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An excellent example of mutual aid and "tactical ruralism" (as opposed to urbanism) is that in response to the breakdown of consistent and timely road conditions reports from the government agency responsible for keeping highways in my province cleared of snow and repaired, the people have started "disaster preparedness and road conditions" fb pages where they update constantly in real time the mountain passes, the roads everywhere. Truck drivers in particular that drive the roads on regular basis but also anyone that is traveling have been posting pics and conditions in real time to help people decide which road to take or whether to stay put for a day or two. This is saving lives. These same pages are helping people during fire season, all storms and floods. They also are a running list of who to call for help with moving livestock during evacs, accommodation with volunteers, etc. All of this is outside of the official agencies that are suppose to be responsible for this stuff.
When people in an office on the coast are trying to figure out and tell people what to do that live 100s of miles away in mountainous elevation, the process is broken. People are doing what needs to be done.

#introduction hi I’m a software engineer in #astronomy with significant experience in #python and #gis

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Tool Libraries are great. They are an invaluable resource to communities seeking to self-provision and break away from the capitalist state. But they have one glaring drawback. This is the centralized location needed to store all tools.

Would it then make sense to create a mobile application that allows community members to register the tools that they have available, allocate all tools in the app a calendar for availability and booking, and to then let users arrange for usage in the same way they would have gone to a tool library?