NSW coppers monitoring citizens using #dystopian and flawed #precrime system to crack down on dissent.
#auspol #NSWpol
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:whrnqnhj2hs7k6vczly2usy6/post/3mdzebsfl4222
#dystopian
Ashen Lands by Tess Manchester
A punchy post-apocalyptic horror with action-packed Western vibes
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https://independentbookreview.com/2026/02/02/ashen-lands-by-tess-manchester/
Oceania 2084 Wins Two No Dice Unrolled Reviewer’s Choice Awards!!!
I am very happy to share some remarkable news. Oceania 2084 has been awarded No Dice Unrolled’s Reviewer’s Choice Game of the Year as well as Best Setting. Receiving this recognition for a game that explores dystopia, resistance, and the importance of human connection means more to me than I can fully express.
Creating Oceania 2084 was a long and emotional process. My hope was always that the game would speak to people who understand or feel drawn to stories about oppression, defiance, and the fragile hope that persists even in the darkest places. To see the game honored in this way is deeply meaningful, and I am incredibly grateful.
You can read the full review here: https://www.nodiceunrolled.com/en/oceania-2084-review/
You can also visit the award announcement page here: https://www.nodiceunrolled.com/en/awards/ (At the time of writing this they are still updating their homepage :) ).
Thank you to everyone who has supported, played, shared, or shown interest in Oceania 2084. Your engagement and encouragement continue to inspire me. This recognition is something I will carry with me for a long time, and I am sincerely thankful.
A heartfelt thank you from
Johan Eriksson
Designer of Oceania 2084
#ttrpg #roleplaying #dystopian #orwellian #dark #resistance #hope #award #nodiceunrolled #GoTY #1984 #2084
Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)
I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have developed for both. Astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is fascinating to me because it is so pointless.
I am actually a Computational Biologist and Computer Scientist whose specialty is combinatorics, social graphs, graph theory, etc. Specifically, I use this to create epidemiological models for the memetic layer of human behaviors that act as vectors for diseases, using the SIRS model. I do not just study germs; I study human behaviors.
The models I construct extend into a “memetic layer,” in which beliefs, norms, and behaviors (such as risk-taking, compliance with public health measures, or susceptibility to misinformation) spread contagiously through social networks. These behaviors function as vectors that modulate biological transmission rates. As a result, the spread of ideas can accelerate, dampen, or reshape the spread of disease. By running computational simulations and agent-based models on these graphs, I study how network structure, influential nodes, clustering, and platform-specific dynamics affect behavioral contagion. I also examine how these factors influence epidemiological outcomes.
To say it very concisely, I study how the spread of bat-shit insane beliefs, shit posts, and memes influences whether or not there is a measles outbreak in Texas. Ironically, this is an evolution of my studying semiotics, memetics, and chaos magick in high school. I got a job where I can use occult, anarchist techniques professionally.
I think a large reason why I do not care about astroturfing in the fediverse is that it’s so pointless, lol. Astroturfing to manipulate the narrative would actually work better on Bluesky to keep people there than trying to recruit from the fediverse. Furthermore, big instances are relatively small. Some people on Bluesky have follower lists larger than an entire large instance in the fediverse.
Within ActivityPub networks, astroturfing rarely propagates far, because whether information spreads depends on properties of the social graph itself. Dense connectivity, short paths between communities, and a sufficient number of cross-cutting ties support diffusion. ActivityPub’s architecture tends to produce graphs that are fragmented and highly modular. This limits the reach of coordinated activity.
ActivityPub is a system where each instance maintains its own local user graph and exchanges activities through inboxes and outboxes. This makes it autonomous and decentralized. The network consists of loosely connected subgraphs. Cross-instance edges appear only through explicit follow relationships. The ActivityPub protocol does not provide a shared or complete view of the network. Measurements of the fediverse consistently show uneven connectivity between instances, clustering at the instance level, and relatively long effective path lengths across the network. Under these conditions, large cascades are uncommon.
Instance-level clustering means that in ActivityPub networks, users interact much more with others on the same server than with users on different servers. Because each instance has its own local timeline, culture, and moderation, connections form densely within instances and only sparsely across them through explicit follow relationships. This creates a network made up of tightly connected local communities linked by relatively few cross-instance ties, which slows the spread of information beyond its point of origin.
However, with the AT Protocol, global indexing and aggregation are explicitly supported. Relays and indexers can assemble near-complete views of the social graph. Applications built on top of this infrastructure operate over a graph that is denser and easier to traverse. There are fewer structural barriers between communities. The diffusion dynamics change substantially when content can move across the graph without relying on narrow federated paths.
Astroturfing depends on coordinated amplification, typically through tightly synchronized clusters of accounts intended to manufacture visibility. Work on coordinated inauthentic behavior shows that these tactics gain traction when they intersect highly connected regions of the graph or bridge otherwise separate communities. In networks with strong modularity, coordination remains local. ActivityPub’s federation model produces this kind of modularity by default. Coordinated clusters stand out clearly within instances. Their effects remain confined to those local neighborhoods.
