>>"Oh, I don't know if we can make masks required at our event... how would we enforce it? What if people don't have a mask? I live in a red state. What if the venue doesn't allow it. It sounds too hard etc etc etc"
Ok people so last weekend I tabled at a zine fest in Nebraska with like 25 vendors. The state is overwhelmingly Trump country and Omaha has a Republican asshole mayor and a Republican asshole congressperson. The organizing crew was 4 people. They bought a bunch of kn95s cheap in bulk. They put masks required on all their promo materials. They rotated duties so there was always one person standing at the door to the pertinent area next to the welcome table (the rest of the building did not require masking) and simply handed masks to anyone coming in who wasn't already wearing one.
The event lasted 5 hours and was attended by hundreds of people. In my estimation, 99%+ of people were masked up. It was busy the entire time. I made a lot of buxx and made a lot of good connections. It was rad. A lot of people expressed their appreciation for the masking, and I personally heard no complaints. Shoutout Alt Pub Omaha.
life pro tip if you see a car randomly stopped in the middle of a quiet road it might very well be because there is A Wildlife nearby, see where the occupants are looking and take a look too
“News outlets” like NPR will be like “why right wing websites are blaming the [latest tragedy] on transgender immigrant abortions” and act as if they’re doing a service
I am displeased to announce the second, expanded edition of THE PRICE OF ZINES IS TOO DAMN HIGH. This new and improved version of my antagonisation of boutique zinester culture includes a new introduction describing how i was "kicked out" of the midwest queer/trans zine fest, as well as an additional two pages of responses to objections by those committed to charging an arm, leg, and firstborn child for their zines.
You can download this 2nd edition for screen viewing or formatted to print, here at archive dot org. Print some copies today and try to get kicked out of your next local zine fest!
halp me fedi? someone on here shared a mini-zine called "instagram is a cage" which i think they may have translated from italian, and at the end it teases another intro to the fediverse mini-zine. sadly now i can't find it - anyone know?
pretty damn soon it's going to be 5 years since the 2020 uprising, and guess what?? #minneapolis still doesn't have a new 3rd precinct police station, its police force is still down 40%, and they are desperately advertising for new recruits on /reddit/ lmaooo
also, the old police precinct still has its burned facade in plain view, despite the city now having placed banners there saying "cleanup efforts are underway". it's like the city government decided "you know what, we're just gonna leave this burned facade here to remind the world how terrible it was" while everyone else is like "hell yeah! love that the burned facade is still there remind the world how awesome that was!"
@abolisyonista communist party out here talkin about the USA as “our nation” lmfao, great example of why I find it hard to take US communists seriously
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