This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
– John Abernathy
A Lemmy post that sources a Reddit post that sources a Bluesky post. I don’t exactly disbelieve it, but I’d love a little bit more rigorous fact checking in my history community.
The actual source is a threads post which I couldn’t view properly on my browser.
The numbers change on this, but Cory Doctorow’s quote about the internet turning into 5 websites all sharing screenshots of the other 4 is becoming more true every day.