Astroturfing on ActivityPub therefore tends to stall on its own because of the underlying graph topology. Without dense inter-instance connectivity or any form of global indexing, coordinated campaigns have a hard time moving beyond the immediate regions where they originate. Systems built on globally indexable social graphs, including those enabled by the AT Protocol, expose a much larger surface for viral spread. Network structure and connectivity account for the divergence where that is independent of moderation, cultural norms, ideology, or intent.
It’s just really funny to me how these stochastic techbro groups waste so many resources. I personally don’t want to go viral, which is why I avoid platforms where I can. The fact that it’s harder to achieve high virality on ActivityPub is exactly why I prefer the fediverse over the Atmosphere. One way to think about it is that you can change the ‘genetics’ of a system with a retrovirus, where memetic entities act as cultural retroviruses to reprogram the cultural loci of a space. That is their end goal. They are trying to hijack cultures memetically. You see this a lot with culture jamming.
Basically, the astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is designed to jam and subvert the culture. But, as I have already said, the topological structure makes memetic virality stall. They cannot achieve that kind of viral spread in the fediverse, which is why I cannot understand why they do this every year.
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Lying in Bed Listening to Warhammer 40K
So, I have insomnia, so I tend to be up late; however, since the internet is basically a dystopian cyberpunk hellscape, I’ve decided to go back to what I was doing before social media—reading. I am lying in bed beside my sleeping husband, listening to a Warhammer 40k: Horus Heresy audiobook. I have the timer set for about 30 minutes to an hour so that when I fall asleep, I won’t miss too much.
I am convinced everyone on the social layer of the Internet is fucking insane!
#TheBloodWroughtHeir #BeautifulChaos #TheEclipseOfNereun #TheBlackenedSun #TheVeilOfAshenStars #KrishnaPrasanthGuttikonda #FantasyBooks #Dystopian #SciFi #BookReels #Bookstagram #MustRead #IndieAuthor #BookLover #MythologyBooks
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p6si4w333k4rcflapekprz3e/post/3mdshyxoglk2e
At the beginning of the year I started working with an awesome writer on a brand new project. And man am I excited!
#art #comics #indiecomics #scifi #horror #dystopian #comicart #pencils #sketch #mastoart
Book Promotion: MONSTERS: The story of a teenage girl who's turning into a monster - literally. "Excellent! A gripping dystopian future world." "Action-packed and well-plotted, this is a real page turner." #dystopian #detective #legendary #ku #reading #epic #genetics #fedibookfair #boost #kindle #corporations #mutants #inprint #mustread #monsters #manchester #amreading #apocalypse #police #military #audio #audiobook #bookworms #ebook #writing #readers #goodbooks… https://taupress.com/monsters-s1?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
BlueSky Is A Platform For Attention Whores With No Standards
I’m convinced that Bluesky is the platform for attention-whores who perform and humiliate themselves for validation and affirmation. It’s really sad. I don’t feel bad when bad things happen to them as a consequence because they were already warned, yet they prioritize fitting into a culture and refuse to deal with their feelings of inadequacy. The reason they stay is that the bar is low for meaningful engagement, allowing them to indulge in their obsessions and compulsions while being rewarded for self-destructive behavior. It truly is quite pathetic.
I initially joined Bluesky for the sexual content because people on Mastodon have little interest in sex and much more elaborate norms around sexuality. Contrary to what people think of me, I don’t actually use social media in the conventional way most people do. I view it on an abstract, non-algorithmically served layer via my network analysis tools, and I interact with YouTube in a very constrained way. So, I wasn’t aware of how bad things were until I started using Bluesky conventionally. The men on Bluesky are just plain repulsive to me. Desperation, neediness, lack of independence, and obsessively posting about a single topic (like sex, religion, or politics), instead of developing a genuine hobby that demonstrates skill, progress, and mastery, are major turn-offs. I find a lack of standards absolutely disgusting.
For example, if someone abhorrent gives you a compliment, you don’t accept it. If an abhorrent person follows you, you block them. Yet what I see are men posting sexual content and seeking attention and validation from anyone, regardless of who it’s coming from. If I look through someone’s activity and see nothing but low-effort posts interacting with nothing but sexual content or obsessive engagement with that type of content, I lose interest immediately.
A reason why my husband has held my attention for over a decade is that there is always something new with him. He is always randomly looking into developing a new skill. One day, he started randomly speaking Mandarin to me, which I did not know he knew how to speak. He had told me he had been learning Mandarin. Yes, my husband is neurodivergent and his interests are cars, but that doesn’t displace all other things. Another reason why my husband holds my attention is that he can keep a conversation going and match anyone’s changes. It’s not one ritualistic or compulsive thing every single fucking day.
A very real consequence of the lack of standards in gay sexual spaces, especially given that many misogynistic, homophobic far-right men suppress their homosexual attractions, is that many of the fetishes in gay sexual spaces are reminiscent of manosphere content. Because of what I do for a living, I have access to audience segmentation metrics and social embeddings of how content is served. Manosphere content clusters with homoerotic content that men consume. At some point, obsession became so normalized that people stopped realizing it was problematic.
