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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

you want academic rigor? Fuck you. The big bopper faked his own death and invented nightcore. Source: the truth

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Lord Piss @lordpiss.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

idk why do 60 year olds with erectile dysfunction like reading the same article over and over

atlantic article screen cap: WHY DO RICH KIDS LOVE SOCIALISM?
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"we should rename Mar-a-Lago something funny, make Google display that" My brother in Christ, the Ontario legislature can declare Google's workers in Ontario to be unionized and assign their collective labour rights to whichever union will be most militant, think bigger

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Critical Criminology @critcrim.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Cops are simultaneously know-it-alls and dumbasses. Dangerous combo. “One of the close friends of the artist lives across from the gallery. She comes and tells police that this is actually an artwork, and they don’t take her word for it." vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/08/19/v...

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When the director of Vancouver's Access Gallery received a phone call from police late Friday night, she was alarmed -- at first.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 19/08/2026

I don't think people understand the extent to which this has been a decade plus long billionaire funded campaign (obviously Thiel is involved). We've tried to ring the alarm about these eugenicists but it is too easy for them to get parroted by the mainstream media. bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday

The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network

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Euan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 11/08/2026

SCOOP It took nearly two years, but I finally obtained 650 pages of internal correspondence detailing the steps Health Canada took to disappear the Expert Advisory Group reports on medicalized safe supply and compassion clubs. drugdatadecoded.ca/how-health-c...

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Anatomy of a hush-up: How Health Canada buried the safe supply expert reviews

After a nearly two-year access to information process, Drug Data Decoded has obtained the correspondence detailing steps taken inside Health Canada to ensure the Expert Advisory Group reports on medic...

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Corey Ranger @nurseranger.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A very important read from @michellegamage.bsky.social 📣 “This is a monumental victory for everyone who has experienced treatment under this health-care regime and it validates that people don’t lose their rights the moment they enter the health-care system” #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

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BC’s Involuntary Care Practices Are Unconstitutional, Court Rules | The Tyee

The province is an outlier when it comes to how it has detained people for involuntary mental health treatment.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

A libertarian lineworker and a filmcrewmember with a sci fi book and a few anarchist texts under his belt walk into a podcast... I think this was a great episode! www.justcast.com/shows/47304/...

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230 - Sci-Fi, Anarchy, and the Future of Film with Sci-Fi Author Liam Beggly

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My conversation with the insanely good interviewer Joel Albrecht of the podcast "Were You Still Talking?" is up! plinkhq.com/i/1460064725... We spoke about my book Broken Interstellar, sci fi, anarchism, power, organization vs mobilization, political violence, and film! We got everything!

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Podcast Episodes smart links to listen, download, and subscribe to Were You Still Talking?. Click to listen! #129 This was a great conversation with Liam Begley, author of the sci-fi novel

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is the last day to get my book Broken Interstellar for free! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... Instead of an excerpt, here is the anti-DRM Statement that leads the book. I want artists to be paid and rewarded, to be clear. I just don't want us depending on 1 or 2 companies to do it.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today's excerpt from my book Broken Interstellar: Breaking a contract owed to a predator species is a dangerous thing to do. Especially when they've traded in webs for debt obligations. Broken Interstellar free on smashwords until July 31st! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

“Oh, very well. Officer Temperance, if possible you and I should have a private chat later, you are a most charming helping hands. Now then, the interstellar must repay his debt or I will have to label him a deal breaker.” Temper looked over at Blue for explanation.
“It means you lose all rights, including personal safety,” He explained. Temper kept staring. “Traditionally, it means she eats you.”
“I would never! But it might be difficult for you to leave the station. There are some hungry mites in the darker corners, and no one’s likely to help you if they know they won’t get anything back for it,” Supernova explained.
“There must be something I can do for you, some sort of service I can perform, I’ll do anything!” Temper sputtered. Blue’s carapace dropped to the floor.
“How kind of you to offer!” Supernova exclaimed.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINE. Broken Interstellar, a union worker's space odyssey is free on smashwords until July 31st. www.smashwords.com/books/view/1... Read the adventures of Temper, a cargo ship technician lost in a galaxy teeming with life and problems.

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Temper is an interstellar, part of a galaxy spanning trade union whose members have abandoned loyalty to their home planets to make a future working in space. But that's when he's part of a crew on a ...

