reading this deposition that just got dropped where someone sued musk and ohhhh my god it is this funniest thing ever . i can see why his lawyer tried to keep this confidential . they’re both maybe the biggest idiots . this is like ace attorney

Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon sorta shared the same amount of screen time on my TV growing up, but CN had Toonami which aired DragonBall Z and that plus Sailor Moon and Reboot was EVERYTHING to 10-year-old me.

Yes this poll is very biased in favor of North America lol

if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

So a little bit of punk history

Did punk start in America or England?

Yes

Okay this is something that people will debate but it’s actually really hard to answer because that means deciding who the first punk band was and that’s a contentious topic

The real answer is that the American and UK punk scenes evolved separately from each other. It’s not a matter of it started in one country and crossed over, but it was two separate scenes that came about roughly the same time out of similar influences and global events. Punk was in a lot of ways a reaction to the failure of the cultural revolution of the 60’s, a lot of the protopunk bands toured and played with each other or attended the same shows.

So regardless of whoever produced the first “true punk band” the existence of punk was already independently evolving in each location. There’s actually evidence of a similar music scene occurring in a part of Mexico at the same time independent of the others

The real interesting thing is that American punk and UK punk crossbred to create punk as we know it. From the style, to the music, the combination of the two created punk. American bands toured Britain and British bands toured the US and both influenced the other scene.

Punk as we know it didn’t exist until after the two scenes interbred

So yeah, it’s debatable which country produced a punk band first, and there’s a chance it was Mexico, but that’s because it was separately being invented around the same time. And any attempt to claim “first” is made complicated by a shit ton of briefly together bands in these music scenes. I can’t emphasize how tricky this is because influential bands existed for a couple months before breaking up without any recordings of their music, but then spurred on another wave of performers

"Be Gay, Do Crime"

Calligraffiti in Chicago

it sure is weird how, when I was young, so many people told me said there’s absolutely no reason to study history or philosophy, and now there’s a conveyor belt of cranks and charlatans who use bad philosophy and misinterpret history to push bigoted agendas. what a weird coincidence

April 26, 2024 - Cops in Ohio gearing up for another Kent State.

Antifascist prisoner Krystina "Kita" Charankova was released from prison in Belarus earlier this month, after serving years for the "crimes" of opposing the invasion of Ukraine and being critical of Belarus' dictatorship. The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund has helped her to find her feet and get re-established now that she's returned to the world. Full story here. If you think it's important to support anti-fascists who've made huge sacrifices defending their communities from fascism, you'd do well to make a contribution to the Defence Fund today!

"No War but Class War"

Covering up a pro-military ANZAC mural in Wollongong, New South Wales.

Hoping Reed will get on this list soon enough

Free Palestine spotted in Belgrade, Serbia

Anti-war protestors in Aotearoa / New Zealand pasting up posters and dyeing fountains red to draw attention to the government's ongoing complicity in war and genocide.

"Rent should be no more than 30% of household income" is a really funny and roundabout way to say "property owners as a class are entitled to 30% of gross wages"