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joannes @playthroughline.com · 9h
I was able to match the proceeds generated by Neurocracy's Venezuela Aid Sale, so I sent $418 to Direct Relief and the same amount to a pet rescue charity (both vetted by @parbuena.bsky.social) Thanks to everyone who bought a copy or spread the word! You made this possible 🙏
A screengrab of the main page of https://www.directrelief.org/

Anytime. Anywhere. Anyone in Need.

Direct Relief works in the US and internationally to expand access to medicine and health care by equipping doctors and nurses with lifesaving medical resources.

Nepal Flood Response
DRC Ebola Outbreak Response
Venezuela Earthquake ResponseThe Instagram page of Centro de Apoyo y Rescate, a pet rescue charity operating across Venezuela
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 29/09/2026
Renaming him Jimothy
A black-and-grey tabby cat sleeping on someone's lap, curled up so tightly that he looks like he has no spine to speak of
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 26/09/2026
They didn't have to go through all that trouble just for me
A big orange road safety sign that reads "3 Pedestrians have been killed here For your own safety"
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 14/09/2026
Dealing with the horrors
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 14/09/2026
I used to doodle in my handbooks and coursework all the time, which pissed off one of my grade school teachers so much that she kept me in class for one recess, handed me one of these bad boys, and told me to erase it (thereby stifling my creativity, surely)
A hand-held dispenser of sticky correction tape, shaped like a mouse
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 14/09/2026
Two February 2024 tweets from @dandouglas that read:

i’m not being flippant when i say that watching them feels genuinely unnerving to me, and has crossover with my experience of psychosis, of a world slightly melting, familiarity suddenly warped and threatening, corruption seeping into the fabric of reality. fucking hate them lol


really hope i’m wrong and catastrophising but my gut feeling tells me that the negative mental health impact of this tech is going to be huge. this shit is going to drive people crazy
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 14/09/2026
Missed it by two years 😔
Great Britain, formerly England, is an island country in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. Bordered by Scotland to the north and London City to the southeast, Great Britain was part of the United Kingdom (UK) until 2024, when the UK was broken up due to internal political and economic strife.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 11/09/2026
As usual, @netizenses.bsky.social came through with amazing artwork that gives such life to the characters 😍 I also want to thank @theharpomarxist.bsky.social for indulging the dumb idea of actually recording the in-universe podcast sample that @brunodias.dev wrote to deliver a big final clue 🤩
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 11/09/2026
"Richie Diniz died doing what he loved: not dying" And with that, @brunodias.dev's Neurocracy story is complete! I think it came together beautifully, both on the pages of Omnipedia and in dialogue with players ❤️ Check it out from the start right here: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/03/Richie_Diniz
A Neurocracy illustration that depicts a press event for the signing of a football player named Richie Diniz, who's holding up a colourful jersey with a satisfied smile. To his right is a tall businessman in a dark suit who looks less pleased to be there
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 08/09/2026
He be like 🫪
A close-up of a grey-furred cat named Pato lying on a hardwood floor, his ample mane splayed around his head and his eyes pointing away from each other
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 05/09/2026
Show me you didn't understand the assignment
A listing for a torrent of The Terminator (1984) that says it's been <slight retching noise> upscaled using AI
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 04/09/2026
Better yet
A headline that reads "Billionaires hoarding wealth while the rest of us struggle need to ask themselves: what would Dolly do?"

(except Dolly has been crossed out in favour of, uhh, not Mario, the other one)
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 04/09/2026
We know this playbook
"The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing."

Toni Morrison
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 03/09/2026
This is one of my favourite citations on omnipedia.app 😎
Zamperla-Smith, H. (February 2041). “‘How Could This Happen’, Asks Nation That Looked Away Last Time It Happened.” The Onion.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 03/09/2026
Soft where it counts Uncompromising where it matters
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 02/09/2026
Ha ha wait til you get a load of this guy omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/10/Charlemagne_Cabrera
A table of contents with the following headings:

