Stuff and Things

Welcome, my name is PurpleHayes

[stromcuzewon]

this is probably my favorite tiktok of all time and I finally got around to showing it to my dad the other day and now he comes home every day and tells me about all the places he saw crumbling concrete and says "guess they didn't add enough chinchilla flakes"

[joshua-wright]

Slack Wyrm #1484

[epiphanypaige]

tfw you hate how a previous self portrait turned out so you redraw it better

[eight-littlenightmares]

“Little Nightmares 3 is mid” YOU’RE MID. DIE

[loish]

Sketchbooks should be a place where you can get messy. No perfectionism allowed! That’s easier said than done, but I think sketching technique plays a huge role. That's why I made a tutorial about my process! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This tutorial is completely free, and you can get it right now by signing up here 💖

[rhodericks]

[dreamgazerswritingblog]

L, the worlds greatest detective

[viviiyon]

LIGHTS ON 💡 LIGHTS OFF 🔌

The individual artss

[scxrkat]

Buncha deltarune art I did today <3

[slimespecter]

sssssmokin’!

[haggis-mets]

Why does the TV world have this vehicle?

[lettuce-from-the-salad-bar]

[starridge]

*It's an old poster. Seems like a collaboration between two stars.

*Their smiles seemed so bright...

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

girl help they're putting "modern people under capitalism work more than medieval peasants" posts on my dash again

[motherfucker-somewhat-limited]

your rented hovel:

indoor plumbing

windows with glass panes to keep the weather out

electricity

probably a carpet or a rug or two

building codes

medieval peasant's owned hovel:

dirt floor

cooking and heat rely on a single fireplace that you have to chop your own wood for

have to choose between keeping the cold out in winter or letting light in because windows are just holes in the wall

shit in a hole in the ground outside

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

medieval peasant obligations for lord: 200 days

medieval peasant obligations for own subsistence: 200 days

length of year: 365 days

somebody who is got at the economy please help me my family has rickets

[nerianasims]

How much of your time is spent spinning thread? Sewing and repairing clothes? How often are you pregnant? How long does it take you to prepare a meal? How many of your babies have you watched die before age five?

[rootless-cosmopolitan]

Outside of “medieval obligations to Lord” you have to actually…work for your own survival. Like oh great, only 55% of your time goes to fattening up your Lord! Now winter is here and you have zero food in your stores because you gave it away to your Lord but at least you got a nice two month vacation!

And the number of girls/women who buy into this is hilarious. Oh baby no, that 200 day thing doesn’t apply to you. You have to work from sunup to sundown, 365 days a year, or the entire household falls apart. Rise before everyone else to get the fire and breakfast started, break your back lugging water and heating it and scrubbing laundry over and over and over again.

My great grandmother lived her entire life in a rural Ukrainian homestead with zero running water, heat, or plumbing. There is NO such thing as free time. If you are not actively farming or feeding animals or cooking/cleaning, you are sewing or mending or weaving or canning or salting to prepare for winter. And it had absolutely nothing to do with the structure of the government either; she did all of this through an empire, a soviet dictatorship, and eventually a democratic capitalist nation. Turns out, when you have no nearby stores or infrastructure, it doesn’t matter a damn if you live under communism or feudalism or capitalism. Someone’s gotta do the cooking and washing and mending and it’s probably gonna be you.

[hidden-but]

Look, I have men in the family with goodwill and chainsaws and carts that connect to cars and circular saws ... and still,heating up a room and cooking on a firestove is still So Much Hassle and So Much Hard Work just carrying the Shitton of Wood it takes to just cook a lunch.

Go and keep yourself warm and fed in a house with a wood stove and a solid fuel boiler for a weekend and then come and tell me how much easier life was before the invention of powered saws.

[certifiedsophist]

All these modern things are great yeah none of this is actually engaging with the criticism that bringing up medieval working hours is meant to point to, other than the "hours worked for lord bit" which is frankly just talking out of one's ass. The statistics for working hours comparison do try to account for hours working for subsistence, making clothes, etc.

The point of this criticism is not that medieval peasants had it so much better than us and we should go back to that exactly. The point is there are real ways in which we are less free and more exploited than fucking medieval pesants. The point is that we're supposed to be living in some kind of futuristic society were machines and computers do tons of the work and instead of that letting us rest more or spend more time doing things we care about, it's all being used to force the average persons face to the grindstone to work god awful, Victorian sweatshop fucking hours. The point is that modern technology is not inherently freeing, that just because you shit in a toilet instead of a hole, that doesn't mean your life is better in ways that are important and we should be pissed off about.

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

I'm a medievalist. You're a dipshit.

There are no ways where we are "less free and more exploited than fucking medieval peasants." None. We have not been forced to maintain subsistence pescatarian diets as a class or status divider from our meat-eating overlords, nor have we been beheaded and used as grave goods.

We do not undergo torture and facial mutilation for minor property crimes.

We do not all live in obligate high carbon monoxide environments that are so toxic from wood smoke that they decrease lung capacity within days.

Jewish people are no longer the direct property of the Crown.

Any quibbling about the exact numbers of the lord/personal workday misses the fucking point, which is that subsistence agricultural labor is backbreaking 12-14 hour workdays during the warm seasons and starvation during the cold, and the slightest fuckup in subsistence productivity - such as needing to dedicate more hours working the lord's fields - could kill. The yield of medieval livestock and farmland was greatly truncated compared to today, the grain-based medieval European diet was so abnormally high in fiber that it caused chronic diarrhea, and none of the annals from the sixth to the eleventh century mention more than one year of "great bounty."

Women do objectively have more rights nowadays than the average peasant of the Middle Ages and to act like this is not the case is so stupid that it's not even worth entertaining. Hey, did you know that one of the theories for the start of the Viking Age is that there was so much female infanticide among the elite that aristocratic young men had to raid in then-untouched areas to acquire enough of a bride-price to pay for the increasingly scarce resource that was wives?

And I'm not a Victorianist, but it is easy to find evidence that the typical Victorian sweatshop workday length was 9-16 hours and included the labor of children as young as four. It's almost like the 8 hour day was the culmination of decades of protest and campaigning, or something

And ah, the bucket. Have you heard of this thing called cholera? Dysentery? Norovirus? Typhus? Did you know that access to toilets is a key concern of every developing country? Lack of toilets is a major public health issue and poor sanitation kills 1.4 million people a year.

If you truly think that modern technology isn't freeing, then maybe the problem is that you don't see things like washing machines or space heaters or IV saline or synthetic insulin as technological innovations.

You are 30. At this age, you are choosing to be ignorant. Maybe work on that and don't do this stupid, fascist-friendly nostalgia wishcasting. You can point out that aspects of modern life are bad and advocate for change without cheapening your argument by insisting they're the Exact Same as being a peasant in 1092. If you are having problems with time management or depression, perhaps see a mental health professional instead of wallowing fruitlessly in the idea that you are a serf. You're not. I can tell you're not, because you're not riddled with parasites

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[alistairsprayerwarrior]

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

[vamonkea-art]

"Let's put that dead meat in its place!"

[redheadhyena]

ENA

I love this game ♡(｡- ω -)

[yureo666]

LET'S ROCK 🔥