Knowledge > gear. Unless your backup battery can be charged with solar panels, you'll be SOL in a long-term outage. Generators require fuel. What will you do when your stash of freeze-dried foods run out? Where will you get safe drinking water? How can you secure your property? #prepping #survival

When you're out of food, mocking folks who know how to grow, cook, & preserve it won't feel so cool. When you're shivering in -20 temps, sneering at people who can turn a raw fleece into warm wool clothing won't feel so edgy. Learn new-old skills before it's too late. #survival #selfsufficiency #war

The noose tightens further. The cold, masked shadow of civil war slithers closer. Mocking preppers and dismissing homesteaders may make some feel superior, but most of us are from the hippie generation. Peace, love, and root cellars. Are you prepared for what's coming? #survival #prepping #mutualaid

"Even now my voice is reaching... millions of despairing men, women, and little children - victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people... Only the unloved hate - the unloved and the unnatural! Soldiers! Don’t fight for slavery! Fight for liberty!” -- Charlie Chaplin

How would you fare on any of these "modern people dropped into living history" shows? - Colonial House. Pioneer House. Tales from the Green Valley. Victorian Slum House. Texas Ranch House. 1940s House. 10,000 BC. The Colony. Time Crashers. #survival #oldways #BBC #PBS

If life without electricity seems like an arcane mystery, I beg you to watch one of the many BBC living history shows about modern people plunged into that life. 1900 House. Turn Back Time: The High Street. The Victorian House of Arts & Crafts. Anything with Ruth Goodman in it. #survival #oldways

People have only had electrified houses for the past 150 years or so. Practice for your next outage. Can you make a meal? Do you have a constructive pastime like sewing or reading? How do you wash dishes or yourself? Go to bed early & get up with the sun so lighting is less of an issue. #survival

What happens at your place when the power goes out? We have a small generator for the fridge & internet now, but before that the house would go blissfully quiet. I use my treadle sewing machine or spinning wheel, or work in the garden in good weather. #survival #homesteading #prepping #oldways

the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now

oh it's going to be a Recession recession

Today's bounty came from underground! Sedge root for baskets, madder root for dyeing things red, potatoes I grew from seed, and a few garlic shoots that came up from a missed bulb. The longest sedge is 31 inches! And I didn't have to drive 2 hours to get it! #gardensky #weaving #roots #homesteading

In hyperinflation situations, when you need a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread, barter will help you survive. Goods, knowledge, services, time... person-to-person trade is as old as humanity. Any kind of trade still helps both parties.

Combing wool is very therapeutic. #Hobbitcore #Homesteading #Wool #SelfSufficiency #Shetland #Fleece #Winter #Hygge #SelfCare #TraditionalSkills

#MutualAid #SelfCare

Before and after scouring. Doing the fleece in smaller batches because I don't have a huge washtub that I can pour 10 gallons of hot water into at a time, and my water is full of iron so I use collected rain water. 4 washes to get the dirt and most of the lanolin out. #homesteading #sheep #shetland

I harvested half of the remaining carrots that I grew from seed this year, trimmed and washed them, steamed them, then had them as part of dinner with butter and herbed salt. Sadly I forgot to take any photos of the process, hopefully you'll believe me 😅 #homesteading #selfsufficiency #gardensky

A perfect sunny day for sheep shearing here in California. #sheep #homesteading #selfsufficiency #community #spinning #homespun

Person: "We need more creativity here! Beauty, not politics!" Same Person: Posts 300 political things in 48 hours The call is coming from inside the house. Be the break from stress you wish to see in the world. We now return you to cats, plants, and survival advice, already in progress. #peace

In r/WhatIsMyCookieCutter, a Reddit community devoted to figuring out what mystery cookie cutters might be, people are finding that the obscure outlines are sparking their imagination.

Lou Ferrigno came rushing out of a hotel and nearly knocked me over.

A year ago, I came up with the phrase Doom Dopamine: the unconscious reward we give people for spreading doom. Take a minute to like positive posts. Cause when alarmist content goes viral & positive posts get 5 likes, it engineers our brains to think doom is rewarding & positivity is not. 🧵

It's inefficient to get out of bed in the morning only to get back in the same bed at night. Stay in bed all day to avoid this

Biodiversity matters, including sheep breeds.

