Thanks!
I have the food setup since Covid. That freeze dried stuff along with rice & beans.
Set up a proton mail account as backup - will need to look into signal & a non US VPN. I had Nord which was good for accessing some sites when traveling.
I have a camping solar panel to keep the phone & tablet going if the electric is off during civil unrest.
Camping gear is always useful in an emergency. Fire up the camp stove!
Interesting.
IMHO, solar is the best option for small scale power (phone, laptop, lights) Never gonna be able to run a stove or freezer of off a small-scale system, though. We are looking into roof-top solar for better security. That’s really all that we are still hooked up to. If we can get more-or-less (will not get completely independent, but enough for the basics) free of the cord, we will be set for the foreseeable future. And for Underground RR part deux, if it comes to that. Not feasible for most, I know, but we can, and we will be available to help if we can.
I just stumbled on this site. Their advice on privacy and security when using tech seems sound.
Aber für mich geht’s gut!
Same!
's gleiches!
Mostly not news. Mostly features and human interest stories.
IN NEW YORK’S GREENWICH VILLAGE, VOLUNTEERS COMBAT A TIDE OF GAY-BASHING
September 19, 1990
Am so loving this.
Absolutely genius.
(FTA:)
But gay activism, New York-style, requires a certain ironic panache. This summer, at a meeting called to discuss community foot patrols as a response to rising anti-gay violence, recruits came up with names like the Lavender Berets (“just didn’t click,” says a guy who was there) and the Stonewall Brigade (too soberly lefty, perhaps). The Pink Panthers title, with its echoes both of '60s politicization and silver-screen camp, won swift approval. The group’s logo – an inverted pink triangle bearing a paw print – was invented that very night.
This is the kind of sticky meme leveraging (back before the term even existed) that we need right now. That and the “always make it look like you’re having way more fun that your opposition” tactics, because people do notice. It’s that part of our cave-dweller-brain that is being leveraged right now by curated Fb crap, influencers, Tiktok peeps, etc.
One more reason why fascists fear artists. It’s the art, folks, it’s the art… and the attitude.
I have copies of some of this stuff, laminated.
My apartment is now well-stocked with non-perishable food and cleaning supplies as if I’m heading into another pandemic.
I don’t know what the tariffs will do to supplies and prices, and I don’t know what Trump will do to take revenge against the home town that hates him.
I realize that I would like to be able to stock up on enough supplies so I could stay inside my apartment for the next 4 years. That, of course, will not be possible.
Not with that attitude.
Big, starlet sun glasses and a procedure mask sound much easier.
Don’t forget the coffee! Instant stores forever. Such as it is.
