A ttrpg dude on Mastodon is having some unexpected medical bills. Buy some of their punk rpgs or give them money. If I remember correctly their goal on Kofi is $210; I gave them $20. I’m posting this here because there’s a lot of you and I think most of us are leftists like them
Unrelated pic is for the clicks. If you see anyone in the comments who clearly didn’t read this post, please tell them to donate or contribute to the GDP
Point of order; The Anarchist’s Cookbook is a political screed with no instructions on bomb making of any kind (its mostly focused on the author’s experiences in Vietnam IIRC). What you’re thinking of is more correctly known as The Jolly Roger’s Cookbook, a collection of rambling from old BBS forums that describes equal parts impractical pranks (“Pour a cement block over your buddy’s front door”), babies first phreaking (for all those landlines people still have) and terrible bomb making (the titular Jolly Roger allegedly lost an arm as a result of one of his own explosives).
And yes, if you’re a writer who wants to research actual bomb making so that your spiritual successor to The Martian can be just as accurate, the declassified US military Improvised Munitions Handbook is a much more reliable source.
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The Anarchist’s cookbook has a long-standing reputation that will be difficult to overturn. I’m assuming you’ve heard The Legend of Old Man Henderson at some point, where the protag justified a lot of the stuff his character knew with “he’s memorized the Anarchist’s Cookbook”. I think that is what the meme is trying to do.
Sauce if anyone was curious
Edit: Since we’re talking improvised munitions, I think I should explain how to prevent making molotovs.
- Do not obtain a glass bottle, gasoline, a hand towel, Styrofoam, or sand
- Under no circumstances should you fill the bottle 1/3 of the way with sand. This is called a balast and makes throwing things easier. Remember, this is explicitly against our goals, so don’t do it
- Do not fill the bottle 3/4 full with gasoline. Were the bottle to break near fire, it would cause the fire to spread quickly
- Keep the Styrofoam away from the bottle filled with gas and sand. Styrofoam “melts” in gas and gives it the quality of napalm
- Do not soak the hand towel in gas, and keep it out of the mouth of the bottle. Something flammable like that could lead to a molotov being made, which is bad
- If you’ve gotten to this point, unfortunately you failed to stop yourself from making a molotov. That’s ok, you can still prevent yourself from using it by lighting the towel and tipping the bottle, causing the napalm to get on and around you. This will stop you from using it, and people will honor your self-immolation to keep the peace
It’s a bit sad how many likes this has and the Kofi is still where I left it last night.
