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Maybe it’s suitable, but yesterday we came back from my dad’s funeral and this last week I did an episode of our @… radio show full of nautical songs in his memory
Told a few stories, you can listen to if you feel the urge to travel out to sea that way
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Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred

Accordion Noir radio playlist 2026-05-27: Fair Winds, Fallowing Seas Capt. Fred
Last night’s episode of CFRO’s weekly Accordion Noir alt-squeezebox broadcast was a playlist of squeezy songs arranged by your host Bruce in memory of his sailor father, who recently pa…

Now, I don't especially like the term "church" so I may use something else... like "coven." You can do what you want. But I happen to have already mapped out an example. (It is exactly that, just an example, so take if it's useful, change if you need, and don't stick to anything too closely.) Oh, this mapping also means that you would, for religious reasons, only be allowed to work under capitalism 4 days a week instead of 5.
Given the increases in productivity over the last 100 years, a 4 day work week is a completely reasonable expectation. If we have to annex Monday for the weekend by force of religion, so be it. It is rightfully ours anyway. If enough people try it, this will probably work. If it doesn't work, it just needs more people.
The Practice of Worship:
It is recommended to break down worship in to three sections: the functional, the communal, and the spiritual. It is also recommended to break these across multiple days. A common structure for some Christian churches is to take 10-15 minutes for announcements (Functional), an hour or two for services (Spiritual), followed by (Communal) coffee, tea, and cookies for an unspecified time up to two hours after. When starting or working with limited time a single compressed model like this may work, but it's not optimal.
- The Functional
The purpose of this section is to address the functional needs of the coven. Block out time (less than 90 minute blocks is recommended) to go through reports and updates from those involved in the Dispensary, Library, Works Committee (infrastructure), and Services Committee (providing services internally and, potentially, externally). Talk through any additional announcements, including those from other covens you may be federated with.
It is helpful to include unstructured communal time, such as shared meals, during or after functional meetings. As the federation grows, more time will be needed. It is recommended to break functional meetings, work parties, and such across multiple days. When a federation becomes sufficiently large, it is recommended to take every Monday, on top of Saturday and Sunday, as a third day of community and worship.
The scope of the functional spans 3 realms (which may be more-or-less fluid): the personal or family, the coven and federation, and humanity itself. It is up to each coven and individual to negotiate how to allocate the three days of the weekend once we have liberated Monday from the work week, but it is important to reserve it for one of these three. However, some people must work on weekends. Medical personnel, for example, cannot conform to a standard work week. While the work week should be universally restricted, which specific days are used will be up to the specific coven and their members.
A functional meeting can start with an agenda like the following:
Functional Invocation
Announcements
Report Backs
Dispensary
Inventory Check
What is low
What is empty
What is expiring
What is needed
Funds status
Library
Inventory Check and Items needing return
Library acquisition requests
Funds status and budget check
Works Committee
Upcoming projects
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Services Committee
New capabilities announcements
New needs requests
Subcommittee updates (Following the Works Committee agenda)
New committee formations
Funds status
Task Check
Breaking the Circle
This agenda is a suggestion for those who don't know where to start. It can be adapted or ignored as appropriate.
- The Spiritual
Spirituality is necessarily an undefined space. It is deeply personal. Each individual taking time to share their own personal spiritual experiences can help each connect with each other. This experience of connection can itself be a spiritual experience. It may also be useful to read esoteric, mystical, or philosophical texts together as type of "book club" and share thoughts. Others may draw from their own knowledge or traditions. This is something that must be defined together within a group.
- The Communal
The communal aspect of the practice of worship bind the coven and federation together. Within the community we find joy and release, connection and comfort. The coven is where we turn in times of need, and where we share our hopes and dreams.

With an #acting #coaching client, we tried what we thought was the opposite intent of the scene. Remarkably, we found the writing not only tolerated it, but allowed a wider scope of feelings and goals than we'd first assumed. Cool discovery.

In the US supreme court,
it seems Trump has found loyalists in his crusade against immigration and immigrants.
In a pair of rulings on Thursday,
the court allowed the Trump administration to end humanitarian protections that have granted people from Haiti and Syria the right to live and work legally in the US for more than a decade,
and cleared way for the government to turn away asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border by physically blocking them from setting foot on U…

Trump finds partner in supreme court in his war against immigration
Recent rulings have bolstered president’s pitiless campaign against people of colour fleeing violence and disaster

"Wir können‘s uns nicht aussuchen.Trinken, Handtuch auf den Kopf, kühl halten. Und faulenzen!"
Marianne Dittombee, 94 Jahre
#Senioren #Hitze #Alter

