Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 31/03/2026I attended the No Kings protest near where I live, then checked my local corporate media newspapers and network TV stations. The stories were terrible. Really did not capture the spirit of the event. So thank you to all the Journalers and Archivists out there. What you're doing is important! 010
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026(Also, writing this feels like 88 lines about 44 billionaires) ...OK, /intermission, back to it... 33/43 111
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Friends, it’s been a year since we published Survive the Tyrant! I started writing these reflections in December, and at that time it felt like our tone may have been too negative, too cautious. With ICE escalating, now it feels like our message of “first stay safe” was correct. 121
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 12/01/2026While writing notes on the anniversary of publishing our little zine, I started looking at which billionaires (and multi-millionaires) own which media properties, and it’s worse than I thought. I couldn’t find any one source where this is all laid out, so here it is. 🧵 1/43 2177
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Six months ago we shared Survive The Tyrant! with you. I just reread it, and I am sad to say I would not change a single word. We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts. bsky.app/profile/surv... 1178
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Six months ago we shared Survive The Tyrant! with you. I just reread it, and I am sad to say I would not change a single word. We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts. bsky.app/profile/surv... 1178
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I think this is really goodbye this time. If anyone is interested in taking over and running this account and the other links, please let us know in the replies and we may send you our usernames and passwords. If nobody does, we’re just going to go dark and go do what the guide says in secret. 032
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025We would love it if people would bring some paper copies of Survive the Tyrant! to #worldcon and #magicon #magiconchicago to leave out on tables for people to find. There are pdfs that print nicely into booklets on the website and the deviantart page bsky.app/profile/surv... 013
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025@spice8rack.bsky.social, we wrote Survive the Tyrant! to help people answer the question “what can *we* do?” Would you be willing to take a look, and maybe boost it? bsky.app/profile/surv... 000
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025@questauthority.bsky.social, sorry to intrude but could you please tell @kbspangler.com that when we wrote “No rights reserved / Public domain / CC0” and “This guide has no copyright protections” we waived copyright and she can look at our guide without worrying about legal mumble-blorp? Thank you! 020
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Additional reading for anyone who is interested in Survive the Tyrant! Professor Chenoweth is amazing and her work is one of the reasons we emphasized nonviolence so strongly in our guide 032
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025We are drawing on our own family history to take the lessons from experiences like these and present them in an accessible way in Survive the Tyrant! bsky.app/profile/surv... 000
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025Reappearing very briefly because we added a new link (deviantart) for people who were having technical problems. If you follow us, please consider sharing Survive the Tyrant! one more time. Thank you! 021
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2025A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe! survivethetyrant.infy.uk www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5... www.deviantart.com/survivethety... drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...survivethetyrant.infy.uk 65335
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Goddammit, I really wanted that exit to be the end, and then I saw this news. We couldn't have done this without Proton. So for whoever needs to hear it, it is basically impossible to excise free speech anonymously on the internet right now. You need email to do anything, make a website, etc. 150
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025We’re going to ride off into the sunset now, to go and do in secret what the guide describes. If anyone is interested in running this account and the website, say so in the replies here and we’ll send one of you the usernames and passwords. Thank you, and keep yourselves safe, you’re all marvels! 130
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025We really mean it when we say anyone can do anything they want with this document. We’ve waived all copyright and posted it in RTF format on the website, so if anyone thinks “good idea but it could have been done better” then please improve it! 011
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025In this thread we’re asking for signal boosts for Survive the Tyrant!, our guide to surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime. We hate to impose, but we honestly believe this document could save lives. And in a few minutes, we’re stepping away forever. bsky.app/profile/surv... 1169
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025[Takes a deep breath.] I hate this so much, and I’m not good at it, but if we can save even one person... 000
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025A group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can. Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe! survivethetyrant.infy.uk www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...survivethetyrant.infy.uk 14373218
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Writing this thing we made felt like those good old days. Every day since we posted the website and tried to start sharing it has felt like crawling through a river of shit, and I only hope and pray we come out clean on the other side. 030
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Micah @rincewind.run · 15/01/2025periodically I look around at the state of the internet and the way it is clearly contributing to making the world worse in so many ways, and I think back to dicking around in a computer lab in the early 00s and how full of promise it all felt, and I feel sad it didn't have to be this way 2435935804
