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hussyknee · 8 months

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History isn't a disparate collection of stories from long ago. It's the necessary context for the present moment and the forecast for the future. All histories are intertwined, and the narratives of power and privilege, oppression and resistance, adversity and triumph are as constant in their patterns as the laws of physics.

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spielzeugkaiser · 1 year

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hi, first off i really love your art. the h/c and warmth really hit me where i live and your illustration style is fantastic. lately i've been obsessed with the post where an unwell milek thinks geralt will leave him behind. was that an ingrained insecurity, assuming his super-witcher dad wouldn't have time for a sickly human kid?

[MASTERPOST] - Ahh, thank you for the ask! Yes, this scene.. I actually saw this a bit differently! It's not about Milek fearing Geralt will leave him behind, he actually wants him to. They need to find his Pa!! I think he often feels like a burden; Jaskier knows this, but Geralt isn't aware of this yet. Milek just wants to pull his weight, especially with Jaskier. A little sneak peak to their struggles regarding this:

Meanwhile Jaskier continues to struggle with his omega status.

#jaskier #the witcher #geraskier lovechild #julian alfred pankratz #omegaverse #there are various things happening here! a. Milek never really had to fear that Jaskier would leave him he knows he never ever would #b. Jaskier said again and again that he'll always care for him and loves him and that he doesn't have to pull any weight at all #c. Jaskier actually became the parent that just wants his kid to be educated and study and learn #(maybe because he knows Milek won't be able to do hard labour but also because he knows what Milek really wants to do)#(filed under: things I haven't drawn yet but they had their big fallout because of oxenfurt and university - things to come in the future)#d. Milek has watched Jaskier working his ass off in various jobs that he didn't like #(and he thinks that prostitution is the worst but only because they didn't properly talk about it before)#e. Jaskier is struggling with how he is percieved - which I think was never that much on his mind when he was travelling with Geralt #being a carefree bard and giving everyone the middlefinger who had some wrong ideas about what he could do and what not #but this is definitely an AU in which he doesn't have a good relationship with his father and he can still hear him say he'll become #'an unbonded omega with a bastard child working on the streets' and I think sometimes it gets to him #(because Jaskier is king of hating his parents ever being right about him)#that Jaskier kind of wants to spare Milek and quietly hopes we won't become an omega - even if he feels bad about it - shall become plot #(one dayyyy)#anyway that was a very long rant about Mileks complex relationship with him feeling like a burden

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sjura · 2 months

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Got my partner to watch dunmeshi and they instantly and unknowingly started doing fantasy half-foot stereotypes against Chilchuck. It was like they were voicing Senshi's inner monologue.

#they very much mistook him for a child #and jokingly disparaged the party for endagering him #even suggesting they brought him as bait #accidentally predicting half-foot labour struggles #v #dunmeshi #chilchuck

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idgafak · 1 month

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together we are stronger than ever

happy international workers day

#1 mayıs #labour day #labor rights #international workers day #workers rights #struggle #may

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 months

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"The category of race was also critical to the second pillar of the CFU’s [Canadian Farmworkers Union] organizing mission: ridding the industry of contractors. Contractors would supply the labour force for the farmers and, in many cases, they held as much power as the farmers. The contractor was responsible for hiring a workforce, maintaining discipline, and making payments. The farmer would not pay the workers directly; instead, the farmer would pay the contractor who, in many cases, would retain the money until the end of the season. In many instances, the contractor was also responsible for transporting workers between the field and their homes. Since labour contractors were trying to maximize profits, the vehicles they used to transport workers predictably violated many road safety standards. As Chouhan remembers, his first contractor: “came to pick me up in an Econoline van which had no seats in it, there were people sitting on the floor which was quite a shock [laughs]. No seat belts, no nothing.” Many workers have been killed due to accidents in these unsafe vehicles, and, as recently as 7 March 2007, three farmworkers died in a rollover accident while riding in an overcrowded vehicle between Abbotsford and Chilliwack. Often, contractors were from the same social and ethnic circles as the labourers whom they employed. Charan Gill identified a “colonial mentality” in comments made by farmworkers. Since the contractors who provided them with work shared familial and cultural ties with them, some of which could be traced back to Punjab, many farmworkers did not want to stand up to the contractors. Fears of losing jobs and housing were very real, and such losses could jeopardize their immigration status. Contractors who came from the same community as the workers could manipulate the latter into believing they were on their side, and, because of this, Gill notes: “in spite of our efforts, individual interests [of workers] sometimes invalidated collective interests [of their class]” because some of those workers aspired to be contractors. Simply getting safety information to farmworkers was also difficult. Since many of the workers could not read or write in English, and some were illiterate in their own languages, they were often dependent on information from the farmer and the contractor. Contractors could intentionally mislead, omit certain information, or outright lie to their workers about their legal rights. This delayed organizing efforts. To counter this information block, organizers would try to go to local temples on the weekends, where many workers went to pray. However, the labour contractors also had control over the temple executives, so organizers were often refused the right to speak. Frustrated, the organizers developed a two-part strategy. First, they would have “kitchen meetings” in which the organizer would contact one worker for a meeting in their home, and that worker would contact neighbours and friends, so “that way [they would] not [be] afraid to be seen by a labour contractor or in the temple or in a public place.” Second, because many families used the temples for social events, the organizers would ask family members to invite the CFU and thus circumvent the temple executives as organizers of social events had the “absolute right to invite anyone they want[ed].”

