Search results for tag #history
Inside the coal miners' washhouse of an abandoned colliery in England. Since the mine closed in the 1970s, this space has been left decaying and shuttered.
#History #Photography #England #AbandonedPlaces #CoalMining #Coal
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A decaying former coal mine washhouse with sinks, a green staircase, and a prominent "CHANGING AREA" sign. Peeling paint and grime cover the surfaces.
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Abandoned shower block
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Large decaying room
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Decaying corridor with yellow door
A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Head in a Sealed Mexican Tomb Raises Questions History Can’t Answer
New instance, same content.
He/him.
Tag soup of work and interests: #SystemsEngineering, #softwareengineering, #devops #programming, #cloud, #motorcycles, #bicycles, #karate, #retrocomputing, #VintageComputing, #calculators, #homelab, #electronics, #history, #economics, #blacksmithing, #polyamory, #HudsonValley, #NYS
In memory of Grant Vernon Hart, American musician, drummer and co-songwriter for the alternative rock and hardcore punk band Hüsker Dü, singer and guitarist of Nova Mob, born on this day in 1961, St. Paul, Minnesota
📸 David Brewster
#punk #punkrock #granthart #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"For Fascism the tendency to Empire, that is to say, to the expansion of nations, is a manifestation of vitality; its opposite, staying at home, is a sign of decadence." - Benito Mussolini, 1932.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
Another house by Guðjón Samúelsson at Vífilsstaðir is currently being renovated, so there's hope for this one. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #door
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Stairs with a rusty railing leading to a red door
Canteen or break room for the factory workers of the Robert Fletcher & Sons Paper Mill, England. Now demolished.
#Photography #Manchester #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces #LostPlaces #Urbex #History
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tables in an old canteen, walls have red peeling paint. split flight stairs lead up to a mezzanine floor
Both the United States and Israel were shaped by political systems built alongside racial hierarchy and contested citizenship.
Each proclaimed democratic ideals while simultaneously managing populations excluded from the full promise of those ideals.
They are both profoundly unfree and racially riven societies..
That shared history matters.
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#iran #history #histodons #israel #blackmastodon
Image: Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Joe Biden at Ben Guirion Airport on October 18, 2023. AFP.
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U.S. President Joe Biden embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during an official meeting, both men wearing dark suits. Biden’s face is visible over Netanyahu’s shoulder, showing a solemn expression as they hold each other closely.
Long story short: lies. Damned lies. And so forth.
Or, in newspaperese, "claims," "wrong," "misleading," "unsupported."
You knew that already but it doesn't hurt to document the liars and the lies they told.
It's a good article, and thorough.
"That catalog of claims reveals that many of those statements were wrong, misleading or unsupported by evidence, with the Trump administration trying to shape public perception of an immigration crackdown that had become increasingly unpopular."
We checked the accuracy of dozens of federal claims made during Operation Metro Surge
By Sofia Barnett
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Amanda Anderson, Anna Boone, Susan Du, Eva Herscowitz, Eleanor Hildebrandt, Kim Hyatt, Greta Kaul, Allison Kite, Mara Klecker, Louis Krauss, Bill Lukitsch, Christopher Magan, Jeffrey Meitrodt, Sarah Nelson, Walker Orenstein, Liz Sawyer, Jake Steinberg and Jessie Van Berkel of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this story.
https://www.startribune.com/trump-minnesota-ice-information/601588557?utm_source=gift
#Minnesota #Minneapolis #lies #history #consequences #journalism #LocalNewspapers
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Deportees board a charter flight Dec. 16, 2025, at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. (Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune)
—from the article
Why St. Patrick’s Day Also Honors Cats | HISTORY https://www.history.com/articles/march-17-saint-gertrude-cats
#ManyFacesOfPickle #ManyFacesOfPickle #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue #History
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In a photo illustration, a brown tabby cat lies on the bartop of an Irish-themed bar, head and shoulders visible between a large green barrel behind his head, and a rock with a green shamrock painted on it, with carved letters wishing a Happy St Patrick 's. One ear of the cat has been turned inside out, which he is aware of, but not bothered by, with partly closed green eyes more interested in getting their picture taken.
@Slash909uk @phlash Oh! I had forgotten I had these online. These are from when we built Genie Internet for Cellnet - Originally on the Telex floor (where Wireplay was), and then we had to move it up to the 5th or 6th onto my office floor, where the corporate networks hung out. This was the install record, sadly taken on a 1999 digital camera, sorry! I had a skim, there's nothing in there that would be considered classified these days.
The Celnet Genie service, which we designed as an "ISP in a box", was pretty amazing, really, especially for an essentially free ISP.
Also, it's one of those odd jobs where you end up as both lead applications architect, systems manager, server builder, removal dude, and underfloor cable rat and crimper in the same project. I feel jobs like that in big corporations tend not to exist any more.
#retrocomputing #security #cybersecurity #infosec #bt #london #keybridge #mi6 #security #ISPs #Cellnet #Genie #O2 #bigiron #history #abandoned #photography #Telecoms #Telex #Buildings #Architecture
The Hymn to Inanna (also known as The Great-Hearted Mistress) is a passionate devotional work by the poet and high priestess Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE), the first author in the world known by name. #History #Sumer #Inanna #Enheduanna #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2109-en/
One major concern about this work is that the title might make some individuals think that it is a “true crime” book, or a “whodunnit. #History #ColonialHistory #Homicide #Microhistory #NewZealand #NorthIsland #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/8-554-en/
Final house I'll be posting from Vífilsstaðir. Built in 1925, it was originally meant for the steward of Vífilsstaðir and was later used for housing workers at the hospital. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture
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A beautiful house that has definitely seen better days.
A reflective look at what each generation left behind, from culture to conflict to progress, and how those inheritances shaped the world we live in today.
https://medium.com/@rwarwriter/about-your-inheritance-46ee9acef419
#GenerationalHistory #AmericanCulture #SocialChange #HistoricalPerspective #CulturalInheritance #climatechange
#Boomers #Pollution #History #AmericanHistory
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A sign in support of environmental action held aloft during a protest.
The Code of Hammurabi podcast from In Our Time
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r4v1
Apparently if you can swim across the river, you are not a witch.
