#Glasgow

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From Santa: Yemen 🇾🇪 To Glasgow: Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, And From Ramallah: Forever Palestine 🇵🇸 To Barcelona: Spain 🇪🇸, People Around the World are Showing Solidarity with Palestinians. The Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐖 Cunts of the Illegal Regime of Terrorist, Genocidal, War Criminal and Apartheid Isra- hell Has Killed At Least 28985 Palestinians in Gaza Since October 7, 2023. This is What It Looks Like When the World Stand Together to Demand an End to Occupation and Attacks of Terrorist Illegal Regime of Isra-hell

[autistic-katara]

i know what i must do but i’m not sure if i have the strength to do it

[farttherapy]

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[nando161mando]

I love you, Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Today in Glasgow: the streets are overflowing with incredible solidarity for Gaza, with voices rising together, chanting:

“Free, free Palestine!” 🇵🇸

24hrs ago

[scotianostra]

Good Morning from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

An Urban sunrise above London Road, Glasgow

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[votive-candle]

'Glasgow's Bacchus 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🍇'

i feel like there's a lot of art scattered around from my last couple years at art school that i just never really got around to posting here! i was so chuffed with this one - really hoping to make a lot more pieces with Innes and my other Scotland based OCs in reference to renaissance/baroque paintings, but we’ll see :’)

[haveyoubeentothiscity]

Population: 635,130

One submitter commented, “Art! Religion! Drinking!”

Another commented, “i hatw that u made me put the country as uk :c (SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE 2024‼️‼️‼️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿)” To that I am actually sorry, it’s a consistency thing not a political thing, promise.

[khihi]

Alrighty, Glasgow highlights now the stream is over (halfway after Mic Mac cus they wanted to party, which is very fair):

Joined the stream when he'd put on a dinosaur hat, very cute

More flirting with the audience; "hot people here 😏😏"

The crowd all had party hats and a bunch of them had party blowers and started blowing them at him (he loved it 🥳🥳🥳)

Crowd started chanting "HERE WE HERE WE HERE FUCKING GO" like a Joker Out concert 🥹🥹🥹

Paidaton Riehuja again hell yeahhhhh

"big cock, small cock, very long cock, yes!" body positivity king lmaoo

Häärijä in a Very Scottish hat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Crowd singing happy birthday whILE HÄÄRIJÄ GAVE HIM A TIARA AND A BIRTHDAY SASH IM GONNA CRY I NEED PICTURES OF THIS SO BAD ("this is fucking nice gift, thank you guys")

stOHmak drumming to No Scotland No Party 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

GLASGOW AUDIENCE HOPE YOU GUYS HAD FUN AND GIVE US ALL THE DETAILS 💖💖💖💖💖

Update: pt 2 here

[sleepy-seclusion]

SCOTLAND STANDS WITH PALESTINE:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸

Images from Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee.

We refuse to follow the UK government and be helpers in genocide and ethnic cleansing. We will fight every week for Palestine till the tyranny of Israel ends.

Please go to every protest you can. Bring friends. Bring families. Don't give up, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

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This wood-and-wicker wheelchair—photographed in a hospital room in Saint Remy, France—is an older design. Early wheelchairs were more cumbersome than sleek, modern wheelchairs that allow users to live independently and participate in everything from sports to travel. Photograph By Jim Richardson, National Geographic Image Collection

How the Wheelchair Opened up the World to Millions of People

Wheelchairs have existed since the invention of the wheel. But technological advances have revolutionized the way that people use them.

— By Erin Blakemore | July 14, 2023

Bath, England, wasn’t just the hotbed of romance and gossip depicted in Jane Austen novels—it was a place of freedom for people with limited mobility who sought the healing waters of its Roman baths.

These tourists often arrived in an “invalid” or “Merlin’s chair”—a predecessor of the wheelchair. These revolutionary vehicles freed them to participate in the city’s famous social life, usually with the help of servants who pushed them from place to place.

But though they offered unprecedented mobility, these wicker-and-wood chairs were seen as a sign of invalidism and dependence—and couldn’t have been more different from the modern wheelchairs that offer even more ways to move. How did wheelchairs go from clunky to user-friendly? Thank wheelchair users themselves.

'Merlin Chairs' and Other Early Wheelchairs

Wheeled seats have existed since the invention of the wheel, but it took centuries for the devices to gain traction with the masses. At first, people with mobility issues were pushed in wheelbarrow-like devices or wheeled furniture pushed by medical attendants or servants. When Philip II of Spain, who suffered from gout and arthritis, commissioned a wheeled chair in the late 16th century, it was known as an “invalid’s chair.”