1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 New York Yankees
2.2 Business ventures
2.3 Baseball Extra
3 Latent Space Church
4 Reported suicide
5 Reported death

from: https://omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/10/Charlemagne_Cabrera
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 30/08/2026
Behold!
A grey-furred cat with a giant white mane, his gaze cast to the heavens because there's a bug thereA grey tabby cat delivering a hefty MEOW at the camera, his face scrunched up and fangs bared
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 29/08/2026
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 28/08/2026
Yesss the true mark of greatness 🤩
A 'Did you know...' box from Wikipedia's front page back in 2021, which includes a mention of Neurocracy
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 27/08/2026
Today's update to @brunodias.dev's Neurocracy story introduces a man who once said: "It may be that providing an organ to a high-value individual is the maximal value life course for a low-value individual" ☝️🤓 Go here to kick his ass: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/06/Fernand_Roth
A Neurocracy illustration that shows a middle-aged man with an overly precise haircut and big square glasses giving a presentation. He's wearing a very fitted Italian suit over a turtleneck, and his chin looks like it enters the room two minutes before he does

Painted by bsky.app/profile/netizenses.bsky.socialAn Omnipedia citation that reads:

Kosonen, M. (March 2046). “This surgeon wants to make death optional.” The Guardian.

From: https://omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/06/Fernand_Roth
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 27/08/2026
Let it be known that Neurocracy is a must-play for any puzzle/murder mystery lovers ❤️
A five-star rating for Neurocracy on itch.io with a short review that reads:

A game I could pour the rest of my life into. I mean, assuming I lived only up to 2049. Still a great mystery with a fascinating world featured in hundreds of detailed Wikipedia (crossed out in favour of) Omnipedia articles. A mustplay, dare I say, for any puzzle/murder mystery lovers.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 24/08/2026
Tune in to the next episode of the Richie Diniz story to learn the truth about the Permaballers! omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/05/Richie_Diniz
A paragraph showing diffs between two versions of the text

The original text reads:

Diniz’ career and resulting fame as a longevity influencer led to a burgeoning online fanbase that began to refer to itself as the Permaballers. Regarded as one of the largest and most devoted fandoms, Permaballers are known for their high levels of participation, community, and cultural impact.

The redaction reads:

Diniz’ career and resulting fame as a longevity influencer led to an online fanbase that refers to itself as the Permaballers. Regarded as one of the most active fandoms, Permaballers are known for their disregard for Diniz’ privacy, publicising his real-time locations, and harassing individuals who malign Diniz.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 24/08/2026
It is now illegal for me not to post this
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 23/08/2026
I bet this feels good as hell if you're an airbag
A warning graphic above the passenger seat in a car that says not to mount a child's seat facing away from the dashboard because the airbag WILL launch the child at supersonic speed if it deploys
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 17/08/2026
"Richie Diniz died doing what he loved: not dying" This brand new Neurocracy story kicks off with the unfortunate passing of a beloved sports icon and longevity influencer 😔 Check it out: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/03/Richie_Diniz (written by @brunodias.dev with art from @netizenses.bsky.social)
A Neurocracy illustration that depicts a press event for the signing of a football player named Richie Diniz, who's holding up a colourful jersey with a satisfied smile. To his right is a tall businessman in a dark suit who looks less pleased to be there
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 16/08/2026
Meanwhile, on Omnipedia:
Republican Party

The Republican Party, also referred to as the Grand Old Party (GOP), is one of the three major political parties in the United States (US). Initially founded in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery, the contemporary Republican Party is generally based on American conservatism and has been classified as a doomsday cult by foreign observers.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 11/08/2026
An image from S07E22 of The Simpsons, showing a WWII soldier named Ox. A speech balloon has been added to the bottom of the image
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 10/08/2026
A humble suggestion for the soundtrack
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 05/08/2026
Guys you're not gonna believe this
You know what’s better than having 3 followers?

Having 4 followers. We notify them whenever you release new music or merch, so the more followers you have, the more sales you can expect.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 04/08/2026
A post from Brian Bucklew that reads:

it's honestly sad but completely believable that humanity will reach middling climate targets instead of ending our civilization by undergoing a series of pandemics and petrowars that each push carbon down and green energy deployment up stumbling into a barely survivable climate future like mr bean
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 29/07/2026
A stock image showing someone's hands as they just pulled the pin out of a grenade. Some text has been crudely superimposed over the body of the grenade, reading "interstellar is a better movie than 2001 a space odyssey"
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 28/07/2026
If you want to get your fix in early, you're more than welcome to buy into @ricklane.bsky.social's excellent description of Neurocracy! 🌐 neurocracy.site 🌐
Neurocracy is what you’d get if the Wikipedia entry for Neuromancer gained sentience and ate the rest of the site. It’s a thrilling sci-fi page-turner where the page-turning has been replaced with hyperlinks, all wrapped in a dense and chillingly plausible vision of the future. It’s a fascinating experiment in narrative design.