These strategies helped the CFU reach out to potential members and to provide valuable information regarding their legal rights. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of the CFU, contractors are still a part of the industry to this day, and anyone driving through the agricultural areas of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland can witness the painted-over shuttle buses that daily transport farmworkers from home to field."

- Nicholas Fast, ““WE WERE A SOCIAL MOVEMENT AS WELL”: The Canadian Farmworkers Union in British Columbia, 1979–1983,” BC Studies. no. 217, Spring 2023. p. 44-45.

#canadian farmworkers union #participatory democracy #union organizing #farm workers #agricultural workers #indian immigration to canada #immigrant workers #racialized workers #farming in canada #working class struggle #academic quote #strike #union politics #labour contracting #exploitation #reading 2024

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aspiringhorrorauthor · 10 days

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Just read a post about how you shouldn’t trust a doctor who rushes you and like, yes I fully understand the frustration, so here’s what you can do to stop yourself being rushed:

-ask for a double appointment

-ask for a triple appointment

-fuck it ask for an hour long appointment if you think it’ll help

-be outright about what you want/need from an appointment. If you need more time to process information, say that. If you need the doctor to write out all information, say that. If you have a complex case/long history, say that!

-list all the reasons why you want to see the doctor/vet that day and please don’t sugar coat it. “Been vomiting” is a ten minute fix. “Been vomiting after every meal for the past two years” is not. It needs a double appointment and possibly a referral too.

Doctors and vets are overworked to fuck and exploited to hell. Help us out a little, please

#I get the frustration I really really fucking do #But I cannot stress this enough: we do not get overtime #We don’t! If you are booked in for a fifteen minute time slot and it takes 45 minutes we run late. We lose our lunch or we go home late and #We never get that time back. We already work long hours for frankly less pay than you’d expect for someone saving lives #If I run even just fifteen minutes late after one appointment it knocks on to everything and suddenly I cannot HALT #which is the acronym to encourage medical professionals to take care of themselves to reduce human error #(Basically take a break if you’re Hungry Angry Lonely/Late or Tired)#I have known other new grads who have to stay back at work unpaid for 1-2 hours every DAY #Do you know how much that wears you out?#All I’m saying is properly booked appointments are a godsend.#Also don’t sugar coat the reason for bringing a pet into the vets.#‘I want him checked over he’s old’ and ‘I want him euthanised he’s really struggling’ are two VERY different consults #I do get people’s frustrations with doctors but this website has a tendency to forget that they’re still human #If you were forced to do unpaid labour every day because you’ve got an understaffed over exploited work force you’d probably be annoyed too #And I know a lot of people are!!! But people don’t realise medical professionals are too!!!#We’re all in the hell of late stage capitalism together and that means you pay too much for a vet/doctor who does not have #The time or resources they fucking need

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seagullcharmer · 3 months

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i wish i knew how to write. how to tell stories and show glimpses of other lives

