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

no-one: whatcha doing?
me: oh, you-know, just comparing generic drugs my insurance company is forcing me to choose between instead of the non-generic drug my dr prescribed. they're not the same thing at all, but they're approved for #ADHD too and much cheaper, and saving the insurance company money is what's really important here.

Woke up this morning to find a crew working on the trees around our apartment complex. There’s a ton of loud machinery (saws, wood chipper, etc.) and I didn’t know this was scheduled for today. It’s been going on for hours. In the past, I would have been very hard on myself for not being able to tolerate the noise better. Now, I understand that my noise sensitivity is just a part of me, and I am taking steps to accommodate myself rather than berate myself. It’s a small but profound shift. #ActuallyAutistic #LateDiagnosed

Because of the number of people cursing him, the inventor of autocorrect will spend eternity in a ducking awful circle of hill.

Repeat after me:
Being an ally entitles you to exactly nothing.

It does not give you access to our bodies or the spaces those bodies inhabit. It does not give you a say in how we choose to protest or resist our oppression. It does not give you the right to police our actions, our customs, or our language.

If your allyship is conditional on any form of preferential treatment, it's not allyship.

"Dangling MAGA" gets 15 months in prison.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/05/10/senate-balcony-sentence-jan6/

For non born English spoken users lets try to define Unhinged when referring to #Rapisttrump
#Nuts

This is Charlie.

He has been suffering from a variety of health problems for a few months now, and this morning it seemed clear to me that he's in pain and not going to get better. In a couple of hours we're going to the vet for humane euthanasia. I want to write down a few of my memories from our life together.

I didn’t not watch the bullsh!t #CNN giving trump a televised rally filled with only his supporters and allowing him to lie for a solid hour… but I’ve seen some clips.

For anyone who’s seen more of this shitshow than I did, I get the impression #KaitlinCollins was A) thrown to the wolves with this assignment and B) in way over her head and C) very likely was told not to push back much.

Anyone else have a take on it?

Oh, and I will say again: I’m done with CNN for good.

What does a neuro-affirming shopping experience look like to you?

#ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics

Do my #ActuallyAutistic comrades often accidentally bite their tongue (physically, not figuratively)? If so, you aren’t alone.

#AskingAutistics

With the current escalation of violence in Israel & Palestine, my thoughts go out to all of my #ActuallyAutistic comrades in both Gaza and Israel who need to live thru the constant sirens, the overstimulation, the fear of missiles and rockets, the overall dysregulation.

I made you all different colors, genders, and sexual orientations to spice things up. Diversity is key, my dudes.

Moin, Moin aus dem hohen Norden,
mein Name ist Oliver, Musikliebhaber, IT-Admin, Hobby-Zeichner, Datenschützer, Hobby-Gitarrist aus dem Raum Hamburg und ich bin #neuhier, deshalb meine kurze #Vorstellung.

Ich bin gespannt, was ich hier zu meinen Themen wie Musik, Zeichnen, Datenschutz, IT-Sicherheit und Co beim Herumstöbern finde und was mich hier erwartet.

Games finally get wholesome (by u/iaminjhgjgh7887)

The Ugly Truth Behind “We Buy Ugly Houses”
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A ProPublica investigation — based on court documents, #property records, company training materials and interviews with 48 former franchise owners and dozens of #homeowners — found HomeVestors franchisees that used #deception and targeted the #elderly, infirm and those so close to #poverty that they feared homelessness would be a consequence of selling.

#RealEstate #Homes #HomeVestors

https://www.propublica.org/article/ugly-truth-behind-we-buy-ugly-houses?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

I saw someone point out elsewhere that Elon Musk is on a trajectory that's pretty similar to that of John McAfee. who was once a widely respected tech industry figure, became wealthy, then seemed to go a little nuttier every year, and then...

Anyway, I can't get that thought out of my head now.

After a video emerged of a white student’s racist tirade, campus activists are demanding the university take immediate action.
#hatespeech #racism #Students #madison #Wisconsin
https://progressive.org/latest/battle-over-hate-speech-university-wisconsin-huynh-230510/

Good guy with a gun instantly becomes bad guy with a gun, which means there was no one left to stop the bad guy with a gun.

Thanks for “protecting the neighborhood,” Rambo.

By the way, this appears to be the 3rd story of someone killed in their own bedroom by “stray bullets” in Harris Co., Texas reported in the Houston Chronicle in the last six months.
#GunFAIL #HomeInvasion

Quoting @sfdb: https://mastodon.social/@sfdb/110350075985975741 #retoot

One of the things that made Twitter so powerful was its ability to amplify calls for grassroots activism— it's time to see if Mastodon can deliver the goods, too: if you want to help send the message that fascists should not be given a national platform to spew their hateful rhetoric: open Apple News (or your Android equivalent) and block the *CNN Politics* channel

Please boost for reach