gowtywood on Nostr: Painting ships this week. Here’s the first fleet arriving in Botany Bay (by some ...

Painting ships this week. Here’s the first fleet arriving in Botany Bay (by some colonial painter and framed with Framergram). They sailed across the world and dumped their cargo of slightly dodgy people on the beach with a few barrels of salt pork and biscuit and a vicious guard.
They had a nap and then built Sydney, dispossessing an existing nation along the way without giving it a thought. The brutal algebra of survival.