Court Cantrell won't conform

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#books
Amerigerman #ThirdCultureKid
#ADHD #DAVE
#HumanOnlyArt #NoAI
she/her
#Abi '96
landlocked wreck of a cat-hair-covered sea witch who loves potatoes

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header: from my YA fantasy THE ACCURSED: ominous forest, teen girl, back to viewer. long frizzy hair, long red dress. hopeful light beyond trees

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2026-04-17 00:20:29 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@theleftistlawyer/116416673344474794
And for medical advice. And for relationship advice.
And any advice relevant to a human life, really.
#note1lzk…lel3

2026-04-14 17:46:12 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/116404132538122284
I used Internet Archive and Wayback Machine extensively in researching my non-fiction philosophy book. That site is a warehouse of priceless treasure!!!
#InternetArchive
#WaybackMachine
#note1ypf…rj0z

2026-04-11 19:12:21 UTC

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116379211678912109
This is one of the best descriptions of AI that I have read so far:
"It isn’t a technology, it’s a branding term, and it’s a branding term used almost exclusively for things that have no social benefit."
-- [@david_chisnall](https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall )
#NoAI
#AIisAScam
#note14r6…tzry

2026-04-09 13:43:36 UTC

Today is the day I begin reading THE SUBLIME OBJECT OF IDEOLOGY by Slavoj Žižek.
May any existing gods have mercy on my soul.
😆
#SlavojZizek
#Zizek
#agency
#Hegel
#Lacan
#Marx
#philosophy
#reading
#ILoveBooks

2026-04-08 17:21:01 UTC

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I am well aware of all of that. I am just asking the rest of the world to acknowledge that a great many of us *did* vote for the other candidates and we *have been* fighting Trump's regime every way we can think of. We're marching in protests, we're hounding our representatives, we're having the difficult conversations with family members & friends, we're teaching our children to stand firm against fascism no matter what, we're still voting even though it feels pointless....
1/

2026-04-08 14:50:19 UTC

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....An uncounted but large number of us have been fighting this as hard as we know how for more than 10 years. We are scared, exhausted, and despairing, and there aren't enough words for us to say how deeply sorry we are that our government is menacing the whole world.
2/2
#AmericanPerspective
#WarIsHell
#25thAmmendmentNOW

2026-04-08 14:49:24 UTC

The following is mostly a reply I gave in someone else's thread. I wanted to share it without risking the other threadfolk getting backlash.
Concerning whether or not US-Americans know and/or care that yesterday could easily have been the start of WWIII/a global nuclear event:
A lot of us care and are aware. Enough that we were checking the news every few mins yesterday & dreading the approach of 8pm EST.
Please don't paint all US-Americans with the same brush of dismissive judgment....
1/2

2026-04-05 04:14:46 UTC

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Overuse can lead to Magic 8 Ball psychosis.

2026-03-31 17:41:29 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.social/@peterdrake/116246675558884415
I AM THE ALGORITHM
HEAR ME TOOT
#note188w…vqqv

2026-03-30 06:39:39 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CelloMomOnCars/116304242804842932
I am all in for the SOLAR SHEEP
#note1azl…7hzd

2026-03-27 04:53:36 UTC

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I had a MAGA relative (now deceased) who railed against science and didn't trust doctors. This person happened to be an insulin-dependent diabetic and a survivor of a quadruple bypass. I could never once make it make sense.

