#The Six Labours
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Theseus and Aegeus. Unknown artist.
#greek mythology#theseus#greek heroes#aegeus#engraving#mythology#engravings#athens#Slayer of the Minotaur#The Six Labours#king of athens
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you've heard of "quiet quitting," now I'd like to introduce you to the next level, The French Work Ethic:
Do exactly what you're paid for and nothing more
Absolutely refuse to be available to contact when you're off the clock
Never prioritize work over your own health, wellbeing, or family because that would be insane, it's just a job.
Have a little glass of wine
Take as long as you feel like for lunch
Deeply understand that work doesn't matter
Make sure your boss knows they're always your second priority ❤️
#unfortnately we cant have the best and truest parts of french working which are:#free heathcare tons of vacation good labour laws and fair wages#but hey we can at least have the french work ethic#live from the musain#france#step six if the boss is mistreating you execute him
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the way i just had to make this (the voices told me)
kdhxkys on tiktok if you want to see more ᯓᡣ𐭩
#six of crows#shadow and bone#crooked kingdom#inej ghafa#jesper fahey#kaz brekker#nina zenik#wylan van eck#nikolai lantsov#matthias helvar#zoya nazyalensky#alina starkov#alina starkov edit#genya safin edit#genya safin#cacophony paris paloma#paris paloma#labour#labour paris paloma#save shadow and bone
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It's not an act of love, if you make her.
You make me do too much labour.
#sabladies#shadowandbonecentral#socdaily#shadowandbonesource#shadow and bone#six of crows#grishaverse ladies#sabedit#socedit#alina starkov#baghra#inez ghafa#genya safin#zoya nazyalensky#nina zenik#labour#paris paloma#feminine rage#*mine
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Six Balls has a new year's resolution
#Poorly drawn SVSSS#SVSSS#Six balls#animatic#Audio source is from paper-mario-wiki!#Six balls fans....I offer you my labour of love#ohhhh my god this was a massive undertaking that I learned so much from#I have never animated *anything* in my life and I always thought it was something I would never be able to do...#but I now know how to isolate and save audio files! I know the basics of animating in clip paint studio!#Guys...this blog has made me achieve some of the most far-fetched dreams. Might have cried when I got all the audio synced up#“OP are you gonna animate stuff again?” I've already downloaded audio for the yi city arc#I might not learn how to be a master artist but by god I can animate funny audio now. You bet I'll be doing more
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also im gonna need someone to forcibly hold me down so that i do not acts of service myself to death for boys who literally don't care!!!!!
#flashback to the day i cooked a six meal course for a boy i really liked. that's nausea inducing#considering everything that followed. i don't regret it given the context but still. i do not need to do that again#girl i know you want to turn everythinggg into a labour of love but have you considered that this is not the place or time!!!!!#the waiting room chapter
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Shakespeare Weekend!
On the tail of our Limited Edition Club thirty-seven volume The Comedies Histories & Tragedies of William Shakespeare series, we are delving back into our Shakespeare Collection to explore Nicholas Rowe’s (1674-1718) The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. Published in London in 1709 by Jacob Tonson, this second edition holds an important place within Shakespearean publication history. The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes is recognized as the first octavo edition, the first illustrated edition, the first critically-edited edition, and the first to present a biography of the poet.
Rowe, having been a dramatist and poet himself, was able to divide the plays into scenes and include notes on the entrances and exits of the players. He also normalised the spelling of names and included a dramatis personae preceding each play. The only chronicled critique of Rowe’s momentous editorial endeavor is his choice in basing his text on the corrupt Fourth Folio.
This week, we present you with the first volume of The Work of Mr. William Shakespear; in Six Volumes. It includes The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors, Much Ado About Nothing, and Love’s Labour’s Lost. A full-page engraving precedes each play with an additional frontispiece engraving of the Stratford monument. The illustrations are by the French Baroque artist and book illustrator François Boitard (1670-1715).
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-- Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern
#Shakespeare Weekend#William Shakespeare#shakespeare#Nicholas Rowe#Rowe's Shakespeare#The Works of Mr. William Shakespear in Six Volumes#François Boitard#Jacob Tonson#The Tempest#The Two Gentlemen of Verona#The Merry Wives of Windsor#Measure for Measure#Comedy of Errors#Much Ado About Nothing#Love's Labour's Lost#engraving#etchings
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Honestly I would love an atla fic of just vibes, characters doing things that they didn't in the show (being dockworkers! awesome!), so actually pls more descriptions of Zuko and Azula's life. Although of course just write it for yourself, the idea sounds amazing!
