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Rooms by the Hour for People Weary of Quarantine - An app offering short-term rentals called Globe says demand is way up. more: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/style/rooms-by-the-hour.html #rentingandleasing(realestate) #quarantine(lifeandculture) #coronavirus(2019-ncov)
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“Werushka” by HOPARE in Paris, France
By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ Street Artist HOPARE With acrylic and aerosol by HOPARE in Paris. France. More by HOPARE on Street Art Utopia. By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃhttps://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/17/werushka-by-hopare-in-paris-france/
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“Werushka” by HOPARE in Paris, France
By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ Street Artist HOPARE With acrylic and aerosol by HOPARE in Paris. France. More by HOPARE on Street Art Utopia. By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃhttps://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/17/werushka-by-hopare-in-paris-france/
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“Werushka” by HOPARE in Paris, France
By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ Street Artist HOPARE With acrylic and aerosol by HOPARE in Paris. France. More by HOPARE on Street Art Utopia. By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃhttps://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/17/werushka-by-hopare-in-paris-france/
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“Werushka” by HOPARE in Paris, France
By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ Street Artist HOPARE With acrylic and aerosol by HOPARE in Paris. France. More by HOPARE on Street Art Utopia. By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃ By HOPARE in Paris. France. Photo by R&PÃhttps://streetartutopia.com/2024/02/17/werushka-by-hopare-in-paris-france/
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Yellowface, by R.F. Kuang
The protagonist watches her successful writer friend die in an accident in the first chapter, then takes her unpublished manuscript and successfully sells it as her own.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/yellowface-by-r-f-kuang/
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Recent Releases in Lesbian/Sapphic Historicals
Hot Keys by R.E. Ward from Bold Strokes Books is part of a recent trend for Jazz Age settings with danger and romance!
https://www.boldstrokesbooks.com/books/hot-keys-by-re-ward-3964-b
The #LesbianHistoricMotifProject wants to spread the word about #LesbianHistoricalFIction, #SapphicHistoricalFiction and historic fantasy. We haven’t read every book and inclusion isn’t necessarily a personal recommendation.
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"—and I don't care if you're pissed, you can't throw food at the Dragon Warlord,"
— the dragon republic by r. f. kuang
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at "Lovecraft's Daughter" (1983) by R. Alain Everts, and reflect on what was known - and not known - about HPL's stepdaughter and their relationship.
https://deepcuts.blog/2026/05/02/lovecrafts-daughter-1983-by-r-alain-everts/
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This week on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we look at Winifred Virginia Jackson—Lovecraft's Lost Romance (1976) by R. Alain Everts & George T. Wetzel and reflect on the problems of research and depending too heavily on unreliable sources.
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To Touch A Silent Fury (The Bride of Eavenfold) "She rides to claim her fate, he flies to burn it down" Sale: $4.99 to $0.99 by R A Sandpiper Rating: 4.5/5 (1,507 Reviews) #fantasy #romantasy #dragons #fate #slowburn #booksky #epic #books #enemiestolovers #magic
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'Twas the night before Xmas, and on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein we seek to answer that thorny question: What does the Reanimator have to do with the holiday? Find out in "The Horror in the Stable" (2017) by R. C. Mulhare
https://deepcuts.blog/2025/12/24/the-horror-in-the-stable-2017-by-r-c-mulhare/
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The Burning of the “Brilliant”: the thread about the loss of a Leith steam packet and the death of Captain Wade
The PS Brilliant was one of the earliest steamships in Scotland, built by James Lang in Dumbarton for the Leith & Aberdeen Steam Yacht Company (of Leith) way back in 1821 – just nine years after the pioneering Comet introduced this type of vessel to the world. Her owners were based at 22 Bernard Street in Leith, the commercial quarter of that town and where many a shipping and merchant company based itself.
