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Do you know of any class-conscious or anti-capitalist children's songs or nursery rhymes?


At bedtime, my toddler now knows how to tell me they want me to sing a different song. I am running out of songs so have begun to pull at the church songs that are forever lodged in my brain from my upbringing. I don't like the idea of teaching the messages in these songs. It led me to wonder if there are songs with good social messages that are appropriate for children. It's a stretch but I hope you all can help me out!





New York City intersections see one-third fewer pedestrian injuries with longer head-start intervals, study finds




in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

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They each have their pros and cons. For example posteo has a lot of payment services, I think tuta has a own client, and mailbox.org is really clean AFAIK.

Edit: added some Info

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in reply to Dynamo Maus

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Fascism Is Tacky


Fascism Is Tacky:

The administration that populates its Instagram feed with AI-generated images of eagles, money, and the DJT Jerk Off Dance just withdrew from UNESCO, the UN’s cultural agency. This is the second time in as many terms that Trump has pulled us out of the organization. In a comment to the New York Times, a State Department spokesperson accused UNESCO of promoting “divisive social and cultural causes” (Palestinians’ right to exist, mostly) and maintaining an “outsized focus on the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, a globalist, ideological agenda” at odds “with our America First foreign policy.” Meanwhile, Republicans are trying to rename the Kennedy Center’s Opera House after Melania.
in reply to greenfire

The administration that populates its Instagram feed with AI-generated images of eagles, money, and the DJT Jerk Off Dance


Lmao



Can Burning Man survive the financial desert - and keep its soul intact?


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in reply to Powderhorn

I have never been. But being in music circles that have traditionally had close ties with the festival. What I've generally heard is that it's a shadow of what it was 30 years ago. For whatever that's worth.

It definitely seems to be losing it's identity. Once a communal celebration of art, music, and culture outside of the main stream. It's definitely gotten more exclusive and watered down. Victim of it's own success and capitalism.

in reply to Eldritch

Literally everything is a shadow of what it was decades ago. Maybe Phish is an exception, but the big burn has become an Instagram event ... it used to be impossible to find images of what happens in BRC, and now when it happens, people aren't experiencing it, but rather posting about it. Radical self-expression means being in the moment, not thinking about how you can use this to your advantage.


Blue Angel Blues


Blue Angel Blues: We’re approaching the season when literal fighter jets swoop around our city like a playground, and some Seattleites are over it. The Airshow Climate Action coalition put up a new billboard on Rainier Ave that reads: “SAY NO TO BLUE ANGELS.” Think of the rescue dogs! Think of the military trauma! Or think of the 670 tons of carbon emissions they blow through in one weekend.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/say-no-to-blue-angels-new-billboard-says-in-seattle/

in reply to greenfire

Parades and fairs have always been about excessive use of energy. That we're now considering this stands in tight contention with the meaning of tradition. Is there a correct answer here? I'm not qualified to say.

But Seafair sans Blue Angels isn't ... Seafair. Perhaps, in time, it will evolve, as will we (hopefully taking the national anthem out of sports games), but for now, give the kids -- and maybe some parents -- what they want. 670 tons with how much carbon we're spewing makes a rounding error look significant.

Every sort of event like this has always produced waste; one need not look back further to the amount of literal horse shit from parades mere decades ago.

Pageantry is pageantry. But it means something to people, and to say "we're wasting fuel" -- well, what portion of society doesn't?

in reply to Powderhorn

doncha just love feeling the ground shake beneath your feet while intense shrieking totally climate killing emitters of carbon roar overhead as a spectacular demonstration of democracy in action???
in reply to greenfire

I'm not going to address your framing. It's not as though Seafair is unique in any manner ... hell, in Ashland, Ore., for the Fourth of July, fighter jets would fly down the Bear Creek valley from Klamath Falls to start the parade.

I take the bus. Do you? Because if not, the per-capita carbon emissions you're ascribing to a couple of fighter planes is peanuts.

in reply to Powderhorn

I do take the bus, bike, walk, stay home…
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in reply to greenfire

That's of course wonderful. Having this sort of thing happen once a year doesn't strike me as a huge concern.
in reply to Powderhorn

Our understanding of the world changes. The sound of jets and the sound of fireworks triggers people with PTSD, especially vets. Why would we keep doing that knowing what we know? Pageantry should never outstrip health of the people.
in reply to Vodulas [they/them]

I grew up in a state where fireworks were illegal. This seems a reasonable middle ground.


ICE Detains High School Theater Director, Israel Strikes WHO Site, and CEOs love Bruce Harrell


Trump Is Afraid of Teachers: Last week, ICE arrested and detained Fernando Rocha, a theater manager at Juanita High School in Kirkland. His lawyer told the Seattle Times that Rocha entered the US on a tourist visa in 2018, and before it expired, he applied for asylum. The case is still pending. Meanwhile, ICE Seattle claimed on Twitter that Rocha was wanted in Brazil for theft, a claim that his family in Brazil called “outlandish.”

in reply to PhilipTheBucket

Can't wait for them to ban water because peroxide contains two hydrogen and at least one oxygen.




