Voluntarily signing up for a free online course, and then skiving off at every opportunity is so on-brand for me #plusçachange
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They played 'I'm So Bored With The USA' at Montreal's Goethe Institute Saturday night, right after this hour long discussion about German punk rock & Montréal-Québécois-Canadian punk rock.
#PunkRock #TheClash #plusçachange #USpoli
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Mrs. Emeline Pankhurst, the leader of the British militant suffragettes, made her promised statement regarding her proposed visit to the United States. Believes Openmindedness of Americans Will Prevent Deportation
1913
"Believes Openmindedness of Americans Will Prevent Deportation."
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory
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And now is 2026 the one thing we can still rely on is endless repeats. #plusçachange
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Typeset in Bodoni: … I called the Fibonacci series arising from the relationship ϕ based on the unit 108 the red series, and that series based on the double uit 216 the blue series. I drew a man of a height of 1·75 m. engaged at four points: zero, 108, 175, 216. Then the red strip on the left, the blue on the right, the series of ϕ going towards zero below, and that progressing towards infinity above. Disembarking from my cargo-boat in New York on the 10th of January 1946, I had an interview with Mr Kaiser, the famous constructor of Liberty ships during the war. His latest project had been to construct 10,000 houses a day in the United States. But, he told me, I have changed my mind, I am going to make motor cars instead. . . ! ! ! What I told him about the purpose of my visit is related farther on in this book. Let us leave our calculations aside for a minute and make a digression into economics and sociology. The U.S.A. gives Mr Kaiser, a businessman of genius and a leading industrialist, full authority to produce three million houses a year. These houses are to be mass-produced, in other words they are to be family dwellings. They will cover a certain amount of ground; they will be erected along streets; these streets will not be in the towns, where there is no room, but in the country. The towns will be expanded to enormous size by suburbs, vast, tremendous suburbs. It will be necessary to create huge transport systems to make these suburbs accessible and mutually connected: railways, underground railways, trams, buses, etc. . . . This will involve the construction of innumerable roads, a huge network of mains (water, gas, electricity, telephoe, etc.). What boundless activity, what wealth this will bring! Or don't you think so? I think this is just another example, carried to disastrous lengths, of the Great American Waste which I had already observed and analysed in 1935. No one is entitled to breathe a word of warning
in Mr Kaiser's ear, no one may even dream of calling a halt to his activities, no machinery is set on foot to channel his indomitable energy towards social and economic ends. . . . And then it so happens that after six months of cogitation, when all is said and done, Mr Kaiser decides, quite off his own bat, that he is not going to make houses after all, but motor cars. Now motor cars are used for transport, they are an aid to transport, they make it possible for the unnatural phenomenon of the American town to appear tolerable. Here, the problem is quite a different one: cheapness and efficiency of the motor car itself, efficiency in general. But the competition in the United States is tremendous, gigantic. The makers of a new motor car must bid for the public's favour, they must outbid all other bidders. People must be told that a car is a sign of importance, the first rung on the ladder of social position. Therefore, let us flatter the public taste: a stream-lined body, a car as large as any of the most fashionable makes, a manifestation of power, yes, of magnificence. The new car is splendid, glittering, a standard-bearer of optimism and an ambassador of strength. But it is huge, it has a bonnet and a radiator which is like the face of a god of Power with gigantic chromium-plated jaws. That American streets are congested is a well-known fact. The car is twice as long as it need be. It blocks the road when it turns; it lies upon the ground like a carapace. Efficiency? Speeds prohibited by the regulations, double consumption of steel and paint and petrol. And so there we are again, face to face with the problem of the human scale. . . . I end my digression and return to the 'Modulor'. My second visit was to Knoxville, to see Mr Lilienthal, the Director-General of the Tennessee Valley Authority and the guiding spirit of that great harmonious plan, sponsored by President Roosevelt, which built the dams on the Tennessee River and the new towns, rescued American ag
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#plusçachange #typography
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Quand je pense que Stephen Colbert a sorti ce bijou satirique en 2006, il y a presque 20 ans: "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" #plusçachange
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Happy birthday to the brilliant goofball that made our family complete ❤️
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#diarycomic #happybirthday #birthdayboy #sweet16 #plusçachange
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L’entrée de proches d’El Chapo aux USA n’a rien d’une fuite improvisée;elle aurait été AUTORISÉE dans le cadre d’un accord CONFIDENTIEL entre l’administration Trump&Ovidio Guzmán(filsd’El Chapo,incarcéré aux USA).