Post Office directory for Edinburgh and Leith, 1825-26, show appendix entry for the Leith & Aberdeen Steam Yacht CompanyApart from the addition of the steam plant and paddle wheels, the Brilliant wasn’t really that different in form or construction from a sailing coaster and in common with early steamers was also rigged as a sailing vessel, for times when either there were favourable winds (to increase the speed or make her more economical) or when the mechanical propulsion broke down. She was fairly small; displacing 159 tons, being 120 feet (36.6m) long, 20.5 feet (6.2m) wide 8in the beam, with an 8 foot (2.4m) draught below the waterline and had a crew of 10
Plans of the Brilliant, shown as an example of a steam packet in “A Treatise on Marine Architecture” by Peter Hedderwick, 1830. Photograph from the fold-out plates sold at auction in November 2025The little ship proved successful and reliable vessel in service and plied the east and north coast of Scotland over the years following her launch, originally between Leith and Aberdeen and soon adding intermediate stops in Fife or Dundee along the way. Summer saw her sailings extended to Inverness and even Wick. She was joined in service by sister ships the Sovereign and Velocity. An advert in the 1839-40 Edinburgh and Leith Post Office directory shows that the company’s ships sailed from Leith to Aberdeen every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, with reverse journeys departing on Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, with a 14s fare for cabin passage or 7s for steerage. Her master was Cawfield Wade.
Coastal steam packets proved themselves in service – they could move against the wind as well as with it – and could therefore keep a faster, more reliable timetable. Before there were long distance railways in the country, they were the fastest way for people and trade to move (so long as you wanted to keep to the coasts). The industry saw a flurry of speculative investment followed by the realities of business, which resulted in a consolidation of the various companies. In 1826 Brilliant‘s owners merged the rival Aberdeen & Leith Shipping Company to form the Aberdeen & Leith Steam Packet Company and a little over ten years later in 1837 it merged with others to become the Aberdeen, Leith, Clyde & Tay Shipping Company, usually shortened to just the Leith & Clyde Co. Under this ownership we can find Brilliant in the fateful year 1839 in Lloyd’s Register.
Lloyd’s entry for 1839 for the Brilliant. The figures record where she was built, dates of previous repairs and re-engining, her insurance condition, registered dimensions, master (Campbell at this time), ownership, and her usual route of Aberdeen and Leith.Brilliant’s usual southern terminus was of course the Port of Leith. In the engraving below after a painting by W. H. Bartlett we see a paddle steamships arriving at the quayside – note the boarding gangway hung off the back of the paddle box – and we can allow ourselves to imagine that this might be the Brilliant (although the position of the funnel and single mast says otherwise…)
Engraving after an 1828 original by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd by T. Higham, “Leith Harbour from the Pier” showing a steamer arriving at the quayside. Credit: Edinburgh & Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City LibrariesBecause of the poor state of the Port of Leith in the 1820s and 30s the ship often sailed instead from the Trinity Chain Pier, which had been built as a speculative scheme to provide a steamship pier less affected by the tides of the Forth. She could quite possibly be one of the small steam ships seen in the picture below.
“Newhaven Harbour and the Chain Pier, looking east” coloured print of an engraving by R. Brandard after W. H. Bartlett, originally published c. 1840.By 1839 Brilliant was sailing thrice a week from her home port of Aberdeen, to Leith, under Captain Cawfield Wade. The journey took about twelve hours, although she had managed it with the wind at her back in only ten and three quarters, and called at intermediate piers along the Fife and Angus coast. The schedule was well maintained, intermediate stops took only 5-10 minutes and were conducted offshore: passengers who wished to join or leave the steamer were rowed out to meet her from those ports. Once a week in the summer she would make a run from Aberdeen to Inverness and back again.
Of Captain Wade we know relatively little as his death predates statutory registers and surviving census records. In 1835 he was the master of the Aberdeen & London Shipping Co.’s smack Aberdeen Packet, sailing between those ports. He had then been a mate (officer) in steamships on the Aberdeen and Leith route before being promoted to master of the Brilliant, which seems to have been his first command in that company. He married Lilias Reid in Aberdeen in 1837, a farmer’s daughter from Alford, and we know he had a brother William, also “a mariner in Aberdeen“. I can find neither of these men in Scottish parish birth registers however Wade is an uncommon name in these parts at the time. The Caledonian Mercury would however later describe him as a son of Stonehaven.
