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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1m

Mind you the word loot is Hindi for loot. It's Sanskrit for stolen property. So maybe it was Otto after all.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 5m

Can't be Otto. It doesn't say that Margaret Thatcher who was Turkish acksherley invaded Australia or New Zealand as it was then known in 1776 because of the Peasants' Revolt.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7m

Whoever it was doesn't know what the space bar is for.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 9m

The loss of the poetic old London exchange names was a minor cultural tragedy.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 11m

Anybody who doesn't say Deltic is wrong and a grotesquely ugly freak.

Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 14d

Which locomotive? English Electric Class 55 "Deltic" or GE U25B?

A green and yellow/green locomotive in a museum, a class 55 deltic with it's distinctive nose, from https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_Class_55

A faded gray U25B locomotive with a red-painted nose, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GE_U25B

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 14m

That reminds me of the cool kid Brits who look at the Notre Dame restoration and say "We could never do that here because we are shit" and m8 we finished a brand new cathedral in 2007.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 16m

Tell me you haven't set foot in any British museum in the past decade without etc.

arrath.bsky.social @arrath.bsky.social · 12d

Explored the wonderful Perth Museum today, and was very pleased to see their modern take on the subject of museums and their collections.

Sad that such an approach would be branded as "woke" back home and derided.

Pictured is a sign advising visitors entering a gallery of exhibits in the Perth Museum, Perth, Scotland that reads:

"Loot

Around the time the collections displayed in this museum began to be amassed in 1784, a new word entered the English Language. 'Loot' is a Hindi word meaning 'stolen goods' and was used to describe the widespread plundering of Northern India by the East India Company.

As people from Perth & Kinross emigrated or travelled to capitalise on the opportunities which an expanding Empire offered, they sent or brought back evidence of their interactions with other cultures and societies.

These interactions were often predicated on state and corporate violence, exploitation, extraction and corruption. Museums were founded on and perpetuated this power dynamic through the ways they have displayed and represented different cultures.

Museums articulate and exercise power. Whose stories get told and whose don't? Who is represented and who is erased?

Who gets to tell these stories and who has the right to hold these objects?

This gallery examines some of the circumstances in which this collection was acquired. It explores some of the ways in which abuses of power in the past can start to be redressed."

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 21m

Oh God.

Pedro Piscatore @muirhousemaverick.bsky.social · 1h

Indy for England please
www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...

How Empire and the Union ruined England, by Neil Mackay

A case could be made that the best medicine for what ails England would be an English departure from the Union, argues Writer at Large Neil Mackay

www.heraldscotland.com

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 22m

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 24m

Am I having a stroke?

Kevin of Nine, Tertiary ADHDjunct of Unimatrix 01 @votesforoysters.bsky.social · 5d

Lol what

Screenshot from the Herald newspaper
The Headline in the image reads “"There's a feeling that the Orange Order has helped advance
Scotland's reputation as an inclusive, diverse and tolerant nation'“ and the text of their post is the following quote
'There's a feeling too that the Orange Order has acted in good faith and in the spirit of One Scotland Many Cultures; that they've moved into those values and helped advance Scotland's reputation as an inclusive, diverse and tolerant nation' || Kevin McKenna”

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 29m

Mind you the preponderance of really shit pubs called The Moon Under Water suggests that neither do most Brits.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 30m

"Pertinent Orwell quotation." - George Orwell

Spectrox Celery @whoniversal.bsky.social · 9h

No American correctly understands anything written by George Orwell.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 32m

I can remember my home number from the 70s and my grandparents' numbers and our shop number. I can't remember my current mobile number.

Raj LB @rajlb.bsky.social · 11h

I still dial my parents' landline number into my phone

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 14h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 34m

Tuesday

a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting on a chair

ALT: a man in a white shirt and tie is sitting on a chair

media.tenor.com

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Reposted by Horace Dorrington

Sam Taylor @staylorish.bsky.social · 13h

Màiri McAllan said this morning that independence was all about breaking away from “neoliberalism”.

John Swinney said in 2012 that the opportunity to make Scotland a tax haven was what most excited him about independence. www.ft.com/content/66bc...

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 38m

Translation: We need a new camper van.

Kaukab Stewart MSP @kaukabstewart.bsky.social · 13h

As the Westminster parties race to the right, we’re racing towards a fresh start in an independent Scotland.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 40m

The other essentials are the Historic Houses Association card, National Trust for Scotland membership (it's cheaper than the NT and needs the money more and has a reciprocal free entry agreement with the NT) and the two for one garden entry card from the April edition of Gardener's World magazine.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 52m

Then there's a lollipop lady which is something else entirely.

PS not a rude thing.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 54m

The Guardian argued that free healthcare would "eliminate selective elimination" and thus reduce the vitality of the lower orders.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 55m

The Guardian has a long standing tradition of reactionary bullshit. It was the only UK national newspaper to oppose the creation of the NHS. On eugenics grounds. Seriously. In 1948 when eugenics was no longer cool for some reason.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 57m

If you want to subsididise genocide and slave labour and incidentally the hijacking of a fine old British marque then frankly you deserve to get ripped off.