Individual and community preparedness. Memoirs of an anarchist life. Reflections on history.
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Thoughts and Notes and Barbarian Queens
Prairieland
The Prairieland defendants were sentenced yesterday, and all of their sentences are cartoonishly long. Seriously, it’s impossible to read sentences of 70 years in this case without imagining the judge twirling a mustache whi...
Criminal Anarchy in Minnesota
I had this whole post written for you for today. It was about how much I love books. It was about how I haven’t read enough novels this year, about how I love audiobooks but there’s a particular joy found in forcing the entire world to slow...
My Go Bag as of 2026
I have a confession to make to you. For most of the past year or so, my go bag has been languishing, forsaken and abandoned, in the corner of my closet. Things I borrowed from it were rarely returned.
I had a good excuse for this: I turned...
I Don't Have to be Organized to be Prepared
or: lack of focus doesn't mean lack of action.
I don’t have a lot of updates for you this week, but as a reminder I maintain an affiliate sales list of the books I’m reading over at Firestorm Books, a queer- and worker-owned bookstore in A...
The End, Like Sand (post-apocalyptic fiction)
I’ve been struggling to write down some of my ideas about preparedness through non-fiction, lately, because non-fiction has never been how I get my grand ideas about what we can do and how we can improve the world. I’ve gotten those ideas f...
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