nienakarmiony kot

"je ne parle pas votre langue”.

[artist-belsky]

Music Lesson, 1897, Nikolay Bogdanov-Belsky

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Love 1895

Gustav Klimt

[dlk26589]

The Parasol.  Portrait illustration by Paul Helleu for the book, Paul Helleu, Peintre et Graveur, written by Robert Montesquiou and published in 1913.

[morpheme-publishing]

Vibrant Economies

What is there to be loyal to?

Wage theft is when your boss doesn’t pay you what you’ve already earned. When I learned that Massachusetts had “blue laws,” that my bosses weren’t obeying them, and had shorted me around three thousand dollars, it was wage theft. 

This was the law: retail employees were to be paid at a “premium” rate on Sundays and holidays, time-and-a-half, the same as overtime. But none of the booksellers where I worked had ever been paid it. And while not being paid overtime is a textbook example of wage theft, when I tell people, they are happy to qualify it for me with a “Well…” or an “Okay, but…” I don’t know where this instinct comes from. Maybe it’s because “wage theft” makes it sound premeditated, more like a crime. (But it was a crime!) Or maybe it’s because I worked at an independent bookstore, and indie bookstores are beloved pillars of the community. (What would that mean about the community?) Maybe it’s because it doesn’t makes sense that an independent bookstore would do something like this. Everyone knows indiebookstores are thriving! (Which is true—it’s the people who work in them who are struggling.)

I found out when I was trying to see if I could afford to take a sick day. I felt like I was coming down with something, but taking a day off meant losing a not-insubstantial chunk of my monthly take-home pay ($11.50 an hour). Since there were sick hours adding up in a box labeled “time-off accrual” on my pay stubs—and surely they had to amount to something—I went to mass.gov to check the law. But they amounted to literally nothing, as it turned out: Massachusetts businesses only have to provide paid sick leave if they have more than eleven employees, and we had ten. My “sick days” meant I couldn’t be fired for staying home sick (as long as I wasn’t sick more than five days per year).

But I learned something else. There were links to related pages and I clicked the one about “blue laws,” which I didn’t know we had in Massachusetts.

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Rafal Olbinski

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Rafal Olbinski

[shekahgo]

Opinion | Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.

The way we teach math in America hurts all students, but it may be hurting girls the most.

Make your daughter practice math!

[artist-malczewski]

The Model, 0, Jacek Malczewski

https://www.wikiart.org/en/jacek-malczewski/the-model

[macrolit]

I made up my mind to keep my feelings to myself since they did not seem to matter to anyone else but me.

Dust Tracks on a Road, Zora Neale Hurston (b. 7 January 1891)

[adrasteiax]

I am in the domain of silence, the kingdom of the crazy and the sleeper. (…) I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

Anne Sexton, from For The Year Of The Insane in “The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton”

[shekahgo]

[saturnsdaughter]

Adolphe-Alexandre Lesrel, Bacchante Enivrée, 1882

[quotespile]

“If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you’re willing to risk failure.”

— Philip Pullman, Clockwork

[artist-dechirico]

Colonial mannequins, Giorgio de Chirico

https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/colonial-mannequins-1943

[artist-nikolaige]

Death of Virginia, Study, Nikolai Ge

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/nikolai-ge/death-of-virginia-study-2

[maurice-prendergast]

Courtyard Scene, Siena, 1898, Maurice Prendergast

Medium: graphite, watercolor, paper

[jinxproof]

Jazzeppi Zanaughtti | Comme des Garçons AnOther Magazine (F/W 2016) ph. Nick Knight