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youtu.beThe National Security State is BLASTING Your Mental Health - Resist! w/ Burqas and Beer PodcastYouTube video by Colonial Outcasts

"We are constantly operating in a society that literally is trying to kill us every single day." This was such a great discussion, I strongly recommend giving it a listen.

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I've been way too much in "patch all the things" emergency mode to spend the time digging in, but this does seem to track. Burning trust on bad security announcements is basically the worst thing you can do. I'm going to withhold judgement for now, but this is worth having in mind.

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rss.comTacticool GF on Leaving YouTube, Queer Gun Culture, Protest, and Building Community Offline | The A Better Way 2A PodcastTacticool GF returns to A Better Way 2A for the second time to catch up on what life looks like after YouTube.

@abetterway2a.bsky.social and I had a great conversation about the online space, gun space, and finding hope in the malaise about the state of current affairs. Give it a listen!

None of this started on October 7th. It's been continuous, and so must resistance be if we're to ever curb these horrific atrocities. These years will rightfully define us.

Tacticool Girlfriend@tacticoolgf.bsky.social

Rafah was a city for over 3,300 years. We all witnessed the systemic destruction of its people over the span of two. Who we were during this time cannot be separated.

youtu.beMilsim West - Jump to Orenburg 2026YouTube video by Tacticool Girlfriend

Catch the latest airball footage here!

youtube.comTotal U-Haul DeathYouTube video by Tacticool Girlfriend

Here's a little teaser short from the latest MSW. The full vid will drop soon!

This was a wonderful discussion with The Gunpowder Coven. Check out the latest with moi in episode 13! allmylinks.com/the-gunpowde...

Living my best goober life.

22 Sept

One of these days, I'll learn how to not stub my toes on my coffee table.

13 Sept

What would Stoner do at 500 yards? I dunno, but this is what I do.

9/11 fucked me up in some really unique ways. It's been 25 years of undoing the fear and shame and learning to love myself. Thankfully, I think I've done a great job in spite of everything I've been up against.

The world as we know it was never the same though, and my problems pale in comparison to the scale of destruction that forever changed and ended millions of lives, the effects we still see weaponized more than ever today.

I'm recalling some of that reflection in this post here. bsky.app/profile/tact...

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I'm going to be really vulnerable here. Many years ago, I watched Al Qaeda carry out the 9/11 attacks in the US, just two days after they had assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud. Being an Afghan American up until that point had been largely inconsequential at best, but nothing was the same after. I had

I was put in so many positions where I was made to feel that I had to prove I was not some existential threat. There were times I would lie about who I was for my safety, claiming I was Iranian, which I'm very disheartened to say would not work today.

I'm so glad I was able to work through this and turn it around, but this has been a process of constant undoing, healing, and rebuilding of the self.

But until that day, my ethnicity, my family, and my culture was never an issue on anyone's mind. It all came crashing down around me after. Even as a person who was "fortunate" enough to afford great privilege with my lighter skin, I felt like I was under a microscope after that day.

I faced harassment in school and work when targeted and was even privy to horrifying, genocidal rhetoric of people who did not even realize who they were talking to was who they were talking about. Don't even get me started on all the special treatment I've gotten at TSA checkpoints.

1 Sept

God forbid a woman has whimsy.

1 Sept

erininthemorning.comTrans Couple Brutalized At Louisiana Park Bathroom, Then Charged By PoliceAn angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

21 Aug

This might be the first targeted usage of 4473 forms against trans people (read the whole thread).

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I have a dire update on this story. I have reason to believe my source, Aurora Rush, was taken by the federal government as a political prisoner. www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-coup...

It's been five years since that darkest day. My "never forget". That day that will haunt me until my last dying day. I wasn't even there. I wasn't even left behind. I can't even imagine.

I knew that a house of cards built on violent corruption and false promises was never going to last, that I was watching a slow motion train wreck over the span of two decades, but that collapse of hopes and dreams ends up being an atrocity of its own regardless.

The world is a beautiful, terrifying place. I pray for peace without pretenses, for us all. That life will simply be beautiful again.

It's been five years since that darkest day. My "never forget". That day that will haunt me until my last dying day. I wasn't even there. I wasn't even left behind. I can't even imagine.

I'm very lucky my family escaped long before. "Lucky." I wish Afghanistan was a place I could safely call home. I wish my family never had to go through what they did many years before, just the same. History repeats.

politico.comLuigi Mangione pleads guilty in federal courtMangione faces a maximum sentence of life in prison and is also set to face trial on a murder charge next month in New York state court.

14 Aug

“After years of enduring severe pain from a broken back” and “navigating the obstacles of the healthcare system.”

