Grace Pritchard Burson

Yep. Most of the physical plant dates from 1959. Built fast and cheap. 😭

Thanks! It's just one damn thing after another in this building, we had to replace the roof this year, we have the Sewage Pipes of Damocles under the floor just waiting to burst ... 😬

Millennials: I SPENT THOUSANDS OF HOURS PLAYING MINESWEEPER AT MY FIRST OFFICE JOB, PUT ME IN COACH

Sadly the basement is finished, one end is the church hall and the other belongs to the government daycare centre that rents from us 😭

*laughs in a deranged manner in "the tunnel in my church basement is leaking again after we spent $80k to waterproof it in 2019"*

THIS. FUCKING THIS!!

1989. I'm in fifth grade. My parents listen to NPR all the time. My godmother, a sociologist who does research in Germany, brings me home a piece of the Berlin Wall.

A three panel comic. The panels are almost identical and show a mouse with a speech bubble. The speech bubbles read: I'M GOING ON A JOURNEY. TO MY HOUSE. TO GO TO SLEEP.

Today's calendar page from @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social is a MOOD

Your wife's nephew is literally HOLDING ME PRISONER, what do you think your chances of getting this annulment are??!

Producer Mark Burman and I travelled to Amsterdam and Spain to reveal details about the most extraordinary source I found: the Alpenpost, a hand-crafted child's newspaper.

It was written from exile by 2 girls, Elisa and Alida, and sent to their papa Edo: head of a continent wide resistance network.

They may have more kids but I'm not sure how many of those kids remain true believers ...

If you want to beat them, figure out how to organize a bloc of economic actors whose material interests are served by the transition. Organize a bloc with *more power* and then *defeat* them. That's how this works. You're not going to fucking seduce them with your clever verbiage!

oh nooooooo

Also the clean energy transition has been beating every projection for how fast and cheap it can happen, by like a factor of 20, for a decade or more now.

Persephone is a perfect baby.

"Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour?" - proselytizing

"Believing in Jesus helps me face the challenges of life" - not proselytizing

"Mr. Vice President, you are a baptized Catholic and what you are saying is blasphemy according to the Nicene Creed" - not proselytizing

Man bites dog, dog punches man

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Apparently a Blue Castle adaptation was in the works a few years ago and I don't know whether to be disappointed or relieved that it never came to fruition.

Gross.

YEP

Everything from local climate to family structure to labourer-elite relations makes a huge difference as to whether life was a perpetual miserable grind or quite fun actually.

(Full disclosure: I am one of those people who genuinely enjoys [some kinds of] agricultural work.)

the vast majority of urban educated Poasters reveal how they see the peasantry everywhere and throughout history as a monolith, when it very very much was Not.

and were using it to raise sheep.

You're way less likely to flee to the city to work in a mill for 85 hours a week if you haven't already been robbed of the ability to run a pig, gather wood, and occasionally catch a rabbit on common land.

Every time a thread like this comes up,

What this misses is that by the time industrialization came along, the "peasants" had already been dispossessed and immiserated by enclosure.

The QOL of the agrarian working class in England in 1700 was massively lower than it was in 1500, because the landowners had taken away all the common land

"What makes this book so great" - @bluejo.bsky.social

"Don't you find it remarkable that you and I are loosening the chains of generations, merely by remarking from time to time, 'How very good this is!'" - DLS to Charles Williams, 1945

Meanwhile it's 10⁰ and sunny in Montreal.

Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain that’s designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are ‘just circling back’ to see if we can ‘move the needle’ on ‘key initiatives’? NONE of those things are berries.

I just plugged that number into www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/.

$100 in 1868 is $2291 today.

42% seems low tbh