Author Archives: Magpie

25% off my stuff at AK Press, also your Magpie holiday shopping guide…

Everything from AK Press’s enormous distro is on sale this weekend, 25% off. (AK Press is the US’s largest anarchist publisher and distributor, and is a collectively-run business.) They also publish and distribute my books and whatnot: (shameless self-promotion) SteamPunk … Continue reading

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Why Steampunk Still Matters

Parliament and Wake have an amazing essay up called Why Steampunk (Still) Matters. This article comes from some of the folks running the 100k+ member steampunk community on facebook, but it also comes from people deeply invested in radical social … Continue reading

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Destruction of a community park in Santa Cruz

There’s been this gross dead corner lot in Santa Cruz for the past however many years, one decorated only by mulch and drug paraphernalia. So last weekend people turned it into a small park, to the immediate joy of other … Continue reading

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SteamPunk Magazine anthologized!

Holy shit! 432 pages of SteamPunk Magazine, all in one place. I edited the first 4 (4 and a half?) issues of this magazine, which is now brought together lovingly by an introduction from Jake von Slatt and a cover … Continue reading

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Picking mussels at the lowest tide of the year

I went up the 1 with some friends at the lowest tide of the year to play on the beach, explore sea caves, and pick mussels. Well, I didn’t pick mussels really, but my omnivorous friends did. Anyhow, we got … Continue reading

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Big Sur and Jade Cove

I went down to Big Sur to get out of town for a few days. We camped near the ocean and then clambered down to Jade Cove. We picked through pebbles looking for jade. Me and all my clothes got … Continue reading

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I gave up and joined Facebook

Every now and then I try these social networking things. I now have a facebook. My name on it is Margaret Kiljoy (one L). I have no idea how to use it or what to use it for yet. But … Continue reading

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Early Morning at Occupy Santa Cruz

On the morning of 11-11-11 I woke up a bit late to the “oh crap cops are arresting people” text and made it down to the occupation after the police had left. But dawn was upon us so I went … Continue reading

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State park in Felton, California

On Wednesday I went out with two of my friends (one of whom is a dog, the other a human) to see the redwoods in Felton, California. Was just what I needed. Tweet

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Got blackmailed by a cop this morning at Occupy Santa Cruz

This morning I got a text at 5:30am telling me that #occupysantacruz was being raided, so I drove down to the courthouse to film. I crossed the street (it could be argued that I didn’t cross the empty street at … Continue reading

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