Author of many books. Freelance editor. Designer of puzzles/RPGs. Sometime publisher. Shameless nerd. Friendly, curious, tired, spoonie. Gen X. He/him. BLM ffs.
Nov 23, 2018 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
I've been thinking -- as you may have suffered through -- about carrying capacities and overshoot and population corrections.
I think our common error lies in thinking of the planet as our environment. It's not. Not if you're reading this.
We live in an insanely complex technological civilisation. That is our true environment, as modern humans.
That civilisation, in turn, exists in a financial and logistical environment (let's call it FALE!) that is entirely artificial.
Jun 1, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
If we hope to survive as a culture, we have to truly internalize the truth of @GreatDismal's Klept.
The elite are transnational. They live in Expatria, a luxury distributed nation of de-facto islands.
The rich always owned politics, but they used to be local. No longer.
Every time you ask "How can X do this", or "Why is Y being allowed to happen", you're being a parochial fool, which is exactly how they need to keep you.
It's impossible to lead a country with an open media -- that is, a country under Klept control -- and not be a traitor.
May 25, 2018 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
When I was young, I read Martin Niemoller's poem, and swore that I wouldn't be the one who didn't speak up.
I've lived that promise. I've spoken up, endlessly, time after time.
All it's done is piss acquaintances off.
Social Credit is rolling out in China next year officially, yet it's _already_ prevented 11 million people from taking plane flights, and 40 million more from taking train journeys.
If you can't see that it's on the way here, you're blind.