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

An excerpt from my book below! If you don't remember what you are or who you are or why you're there, gravity is always there to remind you you have mass at least. Broken Interstellar free on smashwords until July 31st! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

There was a weight. It was pressing down making him aware of the chest it was pressing down on, spinning somatic awareness out of the mindless darkness. Awareness that he was alive, that he had a chest to be pressed down on, legs, arms, fingers, a head. A head with eyes. He opened them experimentally.
Pink. For a moment he thought it went on forever but then he saw the glittering line crossing it. He turned his head to follow the line and felt fine sand grind against the back of his skull. The pink ended in a horizon far in the distance, where it met a flat grey plane. The desert he was lying in with a pink sky hanging above.
The line was a ring he remembered. He was on a planet with a ring around it. He tried to remember how he knew that and a dizzying vertigo ran through him threatening to chase him back into the mindless darkness. He winced and gripped onto the current moment. He was lying on his back, staring up at the sky on a planet with a weight on his chest.
He, his. He thought of himself as a man. An individual part of a species customarily differentiated into various simultaneous social categories, gender being one of them. He braced himself for pain. But none came. Individual humans have a social designate, he thought. He had a name.
“Temperance,” he said, discovering he had a voice. “Temper.” Individual humans need to communicate with other individuals, needed names and language to do that.
“Why am I alone?” Temper asked out loud. No vertigo came to him, but no answer either.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

In the afternoon today the Vancouver city council voted down the villages plan citing community (read homeowner) concerns. In the evening they voted to rezone an apartment building a hotel displacing tenants. In spite of hundreds speaking in opposition. Only serve owners, never tenants.

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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Alas that my thoughts on this are all lost (posted on co-host) but I will say in my own experience that lots of people have credited my game Girl by Moonlight to my publisher, and not mentioned me at all. I don't know why people do this necessarily, but would help for big pubs to lead by example

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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Listening to @rascal.news radio hour talking about crediting of designers vs publishers. Really appreciate them talking about power dynamics wrt smaller/newer designers, and credits as a labour issue as much as anything else.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I don't think Carney's an idiot, so I suspect he's using appeasement of seperatists as cover for what he always wanted to do: Export trillions of dollars of natural resources at the expense of billions in public money so the private sector can clear millions in profit.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

We have to stop taking this astroturfed bullshit seriously. No one in alberta wants to seperate except fools, grifters and this murderer. There is no legal path to separation. They have no police, military, or economy of their own. It's not even alberta's land to take with them if they leave.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Handling alien food culture will just require an open mind and a flexible sense of ettiquette. Broken Interstellar, free on smashwords until July 31st www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

“This is a working ship and you need to make yourself useful broken interstellar,” Blue interrupted. Factor rolled her eyes and handed Temper a terminal surface.

“So, I was thinking you could find us a restaurant for landing dinner,” she said. “You remember what that is, right?” Temper took the terminal, still not able to meet Factor’s eyes and nodded. It was displaying in the form of written interstellar he’d been learning before the experimental half freeze.

“My preference is for fur bearing flightless creatures,” Blue said as Factor stood.

“Dead or alive?” Temper asked as he scanned the list. Factor grimaced.

“Alive can be quite entertaining, but vat
grown meat is fine in mixed company.” With that, Blue left.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

An excerpt from my book Broken Interstellar coz it's free until July 31st. Digesting alien food will require the help of our microbial friends to be even remotely possible. Broken Interstellar, free on Smashwords until July 31st! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

shooed him away. “They can’t get turmeric to grow here, I’m working with some alien alternatives, have you been eating local? Are your gut flora injections up to date?”

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Galactic civilizations have risen and fallen trying to enclose a star in a Dyson sphere. The leftover materials, structures and tools orbit the now cluttered system. A monument or a midden heap? Broken Interstellar is free on Smashwords until July 31st! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

The star Artist’s Offspring was the closest highly populated system to Dust Polish. The star had no planets but rather a large rich disk of protoplanetary matter. Given another few billion years, the cloud of matter could coalesce into a handful of planets.

The large disk of matter also made it a perfect candidate for the development of the first complete Dyson sphere, a hypothetical mega structure enclosing a whole star and capturing all of the energy contained within. Artist’s Offspring was such a good candidate that over millennia multiple civilizations had reached the system and begun construction on a section of the sphere, leaving their work behind them as their civilization fell and was swallowed by the tide of galactic history.

