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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.
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."
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.
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
It's rooted in misogyny. Cleaning and domestic labor has gendered expectations & there's taboo around paying or even organizing a time to do it because it's quite literally "supposed to be" invisible work.
Domestic tasks are expected to "just get done" without anyone having to think about it.
You speak to a lot of people who think they're in 50/50 split households who don't realize that their partner is doing a majority of the cleaning. (I'm using gender neutral language, but you know what I'm actually saying.)
I was once helping my ex's mother clear the table, and he said "I feel bad just watching you tidy up," so I said "well, you could always help."
People who are making posts telling us what is happening over on threads, twitter, and Instagram are like war correspondents sending us reports from the front.
Some twitter users say "Tumblr refugees" in the same way that we say "twitter refugees". Both sides appear to be blissfully unaware of the existence of the other.
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Masking about hantavirus is a very "what if we accidentally make the world better for no reason?" situation. Even if the there's never a single hantavirus case in humans ever again, wearing a mask in public is good because of COVID.
It's like when everyone got really freaked out about monkeypox and people suddenly remembered that PPE is a good thing.
Who am I to stand in the way of a little public hysteria?
[ID] A tweet by Sridhar Ramesh @RamishHarmers from the 20th of April 2019 reads: Some of you guys are alright. Don't be alive on May 15, 2026, when I set off the global pandemic which shall come to be referred to by the struggling, tormented survivors as “The Event”. [End ID]
Liv @antliiae says: one fell first, one fell harder. No. They fell equally hard. They're equally pathetic for each other. Idc about the timing result is still the same.
Reply by Naina @cubedmango shows a graph where a blue line steadily climbs and a pink line rapidly jumps to meet it. Blue is labelled Fell First, pink is labelled Fell Harder.
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verde in spanish, italian, portuguese and romanian means green. vert in french means green. verdant means green. viridescent means green. it tracks that vermillion would mean green, and that it doesn’t just proves that english is a ridiculous language with absurd rules.
I don't mean to be a half-assed expert on color theory and spoil everyone's fun, but the word vermilion isn't derived from the Latin words for green. Rather, it came from the Old French word vermeillon, which was long derived from the Latin word for worm (i.e. vermis, vermiculus). In fact, back in the 13th century, the color originated from a natural red dye made from tiny true bugs named Kermes vermilio, and vermilion used to be made with powdered cinnabar, which was highly toxic due to it being a mercury compound.
The word chartreuse came from the French herbal liqueur long produced by Carthusian monks since the 18th century, and their monastery is named the Grand Chartreuse, which is located in the center of the Chartreuse Mountains. The name chartreuse further originated from the previous names of the village Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (i.e. Catorissium, Cantourisa, Chatrousse), and from what I've found out, the word chartreuse is the feminine French word for Carthusian.
So, no, vermilion and chartreuse cannot switch colors, nor could they switch definitions. I think that would be a form of color history revision, and history revision is always terrible. Sorry to ruin your fun, @great-tweets, @marlinspirkhall, @i-wear-the-cheese, and @i-draws-dinosaurs.
Since Americans are losing more jets and weapons faster than they can rebuild that means it is more imperative now to disturb and destroy local factories producing such things, right? Workers of the West will do that to stop this carnage, yes?
This is why the British government went so hard against the Palestine Action protestors who broke in and disrupted a weapons factory in Scotland btw. Western governments know they cannot continue their imperial project without these factories and shipping facilities.
To be clear, I'm not saying this to discourage anyone from taking action. I'm saying this is evidence that weapons factories and shipping facilities are vital to continuing the western imperial project.
gifmakers on tumblr put a lot of effort into their gifs, and understandably get quite annoyed when someone steals them and reposts them without credit. it's especially frustrating when the stolen gifs get a ton of notes. we look at it and we go wtf how did this get so many notes when it's all stolen????
then i realised the average tumblr user, especially if they're new, or they've never created gifs or posted anything, or they don't understand how tumblr even works... well how are they gonna know?
this post will cover some of the most obvious signs that a gifset is stolen, including:
gif sizing + placement
gifset colouring, sharpening and style
the tags of the poster
if this post is helpful to you, please reblog to spread awareness!
1. gifset sizing
when a gifmaker is making a gifset, they Generally will make all of the gifs the same size. by "size" i mean dimensions in pixels. all the gifs will generally be uniform in size, and laid out intentionally to fit tumblr's recommended dimensions.
here is an example of one of my gifsets with uniform dimensions:
all of the gifs are the same size, laid out correctly for the recommended dimensions, and are fully visible with no cut-offs, blurriness, etc.
many times when a gifset is stolen, it'll be made up of a random assortment of gifs, stolen from multiple gifsets. the gifs might be all different sizes, and not laid out correctly, with parts cut off at the top or bottom. they might be blurry, compressed or just not "look" right.
here is an example of a gifset with inconsistent dimensions:
now, i used inspect element to see the dimensions, but how can you spot a incorrectly sized gif or inconsistently sized gifset at a glance if you're on mobile?
well, see that gif of sam? see how it's cut off mid-forehead, and just under his collar?
well, when you click on the gif and view it in its entirety, you can see that parts of the gif were cut off by the incorrect placement of a 540px gif in a 268px layout:
generally speaking, a gifmaker is not going to make a 540px gif and then put it side by side with another gif. gifset placement is not accidental. gifmakers know and use the recommended dimensions to ensure their gifsets are high quality and viewed on the dashboard the way they intended.
this is sign #1 that these gifs were not made by the person who posted them.
