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Chris Kutalik

@kutalik.bsky.social
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Comdad, Director of Communications, organizer, game designer and writer of books both serious and seriously weird.

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BeshearStan @beshearstan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
God I love Angie Nixon. I hope she wins
Now @AshleyMoodyFL. Why would I want to abolish the police when I want you arrested and in jail for stealing $10 million from sick kids? BFFR
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Deep Space Nine and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 4 chriskutalik.substack.com/p/deep-space...
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Deep Space Nine and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 4
Yesterday’s Oppressors become Today’s Oppressed
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Deep Space Nine, “Space Oslo”, and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 3 chriskutalik.substack.com/p/deep-space...
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Deep Space Nine, “Space Oslo”, and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 3
The failure of the Oslo Accords and shifts in DS9 plot arcs
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Deep Space Nine, The Bell Riots, and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 2 chriskutalik.substack.com/p/deep-space...
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Deep Space Nine, The Bell Riots, and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 2
Today we dive into the second part of our DS9 series
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Morning After Liberation: Deep Space Nine, The Oslo Accords, and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 1 chriskutalik.substack.com/p/the-mornin...
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The Morning After Liberation: Deep Space Nine, The Oslo Accords, and Radical Hope in Nineties SciFi, Part 1
A two-part analysis of things Star Trek
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
rote some more speculative fiction, part 2. Because I do love ambiguous utopia. What If? Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
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What If? Part 2
Second in my series of speculative fiction about what Southern California could look like walking the democratic road to socialism.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
DSA LA delegates at the massive chapter convention just voted by super-majority (76%) to support @aoc.bsky.social for president in 2026! A better world is ahead.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
It's nice to have a *post* apocalypse to look forward to.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I just wanted to make sure that yall know that I'm feeling ok after my recent fall and mild pneumonia.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Republican Party has concentrated enormous power in the hands of the executive branch. It would be a shame if somebody...
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Geese Magazine @geesemag.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
In this groundbreaking manifesto, we outline a radical alternative: a Socialist Project 2029. READ: geesemag.com/article...
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We Must Fight For a Socialist Project 2029: The Manifesto — geese magazine.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Norway pilled this World Cup.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just take my money, sweet motherland.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Squad is about to become The Platoon.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
As someone who has been on the US Left for 30+ years now, we've been lectured and cajoled about not being spoilers and if you want to change politics you have to go to where the voters etc etc. But funnily enough now when we do that: that's badwrong double-plus bad!
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Due to the continuing state of the works I've been writing nerdy fantasy stuff again. hillcantons.blogspot.com/2026/06/krat...
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Krátká Lidová Republika: A Brief Account of the Republic of the Short Peoples
For centuries the Wee Peoples of Zěm have occupied a peculiar place within the Overking's domains. Too useful to exterminate, too numerous...
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Nithya is going to place in the runoff. You heard it from Comrade Tal.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Some really fascinating analysis from comrade Tal.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A speculative fiction piece I wrote published in the new California DSA monthly. I do love myself some utopian lit. californiadsa.org/news/workerc...
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Every growing political organization eventually confronts a serious question: just how large should we ideally become? Not how big we wish we were, but how large a dues-paying, member-led socialist organization could plausibly exist..." democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/04/27/h...
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How High is the Sky? - Democratic Left
Does DSA have a supporter ceiling? A discussion of how large DSA could grow in the United States.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Wrote a piece about renewable energy and Cuba. Namely a study that shows that it would be eminently practical to (with of course the right friends) to end fossil fuel imports for roughly $8 billion. Link down in those comment like usual.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Having to hardcore resist the urge to pull out my usual array of April Fools hoaxes after last year's po-faced flipout by the AI TTRPG Art Police. The flesh is weak yall.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Happy Czech flag day. You know for all who celebrate.
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Dungeons & Possums @dungeonsandpossums.com · 28/03/2026
The Hill Cantons by Chris @kutalik.bsky.social with @wizardthieffighter.bsky.social and additional art and teamwork by the @hydracoop.bsky.social crew (Jason, Robert, and Humza) is the first one that comes to mind!
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
I done got published today in the official DSA paper of record with my (shortened) musings on why the Jesse Jackson campaign didn't lead to the same kind of long political moment of Bernie's. I was forbidden from over-using "conjuncture". democraticleft.dsausa.org/2026/03/29/w...
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Why Wasn’t There a Long Jackson Moment? - Democratic Left
In 1988 and 2016, DSA backed insurgent primary campaigns by gifted outsiders — but the aftermath of Jesse Jackson and Bernie Sanders’s campaigns were very different.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
At the end of the day if the only thing you can conjure up is a list of ad hominems and can't actually grapple with the substantive politics of a thing (and this is broader than Platner "secret nazi" derangement) then you are incapable of seeing beyond self-indulgent liberal moralism.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Basically this. And capitalism.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Because yes.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
A sprawling article in which I only get part way through the question. Why Was There a Long Bernie Moment but not a Long Jackson Moment? Why was 2016 "Our Time" and Not 1988? open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
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Why Was There a Long Bernie Moment but not a Long Jackson Moment? Why was 2016 "Our Time" and Not 1988?