#libra.txt #i have so many ideas. and i like drawing them. but i can't tell their stories that way #i don't do comics.#but i don't really write either. and when i try nothing turns out the way i want it to.#anyway. was thinking abt botw zelda. how she supposedly embroidered all the champions' garb.#and then i thought abt her meeting vilia and rhondson and got wistful #that's why my au zelda (dove) wears the cape she does. she embroidered it herself. using designs /she/ liked.#making something /she/ wanted to make. something pretty and useful and new.#i don't yet know how to embroider. i can do simple stitches but nothing fancy and no big designs #but i respect sewing and needlework. it's time consuming and can be labour intensive and people don't always appreciate the amount of effor #that goes into it. which i suppose is also a reflection of zelda's struggle with finding her power. but also i think she needs something #to do with her hands. that isn't related to research or rebuilding hyrule.#but something tangible with visible results as she keeps working on it #i think it could be rather therapeutic for her #and perhaps also cathartic. since her life was fraught with danger and intense emotions when she worked on the champions' garb #she so desperately wanted to be out there /physically helping/ and doing their embroidery could have felt like a slap in the face #maybe i'm thinking on it too much #but i still like the idea of her meeting rhondson and vilia.

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rotzaprachim · 9 months

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the thing about Hawai’i politics is that. You absolutely need to criticize the local government. But you also need to stand the economic and political politics of living in a place where the local government doesn’t have an iota of the power of the mega corporations like Hilton and Sheraton that run mega resorts here, nor the billionaires like mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, or Jeff bezos that run second homes here or have quasi-feudal estates or exert far far more power than the relatively progressive county and state governments

like. You have to clock what it is that a man worth over 100 billion dollars purchased 98% of an island. What that’s like. What power does a city councilman who represents that island in a council have over a man worth over 100 billion who both owns the land people live on AND the hotels they work at

#A) HI runs and is far more like a separate nation than another U.S. state even if under mainland colonial control #B) us imperialism is and always has run through the interests of mega corporations that may not be *officla* government actors #So so so many issues boil into the market forces in a Neo imperial world in a place with a long history of colonialism #schools struggle to keep teachers and local businesses struggle to keep employees because the wages don’t match the insane cost of living #Local agriculture and food industries struggle because the cost of supplies and cost of living for farmers #Makes their produce more expensive than most people can afford so we have to buy from Walmart #Young people and families keep leaving and there’s increasingly severe labour shortages for basically ever job in terms of #Everything from minimum wage local jobs to local doctors teachers and lawyers #So every aspect of local society struggles to keep going #And all those deficits make hi a harder and harder place to live #There’s market forces that are just. Beyond us all #also the most powerful gov actor by far is the national military and you think city council has more control than the pacific fleet? PFFFF

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damnesdelamer · 2 years

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I’ve had some conversations recently in which the point arose that, considering how Reagan et al responded to the AIDS crisis, seeing the mismanagement of covid as at least partially intentional is not all that much of a conspiracy theory. I think we need to read this as an effort by capital to sabotage ground-level organising.

Covid has placed enormous pressure on working classes, as well as other marginalised groups, at a time when the class interests of those in power were threatened more directly than they have been for decades. Not only has the overwhelming narrative been the imperative to ‘get back to normal’, but this has been during - and indeed in direct response to - some of the largest popular movements for changing entrenched systems in living memory, especially in specific regions.

Of course union action continues to make strides in spite of labour movements being largely calcified in the West toward the end of the last century, but I’ve read that BLM was the largest protest movement in American history, and this was at the same time as mass scale protests in India, Hong Kong, Mexico, which were not focused on race. This could have been (and indeed can still be) catylised into a popular internationalist movement for proletarian gains, but has been largely buried in favour of record profits for corporations, and obfuscated by merely symbolic victories such as the trial of Derek Chauvin, and the ongoing jangling of keys that is Donald Trump.

I’ve heard many say that BLM lacked a clear goal and that’s why it started to fizzle; well yeah so did the French Revolution, but it still stands as one of the greatest precedents in history of the power of regular people to exact vengeance against their enemies. In fact, the measures taken to mitigate covid, such as remote working, served to demonstrate our proficiency in self-organising, which by extension also attests that managers have no real function but to threaten and steal labour. And such organisation can be multi-pronged: we can at once dedicate ourselves to productive labour, ideological gains, and leisure, and ultimately these efforts will compliment and enrich one another. We may even call this praxis.

Sometimes, perhaps more often than not, the ends which protest seeks is to prove that victory is within our grasp. Casting the statue of Edward Colston into the sea may have done little to improve the material conditions of Bristol’s people of colour, but it undoubtedly improved people’s mental wellbeing, and empirically highlights that we have the means to effect the change we seek without appealing to bourgeois authority.

