"Art is dead. Artists should retrain in Cyber" @RishiSunak
"Art can reveal truth. It can shows you things that you'd never seen before, & teach you new ways of seeing. It can offer meaning and sooth pain. And sometimes - just sometimes - it can save your life." - Emerson Warner
There are growing calls to leave part of the Dutch Metro train that ran the buffers only to be saved by an artwork called "Saved By The Whale's Tail" as a permanent art installation.
However, reports suggest local officials will remove it at 7am tomorrow. #BREAKING#SaveTheWhale
“Sharknado” Dutch-style
(or “Whalenado”)
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The reality of “Yo-Yo” #lockdown has been known about since May👇
Govt scientists have modelled for 2nd, 3rd, 4th waves etc. but this modelling was not shared publicly by the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre running the UK #COVID19 response. #lockdownUK
"Once an autocrat gets into office, it is very hard to get them out. They will disregard term limits, they will purge the agencies that enforce accountability, they will rewrite the law so that they are no longer breaking it." @sarahkendzior
"The most sophisticated tyrannies are ones that have a showman as their frontman. Clown or blowhard. Jester or villain. The type of showman doesn’t matter. Their audience will love them just the same."
(Emerson Warner, 1949)
Via @mdsharpe2
“I think that people are going to get hurt. People are going to get killed.”
Across the US, far-right militias are preparing for the #USElection & for post-election civil unrest
“Don’t talk much these days...Out of words some say.”
“The wise ones know that life is but a dream, and so they chose to dream a beautiful dream.” (Emerson Warner)
Ruben Vucuname - from Chiapas, Mexico - on Hampstead Heath. (Photos by @reteposh)
“I am not rescuing the ancient traditions of my ancestors. The knowledge of my ancestors is rescuing me.”
Ruben Vucubame
“I set out to try & save the world, but now I realise that - all this time - it has been the world that has been saving me.”
Emerson Warner (Pics @reteposh)
It is worth remembering that Ben Bradley also holds the Conservative record for the most retweeted post (his apology to Jeremy Corbyn) & the best introduction to a politician ever (@krishgm on @Channel4News)
“I wish people would stop saying ‘let's not politicise the issue of school meals’. If the fact that children are going hungry in one of the world's richest, developed countries is not a 'political' issue, what is?” @sturdyAlex
👇@BarristerSecret@Otto_English@David__Osland@AOC
Last weekend, I set off the find the source of the River Fleet - London’s most famous subterranean waterway
It rises in separate springs on Hampstead Heath & flows underground along two brooks which meet in Kentish Town & eventually join the River Thames.
The sources of the Fleet are springs in the Vale of Health (see other THREAD) & this one in Kenwood, (‘Caen’ meaning green).
Of all London’s lost rivers, the Fleet was the largest & most important providing water for drinking, washing, powering mills & transportation & sewerage.
In Roman, Anglo Saxon & Medieval times the Fleet was a major river
As London’s population grew, its flow was reduced &, over the centuries, it became clogged with waste & sewerage
In 1870, the last stretch of the Fleet was covered up but on the Heath it still runs above ground