Some publications worship the powerful. Hyperallergic stands by the powerless. Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Most Powerless People in the Art World, our antidote to the asinine lists of wealthy collectors, royals, and “tastemakers” that pervade market-driven art media.

Disappointed by how many people are shitting on homesteading as either "nothing but tradwife BS" or "a bunch of idiots who don't know what they're doing LOLOLOL" and I'm over here quietly being a queer witch growing carrots and spinning wool like the experienced freak I am.

Natural dyes tip: Get a rusty unloved cast iron pot and leave it outside to get even rustier. Use that iron water as a mordant and color shifter to react with tannin dyes such as oak gall and acorns. It will "sadden" (mute) colors and deepen browns. #naturaldye #traditionalskills #oldways

At what point does "craft" become "art"?

Hey artists, crafters, and other folks who frequently ship things, here are alternatives to the right wing extremist packaging supply company #uline: refuseuline.com/Alternative-...

Why is he speaking about himself in the third person

This looks adorable as all get-out. I may actually have to get Steam now.

Introduce yourself with five animals you have seen in the wild: Great gray owl Ringtail Mountain lion Banana slug Bald eagle

Introduce yourself with five concerts you attended Yes Sparks Genesis Steve Hackett Loreena McKennitt

Age yourself with gaming

Have none of these Dem fucks heard of "The Scorpion and the Frog"

IT WILL BE DARK SOON. The Third Annual Manos Day is Saturday, November 15, 2025 @ 12pm ET youtu.be/tyQBjfaZPgg?...

*dusts off those old nuclear bunker plans* #survival

Los Angeles! Community building is THE best wat to hold hope in a dictatorship. Biodiversity in nature, and diversity in communities equals greater health, success, and happiness for ALL, so get out of your neighborhood and go meet new people. 🌱 lapublicpress.org/2025/09/la-farms-food-accessibility/

Ironically, the one thing that he could do that would actually make people happy, and distract from Epstein, is eliminate Daylight Savings Time, which he promised to do in his first term. He can't even get that right.

Stop treating rural people like shit in general, everyone. That's how we got here.

Time to buy seeds for 2026. You can grow food in any kind of container with soil in it. Full sun is best for prolific crops like tomatoes, squash, beans, lettuce, microgreens, rosemary, thyme, fennel, strawberries. #SNAP #SelfSufficiency #VictoryGarden #FoodGardening

New Twitter refugees? Welcome. I mostly talk about homesteading (the real kind, not make-believe tradwife junk), heritage arts & skills, nature, my weird cats, cabincore, & whatever's on my mind. I try to limit politics, y'all get that elsewhere anyway. #survival #victorygarden #selfsufficiency

Hey! @dumb-industries.com is doing Manos Day 2025 on November 15! All things Manos the Hands of Fate, including the original movie, sequels, parodies, etc. The Master approves! #mst3k @jelvisweinstein.bsky.social @billcorbett.bsky.social #rifftrax @pattonoswalt.bsky.social @seanthomason.bsky.social

Since we no longer have a functioning government, we have to do for ourselves & help our neighbors. Turn abundance into aid - knit or crochet cheap thrift store yarn into hats, shawls, & blankets as we go into winter. Make lap quilts for elders with surplus clothing scraps. #homesteading #survival

Please learn how to cook basic foods. Dry beans, rice, simple breads, and home grown herbs & veggies will keep you alive in hard times. You can even make your own mead, wine, and hard cider with nothing more than fruit juice, yeast, and water. Learn these skills now while you still can. #survival

Today I made a stew of home grown red and orange carrots, potatoes, onions, and garlic. I did use store-bought bullion, Daring "chicken," and some assorted dried herbs. Time to dry some herbs for winter. Sadly I planted my winter squash too late this year, we're having a very early fall.

Without downloading anything, where are you mentally right now?

If you're the praying sort, throw one up for Dolly Parton. Word is she's not doing well, and fuck, this world needs her goodness in it for a while longer.

Winner of the Dead Eyes Award, for the 20th year running.... Stephen Miller! Special recognition for how utterly soulless he looks at all times! Great job Herr Miller!

200+ WW2 wartime recipes using rationed ingredients. For no particular reason. the1940sexperiment.com/100-wartime-...

God help me, I'm getting into fountain pens and fancy inks.