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https://www.npr.org/2024/03/03/1235158989/the-enduring-story-for-underground-railroad-quilts
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https://owlcation.com/humanities/All-things-HOBO-signs-and-symbols
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Eggs and Invisible Ink: George and Giovanni
By Sean Coughlin In a 2015 episode of Turn, a US Revolutionary War TV drama on AMC, George Washington’s spy Abraham Woodhull uses a special ink made with alum to write secret messages under the shells of hard-boiled eggs. The technique was also advertised on the show’s Twitter in 2014, a year before the episode … Continue reading Eggs and Invisible Ink: George and Giovanni →
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Simple Sabotage Field Manual, OSS (proto-CIA), 1944
https://archive.org/details/SimpleSabotageFieldManualStrategicServicesProvisional/mode/2up
Simple Sabotage Field Manual. Strategic Services (Provisional) : United States. Office of Strategic Services : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
January 17, 1944. This information is to characterize simple sabotage, to outline its possible effects, and to present suggestions for inciting and executing...
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Medical Field Manual Field Sanitation, War Department 1940
https://archive.org/details/FM8-40MedicalFieldManualFieldSanitation
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FIRST AID FOR SOLDIERS - A FIELD MANUAL, US Army 1988
https://archive.org/details/Survival-FirstAidForSoldiers-AFieldManual/mode/2up
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did you know there are copies of a ***certain cookbook*** that can be found on the internet archive
remember to wrap yourself in an off-shore VPN first
per @cR0w don't save this on your work computer either ;)
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Management of Dead Bodies
after Disasters: A Field Manual for First Responders, WHO et al, 2006
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in Bogata, Columbia protesters threw paint filled balloons and splashed paint onto police in 2011. this made it hard for the police to see what they were doing in riot gear.
fun fact about those protests: they used oil based paint making it hard to wipe and wash off, and the fumes became overwhelming at times for the police it was splashed on. it was also flammable making it dangerous for said police to fire weapons.
they also made the paint go a little farther by using small amounts of oil-based thinners to stretch the amounts they had
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did you know the humble umbrella was used extensively in the 2014 protests in Hong Kong?
they found it useful for many things
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during the battle of blair mountain strikes in 1921, coal miners used diversionary tactics to outsmart authorities. small groups staged decoy movements to draw security forces away, allowing the main group to push forward with minimal resistance. strategic misdirection was a powerful tool in collective action.
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during the montgomery bus boycott (1955-56), success wasn’t just about protesters. it was the unseen network of support that made the difference. carpools, fundraising, and organizing kept the boycott alive for over a year, proving that solidarity off the front lines is just as vital.
for every protestor there were many others who helped out in other ways. not everybody can/should be on the front lines. people did what they could.
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during ukraine’s maidan revolution in 2013 to 2014, protesters used mirrors to reflect sunlight into the eyes of riot police. it also gave the police a look at what they were actually doing. the hope was the anti-protesting forces would see themselves as the oppressor and be more lenient or even give up entirely.
https://popularresistance.org/using-mirrors-to-show-police-what-they-have-become/
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in 2020, Thai protestors used inflatable rubber ducks to shield themselves from water cannons. it also became a symbol of resistance while being silly enough to give a bit of good will (and press) to the protestors themselves
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2020/1128/1181084-thailand-protests/
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during the gezi park protests in turkey in 2013, people soaked cloths in vinegar or lemon juice (or other acidic liquids) to protect themselves from tear gas. while it's not foolproof, this simple method allowed them to stay in the streets and continue their fight. they also stayed away from wearing contacts, tried to wear air tight goggles (like for swimming), and wore long clothing.
they also kept milk AWAY from eyes as it's been known to cause eye infections. to wash it off they used copious amounts of bottled water. they also kept a pair of leather work gloves to return to sender the hot canisters.
https://newrepublic.com/article/113372/turkey-protests-scenes-gezi-park
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in Egypt, protesters used portable laser pointers to disorient riot police helicopters and disable drones. the concentrated beams made surveillance difficult and temporarily blinded officers attempting to subdue crowds.
NOTE: if this was done today in the USA this would be a federal crime and taken seriously. also it's easy to hurt other people's eyes permanently. so make sure NOT to do this
‼️ AGAIN DO NOT DO THIS ‼️
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notice how others come to help the person with staying standing?
thats a really cool part of history
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Did you know judges hate this one easy trick?
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look at the goodest puppies
Simon ZerafaA better question is why "riot police" have attack helicopters.
Who are they going to be attacking? 😲🤷♂️
twelvemileroad@pixelnull This. I saw a few score Feds effectively control thousands of protesters in Portland in 2020. Numbers are meaningless without tactics.
