Billionaires Hate This Trick
Black Friday isn’t a holiday, it’s a heist. A glittery, discount-code-waving distraction where billionaires convince you that buying a $12 toaster you don’t need is a victory.
Spoiler: The only people winning are the ones who already have more money than God.
Jeff Bezos doesn’t need your $12. But the local bookstore? Your favorite indie artist? The weird little shop down the street that sells handmade candles that smell like a vacation in Scandinavia? They do.
Every dollar you spend at a corporate monolith is a dollar extracted from your community. It’s a vote for a world where Main Street looks like a ghost town and your social media feed is just ads for stuff you’ll forget by New Year’s. But every dollar you spend at a small business? That’s a dollar going toward someone’s rent. For the barista’s poetry habit or the cartoonist’s art supply. It’s a dollar that says, “I’d rather live in a world where people thrive than where billionaires buy themselves another yacht.”
So this Black Friday, skip the algorithmic “deals.” Unfollow the influencers hawking disposable junk. Instead, buy the zine from that artist you’ve been meaning to support. Grab a book from the shop with the creaky floorboards. Get the weird, wonderful thing you didn’t know you needed from the Etsy seller who hand-paints each one.
Because here’s the trick billionaires really hate: You don’t have to play their game. Your money is your power.
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Volltreffer! Der Wochenkalender 2026
Ok, we know this is weird because we usually post in fine English only but this post is solely for German speakers – who as everyone knows need humor more than any other people.
Leute, es ist soweit! Unser erster Kalender ist draußen und er ist, nun ja, ein VOLLTREFFER!
Denn mit diesem Kalender beginnt jede Woche des neuen Jahres mit einem Lacher, einem Kichern oder zumindest einem süffisanten Lächeln. Also greift zu bevor das Jahr zu Ende ist.
Erhältlich ist der Kalender in jedem Buchladen, über unseren Verlag Edition Moderne oder unseren Online Shop.
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This was Ljubljana
Photos: Tina Stariha / Kino Šiška
We’re aware this might sound like one of those insufferable travel essays where someone discovers authentic gelato and suddenly they’re all Eat Pray Love, but let’s talk about Ljubljana:
This charming Slovenian capital where heraldic dragons guard bridges and the food operates on a new level of deliciousness, there exists a small festival that has earned a disproportionately large place in our hearts.
The festival in question: Tinta Stripa, which happens every October.
Photos: Tina Stariha / Kino Šiška
The itinerary went like this:
We opened our exhibition “Apocalypse Now” (Oct. 11-31), which sounds more horrible than it actually was. We participated in the market, where we sold out our entire inventory in two hours – two hours – which was either a testament to our work or evidence that Slovenians are the most impulsive comic buyers in Europe. And then we did an on-stage interview and comic reading in an abandoned cinema that’s been repurposed as a concert venue, which is exactly the kind of atmospheric detail that makes you wonder if someone’s deliberately staging your life for maximum aesthetic impact.
We loved every second of our stay. Watch the interview here:
The German comic duo War and Peas (Elizabeth Pich and Jonathan Kunz) and their recognisable characters have already attracted over a million readers worldwide. In a talk moderated by Izar Lunaček, they shared insights into the behind-the-scenes process of creating their webcomic series, how it has evolved over the years, and how they manage to pack an entire story into just four panels. As a special treat, they also performed live interpretations of some of their comics.
Photos: Marcel Obal / Kino Šiška
Special thanks to Tanja Skale and Izar Lunaček!
