Synth noodling conceptual artist
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I mean, this was in 2016.
People made worse decisions that year. A lot of people.
3·2 days agoOh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.
I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.
There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk… This ain’t punk. This ain’t shit.
The kids were laughing at him.
This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.
I’m assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.
She may be a Puncke: for many of them, are neither Maid, Widow, nor Wife.
W. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1623)
Damn, you really old.
US education system.
Mate, I haven’t forgiven them for google reader.
They killed my boy.
That’s a fair question.
The arts are seen as a luxury and a frippery. They are also seen as elitist.
If you want to defund public services and remain popular, the playbook is to remove the arts first. That way you are demonstrating the order of needs.
51·7 days agoThat’s not cheese, that’s yellow shrink wrap
Related to another popular post right now…so what was Bruce Dickinson’s ancestor?
It’s 1994. The Bosnian-Serbian conflict is still raging. Some cool dude from the UN peace keepers thinks it would be good to have a concert.
He contacts Bruce Dickinson and says, “wanna play a much needed gig in a warzone?”
Bruce says, “yes”.
Here’s the documentary.
841·7 days agoYou can’t defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.
You know where this is going.
The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.
Adore the darktable gang.
Cretins? Not sure that’s a word you want to use, pal, it’s a pretty bad slur.
Couldn’t let it be could you?
And opposing those actions is not antisemitic.
We take those two things together as truth and we are getting somewhere.
Seconded on round keys.
I blame cooking blogs for introducing this bloat.
“First let me tell you a little about my relationshio with cinnamon… It all started 40 years ago whilst I was…”
Yes totally, but counter to that there are still an awful lot of places where internet is borderline dialup and access to information is still primarily text based. Furthermore, translating text under these conditions is considerably easy than translating audio.
Investing in education on a global level, as opposed to a US level is a question of access and infrastructure.
This was the video that caused me to post:
If you read the paper…