2026-03-24 19:06:26 UTC

RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@ayoli/116282976794740509
You are not prepared.
#note144d…lpc0

2026-03-11 18:46:29 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nocontexttrek/116134655818773863
The Alt text is particularly glorious. 🤘🖖
#note1rhq…7c8q

2026-03-10 19:25:05 UTC

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116206279374942612
This tells me we need to flood search engines with Epstein searches. On the hour, all day, every day. Make him sweat.
#note19ac…9xnk

2026-03-07 20:46:21 UTC

"What the Epstein case is doing...is showing many more people that the men most likely to talk about protecting 'their' girls & women are the ones most likely to feel entitled to do to girls & women whatever they please....
" (T)he same patterns apply to ICE killings, racist policing violence, xenophobic expulsions, government abandonment of the most vulnerable people in our society, the course of genocidal wars around the world, and more."
https://www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/12/institutional-betrayal-emotional-political-toll/
#Epstein
#Trump
#ICE
#DARVO

2026-03-04 16:28:47 UTC

According to the (pseudoscientific) "California F-Scale" (Adorno, Frankfurt School, 1947), I am a "liberal airhead."
That should probably go in my bio. 😆🤣
https://www.anesi.com/fscale.htm
#FrankfurtSchool
#CaliforniaFScale
#PersonalityTests
#TheodorAdorno
#philosophy
#fascism
#authoritarianism
#liberalism

2026-02-20 04:24:43 UTC

13yo and I just finished watching Star Trek: TOS episode "The Empath." I immediately went down an internet rabbit hole and discovered an article on how deeply relevant this episode is in our world today:
The "dichotomy between the Vians' cruelty and Gem's quiet strength reinforces a recurring theme in 'Star Trek'—true power lies in empathy, not domination."
https://www.sciencefictionclassics.com/the-quiet-horror-and-redemption-of-the-empath/
#StarTrek
#StarTrekTOS
#empathy
#compassion
#CompassionIsStrength

2026-02-19 20:19:54 UTC

PEOPLE
I think I want to move my blog from Wordpress to Ghost.
From what little I've researched thus far, Ghost seems to have good tools for accomplishing this.
But I am utterly unversed in the ways of The Programmer and ignorant of 99.99% of technical jargon.
I also have ADHD and ***loathe*** new user interface. (One of the reasons I want to leave Wordpress is that the UI has become revolting over the past few years.)
SO.
Will this be easy enough for layfolk such as I to accomplish?

2026-02-19 19:32:53 UTC

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So gross.

2026-02-11 20:09:58 UTC

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@DoomsdaysCW/116053669054111472
As bad as it all is, this might be the worst thing in the long wrong.
I keep reminding myself that he's temporary, he's temporary, he's temporary.... But after him, we still have to contend with his ilk, and only after *them* can we start to reverse all their devastating world-fuckery....
#note1dz2…7me0

2026-02-11 04:14:36 UTC

RE: https://universeodon.com/@SrRochardBunson/116049869620861644
Most of y'all probably aren't educated enough to know this, but Mozart was short for Mozzarella Art.

2026-02-05 23:42:54 UTC

"We call ourselves a civilized nation, but we lack rules and accountability around what a person claiming to be law enforcement is permitted to do to another human being."
--Aliya Rahman,
US-citizen,
of Minneapolis,
speaking to the 3 Feb 2026 Congressional Forum on DHS-Use-of-Force
concerning her unlawful detention & horrific treatment by ICE on January 13, 2026
https://youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?si=dGaJFiGTBQXZ8E1Q
#AliyaRahman
#ReneeGood
#AlexPretti
#ICEoutNOW
#AbolishICE
#ProsecuteICE
#ICEEqualsSlaveCatcherPatrols

2026-02-01 17:13:34 UTC

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Ooooh, perfect deliciousness in snowy winter!

2026-02-01 17:09:49 UTC

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And with you, Clay. Hope you have a delightful day. ☺️

2026-01-30 02:12:47 UTC

Finished Orphan Black yesterday and am utterly delighted at how it all wrapped up.
Absolutely stellar show, one of the best sci-fi stories ever.
There are no words in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Humans that can do justice to the superlative acting skills of Tatiana Maslany.
#OrphanBlack
#scifi
#TatianaMaslany

2026-01-23 20:47:55 UTC

Okay y'all, we need news about the
#DayOfTruthAndFreedom.
I'm not seeing much about it here on Mastodon at all. Anybody got any updates on how it's going? Post links in replies!
🙏🤘✌️🖖
#GeneralStrike
#Minneapolis

2026-01-14 06:34:15 UTC

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And fucking sick of being lumped together with all the various and sundry groups of people who made sure Trump ended up in the White House.
I'm counted among the assholes simply because of my citizenship, and it's fucking *wrong*.

