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  • When going through some photo archives, I found a few shots of this card I received as a child.

  • Dinah πŸ•ŠπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

    @apollo Those unfilled recesses are bringing back memories of teenage me rubbing crayons against my dice to restore the number contrast. πŸ™‚

    November 26, 2022, 1:33 am 0 boosts 0 favorites

    @metagrrrl I never had the experience of colouring my own dice, but a D&D player in some of my games had a set like that which was fun.

  • A few years back I condensed my board game collection significantly and recently I've been doing some reorganizing ahead of probably giving away some games that don't spark joy for me. Some of the joy-inducing bits I took out were these dice from HeroQuest. My original dice have a lot of fading so I had some new ones 3d printed.

  • A year later, I still adore Softcult's "Perfect Blue" and its video.

    youtu.be/jTZD-dRqOzE

  • When I was a kid, a funeral co-op was started in my community. I believe Arimathea Funeral Cooperative is still the only one of its kind on mainland Nova Scotia, though Cape Breton has one now too. That was one of those moments that formed my politics. A democratically-accountable alternative to capitalist funeral homes was another example of something more humane being put together by a community.
    When my mother died they oversaw her funeral. This year I joined the co-op too.

  • A new mural was painted along the low wall at the elementary school by my home. It features local landmarks such as the Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre, Halifax North Memorial Public Library, and the YMCA.

  • I'm not fond of most Christmas songs, but this new one from Stars is spectacular.

    starsband.bandcamp.com/track/c

  • On this day 10 years ago I stopped by the Halifax waterfront and encountered a mustachioed Theodore Tugboat.

  • @Ruth@mastodon.sdf.org I encountered little bits of praxis for a long time before I read much theory. Mobile libraries (bookmobiles), funeral co-ops, credit unions and socialist ministers were around me in the rural community where I grew up but not a lot of copies of manifestos. I still don't have as full an understanding of theory as I'd like, but lived experience, curiosity, and empathy go a long way.