<p>ActivityPub, the protocol that powers much of the fediverse and allows the various fediverse platforms and servers to talk to each other, has become an official W3C standard 8 years ago!</p><p><a href="https://www.w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.w3.org/news/2018/activitypub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.w3.org/news/2018/activityp</span><span class="invisible">ub-is-now-a-w3c-recommendation/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/fediverse/" rel="tag">#fediverse</a> <a href="/tags/activitypub/" rel="tag">#activitypub</a> <a href="/tags/standards/" rel="tag">#standards</a> <a href="/tags/openweb/" rel="tag">#OpenWeb</a> <a href="/tags/w3c/" rel="tag">#W3C</a> <a href="/tags/anniversary/" rel="tag">#anniversary</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a></p>
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<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined. </p><p>"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/blackhistorymonth/" rel="tag">#BlackHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
<p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1979, the first National Black Women’s Conference started in Brixton, London, arranged by the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD). Over 300 women attended.</p><p>OWAAD was founded by Stella Dadzie and Olive Morris in 1978 to bring a black feminist perspective to political action. </p><p>Morris died in July 1979 of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. In 2024, she was recognised for her work with a blue plaque.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/otd/" rel="tag">#OTD</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/britishhistory/" rel="tag">#BritishHistory</a> <a href="/tags/london/" rel="tag">#London</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
<p>“Once, with hand-grenades in my shopping bag, I travelled in a train so full that I had to stand against a German NCO.” </p><p><a href="/tags/onthisday/" rel="tag">#OnThisDay</a>, 18 Mar 1943, Francine Agazarian arrives in Nazi-occupied France to be a courier in the Special Operations Executive. The British SOE supported the French Resistance.</p><p><a href="/tags/womeninhistory/" rel="tag">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="/tags/womenshistorymonth/" rel="tag">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#History</a> <a href="/tags/worldwar2/" rel="tag">#WorldWar2</a> <a href="/tags/histodons/" rel="tag">#Histodons</a></p>
