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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 13h

Sharing food with strangers, whether it's as an act of reclaiming a colonialist myth, or because anyone knocking on doors at dinner time isn't eating dinner themselves and might be hungry, is a great act of generosity and care, and I wish it happened more often.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 13h

Afterwards they'd bustle back out the door, eager to get to the other houses on the street. I can't imagine what they told people about us, but I do remember once when my mom invited someone in, their eyes got a little wide and they said "I'VE HEARD OF THIS HOUSE."

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 13h

We would ask them as many questions as they could answer between bites. They were always passionate about their causes, and warmed up to the admittedly bizarre situation pretty quickly. This was part of our education, in a strange but very real way.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 13h

My parents were (still are) vegetarian, and my mother reasoned that these young activists would be more likely to be able to eat her food. As if anyone else was inviting them in. They would come in, a little nervously, and encounter five fascinated secular homeschooled weirdos of varying ages.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 13h

When I was a kid my parents would invite the activists in for a home cooked meal. They would come to the door, all of 18 or whatever, collecting for Clean Air, Clean Water. My father would write them a check and my mother would invite them to dinner. They almost always accepted. (cont'd)

Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 1d

My mom was a chemistry professor and each year would invite all the international students to our house for Thanksgiving dinner. I wrote about that (and what it taught me) here:

The Strangers at Our Thanksgiving Table

They were new to this country, to the holiday, to us. And we made space for them.

www.bonappetit.com

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 22h

Mostly interested in women but are left breathless by pictures of Lee Pace.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sorry for your loss, Celeste.

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 1d

Matthew somehow manages to be one of the most solid and consistent characters in comics.

Reposted by Francis

Michael @mwdelaney.me · 2d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

Yvonne Elliman portraying Mary Magdalene in Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) washing the face of Ted Neely, who is portraying Jesus Christ.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 2d

CHALLENGES YOU COULD CRUSH

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

They've created a need for cheap or unpaid harsh, manual labor. Gosh I wonder what kind of system would fill that void while still maintaining corporate profits.

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 3d

So this is funny.
The administration just issued a rule slashing foreign agricultural worker wages. And to justify it, in a public filing, Trump's Labor Department alleges that Trump's immigration enforcement has devastated the Ag workforce and caused a "risk of supply shock-induced food shortages."

Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis

In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.

prospect.org

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Protect the land that inspired this page.

A page from Kate Beaton’s “Ducks”. Five panels, in panel 1 we see Kate’s feet on the beach at the edge of the water. In panel 2 we see a wave wash over her feet. In Panel 3 we see a zoomed out image of the shoreline, beautiful and calm, wild and undeveloped, Kate is still standing at the shore, dwarfed by the landscape. In panel 4 we see Kate looking up and shielding her eyes against the sun with her arm. In panel 5 we see her perspective, a seagull crossing the disc of the sun.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Also why are you asking elected officials to do something? Wholly unreasonable to think they should maybe do the work they’re elected to do rather than spend the entire time they’re there sucking off corporations and clinging desperately to power long into their senility.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 3d

Love that the blocklist claiming you’re antisemitic links an apartheid ethnostate with Judaism.

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Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 4d

MZS over at RogerEbert.com gave it four stars. And not just because Ebert gave the original four stars back in the day.

Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 4d

And I just can’t look, it’s killing meee
And taking corntrol.

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