So many communities use little subtle symbols and stickers and such to help identify each other in public.

For instance, those of us in the BDSM/kink community can pretty easily recognize the triskelion (looks kinda like a yin/yang except has three droplet shapes inside the circle instead of two, is also usually black and white) if we see a sticker like that on a laptop. Most normies would have no idea what that means though.

Are there ways we can sort of identify each other in public that is subtle and not very obvious? A hammer and sickle sticker or Soviet/Chinese flag (or really any red flag with gold stars that looks remotely Communist) on our laptop would draw a lot of unwanted attention if we are just trying to chill in a cafe or some shit.

It’d be nice to know occasionally if I had allies in the same room every now and then, shit’s lonely.

  • ButtigiegMineralMap
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    42 years ago

    Lol I have both a Che Rage Against the Machine shirt and a Olive colored shirt with a big red star in the middle, for both shirts there is the excuse that it’s just a regular shirt. Hell I even have a Russian jersey and S04 jersey from back when they used Gazprom and occasionally in my area it earns me a Здравствуйте but usually nobody recognizes it. Those ones are a bit more of a compromise anyways because it isn’t Soviet but I’m part Russian so its cool I guess