Notices by Court Cantrell won't conform (courtcan@mastodon.social)

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@hgrsd/116529089263349335

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

I truly cannot comprehend how any US-American GenXer or older Millennial (or any US citizen currently over the age of...15? 18 at the most?) can be wholly unfamiliar with the names Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I had to tell him they were in Japan.

"But they're our allies."

I shook my head. "They weren't in WWII."

Our species has got to get curious and dig deeper. This futzing about on the meager surface is juvenile.

Furthermore, GER YOUR EDUCATION THE FUCK TOGETHER, OKLAHOMA. 😡😡😡

3/5

Up to a point, a person's ignorance is not their fault. We all (with some glaring exceptions) know that there are things we don't know. When it comes to things we do know, sometimes we don't realize there's a gap in our knowledge. We can't know what we don't know.

But in this, the Year of Our AOC 2026, when the global conversation concerns a specific topic and plenty of information lies literally at our fingertips, there's not much excuse for *not* having done the assignment.

2/

I just finished talking to a man I don't know.

He's a Goodwill volunteer.

He thinks the Iran war is justified because "if they get nuclear weapons, they're just crazy enough to fire one."

I said, "Well, our nation is the only one that's been crazy enough to do that so far."

He looked at me blankly.

Further conversation revealed that this man, who is in his late 40s or early 50s, did not know about Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I was too floored to do more than suggest researching the history.

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Tasteless. Classless. Malicious. Clueless. Thoughtless. Arrogant. Delusional. Paranoid. Pretentious. Narcissistic. Ignorant.

Gentlefolk all, we present to you the president of the United States of America.

#TrumpIsADisgrace

EDIT: What I wrote about Trump is no less true, but this screenshot is a fake, and I should've fact-checked:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/snopes-debunks-fake-trump-post-as-pope-feud-grows/gm-GME89545D5

RE: https://universeodon.com/@EvilK/116397876969734919

As soon as I get this kid from her dental appointment to her school, I got nothing pressing on the agenda today.

What I'm saying is, I'm available to join the deposing posse. Let's do it TODAY.

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

#NoAI
#AIisAScam

@fesshole That's adorable. 😄

@CindyWeinstein 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.

@fesshole Eat the wasteful rich.

@fesshole Try honesty.

@johnzajac @theynege @artemis The master can even burn it down with everyone but himself and his cronies inside it.

@fesshole You are one of the reasons women choose the bear.

@fesshole Two things for future reference:

1. Honesty with your partner about the "little" things is key to long-term relationship health; it makes honesty about the "big" things a lot easier. (Spoken from experience of 27+ years of marriage.)

2. Most clothing, if it gets shrunk in the wash, can be...expanded? again. Soak it for 24 hours in water and hair conditioner. The conditioner softens most clothing fibers, allowing them to stretch. After a day or so, rinse, shape, and dry flat.

"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

RE: https://mastodon.nz/@davemosk/116156686884489820

I feel like there might have been a movie about this...long, long ago....

@evan missing the response "sometimes" ☺️🖖

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?

So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."

Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.

#BarbaraKingsolver
#DemonCopperhead
#UPDA
#books
#amreading
#ILoveBooks

#Appalachia
#OxyContin
#addiction
#OpioidEpidemic
#CoalMining

@fesshole WHOLESOME 😍😍😍