David Rasmussen, aka Rasamoto @Bertrecords@social.cleverlibre.org

COVID has moved UP the list for Top 10 reasons for hospitalization in Canada. H/T Barry Hunt

Source: https://www.cihi.ca/en/news/hospitalizations-for-covid-19-among-canadas-youngest-surged-by-more-than-600-in-the-second

#CovidIsNotOver #COVID

"They'll talk to ya and talk to ya and talk to ya about individual freedom. But they see a free individual, it's gonna scare 'em." – "Easy Rider" (1969) #quotes

Devo, outside Warner Bros. in Burbank, 1980.

Photo by Edward Colver

#punk #punkrock #postpunk #newwave #devo #history #newwavehistory #punkrockhistory

Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.

#Banks #Banking #Bailout #AntiCapitalism

37 years ago today
Candy Apple Grey is the fifth album by the punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released on this day in 1986 and also includes the singles "Don't Want to Know If You Are Lonely" and "Sorry Somehow".

#punk #punks #punkrock #hüskerdü #history #punkrockhistory #otd

We are living in a fact-free soundbite misinformation monetization culture which makes it very easy for Fox and a guy who calls himself “God” and all the other fakers in between both to coexist and peddle foolishness and call it facts.

Spread facts not fools.

#FactsNotFools

#BlackMastodon #Mastodon

National Academies: We can’t define “race,” so stop using it in science. Use scientifically relevant descriptions, not outdated social ideas. https://arstechnica.com/?post_type=post&p=1924448

"In humans, race is a socially constructed designation, a misleading and harmful surrogate for population genetic differences, and has a long history of being incorrectly identified as the major genetic reason for phenotypic differences between groups. Rather, human genetic variation is the result of many forces—historical, social, biological—and no single variable fully represents this complexity. The structure of genetic variation results from repeated human population mixing and movements across time, yet the misconception that human beings can be naturally divided into biologically distinguishable races has been extremely resilient and has become embedded in scientific research, medical practice and technologies, and formal education."

A reminder to non-Americans: assigning Pi Day to 22nd July is not only more accurate than 3.14 (22/7 is 3.14285), it's also more likely to annoy Americans.

Evening light. I took this shot a few years ago on a walk close to where I live. I waited until my wife reached the end of the path because I wanted to include a person in the shot. How could you resist those leading lines and shadows?

Under the American Rescue Plan, the expanded child tax credit slashed poverty in half.

Manchin and the GOP let it expire and child poverty spiked by 41%.

President Biden’s budget would make the credit permanent.

Folks, child poverty is a policy choice.

Media just will not stop using the term "culture wars." Culture wars may be disputes about spaghetti or burgers for dinner. What the media misnames and often conscously trivializes as supposed "culture wars" are, in fact, the attack on human rights, authoritarianism, and the renewed enforcement of outright discrimination. There is nothing "both sides" about this, and it is not a question of cultural heritage or personal taste.

Whenever I click a news article and it’s a video I’m like, “ok! guess I won’t be learning about that current event!!”

READ: The 179-page $6.8 trillion budget for fiscal year 2024 released by President Biden and the OMB (Office of Management And Budget) on Thurs March 9, 2022. Congress will vote on the Biden budget (at some point...) https://bit.ly/3l8MUnN

#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday

Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys, HR of Bad Brains and Olga De Volga backstage at Peoples Temple Pavillon in San Francisco, circa 1980.

Photo by Vincent Anton

#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #jellobiafra #HR #olgadevolga #history #punkrockhistory

Guv. Sarah Hucksterbee Sanders signed a law in Arkansas that makes child labor easier for employers to get away with. And now we have the following, from the WaPo:
"A bill advancing in Iowa would allow 14- and 15-year-olds to work certain jobs in meatpacking plants and would shield businesses from civil liability if a youth worker is sickened, injured or killed on the job."
Look at that last sentence again.