Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 06/06/2026I'm not sure what you think Marx's advice is here? Because what follows is: "All passions and all activity must therefore be submerged in *avarice*. The worker may only have enough for him to want to live, and may only want to live in order to have that." You've been teaching this for 20 years? 031
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 31/03/2026This feels like the bones of an essay entitled "On The Dialectics of RPGs". "A Role Playing Game exists as a stable unity between Players, Referees, and Game Rules. Where the Game Rules exist as the material base of the unity, and the settings, characters, and adventurs exist as the superstructure" 010
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 30/03/2026Israel Admits It ‘Photoshopped’ Image of Assassinated Lebanese Journalist to Portray Him as Hezbollah Operative The Committee to Protect Journalists described "a disturbing pattern" of Israel linking journalists to militant groups to justify killing them.commondreams.orgIsrael Admits It ‘Photoshopped’ Image of Assassinated Lebanese Journalist to Portray Him as Hezbollah OperativeCPJ Regional Director Sara Qudah called the killing part of "a disturbing pattern" of "Israel accusing journalists of being active combatants and terrorists without providing credible evidence." 01824
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 30/03/2026holodeck dungeons and dragons campaigns 524236
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄fightbacknews.bsky.social @fightbacknews.bsky.social · 25/03/2026But gasoline prices are just the visible “tip of the iceberg” for consumer price inflation. Diesel prices are up 43% since the start of the war, even more in percentage terms than gasoline, and are now more than $5.35 a gallon on average nationwide. fightbacknews.org/articles/gas...fightbacknews.orgGasoline price spike is first sign of broader inflationSan José, CA - The price of regular gasoline has soared a dollar a gallon on average since Trump ordered this country to war with Iran.... 001
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 16/03/2026None of these people are far left. They hardly qualify as Left in a European context. 001
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Common Dreams @commondreams.org · 16/03/2026What other lessons are countries to draw from this than that the US will engage in imperial violence against any non-nuclear power?commondreams.orgTrump’s No-Rules International Order Fuels Death, Destruction, and NuclearizationTrump and Netanyahu insist that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon. Yet perhaps the greatest irony of this war is that their senseless aggression is giving every country reason to develop nuclear arms. 01211
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026We are a tiny nonprofit. Cutting off income genuinely hurts our ability to produce new work. If you like what CA does, please consider donating so we can be independent of the whims of big tech platforms: www.currentaffairs.org/donatecurrentaffairs.orgDonate 1113
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026TikTok just demonetized Current Affairs. No explanation. Just kicked us out and eliminated our income stream and said we violated an unspecified policy. Of course the only thing we've done that could possibly be controversial is be critical of imperialism and genocide. 22813
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 05/03/2026“Usually a deft communicator, Zohran Mamdani becomes uncharacteristically tongue-tied when it comes to the NYPD.”thebaffler.comCeding Ground | Ali WinstonZohran Mamdani has ceded control of New York City Police Department to an ideological opponent. 243
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 23/02/2026Who’s afraid of Japanese knotweed? thebaffler.com/outbursts/th...thebaffler.comThe Knotweed Factor | Jennifer KabatIf we’ll never be able to undo the worst of our actions, can we can appreciate nature’s adaptations? 021
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 24/02/2026From the Archives: Aaron Timms takes a deep, depressing dive down the capital-flush halls of the predictive data industry.thebaffler.comThe Artificial Intelligentsia | Aaron TimmsPicking Silicon Valley’s future winners is still, some six decades since the birth of modern venture capital, more art than science. 053
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 26/08/2025@commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/news/israel-... Whats up with murder being in single quotes in this headline? Does Common Dreams not recognize these killings as murder?commondreams.orgAs Press Freedom Groups Decry Latest 'Murder' of Journalists by Israel, Fury Grows Over Impunity | Common DreamsIsrael faces criticism after deadly strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza. Journalists and healthcare workers among the 20 killed. International outrage grows. 010
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 15/06/2025Take your own advice Michael. Might I suggest: Black Shirts and Reds by Michael Parenti. books.google.com/books/about/...books.google.comBlackshirts and RedsA bold and entertaining exploration of the epic struggles of yesterday and today. Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy,... 200
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 15/06/2025I would advocate for that if I thought it was realistic. It isn't. I'm advocating for the end of the capitalist dictatorship. The end of a system that masks its inhumanity one cycle and shows you its inhumanity the next. I advocate for the socialist state, a workers state, a human state of existence 120
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 15/06/2025This is your "democracy" in action. This is a feature of your "democracy". I'm advocating for the end of capitalist rule. You live in a dictatorship of capital. This is its inevitable cycle of escalating crisis on full display. Your lesser evil will be more evil than the one four years ago. 020
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 15/06/2025They hate the visibility of the deportations. They want it done quietly, so they can have brunch in peace. They praise Obama and Biden for maintaining the mask of capital for them. Trump removes the mask and shows you capital's inhuman nature. Now the libs must perform or let their own mask slip. 310221
