courtcan

courtcan, 3 months ago to random

Here's a truth for you -- especially if you haven't hit your 40s yet, maybe not even your 30s.

The truth is this:

Nobody knows what the fuck they're doing.
If someone seems like they have their shit together, either they are presenting you with a completely false front, or they are in a season of The Total Occasional Fluke of Everything Apparently Going Right and Coming Together.

But what are we really doing? Nobody knows. WE'RE ALL JUST DOING WHAT WE CAN WITH THE TOOLS WE HAVE AT THE TIME.

courtcan, 5 months ago to random

Reposting with alt text

courtcan, 18 days ago to random

THIS IS INCREDIBLE 😃

"an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida successfully reprogrammed patients’ immune systems to fiercely attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain tumor" through "...use of a patient’s own tumor cells to create a personalized vaccine...."

FUCK CANCER. And let's see anti-vaxxers reject this one.

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/cancer-vaccine-triggers-fierce-immune-response-to-fight-malignant-brain-tumors/

courtcan, 1 month ago to random

Somebody said that Trump isn't being put on trial in the middle of an election year.

Instead, Trump decided to run for president in the midst of his many criminal trials.

That's an important rephrasing that desperately needs airtime and headspace.

courtcan, 2 months ago to random

Apparently it bears repeating:

PEOPLE

PLEASE, for the Love of All That Is Good & True & Right in This Universe, in This Year of Our RBG 2024,

DO NOT give a book low stars simply because there is something physically wrong with your copy.

The vendor that sold you the copy is not going to read your review. You are not harming the vendor by low-starring the book.

YOU ARE HARMING THE AUTHOR of the book, who has zero control over the physical condition of the book you have received.

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courtcan, 3 months ago to random

A reminder we all need daily in this era:

ART IS THE MACHINE THAT KILLS FASCISTS.

ART HARDER, Y'ALL.

🤘🤘🤘

courtcan, 1 month ago to random

We are all dead and this is hell

courtcan, 6 months ago to random

I didn't want to butt in on someone else's thread (see previous reposts), but I wanted to say this so will say it here:

Everything--but EVERYTHING--humans do and say is political. Everything. Every human.

Why? Because everything every human does & says relates to and determines how we all live together as humans in this world.

"Politics" comes from the Greek word "polis" = city-state. The community structure. The arrangements that determine how we all live together in community.

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courtcan, 3 months ago to random

Thinking of the church I was raised in. Girls were made to dress "modestly."

Cover up, don't show skin.

Because that was God's will for young ladies growing into godly women of wisdom.

And we should want to avoid being a "stumbling block" for the boys, our "brothers."

It annoyed me then.

It enrages me now.

GIRLS AND WOMEN ARE NOT TOOLS FOR USE IN THE SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF BOYS AND MEN.

Forcing us to make ourselves happily available for this purpose renders us LESS than human.

courtcan, 28 days ago to random

me logs on to Social Media

me: o mighty Social Media, please bestow upon me knowledge of the current state of affairs

Social Media: EXCEPT FOR THE ORANGUTAN THAT CREATED A MEDICATED PASTE, THE AFFAIRS SEEM TO MADE OF SHIT AND ARE ON FIRE

me nodding: that tracks

me logs off of Social Media

courtcan, 6 days ago to fantasy

Y'ALL.
FINALLY.

MY NEWEST BOOK IS OUT. 😃🥳🎶💃😁

THE ACCURSED is my first ever solidly YA fantasy novel & I am SO excited to share this adventure with you!

Teen heroine Elfled is the only "unBlessed" member of her family--never a problem until they flee political persecution. Without magical skills to see her through, Elfled has only wits & hopes in her fight to resist the forces driving her squarely into Evil's lair.

https://www.amazon.com/Accursed-Courtney-Cantrell-ebook/dp/B0CVSKRTP2/

#fantasy
#WritingCommunity
#indie
#bookstodon
#YA

courtcan, 12 days ago to random

Oh. OH. Y'ALL.

Moving on from #BearVsMan....

Talking with some churched friends, one of whom performs as a drag queen.

Who'd you rather meet in the woods: a preacher or a drag queen?

Me? DRAG. QUEEN.

ZERO. QUESTION.

Ftr, the whole group of us gave the same answer.

#DragQueenVsPreacher

https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/112391776138996848

BlackAzizAnansi, 4 months ago to random

So did covid just do a number on everyone's ability to think critically?

courtcan, 2 months ago to random

Thanks to some random company in China, I know that a female college student in South Carolina named Audrey purchased a pair of rhinestone fishnets in October 2022.

