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General Strike

Tell us about more strike actions coming to London!

Roughly 200,000 teachers represented by the National Education Union (NEU) are taking strike action this week.
https://kolektiva.social/@strike@libranet.de/109956849219199613

https://kolektiva.social/@Durruti/109869916727941701

Friday 17 February
Action by Unite members continues in Northern Ireland.
Border Force staff are also striking at the ports of Calais, Dunkirk and Dover and at the Coquelles Channel Tunnel Terminal, with international inbound travel to the UK affected.
Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 February
Border Force strikes continue.
Monday 20 February
Paramedics, emergency care assistants, call handlers and other staff from the GMB union will stage a further walkout, as will Unite ambulance workers across trusts in the northeast, East Midlands and Wales. Border Force strikes conclude at 7am.
Tuesday 21 February
Teachers in Northern Ireland are holding a half-day strike, meaning many schools across the country will not open until noon.
University strikes continue.
Wednesday 22 February
Unite ambulance workers strike in the northwest of England.
University strikes continue.
Thursday 23 February
The second round of 48-hour strikes by health and social care workers and ambulance staff with Unite begins in Northern Ireland.
University strikes continue.
Friday 24 February
The above action by Unite members continues in Northern Ireland.
Monday 27 February
University strikes continue.
Tuesday 28 February
NEU members in the Northern, North West, Yorkshire and The Humber regions of England are set to strike. University strikes continue.
Wednesday 1 March
From 6am, nurses at more than 120 NHS employers in England will begin action, for the first time lasting 48 hours.
Thursday 16 March
Members of the Rail, Martine and Transport (RMT) union at 14 train operators will walk out and then launch a ban on overtime.
Saturday 18 March
RMT rail workers strike again.
Monday 20 March
RMT rail workers strike again.
March
Junior doctors will strike for 72 hours in March, although the exact dates have not been confirmed.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/strikes-february-2023-teachers-school-neu-b2290911.html

Trip 31: Strikes

Pirates Live

Flash Pirates Live OS USB

Coming soon…

Flashy!

Reading Groups, Hourglasses and the Liberealia

OK so we were kind of bluffing. I said we had pre-book-launch-preview copies of that book by the proliterole-of-a-pirate, David Graeber’s

pirate enlightenment or the real libertalia

The Cookie Crumbles in the Direction of Time

Pirates Coding across the treasure map

Until about two hours ago, it was the Pirates’ Code day of the week: itself a quarter of a month in the Gregorian calendar, and approximately a quarter of a Lunar Month.

We have been exploring Pirate symbols, designing Project InfoTorrent and of course, practising the Pirates’ Code (see fig 1).

A cohort of cowardly buccaneers and idle pleasure pleasers found some wisdom Down in the Sett today. Using the Treasure Map as a visual and tactile aid, we travelled through time and had a look at our relative positions with regard to activity at the Flowerpot. What a journey it has been too!

Navigating

Today is about navigating. A lord is indicating they want possession of the Sett back, so we might do well to scout some locations and do some scrolling.

Jam Gonuts Tonite

*7pm tonight! (Friday)

The Sett Porchester

BRING YOUR INSTRUMENTS AND CRAFTY THINGS.

Domesti-City

The species problem is the set of questions that arises when biologists attempt to define what a species is. Such a definition is called a species concept; there are at least 26 recognized species concepts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_concept

The Space Pirates have been busy for days, scrolling hard and getting set up down in the Sett downstairs.

Let me fill you in a little about what we’ve been up to with the badgers…

Squatting

Yesterday was the safety and security day of the Space Pirates’ week.

We have installed a digi-lock on our inner door downstairs and secured the external doors. The Space Pirates have a new battery drill, and have cobbled together some other tools to this end.

An ongoing safety concern is water leaking from above the ground floor, dripping into the lobby, running out onto the street and sometimes even reaching the basement.

One pirate posted a note in the neighbours’ door, alerting them to the leak and including our new email address, ‘spiceparrots@proton.me‘.

Possession of the Flowerpot, our much adored location in Bethnal Green, has been awarded to a lord of the land by the courts today.

This figure, Circuit, a time guardian (and clearly a pirate), was discovered on a slide at the Flowerpot only recently.

Did you know that pirates at sea, apart from flying the Jolly Roger, have also flown the hourglass symbol on flags? (Graeber, Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia 2023) This image will take any “ex-XRs” back!

This time guardian was discovered down the Sett, but nobody has named her yet…

Domesticity

Domestic comes from the Latin Domus:

any dwelling-place or abode (of people or animals)
Synonyms: domicilium, habitāculum, habitātiō, tēctum, mānsiō, sēdēs, aedēs
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/domus#Noun_2

I found it interesting that, on the other hand, it also seems to me at Wiktionary.org that the Latin word, habitatio similar to the one we nowadays use for animals, has less a sense of home, than one of rent!