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  1. @PBSNewsHour
    @pluralistic when writing The Lost Cause did you imagine maga hats hunting FEMA workers?
    #TheLostCause

  2. Finished reading „The Lost Cause“ by @pluralistic
    Excellent read and as usual quite on top of the current problems—climate change in this case.
    One bit nagged me at the end though. Spoiler in the next toot…
    #thelostcause

  3. Ich habe #thelostcause von @pluralistic durch und das Buch hat mich wirklich beeindruckt. Eine vermutlich sehr realitätsnahe Zeichnung unserer nahen Zukunft mit dem Kampf gegen die Klimakrise und die MAGA-Trottln. landet auf Platz 2 meiner ewigen Doctorow-Bestenliste nach #walkaway. Obwohl das Ende ein ziemlicher Gut Punch war, würde ich mich sehr freuen, in einem späteren Buch mehr von Brooks zu lesen.

  4. CW: Dark humor & book spoilers for "The Lost Cause"

    #CoryDoctorow has the darkest humor (from #TheLostCause):

    > Gramps loved to talk about his blood.
    > Never mind that he died when some of it clotted
    > in an inconvenient fashion.

    > the bombs were years old and were left over from
    > an unsuspected, long-failed bombing plot.
    > No one could figure out if that was cause for alarm or relief.

    😬🤭 It's a great book 🤩

  5. CW: Long thread/42

    Tcherneva's book was partial inspiration for my latest novel, the bestselling #solarpunk adventure #TheLostCause, where a Green New Deal and its Job Guarantee are both under threat from seagoing, Neal Stephenson LARPing billionaire wreckers and their white nationalist, onshore shock troops:

    us.macmillan.com/books/9781250

    The case for a Job Guarantee is even stronger today than it was a couple years ago, when I was writing the novel.

    42/

  6. not quite halfway into the prologue of #TheLostCause, and we have @pluralistic's first mention of cold brew coffee :)

  7. ok, having finished @brianmerchant #BloodInTheMachine, I'm now ready to dive into @pluralistic #TheLostCause. Except the latest #MurderbotDiaries came out the same day.

    Decisions, decisions

  8. @thebeehammer this was an awesome read, and I've been waiting impatiently for @pluralistic #TheLostCause ever since I finished it!

    Excited to finally read it now that it's out :)

  9. It also gave me the first opportunity to use this quote from Cory Doctorow’s The Lost Cause: “being a racist is a worse sin than calling someone a racist” although I didn’t do a great job paraphrasing it. #TheLostCause #CoryDoctorow #racism #quote

  10. I'm reading @pluralistic's new book The Lost Cause, and among the things I'm loving about it is the future slang. For example, we definitely need to start referring to the 1% as plutes (short for plutocrats).

    #TheLostCause

  11. #TheLostCause ist eine hoffnungsvolle Erzählung von #Solidarität und kollektivem Handeln, ein Stück #Utopie ohne Märchen in der #Klimakatastrophe 30 Jahre in der Zukunft. Hoffnung ist der Glaube daran, dass das eigene Handeln zählt.

    Inhaltlich verorte ich das sehr nah an #JustCollapse #SolidarischesPreppen #Klimantifa @muellertadzio

    Der #Klimakrise adäquates #Storytelling war zuletzt in der #Treibhauspost Thema, mit Verweis auf #ErzählendeAffen von @samelou @friedemann

    Leseempfehlung!

  12. I just finished the #novel #TheLostCause by #CoryDoctorow @pluralistic

    The novel was captivating as I got the #drmfree ebook and #audiobook two nights ago.

    I am left very hopeful, in the sense that " #Hope [...] is the belief that what we do matters.", and that's a point that the tale really does drive home.

    We need to stand up together and act now for a chance to mitigate its backdrop of a mid-century #ClimateEmergency, but also #solidarity is what might make it bearable.

    #ClimateCrisis

  13. We have 5 days before the premiere of #coryDoctorow 's #theLostCause book and there are some early reviews from GoodReads: goodreads.com/review/show/5693

    This one doesn't spoil much, but lets us set the expectations. TLC is closer to "The Little Brother" than "The Walkaway", with Cory's usual style.

    Can't wait to read it in a few days, I'll need a bleach after finishing The Ministry For The Future.

    #solarpunk #walkaway #books

  14. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    I'm coming to #Minneapolis!

    Oct 15: Presenting #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks:
    moonpalacebooks.com/events/301

    Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
    cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/ke

    2/

  15. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    I'm coming to #Minneapolis!

    Oct 15: Presenting #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks:
    moonpalacebooks.com/events/301

    Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
    cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/ke

    2/

  16. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    I'm coming to #Minneapolis!

    Oct 15: Presenting #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks:
    moonpalacebooks.com/events/301

    Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
    cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/ke

    2/

  17. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    I'm coming to #Minneapolis!

    Oct 15: Presenting #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks:
    moonpalacebooks.com/events/301

    Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
    cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/ke

    2/

  18. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    I'm coming to #Minneapolis!

    Oct 15: Presenting #TheInternetCon at #MoonPalaceBooks:
    moonpalacebooks.com/events/301

    Oct 16: Keynoting the 26th #ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing:
    cscw.acm.org/2023/index.php/ke

    2/

  19. CW: Long thread/eof

    My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    eof/

  20. CW: Long thread/20

    My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    20/

  21. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    This weekend (October 7-8), I'm in #Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest/#WNF23:

    eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-mil

    2/

  22. My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:

    lost-cause.org

    --

    This weekend (October 7-8), I'm in #Milan to keynote Wired Nextfest/#WNF23:

    eventi.wired.it/nextfest23-mil

    2/