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  1. Ready to escape the grid and live on your own terms?

    Off-grid living is more achievable than you think when you master the essentials: water, power, waste, shelter, and food. Start building your freedom today! 🏡🌲☀️ #OffGridLiving #Homesteading #SelfSufficiency #SurvivalSkills #SustainableLiving #Preparedness survivaltrends.com/

  2. First-time student. Recurve bow. Double Bullseye. 🏹🎯

    Incredible focus captured during our March 21st session at Barefoot Bushcraft. Watching that slow-motion release shows the beauty of traditional archery.

    Mastering a new skill in the Thorold woods is an experience like no other. 🌲

    🎯 Book your session: barefootbushcraft.com/archery

    #BarefootBushcraft #Archery #RecurveBow #Niagara #Thorold #OutdoorEducation #TraditionalArchery #SurvivalSkills #Ontario

  3. @jessicawildfire has been working on an illustrated survival guide for the past few months -- the first edition is done, downloadable for free as a PDF, printable under a Creative Commons license, with spiral-bound pre-printed copies available to order. This is a project very much worth following and supporting.

    the-sentinel-intelligence.net/

    #ClimateCrisis #ClimateCollapse #CovidIsNotOver #Survival #SurvivalSkills #Prepping #BlueneckPrepping #Technofascism #OffGrid #JessicaWildfire #TheSentinelIntelligence

  4. Leaving you all with this essay about the #ExistentialDread a lot of us are experiencing, and how one person found hope through #SolarPunk! (And I am another one of those people!)

    It's been a record-breaking #SolarPunkSunday, and a great way to celebrate a year of #Resiliency, #SharingInformation, #Rewilding, #Mending, #Gardening, and building the foundation for the future we all need! I'll re-post a few articles from yesterday, and then will call it a Solar Punk day! ! A special thanks to @BrambleBearGrrrauwling and @MaQuest !

    A Future Dream - How solarpunk helped alleviate my existential dread.

    Solarpunk pushes against the bleak Blade Runner future of cyberpunk that centers urban dystopias dominated by corporations and technology. Solarpunk imagines an #inclusive, #sustainable, possible future, where #renewable #technology meets #ecological #enlightenment.

    by Sage Agee, Art by Yuumei, Spring 2023

    "LIKE MANY OF MY GENERATION, I have known dread nearly my entire life. In fifth grade, I was assigned a research paper on the topic of my choice. I had begun to spend my weekends with my dad, hanging out at coffee shops in downtown Salem, Oregon, and chatting with adults about the news. We had just witnessed the 9/11 attacks, and the adults in my life seemed to be waking up to global issues, their fear palpable even to a young child.

    "This was not long after the release of #AnInconvenientTruth, and I decided to interview my dad’s friends about #ClimateChange and their predictions for the future. When I turned in the finished paper, which detailed mass extinctions and natural disasters, my teacher, Mrs. Stark, wouldn’t accept it. She didn’t believe in climate change, she said, and I needed to study a different topic.

    "After that, I felt myself slipping from endless curiosity about the world into a mindset where I had to prepare for the worst, and trust no one. This helped me create the shield I needed to get through adolescence. By then, I knew that my gender and sexuality didn’t align with typical gender roles, but I kept that secret close to my tape-bound chest.

    "Solarpunk represents a movement from today’s reality toward a gritty, pragmatic, better future.

    "Before my parents divorced, we went to an Evangelical church every Sunday, and I learned to pray each night before bed. These prayers became a place for me to put every bad thought I would have during the day, to pass them along to God. I had already developed a deep shame for my thoughts of being more boyish, and I prayed for these thoughts to end, just as I prayed for an end to natural disasters. I prayed for a better girl-mask. I prayed for a better world. My compulsive thinking followed me into my teenage years. In the ninth grade, I started an environmental justice group, hosting letter-writing parties and taking part in local protests at the Oregon Capitol, but when anti-green legislation passed into law, or when images emerged detailing islands of garbage in the ocean, I blamed myself for not doing more.

    "This kind of thinking kept me from coming out as transgender. Every time I had an intrusive thought about growing facial hair and passing as a boy, my self-blame returned. Maybe I wasn’t trying hard enough to be a girl; maybe I just needed to date boys and straighten my hair and shave my legs and wear makeup; maybe too, I needed to do more about the environment, protest more, organize more, do something more. I kept making up versions of myself. I only talked about environmental justice around my dad’s liberal friends. I only downplayed my femininity around my queer friends.
    artwork depicting someone reading in a futuristic setting

    "The one place where I escaped from this constant masking and shifting was in the books I consumed. At 17, I read #UrsulaLeGuin’s series of novels, the #HainishCycle, for the first time. I was instantly drawn into the worlds she created, where gender was fluid, as in #TheLeftHandOfDarkness, where some worlds grappled with climate disaster just as some had overcome it, as in #TheDispossessed. The way she experimented with the utopian, which always included queerness and dissolved gender roles, was like nothing I had read or experienced.

