Somewhere in the deep wrinkles of my brain lives a prepper. It shows up when I see a sale on shelf stable snacks and I think, "If the shit hits the fan, it would be nice to have a few of those."

Lately, I have been looking at Meshtastic. It is really cool tech and objectively useful for disasters. Then I remember the catch. I have to convince the people around me to actually carry one for it to matter. Building the mesh is easy. Building the social buy in is the real work.

#Meshtastic #LoRa #Prepping #HamRadio

Somewhere in the deep wrinkles of my brain lives a prepper. It shows up when I see a sale on shelf stable snacks and I think, "If the shit hits the fan, it would be nice to have a few of those."

Lately, I have been looking at Meshtastic. It is really cool tech and objectively useful for disasters. Then I remember the catch. I have to convince the people around me to actually carry one for it to matter. Building the mesh is easy. Building the social buy in is the real work.

#Meshtastic #LoRa #Prepping #HamRadio

“It turns out he’d been doing his own #prepping. EVERYONE IN GERMANY is doing it these days. And why wouldn’t you? The difference to just a short while ago is that most readily admit it now without fear of ridicule.”

And that difference was *also* made by the emerging #CollapseMovement in Germany!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/how-is-it-possible-berliners-demand-answers-after-sabotage-causes-blackout

“It turns out he’d been doing his own #prepping. EVERYONE IN GERMANY is doing it these days. And why wouldn’t you? The difference to just a short while ago is that most readily admit it now without fear of ridicule.”

And that difference was *also* made by the emerging #CollapseMovement in Germany!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/07/how-is-it-possible-berliners-demand-answers-after-sabotage-causes-blackout

Left Behind: Futurist Fetishists, Prepping and the Abandonment of Earth

https://www.boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-t-roberts-and-mel-hogan-left-behind-futurist-fetishists-prepping-and-the-abandonment-of-earth/

#HackerNews #LeftBehind #Futurism #Prepping #Abandonment #Earth

Oddly enough we got to talking about #prepping last night & what stuck with me was this weird idea that having food & water for 3-4 days will save you & your family 🤔 that's also a wildly spoiled & unrealistic idea of a crisis as something somebody else will fix in less than a week, while you triumphantly drink your bottled water & everyone else can just fuck off.

The only thing that'll work in a crisis is community. Everything else is a power fantasy.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/#guillotine-watch @pluralistic

Oddly enough we got to talking about #prepping last night & what stuck with me was this weird idea that having food & water for 3-4 days will save you & your family 🤔 that's also a wildly spoiled & unrealistic idea of a crisis as something somebody else will fix in less than a week, while you triumphantly drink your bottled water & everyone else can just fuck off.

The only thing that'll work in a crisis is community. Everything else is a power fantasy.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/22/eschatology-watch/#guillotine-watch @pluralistic

Crimethinc publishes near-future hypothetical: survival-a story about anarchists enduring mass raids

https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/21/survival-a-story-about-anarchists-enduring-mass-raids

LOTS of details in this about escape and evasion, survival, and the expected takedowns of communications infrastructure and the workarounds to bypass the takedowns.

A lot can be learned from this one! Seriouly folks, if you don't have a go-bag ready, stop reading and start preparing one RIGHT NOW

I’m dealing with multiple severe chronic illnesses, including serious heart issues and frequent loss of consciousness.

Yet most days I feel like supply chain issues will be what kills me.

It’s terrifying to rely on medications & medical supplies during these uncertain times.

You can’t “just stock up” on medications.

Financial issues aside, there’s insurance issues and often limits as to how much a person can have.

There’s virtually no way you can “prep” for medication shortages, and it’s scary.

I spent this entire day trying to track down a medication that’s on back order.

Trying to find an alternative.

Trying to cobble together enough to survive.

People who are non disabled have no idea how scary it is to know that supply chain disruptions could quickly & painfully end your life.

We need a system to ensure medication needs are met.

