#dystopian — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dystopian, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: May contain mature and satirical content related to political themes and regimes.
A surreal, anime-style illustration of a 1990s political refugee surrounded by the absurdities of totalitarian regimes and the search for moral courage in a dystopian society.
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Recorvia Episode 15
There were very few lights on the lower level of the castle Mallory had broken into. He crept through the dungeon that had way too many easy entrances. He stopped. A terrifying cackling heard around the corner in a small chamber followed by a voice, “AHAHAHA!! Ooooh this is just so riveting!! My lovely lady, oh yes, bless my lady!” Mallory looked through a small peephole and froze, petrified. Inside, a woman lay strapped with leather to a flat stone. Her mouth had a gauze shoved into it […]https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/09/06/recorvia-episode-15/
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Michael HERTER - GAMES. Vol. 4: Futuristic Synthetic Worlds
"Futuristic electronic and hybrid tracks for sci-fi games, cyberpunk worlds, and action trailers."
#electronic #synthwave #soundtrack #cinematic #scifi #cyberpunk #dystopian #hybrid #futuristic #gaming #music
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Imagine a future in which late-stage capitalism became able to scan cadavers' brains and transfer them into chatbots unless the deceased subscribes to a high-tier funerary services plan. Behold the ultimate wet dream of those who think Black Mirror is meant as an instruction manual: KadAIve®!
Alt-text contains important explanation about this absurdist art (such as, the deliberate mimicking of AI slop machine style and the hidden puns/messages within the text), but will likely end up truncated because it's way too lengthy (too many details that ought to be explained). Hell, it's even exceeds the 5000 character limit when I try to paste the alt-text here in the post.
#arsritualistemplii #meme #dystopian #scifiparody #mementomori -
“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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“Release” is a #dystopian #SciFi #MMRomance by Marie Sexton.
Misha grew up in the “trenches” of lower Davlova, where the poorest citizens scratch out a living without technology while the high-born “purebloods” live in electrified luxury behind the walls of the inner city on the hill. Misha gets taken in by one of the clans, criminal gangs that run all sorts of operations in the city. Over the years, Misha learned the fine art of pickpocketing. Sometimes he also turns tricks to see if a potential mark had a lot of money, and where he kept it.
One day, the clan leader offers Misha a new opportunity. One of the most powerful men in the city is looking for a new toy boy and wants someone “exotic.” The clan leader isn’t just asking Misha to prostitute himself. She wants him to gain the man’s confidence and learn his secrets. The information may provide the catalyst that starts a revolution.
https://michaeljoseph.info/blog/2023/review-release-marie-sexton/?ref=mastodon
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Listen it in podcast! The book of Zenith. Chpt. 01, Section 3: Complication
https://readsofamaleno.substack.com/p/the-book-of-zenith-chpt-01-section?r=8hki8m
#ZenithBook #SciFi #Cyberpunk #Audiobook #Podcast #SciFiPodcast #Dystopian #Fiction #SpeculativeFiction
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Here's some local reporting, encouraging users in the Poconos to recognize and report Flock cameras wherever they see them.
They mention WaPo's reporting that over 50 police have been charged with using Flock surveillance for stalking personally. In Georgia alone, 18 such arrests have been documented.
#fascist #USA #surveillance #state #dystopian #present #Flock #DeFlock #cameras #LicensePlate #readers #public #privacy #GOP #KKK #ICE #DHS #judge #warrant #court #filing
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Facial Recognition is spiralling out of control in the UK and there are no clear laws in place to protect our privacy
Stop scanning us all with facial recognition Unlike CCTV, facial recognition doesn’t just record what you do, your face becomes a barcode in the same way as your fingerprint or your DNA. We must stop this. The Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, recently revealed her chilling vision of building a “panopticon” where “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.” Your passport photo is now being searched by police facial recognition systems, even if you have done nothing wrong […] -
Good morning. 🌸🌸🌸
11 July 2026
I use my phone mostly as a pocket‑sized computer rather than a telephone, though I do occasionally make or answer a call. If I want to look something up—anytime, anywhere—I reach for my back pocket, pull out my iPhone, and the world opens. It’s amazing, really, and I know I’m not the only one who does this. But if I set my phone down while moving around and suddenly think of something I want to research, which happens often, I find myself scrambling. Where did I leave it? That moment of panic is unsettling. It’s strange to feel so tethered to an object. In a way, it’s like carrying around a genie everywhere I go—one that can answer any question or fetch almost anything with a tap. Aladdin’s lamp has nothing on this little slab of metal and glass; I get far more than three wishes.