After receiving said fishnets, Adrey proceeded to perfume her legs and wear said fishnets, soiling the knees with either red dirt or lipstick.

After her Adventures in Rhinestone Fishnets, Audrey then stuffed the fishnets, rhinestones and all, back into the package they came in & returned them to China.

China did not inspect them.

courtcan, 8 months ago to fantasy

Okay, y'all. It's finally here.

MY ART ON ETSY. 🖌️🎨😍🎶💃
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CourtCanArt

COME SEE IT. COME BUY IT.
You'll be helping me get to Ireland next summer. 😁

There's #fantasy #weird #religious (from my complicated past) #FineArt #abstract #photography.

COME GET YER #ART, Y'ALL.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/CourtCanArt

Detail from an oil painting titled "God Is the Abyss." On a grassy verge, a brown-skinned woman in flowy purple dances with exuberant freedom.
Detail from a mixed media piece titled "Beady Eyes: First Time in Oil." A whimsical, beady-eyed little creature in black lines stands gesturing at a weird, barren, desert. Two strange black trees stand nearby, and there are indistinct mountains in the distance.
From my "Bob Ross with Dragons" series. Under a deep blue sky at dusk, dragons roar and swoop above a crimson sea. Dark waves wash up onto the beach below a rocky outcropping. This oil painting is titled "Bob Ross with Dragons: Crimson Tide with Dragons."

courtcan, 6 months ago to random

Alt text: quote by David Hogg: "We should pay our politicians the same amount as our teachers both jobs are just as important. If you say that’s not enough for a politician to live on you’re proving my point."

https://social.xcetera.biz/@taur10/111467480745655627

blogdiva, 1 month ago to ai

so this Guardian article:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/03/israel-gaza-ai-database-hamas-airstrikes

is based on a +972Mag report:
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

WHICH EXPLAINS THE #AI HYPE OF THE PAST 7 MONTHS

#techbros are not only hyping AI in their war against #unions & USA's working classes; they do so while profiting from #Gaza #genocide

BTW:
how can AI identify 37,000 HAMAS combatants if they supposedly only had 30-40,0000 by Oct 7?
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/21/palestine-hamas-military-power

and as the CIA has always low-balled them at 20-25,000?
https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/gaza-strip/#military-and-security

courtcan, 6 months ago to random

Below in-thread I'll share something for the spot-on description of Rosalynn Carter, whose husband is a former US-president.

But I want to note that lumping Biden's presidency in with the shitshow that was Trump's is (A) grossly unjust, as well as (B) damaging to democracy.

(A) Yes, Biden has screwed up a lot of things and is continuing to do so. But LOOK AT WHAT HE HAD TO FOLLOW. I truly believe the man is playing the best hand he can with the cards his cruel, buffoonish, and...

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courtcan, 1 month ago to random

person1: my husband might have Parkinson's. my sons see the need for their help, but they won't step up
person2: how old are they?
p1: 18 & 19
person3: well there you go. they're still kids
me: part of it is also that our culture doesn't expect that kind of caregiving from boys
p2: oh but they're still teenagers
p3: you can't expect that from them
p2: remember when you were a teenager

Yeah, I remember when I was a teenager, 18 & 19. And that kind of help was expected of me. I was a girl

courtcan, 1 month ago to Cats

me: okay cats, here's your supper
CAT ONE: WHAT ABOUT TREATS
Me: you've already had treats
CAT ONE: WE'VE HAD ONE HELPING, YES. WHAT ABOUT SECOND TREATS
me: ...
CAT TWO: I DONT THINK SHE KNOWS ABOUT SECOND TREATS

#cats
#CatsOfMastodon
#catstodon
#Caturday
#EveryDayIsCaturday

courtcan, 6 months ago to random

"The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence"

Which comes as zero shock.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-theory-that-men-evolved-to-hunt-and-women-evolved-to-gather-is-wrong1/

courtcan, 15 days ago to random

"When asked...if someone wearing a mask for health purposes in public would be violating the law, a legislative staff member said it would, because the bill repeals the exemption."

If you never before realized that our health is a political matter...and that wealthy politicians literally do not care whether we live or die...you have overslept and now is the time to WAKE UP.

https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-covid-masks-gaza-protest-b0c6ea89a5d08a8d2f2b21e793e8a6d7

courtcan, 4 months ago to random

"Some kinds of doctors love smart women only as an opportunity for jousting. I have my citations but I have brought the wrong data in -- stupid, thinking it should be mine -- because for the majority of the appointment, he tells me about patients that aren’t me: sixty-something white men who smoked, like my dad who has cancer....

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