Unless gay men set boundaries and tell manosphere bros, “we’re not having that,” you’ll see what I see on Bluesky. I’m actually very sexual myself, and I frequently go to bathhouses—those that have very explicit rules—sex parties, and orgies.
The funny thing is that I have had plenty of really deep philosophical conversations sitting in the hot tub of a bathhouse with naked gay men. Because of health codes and all that, you can’t do sexual things in the pool or the hot tub, so those areas were places for genuine play and conversation, while spots like the saunas were the fuck spots. I recall a particularly interesting conversation I had with an older gay man who had been going to that bathhouse since the ’80s. He explained to me the social context of the HIV epidemic and how, basically, no one knew it was sexually transmitted, so everyone was still barebacking at that exact same bathhouse we were in.
The issue here is people who fuck and sexually perform for awful people who want to murder them because they have absolutely no fucking standards and are so emotionally needy that they forgo all forms of self-preservation. I’m a computer scientist, so I have access to a lot of data tools. I can tell you for a fact that there is a strong correlation between men who want to murder gay men and trans people and the ones liking, engaging in parasocial dynamics with, and commenting in their replies. You’re willing to take sexual attention from people who want to kill you, and that blows my mind.
In their minds, Bluesky is better if it is not a Nazi strip bar but a Nazi BDSM-furry-kink club? What the ever-loving fuck?! Honestly, I watch a lot of feminist content that rips manosphere content apart, so much so that I can instantly recognize coded things. The “fuck no!” moment for me is when I saw manosphere-coded things being fetishized in the ego networks of large gay adult content creators and OnlyFans creators in social network embeddings. It’s not like it is insidious. If I see it, everyone else sees it; they are just ignoring it because they are prioritizing sexual validation and their obsessions.
Public Announcement: Help Oceania 2084 Break Through
The No Dice Unrolled Peoples Choice Awards are happening right now, and voting closes this Sunday.
If you believe in bold, anti‑authoritarian storytelling and want more people to discover a TTRPG that pushes back against broligarchs, technocrats, and oppressive power structures, this is a meaningful moment to show your support.
Cast your vote for Oceania 2084 here:
https://www.nodiceunrolled.com/ndu_awards/
Oceania 2084 is more than a game. It is a political statement presented through a dystopian, player‑driven experience. It confronts systems of control and the people who profit from them, and every vote helps it reach new players who resonate with that message.
A vote from you would also be a personal signal that the work matters. It tells me two important things:
* That I have created something good.
* That I should continue developing work that challenges authority and uplifts resistance.
You can find Oceania 2084 here:
https://jochergames.itch.io/oceania-2084
#TTRPG #award #antiauthoritarian #fuckice #roleplaying #rolePlayingGames #tabletopGames #orwell #orwellian #dystopian #resistance #resistanceAndHope
B-Movie Enema races into the far off future of 2015 when oil is scarce and burners run wild against the man who won't help provide gasoline in Firebird 2015 AD!
Read the new review at https://wp.me/p9XNnZ-7n6
#blog #review 80s #carsploitation #dystopian #sciencefiction
Rewrite the past without consequences? Go ahead. Try.
Lyrical and unflinching, Hive by D.L. Orton is the award-winning first book in the Madders in Time series—an emotional, character-driven sci-fi thriller where time travel isn’t a gimmick but a reckoning. "Great dystopian read!"
#timetravel #scifi #dystopian #books
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All members are selected by him & can be terminated by him. The chairman chooses when the board meets & what it discusses
Joining the board involves #undermining the UN, submission to #Trump’s will & acquiescence in his vision of world governance:
- An #imperial court where #VassalStates pay cash & vie for ear of the orange #emperor
#tyrants #dictators #dictatorship #sociopath #ComradeKrasnov #authoritarian #BoardOfPeace #Dystopian #corruption #criminal #felon
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Like many here, I’ve been worrying about a #dystopian future. Today’s vibe: we’re already there (or nearly so? Can still fight back, turn back?)
#privacy #surveillance #CivilRights #FacialRecognition #encryption #ai
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/1/29/ice_cbp_facial_recognition_technology_app
https://cyberinsider.com/signal-president-warns-ai-agents-are-making-encryption-irrelevant/
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Fucking absolutely #dystopian #bill in #congress where they want to require a governemnt kill switch be put in every new car. #uspol
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Actual Play Podcasters & AP Performers, Want to Collaborate?
I’m looking to team up with podcasters or actual‑play creators interested in showcasing Oceania 2084, winner of the 2025 RPG Magnifico Award and currently nominated for the No Dice Unrolled People’s Choice Award.
I don’t have a budget, but I can offer a solid mutual‑benefit collab:
• I can join your table as a guest player or GM
• Help with prep, world‑building, or rules onboarding
• Boost the series on my own platforms
If you’re curious about the game, check it out here:
https://jochergames.itch.io/oceania-2084
If this sounds interesting, drop me a message or comment, I’d love to chat!
/Johan
Creator of Oceania 2084
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🚀 New Dystopian Sci-Fi Web Serial — Now Live!
Hindsight Station: Ashes Reborn is a gripping sci-fi saga of war, survival, memory & humanity’s fragile future. Weekly chapters. High-stakes mystery. Cyberpunk vibes.
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