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Jan 15 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A propos, London in the plague year is an amazing setting for a #ttrpg, especially horror

I developed a whole World of Darkness setting for it once; ran a ratkin game, but it's also perfect for vampires, mages and wraiths.
You have the plague itself - and the dichotomy/juxtaposition between the mystical/religious and scientific worldviews (neither of which has reliable answers, at this point).
You have huge political tensions: the very recent restoration of the monarchy, landowners vs mercantile wealth, the invasion of Ireland, relations with Scotland, Protestantism Vs Catholicism.
England's approaching the height of its colonial power, there's the second Anglo-Dutch war, the land rush in America.
And then into the middle of this you plonk a bloody great plague! 😊
Black powder guns and fencing swords, mysticism and alchemy, secret societies, it's got everything!

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To quote Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, this is a "wrong question." 🧵 Image
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It serves patriarchal goals in two ways:
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LRT: a not terrible précis on the FTX liquidity crisis, but I especially love OP's follow-up that the protocol is "sound," it's just prone to human errors of judgement. like, yes, m8, it's finance, it's a whole world of vibes.
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Cropped screenshot rather than a QT because I don't want to drag this well-meaning tweeter, but my brother also asked me this the other day and it's worth briefly discussing.
The answer, as with a lot of questions to do with the monarch's role in UK constitutional law, is "yes" on paper, but "emphatically no" in practice.
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I'll have a go!

Inflation means things are more expensive, which means less demand for goods, so there's less work, so less money, so less demand, etc. That in turn increases risk, so investment goes down, in a vicious cycle. The system needs more money.
Now, the government can either raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy for that money (which reduces the amount of capital available for investment, but that's more a problem when the economy is growing, such that investors *need* more capital to invest), or...
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There's a conspiracy theory doing the rounds on this site that Truss and Kwarteng have deliberate trashed the pound so their hedge fund mates could short it.

I'm not saying it's impossible they did that - they could well be that awful and foolish - but I doubt it.
The smart thing about "trickle down economics" is that it's an obvious lie that the rich (and the politicians they own) tell in order to justify policies that further enrich them.

The dumb thing about it is that some of them repeat that lie so often they start to believe it.
And it's hard to catch them out on it. They talk about it *so much* and with *such enthusiasm* that you can't tell whether they're lying or not.

More to the point, it's almost certain that while some of them are lying, some of them believe it, and you can't tell which is which.
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Okay, it's traditional to tweet something like, "Welcome, new followers! I usually tweet [topics], hope you enjoy!" but I seem to have picked up - holy shit - *seven thousand* new followers, so I guess I have to deliver something...
So for now, here's a thread from three years ago about the clifftop duel from The Princess Bride and what all those fencing terms mean:

And here's one from two years ago about weird Roman sex coins:

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