scans: Canadian Coin Box, Canadian Vending, and Star Tech Journal scans

A nice potpourri of scans here. Thank you as always to those who donated and sold these to me, and thanks to Detchibe for scanning.  Most of these were pickups from the COAPF show in June.

Let's start with a Canadian Vending scan. Chronological order! This issue has an interesting article on the Japanese vending machine industry.

Canadian Vending 1970-12

here are the pages about vending machines and Japan:

Canadian Coin Box scans:

Canadian Coin Box 1971-12

Canadian Coin Box 1978-03

Star Tech Journal scans

Star Tech Journal 1990-08

Star Tech Journal 1991-05

Star Tech Journal 1991-08

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For my readers in the USA: The incoming administration has laid out plans for an eliminationist policy against trans people in your country. They have already written hundreds of laws to try and make trans people existing illegal, their health care the illegal, their schooling impossible, their history banned, and providing care for trans people has become illegal in some states with governors demanding parents be jailed if they support their trans child.  They have now set their eyes on eliminating trans people at the federal level. This blog stands in solidarity with trans people, in the face of this authoritarian evil.

The following is an excerpt of an email I had sent to another collector:

The time of wait and see was around 2017-2018 when Republican operatives openly planned to create a moral panic about LGBTQ people and especially trans people. They launched a massive propaganda campaign and the media accepted it at face value.  The time for action and solidarity was 6 years ago when they called all LGBTQ people pedophiles, sent bomb threats to schools, and sent death threats to our community leaders and healthcare providers. 

Before this latest open disinformation operation, LGBTQ people were enjoying more acceptance, rights, and freedoms than ever before. Those are being clawed back and an entire population gets to experience the utter dehumanization of having your rights revoked by a sneering majority.

Recall Rush Limbaugh laughing on his radio show as he daily celebrated every death from HIV/AIDS by name. They again revel in their cruelty.

I wish I had the luxury of distance, but I have to protect my family and friends from the death threats sent to us by literal nazis.  People are making plans for their entire lives being destroyed, for incarceration, and a huge uptick in the already normalized violence.

My continued presence on this blog is a reminder that we need to find moments of joy even amongst the sadistic terror of rising authoritarianism.

Never comply in advance.  Please stay safe.

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