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blackwingedheaven

@blackwingedheaven@dice.camp

Librarian, gamer, 3d printer, RPG writer. Antifascist, leftist, social justice artificer. Proud Kentuckian, if not always proud of Kentucky. #SavageWorlds #CortexPrime #DnD5E

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thebrand, to random
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I'm seeing a lot of my fellow Gen-Xers saying "When did we start thinking the police were the bad guys?"

Did you not come up on Fuck the Police? On Killing in the Name?

Or is this only because now that you have your little bit of shit and feel entitled that you want to remake it? To be safe for you, instead of strong for them? To become the generation we hated for not protecting us?

These kids are doing what we did. Being who we wanted to be. Help them, don't shit on them. Fucking cowards.

blackwingedheaven,
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@thebrand As a fellow, Gen X-er, let me just say, fuck the police, ACAB. The kids are alright.

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    blackwingedheaven, to SpiderMan
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    As a university librarian, this is the kind of dedication I like to see from our students.

    Tim_Eagon, to movies
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    I watched the trailer that dropped today for the new remake of The Crow and it looks fucking atrocious.

    blackwingedheaven,
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    @Tim_Eagon Ugh, right? The original is literally my favorite movie, and the new one looks aggressively bad.

    Tim_Eagon, to movies
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    So I did end up watching The Crow last night. I sometimes forget how overwrought and earnest 90s art could be, but I loved nearly every minute of it (the visuals, action, and soundtrack mostly) - it was like being transported back to 1994.

    blackwingedheaven,
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    @Tim_Eagon My favorite movie of all time!

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    blackwingedheaven,
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    @LeviKornelsen I really don't understand why there's so much kerfuffle about paid GMing when we don't throw fits about people charging for other forms of entertainment performance.

    blackwingedheaven, to random
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    Look, y'all. I don't care much for Biden, but anyone who screams "They're both the same!" and tries to get you to give up voting isn't your friend. Biden is an unexciting centrist. Trump is an outright fascist.

    blackwingedheaven, to random
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    One of my absolute joys in reading a new RPG book is finding words I don't already know, researching their meaning, and falling down a rabbit hole of historical and cultural anecdotes. The new book, Across the Eight Directions, has been especially rich and rewarding in this fashion.

    cstross, to random
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    Scientific American op-ed:

    Tech Billionaires Need to Stop Trying to Make the Science Fiction They Grew Up on Real

    Today’s Silicon Valley billionaires grew up reading classic American science fiction. Now they’re trying to make it come true, embodying a dangerous political outlook

    (by me):

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tech-billionaires-need-to-stop-trying-to-make-the-science-fiction-they-grew-up-on-real/

    blackwingedheaven,
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    @cstross I'd be less worried about them trying to make sci-fi real if they didn't constantly and critically misunderstand the fiction in question, ultimately leading them to reinvent the Torment Nexus over and over again.

    blackwingedheaven, to DoctorWho
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    The existence of the Doctor and the Master implies the existence of the Bachelor and the Associate. In this essay, I will-

    blackwingedheaven, to random
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    My cat Parry is a silly little guy.

    blackwingedheaven, to ravenloft
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    Have you ever wanted an Appalachian folk horror take on Curse of Strahd? TOO BAD, YOU'RE GETTING ONE!

    https://bluegrasswasteland.blogspot.com/2023/12/barrow-county-appalachia.html

    blackwingedheaven, to random
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    The idea that people would stop doing things if they didn't have to slave away just for basic necessities can be defeated by a simple glance at the sheer number of passion projects that people engage in during their spare time that produce immense value for humanity as a whole.

    archaeohistories, to random
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    Owl - eastern Greek fluorite carved idol, 4th-3rd Century BC. (H: 48mm)

    Private Collection, East London, UK

    blackwingedheaven,
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    @archaeohistories Forbidden gummy.

    blackwingedheaven, to random
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    Since I'm shutting down my Patreon, I'm going to start sharing old drafts and previews with the general public. First up is the current (90% complete) draft of my Cortex Prime setting, Children of the Dark!

    https://bluegrasswasteland.blogspot.com/2023/09/children-of-dark.html

    breadandcircuses, to environment

    On the precarious fragility of our modern complex industrial society...

    The primary near-term threat to human civilization is famine.

    Americans may think of famine as something that happens elsewhere, not here. This is a mistake. Go to your kitchen cupboard, grab a few items, and look at where they’re made. Try the same exercise at the grocery store.

    Capitalism has forced the hyper-specialization of various regions into profitable mono-cultures which create single points of failure in the food system. Just one example: 90% of the green leafy vegetables produced in the US from November to March are grown in the Yuma, Arizona area. We import beef from South America, and fruits from all over the globe. Staple grains have become just another globally traded commodity like steel or rubber.

    What this means is that practically nowhere in the developed world, and most especially not in the US, can people support themselves on locally produced foods. Farmers markets are in no way capable of offsetting a major gap in imported foods. We are completely dependent on a highly complex global logistics chain in order to eat.

    The supply system fragility described above obviously affects far more than just food supply. All other critical supplies and materials needed for civilization similarly depend on foreign production, marine shipping, ports, truck drivers, warehouses, etc.

    Every aspect of our globalized supply chain is hyper-fragile. When shocks eventually exceed the system’s resiliency, for example if a climate-caused famine creates gaps in those “essential workers” so taken for granted during Covid, citizens of industrialized countries will experience shortages of building materials, gasoline/diesel, car repair parts, etc. Those shortages will create feedbacks affecting other sectors. A hyper-fragile system pushed beyond its limit will experience impacts far exceeding the magnitude of the shock.

    The above is an excerpt from a long and comprehensive analysis by Sam Hall (@SamYourEyes) of the present climate crisis, its causes, and its likely trajectory. I recommend reading the whole thing.

    FULL ARTICLE -- https://medium.com/@samyoureyes/the-busy-workers-handbook-to-the-apocalypse-7790666afde7

    blackwingedheaven,
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    @breadandcircuses There's a solid argument that this same sort of fragile system of interdependence, climate change (on a smaller scale), and long-distance trade failing is the same thing that caused the Bronze Age Collapse.

    blackwingedheaven, to random
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    Cam Banks got hit with an unfair defamation suit from a real piece of shit. Not naming names for obvious reasons (i.e., I don't wanna get hit with a defamation suit.) Any help people can throw his way would be super helpful.

    https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/cam-banks-support-fundraiser

    blackwingedheaven,
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    @rivetgeek Well, in my first amendment protected opinion, Zak is a huge piece of shit who should be driven through the streets with a horsewhip.

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