#labor conditions

[progressivegraffiti]

Happy May Day! May 1st is International Workers' Day!! Or very Happy Labour Day!!! (Spelled the UK way.)The goals of the International Workers' Association (IWA) have been:

Shorter work hours

Safer work environment

Fair wages

Elimination of child labor

Ability for the state to regulate labor conditions

The right balance between labor and capitalists is the sweet spot for the American Dream. How well do you think the United States is now regulating labor conditions, compared to decades past?

[democraticelectorateoflivonia]

Ministry of Labor

[trans-axolotl]

nothing makes me more insane than the phrase "selling your body" btw. like was i not also selling my body at every other job i've had where i had to be on my feet all day, lifting boxes, working in a warehouse, etc. why is it that sex work is uniquely labeled as "selling your body" while every other job is sorted into another category, no matter how much that job might have a physical impact on your body. lmao.

[meruz]

been seeing a lot of posting on twitter/ig but not much here. if ur in the socal/LA area and ur free for an hour or two this weekend u should definitely come to the animation rally. build hype and show support for the upcoming negotions.. if the rally has a strong turnout, it will make union negotiations for a better animation contract with the big studios easier...! friends, family, fans r all welcome - open to all!

more info here, eventbrite rsvps are sold out but dont worry abt that, it was just capped to get a headcount u dont need an rsvp to attend

(and if u cant make it rbs are appreciated lol ❤️)

[queen-mabs-revenge]

i'm sorry but what are we doing what are we doing what are we doing??? 500 people in a hospital just slaughtered - pure act of genocide and what are we doing??? like, yes, just the fact that the numbers out on the streets are what they are is testament to unprecedented failure in the western propaganda murder machine, but at the same time what the fuck are we doing???

because this can't be another blm - record numbers of people out on the streets and what? what happened? what result but deepened reaction and further entrenched state violence? this is an acute genocide that is happening right now we're just gonna do the same shit we've been doing for a decade that we know does worse than doesn't work??

signs at protests shouldn't be begging biden to call for a ceasefire, they should be calling for unions to stand up and collectively refuse to handle genocidal war goods. unions representing newsroom crews and newspaper workers should collectively refuse to produce propaganda of genocide. the fucking politicians aren't gonna fucking stop this shit, it's only gonna be labor shutting it down that's gonna stop it. fuck letters to the senator we gotta stop the fucking death machine and labor is the ones with our hands on the levers.

[bixels]

I think 90% of my gripes with how modern anime looks comes down to flat color design/palettes.

Non-cohesive, washed-out color palettes can destroy lineart quality. I see this all the time when comparing an anime's lineart/layout to its colored/post-processed final product and it's heartbreaking. Compare this pre-color vs. final frame from Dungeon Meshi's OP.

So much sharpness and detail and weight gets washed out and flattened by 'meh' color design. I LOVE the flow and thickness and shadows in the fabrics on the left. The white against pastel really brings it out. Check out all the detail in their hair, the highlights in Rin's, the different hues to denote hair color, the blue tint in the clothes' shadows, and how all of that just gets... lost. It works, but it's not particularly good and does a disservice to the line-artist.

I'm using Dungeon Meshi as an example not because it's bad, I'm just especially disappointed because this is Studio Trigger we're talking about. The character animation is fantastic, but the color design is usually much more exciting. We're not seeing Trigger at their full potential, so I'm focusing on them.

Here's a very quick and messy color correct. Not meant to be taken seriously, just to provide comparison to see why colors can feel "washed out." Top is edit, bottom is original.

You can really see how desaturated and "white fluorescent lighting" the original color palettes are.

[Remember: the easiest way to make your colors more lively is to choose a warm or cool tint. From there, you can play around with bringing out complementary colors for a cohesive palette (I warmed Marcille's skintone and hair but made sure to bring out her deep blue clothes). Avoid using too many blend mode layers; hand-picking colors will really help you build your innate color sense and find a color style. Try using saturated colors in unexpected places! If you're coloring a night scene, try using deep blues or greens or magentas. You see these deep colors used all the time in older anime because they couldn't rely on a lightness scale to make colors darker, they had to use darker paints with specific hues. Don't overthink it, simpler is better!]

[snortslaxatives]

Not to be really annoying and go ‘well actually’ to the joke about how silcos a twink who probably didn’t do shit in the mines and that miners all look like vander and are these big buff burly dudes is very much some propaganda in ur brain and not the reality of what conditions are like for miners from impoverished communities. You know they use children in mines bc they’re small right. If you’ve consumed any footage showing messed up mining communities that exists irl, like people who work in cobalt mines in Congo, they’re muscular, but at a glance, they’re not jacked and look pretty average. I think a lot of people are surprised seeing that they tend to be small and lanky for people doing hard manual labor all day, but that comes from not being able to afford enough quality food. You have to eat a ton of calories to get built, and that isn’t something many people who work in mines have.

