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Recorvia Episode 14

https://solaceem.wordpress.com/2026/08/30/recorvia-episode-14/

Paranoia - Mongoose Publishing
Everything is the same but everything is different. And more perfect than ever.
You look worried, citizen. Relax! It’s still Paranoia. The year is still 214. You still have six clones and a laser pistol. The Computer is still your friend.

#ttrpg #TTRPGCommunity #ttrpgpodcast #rpg #RPGCommunity #RPGPodcast #dystopian #ParanoiaAgent #ParanoiaRPG #SciFi #thecomputerisyourfriend

Writing a Dystopian Epic Quest While We Live on the Verge

Author Mary Helen Specht discusses writing a dystopian epic quest while living in a time and age that feels on the verge.
The post Writing a Dystopian Epic Quest While We Live on the Verge appeared first on Writer's Digest.
https://www.writersdigest.com/writing-a-dystopian-epic-quest-while-we-live-on-the-verge

#Genre #ScienceFictionFantasy #WriteBetterFiction #Dystopian #DystopianFantasy

If only Octavia Butler were still out here writing to us, the future, from the past, here I am waiting for the circles to return. #dystopian #sciencefiction #solarpunk #fiction #OctaviaButler I guess she’s probably planning some poetic shit with Ursula Leguin for 2050, when they get reborn (they weren’t all that tired)

If only Octavia Butler were still out here writing to us, the future, from the past, here I am waiting for the circles to return. #dystopian #sciencefiction #solarpunk #fiction #OctaviaButler I guess she’s probably planning some poetic shit with Ursula Leguin for 2050, when they get reborn (they weren’t all that tired)

If only Octavia Butler were still out here writing to us, the future, from the past, here I am waiting for the circles to return. #dystopian #sciencefiction #solarpunk #fiction #OctaviaButler I guess she’s probably planning some poetic shit with Ursula Leguin for 2050, when they get reborn (they weren’t all that tired)

If only Octavia Butler were still out here writing to us, the future, from the past, here I am waiting for the circles to return. #dystopian #sciencefiction #solarpunk #fiction #OctaviaButler I guess she’s probably planning some poetic shit with Ursula Leguin for 2050, when they get reborn (they weren’t all that tired)

If only Octavia Butler were still out here writing to us, the future, from the past, here I am waiting for the circles to return. #dystopian #sciencefiction #solarpunk #fiction #OctaviaButler I guess she’s probably planning some poetic shit with Ursula Leguin for 2050, when they get reborn (they weren’t all that tired)

Dark Assassin (Iron Portal Book 1) "In a broken world where magic comes from the enemy realm, psychic gifts are both coveted and despised" Sale: $2.99 to FREE by Laurie London Rating: 4.2/5 (945 Reviews) #Paranormal #Romance #Psychics #Magic #Portal #Dystopian #BookSky

Dark Assassin (Iron Portal Boo...

It might not be reasonable to go for the “Anti-Consumerist” achievement on the same playthrough as #VeryHardDifficulty but so far I’ve made it to Level 10 without spending a single bit, pocketed 25k bits, and milked Paradise Island for all its worth. So why stop now?

#TheOuterWorlds2 #TheOuterWorlds #SciFi #Dystopian #RPGs #Gaming

BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity

I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”

Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.

Bluesky mentions that here:

https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update

As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.

I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.

Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.

Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.

Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.

Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.

Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.

Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.

I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.

In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.

I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.

Ripple In The Fllux - Cyberpunk Adventure #cyberpunk #cyberpunkmusic #scifi #dystopian #stockmusic #electronicmusic #cyberpunkstyle #sciencefiction #darksideofsynth

In a not-so-distant future, the world is ruled by technocratic elites holding a grip on society, and controlling every single aspect of life.

A group of rebel hackers if trying to finght the system, and bring back freedom.

This is one of their adventures...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25BQ4PCUqg8

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

https://boxd.it/1YZE

#film #films #80s #movies #GeorgeOrwell #JohnHurt #dystopia #dystopian #BigBrother

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

https://boxd.it/1YZE

#film #films #80s #movies #GeorgeOrwell #JohnHurt #dystopia #dystopian #BigBrother

"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.

[...]

"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

Stop quoting Orwell memes. Forget 1984 and Brave New World. The real mirror of our times is Zamyatin’s We (1921): a world where we happily surrender ourselves to the algorithm.

https://ridleypark.blog/2025/09/17/the-wrong-dystopias-why-we-may-be-the-book-for-now/

#Dystopia #Orwell #Huxley #Zamyatin #We #1984 #BraveNewWorld #CriticalTheory #Books #booksuggestions #AmReading #Philosophy #ReadingCulture #BigTech #Surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #BigBrother #Culture #Reading #Dystopian #WritingCommunity #History #perspective

Tried to watch Meet The Press – where first Mike #Pence and then Scott #Bessent were so ‘lala-land’ that it precluded any real evaluation.