Yosemite 1855 and Yosemite National Park today. For more information https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/library-acquires-early-yosemite-drawing-and-rare-1855-lithograph/s/3ff9d95c-fd4c-4570-bc8e-5196289c64cb and https://www.nps.gov/yose/index.htm and https://yosemite.org/ and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography Image credit (1) Thomas Almond Ayres / Library of Congress and (2) Yosemite Conservancy and National Park Service #yosemite #cawx #winter #trees #california #yosemitefalls #sun #nationalpark #geology #nature #waterfall #history #loc #library #libraryofcongress #drawing #lithograph #art
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“Sketched From Nature By T. A. Ayres.” A drawing by Thomas Almond Ayres from 1855, showing Yosemite Falls and Yosemite Valley. The lithograph, also from 1855, is a monochromatic work with drawing above and text below. Yosemite would be protected (initially) by Abraham Lincoln under the Yosemite Grant Act of 1864 and by Congress (as a national park) in 1890. The upper section of the drawing includes the separate parts of Yosemite Falls. The lower section of the drawing is an intimate and detailed view of trees, people, and horses.
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Yosemite Falls today. This image, taken from the valley floor, shows blue sky (top left), silver grey granite (left), green trees and shrubs (right), and the gushing white Upper Yosemite Fall (center). Thanks to the Yosemite Conservancy and the National Park Service for providing these beautiful images.
Bella Ciao - Vom deutschen Soldaten zum Partisan
Ab 12UT
Sommer 1944. Mehr als eine Million deutsche #Soldaten kämpfen in Italien. Immer weniger von ihnen glauben noch daran, dass #Deutschland den 2. Weltkrieg gewinnen kann. Viele werden Zeugen der #Kriegsverbrechen, die #SS und #Wehrmacht an der italienischen Zivilbevölkerung begehen.
Und einige treffen eine hochriskante Entscheidung: sie laufen zu den italienischen #Partisanen über. Ihre #Geschichte ist kaum bekannt, denn auch nach dem Ende des #Nationalsozialismus schwiegen die Heimkehrer, um nicht als #Vaterlandsverräter bestraft zu werden. 80 Jahre später gehen drei #Nachfahren in #Italien auf #Spurensuche.
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#BellaCiao #Partisan
#VdN
Belly Of The Beast! Inside a Nord Noratlas military aircraft, left abandoned by the runway somewhere in France. They operated in the 1950s -1980s transporting troops, paratroopers, cargo or medics and patients.
Would you spend the night in here? Apparently you now can! Someone bought it, hauled it away and turned it into an AirBnB!
#Airplane #History #Abandoned #Military #Transport #Photography #Abandoned
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The decaying interior of an abandoned Nord Noratlas military aircraft with exposed ribs, round windows, and tattered benches
Out now: 69% of residents believe the United States should never declare an official religion. Just imagine the mess if the government tried to foist one religious group’s beliefs on so varied a people.
Yet that’s effectively what Christian nationalists are attempting to do today. https://www.texasobserver.org/a-wall-thats-worth-defending/
#politics #USpol #news #constitution #history #books #bookstodon
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Chuck describes the rise of Black Wall Street , despite lacking orthodox factors leading to economic success.
One of the reasons for success is money circulated in the community. When you hear me grouse about large corporations, bleeding communities by exporting money, this is why. Corporate operation in a community is no different what happens to developing countries by global trade
"Art is for everybody." — Keith Haring
You carry it the way Haring carried chalk into a tunnel: without asking permission. Art, protest, the act of showing your face — none of it waits for approval. You make the thing. You put it where people have to see it. When they say it doesn't belong, you draw it bigger. Pick up whatever you've got and fucking use it.
#trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-daily-exhale-if-we-won-the-war-in-iran-why-are-we-still-fight
What Wendy's Doing:
Trump said we won the war in Iran on day one. If that is true, why the fuck is the US escorting ships through the Straight of Hormuz? So Fuck it. I Cried. Got angry. Wrote this. Some mornings the truth tastes like gunpowder.
#trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-daily-exhale-if-we-won-the-war-in-iran-why-are-we-still-fighting
Chuck Schumer stood at the podium Sunday and called the SAVE America Act one of the most despicable pieces of legislation I've come across.
That cock-juggling thunder-cunt Donald Trump won't sign any legislation until this bill hits his desk — because when your numbers are in the gutter, you don't fix the plumbing, you rig the water supply. The bill demands proof of citizenship to register
#trans #queer #lgbtqia #news #liberal #progressive #nonfiction #history #culture
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/the-daily-exhale-if-we-won-the-war-in-iran-why-are-we-still-fight
images of Jogyesa Temple in Seoul, South Korea, founded in 1395
#architecture #design #spiritual #spirituality #buddha #buddhist #buddhism #artist #artists #artwork #yoga #meditation #history #nature #arthistory #travel #travels #traveling #traveler #travelers #korea #southkorea
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a very large gateway, extensively detailed with designs, golden letters on a large plaque on the front, seen from the front in a three quarter view, the sky cloudy
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a person on the platform of a crane, reaching upwards to adjust rows and rows of colorful lanterns lined up according to colors
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a building at the temple complex, it has blue-green roof and walls, some of the walls red, very colorful, seen from the front in a three quarter view, a tree and some sculptures in front of the building, some people walking around outside of it
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three golden buddhas sitting on the altar, glowing lanterns in front of them, two of the buddhas on the left and right are raising their right hands up, the center one has his resting on his knees palms down
'And don't come back!' they could've yelled as the Redcoats sailed away
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/and-dont-come-back-they-couldve-yelled-redcoats-sailed-away
Come for the photos of Revolutionary re-enactors, stay for the photo of Knox the Ox and his faithful companion, Gates.
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Revolutionary re-enactors marching to top of Dorchester Heights to menace Redcoats with cannons
New from @drdrbrockman: When our nation’s Founders took the revolutionary step of creating a republic with no state #religion they likely never envisioned how religiously diverse the nation would become.
Now, that diversity, & the wall of separation that enabled it, are under attack: https://www.texasobserver.org/a-wall-thats-worth-defending/
#politics #USpol #news #Trump #fascism #history #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
Rievaulx Abbey, N. Yorkshire. Another Cistercian monastery founded in the early 12C and dissolved by Henry VIII in 1538. A one hour drive from home, it is at the centre of one of my long term ecology research sites.
