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Goodnight ineffables ❤️ love to all ❤️ remember that you are so very much loved ❤️ cherished and wanted in this world of ours ❤️ 😈 😇 🥂🥰🫂😘

Terry Pratchett in a blue jacket and Akubra hat holding a young owl for release.

Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️

Spotted on the St. James’s Park “Good Omens” bench on Tuesday.

(No I don’t add to the graffiti, I only take photos of what’s there as park staff understandably sand it off occasionally.)

Remembering Terry – in our hearts and on our bookshelves. #TerryPratchett

100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride.

Mainstream media: nothing

Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes.

Mainstream media: nothing.

This is what extreme media bias looks like.

GNU SIR TERRY PRATCHETT
Signal this to all towers, not logged.
‘He’d never have wanted to go home. He was a real linesman. His name is in the code, in the wind in the rigging and the shutters. Haven’t you ever heard the saying “A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken”?’
Going Postal

Goodnight ineffables ❤️ love to all ❤️ remember that you are so very much loved ❤️ cherished and wanted in this world of ours ❤️ 😈 😇 🥂🥰🫂😘

Tennant & Sheen being twinsies!

Today's prompt is 'dancing queens' 🪩

Day 51 of posting a picture of Aziraphale and Crowley until they come back to us.

Goodnight ineffables ❤️ love to all ❤️ remember that you are so very much loved ❤️ cherished and wanted in this world of ours ❤️ 😈 😇 🥂🥰🫂😘

For International Women's Day, celebrating Mary Shelley, mother of Science Fiction, and the many versions of her monster.

#internationalwomensday #womenshistorymonth #frankenstein #frankenstein2025

An astronaut refused to fly until a Black woman checked the math.

Her name was Katherine Johnson.

Her calculations helped send astronaut John Glenn into orbit and helped chart the path for Apollo 11.

History remembers the mind that helped launch us into space.

#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth

Happy #InternationalWomensDay!

Women didn't work maintaining Britain's railways until World War 2, right?

WRONG!

Our ground-breaking new research has uncovered railwaywomen trackworkers of the First World War, for #WomensHistoryMonth.

Read more:

www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk/susan-longma...

This International #WomensDay, we reassert that the greatest threat to women's rights is organized religion -- especially when infringing on politics.

#ffrf #herstory #womenshistory #womenshistorymonth

Out of honor & respect for #WomensHistoryMonth please read fantastic & informative thread and pass it on.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman in the iconic 1970s TV series. Photo credit: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

#ResistanceRoots
#WomensHistoryMonth

Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic book character of all time, created in 1941 by psychologist William Moulton Marston. He drew inspiration from the women in his life, the feminist movement, his psychological theories — and erotic pin-up art. /1

Women's History Month: How It Started, Why We Celebrate in March and More Questions Answered Did you know that Women's History Month went from one day, to one week, to one month? Learn more about the month-long celebration

Here’s a little history on how this month of celebrating women’s history started 💜💚🤍

people.com/human-intere...

#WomensHistoryMonth #Pinks🌷

Alice Walker. Photo credit: Colorado State University.

#ResistanceRoots
#WomensHistoryMonth

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
— Alice Walker

Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols

Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

On the left: An oval-framed black-and-white portrait photograph of Josephine Cochrane wearing a high-necked blouse or dress with lace detailing and a dark jacket or shawl. Her hair is styled in an elaborate braided updo typical of the Edwardian era, with soft curls framing her face. She gazes just to the right of the camera with a calm, composed expression, conveying quiet confidence and elegance. On the right: A printed advertisement for the "New Improved Garis-Cochrane Dish Washing Machine," featuring bold uppercase headline text: "YOU CAN HAVE Absolutely Clean Dishes" followed by promotional copy promising dishes cleaned "without being nicked and have them clean, without being cracked quick, or broken by using the" machine. The ad highlights the product's advantages over manual washing and includes a detailed line drawing illustration of the open dishwashing machine, showing internal racks holding plates and utensils, a hinged lid, and mechanical components like a pump or agitator. Small text notes it is "Used Exclusively in the Baltimore and Connor Hotels," with contact information: "Send for Catalogue," "Telephone Harrison 2981," and the manufacturer "Garis-Cochrane Mfg. Co., 1403 Auditorium Tower, CHICAGO, ILL." The overall design is classic early advertising style, emphasizing innovation in household labor-saving devices and featuring the woman as a symbol of modern domesticity.

Josephine Cochrane invented the first commercially successful automatic dishwasher.

Posthumously inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2006. She was born #OTD in 1839.

#InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026 #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM

Sepia photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a Native American women looking outwards with strong expression

Angel De Cora (1871–1919) artist of the Winnebago people, forcibly taken from her family by US authorities as part of a programme to assimilate Native American girls into white society. De Cora later became a Native American rights advocate #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

The hand embroidered banners of the UK women's suffrage movement designed and embroidered in communal workshops by skilled women artists #WomensArt
#WomensHistoryMonth

A vintage black-and-white photograph from the 1930s showing British aeronautical engineer and motorcycle racer Beatrice "Tilly" Shilling (1909–1990) seated confidently astride her Norton racing motorcycle outside a brick building. She is a woman in her mid-20s with short, neatly combed hair, wearing a full leather racing suit with long sleeves and trousers, and tall leather boots. She smiles broadly with a proud, spirited expression while gripping the handlebars. The motorcycle is a classic Norton model (likely her modified 500cc International or M30), featuring a visible fuel tank with branding, exposed engine, sprung front forks, large spoked wheels, a side-mounted oil can or tool, and no front mudguard in racing style. The setting appears to be a workshop or garage exterior with a brick wall, drainpipe, and open doorway in the background. The image captures her daring personality as one of the few women to earn the British Motorcycle Racing Club's Gold Star for lapping Brooklands at over 100 mph, blending engineering prowess, speed, and trailblazing spirit in an era of male-dominated fields.

In 1940, British engineer Beatrice Shilling designed a simple brass restrictor that limited fuel flow just enough to prevent carburetor flooding in the #RAF Spitfire & Hurricane fighter planes during #WWII.

She was born #OTD in 1909.

#IWD #InternationalWomensDay #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM

Painted portrait of the upper half of a white woman with dark hair tied, dressed in grey top

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth
Portrait by her sister Vanessa Bell

Women Who Have Made History at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Here's a list of women who have made history at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.

🙏🏼 Billboard

#womenshistorymonth

www.billboard.com/lists/women-...

Photograph of Marietta Blau

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of experimental physicist Marietta Blau (1894-1970), a pioneer in the use of photographic emulsions to study subatomic particles, including those from cosmic rays. 🎢⚛️🧪 #WomenInSTEM 🧵1/n

Bessie Coleman was denied admission to American flight schools because she was Black and a woman.

So she went to France.

In 1921 she became the first Black woman in the world to earn an international pilot’s license.

She refused to stay grounded.

#SheShed #Voices4Victory #WomensHistoryMonth

Monochrome photograph of the upper half of a white woman in glamourous top and with stats on wires surrounding her head

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian born Hollywood actress, was also a designer/inventor who created aviation designs for Howard Hughes and co-patented a “secret communication system” - the basis for modern WiFi #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

#WomensHistoryMonth