i’ll hold you right

Sam ▪︎ he/him ▪︎ 20s ▪︎ Australia

[gerardwaysbob]

🫶🏾

[jessisnotinteresting]

😧…

[crabussy]

how come they make you reinvent the concept of dinner every evening. I have to make dinner come true every evening like some kind of unpaid genie intern

[chloematis]

“That’s true! I did! I crinkled this!“ A painting of my favorite post from @straycatj I hope my rendition of this dastardly crime did it justice

[straycatj]

Why do you reveal my naughty past… although it’s a good art…but…but…but…

[diphowell]

x

[userlesbian]

oh my god they touched

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

this may be an Unpopular Opinion (even on tumblr) but like the 8-hour workday is just Too Gotdamn Long

like even sitting in an office for eight hours a day isn’t particularly pleasant (or healthy, as we are beginning to see) but when we’re talking about doing *actual work* for that same amount time it gets pretty fucking brutal

doing literally *anything* (even leisure activities) for eight hours straight tends to be less than enjoyable but when we’re talking about things like construction, landscaping, factory work, and hell, even foodservice and retail, eight hours is a fucking ETERNITY

i might just be a lazy weak-willed bitch but honestly i think i’m not entirely wrong

[tyrannosaurus-rex]

this was being worked towards by leftist labor unions way back in the day after the time of FDRs new deal. people in the 40s and 50s were already starting to realize that we no longer actually needed an 8 hour work day or even a 5 day work week.

even with the comparatively primitive factory tech of the time we were already creating a huge amount of excess production back then and companies were making massive amounts of profit. So it already stood to reason that companies should either let their employees work less and thus each employee could work a shorter shift without lowering the yearly compensation of each employee, or in cases where businesses provide an active service they would shorten the shift but hire more people to cover the necessary operating time. but of course that would mean less money for people at the top so companies fought back hard and we ended up with nixon’s bullshit and so on and now its considered the norm for us to spend the vast majority of our lives doing work that really just amounts to waste. 

[dreamer-of-centipedes]

The IWW realised this and were fighting for it all the way back in the 1930s. This is a take with a lot of historical and theoretical grounding, OP, so you’re standing in good stead.

[aztechnology]

I’d also like to add it’s also been studied and scientifically proven that after 6 hours, we have an extremely noticeable drop in productivity. Sweden saw nothing but benefits from a 6-hour work day, including worker productivity, happiness, and half the amount of sick-leave used when applied to nurses.

https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/the-six-hour-workday/

[laughterkey]

Just gonna add that the IWW is still kicking and basically anyone who is not an employer can join.

[assortedinsanities]

Just to emphasize this: the IWW is for working class people, this includes students, retired people, unemployed people, permanently unemployed people due to disability and such, people with their own (small!) business, freelancers.

Unless you are in a position to never have to work because you are rich enough or you are deciding how much money your employees make, you can join! They offer reduced rates for people with low income and your local chapter might offer a sponsorship program where other members pay/help to pay your dues if you/as long as you can’t.

[sillychillidog]

computer enhance

[lovelydeps]

hiii helloooo 🦁

[frontmansdog]

there’s a t-shirt that says “I survived a bad day and all I got was the rest of my life” and yeah I still think about it

[animentality]

[achievement-hunter]

[textandimageenjoyer]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[diphowell]

lethal love eyes lester moment

[userlesbian]

*shakes you*

[totally-srs-all-the-time]

I knew this interview was gonna be peak when the interviewer opened with such confidence, it cut to the first set of clips, then it cut back to him and his face went through three different expressions before he could say the next sentence

[creepymutelilbugger]

fearsome fangs friday!!!!!!!!!! bite everyone

[unphortunate]

Launching hard or hardly launching?