Stained glass windows in Ely cathedral, Ely, UK. September 2022

#Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #Ely #Cambridgeshire #travelphotography

@trishgreenhalgh #Chichester's great! Pedestrianised centre, lively street markets, hospital, interesting theatre/museum/gallery, history everywhere, gorgeous cathedral, gardens & parks, trains/buses/canal & short walks to varied countryside - ticks all boxes. #Ely too?
#15MinuteCity #WalkableCity #LivableCity

Today's poem:

Ely
- by Michael Drayton

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/726793692219883520/ely?source=share

#ely #fens #cambridgeshire #england #poetry #landscape
#MichaelDrayon #paeon

Today's Flickr photo with the most hits: the choir, Ely Cathedral.

#cathedral #ely #choir #architecture #gothic

Amazing to be inside the wooden #medieval octagon tower #ely #cathedral #uk, looking down into the nave and realising you're standing on wooden beams from oak trees that are even older than 1342 when the tower was completed. A true #architectural feat.

UPDATE:

The thunderstorm that prompted a #Severe #Thunderstorm #Warning for parts of northern #StLouis County has weakened, so no new warning.

However, #Ely should expect gusty #winds and small #hail in the next half hour, (by 7:30).

#wxtooter #weather #MNwx

Forest:Jungle Collective
#HillfortsWednesday & hows about some Hillforts without the hill?!

Belsars Hill, Cambridgeshire
Iron age origin - may have been refortified during the Norman period & used by the forces of Hereward the Wake
you can see the trackway running through the centre

#Ely #Cambridgeshire

#TympanumTuesday & it is of course the incomparable priors door at Ely Cathedral

#Ely #Cathedral #Romanesque

So it's been a while since I posted anything for #PostboxSaturday so here a photo taken by me in #Ely today

Lida the alphabetician spoke of choices in #lettering. Roxanne noted the architectural parallels with #Ely, demonstrated the #GothicSway, & explained other challenges for #stonecarving. And then the unveiling!
📹 35min in total, https://stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/unveiling-of-lady-clares-seal/

#LadyOfClare #SealSculpture #stonecarving #CardozoKindersley #ClareCollege #Cambridge

I wanted something like that for my daughter, so I spent an outrageous sum of money for tickets to a show in #Houston only to have the sale canceled and my money refunded at the last minute. It looked so grim I agreed to let my 13-year-old dye her beautiful strawberry-blonde hair magenta.

Then we left for our yearly family vacation in the #Northwoods of #Minnesota, US. It's a five-hour trek from the twin cities to the family lake north of #Ely, so we flew in early Friday afternoon. 2/

50 organisations sign a public call for an #amnesty for the #Ely 20 https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/06/14/50-organisations-sign-a-public-call-for-an-amnesty-for-ely-twenty/

Muistui mieleen aiemmin viikolla ollut uutinen _Suomesta_.

Varkaudessa hyväksyttiin 1963 kaava asuntorakentamiselle alueelle, jossa vielä samalla vuosikymmenellä toimi #kaatopaikka.

Tässäkin #ELY-keskus todennut, ettei Varkauden kaupungilla ole korvausvelvollisuutta.

Muistetaas nämä tässä, kun #oikeisto hakee taas #sääntely n purkua mm. #ympäristö n suhteen, että saisi yritykset mellastaa rauhassa.

#Varkaus #saastuminen #saastuttaminen #teollisuus #luonto

https://yle.fi/a/74-20033845

With beginnings dating back to 1929, the U.S. Forest Service (#USFS) #Beaver Program, based at the #Superior National Forest #Seaplane Base in #Ely, #Minnesota, has a long and rich history that precedes even Smokey Bear.

https://airfactsjournal.com/2023/05/the-u-s-forest-service-beaver-program-in-ely-minnesota/

#aviation

#Ely is on #fire. WTF?

What the fuck is going on in #Ely?

#DefundThePolice

That's it. That's the toot.

#Ely #Cardiff

Shocked to find out the police would lie about this

#Cardiff #Ely #Police #UKPol

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-65687785

Twitter analysis from the #Ely #riot this morning

precursor:
If you're uninformed the story so far appears the 2 young boys aged 11 - 14 were chased by a police car while they were on an e-bike. The police forced the kids to make a dangerous manoeuvre into a bus lane, which ended with them hitting or being hit by a bus. Killing at least 1, possibly both children. Police turned up in heavy numbers including with tac gear and started pushing residents and sealing off the road (a major thoroughfare through the area).

