Tag: Bullying
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RC 348: Pride and Prejudice (Mashup Show)
This one took a while to edit (a week and a half?) and is a Pride themed podcast with LGBTQ mashup artists and themes running throughout. Happy Pride! Also we say goodbye to a mashup artist, go very Crumplstrange in preparation for Crumplstock 9 later this month, and tracks from the three albums I reviewed…
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Horace goes IP Trolling
Octav1us, game reviewer and lover of 1980’s games has been attacked by a copyright troll – Paul Andrews of Subvert. (I do name and shame even if she’s understandably too scared and worried to do it – so bite me. She used Horace from the ZX Spectrum games, but the guy who was one of…
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Glove and Boots with an important PSA
“So, cocksure in a culture that gangs up on bully-types Mob mentality, as if that isn’t what a bully’s like” as Sage says on Vonnegut Busy. Glove & Boots says it in more humorous fashion, but doesn’t mean the message isn’t important though…
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Joy and Pain – Burial’s new EP out now
Burial seems to transcend genre – his music ostensibly and originally dubstep was always outside of that, moody, rainy, like a wet cold street, fleeting like reflections, hopeful yet melancholy. Now with his strangely and wonderfully Christmas-like EP ‘Rival Dealer’ he seems to have moved onto new territories – musically but also ones of joy,…
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The biggest fuck you is living your life with beauty
Love this spoken word piece by Shane Koyczan from TED – you can feel the rage, the passion, the beauty. And so you should, for these battles run longer than just in the playground. Long ago I realised the biggest fuck you to bullies was to live your life well, with beauty, with wonder, and…
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Dear 40 year old me
A classic idea but with a new twist, and some shocking statistics….and some brave kids. Bullying especially of LGBT youth, but I think of anyone different is endemic now – I guess part of the trickle down of the recession and current political climate, kids copy what they get at home, and pass it along.…