Steve Hammett @bitflips@qoto.org

Where should the Parthenon Marbles be housed?

Hey folks!

Please do NOT report artists for sharing links to where the art is available to purchase!

Just DO NOT be such a jerk!

If you want artists to keep sharing their work on mastodon, this whole "absolute no commercial posts at all" attitude has to stop. There is a huge difference between a big corporate ad campaign and an individual artist posting a link to their own art shop.

#ArtForSale #art

A wintry view of the single track road east from remote Achiltibuie, north-west of Ullapool. The prominent peaky mountain is Stac Pollaidh whose character is out of all proportion to its mere 613m or 2,009ft in height. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/achiltibuie/achiltibuie/index.html

#Scotland #Coigach #WesterRoss #Achiltibuie #StacPollaidh #Mountains #Winter #UndiscoveredScotland

The #Ogiek people fight #eviction from their traditional homes in the #Mau forest #Kenya.

'The latest wave of evictions, which began on November 2, affected more than 1,000 of the Ogiek, a community that has been predominantly hunter-gatherers for centuries in the area in and around the forest.

“As I know it myself, we have lived here for 174 years,” Wilson Ngusilo, a chairperson of the Ogiek council in Narok County in southwest Kenya, told Al Jazeera. “I buried my father on this land at the age of 105 years, and I am personally 69 years old myself. I have known this as my home and don’t know where I am supposed to go.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/11/24/kenyas-ogiek-people-fight-on-against-eviction-from-mau-forest

#PermanentCeasefire
#SaveGaza
#EndOccupation
#Rebuild
#Solutions
#Peace

@CensoredMen RT by @aiww: 🇵🇸🇮🇱 Piers Morgan asks professor @normfinkelstein how he thinks his parents, who were both Holocaust survivors, would’ve reacted to October 7th. “They [his parents] had the right to hate the people that destroyed their lives, and the people of Gaza have the right to hate the people who destroyed their lives.” @piersmorgan | @PiersUncensored https://nitter.hongkongers.net/CensoredMen/status/1727797005513117828#m

I would happily swap Racists for Refugees

@Lazarou I agree so much that I'm literally wearing it on a shirt right now

"Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." -- Martin Golding

In the latest newsroom fallout over the war, BBC journalists say the corporation is failing to humanise Palestinians.#Israel-Palestineconflict #Media #Europe #UnitedKingdom
As Israel pounds Gaza, BBC journalists accuse broadcaster of bias

https://mpost.tribel.com/public/posts/36e262f0-894c-11ee-8852-ebe62643f3a3

The Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth, Wales. #solarpunk as reality, not fiction. A lovely place, and an amazing resource. https://cat.org.uk

📢 New info about this Saturday's march.

📍Assemble 12:30pm, Park Lane, #London
🪧End point, Parliament Square

Please share and help build support for a #CeasefireNOW!

More details: https://cnduk.org/events/national-march-for-palestine-ceasefire-now-3/

On our dedicated take action for Palestine page, you can download artwork to make your own #CeasefireNow placards or print an A4 poster at home 👇

http://cnduk.org/ceasefire-now-take-action-for-palestine/

Annual meeting of the Summer Tires Club

And now for something completely different:

As a big #jazz fan (record collection clocking in at 3500 jazz LPs), I've always been fascinated by the output of #BlueNote Records.

Some years ago, as a result, I wrote a journal article exploring why I thought the label's profile as jazz's leading outlet was so long-lasting.

You can download the article free from Academia.Edu where you'll also find a wide selection of my other academic work if you are at all interested

https://www.academia.edu/1937799/No_room_for_squares_A_political_economy_of_Blue_Note_records?email_work_card=title

Heart wrenching video of Palestinian child without pain medication after surgery

The UK will be a data laundering hub.

The #DataGrabBill lets Ministers authorise international data transfers without proper consideration of how it could be misused or weaponised.

Migrants and refugees will be at greater risk of harm in their home countries.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics