#iconoclasm — Public Fediverse posts

Their likenesses were toppled, yet they still cast long shadows

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/news/their-likenesses-were-toppled-yet-they-still-cast-long-shadows

Their likenesses were toppled, yet they still cast long shadows

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theblaze.com/news/their-likenesses-were-toppled-yet-they-still-cast-long-shadows

An Aboriginal rock shelter was demolished during construction of a Renewable Energy Zone in NSW and the native bird habitat was cleared
Iconoclasm: From cultural landscape to rubble

"The Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) demolished the rock shelter during land clearing...It is the same company that was responsible for the displacement of about 60 native bird hatchlings, left homeless after the felling of trees."

"The federal environment department investigated the matter and said it found "no evidence of non-compliance" with conditions under it's environment protection and biodiversity conservation act." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-23/rez-rock-shelter-destruction-findings/106831784

NSW government, energy company under fire after native bird habitat cleared for renewables project >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/nsw-government-renewable-land-clearing-birds/106085764
#biodiversity #wildlife #birds #IndigenousPeoples #AboriginalHeritage #heritage #trust #respect #RenewableEnergy #consumption #CulturalLandscape #destruction #iconoclasm #WilfulBlindness #NSW #conservation

An Aboriginal rock shelter was demolished during construction of a Renewable Energy Zone in NSW and the native bird habitat was cleared
Iconoclasm: From cultural landscape to rubble

"The Central West Orana Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) demolished the rock shelter during land clearing...It is the same company that was responsible for the displacement of about 60 native bird hatchlings, left homeless after the felling of trees."

"The federal environment department investigated the matter and said it found "no evidence of non-compliance" with conditions under it's environment protection and biodiversity conservation act." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-23/rez-rock-shelter-destruction-findings/106831784

NSW government, energy company under fire after native bird habitat cleared for renewables project >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-01/nsw-government-renewable-land-clearing-birds/106085764
#biodiversity #wildlife #birds #IndigenousPeoples #AboriginalHeritage #heritage #trust #respect #RenewableEnergy #consumption #CulturalLandscape #destruction #iconoclasm #WilfulBlindness #NSW #conservation

ANYTHING FOR THE ICONS

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2118432/anything-for-the-icons

ANYTHING FOR THE ICONS

https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2118432/anything-for-the-icons

jam where it's images not allowed but in general like no image files/tags/etc #iconoclasm

Taking the sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus

"The intentional targeting, damage or destruction of religious sites or places of worship is considered a violation of international humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/israel-soldier-jesus-statue-sledgehammer-lebanon

#iconoclasm #violence

Taking the sledgehammer to a statue of Jesus

"The intentional targeting, damage or destruction of religious sites or places of worship is considered a violation of international humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/israel-soldier-jesus-statue-sledgehammer-lebanon

#iconoclasm #violence

#cesarchavez #iconography #iconoclasm When we memorialize “great” individuals by naming streets, schools & other public spaces after them, we effectively turn them into god-like people. I’ve never been comfortable with that concept. What do we do when we suddenly discover that a particular social icon was, in fact, a very flawed human? Do we simply scrub the name away and hope that eliminates the embarrassment? I hope not. What we should do is teach a balanced history, one where we acknowledge achievement, but do not shy away from teaching personal failures.

As an aside, I noticed that no one rushed to scrub the name of Thomas Jefferson after we learned about his non-consensual relationship with his slave.

Officials across the U.S. push to remove Cesar Chavez's name from streets, parks and holidays https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cesar-chavez-day-places-name-removed-abuse-allegations-dolores-huerta-rcna264116

#cesarchavez #iconography #iconoclasm When we memorialize “great” individuals by naming streets, schools & other public spaces after them, we effectively turn them into god-like people. I’ve never been comfortable with that concept. What do we do when we suddenly discover that a particular social icon was, in fact, a very flawed human? Do we simply scrub the name away and hope that eliminates the embarrassment? I hope not. What we should do is teach a balanced history, one where we acknowledge achievement, but do not shy away from teaching personal failures.

As an aside, I noticed that no one rushed to scrub the name of Thomas Jefferson after we learned about his non-consensual relationship with his slave.

