#saltaire

[hannahlockillustration]

I'm at Victoria Hall in Saltaire with Tilly and Primrose Markets until 3pm today! Hope to see you there 😄

[inabigdanceskin]

Reflections, Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Saltaire. Saturday 22 February 2025.

[richs-pics]

Saltaire by night

[jason-1971]

[ratgraphic]

POV: you walked in on them talking shit about you

[angpsblog]

Buying vintage #DavidHockney posters at Salts Mill bookshop. Books 📚 and Hockneys bliss

[dopescissorscashwagon]

Saltaire as the Sun breaks through the trees

📸 David Oxtaby

[andreadewhurst]

Saltaire Advent calendar windows

[sami--spoon]

Aire Sculpture Trail

[screenstretch]

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[sashayed]

watched CARNIVAL OF SOULS tonight and i can see why herk harvey had to make it the instant he set eyes on saltair pavillion. absolutely one of the most cursed locations ever caught on film. no human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests [death] in the face of a [resort], etc

[orcinus-veterinarius]

Wait, what’s the deal with seashepard? I grew up w a family that supported them and literally bought their merch and stuff

I was the same way! I thought they were so cool after watching Whale Wars. But unfortuantely, despite agreeing with their mission to end commercial whaling, I think their dangerous methods (not to mention their extreme anti-zoo and anti-Indigenous rhetoric) ultimately cause a lot more harm than good. Assaulting and harrassing whalers and sealers, many of whom rely on hunting to feed their families, isn't going to inspire any change. I've been told by folks that have had interactions with Sea Shepherd members that they have a reputation for alienating the communities they enter and being rude and aggressive to both locals and other anti-whaling organizations.

Captain Paul Watson founded Sea Shepherd in 1977 after leaving Greenpeace for disapproving of his "direct action" approaches. In 1986, Watson lead an attack on unoccupied whaling vessels in Iceland that got his group branded as terrorists. The act ultimately had a counterintuative effect, "turn[ing] Icelandic public opinion against the cause of saving whales" (x). In 2013, they were even labeled as "pirates" by a U.S. court for their aggressive actions toward occupied Japanese whaling ships: "When you ram ships; hurl containers of acid; drag metal-reinforced ropes in the water to damage propellers and rudders; launch smoke bombs and flares with hooks; and point high-powered lasers at other ships, you are, without a doubt, a pirate, no matter how high-minded you believe your purpose to be" (x). Sea Shepherd actually removed Watson in 2022 in an attempt to separate itself from his more radical tactics (and outstanding arrest warrants) and go legitmate. PETA denounced this as a betrayal to the animal rights movement.

Watson started his own organization (yet again), and Sea Shepherd is now lead by real estate mogul Pritam Singh. But I still hesitate to support them. In their bid to gain custody of Wikie and Keijo, they make several alarming statements, claiming that Nova Scotia is too cold for them since all they know is warm Mediterranean water (neglecting the fact that their habitat is chilled, something that can't be done in a pen) and that relocating to a sea pen in France will somehow be less stressful than moving to another pool. Wikie and Keijo were both born in the Marineland tanks. Even if we believe that a pen will be more beneficial to their welfare in the long run, it's downright foolish to claim that a pen is the "least stressful option." No one on their team has remotely any experience in captive cetacean husbandry, so they plan to continue employing Marineland trainers. Maybe don't accuse a group of animal abuse and then ask them to come work for you?

[inabigdanceskin]

Saltaire United Reformed Church (detail), Saltaire, England. Saturday 22 February 2025.

[richs-pics]

Autumn spotlight

[swirlingyouintomypoems]

Last night while turtle nest sitting in the Carolinas

[heystephen]

Can you please tell me what swiftie tea dropped today all I see is everyone posting abt it but no one explaining

basically jack antonoffs instagram story revealed that taylor wrote youre losing me in late 2021 !