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Zine #2 featuring Genius and Garbage, a new story by Jessica Zafra, designed by Yodel Pe. Limited edition, so get it now. We still have copies of Zine #1: The Adventuress. The plan is to produce six zines in 2020. Collect the whole set! Each zine costs P250. We accept payment by BDO deposit and PayPal, and donate 10 percent of the proceeds to food assistance programs. To order copies, email your full name, mobile number, and delivery address to saffron.safin@gmail.com. We deliver by Grab, Lalamove, Ninja Van outside Metro Manila, and DHL abroad.
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Some of the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum. Greece wants them returned.

What is dust? Where does it come from? I clean the house every other day (used to clean daily, but it was taking up my mornings), and the dust is inexhaustible and self-replenishing. The other day I looked up dust online and learned that it’s composed of soil and other fine particles like pollution and bits of concrete hanging in the air or blown by the wind, pollen, textile and paper fibers, human and animal hair, and human skin cells.
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So this is Trump’s vision of America. Policemen killing black people because they are black. Protests against murderous racism brutally dispersed. A peaceful protest action in front of a church violently broken up because Trump wanted to be photographed in front of that church, toting a bible. Trump egging on the violence, promising shooting, vicious dogs, and ominous weapons. When Twitter finds its balls (Facebook is content to have none), Trump threatens to crack down on social media. The successful launch of a crewed Space X vessel means nothing: space travel will only enable humans to create off-world societies riven by the same racism, social injustice, and absurd inequality that plagues this planet.
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Out of print for years, Twisted will be published this year in a new edition! Stay tuned for updates.

It was not the best of times, it was not the worst of times, but it was the era of my youth and everything seemed golden and alive with possibility. Well not exactly, because we can only see how wonderful a time was when it is safely in the past. To recognize the good times while they’re happening is to curse the rest of your life: from hereon it’s downhill all the way.
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Tahani Baakdhah @thepurplelilac

On Monday, June 1, many of the quarantine restrictions will be relaxed. Buses and trains will be allowed to operate at 50 percent capacity. Taxis, tricycles, Grab Cars, but not jeeps will start running again. People above the age of 21 and under the age of 60 can leave the house. Non-essential businesses can reopen. This is happening because the economy has to be restarted and workers have to be able to go to work.

There is still no vaccine for covid, and still no mass testing. The number of covid cases is still rising, though the DOH says this is due to late reporting of data rather than new infections. The only thing that has prevented all of us from getting sick, and the health care system from being overwhelmed, is lockdown, and that is ending. With the easing of lockdown rules, the danger of getting infected by coronavirus is very high. Do not let the last two and a half months of staying indoors go to waste. This is not the time to run out and have a party. Nothing has changed, our cheerful paranoia must continue.
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