Slow Mover1d ago

Empire of Blood

A Tanka of Lament

Gladiators fight
in a coliseum cage
where respect once lived,
Ugly empire writ in blood.
Pray for cleansing thunderstorms. #ancientRome #antiViolence #apocalypticArt #bloodAndEmpire #breadAndCircuses #cageFight #ChristianLament #cleansingStorm #coliseum #crumblingEmpire #dystopianArt #Empire #fallenEmpire #gladiators #honor #lightning #modernRome #moralDecay #peaceWitness #politicalLament #prayerForCleansing #propheticArt #Respect #RomanRuins #socialCommentary #spectacle #SPQR #stormOverAmerica #symbolicIllustration #thunderstorms #UFC250 #UFCFreedom #Violence #WashingtonDC #WhiteHouse
amyfallonJan 27, 2023

Rod Stewart is offering to pay for people’s NHS scans.
Alan Cumming hands back his OBE.
What is going on? 🇬🇧

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/27/alan-cumming-hands-back-obe-toxicity-of-empire #crumblingempire #Britain

Alan Cumming hands back his OBE citing the ‘toxicity of empire’

Actor says recent conversations about role of monarchy ‘opened his eyes’ to suffering of Indigenous people around the world

The Guardian