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Jobs in UK, EU for a Canadian?

L2 with geo drilling and welding experience. Not sure how CWB welding tickets would transfer over to UK/EU, but would be willing to take trade school again/challenge exams.

Just wondered what the landscape was like for jobs over there for someone coming over on a youth work visa scheme and if there are any rope access welding jobs. Just currently weighing whether it's better to buy a house and settle down at home in Canada or try for experiences abroad while I still have the time.

Thanks in advance for anyone willing to offer their two cents.

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u/infinite_cancer — 15 hours ago
▲ 13 r/ThomasPynchon

The Rats of God: Pynchon, Joyce, Beckett, and the Carnivalization of Religion

> Numerous recent commentators have pointed out the advantages of using the theories of Mikhail Bakhtin to read the works of Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett, though, as far as I know, no one has attempted to read all three simultaneously in this way. But viewing all three of these writers through the common optic of Bakhtin reveals certain family resemblances among them, in particular their participation in the Menippean tradition privileged by Bakhtin. Such a reading strategy also highlights the intensely political vision that informs the works of these three writers, all of whom mount fierce assaults on authoritarian ideologies of all kinds. Since a full study of the political similarities among Pynchon, Joyce, and Beckett is obviously beyond the scope of any single essay, I will concentrate here on the ways these writers use organized religion as a central instance of the authoritarian ideologies they oppose, particularly the ways they carnivalize religion by juxtaposing the high-minded idealistic claims of the Church with images of the mortality and physicality Christianity attempts to repress. One specific image cluster reappears in the work of all three authors. Pynchon, Joyce, and Beckett all use rats as images of abject physicality to subvert the spiritual/physical hierarchy maintained in traditional Christian thought.

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u/infinite_cancer — 20 hours ago
▲ 48 r/TrueAnon

Alex Colville, 'In The Woods' (1976), 'Dog and Bridge' (1976)

more modern art posting in the trueanon sub

u/infinite_cancer — 1 month ago
▲ 29 r/pinkscare

Katajjaq throat singing

> katajjaq (Inuktitut: ᑲᑕᔾᔭᖅ), is a distinct type of throat singing uniquely found among the Inuit. It is a form of musical performance, traditionally consisting of two women who sing duets in a close face-to-face formation with no instrumental accompaniment. One woman begins to sing, followed by another, with the game ending when someone loses her breath, breaks concentration, or laughs.

> Katajjiniq sound can create an impression of rhythmic and harmonious panting. Inuit throat singing can also imitate wind, water, animal sounds and other everyday sounds.

> This playful practice testifies to a long oral tradition of the women of Nunavik... From generation to generation, the Inuit have passed on knowledge of nature and the environment as well as the techniques associated with throat singing.

u/infinite_cancer — 3 months ago
▲ 41 r/pinkscare

Lee sleeps like a heap of straw, splayed open like a daisy in blossom across my stomach and her paw always finds my nostrils, snoring with the air conditioner on. What are you dreaming of? That same one again, you know the one. The family reunion in the foggy meadow at dawn, all your brothers wrestling in the mud, all the in-laws arguing about politics and the looming fascism in the nearby pastures, and your mother, weathered but looking just like you will in the future, making hash browns and scrambled blue jay eggs, telling all the puppies to hush as they howl and lick their chops, always hungry and never patient enough.... sorry grandma, and you are walking along the edge of the farm, more like loping really, smiling and belly still full of a big dinner from the night before, taking all your pups like baby ducks in a row behind you and of course i have names for all of them.

And all of a sudden it's morning again and I wake up, Lee's eyes as big as the sun, licking my face, telling me she needs to pee.

u/infinite_cancer — 4 months ago