i like when characters are entirely consumed by emotion :) i like when characters are delirious and out of their mind :) i like when characters are filed down to base instincts :) i love altered states of consciousness
that picture of the little boy holding a puppy and smiling with the writing on the bottom that says hi daddy this is my doggy chelsea isn’t she cute i love you and the picture of the cat with the writing that says our michael… pet photos of all time
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like “I’m not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it.” Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won’t let you copy and paste:
i agree with everything this post is saying and think it is and think it’s important to understand the relationship between the automation of domestic labor and increased quality of life for women, but this facebook story appears to be completely fake and I don’t think it’s helpful for an otherwise solid post to be going around with a big chunk of mush tacked on to the end. If anyone can some citation for this story outside of facebook reposts I’d love to hear it.
searching for the original post on facebook found me a version of it with citations included
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i went ahead and looked for all of these supposed references individually, and none of them exist at all. the closest one of these comes to existing seems to be a library of congress page called rural life in the late 19th century which is of course completely unrelated. if you search specifically for any of the exact string of words here it just brings you back to endless different facebook reposts of the exact same story.
I did a really brief google search to see if I could find similar information from more credible sources without the fictionalized biographical elements. Here’s an article from history.com about the new deal era electrification of rural american homes.
For rural people who didn’t have electricity in their homes, electrification wasn’t just power lines or outlets. It meant the strange, often jaw-dropping experience of going from a home with outdated, hand-powered technology to one that seemed to do its own chores, light its own rooms, and allow for modern miracles like washing machines and radios.
Here’s an excerpt from the book evolving households: the imprint of technology on life that takes an economic-focused look at the effect of household appliances on womens’ labor. here’s an impressive number:
In 1900, the average household spent 58 hours a week on housework, including meal preparation, laundry, and cleaning—a figure that dropped to 18 hours in 1975.
58 hours to 18. In the span of a single lifetime, a household shaved an entire full time job’s worth of hours off of their domestic work! On the subject of laundry specifically, here’s an actual account of one woman’s transition from an analog laundry setup to an electric one, and the time and effort it saved her.
The researchers reported on one subject, Mrs. Verett, in detail. Without electricity, she did her laundry in the manner described above, though using a gas-powered washing machine instead of a scrub board. A 38-pound load of laundry took her about four hours to wash and another 4.5 to iron. After electrification, Mrs. Verett had an electric washer, dryer, and iron, as well as a water system with a heater; it took 41 minutes to do a similar load and 1.75 hours to iron it. The woman walked 3,181 feet to do the laundry by hand, and only 332 feet with electrical equipment. She walked 3,122 feet when ironing the old way, and 333 the new way.
so moral of the post is automation of domestic labor is good and please do not trust the validity of unsourced blocks of text. and especially do not trust the validity of what is pretty transparently facebook tearjerker virality bait content, most likely ai generated based on how well it scans (not that screenshots of facebook clickbait were more likely to be reliable before AI or anything!)
in Cerobian literature, lunnimmer and sollimmer, or lunne and solle, are Floribellian Spirits residing over the moon and sun respectively. With their strong Ami, they power the celestial objects and allow them to nurture the world. their tragic love story is told throughout the rainbow pelago
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