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

If they read this back to me in court one day I would lean into the microphone to repeat it.

Nearly 20 years ago, I made a Craigslist post looking for a roommate.

This guy named Justin responded saying he wasn't looking for a roommate, but he liked my ad and the interests and music I'd listed and thought we might make good friends.

I ended up exchanging a series of emails with him and he was really cool and interesting.

At some point, I asked for his last name and he said it was Franchi, so, being the absolute creep that I am, I googled his name and came up with a series of articles and bulletins about how Justin Franchi was wanted by the FBI for terrorism.

I was like WTF? but I was so curious about this guy so I continued talking. I brought it up to my friends and one was like "Yo, stop talking to that guy!" and the other was like "Keep talking! There's a REWARD!"

I was like "Y'all, I’m no narc. Besides, he's an 'ECO terrorist' so maybe he's not the bad guy?"

My friends were now even more invested than I was so we poured over his well-written yet strangely cryptic emails trying to figure out details on his whereabouts, reading into EVERYTHING as if it had a secret meaning.

We even talked about meeting up and he said he would be "Coming from the west" and we were like "WTF, we're in Michigan, he could be ANYWHERE!"

He eventually gave me enough information to figure out that this Justin Franchi was just a normal guy from a suburb of Detroit and just happened to share a name with an eco terrorist on the FBI's most wanted list.

Even though I was no longer going to get a reward, I ended up meeting him and he was super cool and I remember hanging out and driving around in my Jetta listening to Swedish indie pop and we remained friends for several years until I moved to Chicago and changed my phone number and lost contact.

Just wanted to say hi, if you're out there, Justin Franchi (the indie pop one, not the terrorist one).

https://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20081119/fbi-offers-50000-reward-for-eco-terrorists/

What was my career like?
Pretty much this:

Employer: You didn't understand the assignment.

Me: Oh, I totally did, but your assignment was ill-conceived and would miss the goal, so I did the right thing instead.

Employer: okay, carry-on.

The Republicans have long been trying to normalize sadism. They brag about it as if it were a virtue. Kristi Noem is just the most recent example.

I, for one, would like to hear the graduation speech from the USC valedictorian.

@johnnyprofane1 @eric @actuallyautistic @actuallyaudhd @actuallyadhd Is it sad that I don't remember which terrible person Roger Stone is at this point? I think it's a bad thing.

Any female-presenting person of a certain age who's taught long enough has had students absentmindedly call them "Mom."

Today, amid a rather frenetic last-day-before- the-draft's-due class period, one of my #PhlEd seniors looked right at me and, all unconsciously, said "Alexa, how do I cite..." before he heard his own words and froze in horror.

Via Eric Kleefeld:

Saying this again: Black voters have determined the last three Democratic presidential nominees, but you don’t see media outlets working hard to interview them in diners, and find out what this important demographic actually thinks.

Aaron Rupar:

Fox & Friends this morning featured one million white dudes at a Pennsylvania diner saying the Pledge of Allegiance

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@ScottSoCal

Today's sharp jump looks like a "buy a block of stock today to push up the price"

The ongoing fall is ongoing.

When women forgo paid labor as a Tradwife or Stay-at-home Girlfriend (SAHG), they take a huge economic risk. Financial dependence=loss of power & control. And in reality few couples can afford it. 78% of US millennials are dual-career couples. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/24/the-rise-of-the-tradwife-and-sahg-why-some-women-opt-out-of-work.html

@Porpentina2017 If Obama had stolen classified documents, stuck them in the bathroom, and refused to give them back, Republicans would be demanding the death penalty. No exaggeration: they would literally call it treason and unquestionably demand his execution.

Now then, where's that note from the missus reminding me to do something or other?
#cats #obscurity #perfection

Whether you like Israel or not, there is no way, US politicians would come together and deliver this package without aid to Israel, simply because Israel is a strategically important ally.

What really matters is, Ukraine is getting an enormous allocation of resources now, on top of all the aid already provided from the UK, Norway Japan, and EU countries.

Russia has not been able to take Ukraine during the 6 months delay, and now really powerful weapons are coming to help Ukraine win.

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Dear all restaurants:
Don’t send me cutesy texts like “We miss you” or “Was it something we said?” We aren’t friends or dating, and those come across as creepy.

"Twitter was assigned 'Twitter' at birth. It can't just go around calling itself 'X' and expect everyone to just play humor this obvious insanity. What we're seeing here is the collapse of Western Civilization."

"I tried to enjoy this art piece about listening to the ambient noise but was rudely interrupted by the ambient noise" is a remarkable thing to have written down and published under your own name.

#Paleontologists Unravel Secrets of Enigmatic 33-Foot Prehistoric #Shark After #Fossil Discovery
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/paleontologists-unravel-secrets-of-enigmatic-33-foot-prehistoric-shark-after-fossil-discovery-180984218/

Exceptionally preserved shark #fossils from #Mexico elucidate the long-standing enigma of the #Cretaceous elasmobranch Ptychodus https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.0262

"#Ptychodus has long been a classic example of teeth in search of a body... Now, they report it was likely a close relative of today’s great white sharks and crunched on hard-shelled creatures with unique grinding teeth"