It makes me wonder how I managed daily life for so long without a cell phone. Maybe it’s similar to what my grandparents must have felt when they looked back and asked how people lived without running water or electricity. Was there really life before the automobile? I suspect most of us today wouldn’t last long in that world.
Imagine the chaos if all the cell towers suddenly went dark. It’s not impossible. Then what? Payphones have vanished, and most homes have abandoned landlines. And that’s just the communication piece. If electricity and fuel stopped flowing, survival itself would be at stake.
It’s almost comical that misplacing my iPhone can spark visions of a dystopian future—but here we are.
“Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.” — Christian Lous Lange
“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” — Carl Sagan
“Big Brother is watching you.” - George Orwell, 1984
#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #cellphones #flowers #dystopian #genie
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SHUT DOWN UK’s MINISTRY OF TRUTH
#BigBrother Watch’s investigation revealed that #secretive #UK #government #disinformation units have been #spying on #political #dissent and suppressing free speech online.
Take action:
https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/ministry-of-truth/#take-action#privacy #surveillance #DemocracyNOW #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia #authoritarianism #authoritarian #ToxicPolitics #dystopian #Orwellian #BraveNewWorld #HumanRights
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#Palantir is turning the #NHS into a tool for mass #surveillance
NHS England Federated #Data Platform, run by controversial US #military contractor Palantir, gives future #UK government power to use patients’ #healthcare #data against them
- The same thing is being enabled by Palantir into the UK
https://www.opendemocracy.net/palantir-is-turning-the-nhs-into-a-tool-for-mass-surveillance/
#Orwellian #dystopian #BigData #authoritarian #BigBrother #Orwell
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#London's #Met #Police interest in using Palantir AI technology
#cartoons #PoliceState #AI Palantir #technology #Orwellian #dystopian #oppression #DemocracyNOW #MetropolitanPolice
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... The post was called a 22-point #manifesto that has generated backlash
Post is about #book: ‘The #Technological #Republic’ by Palantir CEO Alex Karp head of corporate affairs Nicholas Zamiska.
#BoycottUSA #authoritarian #Orwellian #Dystopian #tyrants #privacy #evil #dictators #racism #fascism #fascists #USAggression #USThreats
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For following discussions around the pre-#dystopian #AgeVerification laws / bills:
Brazil: #Law15211
California: #AB1043
Colorado: #SB2651
Illinois: #SB3977
Michigan: #HB4429
New York: #S8102A
Utah: #SB0142#digitalidentity #identityverification #1984 #Dystopia #gnuLinux #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #MidnightBSD #FreeSoftware #GNU #OpenSource #System76 #Purism
Disclosure: My source for most of these unfortunately rhymes with BumPuke...
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@cloudskater wrote:
Some instances are run by bad people. Hell, a few projects like Lemmy and Matrix are DEVELOPED by assholes, but the FLOSS and federated nature of these platforms allows us to bypass/fork them and create healthy spaces outside their reach.
Nope, that is actually what is killing the fediverse. I just explained here:
The issue is the divergence in semantic interpretation that emerges at the interpretation layer. ActivityPub standardizes message delivery and defines common activity types. However, it leaves extension semantics and application-layer policy decisions to individual implementations. Servers may introduce custom JSON-LD namespaces and enforce local behaviors, such as reply restrictions, while remaining protocol-compliant. But, the noise created by divergences are problematic, because it creates unexpected, unintended, and unpredictable behavior.
