Omusa Steelhorn

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

The beatings will continue until moral improves.

Thanks for the reminder, Gazlowe

(Audio is from a clip by Northernlion)

"Girls only go for 6ft+ men", no, wrong, girls go for whatever this is

screenshot from world of warcraft. a night elf druid is trying to run through the orgrimmar portal in dornogal. what an idiot

me whenever i log onto an alliance character:

It’s true. Especially the second part. 😂

Stuff like this is perfect because it shows how utterly devoid of creativity genAI evangelists are.

Great you recreated a photo that already exists in a drawing style that only has currency because of who you're stealing it from giving the world something with absolutely no value or meaning.

A zoomed in screenshot of my mage character holding a wand called Rocket Taped to a Screwdriver, that does in fact look like a goblin-style rocket taped to a screwdriver. The yellow description text on the tooltip says "It's genius." The goblins are all right.

Found a cool wand

#WorldOfWarcraft

I've entered my shrinky dink era lmao. Right now still just learning how to make them but I'm really interested in seeing how the layering will turn out.

The art from the entire post is styled like a news channel report. In the top left corner the name of the channel is "KTV" and it has the Kirin Tor logo. All the interviews take place in Dornogal. There is a microphone in each shot, which breaks the immersion for comedic value. The microphone is purple and it says "KT news" on it, with the eye of the Kirin Tor symbol. Shazi is interviewed as she is walking through Dornogal. The interviewer asks "What are your thoughts on Jaina Proudmoore?". Without stopping, Shazi flips her hair and replies "I don't think about Jaina Proudmoore.

On the left side of the screen there is news like graphic with the Kirin Tor logo and it says "Wariani, Deathlord of the Ebon Blade." On screen we see a female draenei Deathknight who has grabbed the microphone from the interviewers hand. She says: "Jaina Proudmoore is one of the greatest heroes this world has ever known. She is also third on our list for potential candidates to raise in undeath for the Ebon Blade."

On screen is a confused looking Night Elf druid (Telarius). The interviewer asks "What are your thoughts on Jaina Proudmoore?". He replies "I don't know, I just woke up."

On screen is a Zandalari troll with long dark blue hair and light gray skin. The graphic on the side says "Palanzual, Prelate in service of the Zandalari Royal Family". The interviewer holds up the microphone, but there is no text. No one says anything.

Asking the visitors around Dornogal about their thoughts on Jaina Proudmoore and her role in the Kirin Tor 💜🎤 (also known as me dispelling the idea that I hate Jaina, featuring my four mains (in character): Shazi, Waria, Telarius and Palanzual) 💙

#worldfowarcraft #skymagpieart #shazidra #WoWoc

I would def love some Kodo as a tauren tbh. I would also like a spirit eagle flight form.

I got a full time job so for now comms are closed. Will still be around lurking and posting art tho!

These slap.

Me when I magically appear to beat your ass if you treat a retail worker like shit this holiday season.

A dracthyr from Warcraft depicted from the waist up. A glowing scroll is floating in their hands in front of them. The dracthyr is wearing purple and silver armor and has bronze scales. Their wings are folded and have silver webbing.

Drawing done for Ivoryforge of their dracthyr. It was nice to get back to drawing again.

Drawing again finally after moving my desk to a different room of the house.

Sometimes I miss playing as an orc. I do miss my big gay bear.

Sorry I haven't been very active art wise. I've been very emotionally busy. Thanks for sticking with me! I will try to update with non art stuff more often too.

The difference between Gallywix and Sylvanas/Garrosh is that Gallywix has always been written as a total shit head from the get go, so everyone is like "lmao fuck that guy".

Garrosh did have more development into "this is why he sucks" but Sylvanas was such a weird shitty lore pivot.

Here’s my most liked art probably anywhere.

Some symmetry drawings I did in CSP.

last frame lol

I may have deserved this.

#warcraft

Why is he so grumpy all the time?

#warcraft #warcraftart #tauren #furry #bloodelf

RUN, don't walk!! to the latest page of LIES WITHIN 🩸 lieswithincomic.com

#webcomics #Hiveworks

Enjoy your bean water today on International Coffee day.

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cover of animorphs #17 the underground, a blonde girl is transforming into a bat in a 5 step sequence

me on oct 1

They're like Ted and Marius but the warlock is grumpier and the demon hunter is a mess.

#warcraft #wip #sketch

Half of a small project I'm doing.