BECAME A CRASS FAN OVERNIGHT AFTER HEARING THIS MAN'S VOICE & BASS LINES.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on my all-time favorite member of the English anarchist punk band CRASS, Pete Wright, a.k.a., "Pete Wrong," bass guitarist and occasional vocalist, performing live at St Phillips Community Centre, Swansea, Wales, UK, on 9/24/1981. 📸: Steve Rapport.

"...I think that's where we were so opposite, our backgrounds. Then when you put into the equation, Pete Wright, his background came from FRANK ZAPPA. So you had this real mish-mash that we were all trying to put into that stuff."

-- STEVE IGNORANT on CRASS' mish-mash of influences, "Interviews: The Story of the Crassical Collection," c. March 2013

Sources: www.roilnoise.com/crass.htm & www.punknews.org/amp/50808/interviews-the-story-of-the-crassical-collection.

the solution for taking care of "unsightly" homeless people is to house us. that is the only solution. if you can't stand the look of someone living on the sidewalk, you shouldn't stand for them being put into that situation to begin with. housing us is the only answer.

Bottoms, Tops, we all hate cops!!

[Image Description: a photograph of two white people wearing punk clothing, seemingly at a Pride parade. They are holding up a black sign with the words "Bottoms, tops, we all hate cops" in white, capitalized text. End Description.]

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I just got so fed up with being unstable

No more!

so: masking: good, unequivocally. please mask and please educate others on why they should mask to make the world safer for immune compromised people to participate in.

however: masking is not my policy focus and it shouldn't be yours, either. masking is a very good mitigation against droplet-born illnesses and a slightly less effective (but still very good) mitigation against airborne illnesses, but its place in the pyramid of mitigation demands is pretty low, for several reasons:

it's an individual mitigation, not a systemic one. the best mitigations to make public life more accessible affect everyone without distributing the majority of the effort among individuals (who may not be able to comply, may not have access to education on how to comply, or may be actively malicious).

it's a post-hoc mitigation, or to put it another way, it's a band-aid over the underlying problem. even if it was possible to enforce, universal masking still wouldn't address the underlying problem that it is dangerous for sick people and immune compromised people to be in the same public locations to begin with. this is a solvable problem! we have created the societal conditions for this problem!

here are my policy focuses:

upgraded air filtration and ventilation systems for all public buildings. appropriate ventilation should be just as bog-standard as appropriately clean running water. an indoor venue without a ventilation system capable of performing 5 complete air changes per hour should be like encountering a public restroom without any sinks or hand sanitizer stations whatsoever.

enforced paid sick leave for all employees until 3-5 days without symptoms. the vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through industry sectors where employees come into work while experiencing symptoms. a taco bell worker should never be making food while experiencing strep throat symptoms, even without a strep diagnosis.

enforced virtual schooling options for sick students. the other vast majority of respiratory and food-borne illnesses circulate through schools. the proximity of so many kids and teenagers together indoors (with little to no proper ventilation and high levels of physical activity) means that if even one person comes to school sick, hundreds will be infected in the following few days. those students will most likely infect their parents as well. allowing students to complete all readings and coursework through sites like blackboard or compass while sick will cut down massively on disease transmission.

accessible testing for everyone. not just for COVID; if there's a test for any contagious illness capable of being performed outside of lab conditions, there should be a regulated option for performing that test at home (similar to COVID rapid tests). if a test can only be performed under lab conditions, there should be a government-subsidized program to provide free of charge testing to anyone who needs it, through urgent cares and pharmacies.

the last thing to note is that these things stack; upgraded ventilation systems in all public buildings mean that students and employees get sick less often to begin with, making it less burdensome for students and employees to be absent due to sickness, and making it more likely that sick individuals will choose to stay home themselves (since it's not so costly for them).

masking is great! keep masking! please use masking as a rhetorical "this is what we can do as individuals to make public life safer while we're pushing for drastic policy changes," and don't get complacent in either direction--don't assume that masking is all you need to do or an acceptable forever-solution, and equally, don't fall prey to thinking that pushing for policy change "makes up" for not masking in public. it's not a game with scores and sides; masking is a material thing you can do to help the individual people you interact with one by one, and policy changes are what's going to make the entirety of public life safer for all immune compromised people.

spotify will be like are you a HARDCORE PUNK do you HATE THE ESTABLISHMENT and want some songs to BEAT UP COPS TO? listen to our PUNK PLAYLIST! and the playlist is like. welcome to the black parade

HOBIE AND MAYDAY!!🕷️

IT'S ALL TRUE -- FLUX OF PINK INDIANS & DISCHARGE WERE GOING TO TOUR TOGETHER!

Now, for this quote about Bambi Ellesmere's stint in FLUX and the joint nuke wave tour that never happened:

"Shortly after, Sid (drummer) decided to jump ship in order to get RUBELLA BALLET into a higher gear, and guitarist Andy left to pursue different musical ideals. The drummer's stool was filled by Dave (a.k.a. "Bambi") who had been playing with DISCHARGE and who'd met FLUX during plans for the two bands to tour together, and he brought along guitarist Simon, a friend and colleague from previous and sideline group THE INSANE."

-- "NOT SO BRAVE" CD compilation liner notes, released under the UK's Overground label in 1997

EXTRA INFO: Shot of Dave "Bambi" possibly drumming with THE INSANE, plus two live shots of DISCHARGE, c. 1980-'81.

Dis nightmare still @$!*#&% continues!!

Sources: www.picuki.com/profile/obituaryfanzine, Pinterest, & my music CD collection.

My favourite thing about both Nimona and Spiderverse is that when they say a character is PUNK they MEAN IT. The people who wrote this story MEAN IT when they say punk because these characters are loving, kind, selfless and want to help others while also totally ready to do a murder

Anyway I think Nimona and Hobie Brown would be best friends

your ableism isn't okay just because your joke is supposedly about joe biden

The way Hobie instantly liked Miles when he unknowingly broke the canon by saving Inspector Singh

Mans literally turns pink

this is how it feels like to apply for a job in a Big Company™

Shout out to people who always have a few dirty dishes left in the sink.

Shout out to people who struggle to bathe regularly.

Shout out to people who never get all of their laundry finished.

Shout out to people who can't work, whether they want to or not.

Shout out to people who are disabled, whose disability affects everything they do.

I love all of you so much, please take time to remind yourselves that you are worthy of love, care, and support, no matter what that looks like for you.