Never thought I'd be engraving it. Engraving details in ALT text. What to do with window and door spaces? Several options, all with opportunities and risks...
#WoodEngraving #art #history #architecture
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Colour photo. Ruined mediaeval monastery buildings around a manicured cloister lawn, in a wooded valley on a sunny day. Buildings to the left are largely low stumps of wall giving little away about their past. In front of the camera a long wall has round-arched arcades - intact on the left, broken on the right and between them an ornate round-arched doorway. In the wall above all this are three, tall windows with pointed arches.
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10x10 cm block of lemonwood, polished and inked black. A section of the wall in the photo is being drawn with a very fine pencil, in preparation for engraving.
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The first window has been engraved. Most of the block is covered in paper so that I don't rub out the rest of the drawing as I engrave each section.
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The wall and all its details are almost finished. The doorway and window spaces have not been started and are still black and will print black. Do I leave them black, make them plain white or attempt to represent the fine detail seen in the photo? I can try all three, by making prints at different stages. But at each stage I have to make irreversible decisions.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP94-Vietnam2.mp3
Post 1956, several battles are fought between North and South Vietnam. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 gives US President LBJ authority to increase US involvement in the Vietnam War. Accords of 1973 call for a ceasefire and North Vietnam triggers one last offensive towards reunification.
#history #VietnamWar
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Fall of Saigon: news headlines
For those keeping track, to rub it in #MAGA faces...
We are already at 3.25X #Benghazi. Even if your "patriotic" acquaintance doesn't value all human life, this is officially a shitshow.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/16/us-troops-iran-war
#Iran #USA #war #USPol #history #TTJ
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Screenshot of linked Guardian article.
At least 200 American troops woundedin Iran war, US military says
Details from US Central Command come as 13 US servicemembers and more than1,300 Iranians have been killed.
Gloria Oladipo
Mon16 Mar2026 17.31EDT
What a haunted view!
Taken at Pillnitz Castle.
#writing #amwriting #writingcommunity #witch #magic #history #historical #photography
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A wall leading up to a castle next to a river. The golden light of sunset taints the wintry landscape in a warm shade.
He poured infected vomit into his eyes. He fried it in a pan and inhaled the steam. He built a small closet and sat inside it, breathing. Then he drank it — and noted the taste was "very slightly acid." Stubbins Ffirth never got sick, declared victory, and graduated. He was right for entirely the wrong reasons: the man who drank the plague.
#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories
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The Man Who Drank the Plague
48 years ago today
Generation X is the first studio album by English punk rock band Generation X, released on this day in 1978 featuring the single "Ready Steady Go"
#punk #punks #punkrock #GenerationX #billyIdol #history #punkrockhistory #otd
This one might be interesting to anyone interested in computer gaming history.
I spent the last couple of weeks finally finishing a project I started for Bletchley Park about 20 years ago. Recreating the original MUD and MIST on a mirror of the original Essex University system that finally closed in 1991.
Roy Trubshaw and Richard Bartle wrote the first online multi-user game (MUD) on Essex University's DECSystem-10 in 1978 and it ran till I closed it in 1991. I diligently backed everything up so I could potentially recover it one day, but as far as I can see, all the DECSystem-10's went to the great scrapyard in the sky, my backups were mostly stolen when my first museum was stolen, and I had huge issues recovering the Essex BCPL compiler to compile what I had left when I finally got a decent TOPS-10 emulator running on a VAX for Bletchley Park.
One good thing about being an unemployable whistleblower is free time, so I finally hunkered down to some 90 hour weeks and built a software replica of the Essex system I think reflects it well. It's running on a KS10 not a KL10 but I had to let some things slip.
I put the latest known versions of MUD and MIST on it, and miraculously found ROCK too.
So, to meander to the point, if you want to see and relive exactly what online multi user gaming was like from 1978 to 1991, you can go to https://dec10.uknet.net and login as guest, then follow the terse instructions from there.
In those days, you were generally faced with a "." prompt and left mostly alone, so for authenticity, I will leave it at that.
I should note that this is a museum peice, without a community they are still wildly popular games with a huge community in snapshot-form at the moment. But I will leave them up and running to see. I wasn't going to, but Richard seemed happy to have MUD running, and former MIST players wanted it back, so...
Pop this a share if you know folks who might be interested.
#history #digital #retrogaming #retrocomputing #games #mud #muds #mist #rock #computers #emulation #emulators #vms #tops10 #museum #history #bletchleypark #simh #essex #uk #computinghistory #36bit #engineering
(don't try this on a phone!)
#WomensHistoryMonth Day 12 - Conservationist, marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson helped spark the environmental movement with her book 'Silent' Spring' about the dangers of pesticides. Her home where she wrote the book is now a National Historic Landmark.
Where in the World...did she write 'Silent Spring'?
Click to guess and find out on this #map:
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=214&type=q
#Science #Environment #History
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Photo of Rachel Carson.
In St Levan's Churchyard, Cornwall, is St Levan's Stone - a boulder split down the middle. It's said that St Levan would sit on the stone to rest after his fishing trips. One day, he struck the stone with his staff and repeated this rhyme:
" When with panniers astride,
A packhorse can ride,
Through St Levan's Stone,
The world will be done."
Thankfully, the split is not yet wide enough to usher in the apocalypse. Some have speculated that the stone, due to its 'labial' shape, may have been a focus of pagan rituals that later transferred themselves to a Christian saint. #mythologymonday #folklore #weird #mythology #Cornwall #history
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A domelike boulder neatly split in two in a churchyard beneath a blue sky. In the background, part of the church can be seen, along with graves and a bench.
Once their people were sold on the "master race" idea, it was easy for the fascists to make them feel that other people were of no more consequence than vermin.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
On this day in 1903, Saint Patrick's Day was first celebrated as an official public holiday in Ireland. James O'Mara, the Member of Parliament for South Kilkenny, first introduced the Bank Holiday (Ireland) Act 1903, making Saint Patrick's Day a national holiday. #History
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A float is seen during the St. Patrick's day parade in Dublin, Ireland March 17, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne.
