@HannahEBeachler I agree with you that a bad but understandable situation (caused by a man with a disability) was made exponentially worse by the way it was handled by the show's managers. Very deeply regrettable.
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What would Emily Wilding Davison do?
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at the end of the show. Of course we were offended...but our frequency, our spiritual vibration is tuned to a higher level than what happened. I am not steal, this did not bounce off of me, but I exist above it. It can't take away from who I am as an artist.
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I keep trying to write about what happened at the BAFTAs, and I can't find the words. The situation is almost impossible, but it happened 3 times that night, and one of the three times was directed at myself on the way to dinner after the show.
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'You don't owe anyone anything' and the therapy speak that's making Gen Z selfish usatoday.com/story/life/hea… via @usatoday
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@TheAttagirls Good morning Atta, it's not often enjoy a not WOTD more than a WOTD. Lilian deserves that and more for her dedication to burning stuff down.
Joining the SWH proves her bravery under fire in Serbia 😲. A brilliant not WOTD, I'm not fit to lace her drinks.
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There is no Woman of the Day today but I thought that you might like to know that militant suffragette Lilian Lenton was born OTD in 1891 in Leicester. If ever a woman lived two lives, it was she. Nicknamed "the tiny, wily, elusive Pimpernel" for her repeated escapes from police custody, she was awarded the Croix de Guerre for courage in adversity during WW1.
From 1916, Lilian channelled her energy into humanitarian service and served as an orderly (nursing assistant) with Dr Elsie Inglis’s Scottish Women's Hospitals Unit in Serbia where conditions were brutal and the need was great. Serbia was a key Allied theatre devastated by typhus epidemics, battlefield casualties, and harsh conditions. The all-female SWH units operated field hospitals, and worked long days in primitive conditions treating wounded soldiers and civilians amid retreats, advances, and outbreaks of disease. She never faltered.
That might have made her Woman of the Day but between 1912 and 1914, Lilian was a leading member of the Young Hot Bloods, a group of young, unmarried women members of the Women’s Social and Political Union committed to direct action, and she committed arson. Repeatedly.
"Whenever I was out of prison, my object was to burn two buildings a week…The object was to create an absolutely impossible condition of affairs in the country, to prove it was impossible to govern without the consent of the governed."
After listening to a speech by Emmeline Pankhurst, she “made up my mind that night that as soon as I was twenty-one and my own boss…I would volunteer". She evaded the 1911 census but in March 1912, joined a window-smashing campaign targeting government offices in London. That led to Arrest No. 1 and two months in HMP Holloway.
Arrest No. 2 followed in February 1913, when Lilian and London-born suffragette Olive Wharry broke into the the Tea Pavilion at Kew Gardens, scattered paraffin-soaked materials, lit them, and fled, leaving behind suffrage pamphlets. Police arrested them nearby after spotting the wooden structure ablaze and they were found guilty of arson at the Old Bailey in early March 1913.
Damage was estimated at £900 (it was under-insured) and they were sentenced to 18 months at Holloway where they immediately went on hunger strike and were forcefed. Lilian suffered severely. The feeding tube missed its target and sent food into her lungs, causing pleurisy. It was a PR disaster for the government and her case tipped HH Asquith’s hand. His Liberal government passed the Cat and Mouse Act on 25 April 1913.
"The forcible-feeding process was really extremely unpleasant. I don't like talking about these things… I've never told people."
Lilian had to be released temporarily until she could be nursed back to health and returned to prison to complete her sentence. There is a footnote to this (you’ll have to wait for it) but everything that follows seems to have stemmed from this.
She recuperated privately but in June of that year, she was arrested for setting fire to a large empty house in Doncaster, sent to HMP Armley in Leeds, and released eight days later after hunger striking. Initially, she went to a sympathiser's house in Westfield Terrace, Leeds, but she soon went on the run.
In July, police surrounded a house in Leeds where she was hiding. The Tower of London suffragette, Leonora Cohen, carried out a daring rescue by posing as the driver of a baker’s van and whisking Lilian away to her boarding house in Harrogate, disguised as “an errand boy reading a comic and eating an apple”. Detectives surrounded the boarding house and erected a light in the next door garden, trained onto the front windows, so that no-one could get in or out unseen. Ha! Once Lilian had been nursed back to health, she borrowed Leonora’s son’s clothing, went down to the cellar, crawled up the coal chute, and fled via the back garden.
In October, she was nabbed while reclaiming a bicycle at Paddington Station, held at Holloway again, and released after hunger striking. In December, she was arrested barefoot and dishevelled after setting fire to an unoccupied mansion in Cheltenham, imprisoned, and released after hunger striking.
"We only just got out in time on one occasion."
