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Marie Elmes was born in Cork on 5 May 1908. She was an Irish aid worker credited with saving the lives of at least 200 Jewish children at various times during the Holocaust, by hiding them in the boot of her car. She was posthumously recognised by Yad Vashem as Righteous Among the Nations.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #MarieElmes #Cork #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #Jewish #YadVashem #OnThisDay

Reasons 4,365 to 4,875 why you'd have to be a dumb as a pile of bricks to by a Swasticar.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

#Tesla #Musk

Bob Vylan statement released today. 👏

#BobVylan #Gaza #Genocide

BBC censorship of view unpalatable to the government is not new. During the first Gulf War they banned 'Give Peace a Chance' and 'I shot the Sheriff'. Go figure.

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/songs-bbc-banned-during-gulf-war/

Hungary has banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which essentially means Pride. Today over 500,000 people in Budapest turned up for a Pride march and told the government to: 'Fuck off!'.

#Pride2025 #Hungary #Budapest

Ernest Walton died on 25 June 1995 in Belfast. Born in Dungarvan, Co Waterford, he was a physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with “atom-smashing” experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s, and so became the first person in history to artificially split the atom.

#Ireland #IrishHistory #ErnestWalton #JohnCockcroft #Physics #Dungarvan #Waterford #CambridgeUniversity #NobelPrizeInPhysics #OnThisDay

"When a fool throws a stone into the well, ten wise men can’t get it out."
Jewish Wisdom, A Dictionary of 4,400 Jewish Proverbs (2006)

Says so much about modern politics. A large part of the problem is that so many politicians in the West (Starmer, etc) have decided that there is more benefit for themselves to being a fool throwing the stones than a wise man trying to recover them.

In the late afternoon of Monday 26 April 1937, the small Basque town of Guernica was destroyed by sustained bombing attacks by Hitler’s Condor Legion and Mussolini’s Aviazzione Legionaria. The choice of projectiles was aimed to cause the greatest possible number of civilian casualties. The atrocity was imortalised in the famous painting by Pablo Picasso.

#Spain #SpanishHistory #SpanishCivilWar #Guernica #WarCrimes #OnThisDay

Things go from bad to worse for Elmo, the incels' favourite crush.

"French Tesla customers file lawsuit over brand becoming 'extreme-right' symbol. A group of Tesla customers in France are demanding that their lease contracts be terminated and legal costs be reimbursed over the "direct and concrete" damage suffered from the brand's association with Elon Musk's activities in the Trump administration and his support for far-right parties in Europe."

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250611-french-tesla-customers-sue-over-brand-becoming-extreme-right

#Swastikars

Alan Turing died by suicide on 7 June 1954. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce his libido. Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his consultancy for GCHQ. He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction.

#AlanTuring #GayRights #OnThisDay

20mph speed limits save lives. Research from London:

"Child casualties dropped by 46%, and children killed by 75%"

20mph = Fewer maimed and dead children.

Difficult to argue with that.

https://etsc.eu/20mph-limits-in-london-linked-to-sharp-fall-in-road-injuries-and-deaths-new-report-finds/

#SpeedLimits #RoadSafety

"Why does England, a European country, speak English, an American language instead of another foreign European language?"

https://www.quora.com/Why-does-England-a-European-country-speak-English-an-American-language-instead-of-another-foreign-European-language 😂

#Quora #English #America #Language

Apparently this is the Telegraph's breaking news logo. This is, apparently, not a parody.

#Telegraph #Fascism

@atomicpoet What is the perceived revenue stream that justifies such an investment?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mask-network-acquires-pawoonet-one-of-the-largest-mastodon-instances-301707919.html