And What Are the Lessons?
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
RIP Jesse. Some personal reflections from my teen age experience of 1988. open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
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Keep Hope Alive
I Was a Teenage Jesse Jackson Delegate
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Just How High is the Sky? Does the US Left Have a Supporter Ceiling? Does DSA? open.substack.com/pub/chriskut...
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Just How High is the Sky? Does the US Left Have a Supporter Ceiling? Does DSA?
Last week Democratic Socialists of America hit 100,000 members.
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Power Map @powermapmag.com · 12/02/2026
Nothing ever happens....or does it? @kutalik.bsky.social discusses "punctuated equilibrium" in our latest: powermapmag.com/punctuated-e...
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Does Nothing Ever Happen? - Power Map Magazine
Punctuated Equilibrium and the Politics of Sudden Change
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
That the Trump administration--a unique combo of deep incompetence and right wing authoritarianism--can "run Venezuela" is just Iraq and Afghanistan all over again. Imperial hubris that leads to mass suffering and more decline.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
"I was elected as a democratic socialist and I will govern as a democratic socialist."
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Watching our comrade Zohran be inaugurated with the whole family glued to the TV like it was the moon landing, is a hell of a beat for the long Bernie moment and DSA. We did this, friends.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
I done wrote my a novel, literally. I grew with family rooted in a very different, entirely “analog” era of Texas than the one I was living at the end of the 20th century. My grandpa reveled in these stories of hard scrabble farm life in a bend of Rocky Creek outside Shiner 1
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
All I want for Christmas is to spend quality time with my boys--playtesting my new battalion level WW2 wargaming rules in 1/72 scale with giant backyard battles. Is that too much to ask?
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
So drink your gin and tonic-ah And smoke your marijuani-khah If you really, really wanna-kah Have a happy, happy, happy, happy Chanukah.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It's a shame that I read this on my birthday instead of the week or so I needed to do this ON MY BIRTHDAY. Also #RetirementPlans www.wargamer.com/miniature-wa...
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Miniature wargame fans are refighting WW1 using 15,000 toy soldiers and their yards as the battlefield
A Chicago-based gang of tabletop wargamers are digging actual earthworks to accommodate their colossally ambitious custom campaigns.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
As a former Nevada Bernie 2020 field staffer this really hit. More Nevada moments. jacobin.com/2025/11/mamd...
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Zohran Mamdani Is Bringing Bernie’s “Nevada Moment” Home
In 2020, Bernie Sanders decisively won the Nevada primary, in part because many younger immigrant voters persuaded parents and grandparents to vote for him. Zohran Mamdani’s victory, powered by simila...
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
34 minutes into the count Zohran wins a majority in the largest mayoral turnout in 30 years. What a time to be a DSA member.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I have never wanted a spin off movie more then I do want one completely focused on Benicio Del Toro 's Sensei in One Battle After Another.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Back to things nerdy (escape is good actually). A review of my fourth book What Ho Frog Demons. (The Wodehousian characters in the intro make a return in my novella as protagonists). idlecartulary.com/2025/10/13/b...
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Bathtub Review: What Ho, Frog Demons
Bathtub Reviews are an excuse for me to read modules a little more closely. I’m doing them to critique a wide range of modules from the perspective of my own table and to learn for my own module de…
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Groundwork labubu lives to organize another day.
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
My latest article. This one on the movement to defend and expand democracy and Reconstruction: www.groundworkdsa.com/building-up/...
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Democracy or Dominion: Why Socialists Must Marginalize the Authoritarian Right — Groundwork
Socialism depends on the full flowering of mass democracy — not just elections, but the ability of ordinary people to govern their workplaces, communities, and lives. The authoritarian Right’s project...
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Do you know what's a good feeling? Voting to screw rigthtwingers and trolling my home state of Texas on No Kings Day 2.
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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Two bright comrades give us our marching orders 💕 @kutalik.bsky.social @surj.org
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A Counter-Campaign for Democracy from Below | Common Dreams
​How the left can fight Trump’s authoritarian crackdown.
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Dungeons & Possums @dungeonsandpossums.com · 08/10/2025
It is Wednesday, my dudes. Which means it's a great day to support an artist or author making stuff you like! Instead of giving Disney+ money every month, maybe give some to @kutalik.bsky.social and the Hill Cantons project - a new book is brewing at last! 🤩 dungeonsandpossums.com/2025/09/thin...
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Things to Support With Your #$%* Disney Money - Dungeons & Possums
You recently told Disney to thaw the cryogenically-frozen cranium of Walt hisself so you could look him in his dead eyes and tell him to fuck off face to face. Congratulations! You've reclaimed $20som...
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
And you can start now: dsausa.org/join There is no organization, no network called "Antifa". But it's that vagueness of use by the Right that has sinister authoritarian implications. If no one is Antifa than any one against fascism is Antifa to them.
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Join DSA. Become a member today.
Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...
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Chris Kutalik @kutalik.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Several books in fact and very kind words. The novella is written (18k words). The Great Aviary rough draft is complete. Rough drafts for three other things exist and are getting feedback.
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