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Zines From Gaza @coastallinespress.com · 3h

NEW ZINE! Our latest release is a coloring book by Tasneem Ahmad with illustrations by Yuko Okabe of Palestinian clothing, food, ecology and historic sites, inviting you to color life into them while learning about Palestinian culture and identity. coastallinespress.com/lets-color 🇵🇸 🖍️

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Autumn Prompts for art+zine making is a new downloadable reward for my ko-fi members. From just £3 a month you can get this and a whole back catalog of other zines and resources 😊✏️ ko-fi.com/penfight #diyzines

a hand holding mini zines in warm colours, the title reads: autumn prompts for art and zine making

a mini zine folded out so you can see pages

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I like making zine-y badges, here are my big (58mm) ones, to really shout ZINES!! at people 🔵🟡 penfightdistro.com/shop/?format... #diyzines

badges that read: zines here! gets your zines here!, read queer zines, keep zines anti-capitalist, de-gentrify the zine scene, fuck AI make zines, trade zines with me!

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Zine Club is sold out but there is a waitlist you can join (and please let me know if you can no longer make it so I can release more spaces!)

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Zine Club Manchester is happening next Wednesday at SEESAW. Attendance is free/donation but you must book a ticket this time. So if you're planning on coming grab one quick as 80% of them have gone already www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/zine-club-... #diyzines

a small yellow zine that reads "manchester zine club" with illustrations of glue and scissors

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Mac @retromaccaroni.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I worry sometimes. New perzine about how I worry, when I worry, what I worry about and why you should worry more. Comes with a matching handmade sticker! #hypervigilance #anxiety #zines

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

May you all be as lucky as I have been today 🙏 (I found a local NHS dentist taking new patients)

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

CLIP_ART/CLIP23.GIF

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The next Manchester Zine Club will be happening on Sept 30th, 6-8pm at SEESAW. Book a place (free/donations encouraged) here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1999614759...

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Manchester folks: what are your favourite places and things to do? I am on the hunt for Doing New Things.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Having a draw at the Dykedelic zine launch #diyzines

A sketchbook being held up in a busy bar full of dykes. It has drawings of people, fairies, mushrooms, and the bar

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 08/09/2026

'When Thatcher’s government introduced the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, we no longer had to hide our tiny illicit earnings. In return for an extra £4 a fortnight, we were removed from the unemployment figures but not the dole itself...' James Brown on the Age of the Zine buff.ly/uPW3RyM

Poster for 'The Age of the Zine' - a night celebrating fanzine culture.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Join our virtual zine club community!! #diyzines A space to talk about zines AND share tips, advice, resources, opportunities. Show off your work, and get support from other zinesters. And make some zine pals!

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candice ∞ @infinitymachine.xyz · 08/09/2026

happy New Zine Day to all who celebrate ✂️

a green zine mail forever flyer illustrated as a stamp with a long-arm stapler on it

a thicc stack of zines with purple covers

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Violet Fox 🦊 @violetbfox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

📣 Brand new zine published to celebrate Labor Day: "Don’t Cross the Picket Line : Strike Solidarity for Beginners." Free to print or read online at violetbfox.info/dontcross/. This 24-page zine was created for anyone who's *not* part of a union and doesn't know much about unions or strikes.

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Leah @leah.myatproto.social · 02/08/2026

I ❤️ zines

A shelf of zines at Wonderfaire in Lawrence, KS.
Zine titles include: Skeletor's Guide to Self-care or "Easy Cakes for Hard Times" or Abortion Pill Zine or How to Have Fun at Ren Faire

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The atmosphere at the Alt Pride market is so lovely. Alternative and local Prides forever ❤️

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Went to the cinema with my partner for the first time ever today (we've known each other nearly 9 years). And it was Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, which was very good and suitably very gay.

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Lady Froldmagen (she/her) @zinelib.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just noticed that Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism by Alison Piepmeier (Rest in Paste) is available on the Internet Archive archive.org/details/girl...

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Girl zines : making media, doing feminism

xiv, 249 p. : 23 cm

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sunday I'll be tabling at Platt Fields Market Garden as part of the Alt Pride celebrations that. Open 10am-3pm with loads of other nice queer sellers. Can highly recommend grabbing some food from Root to Flower while you're there too 🥕 more info - www.instagram.com/queerrootsco...

pop up LGBTQ+ art market 6th sept at PFMG

MANCHESTER URBAN DIGGERS
ALT PRIDE
SUN 6TH SEP 10-3
FREE ENTRY
THE MUD MARKET
LGBTQIA+ TRADERS
QUEER
GARDENING CLUB
FOOD & DRINK:
Roots to Flower
Sober Bar
Coffee Cartel

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ιм єνιℓ иσω :3 @vreni.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

he wants to trade zines

a drawing of godzilla at a copy machine, like the classic ad. it says “he’s making a zine, would you like to see it?’

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tante @tante.cc · 02/09/2026

The pitch of "You know three chords now you're in a band" and "make a zine on a copier and staple it together" was about you being able to do what you want your way. To actually empower you to explore what you can, want to, have to say and change in the world.