Officials across the U.S. push to remove Cesar Chavez's name from streets, parks and holidays https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cesar-chavez-day-places-name-removed-abuse-allegations-dolores-huerta-rcna264116

Duminica Ortodoxiei sau, mai bine spus, Duminica Triumfului Ortodoxiei, în care Sfînta Biserică prăznuiește întărirea credinței ortodoxe Dumnezeu să ne ajute să petrecem postul în vrednicie ca să ne bucurăm de slava Învierii lui Iisus Hristos! 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/3bk6w 👈 #întărirea #Biserică #Credinței #Duminica #Dumnezeu #Iconoclasm #Justin #Nevoinţă #Ortodoxe #Ortodoxie #Ortodoxiei #Părintele #PărinteleJustinPârvu #post #Postul #PostulMare #PostuluiMare #...
https://c.aparatorul.md/3bk6w

HARU NEMURI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-8JDu2N-I
#youtube_kexp #find_new_music #music_discovery #latest_bands #live_performance #studio_session #studio_performance #live_version #live_recording #in_studio #instudio #KEXP #kexp_fm #live_music #livemusic #concert_streaming #online_concert #virtual_concert #HARU_NEMURI #Japan #iconoclasm

HARU NEMURI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t-8JDu2N-I
#youtube_kexp #find_new_music #music_discovery #latest_bands #live_performance #studio_session #studio_performance #live_version #live_recording #in_studio #instudio #KEXP #kexp_fm #live_music #livemusic #concert_streaming #online_concert #virtual_concert #HARU_NEMURI #Japan #iconoclasm

I question the very idea that one can even be "good" at posting #iconoclasm

I question the very idea that one can even be "good" at posting #iconoclasm

A quotation from Orwell

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation #youth

A quotation from Orwell

Back in the nineteen-hundreds it was a wonderful experience for a boy to discover H. G. Wells. There you were, in a world of pedants, clergymen and golfers, with your future employers exhorting you to “get on or get out”, your parents systematically warping your sexual life, and your dull-witted schoolmasters sniggering over their Latin tags; and here was this wonderful man who could tell you about the inhabitants of the planets and the bottom of the sea, and who knew that the future was not going to be what respectable people imagined.

George Orwell (1903-1950) English writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1941-08), “Wells, Hitler, and the World State,” Horizon

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/orwell-george/37598/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #hgwells #adventure #author #books #future #iconoclasm #idealism #optimism #reading #progress #respectability #sciencefiction #society #speculation @youth

Aboriginal cultural heritage site: The kuyang - A giant 300 metre eel arrangement

"All it is is rocks in a paddock," Mr McMaster (farmer)

"Adrian McMaster allegedly used an excavator to remove rocks from an ancient stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property, between Ballarat and Dunkeld, in 2021. I was moving the stones so I could get the [weed sprayer] in there," the 65-year-old told Ballarat Magistrates Court."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adrian-mcmaster-in-court-heritage-damage-lake-bolac-eel-rocks/105116232
#AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

Aboriginal cultural heritage site: The kuyang - A giant 300 metre eel arrangement

"All it is is rocks in a paddock," Mr McMaster (farmer)

"Adrian McMaster allegedly used an excavator to remove rocks from an ancient stone arrangement resembling an eel on his Lake Bolac property, between Ballarat and Dunkeld, in 2021. I was moving the stones so I could get the [weed sprayer] in there," the 65-year-old told Ballarat Magistrates Court."
>>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adrian-mcmaster-in-court-heritage-damage-lake-bolac-eel-rocks/105116232
#AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

Fossil fuel expansion in Murujuga Cultural Landscape?

"No federal government should prioritise short-term economic gain over Earth’s climate and human health." >>
https://theconversation.com/woodsides-bid-to-expand-a-huge-gas-project-is-testing-both-labor-and-the-coalitions-environmental-credentials-247340
#FossilFuels #WA #extractivism #FastTrack #pollution #ParisAgreement #ClimateBreakdown #Murujuga #IndigenousHeritage #RockArt #iconoclasm #loss

Fossil fuel expansion in Murujuga Cultural Landscape?