There's a widespread myth that medieval people used spices to cover up the taste of rotten meat.
The whole story traces back to one book. In 1939, a scientist named J.C. Drummond published The Englishman's Food and suggested that medieval recipes were so heavily spiced because the meat was frequently tainted. No evidence. Just an assumption. One sentence in one book published 85 years ago.
@Dr_TheHistories #medieval #spices #food #history
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Medieval food banquet
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP127-Iran_Part_2.mp3
The Shah of Iran initiated the White Revolution in 1963, which aimed to modernize Iran through land reform, women's suffrage, literacy programs, and industrial growth. While it brought economic growth, it also caused social disruption and increased opposition, contributing to the 1979 Islamic Revolution
#history #Iran
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Iran celebrates Ayatollah Khomeni's return in Feb 1979
The fascists do not choose to abandon their system and give up their graft, and so they are forced to acquire foreign markets and to eliminate competing nations.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
"The Great Abolitionist" is the first major biography of Charles Sumner to be published in over 50 years. Acclaimed historian Stephen Puleo relates the story of one of the most influential political figures in American history with evocative and accessible prose, transporting readers back to an era when our leaders exhibited true courage and authenticity in the face of unprecedented challenges.
Books by Charles Sumner at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1986
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Cartoon of the caning of Charles Sumner on the Senate floor. There are other Senators arguing in the background.
This's pretty great by Eleanor Courtemanche on why British suffragettes were more violent than their US counterparts
'The moment when the fight for the women’s vote in Britain flipped from its longstanding commitment to nonviolence to a campaign of bombing and arson (from about 1912-1914) falls into a peculiar historical blind spot. It doesn’t fit in neatly to the liberal heroic narrative about how women organized peacefully in vast rallies...It doesn’t really fit the leftist narrative of these years either'
48 years ago
Tina Weymouth of the Talking Heads with her famous funky Gibson Recorder Bass, live in Dallas, Texas, March 1978
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #basswoman #tinaweymouth #talkingheads #newwave #history #punkrockhistory
I just got called a #Nazi by someone who mentioned me in a post then later deleted it.
So I will call that person a #coward because they can't stand by their convictions the way the Nazis did.
Name calling is so over rated and stupid. Insecure people shouldn't have to be able to influence diversion like this on a constant basis.
this exact response is the reason why centralized platforms target you now.
Here's a fact for you guys.
#Hitlerian ideology existed far longer than the #European attempted #colonization of everything into a #German #Reich which effectively makes #Nazism prone to regional difference, all be it one with the potential #historical #power to have long lasting consequences on the people who at the time, didn't see it coming as satellite states emerged from it.
So let's face it. I'm not #German I'm #Canadian and speak #English and no other #language as such.
For anyone who really wants to know, the term #neonazi exists for people who #self-identify as being simpathetic to Hitlerian doctrine.
I've #studied this extensively, because I think in a lot of ways, we never concluded #WWII completely from the #human #psyche and that is very frustrating to see this #tribal resurgence come back into #living #memory again.
So let's say that the year is 1940 something and not 2020 something. And let's point out the fact, that #National #Communism is an idea that got exported 80 some odd years into the #future to now.
Even if that's the case, the world has changed a lot since that time. And we've gotten stupider as a result of being primarily lazy with our own ambitions.
This is how dumb you guys are for doing this. And I know what you try to #suggest as such. That we are in such a #state of irreparable #disagreement, that this is the best you can come up with to #distance yourself from any sort of wider #context that doesn't fit your #narrative of #people who disagree with you.
So what? Can we not have an honest conversation about a few things without making solutions barred by political disconnectivity? That's exactly what the Nazi's proposed to do accept their solution wasn't just silence, it was death and destruction on a scale that has never truly went away ever since subsequent governments around our world, came into power and upgraded weapons systems continuously while operating elite networks from the shadows. In an effort, to instigate things like the #world #economic #forum and other big #thinktank organizations into a much broader sense of hostility than any of us individually call for as citizens of any and every nation.
I will say it loudly and #proudly as such. I am not someone who wants any group of people to face a premature end of their life on this planet, based on factors that nobody can control. And even if we can, I still want us to live our lives unimpeded by political #violence of any kind. And that includes #faith based groups to get along within #community spaces that do not challenge monomorphic #dominance at every step of the way.
I am disgusted at the #tribalism going on infecting every aspect of a normal #life facing my generation. And to just throw words like this out there, without any existential #planning or forethought on how this entire wretched #ideology can finally meet the dustbin of #history as such, to put it to #rest has no basis in #reality at all.
Look. I'm against people controling my life in ways I don't want them to. But that's true for all of us. So if you're going to name call, just remember that not everyone will take that lying down with a straight face and not move a mustle in the direction of a #fighting stance your way afterward.
I will not react in that manner, because I do put #peace and #prosperity first. And I don't censor people if they have opposing views to my own. But that's me. It's not you, and if you're that much of a coward to the point where you essentially do the same thing, only after you #feel #safe behind a cyber void, all the power to you.
But I bring this up publicly because reputations like this, although they're not supposed to, they actually do effect how highly you rank as a content provider. And on a shared internet, that carries more weight than you might think. Especially in today's toxic divided world where prayer is so much needed more so than ignorance and stupidity, where none can be found.
I don't want to live in a world where people start literally weaponizing eternity over a personal choice of faith. Nor do I want to live in one, where not choosing faith of any kind, let alone mandated ones, will land you as a person who is a continuous victim of statelessness by your actual neighbor in kind.
The Abrahamic religions are a perfect example (one of many in context) that have done more harm to divide people, than any other group in human history combined. And I am not one to book ban, but if those religions want to continue spewing their vile trash all over the place, it's time to set a precedent. But even still, that requires rethinking your approach to lead by example, and not paying attention to the example someone else can't lead by. Which again, makes book banning, the thing the Nazi's did, utterly archaic and barbaric to me
Wake up people. We don't live in a world that's so hard done by, that it can't be repaired. And it starts with refusing to use a tool at your disposal against someone you barely even had words with, because you can.
