Stuff from the world on Burning Man
8-30-26
Eduardo
From Don
All you potential
burners, and to those already there. The burning man you seek hasn't had
the old vibe and celebrities and major wow since 2015 anyways. I've
known burners since the 90s, when they killed Jim Keith there. All those
Youtube videos from back in the day are exactly that, back in the day.
That experience others tell you about has been NO MORE for 11 years now,
long timers will tell you.
Listen,
if you need to party...what happened to backyard bbqs with friends and
family. Make it themed and no harm, no foul. It would be more fun doing
that than going to the Playa and having one of the worst weeks of your
life. Wouldn't you say?
Don't go.
So far:
-Expensive tickets dumped and selling at loss on the informal market
-Several famous theme camps are not coming
-Empty Playa at the official start of the event
-FLOCK surveillance in the playa
-Cops doing aggressive searches fabricating probable causes, trashing rigs at the gate and playa lanes
-Ominous predictions spreading, the vibe is just off, people are going to sleep.
-A led lit bicycle ride in the late cold night far in the desert.
Burning Man 2026 Fails To Sell Out as Desperate Attendees Dump Tickets Way Below Face Value
Burning Man 2026 sees unsold tickets and discounted prices as demand shifts
For over a decade, securing a ticket to Burning Man was an exercise in intense digital queueing and rapid sell-outs.
As
Black Rock City prepares to welcome attendees for the 2026 event
running from 30 August to 7 September, organisers and veterans alike
face an unfamiliar reality.
According to organisers, tickets remain unsold, and secondary markets are flooding with heavily discounted passes.
Reports from The San Francisco Standard reveal a dramatic shift in demand for the annual counter-cultural gathering in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. For
the third consecutive year, the event has struggled to sell out its
full allocation before the gates open, prompting desperate ticket
holders to dump unwanted passes on secondary platforms at fractions of
their original value.
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And the police searches continue, relentless:
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I'm
saying that they don't need to run into any rights issues related to
waiting for dogs if they can get dogs there within the duration of a
normal traffic stop, and this this context they have them close at hand. Gate road is practically a police checkpoint, you're basically fucked if the dogs aren't busy with someone else at the time.
They stall. They take your info back to their car, take forever to run it. Say they are having computer problems.
And the dogs are never far from the gate
I was between gate and greeters. They stalled about 10 minutes to get them there. Everything had been in order.
Dog signaled of course. The car had never had anything in it. So false signal.
Well
they sure as fuck do. No one is stopping them. Rights are only rights
when enforced. You can tell them "I know my rights" until you're blue in
the face. They're still going to rip your vehicle apart. And if they
find nothing, there's not a ticket to fight. If they DO find something,
good luck fighting that ticket.
I suppose you
could try to sue for rights violations. Good luck proving they
artificially extended the stop. And good luck finding a lawyer willing
to take the "burning man attendee drug searched" case.
We've seen that cops follow the law all the time perfectly... /s
I
waited in my vehicle. He walked back up once and said they were still
running my license and went back to the car. "Running" me took the 10
minutes needed for the dog to arrive.
friend described it as "shooting fish in a barrel" - with fewer rigs they can just look up every plate...
They
WILL manufacture a reason to pull you over. No matter what you do they
WILL say you seem nervous and use that as an excuse to dog search your
vehicle. The dog WILL alert even if you don't have anything inside.
Source:
my first year they pulled us over past gate but before greeters, cited
obscured license plate (bike) as the reason, said I seemed nervous,
stalled till they could get a dog free, claimed the dog signaled. As
someone who knew they had nothing, as the cop was YELLING in my face to
just admit what I had to "make it go easier" before they "tossed all my
shit out of the car and onto the ground" to "find what they knew I had",
I calmly but angrily/firmly explained I worked for an aerospace company
that had random drug testing due to government contracts, a single
positive test would put our millions of dollars of contracts at risk,
and so they were free to cut a lock of my hair and get it fully
genetically scanned, and I'd tell them where I was camping to find me if
they found ANYTHING in my hair (years of data). But otherwise they were
wasting their time and mine. Cop looked gobsmacked for a moment, went
back to his buddies, came back and let us go on our way.
Have heard multiple stories of similar pull overs, some for dubious reasons.
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Don't Go to Burning Man This Year and Leave Now if You're There Already
I
know most will ignore this. Prophecies are a dime a dozen and how many
actually come true? People having been claiming it's the end of the
world since the world began.
Why
is this message any different? I won't claim I have any real proof I
can tell you otherwise. I am just a somewhat normal person who has had
weird dreams for many years and a sense of pattern recognition.
With
that in mind, in the last 4 years the writing has been on the wall for
Burning Man. The fact the last 3 burns saw extreme weather that made it
unenjoyable for most is no coincidence. It's under judgement, whether
you want to believe it or not.
If any part of you feels like you should skip Burning Man this year, listen to that gut feeling.
If you're at Burning Man now and feel a darkness or something unsettled in your soul, listen to that feeling and leave now.
Forget the money, forget how it may look. Save your life, or at least save your soul.
I
have a terrible feeling something will strike Burning Man -- an
earthquake, a mudslide. I don't know what. I just know know it won't be
be pretty.
Or maybe nothing will happen and this post will look like a fool. I hope so. I don't know.
But I do believe deep down in my bones Burning Man is under judgement and I think many of you realize it deep down too.
Don't go.
Leave.
Comments:
I
can't think of many better place to be for a massive earthquake than
Burning Man. Not many tall/heavy structures, lots of radically
self-reliant people, and, well, Burning Man.
Who is judging exactly? THE God?
I already want my mom to pick me up. I am here 6h and I feel like I have Been burned 2 weeks ?. Help
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