© Jaroslav Beneš.

A nursing graduate tells me today that she is considering completing a trade apprenticeship because she cannot find work as a nurse in Victoria.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Enjoy!

Beautiful

That is seriously cool.

A clay head painted gold glued to a small wooden block He seems happy enough tilted face, wobbly features I was half thinking of the Hexham Heads but Mrs Griffin reckons it's a gurning C3PO

21/4/26 - made a head

Zackly.

Hence the giant mass human cognitive deskilling and stupefaction machine so they can make money off it

#Words Hiraeth (Welsh) #Language

I love Autumn.

I printed this out and took notes like a student. Thanks for sharing it!

title and abstract of the article "Things at Work"

Table: Examples of using thing in gene gun shooting

Table: Roles of usegul things in shooting

Figure: How things are constitutive of work performance A flow diagram titled "How things are constitutive of work performance." The diagram shows a process moving from left to right within a grey rounded rectangle labeled "Institutional and technological setting for work performance." On the far left, a large arrow shape contains "Things FRAMING other things and practitioners," which feeds into a central diamond shape labeled "Things PROVIDING necessary elements." From this central node, four rectangular boxes branch out: "Things MODIFYING other things" (upper left), "Things COORDINATING other things and practitioners" (upper right), "Things EXTENDING human capacity" (lower left), and "Things SUBSTITUTING for practitioners" (lower right). At the center of these four boxes are three human figures representing "Practitioners' capacities." All elements converge into a pentagon shape labeled "Emerging things DIRECTING other things and practitioners," which leads to a final arrow on the far right labeled "PURPOSE of practice."

"Things at Work: How #Things Contribute to Performing #Work"
#performance #entanglement #sociomateriality
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

“Facts and truth are not sociologically equivalent. The purpose of a lie is often to hide or misinform, but myth can be illuminating, informative and truthful while perhaps not being factual.” ~ Austin Lawhead, Anthropologist

“And, above all, let us remember that the great purpose of education is to give us individual citizens capable of thinking for themselves.” ~ Labour, Let Us Face the Future

While employers “meeting women where they are” (bearing the burden of care) is a positive thing, “where they are” is at its core a sociocultural problem. I wonder whether meeting women where they are further embeds the expectation (and employer belief) that they bear the burden of care at home.

Thank you!

My grief aged, took shape, and became a thing I greeted like an old friend in the kitchen each morning.

Ph. RuthieV Whiting in his Seattle studio

Assemblage of works on wall, drawings and paintings

assemblage , painted white, mixed wood and wire materials

Whiting Tennis, artist and musician

Telework raises women's working hours, which narrows the #genderGap in hours.

But the hourly pay gap may widen: men are rewarded more than women for teleworking. The disadvantage is largest for women teleworking exclusively and at the top of the wage distribution.

2/3

The rooms are divided into a Pottery Room/Mould Making and Wet Slip Casting Room, a (skinny) Laboratory, an Old Tool Room, a Mill Room, a Wet Press Room, a Turning Room, a Glazing Room, a Drying Room, a Fuel Storage Area and a Cleaning Room.

Workplace

I know all the words to all the songs. Also had a poster of Scott Carne on my bedroom wall when I was a teen.

Pierce & Pierce?

He adds chicken stock. I love sour cream so might give that a crack, too.

Me: Why are your mashed potatoes SO good? Let me watch what you do.
Him: [adds five times more butter than I do]

The maritime lawyers I used to work with were a quiet bunch. They only became animated when things happened in international waters. They’d be beside themselves right now.

Wafting

Frank Bowling, acrylic on collaged canvas, 2018

frankbowling.com/art/

#art #painting

“In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot of the time when I’m not writing I start thinking I can’t do it.” ~ Wendy Cope

“The human race sleepwalked to oblivion, thinking only of the corporate logos on its shroud.”~ J G Ballard, Kingdom Come

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...