Divergence appears when implementations rely on non-normative metadata and assume reciprocal handling to preserve a consistent user experience. Behavioral alignment then varies. Syntactic exchange succeeds, but behavioral consistency is not guaranteed. Though instances continue to federate at the transport level, policy semantics and processing logic differ across deployments. Those differences produce inconsistent experiences and results between implementations.
That leads to fragmentation, specifically semantic or behavioral fragmentation and an inconsistent user experiences. ActivityPub ensures syntactic interoperability, but semantic interoperability (everyone interprets and enforces rules the same way) varies. This creates a system that is federated at the transport level yet fragmented in behavior and expectations across implementations. It is funny how the thing that the fediverse touted has made the entire thing very brittle. ActivityPub technically federates correctly, but semantically falls apart once servers start adding their own behavioral rules.
https://neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network/archives/16932
FYI, I’m not doing culture wars or political debates. I’m just saying this idea of “forking away” from them is literally breaking the fediverse’s distributed network and creating all kinds of issues with semantic interoperability. Yes, federation is still happening at the delivery level, but the semantic issues are out of fucking control. You are a federation by the very sheer skin of your teeth.
The reason why developers are leaving the fediverse is because you folks don’t take criticism. You respond to criticism with — I’m being so serious right now — political manifestos and harassing developers. ActivityPub developers and authors oversold you folks on the capabilities of ActivityStreams. They flat-out lied to y’all.
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ActivityPub Server’s Custom Reply‑Control Extensions Undermine Federation
It seems like Activitbypub developers are extending ActivityPub with optional metadata to fix a lot of its issues, but that is still problematic. Trying to add moderation tools and user control to threads seems to be the ongoing battle. I am fascinated by dumpster fires, so I’ve started looking at the ActivityPub protocol in detail. I tend to become fascinated with things that are going down in flames.
As a brief recap of the problem:
So, one of the very popular features on Bluesky—also popular on Twitter—is the ability to select who can reply to a post. A major issue in the Fediverse is the inability to decide who can reply, and once you block someone, their harassing reply is still there. I honestly thought it was simply a case of them choosing not to add or address it for cultural reasons. What is clear from that thread is that they were always aware that the ActivityPub protocol and most Fediverse implementations don’t provide a universal way to control reply visibility or enforce blocks across instances.
An ActivityPub server that has reply control is GoToSocial. ActivityPub, as defined by the W3C specification, standardizes how servers federate activities. It defines actors, inboxes, outboxes, and activity types (Create, Follow, Like, Announce, etc.) expressed using ActivityStreams 2.0. It also specifies delivery mechanics (including how a Create activity reaches another server’s inbox) and how collections behave.
The specification does not include interaction policy semantics such as “only followers may reply” or “replies require manual approval.” There is no field in the normative vocabulary requiring conforming servers to enforce reply permissions. That category of rule is outside the protocol’s defined contract.
GoToSocial implements reply controls through what it calls interaction policies. These appear as additional properties on ActivityStreams objects using a custom JSON-LD namespace controlled by the GoToSocial project.
JSON-LD permits additional namespaced terms. This means the document remains structurally valid ActivityStreams and federates normally. The meaning of those custom fields, however, comes from GoToSocial’s own documentation and implementation. Other servers can ignore them without violating ActivityPub because they are not part of the interoperable core vocabulary.
Enforcement occurs locally. When a remote server sends a reply—a Create activity whose object references another via inReplyTo—ActivityPub governs delivery, not acceptance criteria. Whether the receiving server checks a reply policy, rejects the activity, queues it, or displays it is determined in the server’s inbox-processing code. The decision to accept, display, or require approval happens after successful protocol-level delivery. This behavior belongs to the application layer.
These are server-side features layered on top of ActivityPub’s transport and data model that are not actually part of ActivityPub. The protocol ensures standardized delivery of activities; however, the server implementation defines additional constraints and user-facing behavior. Two GoToSocial instances may both recognize and act on the same extension fields. However, a different implementation, such as Mastodon, has no obligation under the specification to interpret or enforce GoToSocial’s interactionPolicy properties. These fields function as extension metadata rather than protocol requirements.
