22026 Getting in Motion

Our first, and highest priority for 22026 is getting out the vote. Anything less than a catastrophic disaster for the Death Cult at the polls will mean our job gets harder, maybe impossible, and there may not be any saving the progress made by our forefathers. There's an enormous number of people who are dissatisfied with the Death Cult's rulership in just the last year, and making sure they get their votes in is critical. There are ideas floating around, including canvasing, helping people get their registrations straight, giving rides to early voting and on election day. I personally want to investigate creating a party-like atmosphere, especially when heading to early voting. I also am concerned with making the experience as pleasant as possible. I suspect if someone is considering not voting, then staring down an unpleasant ordeal to go do it could be the deciding factor.

Being a bootlicker comes with air conditioning and free drinks, so should doing right by your community.

I'm also quite concerned about the possiblity of armed harassment, or even outright armed election interference, à la The Battle of Athens, this year. If that becomes relevant, I hope to be able to arm our volunteers and assure the voters we're helping that we can keep them safe. While I don't like the idea of rolling up to polling places with a team of dragoons, the thought leaves a striking impression. Frankly, anything is possible given North Carolina's Legislature's readiness to screw around with any and all laws, rules, and regulations. I wouldn't put it past them to require an oath of allegiance to the Death Cult in order to vote. So, arms, ammunition, and armor for the voters. Vests for the voters isn't so much based on a credible threat, as it's to provide comfort to someone who is so afraid, they won't go without it. If we ACTUALLY need to go strapped and vested up to vote, we've got a whole 'nother level of problems on our hands.

Next, and apparently high in terms of enthusiasm is the Community Garden Project. The objective is to motivate and to help actually build community gardens around the state, in anticipation for upcoming manufactured food shortages and rationing. I'm personally not sold on the utility of community gardens for combatting hunger, but the community building aspect is absolutely aces. My part in supporting the garden project is going to be securing tools and equipment, and providing them as needed. This overlaps with my own Tool Library Project discussed later. It seems that very few folks in our circle are equipped to do heavy work, even heavy yard work. Wheelbarrows, shovels, saws, all these are needed. I have my own tools that I can bring when I'm available, but we need extra to lend. Of course, we also need volunteer labor, this has been a sticking point throughout getting this program going in 22025. Plenty of folks wanna have a garden built... very few want to build a garden. We have options, of course. Perhaps recognise volunteers for their work, perhaps feed and provide drinks, perhaps require volunteer work to be eligible for recieveing garden work. The discussion is ongoing.

Also a smash-hit, has been the monthly Range Days organized by PlastiqueMohawk. Once a month, we meet at a shooting range, we pew, and then we go get food. It's been a blast (lol) and I hope we can keep it going all this year. Anyone going against the Death Cult ought to at least consider acquiring and getting practiced with a firearm. Especially now, while the heat is off, where access to guns and ammo are fairly free and straightforward, not requiring certain political affiliations or ridiculous hoops to jump through.

Though they're taking stabs at the 2nd ammendment rights of queer and trans people, so how long is that gonna last?

Next is the Tool Library Project! You know what tools are, you know what a library is, put 'em together, what do you get? a Library for tools. Currently we're taking donations. I'm in negotiations with two estates to get tools donated from them, and always keeping eyes on Facebook Marketplace, estate sales, etc. What do we need? What do you have? I had an idea of what I thought our Tool Library needed, but after asking, I was waaay too generous with what I thought people would have, versus what they needed.

What do you mean? Doesn't everybody have a dremel? Isn't there a law that requires every homeowner to have a circular saw?

Currently the Tool Library has available:

• Speaker System
• Iron Front pop-up tent
• Chainsaw

Speaking of Sunday Meetings... Every other Sunday, the Kludge comes to YOU!!! So far I've made two meetings, and I intend to continue with them as long as I can.

• If you want to meet in person to discuss the downfall of the Death Cult.
• If you want to donate supplies for the Cargo Desk.
• If you need supplies from the Cargo Desk
• If you want to donate tools to the Tool Library
• If you need checked-out tools from the Tool Library delivered
• If you need to send or recieve confidential communications

Supply Situation: Going into 22026, we have a little bit of stuff. We have n95 masks for days, we have rain gear for hundreds of people, we have almost a mile of fabric for making signs, we have enough paper shopping bags for a small food drive. As for stuff we have less of, we've put together a couple of disaster clean-up kits, and we have a number of headlamps which were very useful during Chantrel's cleanup. We have a few first-aid kits, bits and pieces of other PPE, craft supplies, and that's about it.

• Boxes, preferably a bulk package of the same size boxes, at least 1 cubic foot.
• Buckets, clean, 5 gallon buckets with lids.
• Plastic totes, like with the boxes, we'd prefer multiple totes, all the same size (or compatible) with lids.
• Paper plates and cups, plastic silverware, partyware.
• Nitrile Gloves, boxed, and the heavier the better

And finally, Iron Fleet Folks! Let me know your general area and availability. If there's hauling to be done in your area, I'll let you know.

Thanks to everyone! and a victorious 22026 awaits!!!

What is "The Work?"

The objective of The Work is to build a memetic engine by which humanity can discover and understand all parts of the universe we share, while ensuring that everyone can share in the bounty that knowledge provides. To build a structure and mechanism that delivers a future of plenty to all.

Such a system necessarily incorporates many people, many sub-systems, many technologies, a fantastic amount of infrastructure, socio-political machinery, space, time, organization, equipment, and even spiritual componentry. It will require constructing a trancendent device of natural, artificial, and intangible pieces. It will not look like any machine as most people understand it. I'm not so arrogant as to imagine I have an image in my head of what it might look like.

I've caught glimpses of what it might be. We all have. We see flashes of collective movement to a better future all the time. But they're disparate, and pulling against each other, and often counteracted by regressions and sometimes even malice. Humanity can coexist, can live without suffering, can conserve, and preserve, and develop, and create. We can be free together, and the apparatus of that freedom is... The Work.