Utter #dystopian nonsense statements poured out, indicating that what you see or saw is not what you see or saw.

Pence's solution? MAGA hangs itself with him.

Not only unwatchable, but actively unethical, illogical and undemocratic.

I’m not even sure #DearLeader would appreciate the puppet kabuki performed; too convoluted.

Repairer: A valued member of any tribe or village, this repairman or repair-woman can fix most commonly used tools, but often has the junk crafting skill and a fairly good chance of knowing one or more areas as a technician.

From the Mutant Epoch RPG Expansion Rules Book section on pre-game castes.

https://www.outlandarts.com/expansionrules.htm

#repairer #repair #fix #mrfixit #salvage #rpg #inkdrawing #ttrpg #mutantepoch #postapocalyptic #caste #repairshop #toaster #gizmo #junkcraft #dystopian

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

Bleu Azur (2023) [3 min] by Anne Esor, Ambre Kalil, Mélodie Guénégant, Nolwenn Nasse, Thomas Hugonnet and Xavier Fontaine | #Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKEoty4-JU

#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Dystopian #Dystopia #Robot #IsartDigital #IsartDigitalMontréal #Québec

Bleu Azur (2023) [3 min] by Anne Esor, Ambre Kalil, Mélodie Guénégant, Nolwenn Nasse, Thomas Hugonnet and Xavier Fontaine | #Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKEoty4-JU

#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Dystopian #Dystopia #Robot #IsartDigital #IsartDigitalMontréal #Québec

Bleu Azur (2023) [3 min] by Anne Esor, Ambre Kalil, Mélodie Guénégant, Nolwenn Nasse, Thomas Hugonnet and Xavier Fontaine | #Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKEoty4-JU

#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Dystopian #Dystopia #Robot #IsartDigital #IsartDigitalMontréal #Québec

Bleu Azur (2023) [3 min] by Anne Esor, Ambre Kalil, Mélodie Guénégant, Nolwenn Nasse, Thomas Hugonnet and Xavier Fontaine | #Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKEoty4-JU

#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Dystopian #Dystopia #Robot #IsartDigital #IsartDigitalMontréal #Québec

Bleu Azur (2023) [3 min] by Anne Esor, Ambre Kalil, Mélodie Guénégant, Nolwenn Nasse, Thomas Hugonnet and Xavier Fontaine | #Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYKEoty4-JU

#3D #3DAnimation #AnimatedShort #AnimatedShortOfTheDay #Animation #Dystopian #Dystopia #Robot #IsartDigital #IsartDigitalMontréal #Québec

This is going to be a very, very horrible and lethal timeline/reality to just be a mundane human without any occult or esoteric knowledge or psychic and magical abilities in. Considering the rate of survival for “normal” people, I do not envy them. My husband and I are very sensitive to magical and psychic energy. For my husband, it boosts his divinatory and precognitive abilities. He will suddenly start having visions and will develop an interest in refining his astrological skills. For me, it makes me very hungry as a vampire and dark. If you are a regular human, you are pretty much screwed. If there is a nuclear war, and you are a regular human, you will probably die.

I think that’s how magical skills and psychic abilities will probably spread. I think it will spread through natural selection following a nuclear war. That’s why I think magical organizations trying to make the world more magical through their magical operations being horrified that we are teetering on the collapse of civilization shows how asinine and short-sighted their goals were. Evolution works through survivorship.

It’s conventionally asserted and believed that magic shifts probabilities. Shifting probabilities, even on small scales, changes the stochastic aspects of radiation. The number and energy of radiation particles detected at a given location and time fluctuate randomly due to various environmental factors. In addition to that, when radiation interacts with matter, such as in scattering or absorption processes, the outcomes are probabilistic. That means that a magician who has a latent ability to shift probabilities and the implicit desire to live will shift probabilities so that high-energy radioactive particles are unlikely to hit and shred their genetic and cellular physiology. A really neat way to visualize this is to create a DIY cloud chamber and record it and have it in the vicinity whenever you do any magical operation. If your magic has a bit of power, it will interfere with the background radiation via changing the ionization energy of what you see in the cloud chamber. You will be able to see it.

Want to prove Einstein’s Special Relativity? Build this.

I try to keep the woo down and avoid using buzzwords as buzzwords. A field is a structured set. In mathematics, a set is a collection of distinct objects, considered as an entity. A field is a structured set. A structured set refers to a set equipped with additional elements or operations that give it a specific organization or arrangement. So, we can say that a psychic field is an organized collection of entities that possess subjective characteristics, i.e., qualia. The properties in the topology of that field would have values.

If we say that each property or cell of that field is at equilibrium, then a wave is when one cell is not at equilibrium and propagates a change. It spreads a change to the other adjacent cells that push them out of equilibrium. If you have a grid and all the values are 0, a wave would be a change in values from the first row and first column from left to right. It would wrap around each row and changes the values from 0 to a different value, too. That is a wave. The ability for one psychic entity to propagate a wave of change to another is the potential energy, i.e., dunamis, and the actual changing of those other things is energia. There are analogs to potential and kinetic energy on a psychic level.

While it may seem like I am some flavor of animist, I am on the fence about that. I frequently say that will is analogous to mass in that mass is a property that resists acceleration. Will is a phenomenological property that when you try to get someone to do something, their will intervenes and resists you. Consent is a property where a person’s will does not act to stop you. When someone explicitly violates a person’s consent, they are acting against the will of that person. Psychic phenomena imply a more fundamental, higher-dimensional phenomenological domain. From that perspective, a table has a psychic aspect to it where it can experience and observe itself. But, when I act on that table, the table cannot resist me. It has no will. Conscious entities have a will. An entity that is a body of experiences is not necessarily conscious and doesn’t necessarily have a will. It’s still energy to be ordered, where it begins to have a will when it interacts with my will. It would be analogous to massless energy — light. So, manipulating psychic energy that comes from the existence of tables and rocks would be like manipulating light. It has psychic energy that emerges from a subjective characteristic of experience where the rock reflexively perceives itself, yet it has no will. Mythologies, stories, and fictions are ways that we can organize this energy, where the seed of its emergence as a conscious entity comes from collective will.

Earth has an atmosphere of gas around our planet. Psychic fields are coherent and cohesive in the same way gas or liquid is. Similar to how there is a flow to liquids and air currents, there is a flow to our consciousness. In the same way this gas can heat up in such a way that it drives air currents and streams and creates storms and all sorts of other meteorological phenomena, energy added to the psychic atmosphere of our planet can do similar things. Because my husband and I are highly sensitive to this, we experience an increase in our abilities and an alignment of our personality traits in certain ways. There’s a huge psychic storm building up. I wonder if it is cyclical. Something similar happened a few years ago, so I wonder if the cyclical spiral society finds itself in beneath the heavens is being mirrored above in the heavens.

#anarchism #anarchist #anarchists #anarchy #Animism #animistic #Astral #astrological #astrology #chaosMagic #chaosMagick #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #cults #divination #dystopia #dystopian #egregore #egregores #energyWork #godforms #Metaphysics #nuclearWar #occult #occultism #pagan #paganism #paranormal #psychic #Psychokinesis #servitor #servitors #vampire #vampires #witch #witchcraft #WorldWar #WorldWar3 #WorldWarIII #WW3 #WWIII

“There were no parts out there waiting for me. That was just a pipe dream. Hope fucking with me. Maybe this was the only way. No. Fuck that.”

https://library.hrmtc.com/2024/01/16/there-were-no-parts-out-there-waiting-for-me-that-was-just-a-pipe-dream-hope-fucking-with-me-maybe-this-was-the-only-way-no-fuck-that/

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#ToriesOut #TacticalVote #GeneralElection #ToryFascism #ToryDictatorship #dictatorship #authoritarian #Orwellian #dystopian

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#oldschoolrap #consciousrap
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Let's do this!
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#gratefuldead #Phish
#PrivatePress #Folk
#PostPunk #TheFall #Descendents #punk
#oldschoolrap #consciousrap
#ProgRock #experimentalmusic
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Books:
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Worries:
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Let's do this!
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#gratefuldead #Phish
#PrivatePress #Folk
#PostPunk #TheFall #Descendents #punk
#oldschoolrap #consciousrap
#ProgRock #experimentalmusic
#krautrock
#jambands #powermetal

Books:
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Let's do this!
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#gratefuldead #Phish
#PrivatePress #Folk
#PostPunk #TheFall #Descendents #punk
#oldschoolrap #consciousrap
#ProgRock #experimentalmusic
#krautrock
#jambands #powermetal

Books:
#clifi #scifi #history #biography #dystopian #buddhism #musicbiography

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Today's #blogpost is the latest in my #filmofthebook series - #TheGiver (2014) which is a #filmadaptation of Lois Lowry's 1993 #dystopian YA novel.

https://nsfordwriter.com/film-book-the-giver-2014/

#movies #films #booktofilm #pagetoscreen #books #yabooks #movieadaptation #dystopias