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[by-needle-and-hand]

thomas paine is just an eighteenth-century tank guy send tweet

[by-needle-and-hand]

question of the day:

“so like…what do you use the blank books for?”

“most commonly for notebooks, pocketbooks, ledgers, account books, anything a customer wants, really”

“so like, diaries?”

“and record books and stuff, yeah.”

“so they sold diaries here.”

“sure.”

[by-needle-and-hand]

speedrunning 18th century daily life as accurately as possible by *checks notes* regularly dodging infectious diseases until my luck runs out and *squints at writing on hand* working during every single holiday and weekend, wait that can’t be right—