John Leavitt formerly of https://xitter.cf/t.co/2kI4FY449s, back when it was a site related to the steampunk genre, etc.
Pittsburgh, PA
Joined November 2009
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Made in 1890 by Blaise Bontems in Paris, this tiny device mimics bird chirps Recently restored by Michael Start, the intricate chirps are produced by a complex system of gears, springs, and bellows, craftsmanship beyond a typical sound loop.
Listen 🔊
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We need your help! #Disney refuses to recognize #animation production workers in their effort to #unionize. Show your support and sign the petition at iatse.net/online-action/disn…
#WDASProductionstrong #UnionStrong #ProductionStrong #AnimationGuild @IATSE
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Nobody I repeat nobody could possibly ever have seen this coming. I'm shocked I tell you. bbc.com/news/world-europe-66…
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Ellen Terry’s famous Lady Macbeth “beetle wing” dress was designed for her by Alice Comyns Carr & was first worn on stage in Dec 1888. Meant to invoke fear, the addition of 1000 beetle wing cases created the effect of scales. Recently restored. #ShakespeareSunday #FolkloreSunday
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In the Victorian times, pain relief in childbirth began to take off. New developments in anaesthesia meant that the option was available. And one of the earliest adopters of this new approach was Queen Victoria herself.
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Can watch this over and over again.120 yr old clip of the Wuppertal Suspension Railway in Germany, 1902. The footage is colorized and speed adjusted. The "Wuppertaler Schwebebahn" opened in 1901. It is still in use, moving 25 million passengers annually.
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In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
ALT Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter facing left dressed in a long dark dress and coat and with a floppy bkack hat in a street with tall buildings either side, a lamp post to the right and lone figures in the far distance
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This famous image made by artist István Orosz features a scene from the classic science fantasy novel The Mysterious Island. When a mirrored cylinder is placed on the Moon, it reveals by anamorphosis a portrait of the novel’s writer, Jules Verne [source: buff.ly/319f9VP]
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Are you keen to conduct research on how illicit print shaped sexual knowledge in Britain? Apply for this new @ahrcpres CDP studentship in partnership w @UniKentHistory on 'Sex, Secrecy & Obscene Literature in Britain, 1857-1959'.
Learn more here. kent.ac.uk/scholarships/sear…
#HistSex
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"Sea Battle," my Napoleonic steampunk story, has been accepted by Lost Boys Press to appear in Great Wars, an anthology of military SF. The story's excerpted from my novel, Napoleon Concerto. #steampunk #militarysf #sciencefiction #lostboyspress
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Look, let me be frank. My initial covid infection did not require hospitalisation. Ergo it was “mild”. However, I have never recovered. 2 years later & I am nowhere near who I once was. My body & brain have sustained long term damage.
THAT is what Living With Covid looks like.
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Confelicity is joy in someone else's happiness. Compassion is sorrow in their distress (from the Latin for 'suffering together').
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A year has passed since covid took my Dad. It seems like yesterday and a lifetime ago.
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This is like saying "Schools are viewed favorably by 91% of Americans despite billions in loses annually."
Absolutely ridiculous framing that legitimizes attempts to undermine public services so they can be privatized and made worse for everyone except the ultra-rich
The USPS is viewed favourably by 91% of Americans despite billions in losses annually econ.trib.al/lbAK4CD
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This is one of the most famous paintings in American history: Declaration of Independence.
I decided to put red dots on all the men who held slaves.
Next time someone puts them on a pedestal and says we can't question their judgement on guns or whatever, show them this image.
