

Moon 20230601

Moon phase tonight:
Waxing Gibbous
Illumination: 82%

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #moon

Wow! Thanks to the hard work for my wonderful wife, my recent poem

the last time

is now published by the red noise collective

https://www.rednoisecollective.com/the-last-time

Who wants to see a musical based on Christian Andersen's fairy tales? Come on, let's have a show of Hans.

#LunchPun #Pun #Joke

I like stories about hope. Star Trek. The West Wing. Parks and Recreation. Foundation. Terminator 2. Early Andromeda and Earth: Final Conflict. Return of the Jedi. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Babylon 5.

Tell me some stories of hope.

Long boi in alert pose. Falcarius, an early therizinosaur from Early Cretaceous North America
#fossilfriday #paleoart #fediart #illustration #conceptart #dinosaurs

I've had several inquiries about how to get a print of some my photographs. This is a hobby for me, so I haven't been equipped to handle those requests. But I enjoy what I'm doing and want to share my photographs.

So, I set up an account and website with pixels. My website is: https://swede1952-photographs.pixels.com/

If you want a print of one of my photographs, you can get it there, If I haven't loaded it, let me know which one it is, and I'll gladly load it there for you.

Cheers!

Can't speak for all liberals. But my objection to the religious right hasn't ever been how they choose to live their private lives. I think their ideas about everything are a real bummer, but it's not for me to say if you want to impose that meshugas on yourself.

I do, though, strenuously object to their attempts to impose their religious notions in common areas of public life and -- now -- even to dictate how others live their private lives.

That's the difference. There's no bothsidery here.

How are my #ActuallyAutistic comrades today, really?

What do you need today?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics @autisticadvocacy

Bernie Sanders Proposes 100% Tax on Incomes Over $999M https://www.benzinga.com/news/23/05/32149534/bernie-sanders-says-us-should-confiscate-100-of-any-money-americans-make-above-999m-they-can-survive

“Instead of declining to call Clarence Thomas to testify because you think he won’t comply, call him to testify. ... Let him refuse. Let the people see that. Doing that can illustrate the problem better than half a dozen sternly worded statements.” 🔥 @takebackthecourt's Sarah Lipton Lubet on #SCOTUS and #SenateDems #uspol https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-investigation-clarence-thomas_n_64500751e4b039ec4e864be2

Every time I see someone wearing a Baby Bjorn with the kid facing away from their chest, I whisper, “Quaaaaid… Start the reactor.”

Ok, #CNN is officially dead to me. This is a naked attempt to attract Fox News viewers, and pander to the absolute worst people in the nation.

No other candidates, announced or unannounced, appear to have been invited to attend, making it an entire show focused on the ex-president who is under criminal indictment, and being sued for rape. Shame on you, CNN. I'm done giving you the benefit of the doubt.

#FuckCNN #BoycottCNN #FakeNews

https://www.alternet.org/trump-town-hall-2659936576/

#MemeAtMeBro do NOT take a drink from them

No, not ALL superheroes wear capes but, if one DOES decide to become a crime-fighting vigilante, it's still pretty weird that one's first priority is to decide whether or not your look is going to incorporate archaic and inefficient outerwear.