Chebucto Regional Softball Club

@NickGates A large kid the size of a small kid.

@Rowan @photovotary @Waitnwallflower @WrenArcher @Alice We used to own a house that was so 1970s a friend described it as “the house of fondue and wife-swapping.” It was funny until someone gave us a fondue pot.

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @bituur_esztreym @futurebird @jmax Here's a bit on Debt Jubilees, quoting Hudson's book. They go back a long way.https://www.hoyes.com/blog/is-a-debt-jubilee-the-solution-to-our-collective-debt-problem/#Historical_Precedent

JFC, this section has me infuriated every time I reread it.But there was one number I had somehow never interrogated. One number that I simply accepted, the way a child accepts gravity.The poverty line.I don’t know why. It seemed apolitical, an actuarial fact calculated by serious people in government offices. A line someone else drew decades ago that we use to define who is “poor,” who is “middle class,” and who deserves help. It was infrastructure—invisible, unquestioned, foundational.This week, while trying to understand why the American middle class feels poorer each year despite healthy GDP growth and low unemployment, I came across a sentence buried in a research paper:“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”@tess

@the_etrain And then? subduction ... into the couch.

@SeaFury I love thinking of going for a walk or a ride as a way to leave some of the feelings and worries that are cluttering up the house out in the open where they can slowly be composted into the soil, or dissolve into the sky.

@Infrapink I legit like "LIES!" in place of "else"

@MattHatton It is perfect. https://mashable.com/article/ikea-bisexual-couch-canada-lgbtq

@josh0 @WTL @llewelly OK. I can see how you thought that's what I was saying ... OMG.

@futurebird Somebody patented this, almost 60 years ago: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3397757A/en

@futurebird @iwein …I’ve got an 11-year-old sedan, and even that is bigger than I need. I’m hoping it’ll last until I pay off my student loans, and I’m not looking forward to what my options will be at that time. Especially if I’m lucky enough to have kids by then. I miss when they made cars that were just reasonable ways to get places, especially ones like our old station wagon