2026-01-14 06:31:17 UTC

I am just so fucking exhausted.

2026-01-06 04:36:37 UTC

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I DONT WANT MY MENSTRUAL PAD TO TALK TO ME
😭😭😭 why did the future have to turn out to be so goddamn stupid 😭😭😭

2026-01-04 03:34:54 UTC

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I suspect it feels awfully similar to watching what happened to Czechoslovakia in March 1939.

2025-12-29 16:35:38 UTC

It has taken me 7 months, but I finally finished reading SIMONE WEIL: A LIFE by Simone Pétrement (1973, transl. 1976).
Even though I alraady knew the tragic ending of Weil's too-brief life...
...still, I feel very much like I just witnessed the death of a dear friend, admired mentor, and prophet who accurately described what we're living in now.
Rest in peace and grace, Simone Weil. You were magic, and still are.
#SimoneWeil
#philosophy
#kenosis
#mysticism
#agape
#ApophaticTheology

2025-12-27 19:30:33 UTC

One of my parents' outdoor cats looks really weird.
#caturday
#CatsOfMastodon
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2025-12-25 06:15:49 UTC

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My blog doesn't. And maybe a few other blogs? But I don't know of many.

2025-12-23 08:24:39 UTC

UGH, I'm so damn sick of #AIBullshit!
"We already know that in a patriarchal society, women’s pain is dismissed, belittled, and ignored. This kind of AI-generated language also depoliticizes patriarchal power dynamics. Thinkers like Dr. Safiya Noble have been warning us for years that the prejudices carried by the people who design and maintain internet infrastructure continually [shape] how we view and think about women and girls in society."
-- @npub16sj…42r5
https://eiratansey.com/2025/12/20/i-announced-my-divorce-on-instagram-and-then-ai-impersonated-me/
#NoAI!!!

2025-12-21 15:16:05 UTC

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This is about Trump, right?

2025-12-16 16:39:10 UTC

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Underrated toot.

2025-12-16 15:15:25 UTC

I'm reminded that 99.99% of you probably haven't seen this exquisite short film by Helen Rollins and #PeterRollins (no relation), starring #DavidDastmalchian, #FrederiqueBel, and #NigelONeill -- and you probably need to.
Making Love (2018)
https://vimeo.com/290062300
#film
#ShortFilm
#philosophy
#drive
#desire
#DriveAndDesire
#JacquesLacan

2025-12-11 22:11:14 UTC

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100%. Unbelievably, unutterably stupid and evil.

2025-12-05 05:36:59 UTC

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By Grabthar's Hammer, I am so unutterably sick of the color white EVERYWHERE during the past 10 years or so. I blame Apple. It's an aesthetic that goes along with the gray & beige trend for interior walls & floors. It's sterile and boring and reflects a society-wide obsession with the illusion of alleged "purity" and I hate it.
Also, I never heard of Pantone before this article. Considering that I'm an artist, I think that says something about Pantone's overall significance.
Ugh.