From: https://bit-tech.net/features/gaming/pc/neurocracy-is-a-futuristic-murder-mystery-told-via-a-fictional-wikipedia/1/
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 27/07/2026
The fourth episode of is now online, bringing with it some wiki vandalism and another gorgeous illustration from @netizenses.bsky.social! Are these youngsters the real culprits or just scapegoats? You decide... omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/07/Hieronymus_Bosch_Lyceum
A group of four students in a bright classroom wearing alternative, punk-style clothing
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 21/07/2026
It's always a good time to highlight that, as with the rest of the project, the new stories coming to Neurocracy are created without any use of generative AI ✋😙 Everything is handcrafted, including this wonderful illustration of a Dutch high school from @netizenses.bsky.social 🤩
An illustration for the sci-fi browser game Neurocracy, showing the main entrance to a high school in the Netherlands. Visible near the foreground are a concourse with waterway access and four docked river boats, bicycle racks on either side, and greenery dotted here and there. The actual building is squat and angular, with sun-bathed colours and the name HIERONYMUS BOSCH LYCEUM stenciled above the entrance doors
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 15/07/2026
Five years ago today (it was actually yesterday but who's counting), the very first episode of Neurocracy saw the light of day! To commemorate this occasion, I'm overjoyed to present the first of three new stories on omnipedia.app, coming from @baroness.bsky.social: omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10...
A banner image for the game NEUROCRACY, showing the title as white over black on the left of the screen while the right features a blue-tinted X-ray of a human skull, with unnatural tendrils snaking their way into the brain cavity as if to occupy it

Also a birthday hat has been crudely added on top of the skull
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 13/07/2026
RIP Sam Neill, who channelled my love of dinosaurs with the best awe-struck gaze in cinema 😎😮 Throwback to the time I dressed up as Alan Grant and everyone assumed I was Indiana Jones
An old black-and-white photo of a young boy standing in a garden wearing the costume of Sam Neill's character in Jurassic Park: a shirt with rolled-up sleeves tucked into a pair of rugged trousers and a fedora atop the head
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 01/07/2026
A previous Neurocracy story features a fictional activist who came to life through conversations with a Venezuelan writer ▶️ omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10/10/Sofia_Pe%C3%B1a What they told us about the nightmare that Venezuela has had to endure under the corrupt Chavismo regime often defies belief...
A screengrab of the Omnipedia infobox of a person listed as Sofia Peña, showing a headshot of an older woman with dark shoulder-length hair

Her birth name is Sofia Peña-Orrego Alcántara, she was born May 8th 1987 (age 62) in Caracas, Venezuela, and her nationality is Venezuelan
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 30/06/2026
A vicious cycle of four steps surrounding a black cat with a thousand-yard stare and a dapper little tie. The four endlessly cycling steps read:

-going forward we're gonna need more of your data to make sure it's you

-ahaha youre not gonna believe this but we had a bit of a data breach

-your data is probably for sale online now

-that means someone could easily impersonate you
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 28/06/2026
This mans knows his angles
A worm's-eye view of the cat in the post above, framing him against a blue sky with white clouds as the wind lifts his ample fur
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 28/06/2026
Here's Pato on his walk why not
A close-up of a long-furred cat (name of Pato) sniffing a flower with a content expression on his little faceA wider shot of the same cat on a wooden walkway, his expression having soured to a scowl with his tongue peeking out in apparent disgust
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 26/06/2026
Twitter post from @ThorHalvorssen:

Delcy Rodríguez, the "acting" president of Venezuela has declared a state of emergency.

What you are watching from Venezuela is more than a natural disaster story. It is a governance autopsy.

Hundreds are confirmed dead and the real toll is rising because no one is coming to rescue those still trapped in the rubble.

Let's break it down: Twin 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes. Buildings collapsed in Caracas and neighboring cities.

And where are the ambulances?

Where are the fire trucks?

Where is the state?

There are no emergency services. Because there is no state. There is only a criminal enterprise that wears a costume. The state built a machinery to repress. Silence. Torture. Kill. Not to rescue.

To every American businessperson who has traveled to Caracas in the last few months, met with Delcy Rodríguez, signed deals, convinced themselves that "things are changing" and that engagement is pragmatic. This is for you…For those who believe the American government fiction that "everything is going great" with Delcy…. you are watching your thesis collapse in real time, under rubble, with no one coming to help.