"No federal government should prioritise short-term economic gain over Earth’s climate and human health." >>
https://theconversation.com/woodsides-bid-to-expand-a-huge-gas-project-is-testing-both-labor-and-the-coalitions-environmental-credentials-247340
#FossilFuels #WA #extractivism #FastTrack #pollution #ParisAgreement #ClimateBreakdown #Murujuga #IndigenousHeritage #RockArt #iconoclasm #loss

"The Burrup Peninsula,
in WA’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs."

"Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area and its proposed expansion could produce billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070 and damage the ancient artefacts."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/climate-activists-fined-over-protest-outside-woodside-boss-meg-oneills-perth-home-ntwnfb

Murujuga, Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm, José Antonio González Zarandona >>
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812251562/murujuga/
#FossilFuels #expansion #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #burrup #Murujuga #petroglyphs #RockArt #Heritage #IndigenousPeoples #iconoclasm #ProtectProtest #disrupt

"The Burrup Peninsula,
in WA’s northwest, known as Murujuga to traditional owners, contains the world’s largest and oldest collection of petroglyphs."

"Disrupt Burrup Hub claims Woodside’s operations in the area and its proposed expansion could produce billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2070 and damage the ancient artefacts."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/10/climate-activists-fined-over-protest-outside-woodside-boss-meg-oneills-perth-home-ntwnfb

Murujuga, Rock Art, Heritage, and Landscape Iconoclasm, José Antonio González Zarandona >>
https://www.pennpress.org/9780812251562/murujuga/
#FossilFuels #expansion #ClimateBreakdown #pollution #burrup #Murujuga #petroglyphs #RockArt #Heritage #IndigenousPeoples #iconoclasm #ProtectProtest #disrupt

A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

«
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/1922/

#quote #quotes #quotation #iconoclasm #idolatry #truth #truthseeking

A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

«
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/1922/

#quote #quotes #quotation #iconoclasm #idolatry #truth #truthseeking

A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

«
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/1922/

#quote #quotes #quotation #iconoclasm #idolatry #truth #truthseeking

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

>>
Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

"Truth-telling is now more important than ever.

What has been a personal choice is now a national imperative […] Denialism is no longer a viable option. A wall of scholarship built by many hands over the last fifty years stands in the way." - Henry Reynolds, Truth-Telling. History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement

>>
Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling
https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-neither-a-monster-nor-a-saint-sir-samuel-griffith-queenslands-violent-frontier-and-the-rigours-of-truth-telling-222262
#TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

@peterbrown I'm not sure that inflicting these dull historical relics on other parts of the city is the best way to go. I have never felt that my day was brightened by seeing any of them. How about melting these statues down and recasting them as art works relevant to the modern day? #controversial #iconoclasm #Glasgow

@peterbrown I'm not sure that inflicting these dull historical relics on other parts of the city is the best way to go. I have never felt that my day was brightened by seeing any of them. How about melting these statues down and recasting them as art works relevant to the modern day? #controversial #iconoclasm #Glasgow

nihau on this lovely #wechatwednesday
rumor has it, that #xijinping and #putin will meet some time soon.

we got to peek at the gala menu; the main dish is #russian

behold! before you click that pic, be aware:
it portrays cannibalism!!! (but if you have seen #degoya​s saturn before; -you are good to go ;P)

is trolling art/ #iconoclasm #art too? should i use the hashtag #mastoart? ops, too late
#china #russia #meme #mememe #memes #xi #goya
on this occasion i also salute all #nafo

nihau on this lovely #wechatwednesday
rumor has it, that #xijinping and #putin will meet some time soon.

we got to peek at the gala menu; the main dish is #russian

behold! before you click that pic, be aware:
it portrays cannibalism!!! (but if you have seen #degoya​s saturn before; -you are good to go ;P)

is trolling art/ #iconoclasm #art too? should i use the hashtag #mastoart? ops, too late
#china #russia #meme #mememe #memes #xi #goya
on this occasion i also salute all #nafo

I am reading up on the cult of Allat at Khirbet et-Tannur in Jordan and came across this example of well-done #iconoclasm from Umm ar-Rasas. The original pixelation to avoid identity. I love the way that they couldn't help themselves and added the odd geometric pattern into it.

