#walkerville β Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #walkerville, aggregated by home.social.
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TWITTER EMBRACED OEMBED EARLY BUT NOT COMPLETELY. i think that by 2009-2010 we were already seeing embedded videos and thumbnails of articles but, curiously, not tweets.
i spent the whole year of 2011 βthe year of #ArabSpring #Syntagma #Acampadas #Walkerville #Bloombergville and #OccupyWallStreetβ writing many a QT on tweets where i was translating quotes from many EU sources still somewhat geoblocked in USA, especially BBC News, El PaΓs, LβExpress and Al-Jazeeraβ¦ π§΅
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β§ Devonshire Lodge β§
Devonshire Lodge, also known as the LowβMartin House, is a mansion located in the Walkerville neighbourhood of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Commissioned by the rum-runner Harry Low in 1927 and designed by George Lawton, likely with input from Low, the mansion and its accompanying coach house was built in the style of a Cotswold ...
#Canada #Walkerville #Lodge #VernMyslichuk #Parliament #Wikipedia
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β§ Willistead Manor β§
Willistead Manor is a historic house located in the former town of Walkerville, Ontario, now part of Windsor. Designed by Albert Kahn for Edward Chandler Walker and built between 1904 and 1906, the manor was ceded to the community in 1921, a few years after Walker's death. Having served as Walkerville's town hall, the A...
#WindsorPublicLibrary #Ontario #Windsor #Walkerville #Walker #Wikipedia
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for those wondering about #Wisconsin, two words: #LABOR #UNIONS
hereβs tangential mini-thread i wrote about how Wisconsin was one of the big stories of 2011 during the #ArabSpring and how without Winconsinβs #Walkerville, there would have never been a #Bloombergville nor an #OccupyWallStreet.
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/112338577636244942
and wanna give a special shout out to Wisconsinβs teachersβ unions; who relentlessly took on the Koch brothers and won.
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The Magic Beach (book) Animation (2025)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/jan/13/magic-beach-movie-film-picture-book-animation
(See also Tim Wintonβs book Blueback also filmed (2022) by Robert Connolly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwv5DuCgZcI& 1976 Storm Boy movie based on Colin Thieleβs book set in the #Coorong about Mr Percival the #Pelican )
#art #illustration #animation #film #BobConnolly #picturebook
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read the TL;DR on Wisconsin's 2011 protests
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protestsalthough the MSM mostly acknowledged the #Walkerville summer encampments created by the #Teamsters in June of that year, i actually had been news curating the Wisconsin protests from February because Michigan activists knew i'd been curating #ArabSpring news for over a month.
they couldn't use tents so they slept in SLEEPING BAGS in the middle of FEBRUARY of 2011.
what does it have to do with your #unemployment benefits?
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Today's Thing of Beauty: #Windsor #Ontario #Canada #Willistead #courtyard #HiramWalker #Walkerville #CanadianClub my childhood #library branch Now hosts #ArtInThePark #AlbertKahn #architect #photography Photo by me
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@canadaehx My grandmother lived in this part of Windsor, Ontario. Many streets there (Ypres, Somme, Byng) were named after battles and leaders in The Great War. I believe the homes were war time homes (WWII era). No Currie though! Huh!
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