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

Ingenious librarians
A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it
by Monica Westin via @aeon+psyche magazine

https://aeon.co/essays/the-1970s-librarians-who-revolutionised-the-challenge-of-search?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=38dd9ec67a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2023_06_05&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-38dd9ec67a-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

#books #librarians

Mike Pence officially enters 2024 US presidential race, pitting himself against former boss Donald Trump – live https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2023/jun/05/trump-nikki-haley-2024-washington-sonic-boom-biden-politics-live-updates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Jack promoting RFK Jr. on Bluesky demonstrates that Bluesky intends to best Twitter in key time-to-enshitification metric.

Ben is back from getting his haircut.

#DogsOfMastodon

Surveying the realm.

Northern Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) are very protective of their territory. Here is one at op a small pine tree looking over land, probably hunting.

"Look for Northern Mockingbirds sitting high on tall shrubs, poles, or utility lines. Around your yard, you can also look for them running or hopping along your mowed lawn. You may be able to first identify the presence of a Northern Mockingbird by listening for its song which usually mimics numerous other birds at once." - allaboutbirds.org

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #birds #birdsofmastodon #birdwatching #NorthernMockingbird

@1finekitty

Misread that story....
I thought it said he lost a cracker,
Instead of backer.

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics I recently moved. This has meant not just picking my current zip code vs the prior one, but more importantly, remembering it's not the next zip over, where I lived for 20yrs, but not in the last six.

Up side: The really good bakery is close by again.

Do any of my #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD comrades relate to being in the middle of an action (writing a tweet or SMS, getting off the couch to go to a different room, etc) only to have NO F**** CLUE what you were doing or why you're doing this?

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Income tax isn’t just about paying for roads & defence forces etc. It’s also about wealth redistribution. Not to the point of deterring people from following lucrative careers, or to relieve people capable of at least partially supporting themselves from doing so, but to ensure that no one suffers from unacceptable levels of poverty & all of the disadvantage that entails, while a small percentage of people accrue wealth many times in excess of what anyone could ever spend on even a luxurious lifestyle. #Tax #WealthInequality #Equity

I may need to learn that Klingon drinking song.

I'm think my terrible singing could be excused if it's in Klingon. Besides, if anyone complains then they have insulted my honour and only blood would settle the offence!

Thank you @stevesilberman for sharing this.

Something new I finished today that I hope some of you enjoy.
Prints and other products are here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/pride-2023-mark-tisdale.html

#PrideMonth #Pride #Pride2023 #Cowboys #GayArt #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQArtist #MastoArt #PopArt #MarkOnArt

Twitter is the fourth most hated brand in the US after Fox News, FTX and the Trump Organization. A truly impressive degree of brand destruction in less than a year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/01/most-hated-brands-in-america-trump-organization-ftx-fox-corporation.html

"Elon Musk wants to criminalize gender-affirming care, and he supports imprisoning any therapists and medical professionals involved.

The Twitter CEO on Friday morning promoted a transphobic documentary produced by the petulant, vicious, and dull extremist commentator Matt Walsh."

~ Prem Thakker

#ElonMusk #trans #youth

https://newrepublic.com/post/173201/elon-musk-calls-imprison-therapists-helping-trans-kids

@Ulrich_the_Elder I live in Sweden and we have a lot of free or almost free services. We have affordable healthcare, free healthcare for children, social security etc.

A visit to the ER costs $30. Same cost for an ambulance ride. There is a yearly max cost for prescriptions of around $230. There's also a maximum cost of visits to doctors etc of $130.

I've never heard of a Swede who went bankrupt due to health care bills.

It’s the media stupid.
For two years all I hear about was her emails, yup the ones that led to zero crimes and zero charges.
Now that trump has admitted to espionage, the same media can barely be bothered to report about it.
A fascist traitor who killed a million people, tried to steal an election, attacked the Capitol and committed grave crimes against America; is free to run for president again. Something is very wrong with a country that would allow this.