A better world is possible. But sometimes ‘better’ must be read as the comparative it really is. A world in which the Tories aren’t able to deport masses to Rwanda is undeniably better, even if we still don’t have a nationalised solar power grid and so on. And there will always be greater improvements to work toward, more practical gains to win. We ourselves must ply the bellows.

All of this is simply to remind us: agitate, because we need all your enthusiasm; educate, because we need all your intelligence; organise, because we need all your strength! Together, we can break their haughty power.

#class struggle #class war #class consciousness #workers movement #workers' movement #original #labour movement #proletarian solidarity #international proletarian solidarity

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proteusolm · 3 months

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Usually when I'm depressed I get mad at myself for not doing the things I'm supposed to do in order to get better, but I'm doing everything "right" currently and still debilitatingly depressed. It turns out chronic depression is indeed chronic, who woulda thunk.

#I'm eating well and working out daily and making an effort to get out of the house + get sunshine and nature #I've had depression since I was a kid why do I keep thinking I can just fix it if I have the willpower lol #Don't worry about little old me #While I'm really struggling to function as normal I'm not in a dangerous mental place. I'll be ok and this will fade when spring comes.#I just need to do hard labour in the sun and good news! That's exactly my summer plans lol

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hussyknee · 3 months

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Good afternoon. Today's real feel temperature is 38°C (100.4F). We do not have air conditioning. I have decided to die.

#only the upper class and urban offices have air con because the cost of electricity is so high #wish i was still married to my ex because we used to have air con on account of him being a (perpetually struggling) CEO and a spendthrift #that's how fucking bad it's gotten. his fucking bullshit in exchange for AC in my room 😭😭😭#someone said in a post that the current heatwaves are likely connected to Israel dropping 2×Hiroshima bombs on Gaza all these months #which means Zionists and Biden are killing the rest of us as well #i wanted to visualise all the Israelis who have bought out half of the. Ahangama seaside properties also roasting in their houses #but they would all have air con or gone to colonize someplace cooler #meanwhile the farmers the fishermen and labourers will be in danger of heatstroke #i hate white people i hate white people i hate white people i hate white people #heatwave #sri lanka

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porto-rosso · 5 months

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on the UK unit in my comparative government course and its a little funny almost? how hard it is for some of the people in class to wrap their heads around the north/south divide

#one person in particular rlly was not getting the working class being (historically) more labour god bless them #i dont blame them like im sure ill struggle more when we get to other countries + our teacher is useless #ALSO having such a time because we’ve been given articles on the balance of wealth between north/south where they’ll basically talk about #like liverpool or wherever as a wasteland of destitution and im here in the back going YEAAH NORTH REPRESENT 🔥🔥#<- not me making light of a serious issue. or rather not me trying to make light of a serious issue im just genuinely rlly excited to be #learning these specific parts of english politics in an american class cos i honestly expected them to stick to how governing works #in london #got some sorry looks when i told my friend my family live 50 miles from a town we read about in a nyt article lmao #.log

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menalez · 1 year

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Wtf https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtDCianAuVR/?igshid=MmJiY2I4NDBkZg== almost like pride is not for them???

them pretending homosexual trans ppl ie "straight trans people" aren't also persecuted for being same sex attracted and are somehow the same as a group of straight ppl who literally have nothing in common w lgb...

#'straight ace/aromantic people' u mean. people who dont respect our boundaries whatsoever and feel entitled to labour from actual sexual-#minorities? 'straight intersex people' u mean... ppl who have literally nothing in common and often disagree w the premise that theyre the #same group with same priorities ?? and often want to be excluded and to form their own communities for their own struggles ??

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townofcrosshollow · 1 year

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Sometimes you want to help someone and support them and they don't let you and you just have to be okay with that and move on. Sometimes people don't want help, sometimes they want help from someone who isn't you, and nothing you do is going to change somebody's mind if they've already decided not to let you give them your support and love. I've spent enough time trying to be there for someone who refused to open up and let me support them. At some point, it becomes wasted energy, and you just have to let them be. If all they choose is to push you away, let them.

