cutebunny world!!

everyone wants to performatively love birdgirls but nobody wants a tender & loving beakjob...i see how it is

NOT TENDER. PESIS LACERATED.

i see how it is...

HOPITAL

my beakjob technique is literally CSA certified. file number 5043 class 4411-01.

NEED 1813-01

...liquid tight flexible conduit?

NOT LIQUID TIGHT ANYMORE GOT HOLES IN IT

y'know i think this would make a pretty romantic first date

(weak from blood loss) dinner's... on me...

When the health food store unionized, something wild happened that I thought was just a goofy one-off, but makes more sense now.

There was a big push to eliminate "degrading jobs" but the strategy was to eliminate the position, then create a new position outside of the bargaining unit to do the work. So like, we wouldn't have dishwashers, but we'd have people who washed dishes that weren't eligible to be in the union.

I was like A) what the actual fuck? Dish washing isn't "degrading", it's fucking vital. B) What the actual fuck? You want to create a union just to exploit different people?

There were enough of us to be like "Absolutely the fuck not," and put a stop to it, but I was absolutely flummoxed that people involved in a union would say that out loud. Working with more leftists now, it makes sense.

I think it was coming from a background that viewed labor as necessary to accomplish anything, but advocated for the equitable distribution of the gains made by labor... and then being thrown in with people who just thought labor was icky.

The first time someone told me that busing tables was "degrading", I was like "Oh, uhh, yeah, like it's very necessary work but under compensated for how vital it is?" and they responded "No, touching plates that other people have eaten off of is disgusting."

But I want to eat off of clean plates. So somebody is going to have to touch/clean those plates. And I respect that person and want them to be able to afford to live.

official-torfmoor

Those people sound like a guy I'd make up to be mad at.

I mean, that job definitely had a Truman Show vibe. If they hadn't been in-person interactions, I'd think I was getting trolled.

bees-and-mice-and-frogs-and

Just to put a bow on it:

In bargaining, someone on the Union side suggested that we eliminate all the cashiers and exclusively use self-checkouts (they were a cashier and didn't like it). The organizer told them that the union wasn't in the habit of eliminating bargaining unit positions. (This is the same person I've talked about how said that "as a prison abolitionist" we just needed to execute most criminals.)

When I explained holiday scheduling (time off requests granted in order of seniority, shifts assigned in reverse order of seniority). Someone was angry and said that time off requests potentially being denied "wasn't in the spirit of the union". When I pointed out that our departments made like 30% of our annual revenue between Thanksgiving and New Years and that required production staff to be working, they said that we just needed to create a class of positions ineligible for the bargaining unit that wouldn't be able to request time off. (Which again, most of us figured we'd just rotate holidays or something, but assumed that some holiday production was mandatory.)

I was on leftie tiktok (as a creator) for a bit and I saw this attitude there as well. I specifically remember one argument around cleaners where someone said that employing a cleaner was, like, ethically bad, and that "after the revolution" we wouldn't have cleaners.

It got me thinking, along with Ann Russell talking about how to treat cleaners (being a cleaner herself), about how we conceptualise domestic service as particularly degrading in all its forms, when, really, why is that? Why is paying someone to do something intrinsically bad?

Like, even in a moneyless, gift economy society, there would still be people whose primary contribution to their communities would be cleaning. Some people like to clean, and are really rather good at it.

I've talked ad nauseam in the past about how British attitudes towards cleaners and other service based positions today are the descendants of Victorian attitudes. That is, both the attitudes of conservatives and many progressives of that time. The trade union movement was particularly exclusionary towards service workers.

I think people on the left thinking about forms of labour can sometimes be worse than people on the right. People who have taken these positions generally just conceptualise them as something you need to do to get by, and there are particular employers where these positions are degrading but in general the jobs themselves aren't.

Yeah, that really sums it up. There's stuff that needs to get done, so I'll never be of the opinion that it's degrading work. I worked in kitchens for a long time, and every other position is reliant on having clean dishes, so nobody can really be "above" washing dishes. The shitty thing about washing dishes or busing tables is how people treat the people doing it. The work itself is vital.