On the afternoon of 11th December 1839, Captain Wade took the Brilliant out of Leith and headed north on what should have been just another one of her thrice-weekly scheduled runs. In the picture below we can see a steam packet departing Leith in choppy seas.
Leith Pier and Harbour, 1843 engraving by R. Wallis. Credit: Edinburgh & Scottish Collection, Edinburgh City LibrariesThe little ship headed into a choppy Firth of Forth and began her scheduled calls along the Fife coast, but weather conditions were worsening.
“Rain Clouds over the Forth”, John Houston, c. 1984 .Fife Cultural Trust for Fife Council.Up in Aberdeen Captain Morrison, the Aberdeen harbour master and pilot, was awoken from his bed by a terrible storm. It was this maelstrom into which the Brilliant would sail early that morning.
Unidentified steamer in a storm, © Aberdeen Maritime MuseumStruggling through heavy weather and violent seas and almost within sight of Aberdeen, disaster struck. At around six O’ clock in the morning when she was off the welcome site of Girdle Ness Lighthouse the deck was suddenly swamped by an unexpected wave. Cawfield Wade, at his station on the quarterdeck, could do nothing to stop himself being swept overboard and disappeared into the sea, never to be seen again. But the troubles were not over yet – the approaches to Aberdeen harbour had a fearsome reputation in Victorian times, one which was well earned. Brilliant was now wallowing through the storm towards it without her master and was about to become the first steam-powered victim of this entrance.
Brilliant’s sister ship, Sovereign, entering Aberdeen Harbour in inclement seas. Credit: Aberdeen Maritime MuseumThe sea was rushing on from the beam (her sides) as the little steamer approached the harbour entrance. Passing through a feature known as The Bar her helmsman was not able to keep her clear of the churning water around the head of the pier and she was driven side-on into the harbour wall, just below the Fittie (Footdee) lighthouse.
Fittie Light House at the end of the north breakwater, entrance to Aberdeen Harbour. OS Town Plan 1866. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThe Brilliant was mortally wounded and this was quickly apparent to all onboard. The call to abandon ship was given but in his haste to get to safety the ship’s engineer failed to draw the fires from her boilers, which quickly began to run dry. Overheating due to a lack of water they soon set the wooden vessel ablaze. The artist J. Faddie captured the remarkable scene that night for us.
Brilliant ablaze off the Fittie Light. Note the assembled crowds being held back by soldiers on the pier and salvage attempts being made. Credit: Aberdeen Maritime MuseumMiraculously, all on board – except the tragic Captain Wade – were saved. Salvage parties were even organised to return to the burning ship and recover most of her cargo: the bow of the ship was stuck fast on pier allowing them to work in (relative) safety while the stern burnt out. We can see them on deck in the painting above. The mainmast was deliberately cut down about ten O’ clock in the morning, to stop it collapising on the workers, and an hour later the funnel and mizzen (after) mast did collapse.By sunset on the twelfth of December the ship had burned down to her waterline and the pounding of the seas was beginning to make short work of scattering her remains across the seabed and shoreline.
The body of Cawfield Wade would never be found. His will shows he left an estate of £50 (about £5,000 today), about a year’s pay for someone in his position and to his wife Lilias he left their household goods worth around £40. To his brother William he left his “suit of coloured clothes“, his best jacket and his watch (although it’s likely he may have taken these with him to his watery grave). To a man described as brother-in-law he left his “suit of black clothes“: his Sunday and mourning attire. These bequests were made with the unusual condition forbidding his “nearest in kin from troubling or molesting” his widow. Lilias lived out a long life as the “Widow of the Late Captain Wade“, running various lodging houses in Aberdeen. She died at the age of 87 in Old Machar parish in Aberdeen, her last address a respectable granite house in Margaret Street. This way of supporting herself would have been one of the few options open to her beyond remarrying.
