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Patriots (book review)
Title: PatriotsAuthor: James Wesley, RawlesPublisher: Ulysses PressDate: 1990-2009Pages: 400
Patriots (book review)A novel of survival in the coming collapse
James Wesley, Rawles, the author is a former Army Intelligence Officer that also runs a blog on survival and survival skills. He originally started to write this book around 1990 but had to redo a lot of it when 9/11 occurred. James said…
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Incredible come-from-behind victory stuns as rival’s collapse, all-time choke rocks Players in $6.5m swing
Cameron Young’s clutch closing stretch delivered the American his first Players Championship title following a tense battle with Matt Fitzpatrick at TPC Sawgrass.
Young was a shot behind with two holes left to play, but produced an iconic tee shot at the island green par 3 17th to put him on the path to a stunning come-from-behind victory.
Watch The Players Championships plus all four Golf Majors…
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Sorry for disappearing (again), I’m preparing for the last two final exams of my degree.
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I’ve been thinking to myself, as I’ve started looking at r/preppers (unfortunately, r/collapsepreppers is very dead), about what it is I’m fearing.
Because I’m scared of collapse. I’m scared. And I’m ashamed. Ashamed that I’m finishing my final (fiction… I might have one more thing after this) novel instead of doing hikes up mountains and gathering food.
Ashamed that I can’t even store canned beans without my ED stopping me.
Not ashamed, but disgruntled by the fact that as a vegan, surviving in a post-collapse world will be hell. The idea of going against my morals I’ve had since I was a kid for survival horrifies me. For example, there are survival bars that can last up to twenty years… none are vegan. I wish they were. And the idea of having to hunt wild birds or god forbid, eat a rat, makes me gag. And would I have it in me to raise livestock for slaughter, when I still feel remorse for the spiders I used to hit with shoes in fear as a kid?
I am weak. I’m physically weak, too. I was getting stronger for a while. But only a while.
But what am I scared of? What is ‘collapse?’ And I don’t mean in a nerdy, literal definition way? I have visions that pass through my head. Sometimes it’s the disturbing imagery of what the radiation from nuclear war will do to those by me. I know I’d be out of a direct blast radius, but I would be close enough to know what’s happening, and through the weeks, wait for my slow, painful death.
Sometimes, more often, even, it’s the idea of the taps not running, of food running out, and of slowly dying of thirst. Riots at grocery stores. Fear. Maybe it’s the fear itself I fear. And I mean that.
So I’ve been avoidant of prep for that reason. I fear what that fear has done to me.
I also don’t know what to think. I have it in my head that we have four years left. But some think we have longer. Really, I formed this opinion based on how fast everything is going, and also on random comments. But I find myself often wishing I can live to 30 and not my mid twenties. I can’t see living past 35.
A lot of people don’t buy into collapse as a concept because all they’ve known is the safety of industrial western civilization. But even if I’m living in a shitty collapsed world, I’d rather be alive than dead. And I only started feeling that way last year, that I’d want to live, and then I find out about all this. Ironic.
I feel inferior for not being able to prep easily. I get so overwhelmed. The most I’ve done was set up a bird feeder (for the bird’s sake, so not really prepping, just because I love animals) and buy some seeds. But I can’t even stand the sight of worms or insects without getting freaked out. I’m such a privileged European, it’s crazy. My ancestors would be ashamed. Even a few decades ago my country was in a fucking civil war. You go town to town in NI and it’s sectarian as hell even now. I remember being a kid and being told I couldn’t carry the Irish flag I got down south outside of my house. I didn’t get why.
But when I say ancestors, I think of the potato famine, or the black plague, or the average life of a hunter-gatherer. Human life has been nothing but suffering for most of existence. Even now, when we live in ‘luxury,’ we’re still miserable. We’re just wired to be that way. One of many reason I never wanted kids.
I think being so privileged is a negative for survival. Those who have known nothing but fighting for survival and their lives have less to lose than those who take way too long in their heated showers because they insist on a full fucking routine in there. It’s me. I’m ’those.’
Yes, this is very woe-is-me, but it isn’t just me. I kinda wish I grew up in one of those paranoid prepper households. Even if it’s some ridiculous shit like preparing for the rapture, which is what people think collapse is (it is not.)
I don’t know. Maybe too personal for tumblr but eh. Whatever.
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College basketball winners and losers: Bubble teams collapse, Duke gets revenge
College basketball’s penultimate day of the regular season was far from a banner day for the bubble boys. Outfits like SMU, NC State, Cincinnati and Virginia Tech fell short in opportunistic spots.
Angst certainly awaits as conference tournament week ramps into overdrive.
Oh, and the first tickets to the Big Dance were punched! Here is the breakdown of the winners and losers from Saturday’s…
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Arnold Palmer Invitational second round leaderboard, Adam Scott back nine collapse, Min Woo Lee interview, Shane Lowry shot from the rocks, who is Daniel Berger?, scores, latest news, video, highlights
A back nine collapse ruined Adam Scott’s day as Daniel Berger opened up a substantial lead in the second round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Florida’s challenging Bay Hill course.