THIS IS SO REASSURING like on the one hand yes im aware most of the atla fandom are just utter losers (affectionate) about the universe and want to explore it as much as possible just like me but also ive literally written thousands of words with ZERO canon-relevant plot lmfao. i may be catering to a very niche audience but by god if im not having fun with it
#it's also come to my attention that ive accidentally made zuko super fucking badass and dare i say cool from an outside pov#like truly the only valid form of badass zuko is when it's completely by accident and he isnt aware of it#like his apperance alone?#this boy has a Very Specific Scar on his face (not getting into that it's a surprise hehe) that is just instantly very intimidating#and he's this moody as fuck teenage boy with long hair (THIS IS A LONG HAIR ZUKO FIC EVERYONE CHEER)#and is also ripped to shit from working odd manual labour jobs for years as well as six months as a docker#where the entire job is lifting and moving shit HELLO? sailor arms zuko agenda#add that with his moody as fuck v jaded personality that he uses to defend this bratty 13 year old girl in THE MOST growly way possible#as well as being insanely overprotective of his little sister#and you just have this overpowered 16 year old embodying the grumpy reluctant big brother figure trope#and he meets sokka by breaking him out of prison with SWORDS r u joking the poor boy never stood a fucking chance#ask#tams asks#tams zuko truly one of the most zukos of all time
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Currently writing swap AU where Kim is just himself on hard mode. Like he wakes up in a clean, normal room, puts on the same outfit as always and doesn't tell anyone he's forgotten everything until Harry wheedles it out of him by badgering him for One Singe Secret (he cant remember any).
He then goes outside and points a gun at a civilian over a perceived threat.
#also he has a preexisting speed problem but because of the way he has a speed problem#(keeps a set number of pills in a little days of the week pill caddy with his ptsd medication)#he assumes they're like antidepressants or something#and just. keeps taking them? and it doesn't come up till after the tribunal?#also all the political alignments are variations on him going “no... that's too extreme... give me something reasonable”#and then going to a Fantasy Labour Party debate on how to reach across the isle to revacholean nationalists#or meeting with a group of small business owners to share finance tips and deductible loopholes. all of it feels hollow.#He also doesn't put on glasses for the first six to eight in-game hours#until Garte (who is cool with him because he pays his bills on time and hasn't caused a fuss) finally cracks and asks where they went#anyway its not going anywhere but im having fun#(pushes his career slider backwards)(raises the unfair treatment bar)#(tweaks the dials on his workaholic and repression meters to “worse”)(drives “need for control” display into the red)#(flips harry switch from “most fucked up man alive” to “somewhat better but still not doing well by any stretch of the imagination”)#ive done it ive made a version of this that I would enjoy#one of his thought projects is trying to write a facts and logic debunking of the insulindian phasmid#the solution is “it isn't real because its silly. im going to stop thinking about this now because I am solving a murder.”#+physique: no longer expending energy on debating dream logic#-morale: couldn't come up with a comprehensive refutation for giant stick bugs#harry hasn't gone full Tequila Sunset drives-my-car-into-the-sea but he has gotten pissed and told everyone to fuck off for three days
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Thank fucking god that the human body is 60% liquid because if there wasn't an explanation for how you could cut me open and find burning magma in there I would just die
#Thought life was good but NEVER FUCKING MIND BECAUSE THE ASSHOLE SPERM DONOR DIRTBAG HAD TO RUIN IT AGAIN#my mum and sister are EXHAUSTED from being outside the whole of today and this dickwad piece of shit goes and invites a family of SIX (6!!)#hosting and being around people to study for the biggest exams of my life!! ever fucking mind that people here because some BITCH wanted#to have a tea party with his ASSHOLE FRIENDS#Just trying to have one??? good??? day???#But this ASSHOLE has to go and ruin it for everyone whilst sitting on his ass and doing NONE of the labour he just volunteered us for#a family of SIX (6!!!!) to the house in less than twelve hours!!!!! A family of six visiting from overseas!!#A family of six I am not comfortable near my shit!!!! A family of six with young children!!! (and no hate on them they ain't done nothing)#And when I say young I mean my DOG is heavier than two of those kids for fucks sake!!!!!#he jumps on people and you know who is gonna get mad and scream about a dog going dog on people he invited over with 11 hours warning!!#This entire fucking house needs to be cleaned!! The dog needs to be wrangled!!!#The actually fucking backbreaking labour that is usually done over a week leading to an event like this needs to be done in 11 hours!!#And guess who is gonna sit his ass down on the couch and watch the critical-thinking-eroding-chinese-version-of-fox-news-on-youtube#on the TV my mother paid for??????#WHO THE FUCK DOES THAT??? WHY IS THIS BITCH SUCH A FUCKING ASSHOLE THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE HERE NOT SLAVES DICKWAD#I WISH HE HAD FALLEN AND BROKEN HIS NECK INSTEAD#FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU#I WANT HIM DEAD I WANT HIM GONE I WANTED ONE GOOD DAY BEFORE EXAMS IS THAT TOO MUCH FOR YOU PIECE OF SHIT?????