Lilian stayed in safe houses, used aliases and decoys to evade detection, and adopted ingenious disguises: putting a black shawl over her head and hobbling to the railway station as though elderly or infirm, posing as a nurse, posing as an errand boy.
In August 1914, there was a major shift in the fractious relationship between the WSPU and the government. The WSPU suspended all militancy in order to support the war effort. In return, the government granted a general amnesty, releasing all imprisoned suffragettes and ceasing to pursue arrests under the Cat and Mouse Act.
Lilian volunteered for war service, and this brings back to our starting point. She never did serve the rest of that 18-month sentence at Holloway.
"To say I enjoyed making fires sounds rather awful… But it really was lovely to find that you'd been successful – that the thing really had burned down and that you hadn't got caught."
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200 Hamas terrorists are still trapped in an underground tunnel in Rafah, with no way out unless Israel lets them go, and the world is pressuring Israel to do so.
What should Israel do?
1) Let them go.
2) Starve them to death.
3) Fill the tunnel with concrete and drown them.
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If you see this Blackbird photo, please leave a comment. 😊♥️
When did you last see a Blackbird? 😍🐦😊
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Woman of the Day Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who died OTD in 1980 aged 88, was "America's first female cryptanalyst." If you’ve never heard of her, that’s because her valuable codebreaking work - she tracked Prohibition mobsters as well as WW2 Nazi spy networks - was only declassified 28 years after her death.
In any case, J. Edgar Hoover publicly claimed her successes as the FBI's. Well, he would, wouldn’t he?
Her career came about by accident. Born in 1892 in Indiana and named Elizebeth by her mother so it couldn’t shortened to Eliza, she had to repay her university tuition fees to her father with 6% interest because he disapproved of women pursuing higher education.
Armed with an English degree, Elizebeth was recruited by an industrialist to work in Riverside Laboratories to analyse alleged ciphers in Shakespeare's works to support the theory that they were actually written by Francis Bacon. She debunked that theory instead. Bet that went down well.
"We had a lot of pioneering to do. Literary ciphers may give you the swing of the thing, but they are in no sense scientific…We simply had to roll up our sleeves and chart a new course."
From 1922, she was employed by the US Coast Guard and US Treasury, then at the forefront of the battle against the highly lucrative smuggling trade sparked by the Volstead Act. The smugglers used encrypted Morse Code and there was a huge backlog of intercepts collected by Coast Guard stations in San Francisco and Florida herself. Elizebeth solved most of them herself but in June 1928, she taught another Coast Guard operative how to decode and he managed to decipher 3,300 messages within 21 months.
In October 1929, Elizebeth was transferred to Houston where she led a unit of six men decoding over 12,000 smuggler messages with pencil and paper in just three years and resulting in 650 criminal prosecutions, including Al Capone's associates and the Ezra Brothers rum-running syndicate.
"The Prohibition era took thousands of people into illicit operations who would definitely not have been underworld characters if it had not been for the unpopular feeling generally held against the law, the Volstead Act."
How did the men react to being led by a woman? Apart from one, surprisingly well, but then she did have the full support of senior Coast Guard staff who said, “No one else was up to the task." She "fixed messes men had created or solving problems they could not solve."
Elizebeth testified as an expert in 33 cases and it was in open court that she faced outright sexism. One gangster whispered, "Who is this dame, anyways?" while another quipped, "This oughta be good," laughing at the thought of a mere woman decoding his secrets. Attorneys frequently tried to hinder her testimony, with "Objection, Your Honour. What makes this *woman* an expert?" and accused her of needing men’s help because no woman was bright enough to work independently: "Somebody had to tell you it was symbols about liquor transportation. Someone gave you this, didn’t they?"
She countered objections by decoding messages in real time on a chalkboard in court, saying, "As you can see, it’s really quite simple to decode their messages if you know what to look for…When choosing a key word, never choose one which is associated with the project with which one is engaged."
Thanks to Elizebeth, 35 bootleggers were imprisoned as the result of one trial in 1933, and she resolved international disputes like the 1934 "I'm Alone" incident (identifying U.S. ownership of a sunken rum-runner), as well as cracking complex codes such as a Chinese opium-smuggling cipher in 1937 despite no knowledge of the language.
The FBI under J. Edgar Hoover viewed her with "disdain and in a sexist light", yet demanded her help for cases they had made a hash of, and later claimed full credit for her breakthroughs - such as dismantling Nazi spy rings - thus erasing her contributions. A 1956 TIME profile of her husband even dismissed her as just an "assistant cipher clerk”.
Elizebeth ignored it all, prioritising mission success over recognition. She is credited with single-handedly cracking Enigma messages to avert U-boat attacks and dismantle Operation Bolívar, the codename for German espionage in South America. Her work not only led to valuable intell ending up in Allied hands but the also the arrest in 1944 of most of the German agents operating in Argentina, ending all effective Bolívar activity.