Anyone got experience with Ducky keyboards?


For some reason or another, a whole third of all mechanical keyboards in the biggest local computer retailer's online store, are Ducky. Probably because they have ISO and ANSI layouts, a lot of colors, different sizes, and different switches. And they're ordered from abroad when bought, not stocked locally. So loads of choice and no cost showing them as available.

So since my only real options here if I want a full keyboard or TKL with blue switches are a couple of different Ducky models (one 3, Shine 7) in various colors, I'm wondering if anyone has personal experience with Ducky? I've read both praise and hate online, so can't really make heads or tails of the quality.

in reply to boonhet

they’re fine as long as you want a big standard, mass produced mechanical keyboard. Personally I would go with Keycron if I was looking for that as they have more options and seem to be a company run by genuine keyboard nerds.








in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Wonder how much of a bribe JBS was asked for, and declined to pay.


Rolling Vengeance (1987)


Rolling Vengeance (1987)

Tagline


Always use the right tool for the job.


Cast



Elevator pitch


Convoy meets Death Wish

Summary


Little Joey Rosso's family gets smushed by a big rig cuz of the dickhead sons of Tiny Doyle (Ned Beatty doing his best Alvin Stardust impression). But little do they know what Little Joe has been building in the barn...

Rolling Vengeance - Little Joe's Monster Truck

If you can make it through the slow first half, things get fun in the second. Surprisingly ungory for an exploitation revenge flick. But still the best movie there is for seeing Confederate-flag-wearing-motherf%$kers getting run down by a monster truck.

Rolling Vengeance - you can run, racist scum, but you can't OUTrun

Looks like it was filmed where Smallville / Supernatural were, with the colour palette of a wet 2-day old Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.

Info



Trailer



Movie






Immigrant Farmworkers Win Housing Rights in Vermont




When Your Power Meter Becomes a Tool of Mass Surveillance


in reply to schnurrito

"Sir, why is your usage so high? Are you growing drugs?"

"No, I'm just running my own data center in my basement."


in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

NPR's editor in chief and acting chief content officer Edith Chapin told colleagues Tuesday morning that she has decided to step down.

The veteran news leader's announcement comes just days after the Republican-led Congress, driven largely by President Trump's claims of liberal bias at NPR, voted to strip public broadcasting of all federal funding.


Once again, for those in the cheap seats: If you want to know why journalism -- real journalism -- is perceived as having a liberal slant, it's because our fucking job is to question everything.

Journalism is not toeing the party line. It's not holding back on investigations because someone in power might get pissed off.

That's the job.


in reply to Sunshine (she/her)

Wow. You got dumb lawmakers, dumb school board members that are arguing over how to make kids dumber.
Winning play is home school.



Trump pulls US out of UN cultural agency UNESCO for second time


>"President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO – which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said.


UNESCO was one of several international bodies Trump withdrew from during his first term, along with the World Health Organization, the Paris Agreement global climate change accord and the U.N. Human Rights Council. During his second term, he has largely reinstated those steps.

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-pulls-us-out-un-cultural-agency-unesco-second-time-2025-07-22/

in reply to ExtremeDullard

UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, is a specialized agency dedicated to strengthening our shared humanity through the promotion of education, science, culture, and communication.

We set standards, produce tools and develop knowledge to create solutions to some of the greatest challenges of our time, and foster a world of greater equality and peace.

Protecting biodiversity, responding to artificial intelligence, advancing quality education, safeguarding heritage, and ensuring access to reliable information are some examples of the work that UNESCO does with its 194 Member States across the globe.


Yup, the U.S. does not (currently) align with any of that.





The Trump Regime Targets California’s Sanctuary Status at the Expense of the American Creed




in reply to PhilipTheBucket

Sometimes I like to imagine what it would be like if nice people had a lot of money and power instead


Ex-officer sentenced to nearly three years for role in Breonna Taylor’s killing


in reply to Powderhorn

Brett Hankison, who fired 10 shots during the raid but didn’t hit anyone, was the only officer on the scene charged in the Black woman’s death.


WTF is this? A token sacrifice while the killer walks free? Fuck that.



Argon ONE UP is modular laptop powered by a Raspberry Pi CM5


The makers of the Argon ONE line of accessories for Raspberry Pi computers have built a business around designing cases that add or change some key functions of the little computers by, for example, moving all of the ports to one side.

But the upcoming Argon ONE UP takes things to the next level. It’s a laptop computer that uses a Raspberry Pi 5 Compute Module for brains, which makes it a […]

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