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

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Keep the Congressional switchboard number handy these days: (202) 224-3121

I used to think I had face blindness but now I realize it's probably just because I don’t look at anyone while talking to them so I have no idea what they actually look like.

We went to the zoo: lions, giraffes, polar bears, elephants, seals, monkeys, hippopotamus, assorted birds, zebras, sloths, and assorted smaller mammals, including nocturnal ones.

When we got back, the 5 year old loudly announced, "Giraffes poo in their own house!" and then, just to be sure we'd understood the exact issue being reported, loudly repeated: "ON THE FLOOR! IN THEIR OWN HOUSE!!"

Oh yeah! I got to play with #LiquidNitrogen at work the other week. It was a strike off my bucket list!

"If the band kids and the theater kids work together to prevent me from stealing their lunch money, it's only fair that I demand far more lunch money from them next week!

How dare they deny me -- their best friend! -- of my right to take their lunches? Terrible allies! The worst! I insist they stop bullying me immediately!"

I got into an Uber earlier and the first thing the driver said was "I love you"...

So, 5 stars, right?

Anyway, not quite knowing how to respond, I said, "I love YOU"...
He frowned at me and asked why I would say that!?

And this was when I realised he had been talking to his wife on the phone...

Elon is not the richest man in the world because he sells the most cars. He doesn't sell nearly enough cars to be that rich.

Elon is the richest man in the world, because a lot of people (like you! 🤡) own his stocks.

The easiest person for you to convince to own less of that stock, is yourself.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ

Just in time for another pandemic. My money's on measles but I also like being surprised.

This isn’t cost reduction. This is vital service in health and safely reduction. This is a reduction of life saving services.

I’d say “a pox on all the non-Kamala voters” - except the legitimately suppressed, of course - but we’re all going to get a pox anyway. Thanks a million.

HHS to downsize by 10K workers, aiming for cost reduction, RFK Jr. announces:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5217175-hhs-workforce-reduction-kennedy/

“Spring rolls are up! Tell Darlene to move her ass.”

I haven’t worked for #PBS or #NPR, but I’ve collaborated with both to share #science stories.

The talented people there are always thoughtful, curious & kind. They’ve gifted us Mister Rogers, Carl Sagan, Julia Child, LeVar Burton & Elmo. 🌈

It’s appalling to see members of Congress attack them for political points.

I was putting together an apple pie when the quail stopped by.
They are a favorite visitor.
I was up to my elbows in apples but I got a couple of photos through the window.
Summer wanted to greet them personally but I said not today.
#BackyardBirds

They did it on Signal to illegally hide activity and records from the public.

At the time I got married, 13 years ago, I lived in a flat. I liked it cos it was a short walk from the train station. Good for getting home after late nights out.

My wife moved in. One day she said, "The only problem with this flat is that it's a long walk from the station."

Long?

Turns out it's short if you go thru the woods & by the dark underpass, a route a woman would never think of taking.

And that was my 1st lesson in how we inhabit the same space but live in different worlds.