    "When I allowed myself to fall into these fictions, my dread would turn over into an almost hopeful outlook. I understood this as fantasy, though, and never considered taking what I had read in LeGuin into my real life. Instead, I spent years dreaming of alternate realities, where I hadn’t been born into a doomed world. To cope with the real world, I would make lists of everything I would need to survive a catastrophe, and I taught myself #SurvivalSkills, like how to build a friction fire in the backyard."

    Read more:
    earthisland.org/journal/index.

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/PHXNH

    #SolarPunkSunday #Earth4All #HopePunk #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency

  5. My Pantry, My Power: Cooking, Creativity, and Dignity When Times Are Tight

    Hustle culture promotes constant productivity, but true creativity thrives on rest and dignity. Our pantries symbolize power and nourishment, deserving respect without shame. Embrace substitutions, bulk meals, discounted items, and creative uses of staples and leftovers. Remember, every meal counts, and seeking help is a sign of strength, not weakness.

    dreamspacestudio.net/my-pantry

  6. @Karin Wie wir uns im #straßenverkehr verhalten, ist meiner Meinung ein Spiegel dafür, wie wir grundsätzlich vorankommen wollen. Miteinander oder Gegeneinander. Das ist nicht nur eine Frage des dafür gewählten Verkehrsmittels. Als #radfahrer in #gelsenkirchen habe ich übrigens reichlich #survivalskills entwickelt. 😁

  7. I don't chase recognition. I train. I sharpen. I turn disadvantages into edges. Faster. Calmer. Lighter. Until they notice. Or until DeadSwitch notices.

    #DeadSwitch #OPSEC #SelfMastery #Observation #CognitiveTraining #SurvivalSkills #MentalEdge #TacticalMindset #Resilience #Focus

  8. THINGS IN THE WORLD…
    What does the TV series Alone have to teach us about the psychology and physical skills of survival in hostile cold and wet environments?

    That is what I started to wonder after speaking with a woman in a cutlery shop…

    READ THE STORY HERE:
    medium.com/pacificedge/alone-a

    #Alone #survival #survivalpsychology #survivalskills #survivalequipment #Tasmania #TV

  9. I am pretty sure that when the machines take over, the only humans that will be spared are the ones who always say “thank you” to every AI help we get #ai #survival #survivalskills

  10. OK this is fun (and I just got told that I have to brush up on my CW skills 😆😎)

    I copied today's #Morsle at 25 WPM! morsle.fun

    (edit: typo)

    #MorseCode #Fun #Quiz #SurvivalSkills

  11. 🐜 Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations 🩺 A new study shows carpenter ants amputate injured legs of nestmates, the first evidence of non-human animals performing amputations on others to improve survival odds. 🔬🐜🦵 #CarpenterAnts #Amputations #AnimalBehavior #SurvivalSkills #NewStudy #SmithsonianMag

    🔗smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

  12. 🐜 Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations 🩺 A new study shows carpenter ants amputate injured legs of nestmates, the first evidence of non-human animals performing amputations on others to improve survival odds. 🔬🐜🦵 #CarpenterAnts #Amputations #AnimalBehavior #SurvivalSkills #NewStudy #SmithsonianMag

    🔗smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

  13. 🐜 Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations 🩺 A new study shows carpenter ants amputate injured legs of nestmates, the first evidence of non-human animals performing amputations on others to improve survival odds. 🔬🐜🦵 #CarpenterAnts #Amputations #AnimalBehavior #SurvivalSkills #NewStudy #SmithsonianMag

    🔗smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

  14. 🐜 Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations 🩺 A new study shows carpenter ants amputate injured legs of nestmates, the first evidence of non-human animals performing amputations on others to improve survival odds. 🔬🐜🦵

    🔗smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

  15. 🐜 Carpenter Ants Perform Life-Saving Amputations 🩺 A new study shows carpenter ants amputate injured legs of nestmates, the first evidence of non-human animals performing amputations on others to improve survival odds. 🔬🐜🦵 #CarpenterAnts #Amputations #AnimalBehavior #SurvivalSkills #NewStudy #SmithsonianMag

    🔗smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/

  16. Tonight, I had to improvise by cutting up a towel to make my own washcloth. To maintain privacy and manage my anxiety, I cleaned up in a McDonald's bathroom a mile away. #LifeHacks #Improvisation #SelfCare #AnxietyManagement #Privacy #McDonalds #SurvivalSkills

  17. #ClimateDiary Anthropology students and my wonderful colleague Ricardo set up an #UrbanForaging club at #Goldsmiths. Today they did a stall with delicious #Elderflower champagne, Quince jelly, #Mahonia Jam, pickled wild garlic buds and #dandelion capers - all foraged in #London. Really wonderful, especially as it’s been a week of big setbacks for me with two #ClimateAction projects i’ve been trying at work. We will keep trying!
    #Foraging #SurvivalSkills #Anthropology #RegenerativeAnthropology

  18. Northern California woman stuck for 6 days in backwoods snow, survives on yogurt

    A woman stranded for six days on a snowy dirt road in remote Northern California woods survived on yogurt, rationing one container a day, according to authorities in Lassen County. ...

    Your daily dose of culture.

    sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl

    #Yoghurt #SurvivalSkills #NoCal #NoWay #WheyDude #KeepingUpWIthTheCurdashians #CultureSavesLives