Originator and sysadmin of Collapsible. This account will be used primarily for the project.
https://wiki.collapsible.systems/
"Optimism without honesty is denial"
- Anohni
Avatar pic is of me standing under partially cloudy sky on a coastline, back to the ocean, dressed in hiking boots, hiking pants, wearing sunglasses and a cap.
Pākehā, he/him.
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Repair cafés in Europe are transforming waste and consumption habits. A new EU Right to Repair Directive is making professional repairs cheaper and more accessible, cutting millions of tons of waste and greenhouse gases every year.
Good piece on how to grow your own food when squeezed for space:
Pleased with this little weatherproof #meshtastic build, with the RAK Wisblock and a few sensors, a little 1200mAh LiPo and built in solar panel. Initial readings show that with good placement it should not run dry across a few heavily overcast days but will see.
I drilled a hole for the SMA antenna connector and mounted it facing down to avoid humidity build-up.
Reception is good with that little stock 900MHz omni, seeing many nodes in our neighbourhood, some kilometers away direct (0 hops).
The eerie silence of quiet roads. The local highway this morning was half the density of last week.
Based on our best available information, next week will be even quieter.
Notably most police, firetrucks, ambulances are ICE vehicles.
The ~3% EV civilian fleet will likely come under increased pressure and also opportunity. Carpooling, courier side hustles, emergency runs. Their utility will also mean increased theft; fuel theft for ICE's is already on the rise.
This post (I know, on Reddit) explains in welcome detail why the situation is in fact far worse than the MBIE and gov are telling us. Because how and what they are telling us is detached from and or grossly skews the real picture.
18 days left of diesel is "good shape", he says.
National are banking on a just-in-time scenario where tankers dock and we're out of the deep end, at which point we will all be subject to grotesque gaslighting where they will fling open their prepared speeches whose TL;DR is 'See, we told you we had this sorted' and then parade on that self-congratulating flotilla into the next election, as the steely-tempered masters of the polycrisis.
A useful site of us and our neighbors:
Our civil emergency institutions sure need some love but at least upper management isn't at risk of suddenly being teleported to a waffle house.
Going to chalk that up as a win
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/fema-gregg-phillips-waffle-house
We have between 20 & 27 days of physical onshore fuel stocks left. Here is an excellent guide written by the Wise Response Society to prepping for what's to come, should the fuel run out.
https://wiseresponse.substack.com/p/what-can-i-do-in-response-to-the?triedRedirect=true
Julian Oliver
