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Posted On: October 24th 2026, 11:18 am
It is cold af tonight. Earlier today I got an awesome donations of blankets, and I decided to take them out late tonight with some cookies and water. It's a good thing I did. I was able to help people in ways I haven't before. A sex worker needed a blanket to wrap up in while she waited. A man was lost and couldn't figure out where he was supposed to stay tonight, so he got the biggest blanket and settled down with some water and cookies to sleep it off and maybe figure out where to go tomorrow. A couple who'd lost their blanket the night before because it got soaked in the rain got a new one. A guy I know who had been robbed and had nothing at least got a nice big comfy blanket to curl up into until he could get moving tomorrow and start getting things he needed. I can go on and on. Some people just needed some water tonight.
This was a different type of experience for me. I'm gonna do it again. And again and again. I need more blankets. I need for thrift stores to stop wasting blankets by sending their less than perfect ones to landfills and recycling (i'm looking at you global neighborhood thrift. you are being stingy and greedy and this is not your mission).
It's cold, it's so fuckin cold. I made a place for spontaneous mutual aid. This channel and group is not for things that need a lot of planning, just stuff like,
"It's fuckin cold, I'm gonna take blankets down"
"Cool, I'll bake these biscuits that are in my fridge and meet you at State street"
or
"air quality is bad, I'm going to take masks down for them"
"cool, I have a box too, meet you at the park"
or
"I just got a shit ton of peaches, I'm going to cut them up and go give them away"
"Cool, I will come help."
or
"I know this lady who needs groceries, I'm going to take her some pasta."
"Can you stop by here and pick up some sauce on your way?"
Etc. teamwork with quickly made teams. Mutual aid. Spontaneous
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#WaterIsLife #HousingFirst #Spokane #MutualAid #Solidarity #Collaboration #Community
This was a different type of experience for me. I'm gonna do it again. And again and again. I need more blankets. I need for thrift stores to stop wasting blankets by sending their less than perfect ones to landfills and recycling (i'm looking at you global neighborhood thrift. you are being stingy and greedy and this is not your mission).
It's cold, it's so fuckin cold. I made a place for spontaneous mutual aid. This channel and group is not for things that need a lot of planning, just stuff like,
"It's fuckin cold, I'm gonna take blankets down"
"Cool, I'll bake these biscuits that are in my fridge and meet you at State street"
or
"air quality is bad, I'm going to take masks down for them"
"cool, I have a box too, meet you at the park"
or
"I just got a shit ton of peaches, I'm going to cut them up and go give them away"
"Cool, I will come help."
or
"I know this lady who needs groceries, I'm going to take her some pasta."
"Can you stop by here and pick up some sauce on your way?"
Etc. teamwork with quickly made teams. Mutual aid. Spontaneous
JOIN ME! https://signal.group/#CjQKIH8lN5WC8LHR6fuu9cIdjCkD8Bcl6JsIi9KTOpitK3n2EhCA2NQYM6ydAdjpFtochU1X
#WaterIsLife #HousingFirst #Spokane #MutualAid #Solidarity #Collaboration #Community
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