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November 2020

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The Perpetual Zoom Meeting

Drawing by Wes Modes.

“I’ve been on one long perpetual zoom meeting since March. I’m going mad. I’ve gone beyond the fiddling with comical zoom background stage, beyond the trying to stay awake and engaged stage, beyond the let’s acknowledge the weirdness of this transparency stage. I’m in the I’ll never be face to face with another human being despair stage. When I’m teaching, it’s like a sunrise to sundown Zoom marathon. Can we all just train our cameras on our pets or kids and just stop fucking talking and watch that instead?”

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What the Fuck?

It’s literally true. This is Unavoidable Disaster. Here is a procedurally generated description from content from the last eight issues. Hit reload and try a new one.

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The Trees Kept Voting For the Axe

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A Soundtrack for November

Eden Grey, aka Chelsea Bruno is a Miami-based musician. Originally trained as a classical pianist, Eden is an electronic composer with many influences, namely German and British styles, thus her music is a melodic mixture of multiple electronic genres, experimental music influenced by electro, dub, dnb, techno, drone, ambient and hip-hop. Her music took a major shift towards the collage-based methods of the historical avant-garde while earning her Masters’ degree in music technology and after she built her modular synthesizer. Now working in soundscapes, researching installation work and innovations in synthesis, she is based in London and on the music composition PhD course at Royal Holloway, University of London.

More music by Eden Grey: https://edengrey.bandcamp.com

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Make it real!

From detroit anarchist black cross – “until all are free, we are all bound by chains. 🏴” https://www.instagram.com/p/CHBhSOzjk-_/

“Update: No, we do not have this made into actual signs! However, we may consider printing it in some shape or form in the future as a fundraiser for prisoner support initiatives! 🖤 We are a prisoner support group based in Detroit. We host virtual weekly letter writing & prisoner support sessions where we handle all printing, postage, and mailing – all are welcome to participate. 🖤 (In the meantime, feel free to print your own, or DM for a high res.)”

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  1. I was loving this until we got to vote shaming. Privileged folks voting for third party candidates because they don’t like ‘the system’ make it so much harder for progressives to enact reforms that help folks in minorities who are suffering. Shaming those folks is a great tool, and we need more of it.

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Surreal orange skies hang over Bay Area amid historic wildfire season

Amy Scott of San Francisco takes in the view of migrating giraffes from the Embarcadero as smoke from various wildfires burning across Northern California mixes with the marine layer, blanketing San Francisco in darkness and an orange glow on September 9, 2020 in San Francisco, California. Bay Area residents were thrilled by the apocalyptic sightings of the usually reclusive animals. Biologists believe the dark, orange skies confound the directional sense of area giraffes who generally stay close to their nesting grounds in the South San Francisco Bay. (Photo by Philip Pacheco/Getty Images)

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Have You Seen This Cat?

This is Murray. Oh god, she’s so cute. And sweet. And feisty. Our entire house is all about Murray. Murray this. Murray that. We are worse than new parents… And for good reason. Kittens are so much cuter and more interesting than new babies. Who needs babies, when you can have baby kittens? Have I mentioned– Oh sorry, gotta go. Murray wants pets.

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Ah french girls

Even if you cannot speak or understand French, what the image in this ad suggests is extremely offensive. This Tampax poster that recommends the use of their feminine hygiene product has gone way below the belt, no pun intended, by letting a fish dangle below a woman’s crotch. If they want to sell their feminine wash, deliberately insinuating that a woman’s groin area smells like a fish is a horrible way to go about it.

Many women are self-conscious about vaginal odor, and though bacterial vaginosis is common among women of childbearing age, the fishy scent that accompanies this condition is not something women would openly discuss—or, in this case, want to be splashed all over billboards and flyers.

When translated, the caption reads, “I am like a fish in the water.” Well, that did not help save this ad from being offensive.

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Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds

Let’s raise one for our pals in uniform who’ve not only taken their lives in hand and worked through the pandemic as essential workers, and not only delivered us tons of shit while we stayed home sheltering-in-place but now are on the frontlines of the battle for our democracy delivering ballots in a contested election and getting them safely to election officials.