2025-11-07 17:01:54 UTC

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One of my favorite birbs, one because kite, two because these particular ones live where I do, right in the middle of Oklahoma City, of all places. 💖☺️💖

2025-11-04 17:45:01 UTC

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This morning, having finished the last available #audiobook (nr.7) of #DungeonCrawlerCarl, and against my better judgment, I decided to give STAR TREK: KHAN a chance. I resolved to listen to the first episode all the way through no matter how bad it was.
I listened through to the end of episode 4 before time constraints made me quit.
I sit corrected, mea culpa and more please.
Also, they should've cast #NaveenAndrews as #Khan in Into Darkness.
TREK4EVAH 🤘✌️🖖
#GoodStory
#StarTrek
2/2

2025-11-04 17:39:32 UTC

Welp. They got me again.
Last night, I heard for the first time about the audio drama series #StarTrekKhan, which tells the story of Khan's colony after the Enterprise leaves them all on Ceti Alpha V.
I was skeptical. The treatment of Khan in #StarTrekIntoDarkness left me leery of any use of the character beyond Ricardo Montalbán's portrayals. (I adore Benedict Cumberbatch, but that was an awful miscast, and the "John Harrison" plotline was bullshit.)
Also...an #AudioDramaSeries??
wut
1/2

2025-11-03 12:53:17 UTC

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"his duckship, which was taking a Sunday morning stroll" HELP, I SHAN'T RECOVER 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

2025-11-03 04:05:45 UTC

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Famed inquisitress Cressida Raith is assigned the investigation, and her secret weapon is Joely Puck. Joely stumbled out of a magical gateway to another world with a bloody knife, a missing eye, and no memories. But she gained a magical power both rare & dangerous: the ability to sense the truth behind any lie.
Every villager is suspect. Joely's fellow priestesses are treacherous. Each clue draws her deeper into the snare of deception & desire...and her unwanted memories begin to surface....
2/

2025-11-03 04:03:59 UTC

PEOPLE!
My latest novel is out!!! Come party with me, and by party with me I mean #BUYMYBOOK. 😁
THE PRIESTESS MURDERS
a murder mystery set in my Light-Walkers Universe
https://books2read.com/b/bxRdoo
A sleepy town is thrown into turmoil by the brutal murder of a priestess and a promiscuous minstrel. The town's leaders are corrupt, the imperial Core's local agents are strangely evasive, and a village rife with secrets is ready to explode under the pressure....
1/

2025-11-03 03:39:52 UTC

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In the practice of going dormant along with nature (because there is no objective difference between nature and human; we are a part of her; we are her), progress means *not* the more of what our capitalist world violates us with.
Progress = less.
So I get through October, descending into darkness. Despairing, almost. But the only way out is through. And Halloween has come to mean THRESHOLD to me.
The threshold is an invisible barrier thick as gelatin. Pushing through means pain and tired...

2025-11-03 03:35:25 UTC

...in which living counter to capitalism is most vital.
Like the trees, the squirrels, the bees, and the snails, at this time of year we're meant to slow down, stay safe, preserve energy and sustenance. This year-round go-go-go rise-and-grind hustle culture is antithetical to how we're put together.
I practice living intentionally counter to that. *Practice*. Because I'm not there yet. I never will be. But practice makes progress.
In which progress means doing less. Doing smaller....

2025-11-03 03:16:14 UTC

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I'm not entering this argument between you two for love or money.
Other than to say that I've been indie- & self-publishing for 15 years. Experience has left me with zero doubt that the capitalist-driven traditional book publishing industry is predatory & disdains creative people.
courtcan.com is my blog, where I do need to update my latest
https://books2read.com/b/bxRdoo has ebook links to my newest: THE PRIESTESS MURDERS, a murder mystery set in my fantasy universe
...

2025-11-02 19:00:36 UTC

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It gets me down pretty frequently, how there are so many of us out here writing fresh, vivid stories that break from the popular mold to venture boldly into frontiers never before explored -- yet the people who have the money and the clout to bring our stories to the forefront ignore us entirely, in favor of the same voices with the same stories and the same posturing ad infinitum, ad nauseam.
#Capitalism is death.
#writing
#TheWritingLife
#WriterProblems
#BuyMyBooks
2/2