The only way you'll learn discernment, is by understanding this as a core concept. I have all the tools at my disposal as a server instance owner to really stick it to people if I choose to. But so too does the US government own nuclear weapons to stick it to us if they chose to. And I count my blessings every time I wake up, and we haven't regressed that far into mass destruction to which there is no return. So likewise, because and due to that, I practice discernment out of choice, even when I can legally get away with being a lot harsher. I do not do so out of pity, but out of respect.
So let's take a second and thank the Nazi's for coming into our lives. Not for their ideology, or their vile addiction to power and hatred. But because they taught us, to be better people to not be like them because they failed at suppressing the human spirit.
I don't want to see you pull some shit online you wouldn't in get away with in real life. Not because I want you to be oppressed, but because the more we treat our communities like bridges connecting real people together, the less likely we'll respond to situations with outlandish and stupid methods of containment until and unless we have no other choice but to defend against systematic collapse.
Please know the power of your presence and use it. I don't want to have to be the only one who does. I'm fully aware that I'm not in control of what someone else does. But so long as they're not doing something to you that you wouldn't want, let them be and move on. That's what being responsible gets you in 2026.
I wish I didn't have to spell this out. But honestly, what hurts me more so than the accusation of something that isn't even real. Is that, you use that as a justification to do something that is real, with lasting consequences on not just reputation, but disinterest without a trail of provocation to go along with it. It'd be not unlike setting your neighborhood ablaze because the pizza delivery guy was 5 minutes late.
If this kind of antisocial behaviour isn't course corrected, our 30 something year old generation will be the last to have known the meaning of true freedom as we know it, because people like you, will get more attention by being underhanded, rather than straight up and honest about where we stand. And as such, would force the natural rather than enforced suppression of sudden unpredictability, back where it rightfully belongs. In the could have been moments of our lives, but not in the never were enactments of them.
Or in other words, focusing on the self you become not as a hot headed entity, or a cold calculating monster. But the one in between, that sees both sides, and not just the one you embody because you think it's going to matter to a fault, rather than a cause.
Stay informed, and know you are not alone in caring for the same things I do. History doesn't always get things right, but that's why we talk about it, rather than remaining silent and hoping it goes away on its own.
For some situations, that can happen. But this isn't one of them.
Thank you for all that you are. I appreciate you.
Hype for the Future 135K: Town of Dover-Foxcroft, Maine
Introduction The Town of Dover-Foxcroft is a town of fewer than five thousand (5,000) permanent residents situated within the boundaries of Piscataquis County, Maine. Despite the small size, the community represents the largest town in the entirety of the rural county, as well as the county seat. Historically, the town limits were indeed two (2) distinct towns, namely Dover and Foxcroft, separated by the Piscataquis River. The Town of Dover was to the south of the river, while the Town of […] [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Introduction
The Town of Dover-Foxcroft is a town of fewer than five thousand (5,000) permanent residents situated within the boundaries of Piscataquis County, Maine. Despite the small size, the community represents the largest town in the entirety of the rural county, as well as the county seat. Historically, the town limits were indeed two (2) distinct towns, namely Dover and Foxcroft, separated by the Piscataquis River. The Town of Dover was to the south of the river, while the Town of Foxcroft was to the north.
Community
While the Dover-Foxcroft town limits are home to the area of Foxcroft Academy, a notable boarding school for the rural State of Maine, the public facilities include the Maine Whoopie Pie festival in the month of June each year as well as the Freedom House Bed and Breakfast, Bear’s Den Restaurant & Tavern / Log Cabin Motel, and the nearby Blacksmith Shop Museum to the northwest.
Any historic finance people out there? I'm trying to determine what the abbreviated text in this chart means. It's from a 1917 magazine.
I figured out "T.T. in London" is "Telegraph Transfers in London". I think "Sov. Bnk. Buy. Rate" is "Sovereign Bank Buy Rate", though I'm not positive since there's a period after "Buy." in the original and I don't know what it would actually mean anyway. And the "Buy" in "Gold Bnk. Buy. Rt." also has the period.
"Tis." and "Mative Int." still completely elude me.
#finance #history #Shanghai #ChinaHistory #InvestmentHistory
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Table showing "Exchange" info from 1917 with the following data:
Bar Silver 38 38¼ 38 +¼
T. T. on London 36¾ 37¼ 36¾ +½
Sov. Bnk. Buy. Rate Tls. 5.64 5.64 5.61 -0.04
Gold Bnk. Buy. Rt. Tls. 1.16 1.16 1.15 +0.01
-0.01
Mexican 72.8 73.35 72.5 -85
Mative Int. 20 14 0.03 -11
Some feel the Isle of Man is named after Manannan, a sea god who protected the island by cloaking it in mist. The name may, however, come from a Celtic word meaning 'mountain island' and the god may have been named after the island rather than the other way around. From Man's highest point, it's said that on a clear day you can see 7 kingdoms - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland & Man, plus the Kingdom of the Sea & Kingdom of Heaven. #FolkloreSunday #folklore #mythology #history #weird
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The smaller island of the Calf of Man seen from the Isle of Man across a narrow sound. The landscape is very verdant though rugged. In the sound are several rocks and islets.
The Ides of March … the day Julius Caesar was assassinated by Roman Senators and one of his closest friends, Brutus.
Do we dare hope that history repeat itself?
#idesofmarch #juliuscaesar #iran #middleeast #Hegseth #epstein #EpsteinFiles #senate #trump #history
If you want proof of the power of B&W photography then you could do worse than spend time on this website: https://ww2abc.com/
The fascinating background for this collection of WW2 photos is at : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/negatives-are-photographic-truths-the-collector-who-fled-russia-with-a-haul-of-second-world-war-images
So, the Ides of March was about the assassination of a Roman tyrant?
It’s not about the birth of the Caesar salad?
Who knew.
The Ides of March isn’t history. 🗡️
It’s the present. 🩸
Your feline isn’t sleeping. 😼
It’s conducting a risk assessment. 🔍
The fall of the Roman Republic is playing out in your living room. 🔪
https://talesofmanythings.com/blog/2026/03/15/hug-your-cat-before-it-plots-against-you-day/
#HugYourCatDay #IdesOfMarch #Cats #Conspiracy #Caesar #History
Beware the Furs of March. 🐈⬛
That slow blink? Sensor calibration. ⚙️
Caesar ignored the warning. You still have time.
