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I just attended a really amazing virtual workshop on #zine making for the web by Cree Renee (https://wholeheartednwholeso.me/) and Neta Bomani (

I gave the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness crew the significant challenge of trying to make me sound coherent in this interview with Inmn Neruin. I was managing some pretty significant sleep deprivation and a mild cold, but I think it turned out pretty good (despite my best efforts).
But I did talk a lot about my trauma related to some of my experience living in #rural areas, and in doing that I was definitely not as careful as I could have been to talk about that as a trauma experience rather than as reality. Some people get trapped in rural areas, but other folks live there because they find beautiful things.
Not only is #RuralOrganizing critical (Trumpism grew out of areas neglected by "the left"), but rural living can be beautiful and rewarding. I briefly mentioned growing up throwing knives. A friend of mine lived way out in the woods, and there's something special about having a playground that spans several square miles. Intertwined with the old settler colonialism, antisemitism, *phobias, and isolation, that is at the heart of a lot of my personal rural misery, there's also a joyous and feral thing that taught me a lot and, I think, helped me organize more fearlessly. That thing is both individualist and collectivist, in different ways, and I don't think it's well understood without experiencing it. There's far more nuance than I was able to offer (and I definitely could have been more careful not to play into anti-rural stereotypes).
I think I said, "no one wants to live there." People do. You do. So let me try to fix that by giving you a chance to talk about that. I also talked about how slow things move, how nothing changes, but there are also sometimes opportunities to change things in huge ways specifically because structures don't exist to stop those changes. So while I'm bumping this zine and interview, also I want to use this as an opportunity to welcome my rural comrades to help fill in the gaps:
What draws you to where you are?
Do you choose to live in a rural area vs urban, and why?
Is there any other thing I've said that you would like to correct?
What other things should folks know?
https://www.tangledwilderness.org/features/near-death

finally spent time with dummy #2, aka john kelly's sumptuous history of the air pirate funnies underground #comix saga. breathtaking! but maybe most intrigued by this bit that implies that #disney opened a fake/honeypot head shop in glendale to try to bust the makers of the disneyland memorial orgy poste…

Swampgas #2 for spring 2026 is out!
Even more art, photography, writing, reviews and previews than before! 36 full color pages.
Free at itch: https://quietmeow.itch.io/swampgas-2-zine
or archive.org:

Swampgas #2 - Spring 2026 by Quiet Meow Design

#Upcoming Ongaku Otaku was a thick annual zine dedicated to everything happening in Japanese underground music scenes in the ‘90s. Now bundled together into a 524-page hardcover book! Did I mention I contributed a few articles? Available via Korm Plastics (EU) and Soleilmoon (US), June 5th.

Does anyone here have tried Zine (static site generator)?
I would like to port a recursive template I had on Hugo but I'm puzzled.
#ssg

We never built the disaster prep zine, unfortunately. We did build a wildfire and smoke prep zine though, which was cool.

Felsenwurzler
(Zine permission granted)
#photography #MonochromeMarch #tree #WinterPhotography

I still had more to say about the whole #cultpunk thing, so here's an expanded essay. I feel like it should probably be a Zine, if anyone has any thoughts on publishing it.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/on-gods-and-governments

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@Hex/116595370298718556
If anyone *does* want to boost a good disaster prep zine, boost it here. I'd love to have some stuff to share with people.

Oh, here it is (July 2018). It's nice that this report back didn't include any names or initials so I didn't need to sanitize it:
Meeting Notes:
Table-top exercise scenario topic was state and far-right repression.
Responses:
Strong networks require redundancy, so no one person is a social connection, skills, or resource gatekeeper. These people are often targeted by the state, and if they get burned out and leave, it also weakens and jeoprodizes groups.
Ways to strengthen our networks:
Mentoring/sharing responsibility. Creating a culture of mentorship and support so new people learn skills, take on responsibilities, and are introduced to other folks. Reducing burden on a few key people too.
Chaos Monkey exercise: ask central people to step back from communications/organizing to see what happens.
Regular check-ins! & Delegates check-in with new members they sign up
Ask well connected folks to introduce people to build social redundancy.
Gaming (D&D, board games, etc) committee could support a more fun, and socially robust network.
Practical safety tool:
Burner phone. Not everyone needs one, but good to have access to.
TO DO LIST:
Make regular announcements at each meeting for people to check-in with folks they know (especially those they haven’t heard from in awhile!)
Start google doc for disaster preparedness zine
Why you should prepare (ideological argument)
What people should have (the basics)
How to prepare
Frame as questions, so people can find the answer that best suits themselves.
Such as “what are you preparing for?”
Where do you spend most of your time? (home? Office? car?)
Make it as easy as possible for folks to get the basics (list locations for supplies, etc.)

crépuscule | schemering
(zine permission granted)
#photography #MonochromeMarch #urban #Bruxelles #Brussel

Cloître de Saint-Ursanne
(Zine permission granted)
#photography #MonochromeMarch #Jura #monastery

bourgeons
(Zine permission granted)
#photography #MonochromeMarch #BloomScrolling #Jura