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Abolition Game - Current Project

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I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways. silver-guillotine.itch.io

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Klardonics @klardonics.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Looking for a #Metroidvania game under $2? Check out my game Overbowed, now on sale! #Steam #pixelart #indiegame
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 02/10/2026
You got me!
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is a moral abomination. State-sanctioned barbarism pushed by incompetent morons and sanctioned by the Supreme Court. Absolute ghoul shit. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
The lone woman on Tennessee's death row was still alive after she was administered two lethal injections, her lawyer said in a motion seeking to halt her execution Wednesday night, a stunning development after the Supreme Court had stepped in to allow the state to put her to death.
At 8:26 p.m. local time, witnesses said
"executioners had injected both syringes of lethal injection chemicals and Pike is still alive and snoring," her lawyers said in a federal court filing.
They said Pike "has not lost consciousness and still has a heartbeat," and that curtains to the death chamber "have gone down twice."
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 01/10/2026
The "sickos" meme, but with Lenin looking in the window saying "Yes... HA HA HA... YES!"
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 30/09/2026
"Suno v6 pro has solved musicians."
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 30/09/2026
There are examples of this around the world! Finland has "day fines" which are proportional to the offense and the person's salary
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 29/09/2026
I always felt like Lenin would be a great shitposter. He tears into anyone he thinks is "opportunist"
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 29/09/2026
Instead of destroying the planet, my next game will only destroy prisons and police stations. Sorry folks, the technology is just too powerful to stop
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 29/09/2026
I guess he never leared
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 27/09/2026
Police were responsible for nearly one in three homicides in Vallejo, California in 2012. They are also responsible for a large proportion of homicides by strangers across the US. This case shows the people of Vallejo may have been safer with a complete defunding, before that was a common idea
"A case in point: in 2008, officials in Vallejo, California, defended their police department by half after filing for bankruptcy during the Great Recession. 'Far from ushering in a new era of harmony between police and the people,' Peter Jamison wrote in thr Washington Post, 'the budget cuts worsened tensions between the department and the community and were followed by a dramatic surge in the officer's use of deadly force. Since 2009 the police have killed 20 people, an extraordinarily high number for such a small city. In 2012 alone, officers fatally shot 6 suspects. Nearly a third of the city's homicides that year were committed by law enforcement.' One thing Jamison initially failed to mention was that when Vallejo officials cut police funding in half, they did not provide additional funding for public health and social services agencies. "Defunding the police," then must be a policy of presence, not just of absence.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 27/09/2026
This is most policy debate: "The masses don't realize what we're doing is actually good for them. That's why we need to undermine democratic modes of participation even more to bring about what the wealthy want."
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
My wife and I spend a surprising amount of time worrying about how to protect our children from rich kids
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Several new women's prisons are being built despite a growing chorus of voices arguing that prisons only inflict more harm on women who have already endured abuse and trauma. ... Instead of sentencing reform or much-needed mental and medical services, legislators chose to build a new prison."
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 27/09/2026
Looks neat!
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Squidboat LLC @squidboat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
3 days until the End of End Demo Launches! For #ScreenshotSaturday we thought we'd show off the 3 bosses you'll face demo dungeon, the ruins. To save the last sanctuary of End you must defeat: - Court Mage ✨ - Warmaster 🗡️ - Last Queen 👑 #indiegame #indiegames #godot #roguelite #roguelike #game
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 27/09/2026
Seems like the end goal is to make their cameras so ubiquitous they can get massive police/military contracts to make the US an open-air panopticon
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 23/09/2026
"Imperial Extraction from the Universal Periphery: A Tatooinian Perspective"
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 23/09/2026
A other day living under oligarchy
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 22/09/2026
Sharing my recent blog post of my testimony opposing data centers in Baltimore. Please check it out and if you're local there's still time to submit written testimony!
bathruminations.substack.com
No Data Centers in Baltimore
Submit Your Testimony Today
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"The story is about how the Terrible Things, which usually happen to the people who deserve Terrible Things, somehow happened to one of the people who do not deserve Terrible Things, according to one of the sorts of people who get to decide which people deserve what." www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/
the-reframe.com
This is Us
Moving from "I'm one of the Good Ones" to actually becoming good.
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...
nytimes.com
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 20/09/2026
That’s because the real money is made by monetizing the institutional vestiges of American power."