Her work was declassified in 2008.
"If I may capture a goodly number of your messages, even though I have never seen your codebook, I may read your thoughts."
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If you are aeeing this, please leave a quick comment to help push the algorithm back to normal.
Appreciate all you here.
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@VividProwess Sorry to hear about your troubles. Hope you get it sorted soon.
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So, cancer hasn't managed to take me after 3.5 years, and im 52 tomorrow. It's the most bizarre way to live, with what is basically every waking moment knowing you have a death sentence. It might sound fake, but honestly, I wouldn't be able to face all this without you guys and gals out there. I watch you all, enjoy your positive moments, get angry when you face shit, and delight at the fun you share. I laugh at TRA fuckwits who wish me death, like my tits beat you to it idiots! I am happy to have met some of you in person and will try to meet as many more as my time allows. Huge kisses and hugs to you all XXXX Winnie...who is of course, Linda
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The police have informed my lawyers that I face no further action in respect of the arrest at Heathrow in September. After a successful hearing to get my bail conditions lifted (one which the police officer in charge of the case didn't even bother to attend) the Crown Prosecution Service has dropped the case. With the aid of the Free Speech Union, I still aim to hold the police accountable for what is only the latest attempt to silence and suppress gender critical voices on behalf of dangerous and disturbed men.
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11 September 1924 | Slovak Jew, Rudolf Vrba (b. Walter Rosenberg), was born in Topoľčany.
On 15 June 1942, he was deported to Majdanek from where after a few weeks he was transferred to Auschwitz.
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On 7 April 1944, he escaped from #Auschwitz together with Alfred Wetzler. Their report contributed later to halting the deportations of Hungarian Jews for extermination to Auschwitz.
Rudolf Vrba passed away in March 2006 in Vancouver.
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In the second half of 1943 Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler decided to escape. During the further preparations, Vrba and Wetzler received civilian garments from prisoners employed in the warehouse for clothes of the murdered Jews, while one of the Polish prisoners provided them with information about the escape route.
To escape, they used a hiding place (a so-called bunker) made by prisoners employed in leveling the area: Mordka Cytryn (see escape from 29 February and 2 March 1944) and Abram (surname unknown). They, in turn, offered a joint escape to three other prisoners, Getzl Abramowicz, Kuba Balaban, and Mendel Eisenbach (see escape from 29 February and 2 March 1944). The latter, in turn, showed the bunker to Vrba, asking for help while the fugitives stayed in hiding for three days.
On 7 April 1944, they both hid in the previously prepared bunker. After three days, when the SS men stopped the searching action, they came out of the hideout and, encircling the camp from the west, headed south in the direction of Slovakia. On 25 April after a dozen days of marching, thanks to the assistance of the Poles and Jews encountered on their way, they got as far as Žilina, where they secretly met the representatives of the Jewish Council, presenting them the report about Auschwitz.
The report with the information about the camp and the extermination of Jews conducted from April 1942 until April 1944, was written down and then, in the form of an exhaustive report, sent via secret channels to the West. In mid 1944 the report was disclosed through the Allied media. The information influenced the actions of the governments of the Allied and neutral states, which began to exert pressure on Hungarian authorities to discontinue further deportations of Jews to Auschwitz. Regent Miklós Horthy gave in and on 6 July 1944 ordered to stop the deportations.
In November 1944 the report of R. Vrba and A. Wetzler was incorporated into the brochure published in Washington and entitled “German Extermination Camps—Auschwitz and Birkenau”. In the brochure, there were also two reports of other camp escapees: Jews Arnošt Rosin and Czesław Mordowicz as well as a Pole Jerzy Tabeau (as “the report of a Polish major”). With the report printed in the press, the message contributed to the spreading of the knowledge about the crimes committed in Auschwitz in the Western world.
After the escape, Alfred Wetzler and Rudolf Vrba remained in Slovakia, where they joined partisan units to fight until the end of the war.
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@HenMazzig I'm Irish and I think this is total BS and the wrong call by Ireland.
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BREAKING: Ireland 🇮🇪 will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest if Israel participates.
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10 September 1930 | An Italian Jewish woman, Liliana Segre, was born in Milan.
In January 1944, she was deported to #Auschwitz with her father Alberto who perished in the camp in April 1944.
Liliana survived. Today, she is a Senator for life in #Italy and turns 95.
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9 September 1938 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ágnes Noiman (Neuman), was born in Budapest.
In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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11 September 1930 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Jeanne Woudstra, was born in Leeuwarden.
In November 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz with her parents Esther and Nathan and brothers Albers and Marcus. Probably all of them were murdered in gas chambers after the selection.
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