Ça sent l'attaché-case plein de M$$$$$$
#plusçachange..
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Spécialité syndicale : manifestations et chaos. | La FTQ prédit « des manifestations et du chaos » www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2... #plusçachange
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À l’ère des blogues, on s’abonnait aux flux RSS pour recevoir les billets par courriel. À l’ère des infolettres, on s’abonne pour recevoir par courriel des blogues qui n’en portent pas le nom. 🤷🏻♀️ #Plusçachange
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There's gonna be a "Hogan's Heroes"-style series making light of T2 in 2045 and the kids won't understand why the elders don't laugh
#PlusçaChange
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A few 10s of us students took a bus to #Molesworth on 17th Feb to express ourselves. #BillyBragg was there, still only a #JohnPeel cult figure at the time, and without his guitar. Last week we were both outside the Royal Courts of Justice (on different days) bsky.app/profile/defe... #plusçachange
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Masculine energy??
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By this I read " #Zuckerberg now aligns himself with traditional patriachy (hey #Trump #musk !) - As opposed to #queer patriachy"
It's going to be the same shit show don't worry
#Plusçachange
#patriarchy
#radfem
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#shahai by long time contributor, Arvinder Kaur @arvinderk8 #color #micropoetry #haiku #india #poetry #janus #poems #haiga #newyearseve #poetrycommunity #plusçachange #poetrylovers #haiku
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No final da sua última reunião do Conselho de ministros dos Negócios Estrangeiros da UE, o alto representante Josep Borrell lembrou que os tópicos que estiveram na agenda da primeira foram: a Rússia e Ucrânia; o Médio Oriente e as relações entre a Administração Trump e a UE
#plusçachange
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Note that this thread was written during the first trump administration as his administration forced USDA's Economic Research Service to relocate to Kansas City, hence the #ERS_strong as support hashtag.
#PlusçaChange still applies, alas.
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![Photo of a young Margaret Reid from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive [apfl-07021]. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ikb564y3ze6e2tktskm4spn/bafkreihcxmkapubbcy22a2iha5coylh3r6cv5ee3suek3lr554f7ao3woi)
Photo of a young Margaret Reid from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive [apfl-07021]. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
![Photo of an older Margaret Reid from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive [apfl-07024]. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7ikb564y3ze6e2tktskm4spn/bafkreiayo2qw6qo2ux2mkge7ytdj3ouet7dus5zvfpsu2jccqjqw3npzzy)
Photo of an older Margaret Reid from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive [apfl-07024]. Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.
Photo of the cover of Margaret Reid's book, Economics of Household Production
Schultz: "…in ways prescribed by the organized pressure groups in agriculture regardless of the effects of what was done upon the welfare of the public generally.”
15 people left with Schultz, including Margaret Reid.
That’s my alma mater all right.
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The cover of the original version of Pamphlet #5, the publication can be found at: https://www.scribd.com/doc/23453517/Putting-Dairying-on-a-War-Footing-Wartime-Farm-and-Food-Policy-5
Saving my favorite twitter 🧵as a bluesky one (w/ added ALT)!
This #ThrowbackThursday, my favorite @IowaStateU story of all times (and I have A LOT). It has it all: craven administrators, powerful lobbies, principled superstar academics & of course, ag policy impacts!
#PlusçaChange #PamphletNo5 1/
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That's the sort of thing that's kept me employed for years, doing maintenance and extension on legacy codebases of all quality levels from "above average" down. But there will be no new generation trained and able to tackle that work unless they reject 'ai' shit and teach themselves. #plusçachange
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We had a school assembly in 1986 where our deputy head basically said this, playing us 'Money for Nothing' by Dire Straits and 'Money' by Pink Floyd in illustration. We were overcome by restless hilarity. #plusçachange etc.
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There are two unbearable people on Woman’s Hour right now.
#Plusçachange
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My college roommate Kate just enlisted her parents in finding this photo from our college graduation. We were looking for the one of me with “Derek Bok, where are all the women profs?” but I had completely forgotten that I had held up this one, too. #plusçachange
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“I wish you would never say anything—to anybody—about my writing, that is if these stories are accepted and published. It injures the reputation of a medical student to be supposed to be engaged in such frivolities." — Mary Putnam to her mother, 1868 #WomenofScience #plusçachange
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Les habían montado un 15M a los Nueve, miratú. #Punsetadas #plusçachange
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A peaceful protest was met by military force -- in 1819 musapublishing.blogspot.com/2014/08/remembering-16-a... #plusçachange #Peterloo
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