Revolutionary Jason

Fentanyl. Drug Overdoses, including Fentanyl, are not even in the top 20 causes of death in the USA. Cancer, Diabetes, Covid, Heart Disease all in the top 10, and all have had their research funding cut. They aren't murdering just Venezuelans. However they are killing us much slower.

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Got news this afternoon that I’m being laid off from my day job. Christmas Eve will be my last day. So if you were thinking of joining the @revolutionarygames.co Patreon, there’s rarely been a better time! www.patreon.com/cw/revolutio...

How Earth Becomes a Jungle World (Again) | Revolutionary Games Get more from Revolutionary Games on Patreon

In this week’s free post, @giuli.revolutionarygames.co talks about the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) and how it inspired us to envision the Fifth World as a jungle planet from pole to pole — and the positive role humans can play in shaping that future. www.patreon.com/posts/144610...

If you're against UBI you're not only a laughably evil villain you're also bad at economics.

Laughably bad.

LIKE LOOK AT HOW ECONOMICS WORKS YOU TOTAL SPOON.

📌 35+ Ways America is Resisting ICE (that go beyond protest) Part 1

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ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.

A study of recent ICE deployments shows unequivocally that the principal targets are US citizens protesting against ICE, not immigrants. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

YouTube video by Dimension 20 Meet the Cubbys

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"My leftist values are meaningless and hollow if my praxis doesn’t include masking - not necessarily for me - but for my community. [...] We are nothing without community, without each other. I mask so that I do not disable, maim, or kill anyone else."

Disappointing. Those are some rookie numbers, I’m going to have to work on that.

@profanity.accountant

There is a direct correlation between how fake your job is and how much value you see in AI

The law is not now, nor has it ever been, a moral instrument.

We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.

They're all blood, you see.

Ethan Hawke as Vincent Freeman in Gattaca (1997) in the water at night saying, "I never saved anything for the swim back."

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:

Black bear
American crow
Praying mantis
Red-tailed hawk
White-tailed deer

Emissary - Knave of Cups Emissary is a love letter to Ursula K. Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle. Many of these stories—including The Left Hand of Darkness, The Dispossessed, and The Telling—follow a shared structure, beginning with a...

Emissary is a contemplative group worldbuilding game inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s Hainish Cycle.

Made with love by a local designer in Maryland just down the street from the evil hat itself. 💜 💫 🚀

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One of the reasons i love tolkien is the theme that despair is an enemy

and it makes clear you don’t need to have constant hope, you can get by with grim determination or spite but never despair

AND HIS BOOTS ARE YELLOW

Country-wide

Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”

You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...

(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) “Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.” (next to a crossed out Target logo) “Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.” (next to a crossed out Amazon logo) “Amazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.”

It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

Before COVID, I was very satisfied to run a short demo at PAXU that two frat bros bounced COMPLETELY off of. I didn't have to push at all, the rules themselves repelled them by requiring them to recognize a woman's personhood. It was a moment when I was truly proud of my game design work.

Eugene Debs smiling and waving to the crowd

"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose—especially their lives."

- Eugene Debs, 1918 (this speech landed him in prison)

Those are the only people there are to target. There were never millions of dangerous criminals to target in the first place, so if you want to deport thousands of people a day they’re going to have to be almost exclusively innocent people.

HEY EVERYBODY I wrote a story about Beatles and also beetles and also historicity! And you can read it for free if you become a Patron, or for $3 if you don’t wanna.

I am actually really proud of this one, which is rare for me. Usually I hate everything I write, but I think I did OK with this one.

Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins) Everything changed in the last few weeks. The Republicans, assumed by themselves and too many others, to be unstoppable got stopped again and again. Public opinion manifested in many ways: as an elect...

People looking for signs of change often assume the change that matters most, the watershed, the rubicon, the turning point will be a dramatic event. But a case can be made that the changes that matter most happen in minds and hearts, and the events follow from that.

The feds target Anarchists because they know that if Americans really understood what capital-A Anarchy is all about, we'd take to it like ducks to water.

There’s this pattern we have in a lot of Fifth World stories that Giuli uses here, where first we see the people of the future misunderstanding the past (us), only to later reveal that with maturity and perspective they actually understand us more deeply than we understand ourselves.