Yesterday was Brew Day. Made a lovely gruit that will be ready just in time for FSH
Just finished a beautiful folkish summer hallowing raffle donation. This hand painted helm of awe is adorned with 225 swarovski stones!! Icelandic rune stave magic. 🤗🤗
http://www.folkishsummerhallowing.com
FSH is only a few weeks away. The largest and best heathen gathering in the whole Eastern United States.
Get your tickets and come on down.
FSH is only a few weeks away. The largest and best heathen gathering in the whole Eastern United States.
Get your tickets and come on down.
I have recently set up a sawmill to clean up all the trees knocked over by the tornado in 2018. This will come in handy for a lot of uses. But one thing I have always been interested in is traditional timberframing techniques. Specifically allemannic timber construction.
If I got a bunch of material together over the winter, would anyone be interested in a weekend campout sort of event where we do a Timberframing workshop?
Good excuse to get out, learn an ancient technique, and build something useful.
If I got a bunch of material together over the winter, would anyone be interested in a weekend campout sort of event where we do a Timberframing workshop?
Good excuse to get out, learn an ancient technique, and build something useful.
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These sort of predictions are being forecast across many industries, not just agriculture. Similar alarms are sounding in raw materials like rubber and steel as well.
It is always good to have a little extra stock of bare necessities. And as this guy points out, it makes financial sense to put away non-perishibles now before they get expensive next spring.
But I would like to stress that it is much more important for people to start to limit their dependencies on more complex and distant infrastructure and work toward local resilience than it is to try to stack rations.
Grow some extra Tomatoes next year and start trading with your neighbors. Maybe someone has a lot of extra eggs to swap.
Things are getting worse, quick, and local community is worth more than ten thousand dusty rations any day.
Work toward local resiliency and we are all going to have a really good time when this all goes off the rails. You'll see.
It is always good to have a little extra stock of bare necessities. And as this guy points out, it makes financial sense to put away non-perishibles now before they get expensive next spring.
But I would like to stress that it is much more important for people to start to limit their dependencies on more complex and distant infrastructure and work toward local resilience than it is to try to stack rations.
Grow some extra Tomatoes next year and start trading with your neighbors. Maybe someone has a lot of extra eggs to swap.
Things are getting worse, quick, and local community is worth more than ten thousand dusty rations any day.
Work toward local resiliency and we are all going to have a really good time when this all goes off the rails. You'll see.
Forwarded from Dave Martel (Dave Martel)
Nothing will get built if your movement/organization etc is filled with people who are only good at having opinions.
You need people with skills. Lawyers, programmers, artists, financial advisors, construction contractors, whatever.
You need to have the ability to build real life, tangible things. Start businesses, print books, create institutions. There needs to be real tangible culture and real tangible infrastructure.
1 based web developer or business lawyer is worth more than 100 self taught philosophers.
Grind. Build things. Acquire wealth. Then you can wield power.
You need people with skills. Lawyers, programmers, artists, financial advisors, construction contractors, whatever.
You need to have the ability to build real life, tangible things. Start businesses, print books, create institutions. There needs to be real tangible culture and real tangible infrastructure.
1 based web developer or business lawyer is worth more than 100 self taught philosophers.
Grind. Build things. Acquire wealth. Then you can wield power.
The Irminfolk's store, Futhark.org is starting its Yule Sale today! Save on items across the site until December 31st.
Would there be any interest if I made more of the Irminfolk Wandervogel pathfinder knife?
If there is interest I can stock a handful of them. They would be around $120.
Just wondering
If there is interest I can stock a handful of them. They would be around $120.
Just wondering
Two Irminfolk wandervögel knives are finished and will be on sale later today. The link will be posted here.
Forwarded from Dave Martel (Dave Martel)
There's a pattern to the failure of alt-tech. We've seen several sites, apps, services started with the intention of giving an alternative to big tech. Only to see them slowly fade and become a ghost town or sellout completely. Boom, fade and finally die is the lifecycle of too many of these ventures. But why?
Obviously there's plenty of pressure and sabotage efforts from the vampires to shut them down. But I would argue that the terminal timeline we keep seeing is caused by us, the creators and viewers.
Everytime big tech ramps up and goes on a purge, the newest alt-tech pops up with a big welcome sign. Thus resulting in the site being populated with all the content everyone wasn't allowed to post elsewhere. Everything from Qspiracies to mirrors of edgy cartoons.
The problem lies in that those who would migrate to alt-tech are populating it with propaganda. Propaganda that the viewer base is already familiar with. So, instead of using the new platform as a place for new casual content, we treat it like a storage shed for all the bad kid toys.
Casual content is what we view the most. Music, history docs, short films and anything else you can think of. That's what creates a frequent user base for places like YouTube and Twitter.
Populating your own echo chamber with familiar feedback loops of propaganda is a surefire way to create a boring wasteland of half-assed users.
Project propaganda outward. Project culture inward.
Populate alt-tech with more martial arts videos, music, vintage cartoons, how to fix your transmission and game reviews.
It'll help these well intentioned alt-tech projects avoid financial ruin and give us a legitimate alternative to the vampires at Google.
Obviously there's plenty of pressure and sabotage efforts from the vampires to shut them down. But I would argue that the terminal timeline we keep seeing is caused by us, the creators and viewers.
Everytime big tech ramps up and goes on a purge, the newest alt-tech pops up with a big welcome sign. Thus resulting in the site being populated with all the content everyone wasn't allowed to post elsewhere. Everything from Qspiracies to mirrors of edgy cartoons.
The problem lies in that those who would migrate to alt-tech are populating it with propaganda. Propaganda that the viewer base is already familiar with. So, instead of using the new platform as a place for new casual content, we treat it like a storage shed for all the bad kid toys.
Casual content is what we view the most. Music, history docs, short films and anything else you can think of. That's what creates a frequent user base for places like YouTube and Twitter.
Populating your own echo chamber with familiar feedback loops of propaganda is a surefire way to create a boring wasteland of half-assed users.
Project propaganda outward. Project culture inward.
Populate alt-tech with more martial arts videos, music, vintage cartoons, how to fix your transmission and game reviews.
It'll help these well intentioned alt-tech projects avoid financial ruin and give us a legitimate alternative to the vampires at Google.