2025-11-02 18:56:20 UTC

Talked with a friend who tried to watch #JurassicRebirth and gave up, finding it to be a stale, forgettable rehashing of its too-many predecessors.
The goal of #movies these days isn't to tell a new, resonating tale. The goal is only to regurgitate the same story again and again for as long as it can make the cash flow. The state of our entertainment will continue this way for as long the public will come back and eat what's regurgitated. 🤮
My queendom for some originality, y'all.
1/2

2025-10-30 16:42:03 UTC

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Trump, his cronies, and his puppeteers live in desperate fear that we *won't* wallow in that state of breathless suspense at the mirage of a great future, their culminating of #AmericanExceptionalism.
They secretly quake with terror that we won't swallow the shit they're shoveling at us.
Don't be fooled.
KEEP THE FASCISTS SCARED.
#resist
#KeepFighting
2/2

2025-10-30 16:35:54 UTC

Still plugging away at Simone Pétrement's ultra-high-density biography of #SimoneWeil. In October 1937, Weil observed that Nazi propaganda concerning the "Aryan master race" was meant to
"keep the German people in breathless suspense with the mirage of a great future."
This illustrates yet again that #fascism has no imagination. The #TrumpRegime is just regurgitating the same old shit that every totalitarian government has ever used to prop itself up & keep the population stupid & controlled.

2025-10-21 18:30:43 UTC

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Wait, is Canada in the habit of torching ballrooms?

2025-10-21 18:17:08 UTC

I hope his fucking ballroom burns to the ground the day before he celebrates its opening.

2025-10-19 14:33:03 UTC

"...(U)nderstand the threat the MAGA regime sees in the No Kings protests: Millions (*numbers*) of everyday Americans (worthiness) from all walks of life (*diversity*) standing together (*unity*) for the SECOND time (*commitment*) for core American values and constitutional and civil rights pose an existential threat to authoritarian ambitions."
--Nicole Carty,
"Why the No Kings Protests Matter"
https://theintercept.com/2025/10/18/no-kings-protests-trump-fascism/
#NoKings
#GoodTrouble
#RESIST

2025-10-13 02:21:44 UTC

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I'm accepting this future. As Jake says, "There are other worlds than these."
#TheDarkTower
Anyway, I've turned into more of a crafter than a miner. And definitely not a fighter. I have t even tried to venture into the Trial Chamber I know is nearby, much less attempted the End. I spend time in the Nether only in places where I've secured the area. I'm a wimp, but I've got super cute #cottagecore builds and a nifty giant witchy house. Right now I'm working on nicer homes for my villagers.
3/

2025-10-13 02:18:16 UTC

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I've only been playing #Minecraft for just over 2 years. Does that mean I'm still a noob? I dunno. But I have a world, "Tawand A's Realm," that I think of as my #ForeverWorld -- my first one, anyway. I'll stick with it as long as I can, at least until it crashes and I lose all but the first ~6mos of play. ~Six mos in is when the system started telling me it can't save to the cloud anymore. So if it crashes locally, it's gone.
2/

2025-10-13 02:13:52 UTC

Well, scrolling through my own posts & realizing that I've hardly said anything *me* lately, just reposted a lot. Sorry y'all. I know I never promised you Brilliant Wit And Sparkle✨™, but all repost and no OG content makes Court a dull girl, &c., &c.
So. #StatusUpdate portion of the evening:
I just haven't had much extra to give to anybody lately. That's partly my own fault, because I've been spending most of my spare time chasing supereasy dopamine hits. Mainly in the form of #Minecraft.
1/

2025-09-24 04:13:56 UTC

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I make things.
Not as often or intensively as I would like to.
Because life is a LOT.
And yet.
Still, I make. 😊
#MakerOfThings
#cats
#dogs
#fantasy
#TheWritersLife
#OilPainting
#acrylics
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2025-09-22 12:56:21 UTC

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Okay.
"AI" = "Artificial Intelligence"...but the thing is,
* * * it's not intelligent * * *.
LLM or A"I" -- they're both next-word-guessing glorified copy-paste machines. Read Doctorow's full article and the associated articles he links to.

