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As an additional fun fact, I can add that if you wanted to flex on your neighbors, and show them that you're rich and can afford fancy shit like firewood, you could keep the ends of your logs sticking out of the walls for like, 40 cm (the more the better).

That basically showed that you don't need to cut of parts of your house to keep the furnace running

I love being autistic because in no other world would I be this entertained by simple things like a list of ways that polish villagers made their houses

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Anyways

The first method that Janicki describes is "na zrąb" or "na węgieł" (log cabin adjacent ig)

They were constructed by stacking logs (before the XX century they were kept whole, or just cut in half because sawmills weren't really accessible to peasants) on top of each other. In the corners, where two walls met, the ends of the logs overlapped and were connected by proper cuts, called "węgły".

Thanks to the węgły, the building was more sturdy and didn't need any form of additional support (like nails, those were very precious cause metal was kinda sparse sometimes) All you really had to do, apart from the stacking, was just stick some moss, sawdust or clay in between the logs to keep you warm.

And voila, you've got the base of the cottage

I love being autistic because in no other world would I be this entertained by simple things like a list of ways that polish villagers made their houses

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So, for anyone curious,

I'm currently reading a book by Kamil Janicki called "Życie w chłopskiej chacie" ("Life in a peasant's cottage"), and the author details different ways that these cottages were build.

First of all, practically all cottages were made out of wood (pine tree was the most widely used, fir trees were popular in the south, and if you were out of options you could've used a lime tree, although houses made out of it were known to fall apart faster. People blamed it on demons living inside of them).

Making your house out of something less flammable, like idk stone or bricks was seen as preposterous. Why? Well, polish peasants were very attached to traditions and taboos. If your dad and his dad and his dad etc. did things in a certain way you HAD to follow that tradition. Otherwise you were asking for a tragedy.

Because of this, as implied, these cottages were extremely prone to burning down. This, combined with poverty that all peasants lived in during serfdom (pańszczyzna) it was nearly impossible for these houses to last more then a decade.

They were made not to last, after all, but to simply protect people from the elements during the few hours of the day when they didn't have to work in the field.

I love being autistic because in no other world would I be this entertained by simple things like a list of ways that polish villagers made their houses

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I love being autistic because in no other world would I be this entertained by simple things like a list of ways that polish villagers made their houses

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Knock knock

Who's there?

The owl.

Who?

You

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Everyone needs an angel and a devil on their shoulder

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Damn bro....

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decentralize and clean up your life!!!

use overdrive, libby, hoopla, cloudlibrary, and kanopy instead of amazon and audible.

use firefox instead of chrome or opera (both are made with chromium, which blocks functionality for ad-blockers. firefox isn't based on chromium).

use mega or proton drive instead of google drive.

get rid of bloatware

use libreoffice instead of microsoft office suite

use vetted sites on r/FREEMEDIAHECKYEAH for free movies, books, games, etc.

use trakt or letterboxd instead of imdb.

use storygraph instead of goodreads.

use darkpatterns to find mobile game with no ads or microtransactions

use ground news to read unbiased news and find blind spots in news stories.

use mediahuman or cobalt to download music, or support your favorite artists directly through bandcamp

make youtube bearable by using mtube, newpipe, or the unhook extension on chrome, firefox, or microsoft edge

use search for a cause or ecosia to support the environment instead of google

use thriftbooks to buy new or used books (they also have manga, textbooks, home goods, CDs, DVDs, and blurays)

use flashpoint to play archived online flash games

find books, movies, games, etc. on the internet archive! for starters, here's a bunch of David Attenborough documentaries and all of the Animorphs books

burn your music onto cds

use pdf24 (available online or as a desktop app) instead of adobe

use unroll.me to clean your email inboxes

use thunderbird, mailfence, countermail, edison mail, tuta, or proton mail instead of gmail

remove bloatware on windows PC, macOS, and iOS X

remove bloatware on samsung X

use pixelfed instead of instagram or meta

use NCH suite for free software like a file converter, image editor, video editors, pdf editor, etc.

feel free to add more alternatives, resources or advice in the reblogs or replies, and i'll add them to the main post <3

last updated: march 18th 2025

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my favorite projection headcanon is that susie is a (especially horror/slasher) film nerd and so is noelle and they watch movies together and talk about movies together and

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The sillies

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me holding a gun to a mushroom: tell me the name of god you fungal piece of shit

mushroom: can you feel your heart burning? can you feel the struggle within? the fear within me is beyond anything your soul can make. you cannot kill me in a way that matters

me cocking the gun, tears streaming down my face: I’M NOT FUCKING SCARED OF YOU

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I love slavic languages cos they're all using basically the same volcabulary but cannot fucking decide which word has what meaning

like "czerstwy" in polish means stale, but "čerstvý" in czech means fresh, "zaraz" in polish means in a moment, but in ukrainian it means now, "szukać" in polish means to look for and in czech "šukat" means to suck a dick

How do you even make that happen

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Adding to this, we basically have our own idioms. Spider Georg, piss on the poor etc which is even cooler. I will be forever sad when this Hellsite goes down in flames

when did tumblr collectively decide not to use punctuation like when did this happen why is this a thing