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  2. Lovely. And if yous have the means to do so, please tip those who serve you, well. At the very least, rate high because it affects the chances of income. Sucks that it has to be that way but I think it deserves mentioning. <3

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Napkin Art October 2020

Here it is the long awaited October Napkin Art. Out of the fire and into… more political bullshit. Happy Travels from Choo Choo Town.

-Sincerely,

The Mayor of Choo Choo Town

Tyberius Titan

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Government Uninterrupted: Rising

These photos are deliberately misleading and out of order and imply the opposite of the sentiment the man is expressing in the original video. He was more talking about taking advantage of what the pandemic offers to increase productivity. Let’s just adapt, this is normal. It’s normal now. It’s normal, everyone, just go along.

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Philanthropy Exists to Launder

whether Bill Gates or Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett or George Soros or Michael Bloomberg or Sam Walton or Andrew Carnegie or Howard Hughes or J. Paul Getty or J. P. Morgan or John D. Rockefeller or Leland Stanford, they are using philanthropy not only to launder their reputations as exploitative assholes, but to make sure they have an “invisible hand” to guide the future of the arts, education, and political thought.

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Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávil

On 3 November 1889 Mexican revolutionary Amelio Robles Ávila was born. Assigned female at birth, he later lived as a man and insisted on being treated as such – on occasion sticking his gun in the face of individuals who misgendered him until they acknowledged him as male. From an early age Amelio learned not only to ride but to tame horses and then to handle weapons.

He became involved in the revolutionary events and armed struggle in 1911. Between August and Nov 1911, Amelio was sent to the Gulf of Mexico on a commission to extort money from oil companies for the revolutionary cause. From 1913 until Nov 1918, when he delivered weapons, Amelio Robles participated in the ranks of the forces of peasant revolutionary Emiliano Zapata under the command of the main revolutionary leaders of the state: Jesús H. Salgado, Heliodoro Castillo and Encarnación Díaz.

In 1923, he retired from the ranks of the army but rejoined in 1924 and took part in the Batalla de la Hacienda de Pozuelos, where he was injured. That same year he took the name Coronel Amelio Robles Ávila or simply Señor Robles, and openly had relationships with women. He formed a 10-year relationship with Ángela Torres and raising an adopted daughter, Regula Robles Torres. In 1970 he became the first person assigned female at birth to be recognized as a male veteran by the government. He lived until the age of 95.

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Really Really Free Market – 2nd Sunday!

This Sunday, November 8th! 1-4pm – Really Really Free Market! No money. No trades. Everything is free. With pandemic protocols- let’s share community care! At SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave, Santa Cruz, CA***

We all have something to share with each other… and to receive with gratitude is also a gift. This gathering is not about the “stuff” we give and take, but more about how we can care for each other.

You probably know all the usual protocols to take because of the pandemic – please wear a mask and practice social distancing. Be prepared to wait in a short line if there is a good amount of people already in the space.

If you have a donation, we encourage you to bring it anytime between 12-1. We will take donations until 2:30, at which point we not guarantee that we can take them.

This market is based on a gift-economy… capitalism NO! But come to the really really free market to give away your old stuff and/or get new-to-you stuff. Bring your special items that you don’t use but can’t throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines…your free box). Come and take what you can use and say thanks!

We will have folks to check in with as you arrive. First come first served, space may be limited. Don’t be late and be sure to check in with the organizers when you get there. If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market.

***SubRosa is part of the Hub Community Center, in downtown Santa Cruz, CA which is the unceded territory of the Awaswas-speaking Uypi Tribe. The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, comprised of the descendants of indigenous people taken to missions Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista during Spanish colonization of the Central Coast, is today working hard to restore traditional stewardship practices on these lands and heal from historical trauma. More info at https://www.amahmutsunlandtrust.org and http://amahmutsun.org and http://www.protectjuristac.org

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Vogon Poetry

Oh freddled gruntbuggly,
Thy micturations are to me
As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.
Groop, I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes,
And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,
Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts
With my blurglecruncheon, see if I don’t!

We warned you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon
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