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Babble, 2025-07-27, 09:27h – zinefests and cruel optimism

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Continuing my griping for the morning, I’d like to complain about “zinefests”. It’s just… wild how commercial zines have become. I can’t believe people drive to other cities to sell their zines. Like, it reminds me of political radicals who use international air travel to go on “solidarity trips,” as though that isn’t just leftist tourism. Zines come from an era of photocopiers and fax machines: physical transporting them between regions, not for free mass distribution, is a weird contemporary thing.

Reflecting on personal experiences with solidarity in North Carolina

Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000

It’s hard not to get confrontational when I see some folk in North Carolina complaining about how hard the region has been getting hit by climate breakdown recently. There are folk who I am, or used to be, mutuals with, posting about it, and it’s just… hard not to jump in and be like, “Hey, do you regret not putting more effort into organizing against these things earlier, like when I was living in the region, screaming about how the models were underestimating how bad things would get and how quickly?”