It would take until 1655 for the first self-propelled wheelchair to emerge. Stephan Farffler, a clockmaker who lost the use of his legs in a childhood accident, created the device so he could propel himself to and from church in Nuremberg, Germany. His invention resembled a modern recumbent bike, relying on a hand crank to propel himself forward. Today, it’s considered a forerunner of the tricycle, but at the time, the unique invention hinted at the potential uses of self-powered, wheeled devices.

Farffler’s design pushed wheelchair technology forward, and a number of inventors created similar devices. One of them, Belgian impresario John Joseph Merlin, created a “gouty chair” that relied on gears and cranks to propel users. The design became so popular that wheelchairs were called “Merlin chairs” for more than a century afterward.

Still, even these early wheelchairs were mainly used by wealthy people with servants to push them. That’s because they were difficult to produce, heavy, hard to operate, and almost completely ineffective outdoors—more like indoor furniture than assistive devices. As art historian and disability historian Elizabeth Guffey writes, “It was a delicate chair for delicate people.”

The First Mass-produced Wheelchair

Wheelchairs became more ubiquitous as years went by, especially in the wake of the Civil War and both World Wars, which left hundreds of thousands of veterans with compromised mobility. But wheelchairs were seen as medical devices, not accessories for independent living, in part due to their size and cost.

In the 1930s, paralyzed mining engineer Herbert Everest complained about the weight of his heavy wheelchair to another engineer, Henry Jennings. Together in Jennings’ Los Angeles garage, the pair created a foldable wheelchair that weighed half as much and cost much less to produce. It would become the first mass-produced wheelchair—and the most popular design of its time. Suddenly, wheelchair users could propel themselves outside, get into and out of cars, and go where they wanted with little or no assistance.

Ironically, though, the advancement would go on to stymie wheelchair development for decades due to the inventors’ monopoly on the foldable design and prevailing attitudes about disability that suggested wheelchair users needed to be protected from the world. Even medical professionals objected to alternative designs that emphasized user independence.

“Perhaps [medical professionals] thought that they knew best,” says Nicholas Watson, Professor of Disability Studies and Director of the Centre for Disability Research at the University of Glasgow.

Wheelchairs Made for—and by—Their Users

Wheelchair use skyrocketed with the polio pandemic of the 1940s and the increasing toll of modern warfare—plus the development of antibiotics that allowed more people to survive spinal cord injuries, says Watson.

Once again, a new generation of wheelchair users clamored for more—and ended up revolutionizing the use and meaning of wheelchairs. Some weren’t content to simply sit in the chairs; they wanted to play in them, too. Starting in the 1960s, wheelchair athletes in search of better athletic performance started modifying their chairs to make them lighter and easier to use.

And the growing disability rights movement stoked even more demand for better wheelchairs from users themselves. “When people look at a disabled person, the wheelchair is the most outstanding trait, and they tend to forget that they’re a person,” athlete Marilyn Hamilton, who lost the use of her legs after a paragliding accident, told the Los Angeles Times in 1982.

Hamilton was one of the athletes who pushed for better wheelchairs—or made their own. Athletes reduced the chairs’ weight by removing the handles others once used to push them—a declaration of independence and a way to lighten the chairs. Then, they started modifying the wheels, adding speed and maneuverability with modifications that ran counter to designs created to “protect” users from the world outside.

Eventually, writes Watson, wheelchair athletes were all but making their own wheelchairs. By the 1970s and 1980s, wheelchairs with names like Quadra and Quickie were changing the way users experienced the world around them, giving them unprecedented access indoors and outdoors.

“Our chairs are so aesthetically pleasing that it helps break down [barriers between people of different abilities,” said Hamilton, who helped design the ultralight Quickie wheelchair. “It’s a tremendous asset for disabled people.”

Meanwhile, powered wheelchairs, first introduced in Canada in the 1950s, were increasingly available, too, allowing people with arm mobility limitations to use wheelchairs, too.

The Legacy of Wheelchair Innovations

These lighter, more maneuverable chairs didn’t just change the daily lives of the people who used them—they changed their self-perception. The history of wheelchair development “shows disabled people as active agents and directing their own lives,” Watson says—lives that are made more mobile and independent.