26 July

Move, shoot, communicate. This was a fun duo stage that required each shooter to cover the other by engaging a dueling tree as the other moves to the next position. It certainly added a lot of complexity - please ignore that I forgot my rifle condition. 😅

Three day cloud camping pack list: 60L backpack Pack rain cover Tent Ground tarp Sleeping pad Sleeping quilt Woobie Emergency bivvy Contractor trash bag Small trash bag Bear vault Trekking poles Crampons Pants and belt Base layer bottom Wool quarter zip top Cooling top Fleece jacket

Folding plate/bowl Folding cutlery Sponge Soap Paracord Shock cord Aluminum foil Vaseline-impregnated cotton Bug spray Sewing kit Tent repair kit Glue gun stick Shoe glue Zip ties Multitool Knife Hand warmers Notepad and pen Camera Radio Signalling mirror Whistle Wristwatch with compass Head lamp

Spare batteries Fanny pack Compact handgun (Boots in second photo)

Biodegradable wet wipes Hand sanitizer Trowel Wilderness first aid kit (including moleskin, pain killers, pepto bismol, anti-diarrheal, and laxative pills) Tourniquet Hemostatic gauze Knee brace Emergency blanket Sunscreen Lip balm Deodorant Face wipes Toothbrush Toothpaste Nail clippers

Titanium cooking pot Cooking stove Cooking fuel canister 2x Lighter wrapped with duct tape Storm matches Coffee Tea Two freeze-dried meals 4x Instant oatmeal packets 10x Tortillas 2x Peanut butter pouches Trail mix 2x Packs of energy chews Dates Dried mangoes 6x Snack/protein bars

Lightweight fleece hoodie Fleece convertible hood Rain layer set Boonie hat Work gloves 2x Pair of wool socks Spare underwear Keffiyeh Assorted dry bags Foot powder 3x 1L water bottles Gravity water purifier Spare dirty water bag Spare water filter Nuun electrolyte tablets Bear spray Toilet paper

5 July

Love the land, hate the plantation.

22 June

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12 June

This has been an emotional week, but I hope my words reflect my thoughts eloquently. 🖤❤️💚

shabnamnasimi.substack.com"I am fine"My inbox since the Taliban began rounding up the girls of Herat this week — a few of the hundreds of messages I've received, and that I need you to read.

11 June

Please elevate Afghan womens' voices. تحصیل کار آزادی

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28 May

Sharing this again: armthedolls.com/so-you-want-to-buy-a-gun

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1 Apr

"Wake me up when the guillotines come out." Yeah, I have some things to say about that. Please, take a seat. https://hexmhell.writeas.com/wake-me-up-when-the-guillotines-come-out #USpol #NoKings

