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Honey bees really like the bok choy flowers. They actually smell like a nice honey too.

#bees #HoneyBees #pollinators #BokChoy #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #June11 #flowers

Honey bees really like the bok choy flowers. They actually smell like a nice honey too.

#bees #HoneyBees #pollinators #BokChoy #FlowerWithBee #BloomScrollingWithBee #June11 #flowers

The tomatillo plants are starting to set fruit. Saw a little bumble bee working the blossoms too.

#gardening #tomatillo #pollination #June11 #garden

The tomatillo plants are starting to set fruit. Saw a little bumble bee working the blossoms too.

#gardening #tomatillo #pollination #June11 #garden

The tomatillo plants are starting to set fruit. Saw a little bumble bee working the blossoms too.

#gardening #tomatillo #pollination #June11 #garden

The tomatillo plants are starting to set fruit. Saw a little bumble bee working the blossoms too.

#gardening #tomatillo #pollination #June11 #garden

The tomatillo plants are starting to set fruit. Saw a little bumble bee working the blossoms too.

#gardening #tomatillo #pollination #June11 #garden

June 11th is a day for us to remember long-term anarchist prisoners through words, actions, and ongoing material support. As in years past, our co-op is partnering with Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross to donate net proceeds from all sales to support imprisoned comrades. Every book, t-shirt, sticker, or other item you purchase on Thursday, June 11th will generate funds for commissary, legal defense, and other crucial support needs for freedom fighters who remain behind bars!

Want to buy a book on June 11th, but not sure what to read next? We asked a few of our esteemed author collaborators to help us recommend titles that express the revolutionary commitment and vision needed to sustain us in difficult times. Check out a sample of their suggestions in the slides above! Order online or browse in store—either way you'll get a great book and we'll put the proceeds toward a great cause.

At a time when the State conspires to disappear more and more of us into its jails, dungeons, and camps, we see a practice of solidarity not as an obligation but as the unerring path to our collective freedom. For more information on June 11th, check out https://june11.noblogs.org, where you can also find a list of individuals supported by the campaign.

#June11 #EarthLiberation #AnimalLiberation #PoliticalPrisoners #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

June 11th is a day for us to remember long-term anarchist prisoners through words, actions, and ongoing material support. As in years past, our co-op is partnering with Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross to donate net proceeds from all sales to support imprisoned comrades. Every book, t-shirt, sticker, or other item you purchase on Thursday, June 11th will generate funds for commissary, legal defense, and other crucial support needs for freedom fighters who remain behind bars!

Want to buy a book on June 11th, but not sure what to read next? We asked a few of our esteemed author collaborators to help us recommend titles that express the revolutionary commitment and vision needed to sustain us in difficult times. Check out a sample of their suggestions in the slides above! Order online or browse in store—either way you'll get a great book and we'll put the proceeds toward a great cause.

At a time when the State conspires to disappear more and more of us into its jails, dungeons, and camps, we see a practice of solidarity not as an obligation but as the unerring path to our collective freedom. For more information on June 11th, check out https://june11.noblogs.org, where you can also find a list of individuals supported by the campaign.

#June11 #EarthLiberation #AnimalLiberation #PoliticalPrisoners #FeministBookstore FirestormCoop (- L)

#june11 the day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners, we're thinking of Dan Baker (US), Eric King (US), Marius Mason (US), Ihar Alinevich (Belarus), Evgeny Rubashko (Belarus), Oleg Avdeyenko (Belarus), and Maxim Butkevich (POW from Ukraine).

NO ONE WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
NO ONE WILL EVER BE FORGOTTEN.

#june11th #belarus #russia #ukraine #prisonersupport @abcbelarus @june11

Mr McHattie and Mr Ritchie’s Mechanical Triumph: the thread about the Princes Street Gardens Floral Clock

The Princes Street Gardens floral clock is a fine Edinburgh institution. At the time of writing (June 2023) it was being replanted to celebrate the centenary of the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive (not “the train” of the same name as the tweet below would suggest). But this year is also an anniversary for the clock itself and it will be 120 years old, having first been revealed to the public on this very day (June 11th) in 1903. It was the first floral clock not just in Scotland but also in the UK, and possibly the 3rd in the world (there being earlier examples in Paris and Detroit). The Edinburgh clock was the work of the City Superintendent of Parks & Gardens, John W. McHattie, who enlisted the help of James Ritchie & Son., the famous Edinburgh clockmaker on Leith Street who built and wound the city’s public clocks. It so happened that Ritchies had in their workshop at this time the mechanism from one of the turret clocks from Elie Parish Church in Fife, which was surplus to requirements. This was installed in the base of the Allan Ramsay Monument next to the clock, and a drive shaft was run from the clock mechanism to the time hand in a small passageway under the flowerbeds.

