Category: Episodes

Rumors, Misinformation, and Media Literacy

Episode Summary

Do you feel overwhelmed by the amount of information that’s out there? Do you feel uncertain what to believe, what to think is fake, and what’s a rumor? Well, this week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn interviews Miriam and James about rumors, misinformation, and building media literacy, so that we can all know, with a little more certainty, what’s going on.

Host Info

James can be found on Twitter @JamesStout or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout. Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers’ Bluesky. Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery.

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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Casandra on “Pocket Guide to Conflict Mediation”

Episode Summary

This week on Live like the World is Dying, Casandra talks to Inmn about how to mediate a conflict. We’ve already covered the "why" of conflict mediation, and now it’s time for the "how." We also turned this interview into a Feature Zine called Pocket Guide to Conflict Mediation. You can read it for free at tangledwilderness.org.

Host Info

Casandra can be found on BlueSky @hey-casandra.bsky.social and Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtailartificery.

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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This Month in the Apocalypse: August, 2025

Episode Summary

On This Month in the Apocalypse, Brooke, Inmn, and Miriam talk about everything that happened in August, covering wild fires, data centers, a very famous sandwich, the state of policing and resistance to it, and a complicated victory.

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. Brooke can be found on Mastodon @ogemakwebrooke. Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers’ Bluesky

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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Andy on “A Letter to the Trans Teens Thinking About Giving Up”

Episode Summary

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, we have a crossover episode with the Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness podcast where Miriam talks with Andy about his zine that is our featured zine for August and state of the world that inspired it. The title says it all. Find the zine at www.tangledwilderness.org.

Guest Info

Andy works with the Chosen Family Law Center, which offers free legal services for non-nuclear and LBGTQ families.

Chosenfamilylawcenter.org @andyeyeballs.bsky.social

Host Info

Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers’ Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwildernes

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Inside the No More Death’s Migrant Death Map

Episode Summary

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn is joined by Bryce from No More Deaths to talk about their recently published map of migrant deaths in the border lands and the context that makes this report incredibly important. You can read the report at NoMoreDeaths.org

Guest Info

No More Deaths can be found at nomoredeaths.org, on Instagram @nomoredeaths_nomasmuertes, or on Twitter @nomoredeaths.

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery

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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Bex on Learning New Skills as an Adult

Episode Summary

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn talks with Bex about the challenges of learning new skills as an adult, different models for learning, and an experiment Bex is doing with a "learning cohort" model to increase the amount of off-grid and preparedness skills that her community has access to without anyone having to learn it all.

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery or on Bluesky @inmnneruin.bsky.social

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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This Month in the Apocalypse: July 2025

Episode Summary

On This Month in the Apocalypse, James, Miriam, and Inmn talk about everything that happened in July, including another heinous Executive Order by Trump, updates from Gaza, the story of a tent city at a military base in the US, and how heat domes and floods go hand in hand.

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery. James can be found on Twitter @JamesStout or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout. Miriam can be found making funnies on the Strangers’ Bluesky

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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Logan on Mushroom Foraging and Growing

Episode Summary

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, Inmn talks with Logan about how to get into foraging wild mushrooms. They demystify some of the dangers of mushroom foraging, as well as talk about ways to grow your own mushrooms. They do not talk about how to identify specific mushrooms, nor should this episode be a guide for going out and identifying any particular mushrooms.

Guest Info

Logan is certified in mushroom identification in Kansas (cert #534). Find Logan at Mushrooms by L.B. Facebook https://www.facebook.com/people/Mushrooms-by-LB/61558336499465/

Links
Identification guides

National Audobon Society Mushrooms of North America https://namyco.org/review/national-audubon-society-mushrooms-of-north-america/
Forest Service Mushroom Identification https://www.fs.usda.gov/nrs/pubs/gtr/gtr_nrs79.pdf
The Mushroom Guide and Identifier https://archive.org/details/the-mushroom-guide-and-identifier/mode/2up

The below are suppliers Logan uses for his mushroom products

Field and Forest https://www.fieldforest.net/
Midwest Grow Kits https://www.midwestgrowkits.com/

Host Info

Inmn can be found on Instagram @shadowtail.artificery.

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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Mesh Radios with Chiya

Episode Summary

This week on Live Like the World is Dying, James and Brooke talk with Chiya about mesh radio systems. Mesh radios are portable, anonymous, and encrypted communication devices. They talk about how to set them up, how they work, the different features that they offer, and how they fit into preparedness models and mutual aid work.

Links:

Signals Rising

Card Tracker Radio

Meshtastic Radios

Host Info

James can be found on BlueSky ‪@jamesstout.bsky.social Twitter @JamesStout or on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/Jamesstout.

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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Kai Cheng on De-Escalation and Dreaming of Abolition

Episode Summary

This week on Live like the World is Dying, Casandra and Kai Cheng chat about conflict deescalation, somatics, transformative justice, and dreaming of abolitionist futures.

Guest Info

Kai Cheng Thom is an author, healer, mediator, sex educator, lasagna lover, and wicked witch. Developer of the Loving Justice Methodology. Dreamer. She’s written a few books, and some of them are even good! She’s an extremist for love.

Links
Read some of Kai’s writing on conflict deescalation , mediation, and transformative justice:

Host Info

Casandra can be found on BlueSky @hey-casandra.bsky.social

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 and Blue Sky @tangledwilderness.bsky.social You can support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/strangersinatangledwilderness

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