Twitter feedback so far we have had:
- BBC Wales going to the scene and pointing at a bin. Leaving out the probable cause of the riot. They also said "The rioters didn't appear to be residents, but youths".

The area is full of working class families, where do they suppose these 'youths' came from? Also, it was clear from the live stream, a large number of the people there were adult men in their 20's - 30's. The locals are mad and have been on the receiving end of this kind of policing for a long time. Ely is one of the poorest parts of Europe statistically, people there are tired.

- Wales online reporting a disturbance with riot police response.

This is another mis-truth, the polic showed up with tac gear first and shut down all local response. One of the mothers of a kid killed on site, is alleged to have been saying she was not allowed to go see her son by the police and they blocked her entry. This made residents unhappy as it was. The addition of police dogs, and people in riot gear pushing them back is akin to what happened in the 70's in Northern Ireland during police raids. It agitates residents and makes the crowd riled up.

- There are a number of popular and low-follower accounts shaming people for rioting and for torching 3 vehicles.

When the police shut down an area like this, force the locals under boot like this, kill people like this, people get angry. When this kind of response happened in Iraq after the 'shock and awe' period, the response was gunfire. It is perfectly natural for a group of people, who's main experience of policing in their area is violent, for them to create barricades that stop the police advance. This was unfair to the car owners, but shaming the crowd is also unfair on the community that is grieving the deaths of 2 children at the hands of over-zealous, violent police.

This is what mainstream medias manufacturing of consent for policing looks like.

One last thing I want to add. It is not uncommon for SWP specifically to kill people. 2 years ago they violently beat a man having a mental episode so badly he died. His parents were calling the police to get him sectioned, so he could get help. After this happened the police declined comment regarding the case for days. This is often done in uniformed organisations so that they are able to 'get the story straight'. It is a cover up in action and they will do it here. If you think that is not the case, then I would also like to draw your attention to other cases of brutality, violence and rape culture that SWP cover up within their own ranks.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jan/12/death-of-cardiff-man-after-night-in-police-custody-deeply-concerning

https://news.sky.com/story/retired-south-wales-police-officer-carried-out-breathalyser-tests-on-himself-to-meet-targets-12852032

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/disgraced-welsh-police-officers-disciplined-26140365

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/woman-asked-south-wales-police-25706450

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-64718213

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-637036219

EDIT:
As an addendum, misinformation is rife, please take all the statements contained here with a pinch of salt. I would thoroughly recommend viewing the twitter thread of the initial aftermath here: https://twitter.com/TheDryhtscipe/status/1660734500727410699

And the live stream here (Caution, the streamer is a qanon/antivaxx fanboy): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eoIH-_Mo_IY&pp=ygUJZWx5IHJpb3Rz#bottom-sheet

UPDATE:

BBC released a video of a bike being chased by the police in a car.

There are rumours that there is a video online of the kids being chased, police are reportedly trying to squash it. Will update with links when they emerge.

END OF DAY 2 UPDATE:
Police have confirmed they were chasing children on a bike in a police van after previously denying so. BBC and YouTube have been used to leak the footage of the chase. The police van appears to be driving at speed, it does not appear to be using the blue emergency lights.

Video of chase, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbA5akhRjyM

In my opinion this smells fishy.

DAY 3 MORNING UPDATE:
Sky News have calculated that the van behind the ebike was travelling at 28mph and was 15m behind the bike.

Stopping distance for a *car* at 28mph is 20m based on the highway code thinking time.

Most media reporting is trying to focus on the riot and the fact the boys were being chased as if that is reason enough to cause the death of 2 boys by dangerous driving.

Age and names of boys has been released. They are Kyrees Sullivan aged 16, and Harvey Evans, Aged 15.

The media have now begun calling them men.

This is infuriating because these lads were in school aged. But because of ideas generated by the war on terror they are 'fighting aged males'making them men to the media. Just because a person is of an age they could hold and operate a Kalashnikov, doesn't make you a man. They are children. Are they troublemakers? Maybe, but they are also failed by the system in one of the poorest estates in Europe. They have been failed by the very state that ran them off the road.

#Ely Cathedral, #England 🇬🇧
2011

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