Joe Crow

Joe Crow

@joecrow.bsky.social

Artist, writer, anarchist, occultist, general weirdo. Everything I need to know about life I learned by killing smart people and eating their brains. (he/him)

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Throwing trans people into the volcano will not save you. They will come for you.

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There is no compromise to buy time because there is no time. The strategy didn't work. So now either you're going to actively fight and resist it everywhere or you're just negotiating with the fascists as far as who gets the full bore eliminationist politics first.

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Replying to @nicholehiltz.bsky.social

Liberals who've spent the last 40 years addicted to compromising because it makes them feel superior have no capacity to understand that there isn't any time for that now. The fascism is here. You're not fending it off or keeping it at bay. It's right here right now.

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RFK decided to once again target maskers in a speech, laughing about going to LA and seeing people driving in their cars while masked. And I want to make sure people know that studies have shown that the reason someone might wear a mask in their car is that it's none of your fucking business.

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seems like "on the orders of a nazi every major news outlet on the planet hounded an innocent man to death because he's black" should be one of the biggest stories of the year

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Update on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programs @drivethrurpg.com. TL/DR: Don't use it in our programs. AI is not art. It is theft from you and every writer who has gone before you, repackaged dishonestly and shamelessly as original. www.chaosium.com/blogupdate-o...

chaosium.comUpdate on the use of AI text in Chaosium Community Content programsHello to all members of this group: thanks for the inspiration you bring us daily through your work for Chaosium roleplaying games, published via our community content programs. We always love to see ...

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As someone who needs a translator for whatever the tech people are talking about, this was quite helpful as an explanation

between the catastrophic PHP vuln and the intermediate cert vuln and AI models that can turn a proof of concept into a bot net in like 10mins we’re in for a wild 24 hours

Back to it, after a little break. Not too bad, though that silverwork threw me off by a few years. Anthropeum.com · Oct 21 2026 🟦🟦🟦🟩🟨🟦🟩🟩🟩🟦 80,509 · top 12% of players today!

So, I’ve been trying to get my head into shape for next month’s Nano2.0 run at finishing up Ghost Tower (Barak the Axe’s early career short, that’s desperately trying to bully me into making it the start of a novel, the fucker). So, of course, Señor Brain is now giving me a WHOLE NEW THING.

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and the whole colonialist bit with the not!Gondorians giving the not!Westfold to their pet mercs despite the existing cultures living there, and all of that stuff that I can’t NOT get into.

So, I’ve been trying to get my head into shape for next month’s Nano2.0 run at finishing up Ghost Tower (Barak the Axe’s early career short, that’s desperately trying to bully me into making it the start of a novel, the fucker). So, of course, Señor Brain is now giving me a WHOLE NEW THING.

And it’s fucking demented. So, now I gotta cope with all the ideas about this offbrand Grima Wormtongue happy ending romance deal, as he tries to drag the not!Rohirrim out of the dark ages and their exploitation as the not!Gondorians thug patrol,

while he realizes how much all of the mortal races are getting used as cannon fodder by the immortals in their age-old squabbles. And then there’s all the not!Rohirrim internal stuff like how he’s obviously mixed not!Dunlending coded,

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Not only no culture, but no *commons*. The dependency on the capitalist overlords will be complete, because you can’t ask for help or context from others when there is no common frame of reference. This has already happened in coding, the first space where they destroyed the commons we’d all built.

union person@junlper.beer

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

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I've said this before but like, Democrats are cowards. Stupid cowards, at that. And being a coward doesn't make you popular. It makes people know you can't be trusted for shit.

The Humanist Report@humanistreport.bsky.social

Democrats will never learn.

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To the woman's credit: she defied the court and shared the footage anyway, which shows a state trooper blowing away two trained police dogs as they trotted to him, in response to an active break-in where the dogs were detaining the burglar Cops are great

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At some point during their growth, big tech companies reduced users to mere data points, believing they truly understood them. Perhaps that was their greatest misconception about user understanding—and the moment metrics became a core part of their mission. Check part V out: 👇👇👇👇

Techdirt@techdirt.com

The Metric Is Not The Mission: The Illusion Of Knowing Us The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/the-metric-is-not-the-mission-the-illusion-of-knowing-us/

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There are many ways in which every billionaire is a policy failure, but the most corrosive and destructive way in which billionaires are policy failures is this: billionaires, despite being unelected and unaccountable, possess the power to control - and ruin - millions of peoples' lives.

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Replying to @pj-evans.bsky.social

It's a result of being so rich that everyone you ever interact with is motivated to tell you you're the smartest, funniest person alive. I'm convinced that if we ever autopsy enough billionaires, we'll be able to see actual physical brain damage from this.

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I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.

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Yes this! Also who's out here writing a book so EXACTLY INTERCHANGEABLE with another author's book that a reader would, in theory, only buy one of the two? Nobody! Books books books delicious books Nothing more delicious than a book I want ALL writers to write more books for me

Jukka Särkijärvi@nitessine.bsky.social

The idea of authors being in competition with each other is bizarre to me. Books aren't cars. We don't get just one.

There’s also the probability that an awful lot of the folks working within and around this administration don’t actually intend to HAVE any more elections that they can lose. So public opinion doesn’t really matter to them, as long as they can keep enough of the brute squad on the hook.

mcc@dryad.technology

I guess where I'm going with this is these guys are losers and the party should realize their approach leads only to destruction, but that doesn't mean that from *their* perspective, that they didn't succeed at their goals.

Unfortunately, that would require us to have a completely different Democratic Party than the one we’ve actually got right now.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social

Anyway, Trumpism is a shocking political failure. If the Democrats can come up with a compelling, persuasive message and policy vision, the GOP has, I think, essentially handed them an opportunity for another Progressive Era or New Deal era (or Reagan Era) - a long period of political dominance.

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So, I want to bring up a kind of weird angle. The approach failed if the goal was to win elections. Was the goal to win elections? An example. In the last election, Elon Musk paid for many anti-trans electoral ads across the nation. In this election, this *seems* to be happening again—