ScottinSoCal πΊπ¦ π π³βπ @ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es
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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
It's funny how we let dogs into our homes/lives. They've got big teeth; big heavy paws with claws. They used to be dangerous.
But I'm doting on this guy, calling him Schmoopie face and Bubba and Fartacus. Diligently feeding him treats by hand, checking his ears, teeth and poops. Wiping his ouchie spots. Leaning over him as he sleeps, watching his chest rise and fall, listening to him snore. The only person I do this for is my 79 yo father. After heart surgery.
We probably have a lot of conditions for the people we let into our lives.
But dogs...we open our hearts wide. We scoop them up and never look back. We take their love and run.
One of the tough things about being Black in tech is that you can be outstanding in your field yet be treated quite poorly due to unconscious bias.
People interpret rules more strictly or differently than they ever have before just for you. And pointing out potential bias just creates new problems.
My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.
Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.
It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography
Straight, cisgender people, please remember: Pride started as a riot, and the way things are going right now, we might just be heading there again.
And if you donβt support us at our π§±, you donβt deserve us at our π.
Happy Pride, yβall. π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
@ScottSoCal
Agreed. Aside from his power to invoke the amendment there was also the very real problem that the courts could delay its implementation just long enough to get in on causing a default.
@ScottSoCal@computerfairi.es @dougiec3@libretooth.gr The other simple fact is that budgets between now and 2025 will have GOP input. I don't love that, but that's reality. Biden didn't give up anything that wasn't a fait accompli.
@PatternChaser @Pathfinder @Zumbador @actuallyautistic the only thought i have is that knowing i was autistic didnt help make me less embarassed.
This one is special to me.
My memories are haunted by the many times my parents would ask "what is wrong with you."
Even after escaping those difficult years, sometimes verbal scars are the slowest to heal.
"There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in."
- Chris Colfer
If Biden was 110 years old and in a coma heβd still be a better president than anyone the Republicans are putting forward, and itβs not even close.
@DarkSheepArts @andy_twosticks @actuallyautistic
Probably linked to how we (cis western males) are raised. We are taught not to cry nor to express fear, and channel all that into anger. Because a good man should be aggressive. Meaning everytime we feel a bad emotion, we interpret it as anger.
Except when anger is not an emotion you naturally tend to express. Then you are left with nothing and turns everything inwards, because you are afraid to show other emotions, leading to anxiety, and sometimes when it's too much, anxiety attacks...
(I don't know if that scenario makes sense, I just speak for myself here)
Feel badly now. I was excited to help support an employee group around #neurodiversity. Unfortunately it quickly resulted in my being pinged by folks about the setting up of a meeting. I rapidly went into #anxiety and just tapped out. My son, less frequently now, talks about feeling like a #failure. This is that feeling. It sucks. I need to give myself the space to accept my limits and be kinder to myself, but right now I may just have to wallow in it a bit. #ActuallyAutistc @actuallyautistic
@PatternChaser @thecatwasnot @Pathfinder @actuallyautistic I'm not the person you asked - but I have this problem too.
What's to process?
Sometimes, it's questioning the premise whether or not you made a mistake at all. Sometimes it's looking at the situation and checking if you are trying to claim control of a situation that was out of your control to begin with. Sometimes, it's finding the funny side of it even though there was pain. Sometimes it's realising that you're judging yourself so hard because you judge *other people* so hard, and now your own judegment has come to bite you in the butt so maybe you need to be kinder to others as well as to yourself? Accept that people, including you, are fallible, and that it's ok to make mistakes?
What usually works for me is to just tell myself "you know what, that thing I did was not so bad, I've done MUCH worse things than that," and then move on to distracting myself immediately. For some reason that takes the sting out of it for me.
Another #car from the archives. I'll admit being a fan of the #Transformers was part of my reason for doing this one. π
Prints can be found here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/classic-red-lamborghini-on-a-rainy-night-mark-tisdale.html
#DigitalArt #lamborghini #sportscar #MastoArt #ArtMatters #lgbtqartist #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt
The reason we have LGBTQ Pride Month is not to celebrate our pride but to insist on our right to exist without persecution.
I stand in solidarity with my trans brothers and sisters and their right to exist without persecution.
#LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBT #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2023
#TransRightsAreHumanRights
Ok! Hello! I am allowed to be a person again! Good morning everyone, happy pride! Have a dog photo!
It's #Newstodon Friday again, the day where #news organizations who are active here on #Mastodon show you their best work!
#JOURNALISM SUPER FRIENDS ASSEMBLE!
@damemagazine @TexasObserver @kcts9 @themarkup @thexylom @mongabay @TucsonSentinel @Chron @ProPublica
Montana's drag ban was applied to a transgender person doing public speaking. No music, no dance, just a trans person and a podium. This is what they want. They want us to be removed from public life. This is identical to what Hitler did with the Nuremberg Laws. Eventually the punishment for us simply existing in public spaces will be jail time. If that makes you uncomfortable, please speak up to whomever will listen. Fixing this requires cis support.
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- 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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