“Hospital wings, museums or public libraries are sooo last millennium - it’s all private spaceships now, baby!”

a bald man in a gray suit is standing in front of a window .

Alt: Doctor Evil from Austen Powers laughing in an evil self indulgent, yet lame, manner.

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Dave Andress@davidandress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yesterday I was at an event in a uni building, 118 years to the day after it became the host for our city's "free public library", with an appropriately august plaque to mark the occasion. Things we used to value, eh?

One thing worth noting about these attempts to block reparative gestures, let alone concrete measures, for Western complicity in slavery: it’s always about the slave trade in which Africans were complicit, never about the Atlantic plantations & their pioneering racial capitalism.

Truly historic & moving scenes from the inaugural session of the Hungarian Parliament. A children’s tambura band from a tiny village playing a folk song often described as the unofficial Roma anthem. MPs were tearing up & so were many more of us watching. After all those years of hate. 🎥 telex.hu

Quotes @tessmachling.bsky.social in the article who I completely support. This is an enormous sum of money for something that should never have been considered for private ownership in the first place.

Museums Association@museumsassociation.org · 6mo ago

News | British Museum raises £3.5m to acquire Tudor Heart pendant But debate grows in sector over high costs associated with treasure scheme

Starving Palestinians are being mowed down every day, simply for queuing for food. That is the real crime. My speech against the government's proscription of Palestine Action.

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A reminder that however many G7s fail to condemn an unprovoked illegal attack on a sovereign state by Israel; or ignore nuclear inspectors reports saying nothing is imminent, or the genocidal campaign and mass starvation of Gaza - it is still wrong - legally and morally. And the People now know.