The result of this succession of incomplete construction projects was the Swarm. A vast number of space stations, giant construction ships, trading platforms, manufacturing plants and habitation modules all being abandoned, occupied and rebuilt over and over again in the swirling economy of the system as it drew in labour and materials to build the sphere.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Relativistic time dilation as a result of near-light speed travel means your past might never catch up to you, but your future will. And they have some complaints about how your generation ran the world. Broken Interstellar, free on smashwords till july 31st! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

“You will. But it’s more than that. You need to understand what the Interstellar Union is in our history, every human you meet will treat you like you’re worse than alien.”

“I watched some of your propaganda...”

“It’s not just propaganda. You flew off from Earth and returned to sell a small group of slave masters all the power you could gather for them in the stars,” Factor explained.

“The union and the oligarchs had the technology to reverse the ecological collapse of the planet, but the oligarchs wanted all of us starving, wanted to make sure the humans on Earth stayed as pathetically and helplessly dependent on them as possible. And the union simply didn’t care.”

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I take a walk but the air is acrid from another country on fire. I stop into a gas station to buy nachos - the last food not linked to cases of ultradiarrhea. On the radio I hear the president announce we've somehow lost two wars to the same country at the same time. I think, thank you capitalism.

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Andrew Gillis @andrewgillis.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

My duet RPG We Contain Solitudes - a game about troubled souls trapped in a time loop, that plays out in prose and soliloquies. It does a lot of weird novel things, and is equal parts intimate and melancholic. sevencrowsgames.itch.io/we-contain-s...

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We Contain Solitudes by Seven Crows Games

A 2 player TTRPG about troubled souls trapped in a time loop that plays out in prose and soliloquies.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Our leaders have accepted climate change as inevitable and are focused on economic and military security for themselves in the post collapse world. This focus is hastening climate change. Some may even see it as a positive. Oligarchs with a monopoly on water paying labour in mere survival.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Fun fact, this is the first podcast interview I ever did! Abstract Essay with Daniel Lucas was a fun, wideranging discussion on the book, writing, scifi and work in general. Daniel ( @dslstiseven.bsky.social ) is a wonderful interviewer! www.youtube.com/live/nBF9PHB...

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Abstract Essay in its sixth season, features Liam Begley as my guest.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

It can be hard to map familiar concepts onto new experiences. Is the wasp alien giving you a sales pitch, a cult indoctrination, a history lecture? Is he the one trying to force a system on to the world that doesn't fit? Broken Interstellar, free until July 31st!

“My hive tasked itself with study and learning. My queen had a particular interest in history, both higher and alien. She dispatched me with my imps to other planets and outposts to study the beings living there. At first I found separation from the hive traumatic. I missed my queen, and my fellow sages. I found alien worlds chaotic and frustrating. Each trip, I would lose at least one imp, wasted away from home sickness.”
“That’s...awful. I didn’t realize imps can literally die from separation from the hive.” Temper felt ill at ease. The setting and conversation was bringing up shreds of memory of sales pitches. His instincts were telling him to run, but he couldn’t tell if that was mnemonic vertigo or a good idea. He sat on a stool at the briefing table.
“In the history of other species, I observed upheavals of established orders, attempted or successful. For all the history of higher hives there has only been

one change in our society worthy of the same examination, the realization of the Empress. In ancient times, when queens of different hives first began to work in concert, we began to see our species as a single great hive. And so, as a sage becomes a queen when a hive needs one, it came to be realized that there would be a layer above that, that one day a queen would enter the state of change and become The Empress. We waited for generations and when higher society on a single planet proved to not be complex enough, we began our conquest of the galaxy, hoping to create a society grand enough to bring The Empress into existence.“
“But, surely you understood the biological triggers of the stages of life in your own species by that time?”
“I am not speaking of biology, I am speaking of universal rules of society.”
“There are no universal rules of society,” Temper objected.
“My hive’s studies disagree, in my travel I noted that the trinity of queen, sage

$and imp repeated in different forms across the galaxy. It was clearly resonating a cosmic truth. There were always leaders, thinkers and workers. Those that set the course, those that formulated the plan and those that executed it.” “What about the tree kissed?” Temper interrupted the sermon. Or sales pitch. His context for the conversation kept flipping back and forth as his memories spun. “A society of imps, the lack of sages and queens is why they can only pretend to galactic culture by stealing the technology of other species.” “I’m not sure if that’s fair...” Temper began but the Sage didn’t pause. “The relationship is fractal, reproducing itself at every level. Biospheres develop conscious beings that are able to guide the ecosystem. Societies of thinking beings require leadership, enforcement and obedience. Even your helping hands Postal Service has this structure.”$