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 15/06/2025And your elections don't solve anything Michael. Your most "progressive" warriors are walking mouth pieces for Israel. Take a look around you, the Democrats are becoming Reaganites, your rights and liberties are vanishing to line donor pockets, this is what your elections have given us. 150
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 15/03/2025That's the neat part Rob, they've never been opposition, even when you were in the Clinton Administration. They are the good cop to the Republican bad cop. They are the open palm of capital, while Republicans are its closed fist. They are the moderate wing of fascism. 000
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 04/01/2025If you frame Gold as only a means of reconciling state debt, used mainly in the Baronies capital, where the most robust exchange happens, rewards can become more diverse and interesting. Titles, Labor, Bespoke Goods, Political Favor, Information can become rewards, and debts can be quests. 000
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 04/01/2025I think this history has interesting world building implications for adventures. NPCs may only care about coins if they can be used to settle their debts. Otherwise they offer you services in exchange for labor directly. Barter could be reserved for chance encounters with other adventuring parties. 100
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 04/01/2025There is a whole spectrum of systems, from the Haudenosaunee collectivist systems of distribution, to Mesopotamian clay tablets used to record debts and credits. Coinage is the result of states attempting to streamline the reconciliation of debts and credits. 100
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 04/01/2025@mattcolville.bsky.social In part 1 of "Brainstorming a low-level adventure" stream you mention something about Barter never being an economic model of exchange in societies. If you want to learn more you should check out the book Debt: The First 5000 Years. Chapter 2 is about the myth of barter. 100
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Notes: - all accounts have pronoun tags. (the default is none/ use name) - it is hella lefty. you will get roasted for being a centrist. - the site culture is shitposter / rowdy. - significantly less horny than bluesky bcz it has a lot of ace folks. Still fun. - like 60% of the site is trans lol 1622116
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️ @trans.bsky.social · 14/12/2024in the wake of Bluesky T&S endorsing polite transphobia, i want to recommend checking out hexbear.net as an alternative. the site bans transphobes & bigotry, is assertively leftist, & has digital queer dive bar vibes. it is also actually federated instead of just pretending to be. 119803202
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 14/12/2024I was told we could make our own #bsky, whatever happened to that? Sure would be nice to #decentralize this whole thing in light of recent policies. I get the feeling centralization and profits beat out the #safety of marginalized groups. 🤔 100
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 12/05/2024All it will cost you is 35,000+ Palestinians! What a bargain! 000
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 18/02/2024Here’s the deal: We stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential. 7573012410
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄✪ Beware the Gray Ghost ✪ @jongraywb.blacksky.app · 17/02/2024Extra Virgin Olive Oyl is a baldfaced lie when you remember that she’s ready and willing to have Popeye consistently and repeatedly blow her back out. 341470396
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Nash @radiodeadair.com · 17/02/2024You were told for years that it was on YOU to save the planet. YOU had to recycle. The power is YOURS! ... well turns out they were lying. You can't recycle plastic at scale. You never could. WE are not the ones destroying the world.theguardian.com‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report revealsCompanies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds 331547745
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 14/02/2024The single largest cut to welfare happened under the Clinton administration, sending millions into food insecurity. Thats why he had a historic surplus at the end of his term. Don't pretend that this is a partisan issue. 000
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 13/02/2024You said, "Not a single child starved in the USA due to lack of money from the government." We stopped giving them money because it "cost too much." But somehow we have all this money to send overseas. 100
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 13/02/2024"The findings of this study suggest that the loss of monthly CTC payments was associated with an increase in the prevalence of households with children in US reporting sometimes or often not having enough to eat..." That's weird, sure seems like I'm right. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...urban.org 100
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 13/02/2024Oh thank god we didn't spend a unreasonable amount of money per dead child in relation to our overall budget. And the kids in the homeland still get to starve. Glorious. 100
Red Wizard 🪄 @redwizard.party · 13/02/2024Kids starve in the homeland so the empire and its allies can kill the children of its enemies. 100
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 12/02/2024Once upon a time, the ever-evolving graffiti on this reservoir near the psych unit was a cave-painting-record. I photographed much of it over months. One day they painted it grey. The next day: 3846071583
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 11/02/2024I think the historical context on this is really important to understand and promote because the reality is that there's no inherent aversion to trans people in our culture, it's one that's been cultivated by explicit right wing propaganda as another way to divide the working class against itself 282794985
Reposted by Red Wizard 🪄Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 11/02/2024No more modern nonsense, return to to tradition 3339391292
