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Do kids today even understand why podcasts are called podcasts?

#podcast #history #broadcast #ipod

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Women worked hard to supplement a diet that consisted largely of bread and potatoes, corn and peas, beans and cabbage, and milk from cows fed on “swill”—byproducts of the city’s distilleries. In good times, they might add salt meat and cheese, a little butter, some sugar, coffee, and tea. But meat and poultry, though widely available in city markets, were expensive, even when purchased for a reduced price at the end of the market day. Many working-class wives therefore kept their own animals, notably pigs; lacking the space to board them, they let the hogs run free to scavenge for themselves. New York had long been infamous for its thousands of porcine prowlers, and when city fathers once again tried to sweep them from the streets, they touched off a raucous confrontation with poor mothers.

In 1818 Mayor Cadwallader Colden regretted that “our wives and daughters cannot walk abroad through the streets of the city without encountering the most disgusting spectacles of these animals indulging the propensities of nature.” Copulating and defecating porkers were a decidedly ungenteel sight, and their “grunting ferocity” could be dangerous to children. Colden empaneled a grand jury, which indicted a butcher, Christian Harriet, as a public nuisance for keeping hogs on the streets. He hired a lawyer, who contended that customary social practices, especially those “of immemorial duration,” could not be declared a public nuisance unless they violated standards held in common by the entire population. Pigs might offend ladies and dandies, “who are too delicate to endure the sight, or even the idea of so odious a creature.” But “many poor families might experience far different sensations, and be driven to beggary or the Alms House,” if deprived of this source of sustenance. Mayor Colden, in charging the jury, ruled the food factor irrelevant, and Harriet was convicted, establishing the absence of a legal right to keep pigs in the street. In 1821 the Common Council ordered a roundup of the swinish multitudes, but when pig-owning Irish and African-American women discovered city officials seizing their property, they mobilized, hundreds strong, and forcibly liberated the animals. Further hog riots broke out in 1825, 1826, 1830, and 1832, invariably ending with the women saving their bacon.

— Mike Wallace and Edwin G. Burrows, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (1998)

#pigs #riot #working class #history #women #livestock #new york city

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If you like the wellerman, try on this classic

#songs #union songs #union #workers #workers songs #class #classism #tiktok #singing #sea shanties

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your daily dose of “orwell and the spanish civil war” tweets

#books #reading #orwell #1984 #george orwell #fascist #fascism #spanish civil war

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they keep adding bits and it even better

#wellerman #sea shanties #tiktok #singing #song #video

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#chinese #poetry #lu you #cats #poem #pets #ancient china

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The Muse’s Revenge, Ilya Milstein

#art #pablo picasso #cubism #picasso #women #gilot #francoise gilot #artist #painting #history #education #abuse #misogyny #sexism

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I am currently studying memes academically. I thought you might enjoy the current proposed “ages” of internet memes

#meme #memes #reddit #lore #academia

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Venom

#venom #metal #speed metal #80's #old formation #black metal #music #photo #art

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This has to be one of the most disgusting things I’ve read in a long time. 

TL;DR: Jim Crow white courts couldn’t be trusted so Black people resisted with an alternative legal way of establishing “heir’s rights” and in turn later in the Jim Crow period white lawyers and lawmakers came up with a away to steal the land anyway and this process of racist dispossession of Black people from land they’ve lived on for hundreds of years has only gotten more rapid and violent in the New Jim Crow period. 

#racism #transatlantic slave trade #colonialism #neocolonialism #race #jim crow #property #farming #farms #land #new jim crow

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#economics #class #social justice #politics #wealth #money #twitter #tweet

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Very informative thread -source

#food industry #food waste #sustainable agriculture #agriculture #ugly food #tweet #twitter #food #politics

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pls give me 1(one) reason aces have ever been oppressed, and 1(one) example of aces being a part of lgbt history(before 2004 at least) and then maybe i’ll consider the idea that aces belong in the lgbt community lol

#ace #asexual #polyamorous #sexuality #bisexual #research #bi #resources #organization #relationship #sex

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I will never belong to any man ever again.

#the scandalous lady w #seymour fleming #period drama #costumes #gif #movie #film

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#gundam #robots #gundam wing #yokohama #japan

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#tweet #twitter #simpsons #the simpsons #parody #future

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#lol #humor #meme #cats #funny