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Live Like the World is Dying

Live Like the World is Dying

By: Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness
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How do we live in a world that might be ending? By preparing to survive that end and by working to prevent it. A production of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness.Copyright 2026 Social Sciences
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  • How To Get Started Prepping (Re-air)

    How To Get Started Prepping (Re-air)
    Jan 30 2026
    Episode summary

    This week on Live Like the World is Dying we have another old episode about getting started prepping. Margaret and Casandra talk about some of the basics of preparedness and how to get started even if you don't have a lot of money or skills. They go through their lists of things they always consider when preparing for crises, whether that be a natural disaster, "the bomb", food shortages, inflation, the further advancement of Fascism, or any of the other of the various multi-faceted horrors contributing to our slow apocalypse. They talk about community preparedness vs individual preparedness, 'stuff focused' preparedness vs response focused preparedness, bunker mentalities, and a lot of other great stuff, like how potatoes prove once again to the be the only wholesome thing, why you shouldn't trust rich people trying to sell you shit, and how again Hope is maybe the only real strategy we can count on.

    Host Info Margaret Killjoy can be found on instagram at @margaretkilljoy or on Substack at https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/

    Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness.

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Rojava After the Fall with Virginia

    Rojava After the Fall with Virginia
    Jan 23 2026
    Episode Notes

    This week on Live Like the World is Dying, we have a new episode with Virginia from the After the Fall podcast who talks about life in Rojava after the fall of Assad. We also talk about what's been going on more since this episode was recorded as Rojava was preparing to defend itself.

    For more on internationalism check out a previous episode Martyr Culture or our book Orso

    Links

    https://afterthefallpod.libsyn.com/

    https://kolektiva.social/@afterthefallpod

    Free syrian women's foundation https://wjas.org/en/the-foundation/

    Kongra Star https://kongra-star.org/eng/

    Fajawat https://interstices-fajawat.org/

    Leila Al Shami podcasts[ https://fromtheperiphery.com/2025/12/09/syria-one-year-on-after-the-fall-of-assad/ and https://fromtheperiphery.com/syria-the-inconvenient-revolution-pod/](

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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • Smokey on Mental Health First Aid (re-air)

    Smokey on Mental Health First Aid (re-air)
    Jan 16 2026
    Episode Notes This week on Live Like the World is Dying, we have another re-run episode. Margaret and Smokey talk about ways to go about mental first aid, how to alter responses to trauma for you self and as a community, different paths to resiliency, and why friendship and community are truly the best medicine. Host Info Margaret can be found on twitter @magpiekilljoy or instagram at @margaretkilljoy. Publisher Info This show is published by Strangers in A Tangled Wilderness. We can be found at www.tangledwilderness.org, or on Twitter @TangledWild and Instagram @Tangled_Wilderness. You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness. Transcript LLWD:Smokey on Mental First Aid Margaret 00:15 Hello and welcome to Live Like the World is Dying, your podcast are what feels like the end times. I'm your host, Margaret killjoy. And, this week or month...or let's just go with 'episode'. This episode is going to be all about mental health and mental health first aid and ways to take care of your mental health and ways to help your community and your friends take care of their mental health, and I think you'll like it. But first, this podcast is a proud member of the Channel Zero network of anarchists podcasts. And here's a jingle from another show on the network. Margaret 01:52 Okay, with me today is Smokey. Smokey, could you introduce yourself with your your name, your pronouns, and I guess a little bit about your background about mental health stuff? Smokey 02:04 Sure, I'm Smokey. I live and work in New York City. My pronouns are 'he' and 'him.' For 23 years, I've been working with people managing serious mental illness in an intentional community, I have a degree in psychology, I have taught psychology at the University level, I have been doing social work for a long time, but I've been an anarchist longer. Margaret 02:43 So so the reason I want to have you on is I want to talk about mental health first aid, or I don't know if that's the way it normally gets expressed, but that's the way I see it in my head. Like how are...I guess it's a big question, but I'm interested in exploring ways that we can, as bad things happen that we experience, like some of the best practices we can do in order to not have that cause lasting mental harm to us. Which is a big question. But maybe that's my first question anyway. Smokey 03:12 I mean, the, the truth is bad things will happen to us. It's part of living in the world, and if you are a person that is heavily engaged in the world, meaning, you know, you're involved in politics, or activism, or even just curious about the world, you will probably be exposed on a more regular basis to things that are bad, that can traumatize us. But even if you're not involved in any of those things, you're going to go through life and have really difficult things happen to you. Now, the good news is, that's always been the case for people. We've always done this. And the good news is, we actually know a lot about what goes into resilience. So, how do you bounce back quickly and hopefully thrive after these experiences? I think that is an area that's only now being really examined in depth. But, we have lots of stories and some research to show that actually when bad things happen to us, there is an approach that actually can help catalyst really impressive strength and move...change our life in a really positive direction. We also know that for most people, they have enough reserve of resiliency that....and they can draw upon other resiliency that they're not chronically affected by it, however, and I would argue how our society is kind of structured, we're seeing more and more people that are suffering from very serious chronic effects of, what you said, bad things happening, or what is often traumatic things but it's not just traumatic things that cause chronic problems for us. But, that is the most kind of common understanding so, so while most people with most events will not have a chronic problem, and you can actually really use those problems, those I'm sorry, those events, let's call them traumatic events, those traumatic events they'll really actually improve your thriving, improve your life and your relationship to others in the world. The fact is, currently, it's an ever growing number of people that are having chronic problems. And that's because of the system. Margaret 06:19 Yeah, there's this like, there was an essay a while ago about it, I don't remember it very well, but it's called "We Are Also Very Anxious," and it it was claiming that anxiety is one of the general affects of society today, because of kind of what you're talking about, about systems that set us up to be anxious all the time and handle things in... Smokey 06:42 I think what most people don't understand is, it is consciously, in the sense that it's not that necessarily it's the desire to have the end goal of people being anxious, and people being traumatized, but it is ...
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    1 hr and 11 mins
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I really enjoy this podcast and listen regularly. I find it thoughtful, smart, and interesting and really like the host. I highly recommend it

great podcast

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I love their podcasts. Very entertaining and enlightening. It’s often intimidating for a lot of people (including myself) to start learning about mutual aid and praxis in general due in part to I guess intellectualism in these some of these spaces (at least in my college town experience as a townie). Margaret along with her co-hosts make it feel accessible. I know Amazon is evil, but I do wish audible had her books. In particular I wish there was an audiobook version of into the grey somewhere as I have trouble reading and it seems like a really cool book. Sorry for the ramble. 10/5 stars

Margaret Killjoy is the best!

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Great podcast, I thought the host did very well and was quite engaging and I learnt more than I thought I would. I also find this podcast easy to listen to while still managing to make you think about the topics at hand.

Eye opening

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