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they have IDEAS?

ok fine

Ist you have the Famine, the plagues, the wars ( because people are driven off the land because of climate change).. and the numbers say this is already in the cards.. they are just trying to hurry them along so they can experience the "Rapture" . www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You are so right!

They already have „Mein Kampf“ and „Star Wars.“, seems to be enough for Elmo and Donnie.

I feel like this is being directly skeeted at @mikeduncan.bsky.social

I used to bull's-eye cybertrucks in my T-16 back home. They're not much bigger than two meters! - @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, maybe

just in case

I KNOW. I love that kind of fiction but jeez it seems suspiciously on the nose right now.

youtu.be/IP2EKTCngiM?...

It's like taking down Wikipedia to see if academic book authors stop making new books

more importantly, could have influenced people

youtube.com/shorts/D4oRx...

we are going to be back in an era where poor sanitation, sepsis, and not knowing how to safely store food and water kill more people than we can imagine

It's a screenplay I'm working on, actually! Hopefully one day you'll see it on the silver screen!

Yes! I would if too 😊

Every dystopian story is coming to life right now.

My husband is pondering writing to Charles Stross, begging him to switch to utopias. Too much of his books has come to pass. 🙈

i feel this way about tech writers as well

I just hate how people wish over fashions at the MET gala. Like, am I the only one who sees a crowd at the Capitol of PanEm?

Absolutely!!

A lot of bad ideas that were demonstrated to us as bad ideas by sci-fi seem to be having a lot of work put into them

Maybe we should start to write wholesome utopias, if that's the case 🧐

I had to stop reading „Alien Clay“ by Adrian Tchaikovsky because it deals with an authoritarian (and other things) earth and it was too much with all that’s going on..

I do think we should be balancing them out with utopian stories as well though, just in case. It’s hard to imagine the world improving without that being depicted anywhere.

They watched Mad Max and thought, "Yeah, that's where I wanna live."

"Oh the content mines? And they have 30 year contracts that work like mortgages while they're stuck in a single room in space? I bet the profit margins are great...."

Thought abt that. When one has insights that could lead to power in any way, should you write/share w ppl who could abuse ?

it's picking up though

Easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

This reminds me of my father’s fixation on Bigfoot. He had heard about some supposed research that included DNA analysis and he proceeded to unwitting describe the alien ‘architects’ lore from the movie Prometheus.

I think we need to start writing the fiction we want instead of the fiction we fear. Manifestation.

Top tip for underground bunkers: cement truck both exits and the emergency vents

Just look at all the MAGA who suddenly developed geeky unexplainable preoccupations with “Citizens’ tribunals” and “Firing squads” after watching The Dark Knight Rises…. 🤓

Just write an apocalypse where it's the rich people who die first.

That presumes they read.

AHHHHHH!!! * feels immense wave of guilt *

Elysium.

Back to the Brave New 1984 Part II

as a sometime writer of speculative fiction, I do sometimes worry about inadvertently providing our overlords with a torment nexus

Yup.

I think about this at least once a week.

No truer words for this moment.

Why buy game or book about horrific atrocities happening constantly to good and decent people when I can walk outside for free?

Absolutely!! Couldn’t agree more. I was thinking this the other day.. I’m glad you mentioned it.. we are speeding towards some really dark and fucked up shit. 😣🥺😭😭😭

Or maybe because post-apocalyptic fiction has been done to death.

I've speculated often on this myself.

I'm surprised they picked idocracy

Yes!! Let’s tell the stories that portray the world we want in our future, ( and present) not the one we are terrified we are building. Your focus determines your reality. #TheStoriesWeTellMatter

I genuinely had an idea for a post-apocalyptic book, that I didn't proceed with for this reason.

Should have stopped just before Ben Elton's Stark, then.

I haven't been able to finish the 3rd installment in my series since 2020. With Musk having a full villain arch which mirrors a character I based on him a decade ago, my writing is in the dumps.

🤣😶 seriously. I bought the novel 2034 a while ago, about a plausible next world war, and the authors cite post-apoc fiction during the Cold War as being useful for getting ppl to imagine the reality of nuclear war instead of romanticizing it, therefore preventing it, which I thought was interesting

I totally agree! My husband watched nothing but. Until the first trump turmoil. Now we watch time travel, hoping that technology will catch up in our lifetime.

Tell @nealstephenson.bsky.social

Been saying this for years, they take them as a playbook. This is real life not a football game, Hungergames or Gilead.

or they'll send everyone involved to a camp

Nah. It is still Nazi Germany and Ayn Rand novels. They are not that creative.

Too late I’m afraid.

Haha🤭 Perhaps the fall of the (non-fiction) stock market n 401K apocalypse will give them the idea/reality check trumpmaga has fuck’d it all up.

I binged The Walking Dead & could see MAGAts doing the same, but ungrateful for all we have, & inconsiderate of vulnerable loved ones. Smart enough to know there are no zombies, so settling on civil war as the next best thing. Libs as evil bullet magnets, & no expiration on abandoned goods.

Start poisoning the minds of evangelicals with Jesus instead.

Shut it down, until we find what the hell is going on.

Make one where, at the initial collapse of society, everyone immediately robs the rich people. It's what I'd do

…Now that you mention it 😮

That explains why they believe Trump so easily. They don't know he is a walking, talking fictional character.