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After getting our new fridge, we packed our cycles and did a nice loop in the neighbourhood. It's been a bit warm but with enough water it went quite well.
Enjoy your Saturday!
#cycling #BikeTooter #tegernsee

Logistics in the technical sense (part of supply chain management) is a subset of logistics in the vernacular sense ("the handling of the details of an operation"). You can explore this second and more general sense, and thereby build an understanding of the first and more technical sense, by iteratively asking the question, "how does one make that happen" and follow questions from there.
A big part of organizing is figuring out the (vernacular) logistics (and helping others figure it out). You want to organize a seed swap? Ok. How does one make that happen? Well, you need seeds, people, a place, and perhaps a time. How does one make that happen? You can forage seeds or you can buy seeds for a garden and swap extras. How do you get people to come? Well, figure out where you want people to come from and choose an accessible place. What's the easiest thing to do? Get people from your neighborhood. How does one make that happen? Well, maybe put up flyers. How does one make that happen? Well, print them on your printer if you have one, or at a library, then go post them up. Etc.
Keep asking questions until you either find a roadblock that you can't find a way around, or you find things you can do yourself (one of those things you can do yourself is asking friends to help).
If you practice the exercise of thinking about how things happen, you can start to find things that you can do yourself. You can start to understand what exists now, and you can imagine what's possible. By thinking about logistics, you can figure out how to replace things when they collapse or are dismantled. You can also identify things that can't easily be replaced, and try to figure out alternatives.
This practice is good for figuring out how to build, but it can also be a valuable practice for figuring out how to resist. Concentration camps and ethnic cleansing also require logistics. Mass displacement means moving people. How does one do that? People are generally going to be moved in planes or buses. How does one do that? Well, people get loaded on to planes or buses in specific places. Planes and buses need fuel. Planes are fueled at their airports, which may well be the same places where people are loaded on to them. There is a fuel depo and a fuel truck that makes flying people out of a specific place possible. How does the fuel get to that fuel depo? Well, that fuel is probably also delivered by truck. Someone drives those trucks. Someone fuels those planes. Someone clears the planes for takeoff. Someone fuels those busses. Someone drives those busses. And so on.
Logistics networks can be highly complex. The more complex the operation, the more possible points of failure and more possible points where pressure can be applied, where operations can be disrupted. Ethnic cleansing is a complicated operation. The logistics of disrupting complicated things tend to be much less complicated than the logistics of the complicated things themselves.
The Right has exploited this fact for a long time. Centralized social services are logistically complex. Public infrastructure is logistically complex. By destroying these things, they can loot public resources by privatizing the infrastructure and functionality.
But the things that support the Right are even more logistically complex. Oil, cars, AI data centers, internal paramilitary, these are extremely complicated and fragile. There are numerous pressure points, all of which can respond to numerous strategies.
If we want to win, we should reduce the influence of politics over the things we care about. We should focus on building distributed mutual aid networks that don't rely on state funding and aren't subject to the whims of politicians. This is also known as "dual power." That is, creating counter-institutions outside of the dominant political system. The Right already does this in the form of churches and corporations.
As we reduce our complexity, we can then press our complexity advantage against the things for which the Right *needs* the state: the apparatus of violence needed to maintain capital and enforce the dominant order.

Ben Palmer exposes through his fake ICE reporting website how deeply rooted fascism already is in American culture. It's not just the thugs in masks throwing people in unmarked vans, or presidents speaking of the “enemy within” or foreigners having “crime in their genes”, it's us. It's us not just electing, but wanting that. Wanting our neighbors gone, wanting a seat at the table, even if it means killing half the country to rule over the other half.
Nice people didn't just make the b…

My next door neighbour is a published author. I was very pleased to hear that he had got his book published and I hope that I can do a little to promote it.
https://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/the-storytellers-war-geoffrey-chaucer-reluct…

The Storyteller's War: Geoffrey Chaucer, Reluctant Spy - Historical Novel Society
Geoffrey Chaucer, page at the court of King Edward III and member of his family’s wine merchant business, embarks on a journey to Castile in 1366, as war is about to resume. Chaucer uses his wine importing tasks to cover his duties to king and country as a spy seeking to alter the course of […]

There is a new apartment building in the neighborhood (new construction) and I went to the website out of curiosity to see how much an apartment goes for. They don't list the prices for anything. You can apply, but they won't tell you how much an apartment costs.

A study conducted in the Phoenix metro area finds that waste heat from data centers can raise air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4°F (Tech Xplore)
https://techxplore.com/news/2026-05-centers-nearby-temperatures-degrees-phoenix.html…

Data centers raise nearby temperatures by up to 4 degrees in Phoenix
Waste heat from data centers can boost air temperatures in downwind neighborhoods by as much as 4 degrees Fahrenheit, researchers at Arizona State University report in a new study conducted in the Phoenix metro area, the hottest in the U.S.

Interviewer: “When you see Gaza destroyed like this, how do you feel?”
Katz: “What do I feel? Feel good.”
Hey boy, are you a work of art? Because you’d look great hanging in Nuremberg. @…

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🇮🇱 A new Channel 14 report shows senior Israeli government and military officials openly celebrating the destruction of Gaza, the mass killing of Palestinians, their forced displacement to the coast, and Israel’s permanent occupation of the territory. One senior officer described all 70,000 Palestinians he said Israel had killed as “terrorists.” The full video is linked below. Here are some of the remarks: 🔹 Defense Minister Israel Katz: “The important thing: those neighborho…

These are the “neighborhood cats” that the folks across the street from us started to take care of. They are outdoor cats, not belonging to anyone, but my neighbors built them shelter and look after their well being.
#cats #catsOfMastodon

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Roadhouse
Mister Rogers:
🎵 Won't You Be My Neighbor?
#MisterRogers
https://pingvoices.bandcamp.com/track/three-songs-from-mister-rogers-neighborhood-wont-you-be-my-neighbor

#Seattle folks who are interested in #DisasterPrep organizing might also be interested in the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods matching funds (closed for 2026, but thinking forward to 2027). We talked about getting grants, but I don't think we ever applied.
#Amsterdam has one too. We don't have to do everything ourselves. It's OK to use money like this to build capacity if we can find good targets. At least, that's my take.