Eugenio MonforteMar 8
Jan Wildeboer 😷

It's International Women's Day, so when you see people zooming by on electric scooters, I remember Lady Norman and her autoped. She was a suffragist who insisted on being mobile without manly "protection" :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscilla_Norman

(UPDATE: Yes, many men in the replies. The autoped used a combustion engine, I know. My post is however NOT about the autoped, it's about the woman standing on it. I know, that's really hard for some of you to deal with. :)

#InternationalWomensDay #Suffragist

Mar 8 at 10:16amWeb
Show threadGnosyz 🖖Mar 8
@jwildeboer Just another proof that modern technology is just a recycling of old technology...
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Mar 8
@ZySoua @jwildeboer And thus modern misogyny is just a recycling of old misogyny...
Show threadRichard FrancisMar 8
@jwildeboer What a wonderful little machine! Hopefully it’s still about.
Show thread🜏 𝔤𝔞𝔯𝔞𝔟𝔞𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔬 ☭Mar 8
@jwildeboer there are endless great contributions women have made to the world but you chose the most annoying invention 😞 can't walk in peace in a city since those arrived
Show threadDreyMar 8
@jwildeboer 👍
Show threadRide TheoryMar 8
@jwildeboer I wonder how many replies from "Actually" guys this toot will accumulate before the day is over...
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 8
@ridetheory The lengths some guys go to just to avoid discussing or, gasp, supporting women's rights on women's day will never cease to amaze me :)
Show threadRide TheoryMar 8

@jwildeboer I hate to see it on the Fediverse.

Guys, if you're out there composing an "actually" toot right now, stop and ask yourself "Does this contribute to the celebration of Women's Day?" If not, don't post it.

Show threadMinmiTheDinoMar 8
@ridetheory @jwildeboer doesn’t seem like these instructions should be so hard to follow AND YET
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 8
@minmi It always serves as a way to find new entries for my blocklist ;) @ridetheory
Show threadVysogotaMar 8
@jwildeboer @minmi @ridetheory bookmarking this to go over it in a few days and enhance my own !!
Show threadJörg WaleschMar 8
@ridetheory @jwildeboer
True, they hijacked the conversation and pulled it completely off-point...
Show threadbituur esztreymMar 8

@ridetheory @jwildeboer

then, guys, having learned how to not post some offensive "actually" toot, practice it everyday.
here and irl.

(and that's a minimum requirement. it's crazy and cringe that they're not capable of doing that.)

Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShellMar 8

@jwildeboer

Scooters don’t seem to have changed all too much

Show threadNikkileah 🎮🚄🏳️‍⚧️🇬🇧Mar 8
@jwildeboer are we sure she's not a time traveller?
Show threadPonygirlMar 8
@jwildeboer That looks cool!!!
Show threadMx. Eddie RMar 8
@Ponygirl @jwildeboer
Batmobile-looking scooter!
Show threadClive ThompsonMar 8

@jwildeboer

Holy Moses, I had never known about this invention, nor her use of it

Thank you so much for pointing it out!

Show threadAugrahsButlerMar 8

@jwildeboer That can't be real...

Is it real? 🤔

Show threadZeborahMar 9

@AugrahsButler Just because something's cool doesn't mean it's not real.

One of the best ways of confirming whether something is real or not is by checking the citations (ie where did the information come from). If you follow the Wikipedia link from this post you'll see the same image, and if you follow the Autoped link from that image caption you can read more about the Autoped. Each of those pages also has citations for all their sources. Also the image was uploaded to Wikipedia in 2019, before AI enshittified images. So there seems to be plenty of indication that this is in fact real.

@jwildeboer

Show threadAugrahsButlerMar 9

@zeborah @jwildeboer

Ok, after that long explanation, now I know it's fake. Thanks!

Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 9
@[email protected] It's real. You are a troll. Welcome to my blocklist.
Show threadan actual busMar 8
@jwildeboer My brain is tickled by the fact that this is front wheel drive.
Show threadFliegendruckMar 8
@jwildeboer
feine Erinnerung von vor just 100 Jahren. Es ist DIE Geschichtsstunde: 3 Jahre danach, 1919 übernahm die Produktion die Fa. Krupp, ab 1922 verschwand dieser Nichtstinker..
Show threadChuffMar 8
I love how similar it is to modern electric scooters
Show threadscrottie (he/him/them)Mar 8
@jwildeboer what the goth solorpunk feminist heck that's awesome
Show threadquangobaudMar 8

@jwildeboer

One of the earliest patents for a "chain sawing machine" comprising a chain of links carrying saw teeth was granted to Frederick L. Magaw of Flatlands, New York in 1883, apparently for the purpose of producing boards by stretching the chain between grooved drums.

#BelindaCarr

Show threadFrans Super 🇺🇦🇵🇸🍋 FKNZS🔻Mar 8
@jwildeboer
I very much like yout message. Why on earth does it return 12 times in my timeline after you edited it?
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 8
@apenkop I honestly don't know and apologise. My editing is done, so it should be quiet now :(
Show threadSusiMar 8
@jwildeboer
Women who braved social repercussions to break out of the limited role we could have in society paved the way for the rest of us. My gratitude is bone deep.
Show threadAmesMar 9
@jwildeboer Wow I wasn't expecting this toot to fatten my blocklist but here we are.
Show threadStoneface VimesMar 9
@jwildeboer in a nasal voice 'actually, I believe you will find..."
Show threadJan Wildeboer 😷Mar 9
@capnthommo Well, actually I researched this picture and the life of Lady Norman extensively a few years ago, so I am more than happy to answer questions :)
Show threadtomarschMar 10
@jwildeboer @Frau_Mensch Okay, ihr (Geburts-) Name hat mich erst verwirrt, aber dann finde ich über sie, dass sie eine gut situierte Frauenrechtlerin war, die ihre soziale Situation für einen guten Zweck nutzte. Einmal ein gutes Beispiel an "wohlwollenden Wohlhabenden" ;) Aber das Autopad irritiert tatsächlich etwas.
Show threadzendao42Mar 14
@jwildeboer
Need protection FROM men, not by them
🛵