#disability #ableism #eugenics #collapse #capitalism #prepping #chronicillness

I’m dealing with multiple severe chronic illnesses, including serious heart issues and frequent loss of consciousness.

Yet most days I feel like supply chain issues will be what kills me.

It’s terrifying to rely on medications & medical supplies during these uncertain times.

You can’t “just stock up” on medications.

Financial issues aside, there’s insurance issues and often limits as to how much a person can have.

There’s virtually no way you can “prep” for medication shortages, and it’s scary.

I spent this entire day trying to track down a medication that’s on back order.

Trying to find an alternative.

Trying to cobble together enough to survive.

People who are non disabled have no idea how scary it is to know that supply chain disruptions could quickly & painfully end your life.

We need a system to ensure medication needs are met.

#disability #ableism #eugenics #collapse #capitalism #prepping #chronicillness

I continue to be utterly appalled at the ignorance, uneducated opinions and disgusting bigoted comments on the information posts that are giving out details about the terrible wildfires in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. No you utter morons, “they” are not starting fires to burn out “everyone” and move immigrants in, no the magnitude of these fires is not due to “arson”, the cause is climate change. It does not matter at all HOW they start, there are hundreds of little fires started for dozens of difference reasons all the time all over the place. The difference is that in horrific drought conditions coupled with high winds, the fires cannot be quickly put out as is usually the case. The fires grow into the monster that feeds itself and changes the local weather right at the fire and become impossible to stop. This used to happen occasionally in smaller areas. Now it is half the damn country and all around the planet facing these conditions. This is CLIMATE CHANGE. Climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels, not by lizard people, the homeless, immigrants, leftists or any other scapegoat spouted about. Now if y'all had listened to us decades ago when we were telling you that developing other ways of making energy might be a damn good idea, we might be pumping a fraction of the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere right now instead of this absolutely hellscape we have.
The absolutely BEST prep you can do is not let your family, friends or neighbours get away with saying this crap and spreading this nonsense. Tell people what is happening and why. I don't know if it's possible to stop this insanity now but if there is going to be a future on this planet, we have to encourage and support the engineers, the scientists, the inventors to keep finding and improving on better and cleaner sources of power. Meanwhile the rest of us need to use less energy, any way and every way we can.

#climatechange #wildfires #Canada #prepping #GetPrepared

Crimethinc publishes near-future hypothetical: survival-a story about anarchists enduring mass raids

https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/21/survival-a-story-about-anarchists-enduring-mass-raids

LOTS of details in this about escape and evasion, survival, and the expected takedowns of communications infrastructure and the workarounds to bypass the takedowns.

A lot can be learned from this one! Seriouly folks, if you don't have a go-bag ready, stop reading and start preparing one RIGHT NOW

The talk of the month (year) here is buying Canadian. What I am seeing a lot of, though, is comments like, “what about this particular product brand”, “I can't find a Canadian equivalent of this exact thing”, “I only like such and such, what is the Canadian version of it”... etc. etc. Ok come ON.

Time to shake things up, make changes, maybe even different personal choices, leave your comfort zone and get real. If you are struggling to live your life because you can't get a particular brand of any corporate produced, over-packaged, highly processed SOMETHING, you have bigger problems than our trade war with the US. For more than 20 years I have been talking about and giving ideas of how to use less energy, live with less consumption, make less garbage, and live lighter on the land.

If you are filling a garbage bag a week, and have no backup systems for power outages, store closures and supply interruptions, it's time to get with the game. Buying Canadian is absolutely important, but even more important is buying locally, in season food from farms and gardens in your area, growing your own where possible, buying used and reclaimed goods, making your own, mending, repairing, refurbishing, and making do.

Try eating different kinds of food, learning different ways of doing things, get creative with your day to day living. And further to this, instead of expecting other people on the internet to do this work for you, try doing some searching, label reading, and sourcing on your own. This is a built-in resilience against these kinds of situations that we are finding ourselves in now. It also makes life a hell of a lot more interesting.

#tariffs #USpol #CanPol #prepping #GetPrepared #homesteading