And some of those jobs are like, sure, you can throw almost any warm body at it and get it done adequately, but you still run into people where you're like "Holy shit, you're good at this."

leebrontide

People doing a job most people don't want to do should be paid MORE in order to get people to do it. That's how it would work if we weren't mired in a schema assuming that less-frequently-desired jobs are the province of people who "can't do better" and "deserve" poverty because they have less value as people.

toreblogallthethings

Peer reviewing the tags: #these attitudes are also why ppl are weird about sex work#and weirdly enough visibly disabled people working - like esp thinking of like#places that employ ppl w LDs as workers and volunteers#what they FEEL is 'these people make me uncomfortable'#and they say 'they shouldn't have to do that'#so the solution is. no visibly disabled people getting to work#the fact that. they want to work. and want jobs#is irrelevant#too many people base their politics off their like. gut feelings of discomfort and unease#which are completely disconnected from both practicality and actual morality

draconym

Every day I eat fruit that makes me glad to be alive

draconym

It seems so self-centered to say "I grew these." The plants in my yard did the work. I just put seeds in the dirt and then forgot about them for over a year and today I got paid mad interest for it.

fangsiege

hi im. very much a fan of your objectum bloon trapper. and uh. weh. design good

thank uouuu shes fucked up and we are blowing her up forever

pokeballvictimcomplex

Me when I'm a rancid asshole

pokeballvictimcomplex

Man like I don't even know how to break down just how fucking stupid this shit is

pokeballvictimcomplex

Like if you say stuff like this you have to know that you're both full of shit and being a transmisogniystic prick right. Like you dont actually know what you're talking about from any experience you just have this ironclad conviction that trans women are sex predators because you're stupid and an asshole. You know that you're just making shit up, right?

blyszczopies

PET ME !!

kangals

kep's favorite hobby is crawling onto your lap so he can breathe really loudly and wetly 1 inch away from your face. it is so so important to him that you let him do this.

kangals

HI HI HI HI

daintyspeedwalk-draws

I was commissioned by the rat king* to draw a "cool rat" with no oversight. I think she turned out pretty good!!

*profile contains nsfw!!

sporecore-rat

hi you,re cuties so i put you in the verdant green forest ok #yay

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decompose1

INTERSEX IS NOT:

- species that all have the same or both genitalia

- species/characters that can change their genitals to be whatever they want at will

- species/characters that change their genitals situationally

- aliens that can reproduce asexually or with anyone from the same species

INTERSEX IS:

- a person/animal/organism/character that is part of a species with two or more distinct sexes (at least within the social constructs of the species), who exists between these binaries (mixed, ambiguous, lacking, or incomplete genitalia, hormone differences, chromosome differences, or differences in/mixed sexual characteristics)

PLEASE for the love of g-d stop calling your alien species that has both genitals or a uniform set of genitals across the species ""intersex"". intersex people are tired of seeing this. it does not accurately describe intersexness at all. you can use the terms "monogenital" (for all members of the species having the same uniform genitalia) or "bigenital" (for all members of the species having both genitals)

seymourworld

doubl dewlap.....

wolf-aid

The American Dream (Enhanced Edition).

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wolf-aid

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mavigation

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livingursa

Please help out Ibrahim!!

wolf-aid

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punkitt-is-here

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Let's help out Ibrahim and his family!

tweetingukpolitics

ravioliraz

enameledcoppergirl

There should be no shame in looking cute and having fun. Cutiest kobold. Funniest kobold. Both are acceptable & even necessary.

soup-mother

I woke up once again being mad that deltarune is A$37 and apparently there's update news today, so I guess my anger was prophetic.

Anyway I'm inventing a new concept called "dark regional pricing" which is where I make something an annoying amount of USD that yankees will still be like "hey it's only $25! The devs are being so good to us!" and defend to the death but which is directly converted to other currencies regardless of regional wealth and so is fuckedly expensive in most places.

Observant readers might notice that this is how most pricing works anyway, this is because all Americans need to be killed and should not be allowed to have a say in anything ever.

everyone wants to performatively love birdgirls but nobody wants a tender & loving beakjob...i see how it is

NOT TENDER. PESIS LACERATED.