The fiction that Venezuela is "open for business" exists for one reason: Delcy and her brother Jorge need your money, your legitimacy, and your silence. They have no intention of reforming. They respond that they just "don't know" when elections will take place. They have no intention of being held accountable for the billions looted, the political prisoners disappeared, the diaspora of more than eight million people. They need you as props. They need you to keep telling Washington that things are "great!" And that Delcy is exactly what Venezuela needs right now to "stabilize" and "reform." 

What this earthquake reveals, as every crisis in Venezuela reveals, is that Maduro and his cronies hollowed out every institution. PDVSA. The hospitals. The fire departments. Civil defense. Emergency services. All of it stripped to the bone and the proceeds wired offshore.

The death toll will be much higher precisely because of what the people now in power did over the last 25 years.Let's be clear: The people dying tonight and in the next few days under collapsed buildings in Caracas are not dying because of an earthquake. They are dying because of 25 years of systematic looting by the same people now issuing press releases about a "state of emergency." Because they're wholly unprepared. Because they looted everything. Did away with talent. And on top of all of this have zero empathy or motivation to help anyone but themselves. They didn’t care about millions of people fleeing into a jungle and walking hundreds of miles to freedom. Why would they care about survivors of this natural disaster?

The media locally isn't reporting or showing the images of the devastation. They're terrified of upsetting the dictatorship.

And tonight:

Not a firefighter in sight. Not an ambulance in sight. Just cameras, and Delcy, and the performance of governance where none exists.

Those businesspeople were warned. The Venezuelans who fled told you. The human rights organizations told you. The evidence was always there.

Now you have photographs.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 25/06/2026
A low-res crop of JC Denton's perennially blank face, his augmented eyes glowing blue behind his shades, with the caption below reading "Do you have a single fact to back that up?"
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 24/06/2026
You were saying?
Persona rights refers to the legal right to use the likeness of an individual, including voice, appearance, and physical mannerisms. In most countries, citizens hold persona rights to their own likeness from birth on, but can choose to license or sell them to third parties after reaching legal adulthood. Upon death, persona rights transfer to the individual’s next of kin unless otherwise stipulated in the deceased’s will.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 17/06/2026
A 2021 tweet from @JoeLongBalls that reads:

every single argument about ID verification on social media boils down to "i want the bank account information of that guy with the vegeta avatar who called me a dumb wank"
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 16/06/2026
I can never tell whether he's slow blinking at me or telling me to watch my step
A grey-furred cat (name of Pato) sitting politely on a white window sill, looking at the camera with a neutral expression The same photo as before, except Pato has narrowed his eyes, giving him a sinister expression
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 02/06/2026
The first release batch comprises three stories coming from an amazing line-up of writers and designers: ⭐ Bertine van Hövell (@baroness.bsky.social) ⭐ Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) ⭐ Julie Muncy (@julie.radiantarray.io) Stay tuned for further updates and do spread the word if you can 🙏
Meme of Mickey Mouse (labeled "the coolest people in games") floating towards a pie on an open window (labeled "working on neurocracy")

Courtesy of @innes.bsky.social
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 02/06/2026
On July 15, Neurocracy will shift into... 🌐 ANTHOLOGY MODE 🌐 ✅ New individual stories added to omnipedia.app ✅ Each one stretches across a month of updates ✅ You influence what happens 👀 More info: talk.omnipedia.app/t/new-stories-are-coming-to-neurocracy/397 #scifi #epistolary #hypertext #TTARG
A banner image for the game NEUROCRACY, showing the title as white over black on the left of the screen while the right features a blue-tinted X-ray of a human skull, with unnatural tendrils snaking their way into the brain cavity as if to occupy it
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 27/05/2026
Aw yeah great minds etc. (from www.the-editing-room.com/deep-impact)
JON FAVREAU

I'm Jon Favreau, medical officer, and I'll be talking about explosive outgassing so much that I'll honestly be disappointed if that isn't what kills me.
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 26/05/2026
This July, we celebrate the five-year anniversary of Neurocracy's first launch! 🥳 What if... we announced something neat for that? Keep 'em peeled 👀
A banner image for game NEUROCRACY, showing the title as white over black on the left of the screen while the right features a blue-tinted X-ray of a human skull, with unnatural tendrils snaking their way into the brain cavity as if to occupy it
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joannes @playthroughline.com · 22/05/2026
Going on a STUPID walk for my STUPID mental health
A grey-furred cat with a giant ruff obscuring his form (name of Pato) standing on a branch in a park of tall grass. It's a sunny day and there are some buildings faintly visible in the background
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