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Background image shows Congress in session. Foreground shows a hand holding a smartphone featuring the 5Calls app.
Recent election results are heartening—but #CollapseResilience means staying engaged & pressuring officials to do much much better.
📞 5 Calls (5Calls.org) makes it easy to contact your federal legislators w/ scripts & tools. I spend 5–10 mins a few times a week speaking up for the vulnerable. ✋🐾🌍💚
Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Justin Mcaffee: “We have to stop pretending that liberation can be downloaded, that systems of domination will be swayed by tweets or softened by petitions or even protest alone. We need to be willing to withdraw our consent from the machine—not just ideologically, but physically. To divest from the comforts that keep us complicit. To refuse the roles we’ve been assigned. To take risks—calculated, strategic, and communal. Because the ruling order survives not only on our labor, but on our fear.”
How are you withdrawing consent from the machine? Divesting from complicity? Taking risks to create a collapse resilience world founded on compassion and justice for all?✋🐾🌍💚
04.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows a plastic bin full of shelf-stable vegan foods that can be eaten in an emergency. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock a Portable Food Bin.
Stock a portable food bin for when you have to evacuate fast. Ours has vegan, shelf-stable foods--granola, dried fruit, nuts, pouched meals--enough for 4 days for 2. Keep an inventory inside & expiration dates in your calendar to swap items out. Stock foods you actually like & do one for your pets.
03.11.2025 20:01 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by David Graeber: “The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.”
The systems causing collapse aren’t inevitable. We can build interspecies communities rooted in liberation, care, justice, and interdependence.
Let’s make something better—together. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
Image shows storage containers full of food in a freezer. One of the containers has a smiley face. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Get a Second Freezer.
Even w/ little money or space, a second freezer can be a powerful #CollapseResilience tool. Our chest freezer doubles as a prep space/drying rack and lets us save money, cut waste, eat better & store food for security, mutual aid, or barter.
What does food resilience look like for you?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Jo Lorenz: Every successful movement in history happened because people talked to each other face-to-face, built trust, created networks of care and resistance that no algorithm could infiltrate.
Building strong relationships is some of the hardest & most vital work for cultivating collapse resilience & creating a world that centers the wellbeing of people, animals & the planet. Finding common ground, leading w/ curiosity & practicing grace help us grow communities of transformation.
21.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows a person holding a tablet using a streaming service. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Dump Paid Streaming Services.
#CollapseResilience Challenge: Cancel your paid streaming & take back your power. Corporations rely on our complicity. Save $, reduce energy, support libraries/community efforts & spend more time on meaningful living. What will you do w/ your extra time & money?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
20.10.2025 19:04 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Image is old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Audre Lorde: “To refuse to participate in the shaping of our future is to give it up. Do not be misled into passivity either by false security (they don’t mean me) or by despair (there’s nothing we can do). Each of us must find our work and do it.”
When Audre Lorde wrote this, she was talking to Black people about their role in actively working for liberation. Her powerful words are relevant to all of us striving to defeat fasc1sm and build mutual aid and #CollapseResilience.
No one is coming to save us. It’s up to us.✋🐾🌍💚
Image has a logo of a person reading under a tree with the words “Collapse Fiction” on the foliage. Background image is devastated buildings with a lone tree. Foreground is the cover of the book Tilt by Emma Pattee.
I read a lot of #CollapseFiction —it’s oddly soothing (some people stay kind even in chaos) & full of survival lessons. I’ll start sharing my favorites. First up: Tilt by Emma Pattee—a gripping, realistic look at “The Big One” hitting Portland. If you read it, tell me what you think! ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚 📘
14.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows a closet turned into a pantry with a variety of food items in storage bins. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Create Extra Storage Spaces.
A friend turned a closet into essential food storage. We’ve added shelves in odd spaces, thrifted a pantry & swapped a treadmill for a chest freezer. Even small homes have hidden storage spots for #CollapseResilience: closets, walls, under beds. Scan your home for options & tell us what you find.
13.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Image shows old growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from Sharon Astyk: This is what collapse looks like. You are going to have to go to work, unless you lose your job. Money is still going to exist, and you won't have any. There will still be people doing fine while you are suffering unimaginably. Some of them will help you. Some of them will think you deserve it. Most will just keep going about their business, because it isn't them.
#CollapseResilience means not just going about our business.
We can’t control the systems of collapse, but we can control our choices and how we show up for each other. And we can build better systems founded on compassion, justice, mutual aid, and solidarity for all beings. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
Image shows containers of applesauce with a couple of apples on top of them.
We’ve been making & freezing applesauce & freezing other produce we’ve grown or gotten for free. #CollapseResilience means making the most of the food around us. Even w/o a garden, you can find neighbors, gleaning groups, or community gardens sharing abundance. Freezing food = food security.
06.10.2025 19:00 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows two hands holding medications. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock Extra Meds for Your Whole Family
Stable access to essential medications is becoming more uncertain. Fascist policies strip away healthcare protections. Tariffs, climate chaos & corruption disrupt global supply chains.
This week’s #CollapseResilience Challenge: stock extra medications for yourself, your kids & your pets. 🧵 (1/2)
A new data analysis of media coverage shows that less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as a key source of climate emissions. Shifting to plant-based agriculture is one of the most important individual & systemic choices we can make for #CollapseResilience.
