On this day, 9 March 1914, women battled police in Glasgow during Emmeline Pankhurst’s speaking tour of Scotland. The famous suffragette had been temporarily released from prison to nullify her hunger strike, but now the police sought to rearrest her so she would serve the remainder of her sentence. What they didn’t expect was an organised bodyguard. Pankhurst’s protectors had barbed wire concealed in flower bouquets and clubs concealed in dresses. Some had undertaken martial arts training, and they carried at least one gun. The Glasgow Herald reported that “Unparalleled scenes of disorder took place. The police stormed the platform and for several minutes a fierce struggle took place between them and Mrs Pankhurst’s supporters, several persons being injured. Flower pots and chairs were thrown at the constables, who were obliged to draw their batons. In the course of the mêlée the excitement was intensified by a woman firing several blank rounds from a revolver.”
Here is an overview of militant tactics deployed by the suffragettes: https://libcom.org/history/violence-suffragette-movementhttps://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1667965766721900/?type=3
“We know nothing of childhood; and with our mistaken notions the further we advance the further we go astray. The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education (via philosophybits)
Has anyone ever seen that picture of the horse in the pool with the sunglasses wearing dog in its back and the ’D’ from the Hollywood sign thrown in the bushes?
Ok this is the picture… Can someone explain it to me?
Amazon is making sockpuppet twitter accounts as an attempt to stop unionizing. Why have corporeal scabs when you can get AI-generated scabs?
Yeah we’re betting that they’re either run by PR people or by employees told they’d get a bit extra $$ if they made the accounts and responded to people with prearranged stuff. That being said, the AI comment was because people have been pointing out that a number of these accounts use what appears to be AI-generated people for the pictures, and they could have been used from that linked website.
Remember that if unions didn’t work, companies like Amazon wouldn’t try so hard to prevent them…
“I’m barely scraping by as it is, but that’s not because Amazon is underpaying me, I swear!”
I am a human person and am a big fan of watching your human movies with my human eyes 👁️👄👁️
this is how people born after 1995 hack. when i started hacking or “phreaking” in the late 80s i would get in the zone by snorting homemade amphetamines & listening to harsh noise cassettes while banging out code for 24+ hour periods on my atari. mostly i would write text-to-speech features into the operating system so the computer said swear words when you double-click. i remember when html was invented i got so frustrated because theres so many greater than and less than signs and you have to put them around everything. in early january of 2001 i changed Google’s header to a gif of a pissing orangutan and the resulting publicity turned the website into a household name
never have a been more devastated to scroll over a url and see its deactivated who are you ma'am
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