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

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

And I’m back in the capital.

The counteroffensive for which this publication is named after may still be a ways off.

Ukraine is waiting for more equipment from its western partners, Zelenskyy said.

The best part of waking up is a Robin in your cup, hope you enjoy:)
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#birds #birdsite #spring #cute #art #artwork #artist #arte #mastoart #buyintoart #ayearforart #fediart #fedigiftshop #artbooster #artcollector #wallart

Have you ever been called to serve on a jury? (I haven't - and I'm really annoyed about it, even though everyone says it's really boring.)

#poll

I love pushing the abstraction in my macro work. It creates a fun modern contemporary style. What do you think?

You can purchase this floral macro at ArtHero and Pictorem
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#ArtistonMastodon #MastoArt #Art #Fediart #ArtBooster #AYearForArt #mastoart #Artist #ArtMatters #mastoart #BuyIntoArt #flowers #gardening

#caturday

Unhand me, woman!

I remember being in the third grade and there was a math problem that had the wrong answer in the book. And the teacher told me to come to the board and show why it was wrong, so I did. And she was like, “You are correct, good job!” And I was so proud, and told my mom about it when she picked me up. But then also this realization hit me, “Wait, these books can be wrong???”

Kill two birds with one stone? Why do you hate birds so much? What did they ever do to you?

I bet Jessie's girl had a name, Rick Springfield, maybe that was your problem.

MAGAs praised the expulsion of Dem TN lawmakers for “lack of decorum” after they loudly protested the murder of children at a Christian school—& now after subsequent protests in response to subsequent mass shootings—MAGAs claim Dems didn’t protest loudly enough when children were murdered at a Christian school.🤔

This is what it looks like when MAGAs politicize the murder of innocent children for cheap political points, rather than activate & demand justice to ensure children don’t die in vain.

I feel seen.

The #txlege is trying to sneak in voucher bill #SB8 Mon after attempts to move it without a hearing were shot down. This time, they've added measures for more high-stake testing. This is what is at stake: @TexasObserver https://www.texasobserver.org/voucher-program-arizona-privitization-public-schools-disabilities/

I made this poll for important research purposes. Please boost so it can reach a wider audience.

Over on #birdsite, the hate group American College of Pediatricians claims they have been subject to a cyberattack when actually they just left 10,000 private files in a completely unsecured Google Drive. Aka they cyberattacked themselves: https://nitter.nl/ACPeds/status/1656630733966909441#m

Our story: https://www.texasobserver.org/monty-bennett-acpeds-genecis-transphobia-sb14/

#LGBTQIA #transphobia #HumanRights #transgender #healthcare #news #politics #extremism #USpol

now feeling totally justified in never having seen this damn show https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/05/11/good-doctor-memes-autism/ @actuallyautistic #actuallyautistic

@terminalimpala @actuallyautistic

Oh yeah, totally. It’s part of our egalitarian approach to status and hierarchy. Crows and dogs and cats and chickens are all people who just don’t speak our language, and afaict they usually appreciate our lame attempts to speak theirs.

Or as in your example, to speak ours at them unfiltered and vice versa, like Han Solo’s bilingual conversations with Chewbacca or Greedo or Jabba.

#hyperempathy

I don't know if we need AI to filter us out of the universe - distributed mobs of psychopaths will stop us long before artificial sentience emerges.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ai-human-extinction-great-filter-b2337487.html

If you correct me by saying "Actually it's *an* historian," I will hit you with my pedantic stick.

Wagner Founder Prigozhin:

"The flanks are crumbling. The front is failing. Everything is going on in a global tragedy for Russia."

▪️There was a flight of units of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from the flanks.
▪️Today alone we lost an area of 5 sq. km.
▪️The enemy occupied tactical heights from which Bakhmut is in full view.
▪️When the Armed Forces of Ukraine enter Berkhovka, the gradual encirclement of Bakhmut will begin.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky

I nominate Stella Mudd (estranged wife of Harcourt Fenton Mudd) as the new #Twitter CEO.