Class is funny. One of the guys I play DnD with grew up on the other side of Cleveland from me.

We were sitting down and getting out notebooks and dice and I said "Hey, I was in Parma last weekend for a wedding. Right behind the old Armory." He goes "Oh, yeah."

The other two guys thought I went to Italy for the weekend.

When I'm running things I will mandate that there must be only one size fork for everything, so this "I'm afraid I won't know which fork to use" cliché will finally go away. #class #forks

»...the problem with entitlement and privilege is not that some people have it, it’s that other people don’t.«

https://davidgraeber.org/papers/anthropology-and-the-rise-of-the-professional-managerial-class/

#trump #economics A succunct demolition jon. The same of course applies to #RachelReeves ("I'm from accounts"). Why are the #political #elite #class so appallingly bad at #economics . Asking for a friend.
https://kolektiva.social/@bifouba/114273302837058487

Delighted to see a new book review on ‘The urban life of workers in post-Soviet Russia’ by Dr Mitja Stefancic just out in the 50th Anniversary issue of Network, the magazine of the British Sociological Association. Link to the full issue https://www.britsoc.co.uk/publications/network/network-current-issue/

@bookstodon
@sociology
@anthropology

#wealth #class #inequality #politics #capitalism
Caveat 'residing' . For #HNWI that can be anywhere, anytime. Also note source is steeped in the #capitalist ethic.
https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/114264767040070497

#elites #class #ukpol @HenryTufnell m.p. ( #labour ?) #pembroke #haverfordwest Please take note.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/01/zero-self-awareness-second-home-owners-council-tax-england

Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.

It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.

My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.

Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company

Cooking Class With Chef Alex Bujoreanu At R.AIRE • James Lane Post • Hamptons Culture & Lifestyle Magazine https://www.diningandcooking.com/1989641/cooking-class-with-chef-alex-bujoreanu-at-r-aire-james-lane-post-hamptons-culture-lifestyle-magazine/ #bujoreanu #CHEFS #class #Cooking #dining #entertainment #featured #r.aire:

“My childhood was full of it and being able to represent where I’m from is integral to me. Too often I’ll watch stuff and think they’re treating the working class like an art project. It’s very condescending. ‘Ooh, look at the poor!’ But I’m proud to be this mixed-race working-class kid from a block of flats.”

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/28/stephen-graham-working-class-mixed-race-kid-cares-deeply-about-work

#lbm25 HEUTE im Forum Sachbuch, Halle 5 E700, auf der Buchmesse: unsere Autor:innen Bafta Sarbo und Vincent Streichhahn! Bafta stellt um 14:30 den marxistischen Historiker + Aktivisten Walter Rodney vor, Vincent um 15:00 seine Anthologie »Feministische Internationale«. Freut uns sehr, wenn ihr kommt

I made my Mirror World class some bling out of 6mm glass tubulation. We can all laugh and be shiny together now. I actually didn't make myself one though. I guess I can make it tomorrow. I bent it to my handwriting in cursive with a 6mm sharpie :) . lol happened to be an easy an fun 3 letter phrase that flows nicely.

I sure do love mirroring a bunch of little tubes simultaneously :)

I gotta get a few feet of bright colored silicone or latex tubing. They are meant to be necklaces. They may be fragile during hugs.

Its been nice to teach these classes with Kacie Lees in the evenings and decompress from the hectic week finishing up neon work things ahead of an upcoming midwest road trip! Class and show in Minneapolis and visiting artist 2 day at UW, Madison.

We mirrored so much. Its so fun seeing people get it- and run wild with it.

Interesting stats showing why increasing taxes on higher income/wealthy people & possibly even better results state/locally doesn't occur through elections.

Wealthy white homeowners vote more on property tax hike proposals - Chicago Tribune
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/wealthy-white-homeowners-property-tax-hike-votes/

If you're a Chicago Public Library cardholder, you can access this article without paywall via https://www.chipublib.org/

Reminder: free Python class at @Noisebridge in SF tonight at 7! We'll be doing lesson 2 of 12, so it's a good time to make a first appearance. No experience necessary, no Python installation necessary, but bring a laptop if you'd like to follow along. More information here: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/PyClass

"The new sentencing guidelines are the latest demonstration of distorted thinking about social disadvantage, and of the invisibility of class in many discussions. The treatment of working-class people is an expression of “two-tier” justice so deeply embedded in our history and institutions that it is barely noticed"
Kenan Malik

#Justice #Law #UKLaw #Class #Discrimination
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/noise-uk-two-tier-justice-system-silence-class

“Class” carries a whole lot of insights that simple #HHI doesn’t which is why getting a smarter definition of it could be helpful to advertisers.

https://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/different-thinking-class

Show coming up + commercial neon + 3 upcoming classes = oh dear I am busy.

I did make a crackle tube this week with Kacie Lees- such fun! We decided to make the upcoming crackle tube class on April 19th an 20th a Bring Your Own Glass - BYOG - to smash and put inside a tube :). The recycled aspect makes the final tube more interesting and its also just fun to smash glass every now an then. With a community of students and glass professionals- Urbanglass has some really interesting glass trash to smash.

I made a few gifs of the crackle tubes as photos can't really capture the frenetic nature of a tight fill. I also added a gif of Kacie attaching an electrode on the topo chico seltzer bottle krypton crackle tube I made. The topo bottles I smashed had enameled labels so they hold up to the heating needed to purify the glass.