I am reading up on the cult of Allat at Khirbet et-Tannur in Jordan and came across this example of well-done #iconoclasm from Umm ar-Rasas. The original pixelation to avoid identity. I love the way that they couldn't help themselves and added the odd geometric pattern into it.

Emperor Irene in 798-803 ce was the only female to rule the Holy Roman Empire. She ordered her Emperor son’s eyes gouged out to get the job. She nearly healed the east/west Catholic Church split over iconoclasm (idol worship).

#WomensHistory
#HolyRomanEmpire
#RomanEmporer
#Iconoclasm

https://www.thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-p2-3529666 https://mas.to/@PChoate/109846496844013947

Emperor Irene in 798-803 ce was the only female to rule the Holy Roman Empire. She ordered her Emperor son’s eyes gouged out to get the job. She nearly healed the east/west Catholic Church split over iconoclasm (idol worship).

#WomensHistory
#HolyRomanEmpire
#RomanEmporer
#Iconoclasm

https://www.thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-p2-3529666

Emperor Irene in 798-803 ce was the only female to rule the Holy Roman Empire. She ordered her Emperor son’s eyes gouged out to get the job. She nearly healed the east/west Catholic Church split over iconoclasm (idol worship).

#WomensHistory
#HolyRomanEmpire
#RomanEmporer
#Iconoclasm

https://www.thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-p2-3529666

introducing the #MASTOBRA

not only did our r&d department come up with the #mastodong. no, further intense research led to the conclusion that it can conceal about anything with as much #innuendo as imaginably possible.

wtf is a mastodong?! -> https://det.social/@mastomememakers/109703746604765935
#meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

introducing the #MASTOBRA

not only did our r&d department come up with the #mastodong. no, further intense research led to the conclusion that it can conceal about anything with as much #innuendo as imaginably possible.

wtf is a mastodong?! -> https://det.social/@mastomememakers/109703746604765935
#meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

i wonder if this has been done already?
well, anyway... now someone did.

#mastodon and #fediverse #fanmerch
#mastodonband #band #meme #mamema #metal #joinmastodon
the #bloodmountain cover was predestined for this

...i hope they dont lock my account for #iconoclasm XD

i wonder if this has been done already?
well, anyway... now someone did.

#mastodon and #fediverse #fanmerch
#mastodonband #band #meme #mamema #metal #joinmastodon
the #bloodmountain cover was predestined for this

...i hope they dont lock my account for #iconoclasm XD

@inthehands
Interesting. Imho, this is a textbook example of "#cancelCulture", yet it is not FRAMED as such (because it was conservative forces doing the cancelling?)

As an art historian myself I am baffled that a prof teaching a class on islamic art is attacked for teaching islamic art - for doing her job.
She obvs even gave ample opportunity to opt out of seeing the artwork in question for those deeming it inappropriate.
Next class should be on the dangers of #iconoclasm.

@inthehands
Interesting. Imho, this is a textbook example of "#cancelCulture", yet it is not FRAMED as such (because it was conservative forces doing the cancelling?)

As an art historian myself I am baffled that a prof teaching a class on islamic art is attacked for teaching islamic art - for doing her job.
She obvs even gave ample opportunity to opt out of seeing the artwork in question for those deeming it inappropriate.
Next class should be on the dangers of #iconoclasm.

16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.

Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).

#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII #EdwardVIandThePope

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/

16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.

Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).

#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/

16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.

Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).

#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII #EdwardVIandThePope

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/

16th century, unknown artist: "#EdwardVI and the #Pope, an #AllegoryOfReformation". The pope could be #PaulIII.

Literature: #MargaretAston, 1994, "#TheKingsBedpost: #ReformationAndIconography in a #TudorGroupPortrait", 1994, p. 68).

#Tudor, #TudorPainting, #ThomasCranmer (3rd from right side under the inlay depicting #iconoclasm), #EarlyModern, #Reformation, #DeathOfHenryVIII

https://snrk.de/page_edward-vi-and-the-pope/