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Terry Matz @terrymatz@wandering.shop · 4d ago

Today we celebrate the birthday of Elizabeth Zimmermann, knitting icon and "Opinionated Knitter" (aren't we all?), who was born August 9, 1910. Her innovations include the Pi Shawl, Moebius twist, i-cord, and more. Read my favorite story about EZ and find EZ inspired patterns on my newsletter https://mailchi.mp/intheloopknitting/free-knitting-patterns-elizabeth-zimmermann #knitting #otd

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Don Trueten

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Remember May Ayim. „nachdem sie mich erst anschwärzten zogen sie mich dann durch den kakao um mir schließlich weiß machen zu wollen es sei vollkommen unangebracht – schwarz zu sehen“ – May Ayim: exotik (1985) #OtD #KritischesWeisssein #MayAyim #kritischesweisssein #mayayim

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Frank Burgenstein 🇪🇸🇿🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @FrankBurgenstein@kolektiva.social · 4d ago

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@thomas@mastodon.trueten.de Danke, dass du an sie erinnerst. (Mir war sie vollkommen unbekannt und falls das anderen auch so geht, verlinke ich mal ihren Wikipedia Artikel https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Ayim?wprov=sfla1 Sehr hartes Leben, sehr beklemmend. Wieviele POC wohl täglich ähnliche Erfahrungen machen? Und es zeigt sich mal wieder in was für einem Shice Land mit Millionen von Super-Arschlöchern wir hier das Vergnügen haben zu leben.) #OtD #KritischesWeisssein #MayAyim #kritischesweisssein #mayayim

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 4d ago

#OtD 10 Aug 2005 the Gate Gourmet dispute began at Heathrow airport in London, where hundreds of outsourced workers, mostly Asian women, tried to fight changes to working conditions. Eventually their union, the TGWU, accepted the inferior conditions https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8178/gate-gourmet-dispute

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 4d ago

#OtD 10 Aug 1889 Polish WWII resistance activist Zofia Kossak-Szczucka was born. During Nazi occupation she founded a group to help save Jewish people. She was sent to Auschwitz but got out, joined the Warsaw uprising and survived the war https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8173/zofia-kossak-szczucka-born

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 5d ago

#OtD 9 Aug 1914 5000 people gathered on Glasgow Green, Scotland to denounce the declaration of WWI as "the outcome of capitalism." Unlike a similar rally in Edinburgh the day before, no jingoistic mob attacked. The war would claim over 16 million lives https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10878/red-clydeside-against-wwi

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · Aug 02, 2026

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2.8.2022: Laajankangas. Interasfaltti. #OTD #Kajaani

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · Aug 03, 2026

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3.8.2014: Vuosaari. Taitaa olla kesän viimeisiä lämpimiä sunnuntaita. #OTD #ItäHelsinki

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · Aug 04, 2026

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4.8.2004: Mellunmäki. Katuosaston insinöörin selvistä ohjeista huolimatta vesi ei osannut hypätä sille tarkoitettuun väylään. #OTD #ItäHelsinki

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · Aug 05, 2026

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5.8.2025: Kontula. Rappaus. #OTD #ItäHelsinki

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · Aug 07, 2026

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7.8.2004: Porvoo. Lätällä Porvooseen ja pyörällä takaisin Helsinkiin. #OTD #Porvoo #junat

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · 6d ago

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8.8.2014: Esplanadi. Hyvää yötä! #OTD #Helsinki

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Matti Sunell @sunell@mementomori.social · 5d ago

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9.8.2015: Mustavuori. Opettelin uuden kompaktikameran käyttöä ja sain tuurilla pari melkein terävää lentokuvaa sittiksestä. #OTD #perhoset #ItäHelsinki

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · 6d ago

#OtD 8 Aug 1942 Spanish Civil War veteran, Maria Perez Cruz, was executed by the Franco regime on trumped up charges. A former nurse in the anarchist Iron Column militia, she was arrested in 1939 and charged with various offences https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10774/france-closes-border-with-spain

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Vintage Edmonton @VintageEdmonton@mstdn.ca · Aug 07, 2026

"Wrecked The Car" August 7, 1905 #OTD #Automobiles #Cleveland #Pittsburgh #1905

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Stefan Bohacek @stefan@stefanbohacek.online · Aug 06, 2026

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The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html "On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl@w3c.social." Happy birthday, web! Via https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1025554426/a-look-back-at-the-very-first-website-ever-launched-30-years-later #TheWeb #internet #WorldWideWeb #FirstWebsite #history #OTD

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social · Aug 06, 2026

#OtD 6 Aug 1945 the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians, despite believing that Japan was about to surrender, which was noted by multiple US officials https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10593/u.s.-drops-atomic-bomb-on-hiroshima

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Punkrock History @historyofpunkrock@sfba.social · Aug 06, 2026

30 years ago today, an era came to an end The Ramones never let up and gave their best every time they took the stage for over 20 years. It all ended on August 6, 1996 at the Palace in Hollywood, after 2,263 shows the Boyz had their last performance. And Lemmy honored they in his own way 😍 #punk #punks #punkrock #ramones #punkrockhistory #otd

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Punkrock History @historyofpunkrock@sfba.social · Aug 06, 2026

49 years ago today The Clash, Topper Headon, Paul Simonon, Mick Jones, Joe Strummer. 2nd Rock Festival "Punk". Mont de Marsan, Landes, France. August 5-6, 1977. Photo by Jean Gaumy #punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd

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Punkrock History @historyofpunkrock@sfba.social · Aug 06, 2026

47 years ago today "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is the debut single by English post-punk band Bauhaus, released on August 6, 1979 and is often considered the first gothic rock record Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (Riverside) HD #punk #punkrock #postpunk #gothpunkrock #belalugosisdead #bauhaus #history #otd

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