Graylynn

Kind of poking around the interwebs these days trying to find out where I fit in modern-day #socialmedia

I went back to #twitter today... hah. Hahaha. Listen: I spent the last hour blocking or "I want to see less of this"ing the content that was on my main feed, and even though it claimed my feed would be 'made better', every time I refreshed I had more of the same content.

And it was almost entirely #conservative #republican #AmericanNews nonsense.

Gross.

So here I am... meandering around. *flails arms wildly*

#personal #blog #exploration

Pride Month = more Pride Jackals!

#art #wepwawet #jackal #kemet #kemetic #kemeticism #loveislove #lgbtqia2s #lgbtq #pridemonth

It's that time of year: time to break out the #pride #jackal

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#kemetic #kemeticism #wepwawet #spirituality #religion #polytheist #polytheism #pagan #paganism

A reminder that being pro-Palestine is not anti-Israel.

Be wary of ascribing intent and meaning unilaterally upon the words of others, particularly on platforms supporting only 300 characters or less.

#Palestine #Israel

"Every time I see something beautiful, I suspect that I have found a manifestation of the Divine. But because of the fact that I am aware of my subjective limitations and imperfections, I restrain my zeal with the duty of investigation and reflection. 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗹, 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗚𝗼𝗱, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘂𝗽 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺𝘀𝗲𝗹𝘃𝗲𝘀?"

(𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘉𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘐𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘮: 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 -- 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶 𝘌𝘭 𝘍𝘢𝘥𝘭)

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#book #quote #quotes #reading #god #religion #spirituality #revelation #worship #reflection #introspection #divinity

I feel like the whole "reusable shopping bags will save the planet" system did not see me coming, a person who will forget the bag every time, buy a new bag in the store, and probably end up throwing away all the extras once I accumulate far too many.

Transferring from one Mastodon server to another is a painful process of a hundred "badoop!" noises and "You've been rate-limited!" bubbles.

Cool. :ConfusedDog:

@lannan@mas.to so very true

“There is no need to justify god in the face of the injustice and evil in the world. Evil is inherent in the nonexistent and hence is older than the gods and present in the world from the beginning. The gods cannot be made responsible for it, but are the very powers that combat evil and continually drive it out from the existent world.”

(Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt: The One and the Many, Erik Hornung)

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#God #Gods #Kemetic #Kemeticism #Kemet #AncientEgypt #book #quote #reading #netjer #religion #spirituality #pagan #paganism #polytheist #polytheism

Israeli Army Official admits Gaza bombing campaign is focused on 'Damage and Not on Accuracy'.

That makes sense: 300 Gazans have been killed in the last 24 hours of which most were women and children, and 700+ Palestinian children have been killed so far.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/israel-gaza-bombing

#Palestine #genocide

There is no book to buy that is titled "What to do when your abusive-in-childhood mom has breast cancer, with whom you really have no relationship in adulthood other than to get fucking drive-by medical information in a casual email."

• What am I supposed to do with this?

• How am I supposed to feel?

• Who am I supposed to talk to? (I need another book titled "What to do if your in-laws are bigots" and "Friends abandon me because I'm mentally ill, Volume 3")

• How does this change my life?

Because it does… as an owner of breasts, I don't have a choice, this revelation affects me for the rest of my damn life. There's now a "history of cancer" but not just any cancer… THE cancer… the one we're told is coming for 1 in 8 of us Canadian breast owners.

Is social media going to shadow-ban me because I said breast too much?

Breast.

The full story is of course more complicated than any of that, but that was all my first train of thoughts. In order. The full story being that my mother at some point had a mammogram, which revealed something 'unusual', which even after a biopsy could not be deemed cancer or not, so they did a quadrantectomy after which time they determined it was pre-cancerous. They got good margins, but she'll still need radiation, which is wild. You can both "have cancer" and "not have cancer" at the same time apparently, but you'd still better treat it as if you do, because otherwise, it's coming back for you again.

It took a run at you and missed, but it's making a u-turn and coming back. And this time it's going to take your children with it.

What am I supposed to do with this.

Well it took me a good day to figure out how I was going to respond to my mother's drive-by dive-bomb medical update that's put my mental health on hiatus temporarily. But after much consideration, I decided I'd take her exact words to ME from when I tell her really anything about my life at any point in time.

"Thanks for the update."

Probably will go straight over her head I'm sure.

Moving on, I guess.

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#cancer #fuckcancer #breastcancer #precancer #family #mother #abuse #abusive #childhood #trauma #medical #diagnosis #blog #life #story #ramblings #mentalhealth #health

Oh yeah, thanks "Netflix" this looks totally "legit" 🤣

Because you always email me from *checks notes* "vuvanhoan522@gmail.com" and we are absolutely living in 1999 with those colors. And we always reset our passwords for a subscription discount, right?

Listen, I shouldn't need to say "this is a scam, if you get this, don't click the link" -- I shouldn't have to, because look at it.

Just... look at it.

But apparently, people do still fall for this stuff. So here it is:

No clicky.

#scam #spam #noclicky #donotclick #netflix

Image CW: spam / scam

The Palestinian Water Authority has warned that water supplies in Gaza are running very low because of the destruction of generating capacity.

The United Nations Office for Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Saturday that most people in Gaza now had no access to water.

#Palestine #Genocide #Warcrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity

One reason I really want to migrate from #Mastodon to #BlueSky is due to the never-ending drama on Mastodon instances. It is impossible to keep up with who is defederating from who these days, and why (sometimes it is good reasons, sometimes it is really petty BS).

Maybe it's time to go back to the site formerly known as #Twitter. Maybe there's no fighting it? Ugh...

Holy crapballs are you telling me we don't need hashtags on #BlueSky?

Or is it just broken for me 😂 seems Hashtags don't actually create links over there

(I -hate- #hashtags)