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Shop Small, Shop Local

(2025 edition) If there’s ever a year to really back off holiday shopping, this is it. The economy is terrible, on purpose, for obvious and correctable reasons. Capitalism is only making the mega-rich richer, and they’re pulling up the ladder, and it has become impossible to pretend that we have Read more

Shop Small, Shop Local

(Updated November 2024 for 2024 holiday season) The holidays are weird for me, both personally and professionally. I’m an atheist anti-capitalist, but I still love Christmas and many of its traditions. I like giving and getting gifts, but I get hung up on avoiding chain stores and shitty corporations and Read more