So what’s next for wheelchair design? Watson predicts that artificial intelligence will be increasingly used in wheelchair navigation. Engineers are also working on ways to prevent dangerous wheelchair tips, even bringing tech like radar and cameras on board. These days, everything from sit/stand wheelchairs to personalized rim design and custom wheels support users’ individual needs while adding a bit of flair to their ride.

Where will wheelchairs take their users next? The answer is only a matter of time, technology, and belief in the inherent abilities of wheelchair users.

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@charles_vandervaart at the AIG Women's Open 🏌️

@charles_vandervaart at the AIG Women's Open, the international major in women's golf in St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 August 21-25 2024.

Brooke Henderson was part of #TeamCanada 🇨🇦 at the Olympics this summer! #Paris2024

Nelly Korda is an American professional golfer 🇺🇸

The honoured host of The 2024 AIG Women’s Open in St Andrews. The Old Course is the most iconic venue in the world and hosting the tournament for the first time in over ten years.

Held every August, the AIG Women’s Open is one of five major championships in women’s golf and is a key event in the annual golfing calendar founded in 1976.

Each player takes on the challenge, each vying for the championship trophy, with the low amateur awarded the Smyth Salver 🏆

@charles_vandervaart’s Mum with Charley Hull - English professional golfer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

AIG Women's Open ⛳

Rainbow, in Glasgow - Church of Scotland Presbytery of Glasgow, or Renfield St Stephen's, is at 260 Bath Street, a few hundred yards northwest of George Square.

@charles_vandervaart - IGS

#AIG Women'sOpen #St Andrews 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Posted 24th August 2024

[aimeedaisies]

The Princess Royal’s Official Engagements in July 2023

01/07 Princess Anne accompanied by Sir Tim, opened the 30th Scottish Traditional Boat Festival at Portsoy Harbour. ⛴️

03/07 As Chancellor of Harper Adams University, visited the University’s Future Farm, Edgmond and met the 2023 Marshal Papworth Foundation Scholars. 👩‍🎓

As Patron, Scottish Fisheries Museum’s Reaper Appeal visited the Scottish Fisheries Museum in St. Ayles, Anstruther. 🎣

04/07 Visited Strathcarron Hospice, Denny. 👩‍⚕️

As Colonel-in-Chief of the Intelligence Corps, attended a 5 Military Intelligence Battalion Training Night at the Army Reserve Centre, Edinburgh. 💂

05/07 As part of Holyrood week in Edinburgh, Princess Anne carried out the following engagements;

Opened the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and the Department of Clinical Neurosciences, at NHS Lothian as part of #NHS75 celebrations. 🧸

Opened King’s Buildings Nucleus Building at the University of Edinburgh. 👩‍🎓

Launched WETWHEELS EDINBURGH Accessible Boat at Port Edgar Marina. 🦽🛥️

Attended a Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria for Eric Liddell 100 programme. 🍽️

06/07 As President of the UK Fashion and Textile Association, attended the Textile Institute World Conference at the University of Huddersfield. 🪡

Opened Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Maternity Theatre at Bradford Royal Infirmary.🤰

As Colonel of The Blues and Royals, with Sir Tim, took the salute at the Household Division Beating Retreat on Horse Guards Parade. 🫡

07/07 Attended a Charity Polo Day at Cirencester Park Polo Club for the Spinal Injuries Association 🐎

11/07 Visited Flintshire Adult Day Care Centre, Hwb Cyfle in Queensferry, Wales. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

HRH, as the new Patron of BASC (British Association for Shooting and Conservation) visited their Headquarters at Marford Mill, Wrexham, Wales. 🦡

12/07 Visited St Helena’s Nursing Campus at the University of Derby in Chesterfield. 👩‍⚕️

Opened Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s new Urgent and Emergency Care Department. 🏥

Attended a Reception at Rolls-Royce Learning and Development Centre for the Motor Neurone Association. 🚘

13/07 Sir Tim represented the Princess Royal at a service of thanksgiving for the life of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Boyce at Westminster Abbey. ⚓️

Princess Anne opened the King’s Arch at Government House, visited the Tortoise Takeover Trail at Gorey Castle and subsequently opened the Tortoise Tunnel at Jersey Zoo. 🇯🇪🐢

Princess Anne with Sir Tim, later attended the Royal Academy of Engineering Annual Awards Dinner at the Londoner Hotel in Leicester Square, London. 🏆

