Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space

Happy Labor Day, all! Remember that we owe the weekend, the minimum wage, and health and safety laws all to the labor movement, strikes, and rioting.

The fight for better material conditions must continue.

Willy Wonka as played by Gene Wilder is a Faerie Lord, Possibly King Oberon in Disguise, subjecting mortal children to morality tests in order to determine a worthy successor to his throne.

And I'm willing to die on this hill.

"Anthropologists gradually fanned out into the world and began directly observing how economies where money was not used (or anyway, not used for everyday transactions) actually worked.

What they discovered was an at first bewildering variety of arrangements, ranging from competitive gift-giving to communal stockpiling to places where economic relations centered on neighbors trying to guess each other’s dreams. What they never found was any place, anywhere, where economic relations between members of community took the form economists predicted: “I’ll give you twenty chickens for that cow.”

Hence in the definitive anthropological work on the subject, Cambridge anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey concludes, “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing”"

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-on-the-invention-of-money

Adorable dog moment of the evening: he's asleep in Soreth's room. I peek in and he wakes up and IMMEDIATELY wants to play tug of war.

And does so while blinking slowly like he's about to fall asleep again.

Sending this to Seattle Parks and Rec's open comment email address. If you're in the Seattle Area and feel like having a safe space for everyone to enjoy swimming is a good thing, Speak up! They won't bring it back if they don't hear about it needing to exist!

Hello!

I wanted to speak up in support of the All-Gender Swim Events! I haven’t had a place to go swimming and this program was a wonderful, inclusive, and welcoming safe space for me and a lot of my friends as well! I know with the COVID-19 safety measure currently in place that having the pools open is not currently feasible. However, I want them to continue when the pools re open. So I’m writing in so that you know there is a need for this in your community and we are all grateful that this step was taken. I hope you will continue with the All Gender Swim, and I feel that the program should be expanded! This was a good thing, and I don’t want it to be dropped.

Kelsey Astra (she/her)
Kenmore, WA