2. colouring and subtitles
gifmakers will generally try to make all of their gifs similar in colouring, sharpening and style. gifs will be (to the best of our abilities) similar in brightness, vibrance, tone and sharpness. basically, they will be visually consistent.
a stolen gifset will not. for example:
aside from the inconsistent sizing, these gifs are all sharpened and coloured in vastly different ways. this is admittedly something a gifmaker is more likely to notice, given our experience, but anyone can take a second to just look and see if the gifs look like they were all made by the same person. if they don't, it's likely a stolen gifset.
sidenote: subtitles are also another tell. i generally use the same font, font size, boldness, subtitle colour etc across all of my individual gifs and in all of my gifsets. if one gif has yellow subtitles in arial font, and the other has white subtitles in times new roman, chances are those are stolen gifs.
3. the tags of the poster
this is probably the FASTEST and EASIEST way to tell if a gifset is stolen, and requires some understanding of what tags are and why we use them on tumblr. here is a brief guide for tagging if you need one!
what you need to know is this:
gifmakers often use [media]edit tags to make it easier for people to find their gifsets in a sea of xreader fanfic and text posts, as well as user[tags] to increase reach
gifmakers will usually have a tag specifically for their gifsets (mine is #originals, some people use a #*, some people use their name like #[name]gifs or #mygifs). the purpose of that tag is to make it easy to find the gifsets we've made on our blogs
here is an example of a genuine gifmaker's tags:
people who steal gifs generally aren't aware of the tagging conventions gifmakers use to catalogue their gifs & increase reach, so they won't include them. they might even say outright that the gifs are stolen.
some examples of stolen gifset tags:
this one isn't an exact science. a lot of newer gifmakers aren't aware of the [media]edit tags, or other well-established tagging conventions, and sometimes gifmakers don't have a unique gifmaker tag. HOWEVER, most do and, when paired with looking at the sizing, colouring, sharpening and overall consistency of the gifs, this is usually a good way to sus out if a gifset you aren't sure about is stolen/reposted.
that's it! i hope this was helpful, and that you are better equipped now to figure out if a gifset was actually made by the person posting it!
if this was helpful to you in any way PLEASE reblog, so more people can learn how to pick a genuine gifset from a stolen one. plus i spent a lot of time on this and i would appreciate it okay thanks byeeee
#this is a fantastic and very informative post!! #a question though if any giffers would like to answer! #theres the gifs button on tumblr next to the text and link buttons. are those free to use or are those also stolen ones that tumblr has - #just ripped off of random posts? #like are they put there with the intention that others can use them? or is it just that you have to upload them there? or are they stolen? #pretty please if a giffer could answer i would rly appreciate it! (@cat-clawz)
Hi!!!! I have the answer!!
(This is the button being referred to, if anyone is unsure or needs a visual)
This gif button will open a gallery of gifs, taken from gifsets posted on tumblr. It's similar to giphy or tenor, but all of these gifs are from tumblr specifically and link to the source blog when you use them.
So I can open this gif keyboard and search for a topic, tv show, character, whatever it is, and tumblr will show me sourced gifs of that topic (mostly... whatever system they use to aggregate gifs is Not perfect).
For example, if I search "deadloch" (a tv show), I can find this gif from one of my own gifsets.
And if I select the gif and add it to this post:
You can see that tumblr has included a source link ^^ that you can click on and follow through to the original post. Personally I welcome the use of my gifs through the gif keyboard, it's credited and fair game. Other gifmakers may have different opinions but honestly between a gif keyboard that credits me AND links to the original post vs someone saving and reuploading my gifs as their own with no credit or even a mention of me, I'll take the gif keyboard any day
BE AWARE IT ALSO NOTIFIES THE ORIGINAL POSTER THAT YOU HAVE USED THEIR GIF.
which is fun because I'm nosy af and I enjoy seeing what posts people are adding my gifs to 👀
the things i've seen......................
anyway yes those gifs are fine to use!!! thank you for asking!!!
Thank you so much for the informative answer! :> this clears it up really well. Also very interesting (and cool) that tumblr notifies when someone uses a gif from there, that's neat!
And if Tumblr gifmakers have you blocked it's probably because you used this button:
Which takes you outside the Tumblr interface. So it's very easy to repost gifs without knowing their origins & you deserve to be forewarned that it is going to upset people, because giphy contains a lot of unsourced clips.
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