14/07 Opened the new Southampton Citizens Advice Bureau and visited DP World Shipping Container Terminal. ⛴️

15/07 As Colonel-in-Chief of the Intelligence Corps, attended their Annual Corps Day at Chicksands. 🪖

18/07 Princess Anne and Sir Tim carried out the following engagements in Kent;

Opened a new affordable housing development at Bartlett Close, Staple, Canterbury, followed by a Reception at Staple Village Hall. 🏡

Visited St James’s Cemetery in Dover in her role as Patron of the Remembrance Trust 🫡

Visited Folkestone National Coastguard Institution Station in Folkestone to mark its 25th Anniversary, followed by a Reception at Folkestone Yacht and Motorboat Club. 🚨

19/07 In South Wales, visited Barry Citizens Advice Bureaux in her role of Patron of the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux and later visited HM Prison Cardiff in her role of Patron of the Butler Trust. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

20/07 Joined the ship’s company of HMS Albion and visited Clyde Marina near Glasgow, Scotland. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

21/07 Princess Anne and Sir Tim attended a Dinner at the Royal Ocean Racing Club Clubhouse, to celebrate the 50th Edition of the Fastnet Race in Cowes, Isle of Wight. 🛥️

27/07 Attended the Tall Ships Races Captains’ Dinner at Lerwick Town Hall, Lerwick, Shetland Islands. 👨‍✈️🍽️

28/07 Visited ships in Lerwick Harbour taking part in the Tall Ships Races. 🚢🏁

29/07 With Sir Tim, attended the King George Day at Ascot Racecourse. 🏆🐎

30/07 Princess Anne and Sir Tim visited Cowes, Isle of Wight for Cowes Week and carried out the following engagements;

Viewed Cowes Week Racing and met Squadron Staff at the Royal Yacht Squadron. 🛥️

Visited HMS Tyne and The Royal Navy Stand. ⛴️

Attended a Church Service at Holy Trinity Church. ⛪️

Attended a Reception for Members, Racing Crews, Flag Officers and Sailing Associates at the Royal Yacht Squadron. 🥂

Total official engagements for Anne in July: 42

2023 total so far: 304

Total official engagements accompanied by Tim in July: 14

2023 total so far: 70

[happyheidi]

Attention citizens of Scotland!! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Guess who’s coming to your fair country in May? THIS GIRL (and her momma!) we’ve been talking about it for like 5+ years and the reason for the visit is studying our ancestry. My great grandmother was a MacMillan. And we have lots of cool info but need more, so I can’t wait! This is in Glasgow btw. Near the train station. From May 7th - 14th. So a week 😃

I’m gonna have some tattoos done there (as I always do when I’m traveling). Anyone have a shop to recommend? I’ve checked it out i and it seems like there’s a lot of good places! How’s the price? Just gonna take some small ones.

And anything else? Wanna meet us for dinner? Take a tattoo together? Haha idk 🤷‍♀️ anything cool we should do there? I’d love to get some inside Scottish “scoop” from y’all 😄

*we’re not going to Edinburgh btw

[scotianostra]

Good Morning from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sunrise over George Square, Glasgow.

📸Chris_Bell_Photography

[lente-ment]

I had an extra-extended weekend (with fri and mon both free) and I used it to write chapter 37 because something in me just couldn't rest. I think I really finally wanted to write... well, you know who. >:) And Laura's reaction to that.

Also, some lovely readers implied in the comments for ch35 that I emotionally damaged them, so I guess I wanted to make up for that somehow? I think I'm going to post ch36 a bit sooner than the end of August. 💙

Meanwhile, I'm going to WorldCon in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and I've marked a bunch of fanfic/writing focused talks to attend. :D After that, it's a week and a half of exploring Scotland. On one side, I'm excited to see new places, but on the other, I know that these sorts of trips fill me up to the brim with inspiration and ideas for the stories.

Oh yeah, did I mention I started writing Laura's backstory? I'm very excited for that one, even though I'm not prioritizing it right now because IWIDCY is the main thing until it's done! Don't want to stretch myself too thin. Especially since I've also been hyping myself up the whole weekend to get back into drawing a little bit. We might be seeing Archon Cecil soon... 👀

Everyone, I hope you have a great day and lots of bloody necks!

[usafphantom2]

F-22A Raptor “Chrome”

Prestwick Glasgow Airport

433rd WPS Nellis AFB, NV🌵🇺🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🕹️

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