‘Pillar of Shame’ Tiananmen memorial erected outside European Parliament | CNN
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A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” which was controversially removed from a Hong Kong university in 2021, has gone on display in front of the European Parliament in Brussels.

Depicting a heap of contorted bodies and screaming faces, the statue was unveiled Tuesday as part of an exhibition of “forbidden art” that organizers said had been censored or “deemed subversive” by Hong Kong and mainland China.

The exhibition was hosted by Jens Galschiøt, the Danish artist behind the famous sculpture, and Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, a member of the European Parliament (MEP). A further six MEPs, including representatives from each of the parliament’s five largest political coalitions, were listed as co-hosts.

  • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 months ago

    LoL… I have a relatively limited Blocklist of tankies and therefore do not see any of their drivel anymore. Seriously, just block the names you recognize… at 20 your Lemmy experience will be much more sane.

    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      101·
      3 months ago

      I tend to block anyone with an @hexbear on sight even if they’re making an innocuous comment. It’s takes a certain type of person to choose that instance. I’m at like 30 blocks including their instance and yea my feed is solid.

      • vikingEnglish
        81·
        3 months ago

        Same. Lemmygrad is also on my shitlist.

      • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        3 months ago

        it takes a certain kind of person

        I don’t think many of them are people, they’re LLMs. Those that are actually people didn’t choose Hexbear, their bosses who pay them to be shills chose it.

        Similar problems at lemmy.ml but not as bad.

    • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      The instance I’m on is (was?) federated with hexbear. As soon as instance blocking was added as a feature I blocked hexbear and lemmygrad. It was a drastic improvement.

    • vikingEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      I’ve got 53 users blocked, plus 2 instances and a dozen or so communities on otherwise sane instances. Lemmy is nice now.

      • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Right? It is wonderfull. I also ended up blocking lemmy.ml and switching all .ml communities to alternatives. That is also a step I can recommend.

        • vikingEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Yeah I’ve blocked most communities there except for a handful that don’t have real alternatives, else I would.

        • vikingEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          Seems not to be the case… At least there’s no straightforward way. I guess I could just copy & paste the list from my settings, but you’d still have to add them manually, one by one.

        • vikingEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          That’s a good question, I have no idea. Let me poke around a bit.