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Hey free speech activists, FYI doing this anonymously was really hard. We couldn’t have done it without some real digital security expertise. One thing everyone can do to help is routinely use TOR, VPNs, and Signal so that’s just normal and they don’t get blocked so often. 030
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Oh man how do all you authors, podcasters, and video presenters do it? We had this idea and said, "well, I guess we have to do it," but we aren't natural creative types. The anxiety of launching a thing into the world and hoping people like it is incredible! Much appreciation for you all. 050
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Hello RPG and tabletop gamers, on this #SelfPromoSaturday we're hoping you will consider taking a look at Survive the Tyrant!, our new RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and and oppressive regime. We put a lot of work into it and we hope it will help people. bsky.app/profile/surv... 062
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This was surprisingly hard to do anonymously, and we’re afraid the original link might be taken down. We also uploaded it to DriveThruRPG. If anyone out there is willing to mirror it anywhere else, please reply with the link. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...drivethrurpg.comSurvive the Tyrant! - Survive The Tyrant | DriveThruRPGAn RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime 031
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025If our guide makes you think of any movies, articles, books (nonfiction and fiction), or anything else that you think could help people trying to survive an oppressive regime, we’d love to hear about it in the replies. Here’s one: medium.com/@tanadue/sur...medium.comSurviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. ButlerI originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it… 042
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025If you’d like more resources that relate to data privacy and operational security, there’s a great set of links at the bottom of: digitaldefensefund.org/learn Here are some others: www.wired.com/story/the-wi... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.nlg.org/wp-content/u... www.nrdc.org/stories/how-...digitaldefensefund.orgLearn — Digital Defense Fund 052
Reposted by Survive the Tyrant!Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Hi Bluesky, a group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime called Survive the Tyrant! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can. Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe! survivethetyrant.infy.uksurvivethetyrant.infy.uk 13516
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"If we shadows have offended..." Distributing this thing broadly means imposing on people, and we're sorry for any discourtesy--especially to those in California. 040
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025If you’d like more resources that relate to data privacy and operational security, there’s a great set of links at the bottom of: digitaldefensefund.org/learn Here are some others: www.wired.com/story/the-wi... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... www.nlg.org/wp-content/u... www.nrdc.org/stories/how-...digitaldefensefund.orgLearn — Digital Defense Fund 052
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025If our guide makes you think of any movies, articles, books (nonfiction and fiction), or anything else that you think could help people trying to survive an oppressive regime, we’d love to hear about it in the replies. Here’s one: medium.com/@tanadue/sur...medium.comSurviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. ButlerI originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it… 042
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025This was surprisingly hard to do anonymously, and we’re afraid the original link might be taken down. We also uploaded it to DriveThruRPG. If anyone out there is willing to mirror it anywhere else, please reply with the link. www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...drivethrurpg.comSurvive the Tyrant! - Survive The Tyrant | DriveThruRPGAn RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime 031
Survive the Tyrant! @survivethetyrant.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Hi Bluesky, a group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime called Survive the Tyrant! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can. Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe! survivethetyrant.infy.uksurvivethetyrant.infy.uk 13516
![A chart that matches billionaires to their media businesses at the top, and then non-billionaire owned businesses with their ownership status at the bottom.
Alden (Chicago Tribune, Boston Herald, Mercury News, etc.) Randall Smith
Amazon/Twitch/Washington Post Jeff Bezos
The Atlantic Lauren Powell Jobs
Bloomberg/Business Week Michael Bloomberg
CBS/Paramount/TikTok Larry Ellison
Conde Nast (Vogue, Vanity Fair, New Yorker) Donald Newhouse
Cox (cable, Axios.com, Atlanta Journal-Constitution) Cox Family
Echostar/Dish Charles Ergen
Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp Marc Zuckerberg
Fox News/Wall Street Journal/Tabloids Rupert Murdoch
Google/YouTube/Android Sergey Brin/Larry Page
Hearst Communications (newspapers, magazines, TV channels) Hearst family
LA Times Patrick Soon-Shiong
McClatchy, A360media (local newspapers) Anthony Melchiorre
NBC/Comcast/Versant (MS NOW [was MSNBC]/CNBC/USA Network) Brian L. Roberts
Netflix Reed Hastings
New York Times Ochs-Sulzberger family
Newsweek Dev Pragad/Johnathan Davis
Nexstar (local TV stations) Perry A. Sook
Sinclair (local TV stations) Sinclair Smith Family
People Inc. Barry Diller
Politico/Business Insider Friede Springer/Mathias Döpfner
Thomson Reuters Thomson family
Time Magazine Marc Benioff
Truth Social Donald Trump
US News and World Report Mortimer Zuckerman
Warner Bros Discovery (CNN) John Malone
X/Twitter Elon Musk
NPR/PBS Endangered
ABC/Disney Publicly Traded
Apple Publicly Traded
Associated Press Owned by Members
The Guardian Blind Trust
Netflix Publicly Traded
USA Today Co. (USA Today and local newspapers) Publicly Traded](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ewahi4wtyb75k7varvluauo6/bafkreie4tinq4fja2diubkpls3ybvkttbt2p4bwcwxygmclu3tsbyo6pci)