44 years ago today
Siouxsie and The Banshees - in session for Kid Jensen - March 15, 1982
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #gothpunkrock #siouxsiesioux #history #punkrockhistory #otd
🎥 New video on my #PeerTube channel!
Exploring an abandoned military museum hidden in an underground cavern in North Wales 🔦🏴
Join me on as I explore this spot ➡️ https://lostpod.space/w/18aAXhsrB3K5xYfF5gmcTv
#NorthWales #Video #UrbanExploration #Urbex #Wales #Underground #History #Explore
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP127-Iran_Part_2.mp3
Saddam Hussein once offered to assassinate Ayatollah Khomeni while he was in Iraq. The Shah though refused.
#history #Iran
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Poster showing Saddam Hussein
#Arctic Winter Games are rich with tradition and #Indigenous culture and #sports. This #CBC piece is a nice #history lesson on the #snow snake. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-arctic-winter-games-first-nations-snow-snake-9.7127845
GitHub | load more | comedy gold
Only two.
#GitHub #UX #interject #hidden #history #OSS #legal #LGPL #GPL #licence #licencing #fork #revert
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Screenshot: an extremely noisy GitHub issue, with a prompt to load two hundred and thirty-three hidden items – immediately above an observation that there are two sides.
Out with the old, in with the new, I suppose. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #barn
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An old run-down barn and some old run-down garages with a new building in between them.
While history slowly crumbles, new buildings rise in the background. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture #barn
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A large barn and cowshed with a rusty roof and large tower cranes in the background.
A once-grand synagogue, converted into a swimming pool. Now abandoned and decaying. Somewhere in Poland.
Built at the start of the 20th century, this Polish synagogue was stripped and desecrated by Nazi forces, who converted it into a swimming pool for soldiers.
It remained a community pool for 50 years post-war. Now privately owned and hollowed out by a 2023 fire, the building stands as a sad ruin.
#Poland #History #Holocaust #AbandonedPlaces #Urbex #UrbanExploration #Ruins #LostPlace
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a tall room with domed ceiling. it is a pool but was clearly a large religious building once upon a time
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP127-Iran_Part_2.mp3
Iranian women protest during Women's Day 1979 after the mandatory hijab announcement by Ayatollah Khomeni
#history #Iran
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Iran women protest on Women's Day 1979 after the manda
#Hormuz derives from the Middle Persian “Hormoz” or “Ohrmazd,” a form of Ahura Mazda, the supreme Zoroastrian deity of wisdom and light.
Local Persian interpretations suggest “Hur-Mogh” or “Hur-Muz,” meaning “Place of Dates,” tied to the area’s date palm groves.
The name originated with the medieval port city on Iran’s southern coast.
The strait took its name from this trade hub, not vice versa.
European records often rendered it as “Ormus,” as noted by explorers like #MarcoPolo.
She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.
#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories
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The Woman Who Wrote the Future
Architect Rögnvaldur Ólafsson designed this barn while suffering from tuberculosis. He also designed the main hospital building at Vífilsstaðir, where he died from the illness in 1917. The barn was his final project. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #history #architecture
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A dilapidated old barn with a rusty roof.
The tuberculosis sanatorium in Vífilsstaðir included a dairy farm. The photos from this week are all of a large cowshed and barn that is on the grounds there. It was built in 1916 and operated until 1974. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #rust #barn #history
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A run-down old barn with boarded-up windows and a rusty roof.
The Icelandic state may not have much use for a large barn, which could explain its dilapidated state. #Iceland #photography #streetphotography #abandoned #decay #door #windows #rust #barn #history
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A large barn covered in graffiti.
Civilization (from the Latin civis=citizen and civitas=city) is a term applied to any society which has developed a writing system, government, production of surplus food, division of labor, and urbanization. #History #Sumer #PovertyPoint #OlmecCivilization #Moundville #MinoanCivilization #MayaCivilization #IncaCivilization #GreatZimbabwe #GöbekliTepe #Egypt #Civilization #City #China #Cahokia #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10175-en/
Lost Page from Archimedes Manuscript Found in Museum with Hidden Text Beneath Illustration
Top Shelf Set to Release "We Are Pan, The Extraordinary Story of the Children Who Escaped Castro’s Cuba"
by Andre Frattino and Yasmin Flores Montanez https://www.amberunmasked.com/preview-wearepan/ #books #history #comics
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comic book cover made to look like a vintage postcard
#OnThisDay, 12 Mar 1994, the first 32 women are ordained as priests in the Church of England. Angela Berners-Wilson was the very first.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #EnglishHistory #Histodons
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photo of Angela Berners-Wilson breaking bread over an alter. She is a white woman with light hair, and is flanked by two men.
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photo of Angela Berners-Wilson at the mass ordination. There are many other vicars, some of them women, around her. Everyone is white.
One of the most interesting — and daunting — experiences for an author is to field questions about their book from an informed audience. The audience last night in the officers’ mess of The Queen’s York Rangers was nothing if not well informed about the period I cover.
Their predecessor regiment, the Queen’s Rangers, fought in the American Revolution and managed to preserve their colours (on the wall behind me in the photo) after the British defeat at Yorktown.
I was particularly taken with the comments of Lieutenant-Colonel Gerry Almendradas, the commanding officer, who stressed how attitudes formed long ago might inform current military challenges. A man after my own heart!
My thanks to Vicki Oilers and Darrell Bricker, who made the event happen; Donald McKenzie, chair of the regimental council, for his warm welcome; Jaiden Valentine for his help; and Ross McKee for a great, anecdote-filled tour of the mess, including an improbable painting of General Isaac Brock.
#canada #history #books #cdaus
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A woman with short grey hair and glasses, wearing a red jacket, is standing in front of a display of ornate silver. Behind her are the regimental colours of the Queen’s Rangers that the regiment preserved after the British defeat at Yorktown.
As late as 2004, in the Romanian village of Marotinu de Sus, a farmer suspected of vampiric activity was exhumed. His heart was removed, taken to a crossroads and burnt. Ashes from the heart were made into a tea and given to one of the vampire's 'victims'. The person responsible was arrested, but defiantly stated: "All the villagers said this has been going on since the olden times. It's better to take the heart out than let the corpse kill children. The elders are wise and know things." #folklore #gothic #history #mythology #vampires #vampire #paranormal #weird
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Image from the film Nosferatu, showing the bald-headed vampire leering over a sleeping figure.