This first clock had a single time hand – an hour hand – which was a large metal planting tray 4 feet 2 inches (127cm) long and was “delicately balanced” on account of the slope but kept time perfectly. It was described as a “beautiful study in carpet bedding, in which American aloes, echevarias, sedums and other plants” were “set out with great taste in a bold geometric pattern.” The clock face was was 12 feet in diameter, the hours delineated by two concentric circles planted of sedums and the numbers picked out in “fresh green pyrethrum“. The centre of the face was split into quarters, each denoting and planted to represent one of the seasons of the year.

The Dundee Evening Telegraph hailed it as “a mechanical triumph“. The Devon Valley Tribune called it “the great wonder of the Gardens“, the Dundee Courier was a bit less generous and went with “the quaintest of horticultural freaks“. The Town Council was so pleased with Mchattie that they voted him a raise of £100 per year (almost £10,000 in 2023 terms. His picture below can be found on the website of the Friends of Saughton Gardens as he was also the man we have to thank for the first planting of that public park, which opened in 1910. The Friends have a good write-up of McHattie and his work at Saughton on their website, here. He died in 1923 when he was still the city’s Head Gardener, after 22 years service.

The clock has, appropriately, changed with the times. By the time the below picture was taken in 1914 it had acquired a minute hand, which was 10 feet long, and accompanied a new 6 foot long hour hand.

The mechanism was modernised in 1936 but still required daily winding, something which took place until its platinum anniversary, when it was electrified in 1973. It was during the 1936 modernisation that a “cuckoo” sound was added to it, the sound being generated by two tuned organ pipes in the base of the Ramsay monument.

In 1943, the clock’s 40th year, it was given a wartime makeover by the Superintendent of Parks John T. Jeffrey. This featured a large Royal Navy warship decorated with anchors and other naval insignia and a profile picture of Winston Churchill smoking a cigar and surrounded by the legend The Hour, The Man. The planting incorporated beetroots and carrots so as to make an edible contribution to the Dig for Victory campaign.

In 1947, for the first Edinburgh International Festival, the names of famous composers were added in to the planting, which was repeated in 1948.

In 1949 it was planted to mark the Scottish Industries Exhibition in Glasgow that year. For 1953, the clock’s 50th birthday, the Parks Superintendent, Mr A. T. Harrison, hit upon the idea of adding a “real” cuckoo to the clock. Thus a wooden bird house was added to accommodate the bird, which popped out when it chimed. The organ pipes were replaced at this time by an electric system of tuning valves connected to a loudspeaker.

Ritchies would go on to provide the mechanisms for many floral clocks throughout the world (“practically all” of them, claimed the Evening News in 1956), including ones in Salisbury, South Rhodesia (modern day Harare, Zimbabwe) and Sydney Zoo.

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Gegen das Vergessen, Gegen die Verzweiflung!

#UntilAllAreFree

11. JUNI - INTERNATIONALER TAG DER SOLIDARITÄT MIT ALLEN LANGZEIT-ANARCHISTISCHEN GEFANGENEN

"Ein weiteres Jahr vergeht, und wieder steht der 11. Juni vor uns. Erneut schätzen wir alles, was sich in anarchistischem Kampf in dieser Zeit entfaltet hat, sowohl die Triumphe als auch die Schwierigkeiten, außerhalb der Gefängnismauern und innerhalb. Wir schätzen die Schönheit des Widerstands und die Stärke, die entstehen kann, wenn wir uns weigern, sowohl dem Vergessen als auch der Verzweiflung zu erliegen.
Gegen das Vergessen: Wir weigern uns zuzulassen das der Staat Rebellen verschwinden lässt, ihre süßen oder scharfen Worte aus unseren Diskussionen löscht oder ihre Beiträge zu unseren gemeinsamen Kämpfen entfernt oder zu verschleiern. Stattdessen erinnern wir uns an sie. Ihre Taten, Worte, ihr Lachen, ihr Potenzial und ihre Menschlichkeit. Wir können als Vermittler dienen, durch Gefängnismauern und zwischen Generationen hinweg. Sie können in unsere sich verändernden Kämpfe einbezogen werden, und wir können sie mit der Außenwelt verbinden und die Außenwelt mit ihnen verbinden."

Via @june11 https://june11.noblogs.org/post/2023/05/27/gegen-das-vergessen-gegen-die-verzweiflung-11-juni-2023/#more-1778

#Repression #Staat #Herrschaft #June11 #antireport #Anarchismus #politicalprisoner #abolishprisons #AntiKnast