Eli the BeardedHow does one fill balloons with paint, in practice, without a lot of spillage?
My camera shoots fascistsSmall funnel. Quite easy.
As the other person said, funnel...
but also pipet style bags. easily made with a corner-cut zip lock bag and a small conic tube fitting at the end
@pixelnull
Okay, that sounds like it could be fast and well controlled.
Okay, that sounds like it could be fast and well controlled.
When I was in Bogotá last February, I saw a line of riot cops headed down the side street, so, of course, I followed them. Protesters this time threw what I'm pretty sure were bags of flour at them. Coated their shields and their visors and created a big dust cloud, but was completely harmless.
fun fact: in the right mixtures, flour dust that's been mixed in air is explosive. some might even say thermobaric-like
Psittacus cafeinaSome research tells me you'd need more like 20lbs?
https://civiljungles.com/sugar-in-concrete/
https://theconstructor.org/question/what-happens-when-sugar-is-added-in-to-concrete/
Jules she/her@caffetiel @pixelnull yeah I feel you'd probably get more value per weight of sugar adding it to the fuel tanks of the construction machinery, hypothetically and historically speaking
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Starry@caffetiel @pixelnull Yea I found this too. It sounds like if you don't add enough, you'll delay setting by merely and hour, and may even strengthen it in the long run.
Tito Swineflu
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[witchzard]@pixelnull @RickiTarr #AltForYou #Alt4You (otherwise I can't boost)
If you add two pounds of sugar to literally one ton of concrete it will ruin the concrete and make it unable to set properly which is good to know if you wanna resist something being built, French anarchists used this to resist prison construction in the 80s.
Roy Brander🍁Also lemon juice. So, throwing your 12-oz glass of lemonade in a mixer of concrete will do in that batch.
AlisonW ♿🏳️🌈♾️@pixelnull
I've heard of this before and it still puzzles me.
I've heard of this before and it still puzzles me.
Toni Aittoniemi@AlisonW @pixelnull Sugar grabs large amounts of calcium ions into complexes and prevents them from forming calcium silicate hydrate.
Nemo@gimulnautti
But it still gets formed later.
Sugar does strange things. I've heard it called a retarder accelerator...
@AlisonW @pixelnull
dragonfrog@AlisonW @pixelnull in small amounts the sugar slows the cure time, resulting in a stronger final product. At the level described here it significantly speeds up the cure time, so that it's likely starting to do a meaningful amount of curing while still being handled. All those bonds get broken as it's handled.
pizzapal@pixelnull einsturzende neubauten :)
Jona 🐳@pixelnull …keeping in mind, as of academic interest, that a ton of concrete isn’t all that much concrete.
sortius@pixelnull I know this is a long thread, but just to divert it a second:
The end result in banning protest, which is happening world-wide, and sanctioning it akin to terrorism, is that terrorism becomes much more appealing. Signs are turned into sugar, words are turned into IEDs.
How can democracy continue while protest is banned?
democracy dies when the hope for it dies, not before.
just because some asshole made a thing more difficult, doesn't mean you stop that thing. if it becomes illegal, be a criminal.
it also doesn't mean you stop doing any other activities
resist, with violence if needed. be the French, the Polish, or even the Germans who made nazi's lives a pain
"the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Jefferson
squeeze that blood out of the tyrants and make them pay for every thing they take from you
does it suck? yes. prepare for that
is it hopeless? no. don't act like it
fascism and totalitarianism are internally contradictory and **will** fail, but act in ways to disrupt them regardless. it's every freedom loving person's job to gum up the works and accelerate the failure.
you are Australian, you still have a far better chance to keep your freedom. so fight for it now while it's still easy.
find a way to punch nazis where ever and how ever you are able but start now.
Tinkerbellum@pixelnull sadly not true. It mostly just slows the curing process, so you need to use a lot to affect the final strength. Now salt on the other hand… couple of pounds of salt will fuck your reinforced concrete right up. Or acid. Any kind of acid will have wonderful effects.
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Sugar at around 0.1% concentration in concrete mix maybe be beneficial.
https://smoothdecorator.com/how-sugar-can-have-a-positive-impact-on-concrete/
How Sugar Can Have a Positive Impact on Concrete - Smooth Decorator
The beneficial effects of adding table sugar to concrete, such as retarding its setting time, improving its flowability, increasing its density, reducing the heat generated during hydration, and enhancing its strength, have been studied. The optimal amount of sugar to add and the precautions to take during the concrete construction process have also been investigated.
Nonya Bidniss@pixelnull @cR0w But work is where I got it from 😂