This is the world’s largest crystal ruby. Mark Mothersbaugh had the gem carved in the shape of an ice cream cone.
“A few years ago I became friends with a gemologist, and I saw all these gems that he had lying around, one of which was this big ugly stone that I picked up. “That’s the world’s largest ruby you’re holding.” He didn’t know what to do with it, so next time I saw him I asked if I could carve it. It’s right over there. [Points across the room to a glass case.]
I was thinking: Who do you sell the world’s largest ruby to? Somebody who’s uber-rich. And people don’t get uber-rich unless there’s something dark attached to it. It’s always communists in China, or drug dealers in South America, or oil people in Russia. It’s those kinds of people who are going to want the world’s largest ruby. And I wanted to fuck with them in some way. So I said: I’m going to carve it into a turd. But it will look like a custard. I’m going set it on top of a cone, and it will look like a sweet-treat, but really it’s a turd. They’ll buy it because it’s the world’s largest ruby, but only I’ll know that it’s a turd.“ - Mark Mothersbaugh
so let me get this straight: the UK is very pointedly saying ‘please do what you have always done in these situations where a terrorist attack has happened on British Soil and keep the sensitive intelligence we entrusted to you quiet until we give you the go ahead.
and trump’s government has leaked pretty much everything to the press, thus hindering the investigations here to the point where our home sec has had to censor intelligence we’re now giving the US, our closest ally
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okay a lot of people don’t know what i’m talking about, so here’s a link
but the main gist is: trump’s government has leaked to the US press, and thus the world:
- the name of the bomber - the fucking forensic photos from the investigation
these may seem like small things but first off:
- our government didn’t want to name the bomber until thursday/tuesday, so they could continue their investigation without alerting anyone he may have been working with - they also didn’t want the media hanging around his family or his flat, which they ended up doing - they’re the fucking forensic photos of evidence, still covered in blood, is there no such thing as tact
our home sec has been forced to now censor all further intelligence we give to the US on this matter, and has released [what i may call, light heartedly, the most british angry political statement i’ve ever read]
“The British police have been very clear that they want to control the flow of information in order to protect operational integrity, the element of surprise. So it is irritating if it gets released from other sources and I have been very clear with our friends that should not happen again.”
so in the past two week slaone, trump’s government has managed to reveal intelligence from israel and the uk, two of their closest political and military allies.
i reiterate:
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here’s a fun update: manchester police have, independent of the government, decided to stop passing all information to the USon this investigation, and the government is livid with the US at every single level, in every single party.
complaints have been lodged at every level of US politics by our ambassadors and even MPs, some of whom have called the leaks ‘arrogant’.
Can I apologize on behalf of our country?
remember when one of his main campaign points was claiming hillary would misuse classified information?
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