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

Have nothing in your home that you do not
● know to be useful
● believe to be beautiful
● feel unaccountable vague fondness for
● can imagine a hypothetical situation in which you'd *really* need it
● firmly intend to get round to doing something with one of these days
● can't remove because of all the other junk piled on top of it
● feel guilty about not dealing with something more important first
● fear throwing away in case you remember tomorrow why you bought it
● miscellaneous

I'm a scientist. I believe in fact-based analysis.
But here's a conspiracy theory I totally believe in:
Fossil-fuel companies and producers manipulate gasoline prices in the run-up to elections.

🤡 Election time!

C'mon USA! We're up!

PSA:

This was a rough week in my area with dogs getting dumped by the side of the parkway or chained to a pole in the rain at a store and left there.

If you can't keep your dog, please, please, please don't just dump them. Take them to your nearest animal shelter and tell them you can't keep them anymore. And if you have to, leave them at a shelter where they will be found quickly and not left out in the elements for hours.

They loved you and trusted you. Don't traumatize them by just dumping them. 😭

#dogsofmastodon #MustLoveDogs

The French Revolution Lego set

@joaopinheiro @clive "Half of America" is NOT pro-Trump. An oppressive system amplifying the wishes of oligarchy and supported by fascist minority, THAT is what is pro-Trump.

San Francisco is such a terrifyingly liberal doom-loopy place, now people are showing up at my door to compel me to eat sweet organic strawberries from Watsonville. (Thank you, @marksmotroff.bsky.social!)

So basically, Macron scared the bejesus out of sane France and they came together to assure the fascists would not win. That is what should be happening in the US if we would get our act together and tell media's baying bloodhounds to fuck off and prioritize democracy. https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2024/07/07/french-elections-left-projected-to-win-most-seats-ahead-of-macron-s-coalition-and-far-right_6676978_7.html

@GottaLaff

Also, tell your friends about All. The. Things. Biden has done so far.

– Created millions of jobs;
– Taxed corporations not families;
– Got US climate action going in a big way;
– Capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month;
– Incentives on Made In America;
– Made it easier to get birth control pills;
– Student debt relief,
– Made a string of clean energy projects happen...

and on an on. The list is long, and a lot of people don't know about all this.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1deNg4_-mW-yIuSyCT7u51R6mB4s4VLuBLilZi42dZRc/edit#heading=h.25k35qi3wqfy

@StillIRise1963 Their editorial staff has had MANY opportunities to stop, think, and breathe, count to ten, and ask, "hey, are we holding these two candidates to the same standard, or are we fixating on criticizing everything about one candidate while ignoring all the valid critiques of the other candidate?"

ANY one of us in the same position could and would be asking that question. It's a fair question to ask. It's an editor's responsibility in any serious news organization to question whether their coverage is fair.

It's clear that they're either deliberately not asking the question, or worse, they ARE asking the question, and deciding to persist in their course of action anyway, knowing full well that they've opted to write Stupid a pass for his behavior while scrutinizing Biden under a microscope for his every word and deed.

#mediaBias

We went shopping yesterday here in Canada, had such a nice long chat with the store owners, who were wonderful.

One thing they brought up:

Ever since Trump(ism), language has coarsened here in Canada and tribalism has increased. Recently, they were stunned by their own son's language and when they admonished him, his reply? "Free speech!"

They had a long discussion with him about what that meant and set him straight (they hope).

That's the short version of the convo

No place is immune.

A Ukrainian boy is given a flag that draped his father’s casket. It is hard to even imagine the depth of his grief. This is the price that Ukrainian fathers and sons pay for freedom.😢💔

@Ukraine_Report ~ 4rrasoe 🇮🇩❤️🇺🇦🔱

from 💙 Dr. MemeNstein votes 💙

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Biden’s name never appeared in Epstein’s flight logs. But Trump’s name appeared 69 times. 69!
#PedoTrump

It is this dangerous failure of legacy media that ignited my motivation to launch Let's Address This as a source for accurate, objective, and reliable insight on human rights and media accountability.

Whether you subscribe for free or for $5/mo, I welcome your support to ensure we continue to demand justice and fairness. Subscribe here: https://qasimrashid.substack.com/subscribe

I’ve tried hard to get this old friend of mine over here but I can certainly at this point understand why anyone is hesitant.

So I’m just going to share it this way.

“French voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third …” 🇫🇷 🎉

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/07/nx-s1-5032011/france-elections-emmanuel-macron-marine-le-pen

Biden could be a gray wig on a broomstick and we'd be better off electing him than trump. Because Biden won't eradicate all the federal agencies, surround himself with nazis, fire all the experts and dedicated civil servants and turn the government into the church of trump.

#Project2025 #BidenHarris

I wish I lived in a country where Donald Trump raping and sexually assaulting girls within Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring was treated with at least half the outrage and gravity of Joe Biden having one bad debate night.

@ScottSoCal Wow! Who would have thought?! 😮 Are you happy with your solar panels overall? I’ve wondered if we should get some.