The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted. von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

The marketing gnomes tell me I shouldn't shut up about Beasts so here we go. Let's talk about why ripping pieces off your character sheet is a fun and interesting design <thread emoji>

In tonight's office hours on the Scarlet Banner Discord (starting at 9 PM Eastern), we'll be talking about elves who grow up to become trees, or anything else you'd like to drop in and chat with us about. discord.gg/TqkXPj2D2q

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

It is not our job to determine if resistance is hopeless. It is our duty to render it effective, at all possible points, while we are alive. It is the future that will determine if our efforts were victorious, not the present. To act fully in the present means to never face defeat.

Which New York City mayoral candidate cares about others, and which just cares about himself? Three guesses, and the first two don’t count.

Chotiner getting to the whole "semi-clone of your dead wife that's 14 and which you have a suspiciously close relationship with" part would make Gendo truly crash out

Researchers in Spain have developed a new intranasal COVID-19 vaccine that eliminates the virus in mice. One dose gave 60% protection, but two intranasal doses achieved 100% protection with no detectable virus in nasal or lung tissue, suggesting sterilizing immunity. www.csic.es/es/actualida...

If you don't vote, you can't complain when the wrong bear gets in. (There are no wrong bears)

We don’t recognize people running the game as fellow game designers, so we keep design discussions out of the text, and that means that the people doing most of the game design (at the table) can only guess at what the tools in the toolbox are designed to do. www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

We won’t just give you the tools to make it easier to design your game, we’re going to make it clear why we designed it that way, what it’s supposed to accomplish, and how it’s supposed to work so you can make more informed and confident decisions as a game designer. www.patreon.com/posts/138979...

It's so strange to me how the absolutely core question at the heart of politics - "what kind of society do we want to live in?" - is so absent from discussion, either assumed settled or reduced to meaningless generalities.

Not sure this was clear. Collapse isn't an event, it's a process that historically is only clear in hindsight. That applies to us now. We still locate the possibility of collapse in the future. But we're already in what history will see as the process of collapse, and it has to be affecting us.

To those who cancelled their Disney related subscriptions. Since Trump defunded PBS, it would help them quite a bit if you took the same money you used to send to Disney and instead, sent it to PBS/NPR.

It's Latine Heritage Month so I'm really excited to announce a little side project I've been working on. Quickstart guide is available here: latinerd.itch.io/beasts *In war there are no gods, no devils. There are only beasts.* Art by @lucasnwd.bsky.social, logo by @lamalamuerte.bsky.social

The study Olúfémi cited here is long and detailed, but I want to highlight two specific paragraphs which get at why, like him, I know we will win.

The writer of Andor, Dan Gilroy, wrote an op-ed in Deadline and it is as good as you might imagine. deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

Let’s talk about antifascist games in tabletop! @worldchamp.bsky.social @goodluckpress.co @willjobst.bsky.social @gshowitt.bsky.social @chamonkee.bsky.social @evilhat.bsky.social #ttrpg #rpg #antifascist #antifa #indiegames #bashthefash

I'm incredibly ecstatic that we reached $100,000 for the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle. With just 2 days left to go, please RT and support the bundle, and let's push it as high as we can go!!! Thank you for the support!! Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

I really wish people would stop using the word anarchy to mean chaos. Just use the word chaos. That's what that word is for. Anarchy just means no rulers and the fact that its synonymous with chaos for so many is just propagandistic nonsense

That's when you do a stellar job with your anarchy!

Earth day is so funny It’s like “hey man what are we celebrating” “All of it” “All of it?” “Everything, yeah.” “The moon?” “NO.”

Right now the Nukak are fighting to return to their home. Over half of the Nukak people have died from disease and violence because of forced contact 30 years ago. Enough's enough. Take action to ensure the Nukak can safely return to their lands! svlint.org/Nukak-EN-IG

If this isn't your response to doomerism I don't want to know you

We're just about 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD. Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

the world if liberals didn't hate leftists more than fascists

in wheaton, illinois, this morning— it appears bystanders helped chase off this crew of ice agents, who had boxed in a person's car outside a convenience store. multiple people showed up and recorded the interaction. after a brief back-and-forth with agents, the feds got in their cars and left.

If Andor taught us one thing, it’s that we should probably cancel Disney+ right now.

Fascism is a difficult concept to nail down for two reasons: (1) it’s subject to a lot of semantic bleaching from overuse (see Godwin’s Law) and (2) the fact that fascists are willing to say almost anything that serves their interests, makes it all a hopeless jumble of contradictory bullshit.

A warning: as we face more trauma and pain, it’s going to seem more and more tempting to “trust our guts”, turn away at the slightest opportunity, make snap judgments. In our pain, we’ll do anything we can to avoid more… but it’s a trick. Our guts are biased, our trauma avoidance will isolate us.

I found this Mastodon 🧵 very illuminating:

Pardon me, but while MAGA and Trump may want to use it that way, we don't need to let them. I think it is absolutely the case that Trump aspires to be something like a fascist dictator, I said so last October. But we are not powerless and they have not won yet.

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

Man, a lot of crazy shit has happened since Epstein’s birthday letter was released a week ago Monday.

People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

a modicum of a silver lining: the prominent entertainers and writers who resolutely say “fuck you” during this era will be artists you can likely trust for the rest of your fucking life

The first Reconstruction 3.0 president should bring Lina Khan into the administration and inject her with the Bane serum

"I’m not afraid of the fallout of last week’s news because everything bad that might come out of it was already being planned." open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Sandal secretly ghost-wrote all the good seasons of “The Simpsons.” He left the show after season 9, firmly believing that the show had run its course and should bow out gracefully on a high note. Sadly, the other writers didn’t listen to him. He then went on to ghost-write “The Wire.”

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Intranasal vaccine stops infection at the source. In 2022, Australian researchers secured nearly $1M in grants to develop an intranasal COVID vaccine. New findings show it blocks the virus in the nose, stopping it from spreading in the body and preventing transmission to others. archive.md/iaSKv

I know Andor isn't the answer to fascism and too many people get their politics from mega corporations' media but this scene and dialogue is truly one of the most clear and effective communications of how The Machine works and what it relies on

Huge thanks to @crapstacular.bsky.social for covering our Games for Palestine charity bundle in Rascal News 🙏 as we approach the last days of the charity, all RTs and signal boosting is appreciated. Get the bundle here itch.io/b/2979/play-...

horrified they weren’t quick enough to keep her from spreading this kind of vile hate speech on TV. for those who don’t know, “go birds” is a coded expression of support for the Philadelphia Eagles

Can’t stop, got heron shit to do.

Public expressions of defiance to our enemies — and support for each other — remain really important right now. Be wary of the instinct to pack efforts in already/flee due to pressure. Fash are already struggling more than they let on.