Notices by Court Cantrell will not comply (courtcan@mastodon.social)

@evan I get you. (And I have already posted about the ceasefire.) But that's not the only thing going on in the world -- and at this point, it's only going to last 6 weeks. It's brilliant news and desperately needed...but it's not an end to the war yet.

This feels accurate.

@blaue_Fledermaus @mekkaokereke So if the Roman did use the right hand in order to dole out abuse, that would mean the Roman was acknowledging the Jew as an equal.

It was all a metaphor for standing up against empire and not allowing the bastards to get you down. Jesus was encouraging his Jewish followers to engage in malicious compliance as part of resistance against being treated as subhuman. This was rebellion and a demand for the institution of human rights.

/sermon 😉😁🖖

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@blaue_Fledermaus @mekkaokereke The interpretation I've read that makes the most sense to me is that the Romans would only use the left hand to hit a Jew, because the left hand was "sinister," and the right hand was reserved for equals.

If a Roman hit a Jew using the left hand, the struck cheek had to be the right cheek. But if the Jew "turned to the Roman the left cheek also," it would force the Roman to use the right hand in order to hit that left cheek.

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@paninid @slothrop @sarajw I love that unhinged affirming gif so much. 😄

@slothrop @sarajw @paninid I'm in.

I CARE ABOUT OTHER HUMANS AND I WANT EVERY HUMAN ON THIS PLANET TO HAVE ALL THE
FOOD,
SHELTER,
BENEFICIAL DAILY ENDEAVOR,
BODY AUTONOMY,
HEALTHCARE,
AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT
THEY NEED IN ORDER TO THRIVE.

AND YES, I EVEN WISH THIS FOR THE ASSHOLE BILLIONAIRES, BUT ONLY ***AFTER*** THEY'RE STRIPPED OF THEIR WEALTH, STATUS, PLATFORMS, AND ABILITY TO EXPLOIT OTHERS. (Until then, I wish upon them every evil they inflict on everyone else.)

@mobydick Well, that's timely.

@selzero A friend of mine recently theorized that no matter the original purpose of giving children gifts at Christmas, it has become a way for parents who aren't millionaires to pretend to their kids that we're not poor.

I've been thinking about that a lot.

Y'know what, #RyanWalters? You've changed my mind. I'm no longer against bringing the Bible into #Oklahoma schools. Bring it in, please. Teach from it. Have students read it.

All of it.

ALL. OF. IT.

Read & discuss:

•God's acceptance of child sacrifice in Judges 11
•the Levite who pushes his daughter outside to be gang-raped in Judges 19-20
•the mandated misogyny & murder in the 613 laws in Deuteronomy & Leviticus
•God's mandates for murder & slavery in Ezekiel 5, Jeremiah 19...

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Our house has the same color brick as the house next door.

Our house has a similar porch as the one next door.

My husband's vehicle is the same color as the neighbor's vehicle next door.

Thus, this morning at 8:30, someone tried to open our locked screen door.

Spouse went to the door to check things out.

From the other side of the door: "It's the wrong house! ...No, just pull the car out and move it to the driveway next door!"

🤣🤣🤣

Reminder: #AbortionIsHealthcare. These women did not have to die.

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-abortion-ban-exceptions-deaths

Think now
History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors
And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,
Guides us by vanities.  Think now
She gives when our attention is distracted
And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions
That the giving famishes the craving.  Gives too late
What’s not believed in, or is still believed,
In memory only, reconsidered passion.  Gives too soon
Into weak hands, what’s thought can be dispensed with
Till the refusal propagates a fear.  Think

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@mekkaokereke @laguiri My husband and I celebrated 26 years last month. The man knows how to act. If he didn't, I would not be with him. And what's behind his actions is what I'd be looking for in a partner if I were single.

I have no reason to tell y'all this, except that I enjoy bragging on this guy. 😊🖖

Happy Star Trek Day, y'all!

May the Data be with you. 😉😁😘🖖🖖🖖

#StarTrekDay
#StarTrek58Years

Winding up #StarTrekDay with a short story told in #StarTrek stills. There are 10 of them because I posted to IG first. (Most of these come from @nocontexttrek, a glorious account you should follow.)

I give you:

"Star Trek and the Existential Dilemma: Redshirts Gonna Redshirt"

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#Reminder

@mekkaokereke Thank you, Mekka. I needed to hear that. 💙

"Your body, my choice" is a rape threat and will never be anything else.

#truth

@mekkaokereke @Bam @whknott 🙏💙

@mekkaokereke I voted with Black women and for a Black/Asian woman this morning! My 12yo daughter watched me fill out my ballot, and I am so excited that she, a very white girl, is seeing her very white mother changing at least our family tree. I have hope that what we're doing will prove to be part of a new wave, a shift of white women standing with women of color to make change that is vital and beneficial for all of us.