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Hull-born Amy Johnson's pioneering flight to Australia ended on this day 1930. She left Croydon Airport on 5 May and landed at Darwin, Northern Territory on 24 May, a distance of 11,000 miles.

The zine for Rebellion! is now available in my shop. It has 55 photos distilled down from 40,000 taken over the life of the project. I’m very pleased with the quality of the printing and hope you like it https://marcdavenant.com/product/rebellion-zine/

Made the 4AT #delirium assessment tool with 2 colleagues in 2011 to help improve the rates of detection in my hospital at the time. Also made a website - www.the4AT.com - to help with dissemination. Pleased to say it has now been widely adopted & has a large evidence base.

The poemwriting is not goingwell today.

Linocut by contemporary UK printmaker and artist Alexandra Buckle who is inspired by her local countryside #womensart

Only someone who basically never talks to women outside of a porn transaction would think, for example, that women are purely and self-destructively driven to fuck a masculine archetype that, incidentally, was totally invented by other men who also never talk to women!

Recommend buying something on this brilliant offer! Gail’s work is unique - I don’t know anyone else who has turned Forton Services into art 🙌🏽 I bought the Blackpool artwork for obvious reasons but there’s something for everyone on here 👍🏽

Ukranian French artist Sonia Delaunay, Self-Portrait, 1916 #WomensArt

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Around 20 people are feared to still be trapped under the rubble of a building under construction that collapsed early on Sunday morning in a city near the Philippine capital, Manila.

On this day in 1883, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 27 Jul 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt where she perished on the 18 Dec 1943. Out of the 1003 deported on that transport, 934 perished. Her name was Olga Schalková

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Trump fails another cognitive test.

#1001albums: Day 143: Tracey Chapman: Tracey Chapman: 1988. great album, Chapman is a brilliant songwriter, the two lead singles, Talkin 'bout a Revolution and Fast Car are classics.

French mother & partner detained after boys found abandoned in Portugal. The court in the port city of Setubal ordered the 41-year-old woman & the 55-year-old man to be held for the crimes of aggravated assault, endangerment & abandonment of the boys after a two-day hearing.

Nurse consultant practitioner, Rebecca talks about what happened to her when she tried to raise patient safety concerns. Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sW4...

Tenby Beach, south Wales, painting by Karen Davies, Berkshire-based artist.

Just watched The Hunt. Absolutely tremendous

The USA has blocked 5 players from Iraq's team from coming to the World Cup. Including one who plays in the English Football League. Boycott the World Cup.

22 May 1942 | The numbers 36132–37131 were assigned at Auschwitz to 1,000 Slovak Jews transferred from the Majdanek concentration camp (KL Lublin). By 15 August 1942, only 53 of them were still alive, meaning that within 12 weeks, 947 people from this transport had died in the camp (94.7%).

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Wakefield-born Barbara Hepworth (1903-75), sculptor and artist, one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century, died on this day 1975.

Katalin Karikó is one of the most extraordinary scientific stories of this era. A girl from a modest Hungarian household helped develop technology that saved millions of lives worldwide. In 2023, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discoveries that enabled effective mRNA vaccines.

The fact that Thomas Massie lost a Republican primary because he wants pedophiles to face justice tells you everything you need to know about the state of the Republican party… Full stop.

"If a breach of those defences was to happen floods could spread up to about nine miles (15km) inland, and reach depths of up to 8ft (2.4m), he said"

Winter Skies, by Carol Brown, Welsh linocut artist.

There’s been a lot of love for my #Blackburn designs. I’m an illustrator based in Manchester but I’m Blackburn born and bred. Have a look gailmyerscough.co.uk/hometown

Continuing our Bethnal Green themed week here's "The School House, Bethnal Green" by Albert Turpin from his post-war work, most likely the mid to late 1950s. It is in the collection at Tower Hamlets Local History & Archives at Bancroft Road. #AlbertTurpin #EastLondonGroup #BethnalGreen

I'm resisting the temptation to sacrifice your sensibilities for my likes.

The Primark League it will be forever more

This development is interesting, is the time of the fighter bomber manned by a human coming to an end?

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... Well done EFL, FA and Premier League take note now sanction Petrodollar City FC and Weirdtechbro FC (Chelsea)

Very informative video about American education & culture wherein an angry Australian descends into a magnificent rant. youtu.be/j9MubNsh3rs

Your day trip from the 15th floor window of a luxury tower block will be arranged shortly.

😂😂 true, or in Scotland we might go for fckwt etc

www.theguardian.com/football/202... "UEFA are irritated" well that's what happens when you monetise your product. Tough.

19 May 1903 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Rozencwajg, was born in Będzin. A locksmith assistant. In #Auschwitz from 25 October 1941. No. 22240 He perished in the camp on 30 October 1941. --- 📖 Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en/

@jenniferrichards.bsky.social Just realised I've not seen a post from you for a few days everything OK?

Colombian installation artist, Doris Salcedo, from the 'Uprooted' exhibition #WomensArt

York #photography

For inherent snobbery, ignorance and stupidity this thread wins Blue Sky today. For people who come from the fattest, least healthy country in the world criticising 3 men making their lunch from fresh ingredients I'd suggest look at your processed non food culture 1st.

John le Carré described Boris Johnson as a "mob orator" who fired up people with nostalgia and with anger. He said "What really scares me about nostalgia is that it's become a political weapon. Creating a nostalgia for an England that never existed, and selling it as something we could return to"

Thrilling new unit of measurement just dropped: "HS2 has built 100mn cubic metres of earthworks — equivalent in volume to 1,000 Royal Albert Halls" - as.ft.com/r/64425bb5-3...

🇬🇧 British Political Spectrum Quiz My result: Eco-Socialist Economic: strongly collectivist Social: progressive Sovereignty: cosmopolitan Military: leaning anti-interventionist Authority: centrist Constitutional: strongly reformist Take the quiz: quiz.jmoxley.co.uk

This is good, but we all know that really, it should be a long string of sausages and the fox should be being chased by a red faced, moustachioed, irate butcher who is wearing a blue and white striped apron and a straw hat

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

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Plenty of social housing on a formerly industrial site refused. Rock Star, 82, lives in another part of London and might/might not see top of it. I've read the Inspector's rejection letter. In all fairness, the harms are very modest indeed [e.g. she wanders the Chelsea Physic Garden]. Build nothing