Rat Can't Read (she/her)<p>I'm scared about the <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USEconomy</span></a> now that <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> are in place and <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> is threatening more. </p><p>I'm trying to remind myself that in the early days of the on-going <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pandemic</span></a>, I learned skills that will help me now: I can bake bread with or without yeast from nearly any flour, I can pickle vegetables and blanch and freeze others, and I can make jam.</p><p>Thanks to cosplay, I learned how to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/sew" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sew</span></a>. Recently, thanks to <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/kink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kink</span></a>, I know a little bit about rope, and I have several items that could technically be used as weapons (though most of my training is about how not to seriously injure or harm people with them). </p><p>Like me, you probably know more than you think you do. You probably have more skills than you realize. And it's going to take all of us, pulling our skills and knowledge together, to survive what's coming. </p><p>I wish we didn't have to be <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/resilient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resilient</span></a>. But we can be, and there's <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/hope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hope</span></a> in that. </p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/AnotherWorldIsPossible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AnotherWorldIsPossible</span></a></p>