The Akkadian poet Enheduanna (circa 2300 BCE) is the world's first author known by name and was the daughter of Sargon of Akkad (Sargon the Great, reign 2334-2279 BCE). #History #Writing #Ur #Sumer #Script #SargonOfAkkad #Mesopotamia #Literature #Inanna #Enheduanna #Akkad #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-10021-en/
The former building of the 4th arrondissement town hall, which now houses a branch of the Paris library, the Académie du Climat, and a small restaurant/café (La Buvette), which uses this pretty courtyard
#Paris #architecture #history #climate #environment
A 19th-century masterpiece by Henry Greenway. This rare cross-strung chromatic harp was designed to play every semitone without pedals, featuring two intersecting rows of strings in a stunning, hand-carved gilded frame.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
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Eine große, aufrechte Harfe mit aufwendigen ornamentalen Details ist vor einem schlichten, grauen Hintergrund dargestellt. Der Rahmen der Harfe besteht aus Holz mit aufwändigen Goldintarsien, darunter wirbelnde Motive und ein zentrales, kreisförmiges Emblem mit einem detaillierten Design. Zahlreiche Saiten erstrecken sich vom oberen Teil der Harfe zum unteren Abschnitt, wo sie am Rahmen befestigt sind. Die Basis der Harfe verfügt über einen geschnitzten Holzfuß mit dekorativen Füßen und goldenen Akzenten entlang ihrer Kanten. Im Bild ist kein Text vorhanden.
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William Lyon Mackenzie, the 1st Mayor of #Toronto, was born OTD in 1795 https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/canada/toronto/?s=mb #travel #history
OPEC and Oil Production
https://traffic.libsyn.com/yinhistory/EP125-OPEC.mp3
#history #Oil
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top oil producers
59 years ago today
The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Velvet Underground and the German singer Nico, releasd March 12, 1967
#punkrock #protopunk #thevelvetunderground #masterpiece #history #rockhistory #punkrockhistory
Lost for More Than a Century, the First ‘Sci-Fi’ Film Ever Made Resurfaces
Around 1897, the French director Georges Méliès made
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/pql1d
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/gugusse-et-lautomate-georges-melies/#automata #film #history #humor #science-fiction #short-film #video
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Lost for More Than a Century, the First ‘Sci-Fi’ Film Ever Made Resurfaces
I was wondering lately what kinds of music people sang at the 504 protests, capital crawl, & other 70s and 80s disability rights movement actions. And I got in touch with Elaine Kolb who agreed to let me upload her movement songbook from 1981 to the Internet Archive, "Let's Get Together". (More to come later!) https://archive.org/details/elaine-kolb-songbook-1981 #DisabilityRights #DisabilityJustice #History
#OnThisDay, 11 Mar 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's play, A Raisin in the Sun, is the first play by a Black woman to debut on Broadway.
Hansberry was a rising star when she died young of cancer. Her posthumous play, Young Gifted and Black, inspired her friend Nina Simone to write the song of the same name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hdVFiANBTk
#WomensHistoryMonth #LiteraryWomen #AmericanHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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studio photo of Lorraine Hansberry. She is a Black woman with short hair.
He uprooted every tree along his riding routes so no assassin could hide behind one. He abolished every university in the country and offered his personal bookshelf as a substitute. He arrested a botanist for planting tea. When the most famous scientist on earth wrote to demand the man's release, José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia — the man who sealed Paraguay shut like a jar — simply didn't answer.
#Histodons #HistSci #SciComm #History #SmallStories
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The Man Who Ghosted the Most Famous Scientist on Earth
Made in the mid-2000s using polygon extrusions in 3ds Max, because there were no voxel editors yet.
This concludes the space-themed range of posts. Hope you enjoyed it! 😊
#VoxelArt #PixelArt #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #retro #history #8bit #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #space #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots
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Voxel-style tribute to the classic Space Invaders retro-game.
The fascists "solved" unemployment by converting their nations into giant war machines. The unemployed were either conscripted into the army or organized in labor battalions and put to work in war plants.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
Once their people were sold on the "master race" idea, it was easy for the fascists to make them feel that other people were of no more consequence than vermin.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language
The medieval church’s acknowledgement that signs were equivalent to a spoken language was transformative for deaf people.
by Rosamund Oates
Sign language at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=sign+language
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Detail of an historiated initial 'S'(sponsus) of a man placing a ring on a woman's finger. By James le Palmer / anonymous illustrator
British Library Royal MS 6 E VI, fol. 104
A historiated initial S from a medieval illuminated manuscript, painted in blue, pink, ochre, and olive green. Within the curved body of the letter, two figures face each other: on the left a young man in a blue tunic, on the right a woman in a white veil and rust-coloured garment. Between them, the man places or holds a small ring, their hands meeting at the centre. Both faces are simply rendered with calm expressions. The initial is framed by a blue and pink border with a dark speckled ground filling the background behind the figures.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Omne_Bonum_Royal6EVI104_Anulus.jpg
#art #history: if most of the people born into privilege were like nancy cunard (born #otd in 1896), maybe we wouldn't have such an itchy collective guillotine finger. this fashionable fash-basher & anti-racism campaigner (& heir to the cunard shipping line) was a writer who became a muse to man ray, james joyce & langston hughes.
when she wasn't busy being effortlessly avant-garde, nancy worked as a translator for the french resistance.
#nancyCunard #antiFascist #antiRacist #poetry
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digital ink & pencil sketch of writer & political activist, nancy cunard.
nancy looks straight at her audience, pale blue eyes coruscating & her head wrapped in a 1920s flapper turban.
behind her is a black shadow that resembles wings & from the tips of the shadow, her name is scrawled in uppercase black letters.
