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Reminder: Nigel Farage loved Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget
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With the deepest and most profound respect, could someone at the David Zwirner gallery tell Gerhard Richter to cool it on the giant stripe works? fadmagazine.com/2024/04/23/ger…
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This Old Babylonian clay tablet, written in cuneiform 3,700 years ago, may be the oldest customer complaint letter yet discovered. The copper merchant Nanni details at length his anger at a sour deal, and his dissatisfaction with the quality assurance and service of Ea-nasir.
Nanni complained that the wrong grade of copper ore has been delivered after a gulf voyage and that there was a misdirection and a delay of a further shipment.
Assyriologist Leo Oppenheim translated and published the letter;
Tell Ea-nasir: Nanni sends the following message: When you came, you said to me as follows: “I will give Gimil-Sin (when he comes) fine quality copper ingots.” You left then but you did not do what you promised me.
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Letters From Mesopotamia: Official, Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia A. Leo Oppenheim.
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You put ingots which were not good before my messenger (Sit-Sin) and said: “If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!” What do you take me for, that you treat somebody like me with such contempt?
I have sent as messengers gentlemen like ourselves to collect the bag with my money (deposited with you) but you have treated me with contempt by sending them back to me empty-handed several times, and that through enemy territory.
Is there anyone among the merchants who trade with Telmun who has treated me in this way? You alone treat my messenger with contempt! On account of that one (trifling) mina of silver which I owe(?) you, you feel free to speak in such a way, while I have given to the palace on your behalf 1,080 pounds of copper, and umi-abum has likewise given 1,080 pounds of copper, apart from what we both have had written on a sealed tablet to be kept in the temple of Samas. How have you treated me for that copper?
You have withheld my money bag from me in enemy territory; it is now up to you to restore (my money) to me in full. Take cognizance that (from now on) I will not accept here any copper from you that is not of fine quality.
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The assassination of @navalny becomes increasingly obvious.
The officials have given three alternative causes of his death & are blocking autopsy.
They are refusing to give his family his corpse.
Does anybody still support Putin?!
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Walking through a very wet Chelsea—perhaps 1 in 5 galleries has decided to take a snow day. I'm the first visitor at one space. "There's no fucking snow day for me," the dealer tells me proudly. Thank you, sir.
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This week we laid out a memorial to the more than 11,500 Palestinian children and 36 Israeli children who’ve been killed since October 7th. It was a line 5km long of children’s clothes. Huge thanks to the volunteers who came to Bournemouth and made this happen #CeasefireNow
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Only 999,999,999 years, 364 thousand days, and 12 hours until Lee's next batch of coal is ready.
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Israel has killed over 11,500 Palestinian children in Gaza and the West Bank since October 7th, when 36 Israeli children were killed.
It’s impossible to imagine that number. This is what it looks like. A line 5km long.
(Location: Bournemouth Beach)
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The East African Crude Oil Pipeline #EACOP is a carbon bomb waiting to happen. But without insurance, it can't go forward. US insurance giants are feeling the heat now more than ever. Now is our chance. Let's tell insurers to stop insuring the EACOP share.eko.org/839459238t?ref…
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Why is someone stealing rare editions of Russian books from libraries all over Europe? lefigaro.fr/culture/la-bib…
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I wonder whether historians in 2100 will look at 2024 as a geopolitical inflection point…
A thread.
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just signed the petition demanding Liz Truss's honours list is scrapped. 49 days of chaos in office should not justify her promoting her friends to a lifetime seat in the Lords. Will you sign too? 250k and counting.... you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/liz-… via @38degrees
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Sunak was Chancellor when he sat next to Johnson as he told MP’s
“We’ve ensured there will be a FREE hospital car parking for EVERYBODY who attends a hospital”
With patients, visitors & staff shafted on parking he should either honour it or admit the Govt is patently dishonest
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Visitors & patients paid a staggering £146m for hospital parking in 2022/23 Now watch @RishiSunak look on as Johnson tells MP’s “We’ve ensured there will be a FREE hospital car parking for EVERYBODY who attends a hospital” RT if you think every UK news show should play it
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RIP Giovanni Anselmo. His 1969 'Untitled (Structure That Eats)' is as good as it gets: Wry, odd, poignant—ingenious.
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2.2 million liters of red wine flooded a town in Portugal after distillery tanks burst apart
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Does anyone else realize how batshit insane this is no matter what side of any issue you're on? (from NY Mag's Artforum piece)
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Artists and collectors turn on each other as the fallout of the Artforum letter continues. On both sides are those who would prefer the other be seen and not heard. trib.al/H9y6vWg
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