30.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows an old-growth forest with a graphic of a tree branch toward the top. The text is a quote by Hannah Arendt: “The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism.”
Fascists want us to believe empathy is weakness. But empathy is resistance + liberation. The US's foundation of capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy, & speciesism normalize cruelty. Let’s build interspecies communities of care + mutual aid as a strike against cruelty & domination. ✋🐾🌍💚
29.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows an old-growth tree, with a line drawing of a tree branch on top. The text is a quote by Nafeez Ahmed: Collapse is not a singular event but a systemic transition where interlinked ecological, energy, economic, and political crises converge, leading to the unraveling of existing structures.
Collapse isn’t one sudden event. It’s the breakdown of systems built on capitalism, white supremacy & endless extraction. The ecological destruction, violence, political chaos & economic hardships are all connected. Resilience means rejecting those systems + creating new ones based on mutual care.
23.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows flash drives. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Gather and Store Important Docs.
#CollapseResilience Challenge: Keep key documents (IDs, medical records, insurance, financial info, pet info, etc.) stored in both print + digital forms, in multiple safe places. Have them ready for when you need them. Search online for credible lists of what to store.✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
22.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows jars of frozen black and garbanzo beans and tomato sauce.
Cooking beans from scratch + making homegrown tomato sauce + freezing them = steps toward
✅Building #CollapseResilience
✅Saving money
✅Relying less on vulnerable systems
✅Living our values.
What resilience steps are you taking in your kitchen?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
"Let us remind ourselves of the lessons of the good German. To sit there and avert one’s eyes. To pretend to one’s self that 'everything will be OK,' ...To cheerily smile, even as the Gestapos check papers, the men with guns patrol the streets, and the dictator shakes in a more demented...fury."
16.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows a neighborhood map with pin points on it. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Map Out Nearby Water Sources
💧#CollapseResilience Challenge: map nearby surface water sources in your neighborhood—streams, lakes, swimming pools, water features, water heaters. Always filter + sanitize before drinking. Small steps now build survival + community strength later. ✋ 🐾 🌍💚
15.09.2025 19:01 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image shows a bucket toilet, an extra bucket, and a package of wood shavings. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Build a Hygiene Kit.
Your #CollapseResilience Challenge: Build a simple hygiene kit for when systems fail.🚽Include:
🪣 5-gal buckets + lids
💺 Toilet seat
🌲 Shavings to cover waste/odor
🧼 Soap + sanitizer
🧻 TP or other eco-friendly wipes
🧤 Gloves + trash/compost bags
#CollapseResilience means remembering: our economic, healthcare, food, transportation & other systems aren’t set in stone. They were built—and can be rebuilt.
We can choose cooperation, care, and community over profit + exploitation.
Let's start with our daily choices.✋ 🐾 🌍💚
Image shows a forest. Text says: Speak Up for the Roadless Rule.
🌲Protecting forests & other ecosystems is vital for #CollapseResilience.
The USDA is trying to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, which currently protects ~45 million acres of our most wild & intact forests from new road-building, logging, mining & other destructive industrial development. 🧵(1/2)
Image shows the tree from CRC’s logo, and a quote by Jenny Brown: “We can become prisoners of our earliest indoctrinations or we can choose to look critically at our assumptions and align our lives with our values.”
Collapse prep often assumes animals exist to be used. But oppression of animals, people, & planet is the same system. True #CollapseResilience means rejecting exploitation & embracing animals as interspecies partners in creating a future rooted in justice, care, and survival for all. ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
01.09.2025 19:02 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Friends, we’ve decided the most effective course forward in these challenging times is to merge w/ our sister initiative, @collapseresilience.bsky.social. Since there's a lot of overlap & since collapse is happening even faster, we can best support you by merging. Please follow CRC! W/ gratitude. ❤️
14.07.2025 19:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It’s up to us to rethink how we use electronics, including by
🌍Finding creative ways to go without
🌍Limiting use
🌍Sharing/borrowing when possible
🌍Repairing instead of replacing
🌍Refusing to upgrade until we have to
🌍Buying used
Read about rare earth mining: www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...
Background image shows rare earth mining. Foreground images include an electric car, an iPhone, and a flatscreen TV. Text says: One Thing You Can Do: Rethink How You Use Electronics
We're trained be dependent on our phones, computers, EVs & other electronics. But they all have dire costs for people, animals & the planet—including because of mining rare earth minerals.
Via the BBC: “mining just one tonne of rare earth minerals creates some 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste.”🧵
Background image is of a waterfall in a forest. Text is a quote by David Graeber: The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something we make and could just as easily make differently.
This world wasn’t built for justice—it was built for profit, power, and control.
But it doesn’t have to stay that way. We can build something else.
🌱 Choose kindness over consumption.
🩵 Fight for justice—for people, animals, and the planet.
🤝 Join mutual aid.
The world is made—and we can remake it.
Image shows a burning $100 bill. Text says: Budgeting is resistance. Every dollar NOT spent on exploitation is fuel for the future we want.
💵 Budgeting Is Resistance.
Every dollar we DON'T give to exploitative corporations is a blow to their power.
Spending carefully & intentionally—on local food, mutual aid, worker-owned co-ops, reused goods—resists extraction & builds resilience. Let’s turn our budgets into tools for justice!💪 🌍
