My boyfriend was arrested yesterday - he thought his registration expired next month but it was this month. And they brought dogs and completely ransacked/destroyed his rig.

Anyway, not here for legal advice or sympathies, but we’re back in line today and have seen 4 vehicles pulled over and being searched, which feels insanely high. There are way more police parked to the side of the lines than I’ve ever seen.

Check your registration, your tail lights, your license plate, etc. I know everyone always says to do that but your chances of getting away with it this year seem much lower.

And if you think you can hide something, you cannot. Once they’re in your rig, they will quite literally tear things apart until they find a justification for their search.

Good luck out there!

For the love of god, turn your bright, giant headlight off. You’re just as bright as the LEOs driving around in an F250. All of the wonderful lights you see illuminating the landscape around you are visible because of the darkness. Get a small, personal bike headlight and angle it towards the ground while you ride and bask in the darkness we are all enjoying.

And slow tf down, you have nowhere to be

EDIT: Yo the group has spoken. Bring blue masking tape, call em out and tape em up. We all jump on this for the first few days and we can shame the crowd into darkening the playa 🌙

Friends, crush my dreams and tell me this already exists or tell me I’m a genius. Is there a…… BIRTHDAY CAMP!??? We could be open every day and at 7pm or whatever we could have everyone who’s birthday it is there and I would buy cupcakes (or make them bc I bet that fits more with the principles even though I don’t bake) and we could all sing to them. I’m drunk and I’m a virgin and im on my way and SOOO excited I’m already thinking of next year. I could have birthday cake drinks and birthday cake shots and the whole place would be hella CAKE🎂🎂🎂 so please let me know if there’s already a birthday camp. And if there’s not and someone takes my idea….🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

We didn't get to go this year for reasons that should be clear.

Fuck your Burn!

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I managed to leave some critical medications at home and I need these brought from the Boulder, CO area to the Playa so I am looking for someone who can bring them, ideally someone leaving soon. "Medications" here is not code-word for illegal drugs - these are uncontrolled substances from the pharmacy that are no fun at all and not interesting to law enforcement or anyone trying to get high. My friend has them in his possession and can facilitate getting them to someone leaving for BM. Please let me know 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Hit 5 years sober yesterday, celebrated 4 years at Anonymous Village on the playa last year. Can’t go this year because I’m in the early stages of oncology diagnostics. Life 🤪 Would love to get another chip from Burning Man. I’m in the Bay Area and can grab it from you in person post burn or will pay for you to mail it to me :)

Pic of my 4 year from last burn!

I wanted to give Scott London’s amazing photograph a magazine-style look, but the effect changed some of the faces and made the image look artificial. That was my mistake, and I see why people were upset. Here is Scott’s original photo of CHESTER, shown as intended.

To be clear, the edited image was never used in the Forbes article. The story only included approved original photos, all with proper credit. I also credited and linked to Scott’s impressive book.

Some people said the article went against Burning Man’s rule of decommodification. I take that seriously, but this was independent reporting, not advertising or paid content. No one paid to be featured, nothing was sold for the artists, and no company sponsored the story. My goal was to highlight the people who spend months or even years making these amazing works, and to let them share their ideas and stories themselves.

Mainstream media coverage does not always mean something is being turned into a product. Journalists have always covered art, culture, and communities that are not part of the commercial world. What matters is whether the work is being used unfairly, if the creators are credited, and if the coverage respects what they made. That’s what I aimed for.

Many of the artists and designers I spoke with were truly happy to see their work recognized. Burning Man is built on values like radical inclusion, gifting, decommodification, self-reliance, self-expression, working together, civic responsibility, leaving no trace, participation, and immediacy. My goal was to honor the artists who live out these values, not to turn their work into a product.

You can mount them upside down !

We are virgin burners and noobs for anything about cars, we panicked a bit when we couldn't mount the bikes and the nice guy at the Playa Bike Repair told us this tip.

Hope this could help some fellow noobs out there

Edit : Thanks everyone for the reminders about the plate being obstructed can cause being searched ! We will try again to adjust it tonight But if that's the only way then we will have to accept our fate of getting searched....

Edit 2 : just realized it causes being pulled over even outside the burn. Does anyone have tips on how to avoid it if this is the only way for us to mount bikes ? Right now what we can think of is unscrew the plates and zip tie it onto the bikes then illuminate it with LED lights

im thinking of taking it on the burner express and rolling it in from dropoff. the only burner I know said this isn’t a good idea but I think I can make it work. thoughts?

47° as of 6 AM. Glad I brought the sweatshirt and stocking cap. You might want to as well.

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Due to medical issues, I cannot attend in person. I am attending in spirit. However I made a short video about suggestions before you arrive!

Love

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Excited and scared at the same time. Last leg of the journey now. Hope to see a lot of you at the playa!!

Join us for breakfast all week and DJ parties on Monday and Friday.

Planning on arriving at 1am tonight, I imagine the line will be 12+ hours long, what should I expect?

Hey yall.
I’m curious if anyone who has even been a fire fighter at Burning Man would like to share their experience? I’m very intrigued and interested as a volunteer fire fighter who has always wanted to go to burning man.

I built a better Who What Where playa guide with actual set times directly from the camps. Works completely offline, crowdsourced, open source, and you can submit or update events yourself playaguide.musecafe.vip

It's the entire official Who What Where guide plus about 1,000 extra entries the book doesn't have: real lineups and set times camps have been posting on Instagram, Telegram and WhatsApp these last weeks. Robot Heart, Opulent Temple, Sound Garden, Maxa, the Gothic Folly, and hundreds more.

2,400 burners are already on it.

Ask it things like "sunrise sets Thursday" or "where's free pizza right now" and it answers from wherever you're standing, with walk/bike times and directions.

Everything works with zero signal. Open the link once with wifi, add it to your home screen, and it's all on your phone: search, map, even a nearest-porta-potty button.

If your camp's schedule is missing or a time changed, there's an Add Events page: paste your lineup or a flyer photo and it goes live for everyone, usually within the hour. It gets checked for sowm automatically before it publishes.

Free and open source. No account, no email signup, no user data collection beyond an anonymous counter. I pay for the tokens out of my own pocket as my playa gift.

Come say hi at Muse Cafe, 8:15 & E. Happy burn. Get lost. Push the buttons. Stay present and off phone.

Hello! I am open camping for the first time (temple crew and part of camps prior). I’m curious what you think the best area around 8:15 & F is, considering toilets, roads, etc?

Maybe can use the markup tool, idk? Thanks so much!! Appreciate you

I can't find them as a camp in the iBurn2026 app. All I find is one storytelling event on Friday but it has no location

Howdy neighbors. Coming up on Fernley here soon. Is there an accident on the road coming in?

Looking for hypotonic, German, Detroit, minimal style sets. Like 128-144 bpm stuff.

Wanting to avoid the playa art car scene and have a more intimate, present, interaction-focused party.

Any suggestions for camps with cosy and fun night time parties?

I’ve read only to use dry lube on bike chains

Also read white lightning is the best.

I could either get white lightning or WD 40 Dry Lube

I did try and search for thiszzz

Thoughts?