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

What color were Neandertals?
Even with whole genomes, scientists can't say very precisely what pattern of skin, hair, and eye pigmentation was in ancient populations like the Neandertals.

(A collage of Neandertal faces as imagined by artists and exhibited in museums during the genome era.)
https://johnhawks.net/weblog/what-color-were-neandertals/

I’m going to keep repeating this - calling right-wing extremists who are armed, organized, and threatening violence, “militias” works to their goal of establishing legitimacy. They are terrorists. Call. Them. Out.

And if you’re in media and calling them “militias”, but refer to Daesh, ISIS, Al-Qaida, or the Taliban as “terrorists”, you should really think about why that is and the bias that you’re internalizing in your work.

#Terrorism
#DomesticTerrorism

Arizona court upholds clergy privilege in child abuse case

The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they learn of the crime during a confessional setting.

The ruling was issued April 7 but not released to the public until Tuesday. A lawsuit filed by child sex abuse victims accuses the church, widely known as the Mormon church, two of its bishops, and other church members of conspiracy and negligence in not reporting church member Paul Adams for abusing his older daughter as early as 2010. This negligence, the lawsuit argues, allowed Adams to continuing abusing the girl for as many as seven years, a time in which he also abused the girl’s infant sister.
https://apnews.com/article/mormon-church-child-sex-abuse-e02ae4470a5a53cbeb9aa146ff2762ac

Joseph Laroche was the only black man of the Titanic’s total 2,223 passengers & crew. On April 10, 1912, he joined the ship with his family at Grande Rade harbor, France. Despite enjoying the ship's lavish offerings & dining 1st class, the family faced scorn b/c of their interracial marriage. After Titanic's sinking, the White Star Line publicly apologized for the racism of its crew towards non-white passengers..

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#BlackMastodon #Histor #histodons #Titanic

Not to spam you, but my #vampire #horror novel PERISHABLES is included in this year's Pride StoryBundle! You can get it plus like a zillion more books at the $20 level, which is a pretty great deal!

https://storybundle.com/pride

#queerbooks #lgbtqbooks #lgbtq #writingcommunity

@hastyunicorn @actuallyautistic
That is part of the problem the older you get. Family is invested in how they've come to see and accept you and also in many ways explain you. In denying your autism they feel as if they are still being kind and fair to you. To accept you as they always have. Which isn't super helpful if you want them to see you in your new light and because of it change that dynamic.

If background checks and red flag laws make you worry that you can't get a gun, then maybe it's you we're worried about?

cis yt gays: but you don't LOOK gay
my gay Black ass: oh sorry lemme just

SPEAKING OF MUSIC: I just put together an 8-minute bit of trance-y electronica derived from a NASA recording of data from Juno as it did a flyby of the Jovian moon Ganymede. You know, like you do. It's here if you want to check it out:

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/06/11/new-music-again-ganymede-flyby/

I made a new #bee friend today!

Nailed it.

A simple question for all those protestors that waste their time turning up to pride parades 🥰

The very worst possibility of Trump's betrayal of America:

In Oct 2021, CIA Counterintel warned that an unusually high number of US spies were being killed, captured, or compromised.

In Jan 2021, Trump stole documents on these kind of informants - and may have shared them.

Something a little zen and calming for you today - hope it relaxes you, too!
Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/lakeside-blue-georgia-abstract-landscape-mark-tisdale.html

#DigitalArt #Painting #Peace #landscape #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #CreativeToots #MarkOnArt

The reason why inanimate objects are used in slogans about humans is to make people more comfortable using them casually.
“Stop the boats” is not for those who have no problem being hostile to others based on race or creed. It is for those sitting on the fence of overt prejudice.

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

Ah, gotcha. I was not familiar with the term in this context. Once again I am learning of a known, labelled trait that is me all over. It is something I have been gently (usually) mocked for my entire life.
I infodump and on things of concern I insist on it. When Dad was in hospital & had a sundowners episode I went to nurse station & said "Get me someone who can tell me everything there is to know about sundowners."

What role does sex play in the lives of my #ActuallyAutistic comrades?

Some of us absolutely need it for regulation, others not. Others see it thru it a different prism. It’s taboo to talk about it, let’s change that.

#AskingAutistics @actuallyautistic

@ScottSoCal @theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

I can't find where this thread started but I think I get the gist of the topic. I have (politely) grilled my various specialists, & dad's when he was alive, for detail & context; they have always been responsive & appear to enjoy it. I "justify" my inquiry with "I'm an engineer; I find the human body fascinating." That generally shifts them into professorial mode & I get what I seek - detailed understanding of their diag, Rx.

Info dump on me folks

@actuallyautistic @actuallyautistics

The Custard-filled Binbag takes his leave of the political stage with the predictably blimpish gracelessness of the golf club drunk being told to put his trousers back on.

#BorisJohnson

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/jun/09/boris-johnson-resigns-as-mp-with-immediate-effect-over-partygate-report