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So there we have it. Super-Woke Anarchist Activist Matt says move into a squat today, or you are a Fox-bot [Matt does not live in a squat]. Furthermore, Super-Woke Anarchist Activist Matt says women who are concerned that living in an activist squat might mean they'd lose custody of their kids...

Holy fucking shit, what a very entitled post! You are man with no kids, but you are able to tell a homeless mother how to live her life. Why on earth do you make the totally wild and outlandish assumption that her concern that moving into a squat might put women's' custody of their kids at risk...

This is OP's only post; i'm thinking the cops rolled up just as they were about to type the "t" in "west". Probably they will never post again, and we will never know.

Why are you giving this woman such a hard time, mods? If her perspective as a homeless mom scared of Child Services snatching her kids away is somehow not valid, perhaps you would like to explain why? Instead of just snarking at her about how this website has "squat" in the name. Explain to her...

"Hey, do you want a job?"

@Brodiesel710 - After my wife read your essay in the A brief period book, and of course examined all the pics, she said "I love this book! And it so sad about his bike, i almost cry when i read this. I would die if my son pass this." [she is a non-native speaker of english being foreign]

Dude , i wasn't accusing you of anything, calm down. Almost all dentists make way more $ than almost all lawyers, FYI. Ain't no such thing as a Legal Aid dentist. I last practiced law about 25 years ago, but i will admit to owning a sweet-ass Surly Bridge Club. An abandoned/junker bike is...

There's also a practical side, even if your morals allow for stealing from individuals: riding that nice cheap, but stolen, bike might lead to catching a beatdown, or an arrest. I was a NYC bike messenger for many years, and i can tell you that what happens to folks found in possession of...

Q: Didja hear the one about the fish that got caught? A: Yeah, he shoulda kept his mouth shut. A "Dad joke", provided Dad is an old crim trying to subliminally imbue "Crime 101" lessons in his kids. Jesus taught in parables, i used to call my teaching style "stand-up tragedy"- if you got the...

No, they were produced by a Spector rival, "Shadow" Morton. He later did the second NY Dolls record, and was picked because the Dolls loved the Shangri-Las so much. The Shangri-Las were tough "bad girls", who wore lots of black leather and had songs about "bad boys", whereas all Spector's acts...

Don't walk the Mass or Conn Turnpikes, you will get rousted by every Statie that passes. You can hitch the entrances before the "No Pedestrians" sign, and they will leave you alone, and any other roads in those states you will be fine; town cops will often give you rides. Same thing in NY- stay...

Yup, that sucks, i too have donated to many police officers' knife collections. Any real knife i would keep in my pack when hitching, they won't often have any excuse to go through your pack and find it. Those Moraknives are good and under $20, so it doesn't hurt as much when the pigs take it.

You aren't going to get attacked by any animals in Mass. A rock in a sock will defend you from the home-bums. Cop probably was allowed to do that, and figures he was a nice guy cause he just took it and didn't take you in. Any assisted opening knife with a blade over 1.5" is illegal, any...

That is one hell of a long walk, around 3500 miles. Good luck to you completing this epic journey.

@Donald Tramp is very good, nice bike too. Hope my Surly don't snap! Safe riding; remember- keep the rubber side down, and the meat side up!

Some songs from NYC's The Shangri-Las (Queens represent), '60s vocal "girl group". I think anyone here will be able to relate to these songs; your grandma probably knew all the words when she was young. They don't really have any bad songs. Here they are live on TV in '65, the lead...

Look into whether you can install the Electronic Frontier Foundation' s browser add-on Privacy Badger, which will stop a lot of these evils. I have never had an account on Fecesbook, and use my wife's on the rare occasions i need to find/reach someone i can't find/reach any other way. My...

They airlifted the bus out to avoid it being a magnet for any more folks anxious to die in the wilderness: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/19/abandoned-bus-made-famous-movie-book-into-the-wild-removed-by-alaska-mccandless

Yup. Just wait for divine inspiration, or get drunker, assuming your belief-system allows for the possibility that these are not the same thing. Or maybe, if you can't think of any good ideas of what to get inked on you, or are enough of a lame to give a shit what others might think after you...

Especially if you wore the outfit. Nazi-imagery warning/ban incoming, according to my psychic powers. One of my favorite tattoos was an SF skin named Bags who hung around the LES in the early '80s. He had a very large homemade "I EAT PUSSY" on his chest. I don't think i ever saw him wearing a...

"What's your real name?"

More on this excellent advice: https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/41282.html For those that want to go "Into The Wild", but with 1) smaller bears (and ZERO POLAR BEARS), 2) milder winters (that are still pretty hard, but not Alaska-hard), and 3) stores you can get to in a couple days walking...

I first met Dave Wyndorf of Monster Magnet in 1981 when he was in a kind of pre-hardcore/post-Ramones "combat"-themed band called Shrapnel. They used to play a fair amount of shows with a band i roadied for, The Minx, who were two bluegrass gals who discovered the punk rock, and realized that...

Different strokes for different folks, i guess. i also own that very same 10' x 12' brown/silver Walmart tarp, and it is unquestionably what i would want if my uses included laying it on coal etc.- it is one sturdy motherfucker. But for hitching/bike-camping, it is overkill, and overweight. I...