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 20/09/2026
Reading this good piece today: "Today, neoclassical textbooks continue to wax about the market production of ‘stuff’ (i.e. ‘widgets’). But in the mean time, American capitalists have offshored their factories, leaving the dirty work of making things to others.
economicsfromthetopdown.com
The Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism – Economics from the Top Down
I use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 20/09/2026
The Blank Slate was written in 2002. I read it a few years ago on a friend's recommendation. It was quite poorly argued and had multiple random (unsupported) claims of racism being basically in the past. Based on this article, his writing hasn't fallen too far, but maybe his profile has
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"One video [of the US attacks' aftermath] shows a man holding the severed arm of a young child ... Bloodied backpacks and schoolbooks can be seen in additional footage. Sources interviewed by media described burned, dismembered, and headless bodies. Several families lost more than one child."
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 18/09/2026
My hope is that people will come to revile him before he dies, but I'll settle for after
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 18/09/2026
A man who reshaped our entire economy around monopolies through his investment strategies, but who also put on a show of being down to earth
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Every tech bro ever:
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Sam 🧊🐐 | Xythas @xythas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
At last... Draco and the Seven Scales is now out on Steam and Itch! Sail the seven seas on this pirate adventure!
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 18/09/2026
Local media produces the former, national/global media produces the latter. That is why oligarchs have bought out so much local media and gutted it
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Fewer than a quarter of the prison system's total of 791 housing units have any type of mechanical cooling such as air conditioning ... The lack of insulation in buildings makes it difficult to keep temperatures below 89 degrees even in facilities with air conditioning[.]"
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 16/09/2026
If the point of her hiring was to improve things, she would have been fired long ago based on her metrics and performance. Instead we see clearly the point of her hiring was an ideological takeover to transform an often flawed media source into pure propaganda
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The first weeks are often the hardest. A person leaving prison may walk out with a prison ID that is not accepted for a job, an apartment or a bank account. Many leave with little or no money ... [P]eople need daily encouragement while they sort out housing, food, clothing and paperwork."
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 14/09/2026
A lot of technological advances are just Wizard of Oz, hide the person behind the machine and hide the exploited labor, type of things. It says a lot about the people creating those technologies and about our capitalist system which reproduces that exploitation.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
404media.co
Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 14/09/2026
A while back I wrote about Prudencia Ayala, who I think fits this category perfectly. She fought for women's rights, workers' rights, and the unification of Central America
bathruminations.substack.com
Prudencia Ayala
A Badass 1900s Feminist
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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"[A]s is the case in the adult criminal legal system, the racially disproportionate confinement of children starts with policing, not criminality. ... [Black and brown kids] are targeted for surveillance, arrest, and punishment in ways that white kids are not."
prisonpolicy.org
Youth Confinement: The Whole Pie 2025
The big picture of youth confinement in America, showing how many kids are entangled in the criminal legal system and why.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 11/09/2026
Another day in #oligarchy
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 09/09/2026
Crime is down, but my talking points depend on fear so I will rephrase benign activities to sound scarier
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 08/09/2026
Looks cool! Would be funny/interesting if certain powerful items also obscured your view a lot, making a trade-off for the boost
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 08/09/2026
There's that abundance being put to work again
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
And a percentage of these people become influential tech CEOs or leaders of other companies and attempt to undermine democracy because they believe they can solve all of humanity's problems!
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
Sometimes a rising tide drowns all those without a boat
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
But even a center-left argument could galvanize a lot of people against corruption and self-dealing in government and business. Throwing the caveat in here that of course, racist and misogynist neighbors are bad and frustrating, and without dark money they would have less power.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
and power that they are distorting democracy. They are tearing down the fabric of our society and blaming the voters for it. My personal view is that capitalism and democracy are not compatible. Concentrations of wealth always tend to shape policy in their favor.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
your neighbors? This framing tells people, "it is right to blame and be angry at your neighbors that you disagree with. Don't look up though. Never look up to see who is funding elections and corporate ad campaigns." 5. A better framing would identify that oligarchs have amassed so much wealth
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
What can they do in the face of such a massive problem? 4. If the problem really is the populace. Why believe in democracy at all? Obviously it doesn't work if the problem is millions of other people. Why fight for an ideal of civic participation and agency over your community if the problem is
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
3. Blaming the populace does little besides diffuse blame and distract from the real powerholders - the oligarchs mentioned above. This false framing of the problem leads to false solutions and, ultimately, apathy. Educating millions or hundreds of millions of people seems impossible to any person.
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
consolidation. 2. Blaming the populace, the voters, or the masses is quite elitist, or at the least paternalistic. It implies you are above most of your fellow citizens and know what's best for them. Why won't they listen to you? But who wants to listen to someone who looks down on them?
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Abolition Game - Current Project @silver-guillotine.itch.io · 07/09/2026
Nothing against this guy, but I see claims like this all the time: "ignorant populace," "voters picked this," etc. This is the wrong framing for several reasons. 1. The information people consume has been consolidated under a few wealthy oligarchs. Ignorance is the intentional result of capitalist
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