The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

In summary: - This call campaign needs to last at least a month - As many calls as possible, so bring your friends - Make sure each call lasts as long as possible - Each time you make a call, mention it's not the first time you've called about this

Call call call. Visa is literally begging us to stop calling and send emails. Calls cost them way more money and they can't use key words to filter them out

The last supplement to talk about in my Blue Sky re-intro is for Anyone Can Wear the Mask by @jeffstormer.gobirds.online A very cool 1 - 3 person game about a superhero, a supervillain, and the city they share. jeffstormer.itch.io/mask

If you haven't already been, get connected with your local mutual aid groups, local political organizing groups like WFP or PSL or DSA, talk to your neighbors. We're going to need to protect each other, it's only going to keep getting worse.

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If anything, perhaps Andor was in fact more prescient about this moment than some can stand: every day a Latine person wagers their desire to survive against the will to resist while 5 powerful white people debate how much they're willing to risk and what's the least threatening way to risk it.

i feel like i'm gonna be saying this a lot on the book tour, but for any critics who've already read NOCK LOOSE: the 'moral' of the story is that violent resistance against oppressors and oppressive systems isn't only justified, it is necessary -- and cool!

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IT'S HAPPENING!!! We've smashed BOTH of our pre-stream milestones, and are officially 1/5 of the way to our overall goal of $5000!

I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.

Still on about this I'm going to use "like a sommelier or an omakase chef for TTRPGs" in every pitch moving forward, because yeah, yes exactly

We are finally back form our technically induced hiatus. Listen, there is an absolutely hilarious bit near the end of this one you got to check out. pnc.st/s/the-room-w...

Tonight I’m in Ann Arbor at THE ARK! Tell your Michigan friends that the tranniest cowpoke from the northern Carolina’s is coming to town TONIGHT and it’s going to be a really special thing. This is my first show in several months! mutotix.umich.edu/5445

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat. I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

Girl, I don't have human rights NOW

Then what happened?

"Criminal" is a social construct, not a personality or an inherent trait. Some things people do are very bad and are allowed. Some people get arrested for feeding the homeless or protesting land destruction. No one should be tortured, even if they did bad things.

one of the ways you can fix your hearts is financially contributing to the material safety of trans ppl, btw

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

Little reminder for these trying times

NEXT WEEK: The first rule is Emma and I don't talk about it. The second rule is Emma and I don't talk about it. Come listen to us totally not talk about Fight Club and we'll see if the book or the movie end up beating the shit out of each other over on the podcast Unnatural Selection!

Alright, I guess it's time to go back to work. Some really exciting shows coming up in the next month. If you wanna grab tickets, there are links on my website to all of these shows with little graphics you can download and text to your friends & say, "Hey lil gai boi, wanna hear banjo or nah?"

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Listening to the latest @osgpod.bsky.social and so glad that Titanfall 2 has poisoned their brains as well. If you have mech love brain disease feel free to check out our HEAVILY Titanfall 2 inspired season The Bleed!

They really thought we had one big group chat where we shared our liberation plans lol abcnews.go.com/Politics/fbi...

Party of One is Hot Ones and the TTRPGs are chicken wings.

just wanna remind people that the person who snitched on luigi got none of the promised reward because of random technicalities. you have nothing to gain by being a rat.

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Go Birds.

i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying

#BlackHistoryMonth: Since the National Park Service wants to erase the T from Stonewall, let's spill the T through the Stonewall Community Foundation. The first story here is of Frances Thompson, a trans black activist born in 1840.

@roomwherepod.bsky.social is an actual play podcast where different seasons play different campaign length ttrpgs. From high fantasy to sci-fi to urban/modern fantasy, there's at least one season you'll enjoy. And you'll find a host of characters to fall in love with and amazing storytellers. 🧵2/7

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

We know it's hellworld outside, but come join us in our fictional hellworld as Foxfire gets back in the horse. We got fights, a smoke monster and The Mountain Goats. pnc.st/s/the-room-w...

Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.

This is the one I've been waiting for because this and the trad wife shit is connected and all infiltrated by white supremacists and cryptofascists who push their agendas under the guise of "enlightenment" and other wellness buzz words.

I've gotten almost no actual confirmation that anyone will participate in this. Regardless, I will start an itch.io jam for Black History Month inspired micro-rpgs later today/early tomorrow. Stay tuned!

It's Black History Month. Now more than ever, it's important to say that, and to make a conscious effort to learn more about the deliberately buried history of America's black communities. For example, did you know school breakfast was an effort to undermine the Black Panther Party?

Even as the world falls apart, don't let them trick you into thinking there are more of them than us. Every counter protest in my small, southern town has drawn more folks than the chuds demonstrating. If they could win easily they wouldn't be working this hard, and we got to make it harder for them

Folks, please be skeptical of “blue” resistance grifters posting about collective action occurring weeks from now. Their goal is to prevent action sooner. It’s the “wait for Mueller” playbook all over again. Keep the pressure on your elected officials. Be relentless.

Let’s kickoff Black History Month with a short doc on Bad Brains! 🤘

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

so i guess if you know folks who are saving ANY .gov HIV/AIDS data & resources or if you are saving any .gov HIV/AIDS data & resources and you would like to be connected to a cross university team to save this data, email me

Boozhoo Books is a publishing imprint that publishes exclusively Indigenous authors. We are currently seeking novel length genre fiction (thriller, horror, romance, fantasy). Agented and non-agented submissions are welcome.

You can still help make this happen, by the way! Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed so far! Imagine your support thus far as ‘giving Brandon opportunities to bully Shaun in a TTRPG’.