2025-09-22 05:38:37 UTC

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...it has no wants, period. All it can do is transform a prompt into something that seems like the kind of thing that would follow from that prompt. It's a next-word-guessing machine."
-- @npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/17/automating-gang-stalking-delusion/
2/2
#AI = #LLMs = #NextWordGuessingMachines
#enshittification
#hyperenshittification

2025-09-22 05:36:13 UTC

As is his wont, @npub1fdr…lvhs knocks it out of the ballpark.
In these, our increasingly enshittified days, this message cannot be repeated enough:
"(T)here's one job that an AI can absolutely do better than a human: it can reinforce our delusions more efficiently, more quickly, and more effectively than a community of sufferers can.
"Speed isn't the only reason that LLMs are super efficient delusion-reinforcers. An LLM has no consciousness, it has no desires, and it has nothing it wants...
1/

2025-09-16 20:45:29 UTC

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Excellent. More fighting back of this nature, please!
USA, we need to follow the Brits' example!

2025-09-13 03:46:17 UTC

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In the USA, enacting the ritual of Moloch
means allowing these school shootings to continue.
In the USA, the dead children of school shootings
the murdered children
are the living sacrifice
slaughtered upon the holy altar of our school grounds.
We feed our children to the god
whom we name Freedom
so that the god will continue blessing us
with our Second Amendment rights.
The ritual and religion of Moloch is the religion of the United States of America.

2025-09-13 03:41:00 UTC

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And now, approximately 4,000 years later,
the United States of America
a nation accustomed to a certain way of life
faces a crisis
of dead children. Murdered children.
Today, in the great and glorious nation named United States of America
(a word descended of "struggle" and "king"),
the ritual of Moloch is thriving.
Since Columbine 1999, there have been at least
400 school shootings
390,000 children exposed to the violence of these shootings
200 deaths of children in these shootings.

2025-09-13 03:31:28 UTC

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Dead children. Murdered children.
For the preservation of a culture.
For the preservation of a nation.
For the preservation of a way of life.

2025-09-13 03:28:34 UTC

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these scriptures tell a story of an ancient people
named People of "He Who Contends with God"
a people who had committed themselves to a certain way of being in the universe
but instead, in the story, murdered their own children in the hopes of gaining a benefit.
Appeasing a god?
Releasing a transformative energy?
Who knows.
But in this story
innocent children died
in pain, in fear, in blood
so that the adults, who stayed alive,
could gain something.

2025-09-13 03:14:42 UTC

Had a convo with @npub1fwv…e7d6 today that altered my opinion of the USA.
And by altered, I mean worsened.
So.
If, like me, you grew up immersed in conservative, evangelical, historically-Protestant Christianity,
you're familiar with the "Old Testament" scriptures (in Leviticus, Jeremiah, 1 & 2 Kings [more?]) referencing "Moloch."
In context, the ancient Israelites are being warned to stop sacrificing children either to a god named Moloch or in a ritual called Moloch.
At any rate,

2025-09-12 22:37:01 UTC

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I'm for treating it something like jury duty: you get called, you serve (barring mental/physical lack of capacity).
But your bills & debts are paid while you serve.
You & family move into the White House but you don't get to change it to suit your tastes.
You draw a salary of no more than $100k/year.
You can put all of it into savings if you want.
Your cabinet is people whom the public has elected via ranked choice voting.
Parties, gerrymandering, and electoral college don't exist.

