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Some weeks ago I tried to find a playlist which covers great punk rock songs all across Europe on Spotify but found none. Instead I found a bunch of national playlists like "French punk", "Spanish punk Mix" or "ελληνικό πανκ". Even those playlists where kind of unsorted. A lot of american stuff in the British playlist and Italien artists showed up in the Spanish one. Being as it is, I had to make it myself and spent two weekends curating the "European Punk" playlist:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yJwrUodit0jNZPthfnB8n?si=13fa526e79974657
I went from British and D-A-CH region punk rock to France and the Iberian peninsula, over to Italy, Greece and Balkan states, some east Europe, Scandinavia and BeNeLux. I think I got a lot of the good stuff covered, but I am not sure whether I did overlook something. Pleas have a look at and listen to it and write us a message in case you miss an artist or a song which needs to be on it.

#music #musik #musiek #rock #punk #punkrock #anarchy #fcknzs #eattherich #destroycapitalism #smashpatriarchy #europe #european

#Godzilla: the perfect #monster for the age of #ClimateChange

May 31, 2019

A monster of awe

"In their 1987 book #AngelsFear, anthropologists Gregory and Mary Catherine Batseon proposed a fictional god called #Eco, one that would represent the importance of seeing the world as a system of interconnected organisms, or the 'unity in which we make our home'.

"They hoped that the existence of such a god might encourage humanity to behave more respectfully towards our world.

"However, in today’s world, a figure such as Eco does not inspire the awe or respect which our age of existential crisis demands. A monster is needed, and as I have argued in my co-authored book Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for Our Critical Condition, Godzilla is the perfect monster to make us think about the #consequences of our actions.

"From the first Japanese Godzilla film in 1954, all the way through to Godzilla’s latest outing in this year’s aptly named Hollywood blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla has been understood as a response to humanity’s mistreatment of the #earth.

"The first case of mistreatment to provoke Godzilla in 1954 was the use of #nuclear weapons. While developing a premise for the first film, Tanaka Tomoyuki, a young producer at Toho Studios in Japan asked himself: “What if a dinosaur sleeping in the Southern Hemisphere had been awakened and transformed into a giant by the Bomb? What if it attacked Tokyo?”

"Subsequent films, which vary immensely in their level of earnestness or goofiness, have referenced other environmental misdeeds, such the 1971 film Godzilla vs #Hedorah (aka the #SmogMonster) in which mankind’s pollution becomes a nearly invincible monster. Although Godzilla defeats the Smog Monster, viewers are left in no doubt that we ignore the effects of our #pollution at our peril."

Read more:
cosmosmagazine.com/earth/clima

Cosmos · Godzilla: the perfect monster for the age of climate changeCinematic creatures symbolise human anxieties, and the great Japanese lizard is suddenly very modern all over again. Julian CH Lee from Australia's RMIT University explains.

"Imagine you are a journalist, and one day you receive an email from your boss announcing an exciting new hire. Everyone please give a hearty welcome to Bob! the message begins. Bob is a serial plagiarist who routinely lies, doesn't understand what a fact is, and has never written an interesting sentence in his life. Please consider him a writing and research resource for all of your stories. Just make sure you are spending a lot of time rigorously fact-checking and rewriting anything he produces for you, because he will seriously end your career if you don't! Anyway, feel free to swing by the kitchen at 3:00 p.m. to grab a slice of cake and welcome Bob to the office. Would you not immediately attempt a citizen's arrest on your boss?"

defector.com/insider-boss-to-e

defector.comInsider Boss To Employees: Please Make Good Use Of This Lying Plagiarism Machine | DefectorIf you’ve ever wondered what someone with the job title of Global Editor-in-Chief actually does all day, the answer is sit around and write memos like this: What we have here, thanks to Semafor’s Maxwell Tani, is the guy who sits at the top of Insider’s editorial hierarchy telling his employees that the publication will […]

alright imma give an #introduction also in en

hi! i am jana, i studied cs and i am a #dev, i live in #hamburg, i miss #kiel, the north and the sea. i adopted the most beautiful cats GOB and Buster. besides #arrestedDevelopment i also watch way too much #trashtv
i love #baking and #cooking and #travelling and #poledance and my #vinyl collection and #metal and #iLoveMyBalcony and all the #plants and the #beesHotel
and #saveThePlanet and #eatTheRich and #destroyCapitalism

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