#redh

[somethingintheforest]

[samtheflyingturtle]

Faye Reagan

[realanimedreamgirls]

[iridescent-wildlife]

Redhead (Aythya americana) female. Family Anatidae, order Anseriformes.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. November 2021.

[dailyholmes]

"The door was instantly opened." The Red-Headed League. Published in The Strand Magazine. Sidney Paget, 1891

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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Statement by the Network in Defense of Humanity on Brazil’s veto of Venezuela at the BRICS 2024 Summit

The Network of Intellectuals and Artists in Defense of Humanity (REDH) rejects the decision of the Government of Brazil to veto the incorporation of Venezuela as a partner country to the BRICS bloc.

The veto against Venezuela indicates that the Brazilian government not only yields to Washington’s pressures to exclude Venezuela from an international articulation that would link it, in a coordinated and programmatic way, to a sphere of power of alternative forces, determined to organize and make possible a new world order and balance, but also demonstrates its disagreement with the rest of the founding powers of the BRICS with respect to Venezuela.

[sanguinarysanguinity]

"And the work?" "Is purely nominal." "What do you call purely nominal?" "Well, you have to be in the office, or at least in the building, the whole time. If you leave, you forfeit your whole position forever. The will is very clear upon that point. You don't comply with the conditions if you budge from the office during that time." "It's only four hours a day, and I should not think of leaving," said I. "No excuse will avail," said Mr. Duncan Ross; "neither sickness nor business nor anything else. There you must stay, or you lose your billet."

Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Red-Head League,” The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

omg, this hits very differently in 2023 than it did pre-pandemic. The only requirement of this job -- and I do mean the only requirement -- is that you do it in the office. They don’t give a flying crap about what you actually do with your time, but you must, must -- and they are absolutely immovable on this point! -- come in and do it at the office.

And Sherlock Holmes’ assessment of all this? If your boss doesn’t let you work from home, he’s obviously a confidence-trickster and a crook!

[geeoharee]

I think we're now at a sufficient distance from our Red-Headed League read that I can post this note from the Annotated, of Dorothy L Sayers being very rude about Holmes - I didn't want to spoil the atmosphere at the time, as I am very attached to that scene