71 years young ❤️
Happy birthday to Catharina "Nina" Hagen, German singer, songwriter, and member of the punk and new wave movement of the late 1970s and early 1980s, born on this day in 1955, East-Berlin
#punk #womenofpunk #ninahagen #history #punkrockhistory #otd
49 years ago
The first all-female punk rock group The Slits made their live debut, opening for The Clash at the Harlesden Coloseum (often cited as the Roxy Club) London, March 10 & 11, 1977
Buzzcocks and Subway Sect were also on the bill
📸 Ian Dickson
#punks #punkrock #theslits #history #punkrockhistory
Dead Kennedys
California Uber Alles
Mabuhay Gardens
San Francisco
1979
All the best for you Jello 🍀
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #deadkennedys #jellobiafra #history #punkrockhistory
They look for a scapegoat as a way out. Fascism is always ready to provide one. In its bid for power, it is ready to drive wedges that will disunite the people and weaken the nation. It supplies the scapegoat — Catholics, Jews, Negroes, labor unions, big business — any group upon which the insecure and unemployed can be brought to pin the blame for their misfortune.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
Cool zine from Malaysia / Thailand / Singapore:
"Under The Banana Tree is a convergence of diverse networks of mostly Southeast Asia-based independent and community-driven archival organisations devoted to preserving and sharing along the strands of people’s histories. It is, for multiple organisations affiliated with the network, an attempt to intervene in the historical ruptures on how the people relate their pasts to the present: the archive is one way to do it."
I'm interested in this one (it's my research topic when I was in college): "Circulating Anti-Colonial Imaginaries: Selected Publications Across The Border of Malaya(sia) & Singapore"
Installed in 1410, Prague’s Astronomical Clock is the oldest in the world still in operation. A 600-year-old masterpiece of medieval engineering that tracks time, stars, and seasons with haunting precision.
By #SteampunkTendencies
#Architecture #Design #Style #Nature #Art #Artist #Photo #Photographer #Urbanism #City #Village #Staircases #History #Histoire #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces
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Das Bild zeigt die Prager Astronomische Uhr, die an der steinernen Fassade des Prager Altstädter Rathauses angebracht ist. Die Uhr verfügt über zwei große, runde Zifferblätter: Das obere Zifferblatt hat eine blaue und goldene Oberfläche mit dem lateinischen Text "HOROLOGIUM" über dem zentralen Bereich, und das untere Zifferblatt zeigt ein gelb-schwarzes dekoratives Muster. Gotische architektonische Elemente, darunter spitzbogige Fenster, geschnitzte Steindetails und Statuen, die sich auf beiden Seiten der Zifferblätter befinden, umgeben die Uhr. Die Steinwand des Gebäudes, die aus verwitterten beigen und grauen Blöcken besteht, enthält kleine rechteckige Fenster oberhalb der Uhr und eine dunkelblaue Tür unterhalb des unteren Zifferblatts. Zusätzliche dekorative Schnitzereien und Verwitterungsspuren sind an den angrenzenden Gebäudeteilen sichtbar.
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Giuseppe Mazzini, who died OTD in 1872, helped bring about the independent and unified #Italy in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/italy/cinque-terre/?s=mb #travel #history
In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell's assistant, Thomas Watson, heard Bell say over his experimental telephone: "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you." And we haven't shut up since
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Voxel-style retro-game aliens (2013).
#VoxelArt #PixelArt #GameDev #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #RetroTech #VintageComputing #retro #history #8bit #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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An arrangement of whimsical, brightly colored retro-game style shoot-'em-up aliens.
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Voxel tribute to the Galaga arcade game.
Made in the mid-2000s using polygon extrusions in 3ds Max, because there were no dedicated voxel editors yet.
#VoxelArt #PixelArt #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #retro #history #8bit #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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Voxel art style tribute to the classic Galaga space shooter arcade game.
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Voxel tribute to 8-bit space shooter games (2014).
#VoxelArt #alien #PixelArt #gaming #games #game #gamer #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #RetroGames #retro #history #8bit #1980s #tech #technology #vintage #nostalgia #digital #DigitalArt #graphics #CGI #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #art #artist #arte #arts #GraphicDesign #MastoArt #FediArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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Minimalistic voxel-style artwork, depicting a large array of cute aliens being shot at by a fighter spacecraft.
36 years ago today
Guitarist Poison Ivy live on stage with her 1958 6120 Gretsch guitar at the Paradiso, Amsterdam, March 9, 1990.
Photo by Paul Bergen
#punk #punks #punkrock #womenofpunk #thecramps #history #punkrockhistory #otd
The Colorful Story Of Maud Wagner, America’s First Female Tattoo Artist
By Kaleena Fraga
An aerialist in the circus at the turn of the 20th century, Maud Wagner broke barriers by both giving and receiving hundreds of tattoos.
https://allthatsinteresting.com/maud-wagner
Books about tattoos at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=tattoo
#womenhistoryMonth #art #history
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"Maud Stevens Wagner, tattoo artist, circa 1907. Photograph shows a half-length portrait of a woman with tatooes or body paint covering her arms and chest." - Wikimedia Commons
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Most people don’t know that the United States along with Japan and a bunch of European countries invaded Russia during its Civil War in 1918
The fascist doctrine of hate fulfills a triple mission. By creating disunity — it weakens democracy. By getting men to hate rather than to think — it prevents men from seeking the real cause and a democratic solution to the problem. By fake promises of jobs and security, fascism then tries to lure men to its program as the way out of insecurity.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law. They make their own rules and change them when they choose.
#fascism #uspol #history #propaganda
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Illustration for the Dutch PC-Active paper magazine about the Code Red virus (2001).
ℹ️ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Red_(computer_worm)
#space #earth #InfoSec #security #CharacterDesign #design #artwork #sculpture #3DArt #3DModeling #3DArtist #illustration #picture #history #illustrator #RetroComputing #digital #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #NoAI #3D #3DRendering #CGI #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #ArtLovers #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon
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Stylized 3D illustration, depicting earth being painted red by a giant paint brush.
Absolutely a delight, Jay Draper telling us about early bicycling and how it made the patriarchy very very mad. Many echoes to modern day, still! Also check out the cool penny farthing and the nice clothes!
Quotes: “Some people know they are disgusted by women’s cycling, and they can’t even give a decent reason as to why? So they just say: Well, it’s not natural. As if a men on bikes is natural?!”
“Custom and nature revolt against your fucking syntax, Joseph!”