The house were Lilias Wade died.William Wade is never heard of again, although a woman Martha Wade and a child, William Wade, are in the 1841 Aberdeen census; they may have been a wife and child or sister and nephew. That William Wade junior would become a seaman and get a master’s ticket in later life.
The entry to the harbour would prove to be treacherous for the Aberdeen steamers. Nine years later in 1848, Brilliant‘s sister – the Velocity – would be wrecked in almost exactly the same spot and circumstances, driven onto the Fittie wall by heavy seas. Again all aboard were saved but the ship and all cargo were demolished within an hour and scattered along the Torryside. In 1853, the Duke of Sutherland – at the end of a long journey from London – was wrecked in the harbour entrance with sixteen lives lost.
The Wreck of the “Duke of Sutherland” on the Torry Shore, 1853In 1863 the Prince Consort would also come a cropper. She broke her back but miraculously was salvaged, repaired and returned to service only to be finally wrecked nearby on the Hasman Rocks, a few miles south of Girdle Ness, four years later. Fortuitously there was no loss of life in either accident.
The (first) wreck of the Prince Consort on Aberdeen’s north harbour breakwater in 1863. Sir George Reid. Creidt: Aberdeen Maritime MuseumThe Aberdeen, Leith, Clyde & Tay Shipping Co. would go on to prosper, becoming the North of Scotland, Orkney & Shetland Steam Navigation Company, more commonly known as just the North Company, which connected the ports of Orkney, Shetland and the north of Scotland with Leith.
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Forgotten Fatalities: the thread about the Granton railway disaster of 1860
Recent threads about the Scotland Street Tunnel and the Granton Breakwater inevitably involved me touching on the history of the railway that ran between these two places and brought to my attention a striking image of a forlorn-looking steam engine lying on its side on the Wardie foreshore. How this locomotive came to be here isn’t “in the books“, so of course I had to find out more.
The remains of the old railway embankment and sea wall at Lower Granton Road, where a bridge gave access beneath the tracks to Wardie Bay. CC-by-SA 3.0 Guinnog via WikimediaThe answer to this anomaly was that it was the result of an accident which took place on the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway‘s (EP&D) short section of track on the southern side of the Firth of Forth between Trinity Station and Granton Harbour. This event on the evening of Sunday 8th August 1860 would claim the lives of four people, injure six more and cruelly impact upon one family in particular.
The EP&D ran from its start at Canal Street Station (beneath and at right angles to what we now call Edinburgh Waverley), by gravity down the steep incline of the Scotland Street tunnel to a station of that name at its foot. Here, steam engines were attached to trains to haul them the few miles to Granton, via Trinity, or North Leith, via Bonnington. At Granton passengers could continue their journey onward across the Firth of Forth to Burntisland, by connecting paddle steamer. North of the Forth the railway carried on north to Perth and to Dundee (via a further steamer from the harbour at Tayport), explaining the full name of the company.
Route map of the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee Railway, south of the Forth, 1860.On Sundays there were usually there were only two passenger trains a day each way to Granton. On the day of the accident the 4:30PM from Edinburgh ran the three mile trip hauled by engine No. 32. At the terminus the driver detached his engine and shunted the carriages back into the platform to where it would later form the 8:10PM return journey. This pattern only took place on the Sabbath; Monday to Saturday there were sixteen trains each way and a much quicker turnaround was required, undertaken in a rather frightening manner known as “fly shunting” whereby the carriages were “slipped” (detached) while the train was in motion and a well-timed throw of the points directed the engine one way and the freely coasting train the other into the platform. The guard at the rear in the brakevan was responsible for bringing the train to a controlled halt by which time the engine was already in the process of re-positioning itself so it could re-attach at the front of the train and haul it back the way it had come.
