[sexchangedotcom]

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

[mrsterlingeverything]

one time I caught my sister putting crest teeth whitening strips on a donkey

Lets celebrate that

[segamascott]

[rontology]

[talking-fox-actual-deactivated2]

I upset a few people in my intro to western philosophy class with this one.

[missouriangothic]

[furbearingbrick]

[freelyunder]

[zukriuchen]

[haughtyraban]

“there’s an ai tool for that” okay ?? there’s probably an ed sheeran song for it too who gives a fuck

[capacity2]

It’s actually crazy how bad feeling bad feels

[zyprexazydis11]

[inklingowl]

[becomeanunconsciousman-deactiva]

if karl marx was born today he would be a baby. and it would be his birthday

[johnnychronic]

I don’t freak unless froken to, thanks

[bigphart69]

[xefyre]

oh fuck yum

[wolg-fang]

Every post in 2014 was like this

[nonlynear]

what even is the theme for this year’s met

[nonlynear]

Perfectly nonsensical. I hope someone goes balls swangin

[mini-wrants]

[notjusthespongenextdoor]

For a city to be walkable. It must also be sittable.

[urgetocreate]

Richard Raiselis (American), On that December Day (Boston), 2020, Oil on linen, 60" x 60"

[parkchanwoohoo]

Realizing that I am not employing enough of my free will to become a nuisance at work

[raine-of-auroria]

Me watching this:

[cowboybarbaryn]

I’m not letting this rot in the tags

[arctic-hands]

I don't see people talking about this so today is the 110th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, in where the factory owners locked working women and girls inside to "eliminate the risk of theft" (in reality it was too keep them from taking breaks), which resulted in the gruesome deaths of 123 mostly immigrant women and girls and 23 men, many of whom jumped to their deaths from the ninth floor either in a panicked attempt to escape or in order to die quickly. There were reports that some of the workers were on fire already as they jumped.

The eighth floor of the building was able to telephone the tenth floor to warn them about the fire, but the factory on the ninth floor where these women and girls labored had no such communication and such warning.

The factory owners were criminally charged with manslaughter for actions that contributed to the mass deaths but acquitted. However, this tragedy led to mass sympathy to the labor movement, and unions spurred on safety regulations that passed in New York state and eventually the entire country, and activists were able to reduce child labor in the process.

This tragedy is a reminder that has been forgotten in the 110 years since: every safety regulation-- every scrap of paperwork contributing to the hundreds of pages of red tape people like to complain about--every word of it was written in the blood of a laborer.

[grahminradarin]

111th anniversary

[aimmyarrowshigh]

They were discouraged from breaks because they were actively trying to unionize, and bosses felt that keeping them from unsupervised contact would prevent them from joining the garment workers' union.

This is why unions are important. This is why today, right now, the biggest companies in America are trying to squash unionization of their laborers and why those workers are fighting so hard to unionize.

@tikkunolamorgtfo did a great write-up a few years ago about the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, and I highly recommend reading it (and anything else you can about the fire). It is painfully relevant still and it's incredibly important women's, Jewish, immigrants', and workers' history.

[conniecorleone]

#most of the girls working there were either jewish immmigrants or southern italian immigrants #two of the more exploited immigrant groups at the turn of the century particularly in nyc but elsewhere too #the labor history element of it can't be overemphasized tbh (x)

[ramblingandpie]

This event directly influenced Workers' Comp law nationwide.

NY had passed a Workers' Comp law, but it was overturned by our highest state court literally the day before the fire. That means that each and every injured worker, and each and every next-of-kin of deceased workers, had to go through the traditional court system. It overwhelmed the courts so cases took ages and results were all over the map. In some cases, juries were horrified and awarded large amounts of money to the survivors. In others? You had avowed eugenicists on the jury who said things like it was survival of the fittest because the women who died should have been smart enough to learn English and have better education and jobs if they didn't want to die in a horrific fire, and that they *did* die in an industrial fire, that meant they never deserved to live in the first place. I'm paraphrasing bc I don't have my primary sources at hand but not exaggerating because, uh, some of the juror interviews are pretty fucking terrible.

NY amended our state constitution to allow compulsory Workers' Comp, and it was re-implemented a few years later. A few other states implemented it in the meantime. Now, all 50 states except Texas have some form of compulsory Workers' Comp (in Texas it's optional for the employer, *but* if the employer opts out of insurance, there are other resources for workers through traditional courts. Because WC insurance also does protect employers by things like having insurance coverage and more reliable outcomes.)

[laeffy]

Good morning. here is my current favorite reddit thread

[scorpionlafemme]