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I clearly have wayyyy too much time on my hands.

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:11:59 -0400

I clearly have wayyyy too much time on my hands.

nuff said.

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:17:28 -0400

nuff said.

Somedays only this band will manage to pick me up.

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:09:34 -0400

Somedays only this band will manage to pick me up.

Going to be selling off most of my record collection over the...

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:42:19 -0400

Going to be selling off most of my record collection over the coming weeks. A lot of good stuff (above is a tiny segment) get in touch if you got any Q’s.

This is a cage-free egg farm. This supplier would be allowed to...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:42:03 -0400

This is a cage-free egg farm. This supplier would be allowed to also call this farm “humanely raised” and depending on the feed, call it organic. Does it look humane to you? Does it look like they have any more space than a battery cage? They’re still debeaked. Still de-toed. The males are still ground up alive! And they’re still slaughtered. So what could possibly make this “humane”? That’s right, nothing.

AGAINST ME! - I Was A Teenage Anarchist

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:02:33 -0400

AGAINST ME! - I Was A Teenage Anarchist

White Wizzard - High Speed GTO

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:55:23 -0400

White Wizzard - High Speed GTO

True Valiance/Wolf Down Split! pick it up from...

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:28:22 -0400

True Valiance/Wolf Down Split!

pick it up from www.truevaliance.bigcartel.com

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:22:05 -0400

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Mon, 20 May 2013 16:21:20 -0400

stupiditykills: ‘Big Jeff‘has been honoured with his own stone...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:18:54 -0400

stupiditykills:

‘Big Jeff‘has been honoured with his own stone at the Fleece!

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Thu, 16 May 2013 20:18:26 -0400

DO NOT SUPPORT THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT.

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:57:24 -0400

DO NOT SUPPORT THE ANIMAL LIBERATION FRONT
by one anonymous liberator

The Animal Liberation Front is in desperate need of fewer supporters. It has far, far too many, and the madness has to stop somewhere.

The supporters are legion in their black t-shirts – tapping away at laptops, surfing crowds at shows, bussing tables at the local vegan eatery, distributing zines. Thousands of them share their support every day on Facebook and Tumblr. They post and re-post, like and comment. They are ever proliferating.

But, sadly, while all of this reaches new heights in the frenzy of the internet, the underground is largely at a standstill in the real world. ALF support, at one point a recruiting mechanism subservient to the action that it helped empower, has now become the main event. So, since it no longer serves its purpose, it is kindly but firmly requested that you abandon your support.

Take off your t-shirts – here is the wake up call. If you are able-bodied and you have built an entire social identity around ‘supporting’ sabotage and liberation, you are now required to go out and do those things. Your support will not be missed. You will no longer be able to hold on to the comfortable fiction that it ever mattered in the first place. And you will not be able to speak about your nighttime activities, so you will miss out on scene points.

But you will be able to relish accomplishments far more meaningful than anything you could ever do on Instagram or at a show. When you are old and your tattoos have faded, these memories will still be clear. You will be able to make a true and direct impact in the midst of a cold and vast system. And you will be able to look a creature in the eyes and save her life. For those who truly believe, it will be no sacrifice to change roles and take risks in order to keep alive this thing they hold so dear. It takes no specialized skill, only common sense and courage.

Perhaps, as a community, it is time for us to start changing our lifestyles through a new collective paradigm. If you are a self-identified ‘radical’ who spends their life going to work and watching movies with friends, the only thing currently separating you from the average American is ideas. This must no longer be acceptable.

We cannot explicitly speak about, and thus cannot socially reinforce, a culture of underground activity. However, we certainly can build a “culture of crime,” whereby we encourage not only disrespect (easy and functionally irrelevant) but disregard for the law. Jaywalk, shoplift, trespass, whatever – get acquainted with ignoring the rules as a way of life. Start in an area where you feel comfortable, get your friends doing it, and then put what you learn to use in the dead of night.

Accompany this with a culture of institutional privacy – encryption for casual conversation, proxy web surfing, releasing ourselves from the need to share every move we make on social media. While it is most important that individuals take action, these collective steps might be useful.

As for those who do not change, who continue to post their blogs or write their songs, they should not be given the respect or recognition that they seek. It is not respectable to align oneself in words with a phenomenon based on action. And when one gains social clout from doing so, it is parasitic, or at the very least cowardly. It contributes to an activist culture where such inaction is somehow a reasonable, even honorable, manner of behavior.

While others offer liberation and risk prison time, these individuals offer ‘support’ and risk too many high-fives. But those whose support is only as good as their own comfort can keep both.

Press officers, convicted operatives, and the disabled can continue to speak up for the ALF. If actions surge to an all-time high, but no one is sharing the news on Facebook, the animals won’t mind. They do not care about our theories, ideas, beliefs, or our drama. They are in desperate need of fewer supporters and more actors.

If your support for the Animal Liberation Front is genuine, it will end tonight.

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Wed, 15 May 2013 19:05:34 -0400

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Thu, 09 May 2013 19:59:57 -0400

Salford Lads Club.

Thu, 09 May 2013 18:13:00 -0400

Salford Lads Club.

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Thu, 09 May 2013 15:16:34 -0400

Bristol 25/5. Show your faces. Going to be an awesome night.

Thu, 09 May 2013 13:47:39 -0400

Bristol 25/5. Show your faces. Going to be an awesome night.

"If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness."

Thu, 09 May 2013 09:38:07 -0400

““If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.””

- A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner