Ethan 🌕 @Ethancdavenport@retro.social

Here’s a question for my fellow white folks and retail/service workers:

Are you nice to black kids you meet in public?

Even the ones who are “misbehaving”?

I just added my switch code to the top of my profile...please send me a friend req and let me know you did on here!

Complete!! #gunpla #Gundam #Gundam00 #plamo #hobby

As I re/play thru the #AssCreed series, u will be commenting on the antifascist themes and other cool stuff. It will be threaded and CWed. Reinstalling the first game now. :)

#DeathToToxicMasculinity

So, if you’re looking for extremely specific and granular information about the material conditions leading to the Pullman Strike, I’d definitely recommend it. But if you’re looking for an account of the strike itself, there’s probably a better book for that out there.

“No country can prosper, no government long perpetuate itself and its institutions, which does not administer judgment and justice alike to all of its people.”

“The present strike may be overcome by federal bayonets, but the trouble will not end here. There is deep unrest in the lowest strata of society, which augurs I’ll for capitalistic oppression in the future.”

“The inequalities of life as indicated in the social fabric of modern society are simply fearful. In many respects we are living in the grandest age this old world has ever seen. And yet, I realize that something is radically wrong in a condition of society that permits some to be so poor and others to be so rich. It certainly looks as though the poor were growing poorer and the rich becoming richer.”

I’ve finished reading The Pullman Strike by Rev. William H Cawardine. I’m glad I read it, although most of the book is given to providing context and background for the inevitable strike, and contains almost no real information about the action itself. The information on the company town is extremely specific, though.

Particularly striking are several lines from the final chapter, contemplating the state of affairs between employers and employed:

I need #music recs! Looking for instrumental #Celtic-style stuff similar to Lunasa, Solas, and Danú. Alternately, traditional #Gaelic or #Welsh vocalists!

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To be clear, if you aren’t making effort to make black kids (and black folks generally) feel welcome in your workplace/public areas, you should think about why.

Here’s a question for my fellow white folks and retail/service workers:

Are you nice to black kids you meet in public?

Even the ones who are “misbehaving”?

To be clear, if you aren’t making effort to make black kids (and black folks generally) feel welcome in your workplace/public areas, you should think about why.

Complete! #gunpla #MasterGrade #plamo #hobby #gundam

The Chunk™️ has arrived

The piecemeal assembly/detailing method really seems to jive with my add so I don’t get burned out on any single task.

These old school master grades are really a different beast.

#MasterGrade #gunpla #plamo #hobby #gundam

(i was looking at it while taking it apart like wtf is that on there)

anyway obligatory hashtags #gunpla #plamo #hobby #gundam

also cc @Anarchist_Mallrat @caelyn

so i cracked open the old-school #MasterGrade #Gelgoog (char ver) that i got secondhand a while back and found that the head and some bits of the shoulders and arms had already been partially assembled, but what's REALLY interesting is that the previous builder put the katakana-label sticker over the eye instead of the actual pink sticker. that's such an interesting misunderstanding/choice that i almost want to keep it like that.

@djsundog you seen this?

I’m on a #TalkingHeads kick thanks to @Anarchist_Mallrat so enjoy the full 1983 concert film “Stop Making Sense”:

https://youtu.be/4xL7Ilh1DFI

Home looks just like you left it. One of the neighbors built a drying rack for herbs and flowers, which stands on your porch out of the rain. A toddler waves at you from a window, and how wave back. You go inside.

The jolt when it takes off is startling, but it moves so smoothly through the air that you almost forget how you’re traveling. It takes more than a day to cross the ocean again, but the views are incredible. You’ve already started writing letters to the friends you made, and you hope that your crewmates from the ship will accept your offer of landlubber hospitality.

The plane lands a few days away from home, but that’s fine. You shake the pilots’ hands and head off.

You cook just as often as you are served, and your hosts/guests (what’s the difference anymore?) are full of praise and demands for your recipes, and they keep a box of theirs ready always.

You hear that one of the new solar planes is launching, headed close to home. You say goodbye to the friends you’ve made and board the plane with a stack of contact cards several centimeters thick. The plane winds its enormous flywheel with power from solar panels all over its hull.