Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. (https://t.co/BOfhKNNs3q)

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Thank you everyone who came down to chill! Big thanks as usual to and for keeping me company! Here's the fruits of the streams labours haha https://t.co/5ozwDzHxkx

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Today in 1791, the launched a slave revolt against France. They won, but then France extorted them for an "independence debt" that was worth US$105 billion. It took 122 years to pay it. US Marines also occupied Haiti for 19 years, killing thousands with forced labour.

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talk abt orientalism, french colonialism and labour exploitation...still gonna stay for pretty art tho

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This is what you're getting because I played Pokémon for 2 weeks straight, enjoy the fruits of my labour :^)

 

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This watercolour sketch from 1913 of a man ploughing autumn fields by George Clausen was painted at a time of great unrest in the countryside. Labouring families had been drifting to the burgeoning industrial centres for several generations, and the crisis of WW1 was a year away.

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“When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight..”

Love’s Labour’s Lost

Image: The Lady’s-Smock Flower Fairy by Cicely Mary Barker

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Gustave Moreau’s Hercules and the Lernaean Hydra, 1876, for Killed by Hercules as his second labour. The hydra lived in the Lake of Lerna which was also an entrance to the underworld.

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Une occasion unique de voir de près et en taille réelle les personnages qui peuplent la fresque, prophètes et autres sibylles

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She does not mind eating the fruits of your labour! 🧡

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"That's my girl" A labour of love dedicated to my favorite movie 😭 Characters done by me, background done by the amazing who's offered help in these trying last minutes of convention crunch.

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An apt quote from James McNeil Whistler that probably defines our Concept Art course -- An artist is not paid for his labour but for his vision." 💡

Concept character art by Charllotte Ashlie, Advanced Diploma in Concept Art

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Every local DSA chapter has beautiful folksy logos and local Labour parties are just like here's a badly cropped JPEG we ran through the Diane Abott compression engine 47 times

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Sir Joseph Paxton, gardener, architect and designer of the Crystal Palace, was born in 1803. He began his career in 1823 when he became a labourer at the Horticultural Society’s gardens at . Learn more in "Joseph Paxton in Chiswick" - https://t.co/8p6FhFHai7

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In 1824, due to dire family financial straits, Charles Dickens (aged 12) began manual labour in a blacking factory in London. His father, John Dickens, was committed to The Marshalsea Prison as a debtor. This experience would influence much of the literature of Charles Dickens.

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