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seeing someone i follow follow me back after liking a few of my posts is so great like I’m glad I passed the entry exam . thank you

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i have thoughts. about in memoriam

#in memoriam alice winn

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happy birth/death day to magnus hirschfeld !

#magnus hirschfeld

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I’ve got a war in my mind so i just Blog

#it's called the great war #<- prev #great war

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actually re : the victorian children post i think the internet severely overestimates the impact most things would have on a victorian child.

like say you’re a child in victorian england and you have reached the age of nine. even if you’re upper-class, you’ve survived swill milk, cough medicine with cocaine in it, mercury in all your clothes, arsenic in all your walls, probably a cholera/typhus/scarlet fever/whatever outbreak (with no vaccines !)… you’ve made it past five, which is a feat, considering the high infant mortality rates. it’s even worse if you’re lower-class, because you’d probably also, on top of all that, survived 10-hour workdays with no labour laws for an absolute pittance. these kids were resilient.

and don’t think they’d be affected by whatever weird online drama either. folks in the victorian era had to keep track of what the british aristocracy was up to. tenant farmers remembering who had what courtesy title and what honorifics to use for them on a productivity check visit could mean the difference between keeping and losing your farm. knowing who was next in the line of succession of the unmarried duke who owned your house would have been probably pretty important. these people read about jack the ripper for fun. they would be able to deal with your mcytwt cc drama no sweat.

#yesss #keeping this on here #good insights !

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#didnt they start doing baby vaccines somewhere in the 1870s (via @cosmik-homo)

yeah, smallpox inoculation campaigns. the victorian era started in 1837 though & vaccines for other diseases (like the ones in the post) weren’t widespread until later, especially among the working classes, so i’m still counting it

actually re : the victorian children post i think the internet severely overestimates the impact most things would have on a victorian child.

like say you’re a child in victorian england and you have reached the age of nine. even if you’re upper-class, you’ve survived swill milk, cough medicine with cocaine in it, mercury in all your clothes, arsenic in all your walls, probably a cholera/typhus/scarlet fever/whatever outbreak (with no vaccines !)… you’ve made it past five, which is a feat, considering the high infant mortality rates. it’s even worse if you’re lower-class, because you’d probably also, on top of all that, survived 10-hour workdays with no labour laws for an absolute pittance. these kids were resilient.

and don’t think they’d be affected by whatever weird online drama either. folks in the victorian era had to keep track of what the british aristocracy was up to. tenant farmers remembering who had what courtesy title and what honorifics to use for them on a productivity check visit could mean the difference between keeping and losing your farm. knowing who was next in the line of succession of the unmarried duke who owned your house would have been probably pretty important. these people read about jack the ripper for fun. they would be able to deal with your mcytwt cc drama no sweat.

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actually re : the victorian children post i think the internet severely overestimates the impact most things would have on a victorian child.

like say you’re a child in victorian england and you have reached the age of nine. even if you’re upper-class, you’ve survived swill milk, cough medicine with cocaine in it, mercury in all your clothes, arsenic in all your walls, probably a cholera/typhus/scarlet fever/whatever outbreak (with no vaccines !)… you’ve made it past five, which is a feat, considering the high infant mortality rates. it’s even worse if you’re lower-class, because you’d probably also, on top of all that, survived 10-hour workdays with no labour laws for an absolute pittance. these kids were resilient.

and don’t think they’d be affected by whatever weird online drama either. folks in the victorian era had to keep track of what the british aristocracy was up to. tenant farmers remembering who had what courtesy title and what honorifics to use for them on a productivity check visit could mean the difference between keeping and losing your farm. knowing who was next in the line of succession of the unmarried duke who owned your house would have been probably pretty important. these people read about jack the ripper for fun. they would be able to deal with your mcytwt cc drama no sweat.

#victorian era #victorian child meme

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citationless behavior

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Why are you people so obsessed with killing Victorian children? If they're here, I'd vaccinate them with as many vaccines as possible and teach them to read

#enough victorian children have died already. i’m introducing them to pasteurized milk. #look ! it’s milk ! it just has milk in it ! well and some vitamin D because i live in québ—you know what don’t worry about that. #it’s good for you. #no there’s no sticks or plaster or anything ! it’s just milk ! #i know amazing right #(for context google swill milk. and be prepared.)