2025-09-11 16:49:02 UTC

HEY.
HEY YOU.
YEAH, *YOU*.
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HAVE SOME CATS.
#TimelineCleanse
#cats
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2025-09-10 02:58:19 UTC

My new t-shirt makes me happy.
#WomenOfStarTrek
#StarTrek
#StarTrekTOS
#NyotaUhura
#StarTrekTNG
#DeannaTroi
#StarTrekDS9
#JadziaDax
#StarTrekVoyager
#KathrynJaneway
#StarTrekPicard
#SevenOfNine
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2025-09-01 20:02:56 UTC

I'm no ghoul, but....
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2025-08-23 15:03:13 UTC

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I am so sorry for the loss of your family photos. That just breaks my heart.
Both of my grandmothers were genealogy hobbyists. So is my mother. They passed that love of family history on to me. Old family photos are very much a part of tracing our history. I always loved sitting with my grandmas, looking through the old albums with them. They each made separate albums for each of their children, albums that went to my parents, aunts, and uncles when their parents died.
Priceless.

2025-08-22 19:50:59 UTC

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We GenXers are the smallest generation, so don't blame it on us. The boomers are still the ones making all the major decisions (including decisions like putting GenXer Musk in power; we don't claim him though!).

2025-08-22 19:41:58 UTC

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1980s
society: what if we had a vaccine for cancer?
scientists: that's decades away, if ever
2020s
scientists: WE'RE GETTING CLOSE TO A VACCINE FOR CANCER
society: psh, you're canceled
I keep trying to make it make sense, but all I can come up with is that microplastics have degraded our collective reasoning skills.

2025-08-21 12:21:58 UTC

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It's squinting at me! 😆

2025-07-26 03:48:44 UTC

LLMs GENERATE STATISTICALLY PROBABLE RESPONSES TO PROMPTS, NOT FACTUAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
PASS IT ON.
via @npub1lf3…e2uz

2025-07-20 06:42:58 UTC

We pass another car that's making weird noises.
12yo: that car sounds like it has a problem
me: probably the carburetor
12 *skeptical*: is that a joke
me: no?
12: the car...has a CARburator?
me: yup!
12: what does it do--burate the car?!?
me *gigglesnort*: i don't remember
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2025-07-20 06:26:12 UTC

Thank you for your attention to this matter:
"(F)ar-right influencer Nick Fuentes responded to Trump: 'F*ck you. You suck. You are fat, you are a joke, you are stupid, you are not funny, you are not as smart as you think you are.' '[W]e are going to look back on the MAGA movement as the biggest scam in American history,' he added. 'And the liberals were right. The MAGA supporters were had. They were.'"
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-18-2025?r=elerv&triedRedirect=true

2025-07-08 16:46:19 UTC

Sometimes I think about #Gattaca and how we all leave our DNA all the fuck over the place and it kind of squicks me out a little on both a stomach-churning level and an existential dread level.
I need to introduce 12yo to that movie. It's so damn brilliant and prescient, and it's been way too long since I've seen it.
#scifi
#existentialism

2025-07-08 16:29:47 UTC

#TIL a new-to-me word:
VILIPEND.
Isn't it delightful?!
It means "to express scornfully one's low opinion of" someone or something.
Example sentence:
I experience a likely unhealthy amount of Schadenfreude anytime I read an article or hear a report vilipending the fascist regime of vile misogynist and racist Donald Trump and his sycophantic ilk.
And there's your #WordOfTheDay, y'all. Happy learning!
#vocabulary
#grammar
#linguistics
#language

2025-07-03 04:24:52 UTC

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This is one reason I write and selfpub. If I can't find the weird shit anywhere -- and the mainstream definitely does NOT take the risk of publishing the weird shit -- then I gotta write the stuff I wanna read.

2025-07-02 15:38:41 UTC

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"A Palantir is a dangerous tool...watching...."

