In Person Activism

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"Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." -Tim Snyder

A community for sharing information about ways to get involved with real world activism to make the world a better place.

Spend less time arguing about politics on the internet. The world is in trouble. Get out there and try to help.

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Do not underestimate the effectiveness of flyers. (slrpnk.net)

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A well-placed flyer can reach the eyes of thousands of people per day, regardless of which social media platform they use, if any.

If you make a flyer for an event, share the file online and encourage others to print them out too.

Before sharing, remove the metadata with Scrambled Exif on Android or Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit on Linux. Sending a copy to a friend? Send it over Signal.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Do you know if plotters have anything like this, or would I be safe using mine?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

It'd be quicker and probably easier to 3d print a set of custom stamps, and use that.

Alternatively, a stencil and spray paint will never leave you with these problems. You'll just have to severely limit the size of your "flier". That, and being careful about how you buy your spray paint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, but I've got a plotter and not a 3D printer lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You could still use your plotter to make a stencil. Get a sheet of cardboard/plastic/thin wood, have it plot your design, and then manually cut out the lettering/symbols/etc.

Been planning to do basically that with mine for a while now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I've made stencils before, but I was wanting a decent pasteup option too, just because they're faster to put up and less sus than spray paint. Maybe leave a tiled flier design to run overnight and then cut it apart or something.