Got it. It is good fun, vandalizing, and committing art at the same time. Most of the people that bombed trains in NYC in my day are either dead, or pretty famous artists. So there's that. I mean, you're gonna end up on a slab in a morgue anyway; might as well take your shot in the meantime.

Maybe you should stop doing that then?

There are dog hearing protection ear muffs on amazon, as you say for pilots, but they cost $60-90, which doesn't seem crazy expensive to me for something that should last for many years. Mutt Muffs and 4 Paws seem to be the big brands. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002CZQ1TA/...

The reason those blue tarps at Walmart are so cheap is that they are really thin, and rip and shred at a harsh look or strong wind, so in addition to being shit for stealth camping, they are lousy for keeping you dry. The green one is slightly better. The brown/silver one is very heavy duty...

I have absolutely zero experience with freight riding with dogs, but a whole lot of experience with dogs generally. It is often the case that dogs ignore stuff that bothers us (and vice versa). My experience of dogs and noise is that dogs don't like sudden noises, especially clangy metallic...

You could do Philly -> NYC -> Hartford (not much there but gets you off Ct Turnpike sooner, very State Pig infested road) -> Boston -> Concord if you want to hit cities. In Philly, eat cheesesteak at Pat's, go to the Art Museum for the Marcel Duchamp collection, NYC is NYC, Boston is a...

Van Cortlandt Park is closer for someone in the Bronx, and pretty darn woods-like in parts.

When my mom was in her senior year of high school in the 1950-1951 school year, she broke her leg playing lacrosse. A kid she wouldn't date nicknamed her "Hop-Along Chastity". Probably requires explanation for you kids since cowboy movie star Hop-Along Cassidy was already pretty passe when i...

I am actually forbidden to publish the main part of the work of the study (we recruited and interviewed 322 recent heroin users across Vermont, as well as cops, syringe exchange folks, etc) as a result of them yanking my funding (thus ending my income) unexpectedly in the middle of writing up...

In 2016, i did a study of heroin use in Vermont for the state Department of Health there. i ended up living in a dirty kid squat in Burlington for the summer after i met a former poster here on the bus, and remarked on his CSX hat, and Crass logo patch. Due to a falling out about funding, the...

As you probably know, one of the rules of graf is that all paint has to be stolen, or "racked" (from the display racks they keep spray paint in). Paint is usually locked up these days because we stole so much of it, and now in NYC its illegal to sell spray paint to anyone under 18 or 21 or...

I guess i should state my graf name, after all that: i wrote BEN-WA (my train throw-ups were never the name, but i did tag outsides and streets. Spray tags, not no miniwide shit yo) A priceless moment: Meeting some hard-rock at some graffiti opening at some art gallery. The usual "What you...

I started tagging in NYC transit stations as a visiting teenager in the mid-'70s. By the time the '80s started, i was living on the Lower East Side with a pretty well-known graf writer, HAZE/SE-3. Through him, i became friends/enemies/acquainted with most writers active in the '80s. HAZE mostly...

So, @Daniedanielle - what happened? Did cops/property owner return? Did you get out? One post from OP, with The Man coming the next day, and then silence- probably they left, but just curious.

Anyone who has not read Orwell's monumental Down and out in Paris and London needs to right now; the You Can't Win of France/Britain, with less crime, but the same old-time bum vibe. The first half is about being a kitchen peon in Paris, the second half about being homeless in London. One of...

Adverse possession mostly happens in the real world with shit like: one landowner has a fence 6' on a neighbor's property, and the neighbor ignores it, so the first person eventually owns the 6' x whatever strip of land on their side of the fence. The idea that you are going to squat some shit...

I do not know Oregon law from dog shit. BUT: It often makes a difference whether you have been in possession more, or less than 30 days. You've been there more than that, so this might not be a trespass/criminal matter, but rather an eviction/civil matter. If it was me, i'd be inclined to hang...

Get hep to lawn-boofing, kids, it's a gasser!

Maybe i am very very soft, but meth hurts a lot when you snort it, and it seems to me that it must hurt even more up your ass. Not that i would know, the only drugs i ever shoved up my ass was opium when i had dysentery and a lung infection in India, and couldn't smoke or swallow. Boofing is...

There are some good points there, with a bunch of not true/slanted points. To be clear (again): i was a big Bernie supporter in 2016, and happily voted for Hillary. i was a big Sen. Dr. Prof. Warren supported this year, Bernie being my second choice. I am now a very enthusiastic "No Malarkey"...

I was imagining them spelling out like DEATH TO SQUATTERS!!! in sugar packets on your lawn or something. Glad it's no big deal.

Well, so what did they do with the sugar packets on your front lawn?

Here are some places to get started reading, with the wikipedia pages about each author, these are the classics of anarchism, the Berkman book is more or less the same text as The ABCs of anarchism that i mentioned above: https://libcom.org/files/Ward_-_Anarchy_in_Action_3.pdf...

A whole metric shitload of UK DJ John Peel's '70s-2004 (he had to stop working then because he died) shows with live sets by boomer musos like David Bowie and The Spiders from Mars, Roxy Music, Joy Division, New Order, The Cure, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Smiths, The Fall, Echo & The Bunnymen...

One of the finest anarchist scholars ever to publish ever anywhere; one of my role-models/heros when i used to do academic work. Anyone interested in this essay will also like his 1976 classic Housing: An anarchist approach Pretty sure this is the book i cited most often in my BA thesis about...