Daughter cycling through filters in the LTN
Hereβs what Iβve learnt about cycling in a city with an 8 year old. For a start, many kids prefer to cycle than other ways of travelling.
It gives them freedom and autonomy. And yes, even in the rain. Recently my daughter was offered a lift when it was hammering β¦ 1/10
#OtD 21 Feb 1965 Malcolm X, instrumental speaker and activist of the American civil rights and Black power movements, was assassinated while preparing to address a crowd of supporters in New York month stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9371...
If youβre at #OSM26 in Glasgow, Iβve just signed lots of copies of Blue Machine that are now on sale in the shop at @glasgowscience.bsky.social ππ Share the ocean love!
A translucent, finely crafted arrowhead made of rock crystal, standing upright on a sandy surface.
A stunning #Neolithic rock crystal arrowhead found in the pile-dwelling settlement of NeuchΓ’tel, Switzerland, dating from around 3500 BC. The raw material was not available in the immediate area, but came from the Alps. Rock crystal has been mined in the Swiss Alps since the early Mesolithic.π§΅1/3
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#OtD 21 Feb 1919 British suffragette and anti-war-activist Alice Wheeldon died of influenza aged 53. Her health had been broken by a stint in prison after she was framed by MI5 for a bogus plot to assassinate the PM stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9368...
#OtD 21 Feb 1973 law students in Athens went on strike and barricaded themselves inside the University in protest at the military dictatorship. Police violently repressed the students, but it was a key event leading to the student uprising of November stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9372...
#OtD 21 Feb 1848 the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was published. Widely read by workers across the world, it remains one of the most influential texts ever written. A modern edition of the text is available in our online store: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...
Photo of a woman on a bicycle talking to a man in a white car on a wide road.
Singer Katarzyna Sobczyk has a chat with a motorist somewhere in Poland
Happy #BicycleBirthday, Katarzyna!
Born on this day, February 21 (1945-2010)
π·Jerzy PΕoΕski
Photo of two men riding children's tricycles with a treeless landscape behind them.
Filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (left) and friend riding tricycles in 1971
#BicycleBirthday Sam Peckinpah
February 21 (1925-1984)
Photo of a person riding a 10-speed bicycle on a suburban street lined with blooming cherry trees.
Juno MacGuff (Elliot Page) riding in Juno (2007)
#BicycleBirthday Elliot Page
Born February 21, 1987
This week's podcast looks at the student loans crisis and the dynamics of the K-shaped recovery.
Substack: graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-roundu...
Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/roundu...
Two things are simultaneously true:
1. The Iranian regime treats its people with extreme brutality and cruelty, and we should honour the citizens seeking to overthrow it.
2. A US attack on Iran would turn a crisis into a catastrophe.
π¨ Cabinet Office investigating Labour Together and Josh Simons over campaign to smear journalists
But...ministers overseeing inquiry have received Β£150,000+ from Labour think tank
Experts and MPs demand 'full independent investigation'
New on D4S: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-g... π§΅
![The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:
βab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuusβ
Translated as
βI have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift
with a sharp point that you may remember me.β¨I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give)
as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.β
This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.
The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman βLondiniumβ) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloombergβs European Headquarters in 2010β2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreifnagf7o3c3tsvpawfj2o5exyqsg52vwrovvapsjrhwtzd6tv5bf4@jpeg)
The photo shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. This stylus is octagonal in shape, with an inscription dot-punched along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read: βab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m) rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuusβ Translated as βI have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.β¨I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.β This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift. The pen was used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. Found in London (Roman βLondiniumβ) by MOLA, during excavations for Bloombergβs European Headquarters in 2010β2014 . Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA
Timeless humour!
A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:
βI went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" π
Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. π· Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA
#Archaeology
Caledonian Sleeper train
Yay sleeper trains! Glasgow, here I come.
And if you need some ocean science in your Saturday, do come along to the Glasgow Science Centre to this lunchtime event plus a day of ocean exhibits: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/whats-on/how...
Barmouth, Wales. π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ Photos taken this afternoon.
Black and white photo of a man in a jacket and tie riding a small-wheeled bicycle on a city street, with stores and cars in the background. The Watford Museum provided an updated description of the scene: βIn this photo, reporter Robert Jobbins is seen turning from High Street into Market Street. The Moulton 'Mini Bike' was a bit different to the earlier heavy bicycles. It was light weight, had no crossbar, smaller wheels, no tools were necessary to adjust it, and it had the unique feature of a suspension which must have smoothed the ride."
Reporter Robert Jobbins tries out the unusual new Moulton bicycle for the Watford (U.K.) Observer
June 1963
π·Watford Observer/Watford Museum
@gazza-d.bsky.social
#OtD 23 Jan 1961 24 Portuguese rebels hijacked a cruise-liner to protest Salazar's Estado Novo regime, aiming to set up a rebel government in Angola. After several days it was redirected to Brazil, where rebels gained asylum stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9563...
Small flock of sheep cowering behind a standing stone in a stone circle in windy wet weather.
Everyone loves a standing stone! Sheep communing with the ancestors at the Stones of Stenness on Orkney a couple of years back. #StandingStoneSunday
βAutocracy may be new to white heteros but not to LGBTQs who have confronted it all their lives - and this is exactly why as soon as they got into power, MAGA Nazis specifically targeted my community: we are a symbol of progress, and their most qualified enemyβ
open.substack.com/pub/georgets...
Postmarked air mail enveloped with a drawing of a girl with butterfly wings and antennae riding a tall bike on it.
Butterfly on a Tallbike
Hand Painted Gocco Print (Gouache and Ink) on 1951 Envelope
π¨Amy Rice
#OtD 14 Jan 1921 Murray Bookchin, theoretician of social ecology and libertarian municipalism, was born. His ideas have come to prominence more recently as they have been embraced by Kurdish communities in Rojava, Syria. Learn about his life and ideas: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8569...
Newspaper ad for an Ice Bicycle, featuring an illustration of the bicycle, which has a studded rear wheel and a sled-like blade rigged to the front fork.
Magazine description of an ice bicycle from 1966, with photo. As with the other one, it features a studded rear tire and a blade rigged to the front fork.
1896, 1966, and I bet a 2026 would look quite the same
Rest In Power, Claudette Colvin, and a really useful thread debunking popular myths about her from @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social, whom we used as a source to write our entries about Colvin: stories.workingclasshistory.com/tag/11435/cl...
Fact: 2 in 3 refugees are hosted in neighbouring countries. The vast majority of people who flee find safety close to home.
π΅ Fact: 2 in 3 refugees are hosted in neighbouring countries.
The vast majority of people who flee find safety close to home.
We're proud to be part of the #generalstrike100 collaboration, commemorating the centenary of the 1926 general strike in Britain. So explore our interactive map and sign up to visit your nearest #GeneralStrike100 event via generalstrike100.com/
