matokie

matokie, 11 days ago to random

Not one but two Victorian maritime forts going up for auction next month
https://thespaces.com/two-maritime-forts-will-go-up-for-auction-next-month/

matokie, 18 days ago to random

Thai authorities say Geoffrey Kitchen, 73, probably had heart attack, and seven are critically injured as passengers describe ‘dramatic drop’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/severe-turbulence-london-to-singapore-flight

matokie, 22 days ago to random

5/17/1954
U.S. Supreme Court rules (in Brown vs Board of Education of Topeka) that separate educational facilities for blacks and whites are inherently unequal and violate 14th Amendment
https://syracuseculturalworkers.com/collections/education-teachers

matokie, 1 month ago to random

Nick Bostrom’s Future of Humanity Institute closed this week in what Swedish-born philosopher says was ‘death by bureaucracy’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes

matokie, 1 month ago to random

VERY HARD not to pet the drug-sniffing doggie at the airport, it’s not its fault it’s a cop

matokie, 1 month ago to random

Ten years after the launch of My Brother’s Keeper, these “model communities” have become proving grounds for the collaboration-based formula’s success.
https://reasonstobecheerful.world/my-brothers-keeper-model-communities-newark-tulsa-omaha/

matokie, 2 months ago to random

At least 96 people died as they tried to reach an island off Nampula province to escape mainland after false narratives caused panic
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/08/mozambique-ferry-disaster-sinking-death-toll-nampula-province

matokie, 2 months ago to random

3/19/1911
More than one million attend first International Women's Day (IWD) rallies campaigning for women's rights to work, vote, hold office. Germany, Austria

matokie, 3 months ago to random

2/28/1958
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament begins in London. Origin of peace symbol

matokie, 3 months ago to random

An ostrich jockey in the streets of Brussels, 1933
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3fAAhvt9nU/?img_index=1

matokie, 3 months ago to random

Feeling a lot of feelings from the Oakland Symphony tonight after they premiered a wondrous new choral piece about Paul Robeson and then happened to play Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 on the day of Aleksei Navalny’s death

matokie, 3 months ago to random

Look I forgot my cousin’s last name a couple weeks ago, none of our brains work right anymore. You don’t even want to know how many typos I had to fix in this post either

matokie, 3 months ago to random

Also saw a Grateful Dead sticker on a Tesla earlier today and almost choked laughing

matokie, 4 months ago to random

These 1980s dollhouses, made for an architect’s competition:
https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/doll-houses-1983

matokie, 4 months ago to random

The historical facade of an 1890s building in Cincinnati was revealed during renovations
https://www.instagram.com/p/C1Ncf-qy6PA/?hl=en&img_index=1

matokie, 4 months ago to random

What a day

matokie, 4 months ago to random

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/09/2023-record-world-hottest-climate-fossil-fuel

matokie, 5 months ago to random

Haute couture from the village of Goor in the Caucasus Mountains
https://xphaiea.tumblr.com/post/738131401824714752/goor-village-traditional-dress

matokie, 5 months ago to random

12/19/1940
Civilian Public Service camps for conscientious objectors established

matokie, 5 months ago to random

City audit says LAPD helicopters cost $50m a year, more than 14 city offices’ entire budget
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/11/los-angeles-police-helicopters-cost-benefit-dispute

matokie, 6 months ago to random

Technically the “anniversary” is tonight, but I will never forget waking up seven years ago to texts from friends making sure that I was ok, that I hadn’t been at Ghost Ship. And the feeling of overwhelming panic as I pieced together what had happened and who I did know who was there. Remembering them and crying for them today

matokie, 6 months ago to random

I question why it is taking my building two weeks to fix our call box, and I question why UPS ignored my note with my phone number offering to let them in. I just need one single thing to go right this week

matokie, 6 months ago to random

Watched High Anxiety and Madeline Kahn always steals the entire show

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matokie, 6 months ago to random

Photographs taken by Ralph Crane in 1961 show an audition of 152 cats for a black cat role in a Roger Corman adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Terror:
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/black-cat-audition-hollywood/

matokie, 6 months ago to random

11/15/2021
President Joe Biden signs desperately needed $1Trillion infrastructure bill