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clinodev

@clinodev.bsky.social

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Reader of SF/F, history, politics. Intermittent writer, engineer, Quaker. GameDev-adjacent-ish.

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · Mar 30

This was Holy Writ to Republicans a few decades ago, but I half expect to get banned for posting this.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! ”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 12h

The Politics of Nonviolent Action! Thank you so much!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pol...

The Politics of Nonviolent Action - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 14h

This is absurdly bad PR. These are the images that need amplified. If you're online, think strategically about which images need to go viral to tell the story of the horrors of this moment. RT and share the shit out of them.

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 12h

Years ago in a public library I ran across a three volume book that was either a study of the Civil Rights Movement or movements in general, and one of the three volumes was entirely dedicated to historical direct actions.
Does that ring a bell? I'd very much like to find that book.

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 13h

Aw, I got excited to talk about about the tea smuggling angle.

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 22h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 21h

I'm so happy for some frog loving friends who are joyfully watching this amphibian redemption! 🐸

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Jeremiah Hayden @jeremiahhayden.bsky.social · 22h

Like the inflatable animal costumes that started at the ICE facility, a bellwether for allegorical nonviolent resistance, the “Don’t Obey” wheat paste frogs are also proliferating around Portland. The glue is still wet as the marches convene.

Three wheat pasted posters on a wall at SE 7th and Ankeny in Portland read “don’t obey” with a frog in the center — a new take on the Shepard Fairey “obey” design.

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davidm79.bsky.social @davidm79.bsky.social · 3d

First they came for the giraffes and I did not say anything because I was a short king.

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 3d

The "youths" in question are in their late 20's and early 30's from what I've read, if that takes away part of the sting. Late millennials and the earliest Z, working in or actually holding political office, not university freshmen.

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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 7d

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Trek Geeks @trekgeeks.com · 5d

With heavy hearts, we share that our dear friend, sister, and fellow podcaster, Subrina Wood of the SyFy Sistas, has passed away after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. Her laughter, light, and love for fandom will never be forgotten. 💜🖖

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 24d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 7d

Is it still indecent exposure if no one can see it?

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Cleg @clegggg.bsky.social · 7d

Incidentally I just read the account of a holocaust survivor of the camps (man’s search for meaning) and what most sticks with me is that they only executed 12 people at Nuremberg

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troyliss @troyliss.bsky.social · 7d

The new rule for sporting events is you have to stand if the song has America or USA in the title. Including but not limited to:
- God Bless America
- God Bless the USA
- Born in the USA
- Living in America
- American Idiot
- I’m Afraid of Americans
- America (from West Side Story)
- American Woman

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post:

God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8d

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:

www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 8d

Found this just incredibly depressing, more than anything.

An easel sign reads, “UCLA
ATTENTION
No events are permitted in this area today. Per Policy 852, this location is NOT designated for public expression activities.
Individuals participating in an event or a public expression activity in this area are subject to discipline and/or arrest.
Scan for policy information.”

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 8d

I wonder if the CIA gets to keep the medals for the trophy room when one of their guys wins a Nobel?

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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 12d

I stopped calling Octavia butlers work prophetic once I realized she herself literally said that her work was influenced by deeply studying history which gave have her insight into the future. I realized I was watering down how truly brilliant she was and what she was trying to get across

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 9d

Hear me out: What if it's both the hoarding and the havoc?

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 9d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Victoria Tran ✨ @victoriatran.bsky.social · 9d

bonjour hiiii I’ll be at #MIGS25 this November speaking about community, marketing, and self-publishing (gasp) (wow) (how unexpected) (who could've guessed)

see you soon Montréal friends!!! 🍁

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 10d

ive been developing a practice of megastructural galactic engineering based on harvesting stellar remnants by just stripping them of their envelope when their interior shells contain the materials you need

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clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 10d

Your business plan intrigues me. Please courier over a prospectus immediately!

clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 11d

I legitimately learned most of what I needed to know about the Nazis and the current situation from Peter Batty's The House of Krupp. Who could have imagined it was billionaires all along!

clinodev @clinodev.bsky.social · 11d

The Democratic Party is a mechanism for turning donor millions into plebe votes for donor projects. Voters are the product, like any other modern situation where someone else pays for the service we enjoy.