The semantics of GoToSocial are not part of the specification’s defined vocabulary and processing rules for ActivityPub. They no longer operate purely at the protocol layer; it has become an application-layer contract implemented by specific servers.
Let’s use the AT Protocol as an example. Bluesky’s direct messages (DMs) are not currently part of the AT Protocol (ATProto). The AT Protocol has nothing that specifies anything for DMs, so DMs are not part of the AT Protocol. The AT Protocol was designed to handle public social interactions, but it does not define private or encrypted messaging. Bluesky implemented DMs at the application level, outside of the core protocol. DMs are centralized and stored on Bluesky’s servers. What is happening with servers like GoToSocial is sort of like that. The difference is that the AT Protocol was designed for different app views; ActivityPub was not.
The issue is the divergence in semantic interpretation that emerges at the interpretation layer. ActivityPub standardizes message delivery and defines common activity types. However, it leaves extension semantics and application-layer policy decisions to individual implementations. Servers may introduce custom JSON-LD namespaces and enforce local behaviors, such as reply restrictions, while remaining protocol-compliant. But, the noise created by divergences are problematic, because it creates unexpected, unintended, and unpredictable behavior.
Divergence appears when implementations rely on non-normative metadata and assume reciprocal handling to preserve a consistent user experience. Behavioral alignment then varies. Syntactic exchange succeeds, but behavioral consistency is not guaranteed. Though instances continue to federate at the transport level, policy semantics and processing logic differ across deployments. Those differences produce inconsistent experiences and results between implementations.
That leads to fragmentation, specifically semantic or behavioral fragmentation and an inconsistent user experiences. ActivityPub ensures syntactic interoperability, but semantic interoperability (everyone interprets and enforces rules the same way) varies. This creates a system that is federated at the transport level yet fragmented in behavior and expectations across implementations. It is funny how the thing that the fediverse touted has made the entire thing very brittle. ActivityPub technically federates correctly, but semantically falls apart once servers start adding their own behavioral rules.
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The re-made "RUNNING MAN" should have been called "The Hiding Out Man" and is boring beyond all belief. Watch Arnold's version instead. #runningman #therunningman #arnold #actionandadventure #action #adventure #survival #running #futuristic #dystopian #dystopianfuture #meta
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Rewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw
#film #films #80s #movies #GeorgeOrwell #JohnHurt #dystopia #dystopian #BigBrother
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"Following the release of the graphic novel and its 2005 film adaptation, this design came to represent broad protest, later also becoming a symbol for the online #hacktivist group '#Anonymous' after appearing in web forums, used in Project Chanology, the #Occupy movement, Anonymous for the Voiceless, and other #AntiEstablishment protests around the world. This has led to the mask also being known by the alternate name of the Anonymous mask.
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"The British comic book series #VForVendetta, which started in 1982, centers on a #vigilante's efforts to destroy an #authoritarian government in a #dystopian future United Kingdom. When developing the story, illustrator David Lloyd made a handwritten note on the intended #anarchist protagonist, V: 'Why don't we portray him as a resurrected Guy Fawkes, complete with one of those papier-mâché masks, in a cape and a conical hat? He'd look really bizarre and it would give #GuyFawkes the image he's deserved all these years. We shouldn't burn the chap every Nov. 5th but celebrate his attempt to blow up Parliament!' Writer Alan Moore commented that, due to Lloyd's idea, 'All of the various fragments in my head suddenly fell into place, united behind the single image of a Guy Fawkes mask.'
"Moore also noted, 'how interesting it was that we should have taken up the image right at the point where it was apparently being purged from the annals of English iconography.' "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_mask
#ResistFascism #ResistAuthoritarianism #UK #USA #USPol #NoKings #NoRulers
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NEW EPISODE: Time for a quick, spoiler-lite review of The Newsflesh Trilogy. Trust me, this is worth your time! #SciFi #ZombieApocalypse #Dystopian #BookReview https://youtu.be/CJayQia7P5o
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On my latest “Looking Back on Genre History” segment on the #StarShipSofa #podcast (Episode 756), I discuss two pioneering #dystopian novels -- published 50 years apart! -- that have a great deal to say to each other and to us in 2025: #TheSpaceMerchants by #FrederikPohl and #CMKornbluth and #Feed by #MTAnderson.
