ok not to be that guy but like. labor rights and working class rights can coexist with 24h services and late amenities. its certainly hard to do so without worker exploitation in this political and social environment, it’s not a conflict likely to resolve overnight. but 24h services are important and especially valuable to those of us that are disabled or are on a different circadian rhythm. in fact more professional, health, and government services should be available or at least possible to work on asynchronously (if applicable) during late or odd hours, while workers also get sufficient pay for their labor and proper consistent scheduling. this would be much easier on the workers with night schedules if the entire professional world didn’t grind to a halt at 5pmEST
I reblog this like nine times every time I see it, because not only would I love to be able to go to a thousand little third places like a public library or an arcade or a cafe that’s just opening up at 2:00 a.m., but I would absolutely kill for a job that’s like 6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
I totally think that we should split the day into four shifts with a half hour or an hour overlap and you would find people happy to do the work if it paid a living wage. 7-hour shift with a paid one hour lunch, so you’re at work 35 hours a week but it’s really a 30 hour work week.
Midnight to 7:00 a.m.,
6:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.,
noon to 7:00 p.m.,
6:00 p.m. to 1:00 a.m.
Even for something with a lot of regimented coverage like nursing, this would give you a ton of consistency and crossover time between shifts and even for emergency situations when you don’t have time to sit down for your whole lunch, a 7-hour shift with a few breaks is doable without feeling fucking broken at the end of it.
Like this is just a noodle that a tired person is typing into their phone at the end of the day. There are no doubt even better ways to schedule things that just take a little time and consideration to figure out. It is all so very doable.
Adding to this, the most common long-shift workers are medical workers. It is very common for nurses, doctors, surgeons, and pharmacists to be pulling 12h+ shifts, often back-to-back. I feel like it should be universally understood that being this tired and burned out in a medical profession is a serious concern and a risk to patients. The last thing we need in 24h services like hospitals and urgent care/emergency rooms is tired people making mistakes. @knitmeapony’s proposal or something like it could literally save lives.
Absolutely yes! It also leads to both ageism and ableism in the medical profession, even when folks haven’t completely burned themselves out. It’s a self-sustaining problem.
hi friends! something concerning has been brought up to me just today.
it looks like a fake bluesky account (@/artsyalice, now suspended) pretended to be me & reached out to at least one of the people who responded to my interest check post for April Ko-fi Run:
they tried to convince someone to pay in advance through PayPal to secure Ko-fi Run slots. real shitty behavior there.
so as a clarification and a safety reminder to everyone: i only accept slots through Ko-fi Commissions, during a specific schedule / time window that i post in advance. i only contact folks through the official accounts listed at curiousest.net, or if specified in a Ko-fi request, through email. if any payment should ever be settled through PayPal, i would usually send a PayPal invoice.
i do not give away my discord unless you are a personal friend, or to mods of zines i work on. i do not use discord to talk about commissions.
if any of you were contacted by this person or an account that looks like it, please block/report – and feel free to let me know as well so we can share the warning to everyone.
At a party and a guy was telling me about how one of his coworkers was complaining about how he thought his dealer was lacing his heroin with cocaine and then the party guy was like “but his dealer was his brother” and I said “that’s some cocaine and abel shit” and the joke flopped so hard but I stand by it so I had to share it somewhere
still sometimes think about how when my apartment got raided by cops back in 2021 i had a massive neon sign on the wall of my living room that just said “crime”
ik it’s an old-ass joke but the ability of ppl on this site to Not Know Who They’re Following. like it was on the news. not the local or even the national news . this was a global scale international diplomatic incident
Rachel Maddow looks at a string of peculiar behaviors by Donald Trump, and his administration’s policies, and wonders — since those policies are bad for the U.S., who are they good for?
The obvious answer: Putin The obvious conclusion: Trump is a traitor.
This is so important. Good for her for speaking out and laying it out so clearly. I highly recommend watching this. Literally from day one Trump and his cronies have been going through a bucket list of all of Russia’s highest priorities. They are Russian agents acting against the American people.
Watch this. Share it. Call your representatives (federal state and local blue or red). Get out and protest.
MAGA = Moscow Agents Governing America
rachael has no more fucks to give, obviously. and neither should we.
i don’t think “flex” is a strong enough word for whatever the last three minutes of my life was
That was one of the most beautiful sequences I have ever seen.
Marahute the eagle and her animation are some of my most formative memories of learning to adore animation as a discipline. I wore out our VHS tape of this movie just watching her sequences over and over again.
The speed, scale, weight and accuracy with which lead animator Glen Keane captures her motion and movement, and balances the scales between anthropomorphizing her and keeping her strictly animal… it’s just masterful. It is so, so beautiful as a piece of craft.
amhrancas 