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Est. 1988. Mainly come here for nicer scrolling than Facedoom, etc.

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Ahhhh! 🤩

Slam Dunk was, yet again, an epic day 😎

So many great bands, but if I had to pick my favourite sets, it was these 3:

Madina Lake - The 1st band of the day to get me throwing myself around and singing my lungs out (like I was still the age their 1st album came out 😜)

Tonight Alive - such a heartfelt singalong (& they finished with my fave song, Temple)

Deaf Havana - emotional! Fools & Wortless Liars playthrough, that absolutely slapped ❤️‍🔥

I accidentally clicked the 'question' button, & now it won't let me post without asking one 🙄 so, who's your top pick?

Madina Lake

Tonight Alive

Deaf Havana

Voting ended onJun 6

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Travelled back in time the other weekend...

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Fri 1st May - many thanks to my good friends in Fighting Evil is Cool! for introducing me the awesomeness that is The Rigger as a venue, and Faintest Idea as a band.

(1st pic is FEiC!, 2nd pic & video is FI)

Long live brass! Long live ska!

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Fri 1st May - many thanks to my good friends in Fighting Evil is Cool! for introducing me the awesomeness that is The Rigger as a venue, and Faintest Idea as a band.

(1st pic is FEiC!, 2nd pic & video is FI)

Long live brass! Long live ska!

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Took my friend to the Bug Parc in Norfolk - it was an awesome day out of many legs 😂

Check out the video of the Scorpion glowing under UV!

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Tue 14th April - Frank Turner's 3140th show!

So glad he played Be More Kind & I Still Believe, feels like I needed to hear those rn.

Pretty sure Frank is my spirit animal...

\m/

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Tue 14th April - Frank Turner's 3140th show!

So glad he played Be More Kind & I Still Believe, feels like I needed to hear those rn.

Pretty sure Frank is my spirit animal...

\m/

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Lupin decided I needed help with my puzzles...

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I love hijab Mohawks

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This is awesome 👌

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12th March '26 - Witch F*cking Fever (again :p )

The song in the video is Safe.

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12th March '26 - Witch Fever

Only heard of this band recently, but am glad that I did!

Was a great, small, heavy gig - chatted to loads of other fans that were strangers before tonight 😄

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Ska punk gigs are so much fun!

My mohawk had completely melted in the mosh/skank pit by the end of the show 😂

(3rd March '26 - Aquabats & Less Than Jake)

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Soooo cuuttteee ^_^

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3rd March 2026 - I don't just go to doom metal gigs! 😂

Punk rock ftw \m/

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One of the things I really like about Tumblr is there seems to be a healthy appreciation for invertebrate biology here, which I don’t always see as much on other social media websites. Tumblr users overall seem to love bugs, and it’s important to me that every person who loves bugs knows the name Charles Henry Turner. If you’re not yet familiar with this man, I’m delighted to introduce you to one of the most remarkable minds ever born of this earth, and a true pioneer in the field of entomology and animal behavior.

Charles Turner was born in the United States just a few years after the end of the civil war. His brilliance was evident from the start, and after graduating valedictorian of his high school class he quickly went on to earn his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in short order. While in school, Turner’s relentless curiosity became his greatest advantage. He was drawn to and fascinated by topics that were largely ignored by modern science at the time, namely the cognitive behaviors of insects and other invertebrates. While many of his colleagues believed insects to be mindless automata acting on instinct alone, Turner felt deeply that the brains of these oft overlooked animals were far more complex than the scientific community suspected. He performed extensive experiments to test his theories and found overwhelming evidence of problem solving and individualism among organisms as small as ants and spiders.

By the time Turner earned his zoology pHD in 1907 he had published dozens of papers in highly esteemed journals and had even co-authored a book. It is likely that Turner was the first African American to earn a pHD from the University of Chicago. With such a sparkling academic reputation and enormous body of research, one would expect this candidate to have no issues obtaining a professorship at a prestigious school. Though by every right Turner should have been head of science department at a top university, the systemic racism that permeated academia meant that doors a white man would have walked through were locked and bolted shut for Charles Henry Turner.

Turner did not allow this prejudice to dim in any way his blindingly bright passion for knowledge. He took a job as a high school teacher, and continued to perform and publish research on his own all while he instilled his students with a love for zoology. He published more than 70 papers in extremely respected journals and he remained passionately curious for the entirety of his life. If I tried to list here all of the incredible discoveries Turner made in his lifetime it would take me days to sufficiently express the impact he had on the field of invertebrate behavior. His experiments were so ahead of their time that entomologists today marvel at his research and wonder how much more we would know if Turner’s work had been given the attention and respect of other scientists working at the time. Turner’s mind was about a century ahead of those entomological contemporaries who had no interest in giving him a seat at the table. His tombstone simply reads “scientist”

Like many people of color throughout history, Turner’s exceptional contributions to our world have been unfairly overlooked by many. His name has historically been left out of entomology textbooks and courses, despite laying down groundwork that is still used today. I really recommend that anyone interested in entomology or even biology in general read up on Charles Henry Turner and his works. This is an excellent article that discusses his many challenges and triumphs in the field.

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