Clare Fitzgerald

Now that PASPA is deceased, honor its memory by never sending me another press release that spells it "PAPSA"

@jimgeraghty It was the Inflation Reduction Act, which made significant investments in green energy, thus creating a whole bunch more work that my company could bid for and win, increasing its revenues so that it has enough money to give out lots of nice raises. Thanks for asking

Biden likes to brag that if you’re making more now than before the pandemic, “That’s Bidenomics.” If you’re one of the folks making more now than you were before the pandemic, ask yourself — did that raise just appear one day because of some Biden administration policy? Or did you get that raise because you worked your butt off and earned it? nationalreview.com/the-morning-jo…

The whole point is to invent robots to do the work no one wants to do, not to invent robots to do the jobs that people love. How are we messing this up so badly

News from 110 years ago

One of my colleagues is having a family emergency. Please help out if you can: gf.me/u/3jzdvr #GoFundMe

Pull for Pride Boston I am doing this thing on Saturday! gofund.me/756def41

if a bookworm says "i want to read that soon" they mean they'll read it within 5 to 500 working days

@corylwrites @emvir0nmental @alissacaliente Yes, Twitter is certainly a very bad place to learn theory

regular reminder - things emotional labor is NOT: raising a child! being someone’s friend! having a conversation! emotional labor IS: having to maintain a certain emotional presentation as you perform wage labor as part of the requirements of the job

@corylwrites @emvir0nmental @alissacaliente To be perfectly clear here I'm not annoyed with you @corylwrites -- I'm mad at the OP for doing the "the original def only referred to paid work!" thing without including the term for the same tasks in private life, which is literally included with the original definition

@corylwrites @emvir0nmental @alissacaliente If you *want* to draw that distinction in order to specifically talk about the labor market, Hochschild already did that and there are already existing terms. And I think the OP should have included them instead of providing wrong ones

Here's Hochschild's definition of "emotional labor." You'll notice the private-life equivalent is "emotion work." If someone is pontificating about how emotional labor is waged and they don't give you the term "emotion work," they're not educating you about anything

If you're not a Marxist then please come up with your own theory instead of trying to explain concepts based in Marxist theory while cutting out the Marxist theory; this is why the discourse is such a mess

As someone whomst is also cranky about what's happened to the term "emotional labor": If you're gonna "correct" people for using it make sure your "correction" is also correct

@corylwrites @emvir0nmental @alissacaliente The way people are pretending to Correct people's use of "emotional labor" without explaining the work/labor distinction is starting to really fucking bug me; it's not educational and only serves to deny that emotional work is work

@corylwrites @emvir0nmental @alissacaliente The term you're all looking for is "emotion work" and its defined in The Managed Heart immediately following the definition of "emotional labor" twitter.com/silvio_lorusso…

@alissacaliente Like here is Hochschid's original definition in The Managed Heart that you are citing only the first part of twitter.com/silvio_lorusso…

@alissacaliente If you're defining any of these things as "labor" than the emotion work component is in fact still emotional labor. If you're not actually going to address or observe the work/labor distinction then it's kind of a dick move to ding other people for not observing it either

I started playing a game with myself where every time something annoys me on Twitter I immediately get off and force myself to do a Duolingo Spanish lesson, and bitch lemme tell you voy a ser bilingüe en poco tiempo porque todos ustedes son muy molestos

@MonocleEd I them a lot of people who probably aren't thems because I meet too many people to remember more than 1 piece of information per person until I know them better! And sometimes that 1 piece of information isn't their pronouns

@MonocleEd It can be, if you know their pronouns and are just refusing to use them, but if you just can't remember or something then it's probably fine

Curious based on a question asked pertinent to a discussion I had earlier with an edibuddy: Is it misgendering to use "they/them" to refer to someone whose pronouns are he/him or she/hers? Thoughts? #ACESweb22