David Baer @david@arktos.social

@thor The thing is, our right-wing politicians call everything “socialism”—from subsidizing access to health care, to refundable tax credits for parents. Given this framing, where socialism has come to mean “a slightly more generous welfare state,” it’s not surprising that “socialism” is broadly popular.

On the other hand, when a Seattle councilwoman suggested, 10ish years ago, that Boeing workers seize the plant (i.e. bona fide “workers arise!” SOCIALISM), nobody quite knew what this was.

@thor This is increasingly the case in the USA as well.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/398303/approval-labor-unions-highest-point-1965.aspx

I was today years old when I learned that the French word for garbage can (poubelle) comes from Eugène-René Poubelle, the public official who mandated the use of solid waste containers in Paris in the 1880s.

@silverseams My German ancestors came over before the American Revolution—some of them with William Penn—so at this point it’s a VERY distant part of my heritage.

My mother still tells me to “Come safe home,” which I understand is German-influenced syntax? But that’s about it.

I’ve got Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry, but somewhere along the way the living cultural traditions fell out of my line of descent. So I’m always grateful to come across articles like this.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-funeral-pie

Ah, the mundane explanation is so disappointing...

https://fred-astatire-dance-studio-wyckoff-nj.business.site/

No message, unfortunately.

I was looking through the caller ID on the office phone, and... Big if true!

“Despite the devastating mockery of this attitude in Jonah and all the parables, it’s still ever-present and perniciously popular. That’s partly because it’s a spiritual disease that serves the interests of the very wealthy. They’ve fed and nurtured this sickness for so long that the ‘morality’ of debt is now a complete perversion and inversion of what the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament Jesus (Mr. ‘I am Jubilee in the flesh’ himself) had to say about it.”

Sharing this old blog post from Fred Clark for no reason in particular today:

“Jubilee Always Makes Some People Angry”

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2019/07/24/jubilee-always-makes-some-people-angry/

Garrett Memorial Chapel, Keuka Lake, New York State

A beautiful day for a walk in the woods!

#hike #trail #walk #nature #photo

“A dog was missing. Cavers found her two months later 500 feet underground.”

Crazy story! Happy ending.

https://wapo.st/3bJ1rSB

You would think by now that I would have learned, when exploring on my bike, not to turn on to such streets as “Summit Avenue,” “High Mountain Road,” and “Monte Vista.”

But you would be wrong.

Looks totally legit. I’m sure Amazon uses lowercase Greek alphas in place of the letter a all the time.