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On the 24th of october in 1975, approximately 90% of Icelandic women struck for equality, not attending jobs or doing any domestic work. Iceland passed an equal pay law the following year, but the strike has been repeated on its anniversary several times since, such as in the years 2005, 2010, and 2016.

The strike was planned by "The Women's Congress", which had met on June 20th and 21st earlier that year. Among the reasons given for going on strike were pay inequality, lack of women in union leadership, and a general lack of recognition for the value and skill of domestic labor.

During the work stoppage, also known as "Women's Day Off", 25,000 people gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland's capital city, for a rally. There, women listened to speakers, sang, and talked to each other about what could be done to achieve gender equality in Iceland.

Women from many different backgrounds spoke, including a housewife, two members of parliament, and a worker. The last speech of the day was by Aðalheiður Bjarnfreðsdóttir, who "represented Sókn, the trade union for the lowest paid women in Iceland", according to The Guardian.

In 1976, the Icelandic government passed an equal pay law, and the country elected its first female President, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir, five years later in 1980.

The 1975 Women's Strike also helped inspire the 2016 "Black Monday" anti-abortion ban protests in Poland, as well as the "International Women's Strike", single day work stoppages on March 8th, 2017 and 2018.

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[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Excited to run a Mothership RPG campaign centering an independent space trucker company and the shenanigans taking odd jobs gets them into, hopefully forming somewhat of a found family as the crew of a ship through the trials and tribulations they go through crush

Plus there's a sandbox space western module and a sandbox piratey fishery revolutiony sequel module che-si

My two favorite sci-fi tropes absolute-cinema

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Everyone should just put down what they're doing right now, put on the first B52s album and boogie. Do ALL 16 dances. Fr though, I can't see anyone on here not really really liking their first 2 albums.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Replacing coffee with a sugary caffeinated energy drink=very poor idea. Holy shit do I have the jitters.

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Is there a reason people still recognize Grimace as a McDonald’s mascot? Saw some kids today who could recognize him but referred to Birdie the Early Bird as “the chicken bitch”

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Very minor Silent Hill 2 spoilerPlaying Silent Hill 2 while running around town- Wow, this is supposed to be scaryberdly-smug

Getting to Woodside Apartments- Uh... Hello?scared

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sometimes I realize the backlog from lacking critical thought for decades and it really fucks me up

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Foggy day today, if I could see anything I'd say it's beautiful.

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Disordered eating

spoilerBinge eating used to be my coping mechanism, then just overeating (it was different than binge eating in my mind because I didn't hate myself after nor did I feel out of control or physically sick after), but now I dont even enjoy food enough to eat my feelings :(

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lol @ being pitched the "opportunity" to talk to "A" "I"

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i-voted for Claudia De la Cruz

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is there a graph of energy demands for the various 'ai' things? it seems obvious chatbots->image generators->video generators have escalating power demands but i'm curious how linear it is

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Mokey went to jam last night and the house bass player said i sounded great, time was good and bounce was good. Me????

And then also when I got off some younger drummer said something along the lines of "wow ur really good, its something to work towards" i looked at him funny cos no way youre talking about me

I have a little road map of what I want to be working on for the next year

3 months of Philly Joe Jones transcriptions 3 months of Max Roach 3 months of Billy Higgins 3 months of Art Blakey or Kenny Clarke i dunno

But go hard and the idea is to learn their ride cymbal, their comping and solo ideas.

Also

Active listening/journaling everyday

Listening everyday

I put so much time and effort into technique that I more or less feel like I'm done with it (for now)

[-] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

whining about work againI have to make the requirements the fuck up now, lol. I got a barrage of features we could be implementing from my boss, and no sense of how to prioritise them. And no details on how to accomplish it in the midst of awkward politics. I miss coding.

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When i think about it, players in a TTRPG world shouldnt be unique because they’re the only ones with powers, they’re unique because they’re the only ones with time to do all the adventuring.

That’s how you have a level 12 barbarian running your general store when your players thought they could steal from them. People eventually wrap themselves up with whatever lifestyle choices they make and settle down in that direction, not everyone wants to achieve godhood.

Magic should be mundane but the same resources that limit your players limit everyone in the world, which makes it less common to use it to try to solve every problem you may encounter. Except when your players answer to a riddle is “I cast fireball” then of course the barkeep knows “Counter-spell”

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Song I've been weirdly obsessed with for like a few months now: The Card Cheat by The Clash. Super underrated, could replace Spanish Bombs as my favorite off London Calling and also, damn if it isn't the album that keeps on giving. Heard it when I first got into punk at 13 and was like 'this doesn't sound punk' but never put it down and 20 years later, the piano ballad is now my favorite it went London Calling/Rudie Can't Fail/Clampdown/Spanish Bombs to this over the time. If anyone wants to chime in on it who knows stuff feel free, but thst fucking chord progression, the piano turning into the guitar, the lyrics, it's fucking genius. It's been stuck in my head, I've been trying to learn it on everything, it's not the first but the latest song to really get me that way and it's weird cause I've heard it hundreds whatever I just backspace over to make tracking not happen

https://youtu.be/nhbSYP8cyD8

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3rd election in a row of absolutely shit major party candidates that barely anyone really wants.

What if we just had a cabinet, without a chief executive? No more presidents, society has outgrown the need for presidents

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I have a test for movie recommendations: if it's less than 65% on imdb but more than 70% on letterboxd, it's very good but it will scare the hoes.

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