drawing of a burning warehouse “all you had to do was pay us enough to live”

people will tell you it’s complicated but it’s really not

“Botlicker” is a fantastic term for the fascist-enabled wannabe tech barons of today.

A black sand background sits behind 4 cutout blocks. Left to right the blocks contain: (1) Tuesday, Can Anyone Hear Me at 7:00pm EST and a cutout image of 4 people above a white line, above the text A Duality Horror Fantasy Adventure and the Duality and YouTube logos all in front of a creepy forest. (2 and 3) Thursday and Friday respectively, in front of a space background and spaceship style lettering that reads Delta Shift and 8:00pm EST. 4 people are in gold trimmed rounded edge boxes, above the Duality, Twitch, and YouTube logos. (4) The Duality cover with lightning strikes showing a character leaping towards another character who has their back to the viewer. They are both wearing clothing showing a split of the Modern Horror and High Fantasy genres. At the bottom a purple box contains the words Live on Kickstarter. Over the bottom of the image is a gold bar with the MimicsNMisfits logo and wording, bookended by the Twitch and YouTube logos.

Did you know there's lots going on this week?! We're ramping up our schedule to bring you some amazing TTRPG adventures!

Join us Tuesday for a suburban adventure in "Can Anyone Hear Me?", and then come back on Thursday as we launch into space with the crew of Delta Shift

Details in the thread 🧵

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Anorin Collective Technologies welcomes you! Starting another journey aboard the CSC Echo, the party is tasked to investigate a spacial rift. Good thing everyone's on the same team...right?

Featuring:
@urbanbohemian.com
@intersectionscch.blacksky.app
@fullrubberducky.bsky.social
@damphyr.com

Picture of me sweaty with a yellow bandana and gray t shirt.

First bike ride of the season!

"Where are all the campus protestors?" ask the grinning ghouls who cheered on the brutal suppression of campus protests

There is so much to love about this picture! OMG

It's amazing the extent to which this country has adopted the bat-shit crazy idea that public services need to make money.

The reason mail delivery, busses, subways, etc, are subsidized by the public is because they can't make money while providing a needed service!

Y I K E S
That is a lot. I am so sorry.

a beagle puppy is sitting on a bed and says happy birthday . Alt: a beagle puppy is sitting on a bed and says happy birthday .

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Today we received veiled threats of removal by force from our landlord. Please, the situation is becoming more stressful by each day. Help me.leave such a place

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Regime change? How about Land Back instead

A promo image for a new show on Find Out Productions. A text box in the top right reads: The Hand That Feeds A Red Markets Actual Play Premieres Thursday, April 23rd 2pm Eastern 7pm British Twitch.tv/FindOutProductions Most of the space is dedicated to artwork of four armed people in front of a bombed out and barricaded hot dog stand (formerly called Demon Dawgs). Pictured from left to right: A Black woman in protective gear with a spear and a first aid kit. A Black person holding a handgun, in camo and a tactical vest, their hands and face mostly covered. The uncovered parts reveal black veins on their face. A tall, athletic Black woman with dreads in overalls shouldering a modified hunting rifle. An Asian man with sunglasses on, holding a handgun, wearing a heavy backpack, leaning against the hot dog stand.

Coming soon!

An 8 session campaign of Red Markets!

A game of economic horror five years after the zombie apocalypse, by @hebanongames.bsky.social.
With art by @yukitosan.bsky.social.

And as for who the people in the artwork are: cast and character reveals start this Saturday!

#ttrpg #actualplay

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A $400 million ballroom was just the beginning. Now, Trump plans to spend $174 million more on renovations | Fortune Nearly all of the funding comes from donors, the White House said.

Spending $500+ million on a new gold ballroom and residence upgrades to the White House while people across the country struggle to pay their bills because of him is… a choice.

His priority is not helping working people—it’s himself.

Thing is that failed states are a spectrum.

I am not saying that the United States is fully collapsed. But what I am saying is that being a rogue state is a different category (one created by the US). The US can be both. And I agree with the various folks who argue that it is.
8/8

The United States is a country which does not provide any stability or meaningful social safety net. Does not have a base level of education or healthcare. The infrastructure is crumbling where it exists. Corruption is ruling the day to the point where selective enforcement of laws is normal.

7/8

✖️the state becomes illegitimate in the eyes of the international community. (The US is close, but I won't give this a check since most countries are still recognize the gov.)

6/8

A failed state's governing capacity is degraded to the point:
✅ it is unable to fulfill the administrative & organizational tasks required to control people & resources
✅ it can provide only minimal public services.
✅ Its citizens no longer believe that their government is legitimate
5/8

A failed state suffers from:
✅ crumbling infrastructures
✅ faltering utility supplies & educational & health facilities,
✅ deteriorating basic human-development indicators, such as infant mortality and literacy rates.
✅ an environment of flourishing corruption and negative growth rates
4/8

Lets check the defining criteria and features of a failed state.
A failed state is composed of:
✅ Feeble and flawed institutions
✅ Barely functioning executive
✅ Legislature, judiciary, bureaucracy, & armed forces have lost capacity & professional independence
3/8

"The dynamics leading to & compounding state failure are many & varied, including civil war, ethnic violence or genocide, & predatory government and bureaucratic behavior. State failure comes in degrees & is often a function of both the collapse of state institutions & societal collapse."
2/8

The US governments is NOT functioning internally. That's the point. The checks and balance are not checking and balancing. The money to care for the public and maintain infrastructure is being paid to cronies. Civic/gov orgs are not functioning and can't staff themselves.

We fit the criteria.
🧵1/8

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They're asking readers to not visit ProPublica or engage with content on other platforms. It's the first work stoppage of its kind at the newsroom.

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USian dedication to ignoring the ugly parts to fain innocence for as many parties as possible is 1) as old as the country itself and 2) how we got here & KEEP getting here.

The genocidal settler state doesn't change until the average person acknowledges that the US is wrong & should change.
3/3

I want to scream because there is nothing but drastic and decisive action that will be effective in addressing this. Our other war criminal presidents may have been willing to leave office, but this has TOLD AND SHOWN HE WON'T but we're allowing the narrative that elections will save us.
2/3

Hypernormalisation and Trusting Your Lived Experience YouTube video by Woke Mental Wellness

Folks are contorting themselves to use normal channels, wishful thinking & minimization as praxis to address/ ignore the escalating threat of the fallen & overtaken US government makes me feel like I'm having an episode.

The dedication to acting normal will kill us all.
youtu.be/NAYEYCbOvW8?...
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I'm the daughter of an Army paratrooper who refused orders during our illegal invasion of Vietnam back in the day. He went to LBJ military jail.

Dad taught his girls this: "Just following orders" is NEVER any excuse for anyone who's complicit in war crimes. You MUST refuse heinous orders.

A minority of his voters perhaps weren't paying attention to anything he represents or says and only cared about prices/economy but the majority knew what they were signing up for. I will die on that hill.