Granton Harbour and Pier, c. 1880, from Grant’s Old & New Edinburgh. The trains in the foreground are running on the railway embankment, Granton Middle Pier, where the station buildings are, lies beyond, with the steamers tied up alongside. Note the signalman standing behind the coal wagons with a flag raised.There was nowhere at Granton for engines to wait for any period of time and so on No. 32 now returned the way it had come to while away the next few hours in the engine shed at Scotland Street. As it departed it began to pick up speed and ascend the gradient up to the embankment along the foreshore and parallel to Lower Granton Road. It crossed the bridge over the footpath access to Wardie Bay and passed over first one and then a second set of points as it rounded a gentle bend in the route. This is where disaster struck: as it approached a second, smaller, bridge (which carried it over the Wardie Burn, marked nowadays by a break in the seawall) the left-hand leading wheel of the engine jumped the rails and the locomotive derailed.
The break in the sea wall at Lower Granton Road marks the spot where a bridge once carried the railway across the Wardie Burn. The embankment here was more substantial in the past. Photo © SelfIt continued to plough along the trackbed, derailed, for some 30 yards, ripping up tracks and sleepers and partially demolished the bridge. In doing so it was eventually tipped over the side when it hit the stone parapet. It fell a height of 9 feet down the embankment and then slithered 20 yards down the foreshore, coming to rest on its right hand side (not the left, as shown in the engraving, which may have either been reversed or show it during recovery).
Ordnance Survey 1849 Town Plan showing the route of the engine and its course during the accident. Reproduced with the permission of the National Library of ScotlandThere were six people on the footplate when the crash happened of whom four were killed instantly; driver David Mathieson, his 9 year old son William Mackenzie Mathieson (out for an exciting Sunday trip), his brother-in-law and neighbour John Mackenzie and Andrew Morgan, a railway signalman hitching a lift back to Scotland Street. The fireman, James Bowling, had a lucky but painful escape, jumping from the tender as it left the tracks. He broke an arm and dislocated a shoulder amongst other injuries, but lived to tell the tale. A railway porter who was also cadging a lift, George Dall, found himself swimming in the waters of Wardie Bay from where he was pulled, miraculously unhurt.
“The Recent Railway Accident at Granton Near Edinburgh, The Engine on the Beach”. London Illustrated NewsBlacksmith Thomas Gillies, his wife and two children had been sitting on the sea wall below the embankment, enjoying their day of rest, when the engine came crashing down from above, passing inches away from where they sat. All were badly scalded by escaping steam but survived. A horse cab was summoned to take the injured away to the Royal Infirmary. Sheriff Gordon, Procurator Fiscal Paterson and Chief Constable List were on the spot within the hour. They appointed engineers Mr Hawkins and Mr Jardine to investigate, while the officials of the railway company appointed their own civil engineer, Mr Lorimer, to also make enquiries. The Board of Trade appointed Captain (R.E.) Henry Whatley Tyler, to write a formal report.
None of the investigating engineers found any fault in the permanent way, engine No. 32 or with the manner in which it was driven by Mathieson. Tyler noted that although there were minor defects along the way none “ would have caused a steady engine thus to leave the line“. The type of engine – built locally in Leith by R. & W. Hawthorn – had been used without problem for 15 years and the only derailment it had suffered had been caused by a fractured rail. He did however note that the engine was particularly light at 11½ tons, that it had poor weight distribution and that there was a very short wheelbase of just 6 feet. This made it liable to oscillate at higher speeds and Tyler’s educated guess was that the engine had been travelling fast enough (“but not imprudently so“) to set up such an oscillating motion. Without the weight of a following train to restrain such gymnastics it was able to jump enough to leave the rails at a position where the gauge between the tracks was slightly too wide.