#Dystopia #Resist #SFF #Books #Bookstodon #ScienceFiction
Here is the link!
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CAW Weekly Writers Prompt - Monster
#CAW #CartersvilleAreaWriters #WritersPromptWeekly #WritingPromptWeekly #WeeklyWritersPrompt #WritersPrompt #WritingCommunity #Writers #Authors #WritingTips #WritingLife #WritersOfMastodon #WritersOnMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #AuthorsOnMastodon #MastoWriters
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For 22,000 #Vietnamese & some #Cambodians, #CônSơn Island was literally the last stop on a journey that began with their arrest & incarceration on the mainland. Their crime? Resisting #ForeignInvaders du jour & fighting for their country’s independence & unification. In addition to execution, causes of death included disease & torture.
The French built the Côn Đảo prison complex in 1861 to hold #PoliticalPrisoners and handed it over to the South Vietnamese government in 1954. It was a political Alcatraz on steroids, with #inhumane living conditions, barbaric torture methods, no escape and, for many, no survival. The US & its client state collaborators honed this hell on Earth to #dystopian perfection.
Sáu was sent to 3 jails before being shipped to Côn Sơn Prison, because the French didn’t have the courage to carry out her death sentence on the mainland at a time when it was against #ColonialLaw to execute woman. She was the only female prisoner held by the French on Côn Sơn.
Like other Vietnamese who died for the cause of independence, Sáu, a national heroine who is celebrated in theater & song, was elevated to the status of ancestral spirit. Every Vietnamese city & town has a street named after her, as are many schools. She embodies the spirit of millions of Vietnamese throughout history, including soldiers of the First & Second Indochina War, who sacrificed everything, their youth, their health, their love, their personal happiness, & their lives, so that Vietnam could become a unified, sovereign nation.
“The lekima flower in full bloom, we are reminded of a heroine who died for future generations. The young lady so full of vitality fought against our enemies with firm spirit & even death could not force her to yield”. The song echoes in the mind of everybody who visits Hàng Dương cemetary in Côn Đảo district, Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu province. Vo Thi Sau, the #heroine mentioned in the song, was #executed by the #French #colonialists at the foot of Chua mountain in the early morning of January 23, 1952. 60 years later, her immortal patriotism & sacrifice still shine in the heart of every Vietnamese person, particularly those who live on #ConDao island, once called “hell on the earth”. (Ref: VOVWorld)
The 20-hectare Hàng Dương cemetery holds the graves of more than 20,000 martyrs, including #revolutionary #martyr Lê Hồng Phong, patriot Nguyễn An Ninh & #hero Cao Văn Ngọc. Visitors are moved to see grave after grave, some named, some unnamed, stretching over the hill. Vo Thi Sau’s grave, set in gravel & soil shoveled by her fellow prisoners, lies in section B.
Sister Sau was already a legend when the ship carrying her docked at Con Dao island in 1952. At the execution, she refused to be blindfolded, wanting to admire the motherland’s landscape & sing until her last breath. Many families on Con Dao island have set up altars to worship sister Sau, whose legend has become eternal in Vietnamese hearts.
#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Communist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #USWarOnVietnam #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA #USfundedTorture #WomenOfTheResistance #USTerrorism
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. one book a day, 20 dates. no explanation, no reviews, just book covers (with alt text).
Day 7/20: The Giver – Lois Lowry
only realized the depth and meaning behind this series when i re-read it years later. to young me, this defined knowledge and suffering and human memory in a way i hadn’t previously seen.
the graphic novel is absolutely unmatched; use of color becomes so much more vivid. i have yet to see the movie, though – is it any good?