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Rachel @rrowanolive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is an adult service. These are consenting adults who have opted for and had SCHEDULED surgeries that have been cancelled by a national body because of transphobic politics

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Rachel @rrowanolive.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

There’s a gastro surgeon in Sussex who has complication rates so high his private employers fired him and he’s currently featuring in an inquest but there have been 0 consequences for him or his nhs service btw

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

tonight zine babes of Manchester

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Can anyone recommend a free newsletter host? Mailchimp caps at 250. This is for @salfordzinelibrary.bsky.social so we have got zero funds for a paid service.

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ben smoke @bencsmoke.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

BREAKING: Jury refuses to convict in second Filton trial After more than 38 hours of deliberation, the jury refused to convict Madeleine Norman, Hannah Davidson, Teuta Hoxha, Ola Alexandra Herbich, Ian Sanders, William Plastow and Yulia Brigadirova of all charges against them.

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GIFS GALORE @gifs-bot.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

PLACES/STONE.GIF

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sheer spite press @sheerspite.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

realized anything in the public domain can be a zine and i am drunk with power!!!!

A zine held up against a brick wall. Printed on bright green paper with a border of carnations, it reads "Teleny: Gay pornography from 1893, published anonymously, which may or may not have been co-authored by Oscar Wilde and his friends, currently in the public domain"

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

50 ways to make your neighbours - millionexperiments.com/zines/50-way... (I've been clearing out my open tabs today - and this has led to me actually printing zines people have shared. Check out that massive "America doesn't use international paper sizes" border there) #diyszines

a zine cover that is titled 50 ways to meet your neighbour with a photo of Mr Rogers

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

AI is very bad, actually. A manifesto by @juliesetele.bsky.social Download your own copy of the zine here: juliesetele.com/2024/10/04/a...

a small zine with the title: AI is very bad, actually. A manifesto

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Made a zine instead of ranting on social media about the rise of weight loss casual conversations lately and being bombarded with ads for dieting jabs. It's up as digital download on my ko-fi account for members: ko-fi.com/penfight #diyzines

a zine cover that says: stop talking to me about your weight loss! with a sad face

the inside of the zine, cut and paste text on squared paper

zine page that says "fatness is morally neutral!"

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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

BREAKING Arrests outside HMP Bristol after a group of anti-genocide protesters commemorate the two year anniversary of the Filton action by holding signs. On Aug 6 2024, six actionists destroyed forty drones at Elbit’s weapons factory which were to be used in Israel’s genocide.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New zine out from Pen Fight Press! A zine from an Anonymous author on being a Spanko - how it relates to their queerness, and the Spanko scene. 🖐️🍑 penfightdistro.com/shop/spanko-... #diyzines

a pink zine titled: Spanko: on non-normative sexualities and queer/fetish integration

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I've just added so many new zines I'm not sure where to even start with telling you about them all, but Mika's wonderful titles seem like a good set to begin with. @mikagratzke.bsky.social #diyzines

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Marie Gardiner @mariegardiner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Hi, hi. It's been a while and I still have some left so do you mind if I promote my Changing Landscapes zine? 40 pages dedicated to ruined structures (and vehicles!) in the North Pennines. £10 including P&P - UK only. Info & buy: www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography #Zine

a ruin in the mid-distance with yellow-grassed hills all around it and low, wet looking cloud hanging over them

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Zine Club Manchester! We have a new venue at SEESAW, now every last Wednesday of the month. All welcome, more info here: penfightdistro.com/zineclub #diyzines

Salford zine library x pen fight presents: zine club manchester. Free to attend! At Seesaw, 86 princess stree, M1 6N. Aug 26th 6-8pm. More 2026 dates: 30th sept, 28th oct, 25th nov. A zine making social! Bring a current project, start something new, come for a chat or read some zines from our pop up library. More info at penfightdistro.com/zineclub

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Zine Club Manchester! We have a new venue at SEESAW, now every last Wednesday of the month. All welcome, more info here: penfightdistro.com/zineclub #diyzines

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Fiction: read and unread, authors clumped together. Non-fiction by subject, craft books with all my craft materials, plus random piles of more unread books in my bedroom. My zines are completely unorganised at the moment, but they'll be organised by subject eventually.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Back in stock - A is for Autistic by Andrew Coltrin, an A-Z of various terms related to Autism as he understands and experiences them – from alexithymia to literalism to visual thinking and many more in between. penfightdistro.com/shop/a-is-fo...

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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Well well well between this and the call to proscribe Bash Back we really are through the looking glass where property damage is now “terrorist violence“, PA proscription really did open the door to the authoritarianism knocking

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Artists' Union England @artistsunioneng.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Could you be our new Treasurer? AUE is looking for someone organised, trustworthy, and passionate about supporting artists to join our Executive Committee as Treasurer. What will you do? - Oversee finances and budgets - Keep records clear and transparent - Help shape the future of AUE

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

The inability hide suggested posts + the increase in adverts recently has made Instagram basically unusable now right. I just want to see photos from my friends and projects I'm actually interested in.

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Nino Cipri @ninocipri.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Approach zine making the same way that you made blog posts 10 years ago. Do you have an opinion that maybe 8 friends and like 3 strangers might be interested in? An answer to a question that's infrequently asked? A rant you could turn into a tight 5? that's zine material right there, buds

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Manchester Zine Club will be returning from the end of August in a new venue on a now-monthly basis :)))) - more info soon!

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

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Pen Fight @penfight.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

So what food are people eating while it is once again too warm to have the oven/hob on?

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