#reciprocity goes both ways #if you're not open to receiving support or you push it away when it's offered that is also not participating in a healthy relationship #it's fun in fiction but giving and never taking is bad for you and it's also bad for the people around you who care about you #but at the same time. if somebody refuses help there's nothing you can functionally do about it. you can't force somebody to accept support #and that's hard! sometimes you see somebody struggling and you really want to help them and make them feel better and they won't let you #but continuing to try to help someone after they've repeatedly denied help is just going to cause you harm #i've had to live up to a standard that (unbeknownst to me) was never meant to be possible. and it's emotional labour. it's draining #it's okay to not be okay with that #incoherent rambling

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safyresky · 2 years

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Crystal Springs Chapter 18: Market Day

Is FINALLY up for you all right here after THREE MONTHS. AH. Alright, so! What's new and exciting this time around??

🆕 in this chapter:

We meet Xander!

Winter and Jack chat has been tripled in size and spread about the chapter

Befana? BELSNICKLE? OTHER CHRISTMAS SPIRITS? It's more likely than you think. (free CS check)

(also free vibe check @ the series bc I am unamused with the LATEST NEWS ABOUT IT)

(AH)

Magibean social media

A reason for the Fates to be there/meddling lmao

Word count has gone from 5.6k (2014) to 7.9k (2017/18) to uh. 19k (2022) 😬😬😬

Enjoy!

And apologies for the delay. You can send your thanks to the following irl factors for it:

a sort of sudden death in the family leading to the most fight filled week i have EVER experienced

a very grief filled two months with a side of WHY ARE WE STILL YELLING IT'S NOT BRINGING GRANNY BACK

FUCKING COVID?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? RUDE!

Bridal shower RIGHT AFTER covid recovery

And story wise, took SO LONG because of WINTER AND JACK BEING STUBBORN AND ALSO SHOWBOATY. By the time I got to the final scene, I was like. READY TO KICK THIS ONE TO THE CURB. Observe:

And I wasn't that far off with the final word total, lmao. ANYWAY. HOLY HELL. WHAT A CHAPTER. WHAT A CRAZY THREE MONTHS. PLEASE ENJOY!

#text #crystal springs #cs updates #dani writes #dani wips #cs 2022 #tsc #i snipped so much from this chapter #so much dialogue #and the winter and jack scene where they head TO the market?#i rewrote that like 5 times.#winter's outfit too that was a month long struggle #had that blurb as DESCRIBE WINTER'S OUTFIT HERE for a very long time!#AND THE FROSTS WERE SO FREAKING CHATTY???#then jacqueline and i had a bit of a moment. where i wrote 'Xander's dads' then went haha he doesn't have two dads #and jacqueline went or does he #and i went oh. oh shit. dOES HE?#and jacqueline did NOT reply which is rude. talk about slacking as a muse.#ANYWAY PLEASE ENJOY THE FRUITS OF MY LABOURS BC LORD WAS IT A DOOZY #i think im finally happy with it now. god willing #im gonna go pass out on the couch and then start chapter 19 now #v excited that I've introduced the mindscape >:)#fun fact: Jack's is messy bc character development is happening #it'll get sorted as soon as he gets himself sorted! :)#tsc3 #the santa clause #the santa clause 3

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 1 year

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"ANTI-UNIONISM PENALTY SET," Windsor Star. June 4, 1943. Page 11. --- Fine Up To $500 Daily Established ---- Mitchell Given Power to Punish Discrimination Against Dismissed Workers ---- OTTAWA, June 4 - A penalty of a fine not exceeding $500 a day has been added to the order-in-council designed to prevent discrimination against workers discharged for union activity, it was disclosed today in an order-in-council appearing in Canadian war orders and regulations.

ORIGINAL ORDER The original order provides for examination on direction of the labor minister by an Industrial Disputes Inquiry commissioner into allegations of discrimination.

"The minister shall issue whatever order he deems necessary to effect such recommendations of the commissioner and such order shall be final and binding upon the employer and employes and any other person concerned, the order states.

AMENDMENT SPECIFIC The amendment now enforced specified. "Any person refusing or falling to comply with an order of the minister made under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable under summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $500 for every day that such refusal or failure to comply continues."

#order in council #dominion of canada #labour minister #anti-union #union organizing #unlawful dismissal #industrial relations #industrial disputes inquiry act #canada during world war 2 #birth of the welfare state #regulating capitalism #working class politics #working class struggle

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