22026 Halfway Report

One word describes the work in 22026: Burnout. A hell of a lot of good folks have had to step away from countering Death Cult activities. On the bright side, the Death Cult is floundering from having overextended. Their flimsy excuses haven't held up to scrutiny. Scrutiny that wouldn't have materialized if not for our work. Though I find myself wondering if this progress is merely a mirage being shown to us by the social media companies to get us to back off. I suppose that's my current fear... we're tired, and victories allow us to feel good about resting. But are the victories real? We'll see in November.

Stay on your grid square

A soldier I work with once said that to me, when I expressed my frustration with the scope of work, the lack of resources, and the urgency with which the work seems to need to be done. If anyone haws experience doing huge, multi-faceted work, with too few resources, and with extreme urgency, it's the military. And the way it's handled in the military is summed up in that command: Stay on your grid square. That is, do what you're good at, do what you're responsible for, and don't extend yourself beyond your area unless ordered to. Regardless of how it looks, how it feels in the moment, part of being in a larger organization is that you count on the rest of the org to fill in those gaps. I also feel like this is a lesson that needs to come around to us in this moment, because I suspect that's why we're burning out at such a rate. Nobody seems to be making "the big picture" their primary focus, and so those of us with more "street-level" outlooks are catching intel from waaaay afield of our areas, and we're feeling responsible for it.

No, I can't make it to protest senate hearings where the Death Cult is trying to make it illegal for us to vote. But I have other work to do, and I need to stay on that.

The Tool Library is slowly and uneasily coming together. There's been very little pull for equipment. Most of that is my fault though. I have several pieces of equipment in need of repair, and a few things that have been specifically requested that I haven't gone shopping for. I also need to decide whether to share the equipment list here, in a secure chat, or where. I'm also working on a new set of supply kits. The Cultists like to accuse us of taking money from varous nebulous organizations, but boy, we'd do great to have any money at all.

NCMMC, North Carolina Mutual Manufacturing Co-op

In the interest of "Staying on my grid square," and working more in line with my expertise, I've become fascinated with the prospect of starting a manufacturing co-op. Getting things like toys, tools, and especially anything made of fabric made in the United States is basically impossible. I think it's impossible, not because manufacturing can't be done profitably here, but because there is no investement money to be had unless the venture has an avenue to making all the money in the world. My vision is a worker-owned co-op, where independent artists, small businesses, and burgeoning craftspeople come together to make stuff. Goodness knows there's no shortage of second-hand industrial equipment to be had locally. The largest part of the North Carolina textile and furniture industries is gone, but there's still enough meat on the bones to sustain the beginnings of a new industrial movement. I think the strategic advantage would come from being a worker-owned co-op instead of a corporate asset leveraged to its eyeballs.

Liberty Arms Co-op

On an unrelated, but also related note: Getting reloading supplies has become quite a task. Primers and powders have become particularly scarce. I recently was reloading shotshells, and was completely unable to find shotgun primers, and only one of a dozen powders I had recipes for. Even shopping online, at the largest online firearms retailers, I could only find ONE primer/powder combo that matched any of my manual recipes. This got me thinking as well: What if we could start a buyer's co-op for firearms, ammunition, and components? It would be a part-time gig at most. I wouldn't take on more work than I could finish by myself in a 16-hour workweek, or maybe hire one of two part-time folks. Membership would be a monthly payment, and would be required for access to services. Services would include FFL services like recieving firearms ordered online, and delivering to the member's door. Also bulk-buys of ammo, reloading supplies, and gunsmithing services. A members-only private shooting range with chronograph is another reloading-specific perk I'd be interested in offering. Besides the cooperative nature of the business, another distinguishing feature would be specifically excluding and distancing the business from Death Cult members. There's very few small firearm dealers in the area who don't fly the traitor's flag. So our options are: Support corporate operations, or support Death Cult operations. An alterantive would be dandy.

Next Steps

Things are actually looking pretty good all together. Our No Kings food drive was a smashing success, and a great display of our logistical capabilites. If I can pull my weight in terms of Tool Library activities, and set aside a few extra hours to make our equipment list available, I think the demand will step up as the election season begins. We're also coordinating another in-person meeting where we can reorganize our online presence, and make both onboarding and staying in touch easier. And above all else, we need to remember that the work will take years to bear fruit, and decades to mature. Being in it for the long haul means both work and rest in equal measure.

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.