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

They want to tell you the boycotts don’t work…except Target has already lost over 16 billion since they trashed DEI. Walmart stores are empty & while I can’t find figures on losses…truth will out eventually. And Tesla alone has lost over 750 Billion.
People aren’t flying to US.
Keep up the good work people. You may not see the results published and they may say it doesn’t work, but it clearly does.
#resist #resistance #boycott

Just today I saw an Instagram post by a science communicator where she masked the word "heck" as "h*ck".

I can't tell you how much I despise this whole algo speak shit. This is distorting communication patterns.

Symbolizing a dick with a is somewhat funny, or a butt with a . But in some way or the other typing "sh*t" instead of shit and other patterns like this will go into mainstream communication habits. It's the world adapting the prudish US american standards of pseudo morale.

Glad that we don't have general censorship patterns like this in the Fediverse. Yes, we (hopefully) put CWs on a lot of stuff. But we do so because we care for the people reading our stuff, not to not upset shareholders or credit card companies.

Elon Musk should be in prison along with his co-president. Trump holds the nuclear codes, but in many ways Musk is more powerful -- and dangerous.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/elon-musk-and-the-the-threat-of-the-over-mighty-subject-part-ii/sharetoken/f846f8f7-95e2-4067-b6a5-94e2997de389

For all you cis folks. Feel free to boost.

#trans #transgender #FirstTheyCame #MartinNiemoller #Allies

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.”