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bitchy on main time but god i hate the trend where songs lyrics are just buzzwords strung together
#this brought to you by the song 'labour'#but also like EVERY song that contains the word “narcissist”#or “toxic”#they're songs that sound like they're The Most basic-level rant tiktok#and they're made to gain popularity by going viral through those very tiktoks#vaguely related but i've been listening to 80% tswift for the past six months and i do bop to vigilante shit#but 'draw the cat eye sharp enough to kill a man' SUCKS as a lyric#so bad#in labour i heard paloma sing “weaponized” and was like OKAY WE GET IT DO NOT EXPLICITLY SAY “incompetence” PLEASE#she did. ofc.
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see you.
#everyone blamed me for leaving my husband two weeks after his mother died#especially because she had loved me so much#but I left because she died#i was so ill and exhausted from working myself to the bone that I couldn't keep sitting up at her funeral#and I kept thinking 'this is how she died'#even after her second stroke these morons didnt know how to take over her work so she could rest#and because she did it uncomplainingly and stubbornly because she couldn't watch her house fall apart#no one noticed how sick she was getting#that day she asked my FIL to come home immediately bc she wasnt feeling well#was the only time I ever heard her put herself ahead of anyone else#six weeks of terrible torment in the ICU later she was gone#she was the kindest most loving and selfless person I had ever met#i watched them close the casket blind with fatigue and pain#and realized this is how she died#giving her everything to shitheads who never even saw how she struggled#i realized i didn't want that to happen to me#so i left#and they all cut me off#but maybe that was my MIL's last gift to me#a wake up call to value myself and my labour#because no one else would give me the care i denied myself#life is too precious to try and see yourself through the eyes of people who refuse to see you#"it is death to make yourself a thing without needs''#mental health
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USA please listen to me: the price of “teaching them a lesson” is too high. take it from New Zealand, who voted our Labour government out in the last election because they weren’t doing exactly what we wanted and got facism instead.
Trans rights are being attacked, public transport has been defunded, tax cuts issued for the wealthy, they've mass-defunded public services, cut and attacked the disability funding model, cut benefits, diverted transport funding to roads, cut all recent public transport subsidies, cancelled massive important infrastructure projects like damns and ferries (we are three ISLANDS), fast tracked mining, oil, and other massive environmentally detrimental projects and gave the power the to approve these projects singularly to three ministers who have been wined and dined by lobbyists of the companies that have put the bids in to approve them while one of the main minister infers he will not prioritise the protection of endangered species like the archeys frog over mining projects that do massive environmental harm. They have attacked indigenous rights in an attempt to negate the Treaty of Waitangi by “redefining it”; as a backup, they are also trying to remove all mentions of the treaty from legislation starting with our Child Protection laws no longer requiring social workers to consider the importance of Maori children’s culture when placing those children; when the Waitangi Tribunal who oversees indigenous matters sought to enquire about this, the Minister for Children blocked their enquiry in a breach of comity that was condemned in a ruling — too late to do anything — by our Supreme Court. They have repealed labour protections around pay and 90 day trials, reversed our smoking ban, cancelled our EV subsidy, cancelled our water infrastructure scheme that would have given Maori iwi a say in water asset management, cancelled our biggest city’s fuel tax, made our treasury and inland revenue departments less accountable, dispensed of our Productivity Commission, begun work on charter schools and military boot camps in an obvious push towards privatisation, cancelled grants for first home buyers, reduced access to emergency housing, allowed no cause evictions, cancelled our Maori health system that would have given Maori control over their own public medical care and funding, cut funding of services like budgeting advice and food banks, cancelled the consumer advocacy council, cancelled our medicine regulations, repealed free prescriptions, deferred multiple hospital builds, failed to deliver on pre-election medical promises, reversed a gun ban created in response to the mosque shootings, brought back three strikes = life sentence policy, increased minimum wage by half the recommended amount, cancelled fair pay for disabled workers, reduced wheelchair services, reversed our oil and gas exploration ban, cancelled our climate emergency fund, cut science research funding including climate research, removed limits on killing sea lions, cut funding for the climate change commission, weakened our methane targets, cancelled Significant National Areas protections, have begun reversing our ban on live exports. Much of this was passed under urgency.
It’s been six months.
