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  1. 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." >>
    theguardian.com/world/2026/apr

    #iconoclasm #violence

  2. #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 nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cesar

  3. 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! 👉 c.aparatorul.md/3bk6w 👈 #întărirea #Biserică #Credinței #Duminica #Dumnezeu #Iconoclasm #Justin #Nevoinţă #Ortodoxe #Ortodoxie #Ortodoxiei #Părintele #PărinteleJustinPârvu #post #Postul #PostulMare #PostuluiMare #...
    c.aparatorul.md/3bk6w

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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adr
    #AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

  11. 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."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adr
    #AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

  12. 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."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adr
    #AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

  13. 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."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adr
    #AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

  14. 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."
    >>
    abc.net.au/news/2025-04-01/adr
    #AboriginalHeritage #destruction #iconoclasm #kuyang #RockFormation #CulturalLandscape #culture

  15. "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."
    >>
    theguardian.com/environment/20

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

  16. Все студент:ки в кроссовках, а эти нет • Damascus University students stand on the toppled statue of the late Syria’s President Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar al-Assad, after Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was ousted. Photograph by Ammar Awad, 15 December 2024 reuters.com/pictures/photos-of #AmmarAwad #HafezalAssad #monuments #toppledstatues #iconoclasm #shoes #overthrow #fallofaregime #authoritarianleaders #authoritarianism #patriarchy #social #Damascus #DamascusUniversity

  17. Все студент:ки в кроссовках, а эти нет • Damascus University students stand on the toppled statue of the late Syria’s President Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar al-Assad, after Syria’s Bashar al-Assad was ousted. Photograph by Ammar Awad, 15 December 2024 reuters.com/pictures/photos-of #AmmarAwad #HafezalAssad #monuments #toppledstatues #iconoclasm #shoes #overthrow #fallofaregime #authoritarianleaders #authoritarianism #patriarchy #social #Damascus #DamascusUniversity

  18. A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

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

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen

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

  19. A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:

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

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen

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

  20. "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
    theconversation.com/friday-ess
    #TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

  21. "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
    theconversation.com/friday-ess
    #TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

  22. "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
    theconversation.com/friday-ess
    #TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

  23. "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
    theconversation.com/friday-ess
    #TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

  24. "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
    theconversation.com/friday-ess
    #TruthTelling #Australia #violence #denial #iconoclasm #CollectiveMemory #CulturalIdentity #IndigenousPeoples #SettlerSocieties #pastoralism #plantations #StructureOrEvent

  25. @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

  26. 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

  27. 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.

  28. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens- mas.to/@PChoate/10984649684401

  29. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens- mas.to/@PChoate/10984649684401

  30. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens- mas.to/@PChoate/10984649684401

  31. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens- mas.to/@PChoate/10984649684401

  32. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-

  33. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-

  34. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-

  35. 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).




    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-

  36. 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

    thoughtco.com/irene-of-athens-

  37. 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?! -> det.social/@mastomememakers/10
    #meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

  38. 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?! -> det.social/@mastomememakers/10
    #meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

  39. 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?! -> det.social/@mastomememakers/10
    #meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

  40. 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?! -> det.social/@mastomememakers/10
    #meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

  41. 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?! -> det.social/@mastomememakers/10
    #meme #mamema #memes #fediverse #censorship #prude #iconoclasm ;-P

  42. 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

  43. @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.