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seeshespeak.bsky.social
Mamdani got a humanities degree.

His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
🚨 😾 VICTORIAN EMERGENCY CAT TRICYCLE 😾 🚨

Pop a card in the London post in 1896, & a chauffeur driven tricycle would collect your pet for care & cure, providing a smooth springed ride to the Hampstead infirmary

More Cycling World Illustrated gems digitised at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/CTC/...
Part of a page from 'The Cycling World Illustrated', 26 August 1896. It includes photos of a tricycle for collecting cats (complete with uniformed driver) and the Cats' Infirmary, Hampstead (a pen of cats of varying sizes in someone's house, one of the cats is being cuddled by what appears to be the tricycle driver). The accompanying text reads: "A philanthropic lady in the North of London has established an infirmary for cats. On receipt of a postcard she will send for the ailing animal, the tricycle which collects them being provided with a box resting on springs to avoid all jarring and jolting. The cats are carefully tended at the infirmary, where their quarters and most comfortable, and when cured are returned to their owners, no charge being made."
October 15, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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tricksterprince.bsky.social
‘The heavens reflect our labours’

From steel to AI, the climate catastrophe continues here.
June 8, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Yorkshire Miners online!

74 editions from 1977-1983 - read the NUM Yorkshire Area newspaper in full through our online catalogue at mrc-describe.epexio.com/records/YMA/...

Possibly the only publication to feature both Arthur Scargill and Dr Who (Tom Baker era)
Front page of 'Yorkshire Miner', no.25, April 1979, on the upcoming general election. It includes the headline 'Keep them out' and a cartoon which shows men marching under the banner of the Jarrow Crusade, with Margaret Thatcher wielding an eraser, changing the caption 'At a stroke - 1980s' to 'At a stroke - 1930s'. Front page of the 'Yorkshire Miner', special edition from March 1983 produced as part of the campaign against pit closures. It includes the headlines 'Stop the rot! Join the fight!' and 'Vote 'Yes' for jobs', with a photo of South Wales miners lobbying the Yorkshire NUM Area Council for support. Front page of the 'Yorkshire Miner', no.20, November 1978, published to mark the Bentley colliery disaster, in which 7 men died and a further 19 were seriously injured. It includes the headlines 'Yorkshire mourns' and 'Bentley', with a photo of people in grief after the disaster. Front page of 'Yorkshire Miner', no.6, July / August 1977. It includes the headline 'Incentive to dig and let die', about fatalities amongst contract workers, and a photograph of Tom Baker (in full Dr Who gear) with the Yorkshire Coal Queen.
May 28, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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owldaily.bsky.social
Three barn owls, perfectly aligned, observe the world. A moment of quiet contemplation, captured in a single frame.

📸©️ jake_brass
#Barnowl #Nature #Bird
April 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM