Thinks: Domesday Machine has strong #ProtectAndSurvive vibes. See also... "Come and see the last surviving Domesday Machine before it's too late!" :blobfoxeyes: #Domesday #Doomsday
#protectandsurvive — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #protectandsurvive, aggregated by home.social.
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"In an unusually frank admission of lobbying children, a web page promoting the game stated that it “aligns with our work to build future talent pipelines and secure permission to operate at a time of sensitivity around fossil fuels, particularly in light of . . . the Rosebank development" " #FossilCapital #protectandsurvive
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-06-05/oil-company-uses-computer-game-to-promote-fossil-fuels-to-uk-schoolchildren -
@superflippy @TheBreadmonkey A mattress against an interior wall, a bath full of tap water and bedsheets at the windows, that was good enough for us in the 70s #ProtectAndSurvive
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If you've been playing Fallout London, you might like to watch the original secret government films that helped inspire its imagery:
https://fedi.video/w/5cnR7hvcT87VPPRcgiTWZ2
The videos were intended to tell people what to do in the event of a nuclear war, and would only have been shown on TV if an attack was imminent. They were made in secret and never officially released.
However, they were leaked to the media in 1980 and became part of pop culture as they were simultaneously absurd and horrifying.
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Those of us in the UK who watched TV in the late 70s will most likely remember the government's public information series 'Protect and Survive'.
They were criticised at the time as giving the impression that a nuclear attack was survivable and therefore made such an attack more likely.
#ProtectAndSurvive #PublicInformation #NuclearWar #GovernmentPropaganda