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intrusive_thoughts_librarian 💭📚 @sgeez.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I work hard so that my "land lord" can have a better life

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Given how many times evolution has produced crab, it seems likely humanity's first contact will be an arthropod, not a primate. The "Kind Eyes" are anarcho-arachno-capitalists. They'd never eat something that can deal. Broken Interstellars free till July 31st! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

Chapter 5

Temper’s terror at a giant spider pinning him to the ground while it shrieked in his face was immediately met with confusion. There was no such thing as a giant spider, spiders are from earth. Earth spiders are tiny little things.

He looked up at the creature, gigantic and terrifying and recognition flooded him, and then relief. It was a kind eyes. A totally different organism that through the coincidences of interplanetary convergent evolution had the physiology of a giant spider. They were also humanity’s first contact, oldest trading partner and closest neighbour. This one was angry, but it didn’t appear dazed like the long walk. They could communicate.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I am intrigued by a deeper state fights the deep state. Is it literal? Is it lava people? Are we mining the lithium that the lava people consume for food?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 07/07/2026

BREAKING: in June 2026, *every single one* of the 1,062 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 7,727 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There was an opportunity to explore that option for your attacker. They chose not to take it. But you think the victim's society is still obligated to protect the attacker from the consequences of their actions?

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The attacker in your scenario isn't doing "their own thing" they attacked someone. You're saying they should only face consequences if it's allowed and directed by something analagous to a court.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I haven't described a society. You asked how a society you outlined in abstract(has a general assembly, is concerned with the safety of some) might deal with a situation. I gave a suggestion.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I never told you to read theory. Right now in societies with "rule of law" your access to justice is directly related to the relative wealth and social class of the person who has harmed you. Charisma being social power isn't amazing, but its preferable to wealth being the deciding factor.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Lynch mobs historically are supported and protected by cops. In the scenario you laid out the attacker confessed to attacking the victim who they believed had it coming.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A legal system based more on consent rather than top down power is of course much less predictable, but is also much more adaptive. That trade off is the point, an anarchist society isn't a utopia, it's just another set of tools and methods to address the same problems every society has.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

If a person has chosen to defy the public peace then I don't really see how they expect to be protected by it. A further issue is, what was the nature and motivation of this attack? Was it theft? Does your society have private property? Was it intimidation? Was it violence for the love of violence?

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So, in the society you're describing the victim has appealed to the community to address the attack. The attacker is given opportunity to justify themselves. They have chosen to confess and nothing more. I think the victim gathers the willing and extracts what justice they feel is needed.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

MPs didn't save anyone at the My Lai massacre, a helicopter crew threatening to fire on their fellow troops did. Military courts exonerrated all involved except for one commanding officer who served 3 years house arrest. Military justice is always flexibleto strategic aims and politica expediency.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If you're talking in the sense of "should an anarchist society have capital punishment" I'd say how/if a nonhierarchical society undertakes punishment is a question with a lot of interesting possibilities. If I'm being too glib about human life, I assure you, I have no interest in killing anyone.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

In the case of the makhnovists they lacked real centralized control of their militias, the solution to maintain discipline was summary execution of officers who slaughtered civilians. This kept them from just becoming roving warbands and Makhnov from being a warlord.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Oh. I don't dismiss the holodomor, if that settles your concerns.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The executions were also of their own soldiers who were found to have razed villages and slaughtered civilians. Harsh, but I'm not sure if I have that big a problem with that.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I'd say so. The Makhnovists were allies of the red army until such time as they were no longer useful, and were then wiped out to consolidate control to the bolshevik party. The Makhnovists were attempting to raise people out of near serfdom, the bolsheviks were building an empire.

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Pardon, hit send too early. I don't know a ton about the holodomor, is there a cossack connection?

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Message me for a free sci fi book! @ldbegley.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The holodomor was perpetuated and executed by the USSR in the 1930s, right? Makhnov and his faction were wiped out by the bolshevik red army in 1921. I don't really think it would be fair to hang the genocide of his people around his neck. Or is there a cossack holodomor

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