A North British Railway (successor to the Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee) 0-4-0 tender locomotive, No. 811, similar in overall size, configuration and styling to No. 32 which crashed at Granton.Margaret Stewart Mackenzie, the driver’s wife, lost not only her husband but also her brother and eldest son that day. She was left a widow with three children to support; a 7 year old girl and boys aged 3 and 1 years. She was also four months pregnant and would give birth to a daughter, Sarah Clapperton Mathieson, that December. The members of the Mathieson and Mackenzie family – who all lived next door to each other on Duncan (now Dundonald) Street – were also interred alongside eachother at the Old Calton Burying Ground.
Old Calton Burying Ground, register for the burials of John Mckenzie, David Mathieson and William Mckenzie MathiesonGiven the loss of her husband and brother the Mathieson widow and children found themselves without any financial support and a public subscription was set up under the coordination of the Lothian Road United Presbyterian Church for their benefit. In September the Scotsman reported that “a woman who assumes different names and represents herself to the the wife of an elder of Lothian Road U.P. Church” was wanted by the police for fraudulently soliciting for donations to the fund. The 1881 census shows that Margaret Mathieson stayed on at 10 Duncan Street and was living there with her 80 year old mother (Margaret Mackenzie), two sons (David, 24, a clerk and John ,21, a piano tuner) and her daughter (Sarah, 20, a dressmaker). She was working as a laundress. Sarah Clapperton Mathieson married 4 years later to Robert Fotheringham and they moved nearby to Airlie Place and then Deanpark Street, with at least 6 children born. Margaret would join them next door at Airlie Place, where she died in 1911 aged 81, after 51 years a widow.
Marion Mathieson was about 64 years old when her son David died and lost her son and a grandson that day. The Caledonian Mercury reported the agonising news that this was her fourth son to die; one was knocked down in the street near the family home, another fell from Salisbury Crags and a third had drowned off Aberdeen where he was serving an apprenticeship. She was by this time a widow, living in a cottage in the village of Corstorphine where she would die in 1871.
Of the other victim, Signalman Morgan, he was buried at Warriston Cemetery. A correspondent called Fair Play wrote to the Scotsman soon after to ask for subscriptions for the case of “Mrs Morgan, a highly respectable widow“, the mother of the deceased signalman. He had been “her only hope of subsistence since he was 12 years of age” and that the “good feeling of the public” had overlooked her plight.
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@AngelaScholder So, Karen, just so you understand the consequences of your actions:
Because you reported this post (https://mastodon.energy/@AngelaScholder/116397038832441549) by @joynewacc for an erroneously autocompleted hashtag (#doctor -> #doctorWho), a mastodon.social moderator *deleted her post*.
Yes, read that again: the post of a Palestinian, suffering through genocide in Gaza and trying to share her experience – someone who is, moreover, a founding team member of Gaza Verified (https://gaza-verified.org/team/) – was *deleted* for a stupid hashtag that some white Karen in the West got distressed about.
This is so fucking wrong in so many ways that I don’t know where to begin.
I want to know:
1. Is it mastodon.social policy to just go ahead and delete the posts of its members or was this a moderator acting out of spite against a Palestinian? (Or is everyone on mastodon.social at risk of having their posts deleted if moderators don’t agree with the hashtags they use?)
2. If this is not mastodon.social policy, I’d like to know what action will be taken regarding this moderation action and the moderator responsible and what will change internally to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen again.
Israel is already doing their best to erase Palestinians. The least we can do is to not help them by literally deleting the posts of Palestinians on the fediverse. Thank goodness hashtags weren’t a thing in the days of Anne Frank because clearly some of you would have burned her diary had she used the wrong one by mistake.
3. Can we all, please, have some fucking basic decency and maintain perspective when dealing with people suffering through genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid? It’s a pretty low bar for humanity.
And, whatever you do, do not be this Karen.
Check your bloody privilege.
And fuck your hashtag.
We’re talking about human lives here.