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Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc

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I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience

Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt

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been seeing homies get deep into "the terror" and making me want to rewatch SO i spent two hours in the dead of night reading the wiki/the subreddit/other linked articles and like. one of those articles was deadass fucked up

there was a woman who spoke inuktitut who was writing a book containing a lot of inuit oral histories, and in nunavut she was able to hear passed-down recollections of when survivors from the franklin expedition were passing through

and like. i can't imagine being an inuit family/group, knowing that europeans exist but having never seen them, seeing 8-9 shambling, blue-skinned, cold-to-the-touch out-of-their-minds white men come wandering by. they invited the men inside their igloos for warmth, for food, to be hospitable. the men refused to eat, refused to speak, and when trade was offered, clutched their possessions close and refused to entertain the idea of trade. this was, offputting, to say the least. the group set them up in their own igloo, with their own fire, and left three whole seals for them to eat. and then they fled cause what the FUCK get out of there. they came back in a few days to check on the strangers. the three seals were completely untouched, while all of the men had killed and eaten each other

i mean. fuck dude. there are obviously pretty dark angles to view the franklin expedition from– honestly can't think of a good angle, it's pure colonialism and british exceptionalism– but that specific interaction, that inuit group who were living lives as normal until a dozen fucking walking dead showed up and did cannibalism. no wonder that story got passed down, i'd be shitting my pants if i saw that

#franklin expedition

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Some excellent content for several fandoms. And just history nerds. https://twitter.com/calluna_/status/1020031158455848960?s=19

#lmao.

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1930s news about a trans woman: Well I'll be curfuffled young Corlotta Jhonson has transformed herself from a dandy into a dame and what a Bombshell she's become. And How!

1930s news about trans men: Wanted dead or alive this young lady who started wearing trousers, the tomboy terror known only as The Crust is wanted for snorting the President's personal stash of opium and has slain nearly every senate member in a pistol duel.

#trans history

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The Luddites were a secret organisation of workers who smashed machines in the textile factories of England in the early 1800s, a period of increasing industrialisation, economic hardship due to expensive conflicts with France and the United States, and widespread unrest among the working class. They took their name from the apocryphal tale of Ned Ludd, a weaver’s apprentice who supposedly smashed two knitting machines in a fit of rage.

The contemporary usage of Luddite has the machine-smashing part correct — but that’s about all it gets right.

First, the Luddites were not indiscriminate. They were intentional and purposeful about which machines they smashed. They targeted those owned by manufacturers who were known to pay low wages, disregard workers’ safety, and/or speed up the pace of work. Even within a single factory — which would contain machines owned by different capitalists — some machines were destroyed and others pardoned depending on the business practices of their owners.

Second, the Luddites were not ignorant. Smashing machines was not a kneejerk reaction to new technology, but a tactical response by workers based on their understanding of how owners were using those machines to make labour conditions more exploitative. As historian David Noble puts it, they understood “technology in the present tense”, by analysing its immediate, material impacts and acting accordingly.

Luddism was a working-class movement opposed to the political consequences of industrial capitalism. The Luddites wanted technology to be deployed in ways that made work more humane and gave workers more autonomy. The bosses, on the other hand, wanted to drive down costs and increase productivity.

Third, the Luddites were not against innovation. Many of the technologies they destroyed weren’t even new inventions. As historian Adrian Randall points out, one machine they targeted, the gig mill, had been used for more than a century in textile manufacturing. Similarly, the power loom had been used for decades before the Luddite uprisings.

It wasn’t the invention of these machines that provoked the Luddites to action. They only banded together once factory owners began using these machines to displace and disempower workers.

#working class history #labour

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It’s been so long since I’ve felt affection I’ve legit stopped having romantic crushes or fantasies.

you may now join the knights templar

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On This Day In History

May 3rd, 2001: The United States of America loses its seats on the United Nations Human Rights Commission for the first time since it was formed in 1947.

There are many reasons, and it is a complex story, but it largely has to do with internal politics, finding America's use of foreign military intervention heavy-handed, and the fact that the US had over one billion dollars of unpaid dues to the UN.

#one billion ... #united nations