I want to nap so hard.
that’s all I want.
are quite the opposite.
SO GOING. GONE. I’M THERE.
holy shit that was a big skip in my chest.
and nobody’s in the studio to see me see this.
(safdsjzk $YU#fsdKFISZdjkgfzy4&$*#%89
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“What ever you want to do, love it… because that way, if you don’t reach what ever success is for you — if you have some idea of a goal — at least you would’ve spent your time doing something you love.” — Ian MacKaye
I love that dude.
The third rule of Fight Club is to have fun and try your best.
Minneapolis house show photos thanks to Bree Melechinsky
rad! thanks for trusting me with a camera dudes!
I’m glad some of them actually turned out for you
ACTA passed one of the several voting gates it needs to get through before becoming law.
It was ratified in Poland last night. This was the scene at Polish parliament afterwards, as (presumably) a bloc of anti-ACTA politicians expressed their displeasure and, perhaps without knowing it, foretell of the Anonymous repercussions to this bill.
EDIT: Just so we’re clear, this does not mean ACTA has been signed into international law. It means that it’s getting much closer to being signed into law.
Some things you should know:
- Online petitions are meaningless. While they are well-intentioned and organized, the signing of a digital petition takes about twenty seconds, and does not require that you leave your beanbag chair in the coal cellar. Politicians know this, and pay just as much attention to online petitions as is warranted by a “political action” that is literally less strenuous than leaving a YouTube comment.
- Nothing except direct action is going to do a goddamn thing. This means getting out in the street, it means DDoSing, it means vicious and widespread boycotts, site blackouts, and other strongarm tactics that actually impact the flow of money from corporations to lobbyists to politicians. How do you, as a tiny flailing consumer, do this? You can’t, really. You can join up with groups that are intent on doing actions that actually mean something, adding your voice to a chorus of hundreds or thousands, instead of screaming alone. You can contact celebrities, the spokespeople of our time, as ask them to leverage their followers on the issue. You can write to Tumblr and ask for more blackouts. None of these things will be very effective, so don’t be too disappointed when they don’t work, but they sure as fuck are more effective than online petitions, and the intense response to SOPA by corporations and consumers was responsible for getting it “tabled” (not dead, but dreaming lies).
- ACTA was already signed in the US by Obama in September of 2011. He had been praising the bill for over a year prior, and signed it without reservation. Most of us didn’t hear about it, and he likely used the 9/11 coverage to make sure of that.
- Eventually, one of these bills will pass, and the pro-corporate laws will go into effect. Expect it. Be prepared. Learn to circumvent this garbage and you’ll have a leg up when the feds shut down the internet as we know it.
- The best thing you can do now is install Tor and learn how to use it. Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. In order to circumvent the coming corporate takeover of the web, we’re going to have to go underground, creating a sub-internet of encrypted nodes known as a “darknet”. It’s probably going to be like the internet was in the beginning, with most people only seeing what AOL wanted them to see, and only a small group of super-nerds existing outside of that bubble in the “real” internet. It’ll take another twenty years for them to catch up to us again.
- Welcome to the grim cyberpunk future.
it’s kind of blowing my mind that
all of this shit is actually happening.
here’s to hoping I actually wake up at 6 like
I want to (to get shit done before class).
cheers to that,
buenas noches tumblr.
Kramer fits to Skrillex [via]
Yeah, that’s how I usually respond to dubstep.
^
→ ((Sign this....ACTA goes live tonight))
when online under a group page (bands, studios, whatever kind of company, etc) where multiple people run it (with twitter, facebook, whatever), don’t fucking say “I” in whatever you write and not put your name. nobody knows who the hell you are. and that might sound ridiculously insignificant and stupid writing it here but holy shit does it bothers me so much. especially with things I’m involved in.
also, you could just put “we”. it’s not yours.
god damn.