you can get clear plastic rubber spacers to put in your piercings if youre worried about them closing. stage makeup is made to be completely opaque and sweat proof consider using this for covering up tattoos, concealer is not opaque enough. leave your id and wallet at home, bring a change pouch for cash. write important numbers on your arms and legs. dont just turn your location off turn your whole phone off with the battery and sim card out, only turn it on unless you need too (if you have an iphone keep it at home and get a contact/safety buddy). pin your house keys, change pouch or anything small and important on the inside of your pants or the inside of pockets to prevent losses during physical altercations. double up on socks they become pockets, and are great if you cant leave your debit/credit card at home.
to truly protect you identity you need to cover your hair, get dark sunglasses, a mask that covers around your face, a bandana and the masks we us to stop covid frm spreading show too much skin, which is really important for black and brown folks to cover, all black gloves, black shirt/jacket and pants. tuck your pants legs into your shoes or socks to help prevent them getting caught on things or pulled off.
skip oil based lotions and hair care products bc tear gas binds to oils, it also binds to many other things like clothes so dressing in layers or having backup clothes in a black backpack help, also keep plastic bags incase u need to change out of your gassed clothes and dont wanna keep them in your bag.
stay safe! stay organizing!
Be careful about where you write a phone number. Fox News zoomed in on a protester’s arm one time so that their viewers could call and harass the emergency contact person
Good evening, our alleged president is threatening to kill unarmed citizens
And so there’s zero confusion on his threat:
Alabama Governor and white supremacist (”segregation, now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”) George Wallace also used the phrase during his 1968 presidential campaign:
All of this, plus Jacob Frey is Jewish, so when Trump says “very weak radical left mayor” that is absolutely an antisemitc dog whistle to the alt-right. He’s basically reinforcing the white supremacist belief that Jews are evil puppet masters who control all other minorities (especially Black and Brown people) in a bid to take down the white race. This is literally word for word a thinly veiled regurgitation of key white supremacist tenets. He’s 100% signalling that he’s ready to start a race war.
It’s a relatively modern problem, where you, a scrappy solarpunk with no money, want to begin a vegetable garden. The ground you have to work with is either dead as hell or flat out toxic or has no dirt at all. You want to build a raised bed but you have no money and the kits are expensive. There’s a lot of ways to go about this, here’s what I did: I built a wicker basket.
Step one: assemble your branches.
You want whippy ones at least 4’ long, no thicker than two fingers, no thinner than a chopstick. Longer and bendier is better, but also get a bunch of thick stiff ones. I got mine from the Greenway near my lil condo, and from my neighbor’s yards.
Protips: Wear gloves, because thorns. Carry clippers discretely, because people get nervous when they see sharp shiny things in your pocket. The branches in the above pic are one load of three, because that’s how much I could carry.
Step two: hammer your stakes
(no pic for this part, sorry)
Take the thickest and straightest of your branches, and cut a length you want to be the height of your box plus a couple inches extra. Hammer them into the ground every 18" or so, and at each corner. Every side of your box must have at least three stakes.
Protip: if the ground is really hard, drive a hole ahead of the stick by hammering in a screwdriver.
Step three: get weaving
First weave your biggest branches in and out between the stakes. You can remove any leaves for free compost at this point.
Protip: this is the hardest part, so don’t get discouraged! Here is also where you will find out of the stakes are thick enough or hammered in deep enough. Try not to cry if they fall over. Or break.
Step four: keep weaving
Now you put in the smaller branches. I found that long vine types like ivy and wild rose can be woven in more than one direction, so if you need to fill in some gaps you can get creative.
Protip: tamp down the walls you’ve made every so often do they stay nice and dense. They need to be closely woven enough to hold dirt later.
Step five: smaller, different weaving
By now you have gotten down to the sticks that aren’t quite long enough to go between the stakes. Make them into smaller stakes, ones that don’t go into the ground but nonetheless weave vertically through your box walls. Hey, it’s starting to look more like a box!
Protip: break off the ends of the stakes and your new vertical weave so they don’t have out too much, and WEAR YOUR GLOVES, don’t be an idiot like me and think you’re safe because you don’t have thorns to deal with.
Step six: fill it with dirt.
If you have any budget, use it all here. Get good, organic dirt, get your compost bin empty, and be extra careful taking dirt from elsewhere if you don’t know exactly what has been leaking into it.
Protip: get more dirt than you think you need. Dirt is fluffy. The second you get water on it all the air goes away and you have a three inches deep garden box. In the unlikely event that you get more dirt than you need, use it for your houseplants or porch containers.
And that’s it! Plant what you like! Use the seeds you’ve stolen from other gardens and the insides of your daily fruit! If you’ve bothered your nosy neighbor and they have alerted the HOA or your landlord, take this time to brush up on your various rights. If your neighbor dislikes you because they believe you to be a witch and a lesbian and idk, a long haired hippy or some other deeply outdated derogatory term, get those middle fingers up because you are going to help the bees and they aren’t.