Scott was in a share of third when he birdied the par 5 12th, but agonisingly bogeyed four of the next five holes to fall out of the contention.
FOX SPORTS, available on Kayo Sports, is streaming The 2026 PGA…
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Surviving A Building Collapse | Work Trips To Conferences / Expos
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Dream 1
This dream took place during the day in a fictional city.
I was staying at a large tall multistory hotel.
It had many floors and probably had more than just a hotel.
There were college students there too among the various other people.
I was on an upper floor with other people.
When our part of the building started falling…
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Oxygen Mask
03/03/2026
I am sat in front of a rich white woman, she’s been silently nodding her head while I pour my heart out.
I’m also white, and while I’m not rich, I’m one month away from completing a degree that should set me up for a nice, stable job. I don’t feel crazy far off from rich.
She listens as I tell her that I feel I’m letting the world down, and the apathy that surrounds me is suffocating. I tell her I feel crazy, that we’re running out of time but so few people are acting with any urgency. She says something I’ve heard a million times.
“You’ve got to put your own oxygen mask on first”
But when I look out the window, I don’t see a crashing plane. I see a world worth saving full of people I love.
I push back. I ask what I’m meant to do once I can breathe just fine but I’m still going to crash and burn once we hit the ground. As much as we refuse to think about it once we hit lift off, there’s very little any of the safety precautions will do if it really does go awry. If the plane crashes, we’re probably going to die. I guess I could put the mask on and pretend anyways. Maybe I could, if I knew the plane was crashing. I could accept whatever comfort I could find to ease the pain of certain death. I could help others do the same, if I wanted to feel useful in my last moments.
But I don’t have to, because we’re not on a crashing plane. We’re in a world worth saving, full of people we love.
I ask what I’m meant to do once the oxygen mask is on, then. She says the point is that once I have my oxygen mask on then I can help others. How? No one who tells me this seems particularly fussed about that part.
Is this what counselling is? Tricking those who can afford it that we’re all fucked anyways, and it’s more trouble than it’s worth to hope?
I think the hope is worth the trouble. Sometimes I think the hope is torture, because I have enough to not give up but not enough to ever make me happy. But when I look out the window, I see a world worth saving full of people I love. And I think the hope is worth the trouble.
Do you understand? Can I make you understand? I am this way because this world is worth saving and I love you.
She tells me to consider medication.
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Wall Street Reels as UK Lender Implodes
Financial institutions on Wall Street are urgently striving to comprehend the full magnitude of financial damage from the billions of pounds they provided to a UK-based home loan company, which abruptly failed amidst fraud accusations. This incident has rekindled anxieties regarding lax lending criteria within the rapidly expanding sector of asset-backed financing.
Entities such as Barclays,…
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Antarctica just saw the fastest glacier collapse ever recorded
A glacier on Antarctica’s Eastern Peninsula underwent the most rapid retreat seen in modern times. In only two months, nearly half of Hektoria Glacier broke apart and disappeared.
New research led by the University of Colorado Boulder and published in Nature Geoscience explains what happened in 2023, when the glacier lost about eight kilometers of ice in just 60 days. The study found that the…
Antarctica just saw the fastest glacier collapse ever recorded
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Sunil Gavaskar tears into India after Super 8 collapse: ‘Simply throwing the bat’ | Cricket News - The Times of India
India suffered a devastating 76-run loss to South Africa in their T20 World Cup Super 8 opener. The batting lineup crumbled chasing 187, with only Shivam Dube offering resistance. Experts criticized India’s approach, contrasting it with South Africa’s adaptable batting. This heavy defeat severely impacts India’s net run rate and semi-final hopes.
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When you live in a sophisticated and technologically advanced society, there is a point that you are playing cat and mouse between decay and progress, between massive technical debt and a complete overhaul. You see this even in small systems, imagine at a global scale.
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‘It’s a catastrophe’: Wellington rages as millions of litres of raw sewage pour into ocean
“A tide of anger is rising in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, as the city’s toilets continue to flush directly into the ocean more than two weeks after the catastrophic collapse of its wastewater treatment plant.
Millions of litres of raw and partially screened sewage have been pouring into pristine reefs and a marine reserve along the south coast daily since 4 February, prompting a national inquiry, as the authorities struggle to get the decimated plant operational.
Abandoned beaches, public health warning signs and seagulls eating human waste are now features of the popular coastline, with the environmental disaster zone adjacent to the airport where thousands of international visitors alight every day.”
Advanced weapons, surveillance and AI but still can’t deal with our shit.
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I’m so glad I grew up before fanfic was mainstream(ish).
if my teacher knew I wrote fanfic bc of my WRITNG STYLE??? if they READ ONE ON ACCIDENT???
I did NOT need that back then on top of everything else I was dealing with
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Imagine going back hundreds of years ago and explaining to some developer of houses that actually building the houses to trap heat in may backfire in some ways because hundreds of years later we discovered fuels that might as well be considered magic but are also rapidly heating the planet and we’re kind of fucked