[nando161mando]

Maybe Unions are a stop gap to better working conditions and not truly anti-work. But i think we need them more than forever

[thanatos-girl]

Also wrt the whole "only immigrants will do these jobs" thing. I find that the people saying that shit consider any kind of menial work or manual labor beneath them and consider menial workers and manual laborers to be a sort of unthinking, dirty, and disgusting mass of people that they mostly don't want to think about at all

[northern-passage]

i know AI isn't going anywhere and i also know there's nothing i can do to prevent someone from stealing my work; that's an accepted risk with sharing it publicly. i'm not going to stop - my issue with AI has always been with the surveillance, the environmental impact, and the exploitation of workers.

if you really want to have a conversation about AI, these are the things we need to be educating ourselves on and talking about. Emily Bender wrote it best in one of her #AIHype take-down threads:

When automated systems are being used, who is being left without recourse to challenge decisions? Whose data is being stolen? Whose labor is being exploited? How is mass surveillance being extended and normalized? What are the impacts to the natural environment and information ecosystem?

[dayurno]

kevin day is like. he's a child star. he's experienced an incomprehensible amount of labor abuse and inhumane working conditions. he was taken from his home country by a close relative with bad intentions. he's a cult baby. he grew up in captivity underground. every bad thing that could happen to a human being has happened to him at some point. he is happier than most of us when he can kick a ball for a living.

[just-your-average-cryptid]

companies bragging about/threatening replacing their entire workforce with AI while whining that no one want to work anymore would be comical if it wasn't deeply infuriating.

like, we have the massive workforce we have bc that workforce was designed to fill factories and plants that needed a bunch of people on duty to manufacture things. then manufacturers automated that process and dropped a bunch of people. then they exported their work to the east where they didn't have to *checks notes* follow safety standards and pay people enough to live. and that massive workforce just kinda... found something else to do, or didn't, but that hole was never really patched. (the tech boom arguably opened up new industries and thus new jobs, but it's not like former assembly line workers got hired to code in assembly.)

fast forward to now, and almost a whole generation of people were told to get college degrees if they wanted good jobs and security, only to be shut out of those jobs bc now you need 10 years of experience and a personal recommendation from the boss' uncle, if there are even jobs/positions still available for that degree. and the generation that bellowed "go to college or you'll work at mcdonald's" turned around and started mocking the people who stand behind cash registers with a degree hung up on their apartment wall for expecting what they were told to expect.

companies cut slack, make 1 person do the job of 5 so they only have to shell out 1 paycheck, and fire anyone who even thinks about unionization while daring to act like they're a "family" when they really mean they expect you to dedicate your life to them. companies pay out the lowest wages they're legally allowed to and scoff at people who (rightfully) call them out on it bc "you shouldn't just be in it for the money, you should do this bc you love it!" when passion doesn't pay the rent. companies fire a department and replace them with an AI that does a worse job, but it's faster and cheaper so the investors love it. companies make applicants jump through hoops to get hired (if they're even actually hiring) and think that anyone who doesn't play their games just isn't committed enough. companies complain that no one wants to work anymore bc no one wants to work for them.

of course people want to work. they have bills to pay and groceries aren't free yet. you just don't want to pay them.

you're the employer. start employing. you make jobs. make them.

because like it or not, you can't last without workers, and workers can absolutely last without you.

[serenhob]

Idk about other peoples opinions but I really hate the phrase 'differently abled'

Like disabled isn't a slur it's a description.

And I'm not 'differently abled', just cause I can't walk without my cane doesn't mean I can fly or smth

And I swear its always Able-bodied, neurotypical people that are saying this. Especially Mums of neurodivergent kids (specifically young ones like they have an autistic 6 year old), I swear they are always saying it like its a superpower, its just a state of existence Cathy I'm not superman.

I am disabled, I require aids and accommodations to functions at a lower standard than the average able bodied neurotypical person. I'm not saying being disabled or disability is a bad thing, a lot of times disability is neutral as long as you have the tools you need to adapt to a non disabled friendly society. There are positive and negative parts of being disabled and sure you can develop skills because of your disability but it doesn't mean that you are suddenly 'differently abled'. As well every disabled person, no matter if they have the exact same disability, will experience it differently and have varying opinions on it.

And I do get its mostly to combat this idea of disabled=inferior but we don't need to have that association. Just because there are things I can't do doesn't make my life less valuable, same for any other disabled person. Disabled doesn't mean less, it is a description and I think we need to remember that far more than calling disabled people 'differently abled'. Idk, it just feels like really weird advocacy that just pushes an ableist idea that disabled people can't just be disabled, you have to prove you have other worth otherwise you are worthless.

If you do use and like the term 'differently abled' for yourself or anyone you know uses it, I'm not saying that's bad. You can self identify that way, I just don't like it when people use it to describe me because it feels inaccurate and kinda performative. <3

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

we need to talk about this societal workplace thing where people brag about subservience as if it’s a flex to undervalue and mistreat yourself in the name of capital

“I work through lunch every day” MAYBE YOU SHOULD NOT

“you don’t see me making a fuss about it” MAYBE YOU SHOULD

“well that never stops me from coming to work” FOR THE LOVE OF GOD MAYBE IT FUCKING SHOULD!!!!

“I’m being a good leader and setting a good example” YOU ARE BEING A BAD LEADER. YOU ARE SETTING A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE

[lemon-wedges]

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