#Dystopia

I went to Washington D.C. to document the presence of the National Guard deployed to our nation’s capital.I walked around taking pictures with @benjancewicz and Rosemary RyanIt ended up being
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WHO CAN STOP THE NWO ?[THREAD] Well the short answer is US ! WE the people and a certain amount of awareness about what’s really going on behind the veil....It's
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There's two reasons that Facebook is such a cesspit of disinformation, unproductive flamewars and trolling:First, it's too fucking big. That is, not only is Zuck monumentally unqualified to control the
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I've been talking to @polygon's @TashaRobinson about my books for nearly two decades. She was one of the reviewers to dig into Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, my
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hey everyone! now that we’ve had a day to take in the escapism chapter, i thought i would time contribute my interpretation in the form of this thread (enjoy this
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I’m back in @BulletPointsVG!This time I wrote about how Cyberpunk 2077’s braindances are a pale imitation of interesting (but still very problematic) work from earlier cyberpunk cinema and lit, including
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In hindsight, I realize this statement is unhelpful, and more than a little needlessly passive-aggressive. Instead of continuing that, I'd like to elaborate on the point.So, "neurodivergent": a term used
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It is claustrophobic: the sound of your own breathing mixes with the fear of asphyxiation.It is impersonal: only the eyes peering through the sockets betray any humanity.It is totemic: the
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For today's #WednesdayWisdom a tale of an unintentionally radical publisher. It only produced 42 books between 1968-9, but it caught the hedonistic, solipsistic, free love mood of the West Coast
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The UK Arts & Culture scene has been dealt such a clinical, ‘perfect storm’ coup-de-grace from its own government’s policies that it’s becoming difficult to tell if much of the
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There is a big difference between making your bed/doing your own laundry/keeping common areas neat,and the school turning students into shift workers to deep clean common areas regularly, mostly as
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Here's a thread full of lesser-known indie games that I loved this year. Caveats:*"Lesser-known" means that I'm not gonna post Hades or Teardown. That doesn't mean those aren't instant classics,
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about technology and inequality.Many people just sort of assume that new technology will exacerbate inequality. But what if it does the opposite?https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-09/we-may-be
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Is dystopian fiction good for society? Time for a THREAD! The proximate cause of this thread is the following article by @peterwsinger @august_cole whose #burninbook you should check out, if
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30 anti-vaccine protestors have shut down the largest vaccination site in the US.https://twitter.com/mikel_jollett/status/1355642351297785856 Over a dozen Los Angeles-area anti-mask/anti-vax protestors participated in the January 6th assaul
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"No deal" food shortage fears in "news" yet again (with no doubt the usual 'project fear' retorts). Let's see if I can *again* (as an ex logistics freight forwarding customs
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