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Part of #CollapseResilience is reducing risk. Animal farming is not only cruel to animals, but it’s a major driver of zoonotic disease, an intensive user/polluter of water & land, & a leading force behind ecological collapse—from deforestation to biodiversity loss to the climate crisis.🧵 (1/2)
Image shows a place setting with a plate of vegan french toast with berries on top. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Shift to Egg-Free.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Mutual aid and liberation—for humans and nonhuman animals—are key to collapse resilience. Where have you seen (or participated in) meaningful mutual aid projects?✋🐾🌍💚
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote by Samirah the Sapphic Siren: “Mutual aid is not rooted in generosity. It’s rooted in community....Building community is necessary for both of us. It’s crucial to your survival today, and it might be crucial to my survival a different day.”
December 1, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Lots of folks are traveling & gathering this week—prime time for COVID, flu & other bugs to spread. Vaccines, clean air, testing & staying home when sick all help & masking remains one of the simplest, strongest tools. Masks save lives! Mask up to protect yourself & others. 😷💚
Image shows two people in a car wearing KN95 masks. Text says: Masks save lives.
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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This week kicks off a firestorm of overconsumption. Even “shop local” assumes unsustainable levels of consumption. Our choices either support compassion, justice & resilience—or fuel exploitation.

#CollapseResilience means living in ways that do the most good/least harm for all beings.
Image shows old-growth trees and a graphic of a tree branch. Text is a quote from Jem Bendell: “This lifestyle is entirely dependent on a pyramid of exploitation that stretches around the entire globe. And it could break at any moment, because it’s already under such strain.”
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Having cash on hand can be essential in a ATM/banking glitches, economic shocks, civil unrest, sudden evacuations, etc. A safely stored small reserve—esp. in small bills—reduces vulnerability & boosts your ability to help yourself & others. Save a bit/month until you reach a useful amount.✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
Image shows a person’s hand holding a roll of US money. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Build Up Some Cash on Hand
November 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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It’s heartening to see folks stepping up to support neighbors facing food insecurity. Our community’s Resilience & Resistance Team started a little free food pantry—open for anyone to donate or take food for humans or animals. Periodically we'll take what’s left to local pantries. #MutualAid
Image shows a free food pantry set up on a table, with a sign and instructions.
November 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Join us in building ways of living that don’t require sacrificing our (or others’) well-being to uphold collapsing systems. Together we can create something more just, compassionate, and resilient. ✋🐾🌍💚
Image shows old-growth trees and a tree branch graphic. Text is a quote by Tessa Simcox: “We have been brainwashed into believing that a degree, a job, a car, a house, a marriage, a baby, a holiday, and a retirement are the purpose of life. Collapse flips those myths upside down, and for most of us, it is too much to hold, too much to hold while continuing the motions that keep the very systems holding us hostage alive.”
November 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Emergencies move fast. Knowing how to shut off your gas, water & electricity—and having the tools to do it—can prevent a crisis from getting worse.

Find your shutoff points, learn the steps & ensure everyone in your home knows them. This simple skill is a powerful part of #CollapseResilience.
Image shows a person’s hand holding a gas shut off tool in front of a gas meter. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Know and Plan for Emergency Shut Offs
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Big banks fund fossil fuel projects, factory farming, wars, gentrification, authoritarian politicians, etc., that harm people, animals & the planet & accelerate collapse.

Switch to a credit union or community development bank to help better protect your money & invest in your community. 🧵 (1/2)
Background image shows a credit union. Foreground image shows a hand holding a phone showing a mobile banking app. Text says: Collapse Resilience Collective: Switch to a More Ethical Bank
November 11, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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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. ✋🐾🌍💚
Background image shows Congress in session. Foreground shows a hand holding a smartphone featuring the 5Calls app.
November 6, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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?✋🐾🌍💚
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.”
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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.
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.
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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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 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.”
October 28, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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 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.
October 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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#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?✋ 🐾 🌍 💚
Image shows a person holding a tablet using a streaming service. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Dump Paid Streaming Services.
October 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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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 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.”
October 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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! ✋ 🐾 🌍 💚 📘
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.
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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.
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.
October 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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#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 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.
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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.
Image shows containers of applesauce with a couple of apples on top of them.
October 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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)
Image shows two hands holding medications. Text says: Collapse Resilience Challenge: Stock Extra Meds for Your Whole Family
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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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.
Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds
Sentient Media reveals less than 4% of climate news stories mention animal agriculture as source of carbon emissions
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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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. ✋🐾🌍💚
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.”
September 29, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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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.
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.
September 23, 2025 at 7:01 PM