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David Forbes
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*Peasant reckoning intensifies*
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David Forbes@davidforbes.bsky.social |
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Anarchic history, queer defiance, cooking and - of course - fighting city hall.
@avlblade.bsky.social editor. Writer and journalist. Trans gal. Eldritch dyke. She/They. 🏴🚩
Writing at: patreon.com/DavidForbes
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David Forbes
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*Peasant reckoning intensifies*
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David Forbes
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Sauv blanc, shrimp scampi and Black Sails with a good friend over here. Seems a better use of my time.
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Colin Spacetwinks
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if your only strategies to deal with an unfair media is "mope about it being unfair" or "get more racist to try and make them like you", and you've had tons of money and power and decades of time to do something about the problem, my sympathy turns quickly into "oh fucking well".
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
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I have always found it amusing that leaders of countries and political organizations will arrange their public meeting rooms to have one or two portraits on the wall, nothing else, and a bunch of random ass seats.
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David Forbes
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Look my ongoing headcanon of this hellscape election is that it's basically competing cabals of necromancers with their respective puppets. So this tracks as the obvious next shift in Dem strategy.
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David Forbes
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This is bound to work out well and not result in a bleak, shadowy (maybe even grim? And dark?) future. All great no problems whatsoever
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mx elle is eepy
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also don’t fuck your employees.
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🏳️⚧️Fae "deserves a Mech" Weichsel 🦾
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Signal boost folks. Another accuser of Neil Gaiman not apart of the tortoise has come for.
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Meredith Rose
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This site’s got the juice
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David Forbes
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As always, thank you for doing this. Still trying to get enough to make sure I can stay housed/pay the bills.
Still fighting being illegally fired for union activity but, like many labor fights, it's not a short one: paypal.me/SwordsAgainstThrone
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zhinxy and 1 other
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about
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zenzi [they/them] 🌈🇵🇸🇾🇪🇸🇩🇭🇹🍉
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my website expired because my bank account is negative meaning i wasnt able to pay for it this month. i haven’t been able to sell my art to make income but now i wont be able to since you cannot access my website 😓 im tired of asking for help, its embarrassing ☹️ Venmo: @zzz22 Cashapp: $ziizzzii
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David Forbes
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This is always an appropriate response when the english aristocracy acts like, well, the english aristocracy.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
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PSA UK no one gives a shit about your fanciness rules
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"Recently Juiced" Garak Tailor (She/They) $640/$700
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It's Shit ass Starmer. Licker of Terf Boot. Prime Minister of Cowards and assholes.
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David Forbes
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Sigh. Too damn often.
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
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i am tired of having to figure out who will misuse the power they are given over other people and withholding my support from those people. i want power flattened. i want people to have more options and i want less power in general held in the hands of individuals
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Nails Nathan
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They’re being very explicit about their fantasies and explicit plans
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David Forbes
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A stunning amount of local politics in the u.s. is explained by the fact that said BMW-driving wealthy business owners can't imagine anyone else existing... or zealously believes they don't deserve to.
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Ayo
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by the way, stop defending Neil Gaiman. I don’t want to see it. We don’t want to see it. You are surrounded by survivors at all times and you are telling them that your support is conditioned upon how much you liked their abuser.
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Anna Phylaxis
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Any outlet that doesn’t cover this story is making a choice to ignore it, and we should be asking why.
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David Forbes
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Hey y'all, if you want a good look at what our local leftist journalism co-op does and who we are, here's a wonderful place to start.
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David Forbes
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Speaking of being poor last year I got illegally fired for union activity. I filed labor charges but they're still in the bureaucracy.
I've stretched out my savings and funds I raised for nearly a year, but they run out soon and I'd really love to stay housed: paypal.me/SwordsAgainstThrone
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David Forbes
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Worth adding: every single queer cop is, without exception, the worst kind of traitor to our communities and struggles. They deserve to be treated accordingly in every time and place.