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Property deals by Russian nationals near RAF Akrotiri raise suspicions. #Akrotiri #Cyprus #Russia
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Generálny riaditeľ PPA Marek Čepko si podľa Mesterovej slov mal mimo štandardných procesov dosadiť za šéfa kontroly v PPA človeka, s ktorého nomináciou má EK problém.
Tón: : mierne negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #sr #list #ek
https://www.teraz.sk/ekonomika/ps-agrominister-r-takac-by-mal-pre-p/958500-clanok.html
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Generálny riaditeľ PPA Marek Čepko si podľa Mesterovej slov mal mimo štandardných procesov dosadiť za šéfa kontroly v PPA človeka, s ktorého nomináciou má EK problém.
Tón: : mierne negatívny
#slovakia #gdelt #sr #list #ek
https://www.teraz.sk/ekonomika/ps-agrominister-r-takac-by-mal-pre-p/958500-clanok.html
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Germany and the #RadicalRight H. Betz and F. Habersack. “Regional Nativism in East Germany. The Case of the AfD”. In: The People and the Nation. Populism and Ethno-Territorial Politics in Europe. Ed. by R. Heinisch, E. Massetti and O. Mazzoleni. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.
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Germany and the #RadicalRight H. Betz and F. Habersack. “Regional Nativism in East Germany. The Case of the AfD”. In: The People and the Nation. Populism and Ethno-Territorial Politics in Europe. Ed. by R. Heinisch, E. Massetti and O. Mazzoleni. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.
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Germany and the #RadicalRight H. Betz and F. Habersack. “Regional Nativism in East Germany. The Case of the AfD”. In: The People and the Nation. Populism and Ethno-Territorial Politics in Europe. Ed. by R. Heinisch, E. Massetti and O. Mazzoleni. London: Routledge, 2019, pp.
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Mirb's found a new release on #Mirlo: Courants Ascendants by R!GA
https://mirlo.space/rga/release/courants-ascendants
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Mirb's found a new release on #Mirlo: Courants Ascendants by R!GA
https://mirlo.space/rga/release/courants-ascendants
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Mirb's found a new release on #Mirlo: Courants Ascendants by R!GA
https://mirlo.space/rga/release/courants-ascendants
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Mirb's found a new release on #Mirlo: A release by R!GA
https://mirlo.space/rga/release/mi-temp-slug-new-album-b68f3af3-bfdc-47b2-aa52-8cf4154e4e6c
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Mirb's found a new release on #Mirlo: A release by R!GA
https://mirlo.space/rga/release/mi-temp-slug-new-album-b68f3af3-bfdc-47b2-aa52-8cf4154e4e6c
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Mirb's found a new release on #Mirlo: A release by R!GA
https://mirlo.space/rga/release/mi-temp-slug-new-album-b68f3af3-bfdc-47b2-aa52-8cf4154e4e6c
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a5R brings the A5 pentagonal geospatial index to R.
Equal-area pentagonal cells across 31 resolutions, encoded as 64-bit integers, with millimetre-level precision at the finest scale 🗺️
R package by Hugh Graham; a5 by Felix Palmer
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another weekend of tweaking #fvwm to my liking (inspired by /r/unixporn which still has some good wm stuff)
found some interesting minimalist gray/black/white styles and an example reviving the whole "desktop bigger than screen" size I used 30 years ago (literally) a lot 😂 https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1rw4e1z/driftwm_infinite_canvas_wayland_compositor_no/
(still undecided in terms of userinterface how and what I want from my prompt, my window titles etc and where to display it all. e.g. starship's language icons are meaningless for me or git state)
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🇹🇭"Sud Soi Team incls affected #community members & #NGOs to help #officials inspect factories.. Rarely does a month pass w/o reports of #illegal #waste shipments, #local communities complaining abt #pollution, or fires caused by #recycling factories, which r owned by primarily #Chinese #investors. #Ministry of #Industry has been known as a #mouthpiece of #industrialists & investors.. has emboldened investors to cut costs at te expense of the #environment & #publichealth"🧐
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3051215/bribery-claim-needs-proof