The Railway Museum in York is doing a fantastic thing collecting oral histories of LGBTQIA+ people connected with the UK railway (and Eurostar) - I thought this might be of interest to a few folk here! :progresspride_flag:

National Railway Museum

People, Pride and Progress | National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum is embarking on a new project to record the stories and memories of the LGBTQIA+ community in a new oral history archiv...

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransOnTrains

Australian software engineer Sarah Spencer hacked a 1980's knitting machine to create "Stargazing: a knitted tapestry" to show the universe in a unique way. 🇦🇺 Sarah explains, “By using a floppy drive emulator written in Python and a web interface, I can send an image to the Raspberry Pi over the network, preview it in a knitting grid, and tell it to send the knitting pattern to the knitting machine via the floppy drive port ...

Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

The Knitting Network Printer — Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

What can you do with a vintage 1980s knitting machine? You can turn it into a ‘Knitting Network Printer’, that’s what!

#WomensArt #Tech #Knitting #raspberrypi

Waves hi to both the UK and US authorities (who for some reason are terrified of us ...)

Florentine street artist Clet. #StreetArt

Spanish crochet teacher Eva Pacheco and her students created a street canopy in crochet and knitting, making welcome shade for the community of Alhaurín de la Torre, Malaga #WomensArt 🇪🇸

*Our Little Fluff Ball' etching by contemporary English printmaker Faith Chevannes

Faith Chevannes

About My Work — Faith Chevannes

#WomensArt

The perfect business model 📚 🍰

The only thing I take seriously in the newspapers nowadays is Fish and Chips. And even that I take with a pinch of salt ...

At the local zoo, all animals must do chores to earn their keep. The Lion sweeps tonight.

Digital ID: Indian officials in charge of a controversial biometric identity scheme have filed a police complaint after a report that citizens' personal details were being sold for as little as 500 rupees ($7.8;£5.8) online (2018) The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) wants a probe into "unauthorised access" to its database. > But in the UK, sure you'll be fine lads ... Palantir has your backs 👍

Aadhaar: 'Leak' in world's biggest database worries Indians

Officials file a complaint after a report that personal details on the database are being sold.

#uk #DigitalID