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"LABOR TO DEMAND THIRTY-HOUR WEEK," Hamilton Spectator. September 19, 1933. Page 7. --- Resolution Passed in Convention at Windsor ---- Attack on Minimum Wage Board's Officers ---- Windsor, Ont., Sept. 19. - (CP) Labor took a definite stand to-day in favor of a 30-hour week-without reduced pay. With a minimum of discussion, the Trades and Labor congress, in convention here, passed a resolution whereby it went on record as requesting the government to put in force a six-hour day in all industries with a corresponding increase in pay "to Increase the purchasing power of the masses as it is only by this means the economic conditions of all classes can be improved."
With this resolution, the convention adopted a second one asking the government, "shall make it compulsory for all employers to adopt this principle under heavy penalty for infraction of same."
It defeated, however, a proposal for a 30-hour week with a minimum of $1 per hour in all classes of male labor and a minimum of 75 cents an hour for female workers.
Immigration Act The Winnipeg Trades and Labor council submitted a resolution which urged immediate abolition of "obnoxious sections" of the Immigration act and urging the immediate stoppage of all deportations, but this was defeated after some discussion. It was pointed out the resolution clashed with the announced policy of the congress and the resolutions committee, which had recommended non-concurrence, was upheld by a vote.
Four resolutions listed under fair wage acts and regulations were passed. They sought the observance of the eight-hour day for all building trades; enactment of legislation prohibiting abuse of fair wage regulations and insertion of such clauses in all government contracts.
Then the convention turned to hours of labor and working conditions and discussion raged loud and long. Joseph Tomkins, of Toronto, claimed women were being exploited by employers in his city. Department stores were paying girls $1.89 per day and requiring them to work from 8 a.m. to 6 or 7 o'clock at night. If the girls complained, he said, they were dis- charged. Statements of Frank Wilson, M.L.A., at yesterday's session, were characterized by Mr. Tomkins as "the bunk."
Wilson's Statement Mr. Wilson had told Mayor David Croll he would place a list of violators of the Minimum Wage act before the attorney-general if the mayor would obtain such a list. Mr. Tompkins said lists were useless: what the most needed was "a government inspector who would en- force the act."
Miss Mary MacNab, of Toronto, claimed charges she had made with regard to exploitation of girl workers at last year's congress had been denied by a Toronto inspector despite her offer to produce proof. She attacked officials of the mini- mum wage board of Ontario, claiming they were lacking in their duties.
#windsor#winnipeg#hamilton trades and labor congress#organized labour#labour politics#six hour day#minimum wage#minimum wage act#immigration restrictions#deportation from canada#working class politics#great depression in canada
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i do think its crazy that at least here you need to do like 6 months' worth of work before qualifying for unemployment benefits AND you need to like. have An Account on that one job website for that
#thistle.txt#six months??? thats so long.#& didnt they pass a law thatd make it so that you can only get them if you like. are doing 15-20 hrs of labour a week#while like doing training or something. like its labour youre not even getting paid fully for?? for the sake of. unemployment benefits??#im pretty sure they passed that#& no it makes no sense. dont ask me how it works im not a capitalist
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Remember how a few decades ago spending your life in a pointless office job where you sit in a cubicle sipping coffee all day, going home to your cramped apartment to eat a TV dinner, was considered peak Miserable Western Life? And nowadays landing any job is a pipe dream and living alone in a cheap tiny one bedroom apartment is the height of luxury for anybody under 40 because the norm is to share it with at least 2 other people?
Anyway, I've gotten rejected by Walmart, McDonald's, and numerous shitty grunt labor jobs like asphalt laying, warehouse laboring and roofing. As soon as it's cool enough to safely walk a dozen blocks without risk of heatstroke, I'm going to go to the unethical 12-hour shift factory down the street, and if they reject me I'm just going to start selling off my stuff.
I'm not sure if this town is particularly bad or if it's like this everywhere, or maybe I'm just unemployable, but I've applied to hundreds of jobs and literally can't get in flipping burgers with years of kitchen experience. I can't get a job tarring rooves or digging holes because the few that are hiring ghost me. I had a guy ask me when I'd be avaliable for an interview and then ghost me after I answered. Just... FUCK.
#and THEN the news has the audacity to talk about a “labour shortage”#nah bro nobody can afford anything and nobody's hiring#people are desperate to work and there's none to be had#there are people in this town selling off their furniture for rent because there's just no way to earn a wage anymore#unless you have decades of experience and multiple degrees#and EVEN THEN it's a slog#six figure earners are needing second jobs#a can of ravioli costs $2.25#a watermelon costs two figures in most stores#and it's only getting worse#it feels hopeless#there's no future for Canada#but where else can I go#no country is prospering rn#at least none that I've found#and I can't emmigrate without a degree or trade anyway#nobody wants uncertified general labourers#just.... FUUUUUCK#YOU CAN'T EVEN SELL BLOOD IN THIS COUNTRY#WHAT CAN I POSSIBLY DO
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