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David Forbes
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As someone who comes from rural poverty (and is still poor) let me reassure you in advance: ACAB. Cops are evil. No identity or experience excuses becoming one and the rest of us should always act accordingly.
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Jonathan Dresner
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Americans mostly think that the rest of the world has immigration policies that are pretty similar to what they *think* US immigration policies are like: open to almost anyone, with special dispensation for refugees. We haven't been that country ... maybe ever, but we think we're the norm.
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David Forbes
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Mornin'
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David Forbes
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Absolutely were. A lot of them. I wrote about their organization and tactics here: www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
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cagey ratfish 🐟🐈⬛🎨🏳️⚧️
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reskeet with a tweet you still think about i have this saved now, cuz it's just too handy
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David Forbes
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The Duellists is so criminally underrated.
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Jonas Goonface
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happy caesar salad day
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David Forbes
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Nah, instead we drew "competing cabals of necromancers and their decaying puppets" from the Late Empire deck.
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David Forbes
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I will never stop going on about this because the incredibly false tropes that get peddled about medieval commoners are still used to excuse reactionary politics. Which the NYT has provided us a sterling example of.
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David Forbes
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Almost a year ago I was illegally fired for union activity. I've rationed out the funds I raised, but they run out soon. I've filed labor charges, but they're still winding through the bureaucracy. I've searched for work, but I'm a trans woman who's higher-risk for covid. I'd like to stay housed:
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David Forbes
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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
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David Forbes
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Notably the redemption was usually a suicide mission.
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Themperor Kennedée🐸🏳️🌈
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This is why 100% we are eventually gonna have an honest to God Police Officer be revealed in the online left and then get defended "They had limited employment options and come from poverty!" "It was the only way they could make change in their rural community!" 🤡
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Stella
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Not arguing with the spirit of the request but it’s just really funny that we’ve been begging people to unsubscribe from the NYT forever for wave after wave of anti-trans articles, cheerleading the genocide of Palestinians etc, but the “don’t vote” opinion article was the dealbreaker
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David Forbes
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It's up there with the far-right using "Born in the USA" in trying to co-opting works that were against literally everything they stood for.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
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This speech really hits harder in Andreas Katsulas' voice.
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David Forbes
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"A Distant Mirror" honestly remains a masterpiece. Like bring some grains of salt because there's been a lot of research since but it's really good and revealing.
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David Forbes
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Thank you! Happy to help with any other questions if they emerge.
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David Forbes
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Raises a good point. Very much depended on era and location. Larger conflicts outside the "fighting season" (and more supply set-ups) became more frequent later in the era. E.g. 1375 Gugler War where knights/mercs launched an autumn invasion of the Alps and supply was a major factor in their loss.
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David Forbes
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Hey, fantasy worlds are great and now that you've got the info you can use as you wish. Good luck with the piece!
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David Forbes
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Off the top of my head Albert Winkler's work on the "Swiss" late medieval militia system has some of that info.
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David Forbes
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Thank you! I wrote about peasant organizing and fighting here (fair warning, at some length) that incorporates some of the supply stuff both on offense and defense. The attached Notes piece has some of the sources that go in more depth. www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...
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David Forbes
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Mercenaries were kind of weirdly in-between. Some of the more organized companies had rations but as a whole were infamous for just stealing whatever they needed at the time, to the point that mercenary starving after a lost battle denied that to them wasn't unheard of.
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David Forbes
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There's documents from some of the more organized peasant commune forces specifying rations for their militia. Generally, at start of campaign two weeks' worth on each fighter, enough to sustain but not slow them down. Other stores held by supply wagons or taken from the enemy.
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David Forbes
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Depends but yes, generally they'd have at least some rations on them. If they're a commoner might have some other tools as well, as that's who dug field fortifications. Ironically if a noble or retainer, less likely to have food/water immediately on them because they had servants for that.
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