firearms - the entire reason I ever agree to engage with the media in the first place.

I am glad that it feels like that door was further opened in good faith with this article and hope that it helps many others as a result. I'm thankful to have seen as much from my end with a slew of new people excited to find less alienating inroads towards their interest in

the motivations around why so many of us arm and train as we do. On a more positive note, and the one I was really holding out for since this article was pitched, was the directing of more newcomers seeking out less toxic resources and events in this niche space of ours.

have absolutely nothing to do with the event itself. None of those things are found at the crux what it even largely means to be marginalized in our society, let alone an armed minority. It certainly can read as a flattening of what is novel and a loss of a deeper meaning around

degree of outsider blind spots as well as a drive to sell the story with some degree of sensation. I do think there was a pretty baffling fixation on surface-level lifestyle characterizations of some of the competitors, highlighting polyamory and kink of all things, both of which

I certainly had some mixed feelings about certain aspects of the article myself, but think the impact is largely positive. That said, I also tried to set some realistic expectations - this is an article written by a large tech publication that will inevitably suffer from some

What a time to be at the intersection of all these matters, and yet here we are, thriving! Community is everything, and I'm forever grateful for the opportunities and the people to build more and more of it with. 🙏 See the full article at https://t.co/ZzXG9qG9ke

If you have any Gmail accounts, I strongly recommend you take a look at these settings. https://t.co/MiFoXOPiB9

This is like one of the only times I've ever engaged with someone I wasn't friendly with on here and he is quite real at least. Some of y'all are on some hamster wheel shit instead of doing real work in the world. https://t.co/IWpN169vBW

Adding to this, I see a lot of people here taking the bait and arguing with these accounts like they're real people of consequence. Like, unless it's someone prominent you actually know exists as an individual, stop falling for this low hanging engagement bait and go outside.

[insert dumb Sun Tzu quote here]

Ronan Piontek interviewed both Jordan (formerly from ABW2A) and I about our perspectives on self defense and carving out space away from mainstream gun culture, especially for minorities and others who have conventionally felt left out. Give it a read! https://t.co/D8kNEcIZ9v

I've got yet another compilation of airsoft event footage up, complete with woods, bunkers, a coastal artillery battery, grenades, night vision, and an enemy team getting rolled. This was a fun one, check it out! https://t.co/bT8TLEtsHE

My sincerest apologies to the dude in this room. A compilation of more footage from this event to drop soon, stand by.

GM. Clean up your local shooting spot. Even if you didn't make the mess.

I also put out my own video on the matter a couple of years ago that you may refer to here: https://t.co/WkjGTcUlGp This may be a good time to take notes and apply some of these concepts to clothing donations for your local unhoused population.

I can't tell you how many people I've known who own a closet full of rifle builds but couldn't even survive a day in their own backyard in the cold months. This is a highly underrated topic, far more practical than any firearm, and this video nails it. https://t.co/9p7GX6OWag

"Kept you waiting, huh?"

to ever more relevant today. A gift from elders that I will always cherish, this refreshing book is incredibly difficult to put down and will certainly be picked back up when the mood strikes again.

It was nearly impossible to choose excerpts to share here - I would post the whole book if I could. Every passage is a mountain of wisdom playfully told, a timeless and colorful quilt woven by queer survival and breaking free that rings powerfully true from its era