ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
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So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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I'm on a work conference call with a customer, and I'm pretty sure I just heard a solid example of self-advocacy. At the beginning of the meeting, someone at the customer side let us all know they had a "quiet hour" scheduled, and they would be taking it, and unavailable during that hour.
I reject the comforting fiction that this could not happen to me, or to you.
That is part of what allows it to persist, to escalate.
This most recent murder is an escalation. No excuse of the killer being a cop. Just βa marineβ who cares if he was a marine? Why is that little nugget always repeated as if it has any meaning?
Brownshirts self appointed violence spigots. Are we to treat every ex-cop and βmilitary manβ as exceptions to the rule of law? It is disgusting that the police hesitated
I don't know what the squirrels in my back yard are up to *exactly* but I feel like I'm the one who's going to wind up in jail for it.
"By the morning, all the debris had been swept away, with Kyiv Zoo opening to visitors. The animals will be monitored over the coming days and if necessary given anti-depressants in their water. In the meantime they would get extra apples and nuts.
One mother had taken her son to see the chimpanzees. βHeβs 11 today. Last nightβs attack was terrible. But I promised to take him to the zoo and a promise is a promise,β she said, as a monkey swung from a branch."
As predicted, CNNβs Trump townhall was a big mistake and they got fourth in the ratings two days after the event; losing to Newsmax.
As it turns out, feeding your audience shit and telling them itβs caviar isnβt a great business model. While I donβt think ratings should be a goal for news orgs, itβs hilarious that they blew that too.
And the joke is that theyβre the ones trapped in a silo, unaware that we hear from #Trump every damn day so their event wasnβt special.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/cnn-ratings-dropped-below-newsmax-041203576.html
@ScottSoCal @GottaLaff I graduated Catholic HS in '99. Lowest 5% of my class. Hated school bc it never made sense to me. I received Classical Ed. It was horrible. Not until college in Hawaii did I fall in love with learning, so much so, I made it my career. #DietDonald doesn't get that America fell behind with classical Ed and education is not a one size fits all system. We want free thinkers who critically analyze subjects with facts and research. The kids of Florida are in trouble.
Iβm on my third day sick in bed, and Iβm gonna need yβall to post to Mastodon more, blog more, and generally make more internet, because Iβve just about used up whatβs here.
As a poet, author, and lecturer, Baltimore, Marylandβborn Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) was a household name in the 19th century. Not only was she the first Black American woman to publish a short story, but she was also an influential abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer that co-founded the National Association of Colored Womenβs Clubs.
https://www.pbs.org/video/frances-ellen-watkins-harper-torahu/
#BlackMastodon #politics #Maryland #BlackJoy #BlackTwitter #Histodons #History
Teachers pay taxes.
Nurses pay taxes.
Bus drivers pay taxes.
You pay taxes.
The Mormon church is a real estate holding company with a Political Action Committees as a hobby.
Tax them.
@ScottSoCal @GottaLaff As a teacher, I see his attack on education as shameful. He is taking the STUDENTS' RIGHTS to free and fair education. I don't even know what he means by CLASSICAL ED? It's truly a step back and the people of Florida need to understand the attack. He wants to disband the teachers union. So dangerous! Parents don't have Rights in FL. He is narrowing the parental rights by allowing singular challenges to ed. One parent makes the choice for a while school body? Unamerican
@ScottSoCal One of the themes of his campaign was "speak whatever language you want, we're all Ukrainians." His opponent was... not quite as bad as Trump, but like the "ENGLISH ONLY!!!' cretins we have here. If you're in SoCal you can imagine the kind of assholery it would take to ban Spanish or tell people who grew up speaking Spanish that they're not real Americans. Not a perfect analogy but it's a heated issue there. Less so now as many people have stopped speaking russian of their own accord.
@ScottSoCal my thinking is defined by "leaps in logic"! I've always collected knowledge, all different kinds of facts about how things work, bits and pieces from every field and while I can't remember when this has lead to me solving a problem, I have a bad memory I just know it's happened in the past, the most recent "leap" I can recall is thinking about light sabers and "accidentally" working out why the basic/neutral guard for a two handed blade is what it is from like a physics perspective.
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN A YEAR I BOTH SAT IN THE FLOOR
AND GOT UP OFF THE FLOOR WITHOUT ASSISTANCE!
APPLAUSE PLEASE!
"Missionaries left trail of abuse, but leaders stayed quiet"
"Abused by missionaries"
"Baptist leaders stayed quiet after trail of abuse"
Who is a risk to children, by case law, by investigation, by thousands of victims, by thousands and thousands of victims?
It is the people in power in churches, synagogues and offices, abusing those they have power over.
Far right christian nationalists plan to rape America.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Orientation
- So gay. So, so gay.
- JoeMyGod
- Ε ΔΕΕ§Ε§ Δ - πΊπ¦ π
So... me. Work in aerospace, more space, not as much aero. Can fix my own car, choose not to. Can fix the random appliance of your choice. Hardcore introvert in person, which is why I love online. Lifelong science fiction fan. Read constantly. Scalzi is my favorite author, because he mixes exactly the right amount of snark into his writing. Together with a guy 30+ years, married since it was legal. Own a home in CA and don't plan to leave unless I immigrate to another country.
Joined Nov 2022
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