hexmhell.writeas.comWake me up when the guillotines come out“Wake me up when the guillotines come out.” You've read this comment whenever #NoKings, or some other big protest, comes up. This, or some variation thereof, is the default response of a specific type of pseudoradical. It represents a deep failure to engage with the both history, and the realities of power. Literally just go listen to the Revolutions podcast. I don't think it could be any more clear. But let me make it a bit more clear. I'll start by repeating part of one reply I've given to a similar response, then expand it out a bit. To get to guillotines, you have to change society. By the time you’ve changed society, you don’t need the guillotines. If you focus on the guillotines instead of building that society, you will end up with a more brutal and repressive system than the one you started in. See the history of the French Revolution and the USSR. The South of France is literally the place billionaires go to hang out on their Yachts and Russia is literally the most oppressive and exploitative oligarchy in history. Like… That shit didn’t work. Not only did it not work in the long run, but it almost immediately became way worse. If you build a society that is just and equitable, then the billionaires will starve to death because they can’t exploit anyone. They will starve to death while watching the world for literally everyone else become immeasurably better. A guillotine is a machine that can only be used against someone who is disarmed, bound, and ultimately helpless. If you have already disarmed someone, they are not a threat. If you can tie up a billionaire, then you already have the structural capability of taking away their power (and have probably already done so). What, then, is the value of the guillotine at this point? Are you worried they're going to pull themselves back up by their bootstraps? All of these assholes rely on hereditary privilege to build their own privilege. Once you take away their advantage, they are basically helpless. If they, somehow, manage to recover and try to mount an assault on the new order then you kill them, in battle, while they are an active threat. There seems to be this idea that there is something about billionaires _as people_ that is a threat. That these _people_ are inherently bad and that the problem can be solved simply by killing them. Once they are dead, the narrative seems to imply, everything will be better. The people who take their place will definitely not follow the exact same trajectory because the problem is, it implies, people not systems. This is actually very close to the antisemitic argument of the Nazis. Jews, they argue, are a specific type of people. They are inherently bad. They control all the money. If they are killed, it will make room for “True Germans” to start industry. They will not exploit people because they are naturally better. Now, Jews don't actually run everything while billionaires kind of do. Jews are just an arbitrary group of people, while the group of “billionaires” actually represents a group with power. But the focus on individuals and their properties vs the properties of systems is consistent, and it is consistent in a way that specifically empowers authoritarianism. An uninformed anti-capitalist critique can quickly mutate into an explicitly antisemitic one, because history and culture wear deep groves into reality that are easy for systems, without intention or thought, to fall into and follow. It doesn't take a lot to jump from “billionaires” to “George Soros” directly to a red-brown “socialism of fools.” And then on whose necks do the guillotines fall? Consider the current moment and ask yourself if this feels unlikely. These same billionaires have spent the last several decades atomizing people and learning to manipulate narratives to redirect violence from them back towards the most marginalized people. If you believe you will out maneuver them in controlling violence narratives, I have an NFT to sell you. But let's ignore for a moment the ultimate injustice of killing someone who is not a threat and the risk of redirection. The machinery of systematic execution is a social machinery that must be built (built at the expense of other machinery, I might add). It is not instant. It isn't the “first strike.” The Terror was about consolidating power, not establishing it. By “the time the guillotines come out” the revolution is essentially over, and we have lost. When someone says this, they think that they are saying something radical. But they are actually saying, “I don't want to have anything to do with actually making a revolution happen. I just want to sit on my computer and criticize everyone else until they show me that they are done.” It is an assertion of complete disinterest in _actually building the society we want to build._ It is an assertion that _they do not want to do any real work._ I am not a reformist, by any measure. **Every** time protest comes up, I write a big long post saying, in essence, “go fucking harder.” Butt he “go harder” is not, “kill the rich” it's “organize” and “build a world in which the concept of 'rich' is not imaginable.” Let me pick back up my original response, edited a bit. I do want the billionaires to die, but I don't want them to die subdued. I want them to starve to death because they can’t figure out how to force people to feed them anymore. I want them to face reality, face the shattered idea that they deserved their wealth because they were so smart, capable, etc. I want them to see that they were never Atlas, but that **we** were always **their** Atlas. I want them to listen to “We Have Fed You All For a Thousand Years” and understand it in a way they could never have understood it before. I don't want them to die without seeing the world dance at their fall. I don't want them to die without fully understanding how much better the world is without their boot on it's neck. I want to shatter their god complex and grind it in to dust, and rub it in their eyes every single day. I want something worse than a guillotine, something they **acutally** fear, I want them to know they are unnecessary, that they are the villains, that their power was never earned. I want them to live in a world where they are socially poor, where they have as much social debt as they once had monetary wealth, so they can feel the absolute powerlessness, helplessness, and precarity that I felt growing up destitute in a home broken by their wars and economic policies. I don't want them to die. I want them to suffer. I want them to suffer our joy. I want them to cry at the beauty of the world that we built, and the recognition that they spent every second of their lives preventing it. And I want some of them to live, because I also want to hear an apology. I am not **not** angry at billionaires. **This** is why I will always shut down “guillotine” rhetoric. I dream of something far more cruel planned for them: a better future for us. And if all you're doing is going out and holding a sign and marching you are doing infinitely more to bring that world into reality than every single one of these pseudoradicals, with their guillotine dreams, combined.

Don’t run drills for the sake of running them just to say you “put in the time”. Be intentional with every step you take. Here, I assembled a simple stage that still calls upon a lot of different fundamentals. How did I maintain my score while shaving off nearly five seconds from my cold start time?

I then isolated these parts, ran through them in dry fire, smoothing out any wrinkles I noticed, re-assessed these portions in live fire, and repeated as necessary. I also ran the entire course in dry fire to put it all back together, then again in live fire.

One of the biggest skills in learning how to shoot (and pretty much anything else) is learning to identify and isolate your weaknesses, refine them, and incorporate those aspects back into practice. Music - “Chi Rasi ZalZala” by GulKako

Obviously there’s something to be said about getting warmed up and familiar with a course, but there’s much more to it than that. I identified my weakest points of the initial run - footwork while engaging the middle target and the inefficiencies in ditching my rifle and transitioning to handgun.

20 May

Got a new buyer's guide up, be sure to check it out and and share with anyone that it may be helpful to! 🖤

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19 May

"pApEr TaRgEtS dOn'T sHoOt BaCk." Yeah, not on my watch. 💅 Music by Mujjy

19 May

My heart is so tired and heavy, but I am grateful for souls like this.

transnews.networkThe ATF takes aim at trans gun rights: what it means and how to fight itThe federal firearms agency has proposed new background check rules that will restrict trans people's constitutional right to legally purchase a gun.

19 May

Some words on the ATF's proposed rule changes and how it may impact trans firearm buyers.

15 May

This voice was taken from us - Juniper Blessing was stabbed over 40 times in her laundry room. I wish we lived in a world where we could let our guard down, but this is sadly one where monsters are rewarded for their propagation. May her memory be a blessing. 💔 Be safe, look out for one another.