2025-07-02 02:47:05 UTC

Listen, 99% of national news and a goodly amount of world news I see these days is nothing but The Horrors. I said a few months ago that I was checking out of all of that and just posting books, art, cats, and fun for a while & then I proceeded to continue intaking and distributing The Horrors.
So for this moment at least, here is something that is not The Horrors. Here is my ink&pencil WIP: a copy of some medieval catbeasts from an illustration housed in the Bodleian or something
#art
#cats
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2025-07-01 06:12:21 UTC

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STOP THAT
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2025-06-27 15:01:18 UTC

I grew up in Germany with US-American citizenship. I was on US military bases on a nearly daily basis. We were always told that when you set foot on a US military base, you are stepping onto US-American soil. Born on a US military base to at least one US-American parent? You're a US citizen.
This is always how it has worked, and the US government has fucked this man over.
https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/114755632031459210

2025-06-23 23:01:56 UTC

Hello my name is Cooboobrtnooby
I am married to Oobd
my cats are Ooblloob and Loobddooboob
I am DYING 😆🤣🤣🤣
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2025-06-22 05:04:11 UTC

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I can see that.... But I dunno, I & II seem like they were far more clear and present to the civilian population than what's been happening since 9/11. And this, now, is starting to feel exceptionally clear & present.
That could simply be my ignorance and privilege talking, though.

2025-06-22 05:02:05 UTC

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It does to me too. But I don't have the political savvy to make the connections that would confirm or deny factually.
I'm just heartsick.

2025-06-22 04:54:55 UTC

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Serious question: is this the start of WWIII?

2025-06-22 04:50:54 UTC

I DON'T FUCKING WANT TO BE AT WAR WITH IRAN.
WE, THE PEOPLE, DO NOT FUCKING WANT THIS!!!

2025-06-19 14:05:16 UTC

Today is #Juneteenth, the US-American federal holiday commemorating and celebrating June 19, 1865, when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, finally learned that the Emancipation Proclamation had freed them 2 1/2 years earlier.
Former slaves celebrated this day as early as 1866. From September 2016 to January 2017, activist #OpalLee, then age 89, walked from Ft. Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C, as part of her ultimately successful campaign to get Juneteenth recognized as a federal holiday.
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2025-06-17 19:19:25 UTC

THERE ARE TOO MANY BAD THINGS IN MY FEED THESE DAYS SO HERE HAVE A SEA SHEEP
#SeaSheep
#LeafSheep
#Pokemon
#IJokeItsAPokemonButForRealThisExistsInOurWorldSoNotEverythingIsShit
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2025-06-16 19:29:14 UTC

I'll give Peter Thiel this much: he couldn't have chosen a better name than "Palantir" for his company that's designed insidiously to ooze its way into every aspect of US-American life.
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2025-06-14 18:21:52 UTC

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I'll post pics later. Right now I need a warm shower. It started raining while we marched, and we stood in the rain for more than 2 hours.
It rained. They didn't leave.
It thundered. They didn't leave.
It lightninged. THEY DIDN'T LEAVE.
For what it's worth, for however long it lasts, I'm proud of you, #OklahomaCity. We showed up. And like true Oklahomans, we didn't let the weather stop us!
More later. ♥️🖖
#NoKings
#NOKINGS
#NOFauxKings
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2025-06-14 18:18:32 UTC

Y'ALL.
I just got home from the #NoKings protest in #OKC.
Early numbers reports and a statement from the rally podium say THIS WAS THE BIGGEST PROTEST IN #OKLAHOMA HISTORY.
It was gorgeous.
We marched for about 1.2 miles to the rallying point outside City Hall. This took about 30 min.
Spouse & I were with 5 friends (3 more joined us later). By the time we had been at the rallying point for 20 min, the marchers further back WERE STILL COMING.
Literally every flavor of human represented.
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2025-06-09 06:10:58 UTC

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Empire. We are always, always fighting empire.

2025-06-09 03:54:22 UTC

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It's been at least 18 years since I watched it. I've thought for a while that I'm overdue for a rewatch. Thanks for the reminder! 😊

2025-06-08 00:51:41 UTC

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The nature of the profession attracts controlling, violent personality types.

2025-06-08 00:19:15 UTC

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And where are all the Amendment gun lovers who swore to defend democracy with a militia?
#rhetorical We all know exactly where they are.