Tijdens de lockdown in 2020 ontdekte een Britse aardrijkskundeleraar in #Coventry een kleine steen met #Ogham-inscripties, een vroege vorm van #Keltisch schrift. De steen uit de 4e-6e eeuw n.Chr. is een opmerkelijke vondst vanwege de inscripties en de vindplaats in de Engelse #Midlands. Meestal worden dergelijke inscripties gevonden in Keltische gebieden zoals Schotland, Ierland of delen van Cornwall. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c14kywyk0vro
"If a worker scans the QR code and clicks the link, Amazon’s software automatically generates a letter from the worker and then emails it to the trade union, ending their membership."
The innovation will continue until morale improves :goose_bonk:
[This from the very excellent Foxglove Legal's latest newsletter. Foxglove aren't on Fedi (yet?), but are on the web at https://www.foxglove.org.uk]
Playing Football Manager 2017 as the manager of Coventry City, who were predicted to end up in the relegation zone. When I joined and suggested that we could play for a promotion place within the first season, I was nearly laughed out of the dressing room - but look at me now!
Helped my good mate @respraycatherine dismantle her c.1911 Swift Bicycle today - the first stage in any #restoration and nearly everything was as it should be thank goodness but we had to have a little giggle at the #chainlink !! #Swift#Cycles of #Coventry#LoopFrame#VintageCycles
28 Mar 1553: Archbishop Cranmer collates Lawrence Saunders to All Hallows Bread St #London#otd (NPG). The benefice was originally earmarked for John Knox. Saunders would be burnt at #Coventry, 8 Feb 1555.
It's just been revealed that #Labour MP for #Coventry South Zarah Sultana, is the most abused & threatened MP in the commons, receiving 68% more abuse & threats compared to the next MP.
However, she's an #Asian#Muslim & a vocal critic of the #UK's #Tory government's response to the #Israeli#turkey shoot in #Gaza, hence the huge increase in threats & abuse she's received since.
After 12 hours of silence, #Sunak said it was racist, but he's apologised so we should all move on. 😳
8 Feb 1555: Laurence Sanders #Protestant having been arraigned by Bishop Stephen Gardiner at Southwark cathedral a week earlier, and convicted of heresy is burnt at #Coventry#otd (BM)
#repaircafe#Coventry today. 32 items through the door. Don't know how many were fixed, but it was most of them. Several new faces too. And it all promoted a reorg of the toolboxes this afternoon. More space now for extra tools. 😁
Following its consultation on proposals back in September, Coventry City Council confirmed last month its intention to ban e-cycles from the pedestrianised city centre. We now have greater clarity on the ban where the wording of the PSPO led to questions.
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For a brief time this year, Amazon's bestselling "bitter lemon drink" was "Release Energy," which consisted of the harvested urine of Amazon delivery drivers, rebottled for sale by #CatfishUK prankster #OobahButler in a stunt for a new #Channel4 doc, "#TheGreatAmazonHeist":
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The Release Energy prank was just one stunt Butler pulled for his doc; he also went undercover at an Amazon warehouse, during a period when Amazon hired an extra 1,000 workers for its warehouses in #Coventry, UK, in a successful bid to dilute pro-#union sentiment in his workforce in advance of a key union vote:
12 Oct 1610: Richard Neile, future Archbishop of #York elected Bishop of Lichfield & #Coventry#otd - the 2nd of a record of six sees to be held in sequence by one Church of #England bishop (Auckland Castle) Rochester-Lichfield-Lincoln-Durham-Winchester-York