#20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #dystopian #TheGiver @bookstodon
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. one book a day, 20 dates. no explanation, no reviews, just book covers (with alt text).
Day 7/20: The Giver – Lois Lowry
only realized the depth and meaning behind this series when i re-read it years later. to young me, this defined knowledge and suffering and human memory in a way i hadn’t previously seen.
the graphic novel is absolutely unmatched; use of color becomes so much more vivid. i have yet to see the movie, though – is it any good?
#20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #dystopian #TheGiver @bookstodon
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. one book a day, 20 days. no explanation, no reviews, just book covers (with alt text).
Day 7/20: The Giver – Lois Lowry
only realized the depth and meaning behind this series when i re-read it years later. to young me, this defined knowledge and suffering and human memory in a way i hadn’t previously seen.
the graphic novel is absolutely unmatched; use of color becomes so much more vivid. i have yet to see the movie, though – is it any good?
#20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #dystopian #TheGiver @bookstodon
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. one book a day, 20 days. no explanation, no reviews, just book covers (with alt text).
Day 7/20: The Giver – Lois Lowry
only realized the depth and meaning behind this series when i re-read it years later. to young me, this defined knowledge and suffering and human memory in a way i hadn’t previously seen.
the graphic novel is absolutely unmatched; use of color becomes so much more vivid. i have yet to see the movie, though – is it any good?
#20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #dystopian #TheGiver @bookstodon
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20 books that have had an impact on who you are. one book a day, 20 dates. no explanation, no reviews, just book covers (with alt text).
Day 7/20: The Giver – Lois Lowry
only realized the depth and meaning behind this series when i re-read it years later. to young me, this defined knowledge and suffering and human memory in a way i hadn’t previously seen.
the graphic novel is absolutely unmatched; use of color becomes so much more vivid. i have yet to see the movie, though – is it any good?
#20Books #20Books20Days #books #bookstodon #dystopian #TheGiver @bookstodon
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#Project2025 is a #Dystopian #Plan to #Dismantle #CivilRights and #WhatItMeans for #Women
If they win in 2024, #Conservatives are planning to make #policy #priorities #permanent—no matter what happens in future #elections.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews
https://msmagazine.com/2024/02/08/project-2025-conservative-right-wing-trump-woke/
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The Space Merchants, a 1953 sci-fi novel by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth. One of the great dystopian novels, about a future world controlled by huge corporations. They control the government. The most powerful are the advertising agencies.
My review: https://vintagepopfictions.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-space-merchants.html
#FrederikPohl #scifi #scifinovel #scifinovels #vintagescifi #dystopian novel #dystopian novels
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"We lost our LEQU just when we would all have needed her the most."
COMODO
Episode 16 - THIS FRIDAY!
CHAIKA is a #dystopian #SciFi #AudioDrama where a woman navigates a #PostApocalyptic future.
https://y2kpod.com/chaika/
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*EPISODE 16*
is LIVE for ALL our #Patreon supporters!
General release this FRIDAY.
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"That points to a new potential destination. One we haven't discussed yet."
LEQU
Episode 15 is OUT NOW!
CHAIKA is a #dystopian #SciFi #AudioDrama where a woman navigates a #PostApocalyptic future.
https://y2kpod.com/chaika/
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"Maybe the era of humans on earth is over, and it is time for another species."
ENOCH
Episode 13 - THIS FRIDAY!
CHAIKA is a #dystopian #SciFi #AudioDrama where a woman navigates a #PostApocalyptic future.
https://y2kpod.com/chaika/
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Have you listened to episode 12 yet? #SoundOn for a teaser!
CHAIKA is a #dystopian #SciFi #AudioDrama where a woman navigates a post-apocalyptic future.
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"All I want is HYGGE and LEQU back, instead of these... Suspicious humans barking orders."
CHAIKA
Episode 10 is OUT NOW!
CHAIKA is a #dystopian #SciFi #AudioDrama where a woman navigates a #PostApocalyptic future.
https://y2kpod.com/chaika/
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