Travis Allison

Abundance for the 99 Percent Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance.

"Abundance is the precondition of socialism, but socialism is also the precondition of abundance."

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

Reading Lee Miller's biography is fascinating. You see a woman showing so many signs of what we now call ADHD. She had a number of people who supported her and helped her to make her life possible. A truly talented woman who was equally charismatic and maddening.

This ✌🏻

This video is super helpful. Four key points, bypasses urgency crap, addresses my current thinking.

I’ve been following @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social for awhile in my list of people who provide positive action, not rehashing doom. I highly recommend this.

During the campaign Carney told us he would feed Gaza, fund the CBC, and protect our interests. The minute he was elected he broke each one of those promises, I am very uninterested in the Liberal defences of those lies. They’re comfortable moving their “values” to fit their leader, I am not.

You could watch the Murderbot show, or you could literally just read All Systems Red (again).

I know it's boring to say the book is better, but the book is SO MUCH BETTER.

Carney is now attacking veterans and back tracking on pay increases to the military while receiving $150B from the Senate in unaccounted funds for the “military” while abandoning them. He is disgraceful.
#cdnpoli

Not Complicated.

YouTube video by The People's Press Fela Kuti: ‘The Truth Can Never Die.’ ✊🏿🔥 #felakuti #afrobeat #resistance

Reposting this in the wake of the Cowardice Broadcasting Service cancelling Colbert and the C Collaborator Congress defunding of NPR and PBS.

#Demvoice1

#TheTruthWillNeverDie
#OurVoiceGetsLouder

www.youtube.com/shorts/YIgEG...

Chicago’s vote to totally eliminate parking mandates near train stations is a great response to our city’s housing crisis and traffic woes.
chi.streetsblog.org/2025/07/18/c...

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The Frightening Lesson from Texas Political failure in the face of the climate disasters

The Guadalupe River raised 26 feet in 45 minutes. No one could outrun this inland tsunami. This is the new face of climate disaster.
Meanwhile our leaders play games like King Canute trying to hold back the waves.
Here is my latest.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-fright...

So… time to bring back that Digital Services Tax…? #cdnpoli #uspoli #elbowsup #tariffs

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Allegro portraits flat pixelated made of black light gray dark gray and white one by one Lego bricks is a portrait of a young girl

I'm a fan of Lego therapy.

Day 51 of throwing cat litter into DT's mouth.

#dumptrump #pottymouth #garbageoutgarbagebackin #resist #politics

I'll be giving a keynote speech at the Generation Analog Conference this year!

My talk is entitled "Thinking of a Master Plan: Hip Hop, TTRPGs, and the Power of Imaginative Defiance"

The event is online and free! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...

Open Source TTRPG Resources Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam series. Example Open Licenses Creative Commons Zero ("CC0"). Release your work into the public domain. The most open license. Creative Com

Come explore a large random selection of forever open source #TTRPG resources, from games to SRDs to art and more!

thoughtpunks.com/ope...

#OpenSource #TabletopGames #IndieGames

I joke around alot about parenting but will say one of the most challenging parts of being a dad to teen boys is staying on top of the slick and curated toxic masculinity, misogyny and hate that they get served up on a daily basis. It's slick and so insidious.

Calvin & Hobbes is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic strips of all time and I feel like we STILL underrate it.

I don't care what the dude in the SUV thinks of me, all the kids at the community center summer camp lost their minds when they saw the Urban Arrow arrive today.

Well done Canada!!!
But we can do even better!!

Continue to #BoycottUSA travel, products, retailers, & paid services!!

The turd reich wants an economic war with 🇨🇦, let’s give it to them!!!
#FuckTrump
#Never51
#CanadaStrong

Allow Corner Stores and Coffee Shops in St. Paul’s Residential Zones It’s illegal to build corner stores and other small commercial spaces in most of St. Paul, thanks to decades-old zoning codes. That should change.

"If we suddenly rezoned vast swaths of the city to re-legalize commercial buildings, we would probably not see a dramatic surge in new businesses springing up in every neighborhood. But we can be certain that small neighborhood-oriented businesses will never open in locations where they’re illegal."

Can We Afford Large-scale Solar PV? In the US solar energy has steadily risen in how much of our electricity it supplies.

Highly recommend this Construction Physics blog post on the viability of solar power as the backbone of an electricity system.

Seriously, read it -- most people, even energy-literate people, have not kept up on this subject. Things have changed *so* fast, all your old cliches are outdated.

a bike stencil with 3 dotted lines next to it How about instead of protected infrastructure at this highway on ramp, we paint a bike lane? - That feels a bit excessive, we have to remember people drive - Hmm OK, what if we just randomly paint a small line? - I don't know feels a bit anti-car...can we scale it back a bit more? - 3 dashed lines? - Perfect.

perfect.

Standing Up for Science in NYC This form is for organizing the fight against attacks on science and science funding through "Ask-A-Scientist" and other outreach events around NYC. Find and contribute to plans here: https://docs.goo...

Scientists based in New York - do you want to help raise awareness about attacks on science & science funding? We are organizing low-effort outreach events in the city. Some amazing NYUers did a test run in Washington Square Park already.

Sign up for more info here! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Saskatchewan government rolls back all U.S. tariff countermeasures Three months after bringing in measures to counter U.S. tariffs, the Saskatchewan government has walked back all of its related policies.

Cowards. Absolute cowards. leaderpost.com/news/nationa...

Six board game players posing at the end of a game of Wingspan. They are all outside, gathered around an outdoor table with a summer camp kitchen seen through the windows in the background.

One of my favourite board game pals passed yesterday. This one will keep stinging for a LONG time.