Wassereis und Hitzepaten | Wie alte Menschen in NRW durch die Hitze kommen
Die anhaltende Hitze ist besonders für viele alte Menschen anstrengend. Ein Stresstest auch für Pflegeeinrichtungen.

spouse insists that some of my brainfarts are poetry, and i should publish them. circumventing the 500 char limit with imgs/alt-text.
context: spouse has a bunch of chainsaws.
#poetry #netherlands #biking

Die Temperatur einer Gesellschaft
Die #FAZ über "Do the right thing"

Spike Lees Filmklassiker „Do the Right Thing“: Rassismus und Katastrophe
Spike Lees „Do the Right Thing“ von 1989 erzählt von Rassismus, Vorurteilen und gesellschaftlichen Spannungen – und zeigt, wie schnell aus scheinbar alltäglichen Konflikten eine Katastrophe entstehen kann.

Semi-subtoot: there's a certain kind of anti-genocide narrative that draws comparisons between the Gaza genocide and the genocide of Jews, queer, and disabled people during WW2, with an incredulous overtone, the subtext of which is: if the good nations invaded Germany to stop the Nazis' evil in WW2, it's hypocritical for this nations not to take action to protect Gazan civilians now. There are a couple of problems with this line of reasoning, but the most obvious from an anarchist perspective (which sees "good nation" for the oxymoron it is) is that it's ahistorical. The reasons for the various allies' entrance into WW2 are varied, but they weren't about good and evil, and in fact the full depth of the evils of the Holocaust *was not known* in allied countries until after the war. Nations never really do things to "fight evil" like some humans might; they always act out of a kind of (imperfect) self-interest. The motivations for many of the allies were simply "we don't want Germany to conquer and destroy us" (and the imperfection in that motive is amply evident in the appeasement that preceded the war). America was of course not swayed by that motive, and it was the Japanese that (thinking the issue would have to come to a head eventually and that a surprise attack was worth speeding it up) put America in a situation where it joined for similar reasons.
Why is this extra relevant right now? Because neither the US nor any European country is existentially threatened by Israel (or threatened at all in fact, quite the opposite they're all benefiting economically from the situation in Gaza). The lesson of history isn't "brave, good nations will stand up to fight against anyone who commits genocide or other major evils", it's "nations act in their narrow and twisted and often mistaken self-interest (the interest of the national entity, which is often counter to the interest of it's citizens), and they always mythologize their actions after the fact as having been a fight against evil, which sometimes by luck is partially true."
To double down on this point: in the European theater the U.S. war actions were pretty good overall, defeating an evil opponent through military force and being a fairly gracious victor to the civilian populations there. In contrast, in the Pacific theater the U.S. was one of two evil empires duking it out for global dominance at the expense of civilians on both sides. The Japanese empire was a vile regime and perpetrated horrors in China, Korea, and across southeast Asia. The U.S. was barely better, between Japanese internment camps at home, and mass targeting of civilians on Japan, both with the firebombing of Tokyo and especially the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
So if your model of how we stop genocide is "convince the good guys to invade (or exert political pressure) and save the day", your model is wrong. That's not what happened in WW2. I'm not confident I know the perfect solution, but I do think it involves a mass of people making increasingly disruptive protest so that the cost *to rich companies and thus politicians* of falling to intervene is too high to stomach. That's a large part of what succeeded in South Africa, for example. Thankfully, there is already a vibrant protest movement to end the genocide in Gaza, and even though they haven't been fully successful yet, I'm optimistic that as things naturally (and through hard work) fall apart for various fascists politically, that movement will be able to succeed.
#gaza #genocide

A congressional candidate from Louisiana who was the subject of a police report accusing him of rape says he is hoping to again “earn” Donald Trump’s endorsement
as he considers precisely where to run amid redistricting.
The candidate, Blake Miguez, is weighing running in one of two districts,
neither of which he lives in
but in which he is allowed to run.
He has been mulling that choice after the supreme court’s landmark decision in Callais v Louisiana prompte…

Louisiana House candidate accused of rape says he hopes to again ‘earn’ Trump endorsement
Republican Blake Miguez is weighing what district to run in after state redrew map following supreme court decision

SpaceX can be defined in many ways.
SpaceX is a financial instrument for Musk.
Before the IPO, SpaceX acquired xAI, Musk’s artificial-intelligence company, which itself acquired X, the social-media site, back in 2025.
The maneuver allowed SpaceX to claim that it believed it had “the largest actionable total addressable market in human history”:
$28.5 trillion, to be precise.
$26.5 trillion of that, according to the filing, would come from AI infrastructure and a…

What Has SpaceX Become?
The company has mutated into something that defies both comparison and logic.