Abolition Game - Current Project

Abolition Game - Current Project

@silver-guillotine.itch.io

I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways. https://silver-guillotine.itch.io

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Hello to all my new followers! I'm Sean (he/him), speak English and Spanish, and I'm learning #indiegamedev in my free time to try to change minds and create a better world through #prisonabolition. I will mix game updates with news, my blog posts, and examples of successful reform. Advice welcome.

Abolition Game - Current Project@silver-guillotine.itch.io

Progress is progress. I've got an itch page up for the game (silver-guillotine.itch.io/abolition-game) and some great background art commissioned from Smeet (vgen.co/SmeetPXL). I also have a new devlog there about what is abolition to me (silver-guillotine.itch.io/abolition-ga...)

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I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...

equalityalec.substack.comWhy is everyone lying?What do Malcolm Gladwell, far right propagandists, Democratic politicians, the non-profit Vera Institute for Justice, and “socialists” from Jacobin Magazine have in common?

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Early this year, I visited Ingram, a TX town of ~1,900, to check out a tip. The area was starting to recover from its worst flood in a century. But as Latino workers drove to jobsites to help rebuild, the tipster said, a cop in a black Dodge Charger kept stopping them ... 🧵

Plus the labor-disciplining effects of incarceration, and the communities torn apart and all the other economic harms

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org

While families struggle through an affordability crisis, the U.S. continues to spend $445 billion on mass incarceration each year. That's a lot of money that could be spent on caring for communities instead of criminalizing them.

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Replying to @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

As I've dug into this story, I've realized Alpha is just part of a larger terminally online ecosystem that has abandoned public schooling as something worth preserving. That in my view is the big story here, Alpha may live or die, but the Silicon Valley intellectual ecosystem will endure.

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Replying to @jamellebouie.net

he almost entirely rejects the premise of politics: that through communication and rhetoric we can move publics to act collectively in particular ways.

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NBC News@nbcnews.com

A Florida man was found dead in his home during a welfare check in July 2022. Weeks later, one of the officers who discovered his body moved into the home and spent years impersonating him, according to investigators.

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Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

This is US industrial policy and has been for decades. Big government is influencing the market through incarceration and military spending. This is a direction that has already and will continue to lead to fascism and death for many

Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org

While Americans struggle to buy groceries, ICE is burning through nearly $14,430,000 per day on the detention of 65,000 people.

We should probably stop funding the gestapo now

Truthout@truthout.org

ICE is reportedly fast-tracking an $100 million program designed to expand its domestic surveillance capabilities in dozens of cities. 142 intelligence agents will be placed in at least two dozen cities throughout the country to coordinate with nearby ICE offices and Washington D.C..

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Replying to @solomonrmissouri.com

When you introduce policies and programs that are intentionally exclusionary they have economic impacts ... because those excluded are also economic engines

Will the wholesale gutting of hospitals, especially in rural areas, finally lead to a mass movement for universal healthcare?

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social

Last year, Trump and 98% of elected GOP enacted the biggest Medicaid cuts in history, bigger even than Reagan's Medicaid cuts. By 2034, 7.5 million people will lose their Medicaid because of the cuts. Clinics are already closing and hospitals are already cutting services, citing OBBBA as a reason.

$1,100 sneakers are unethical while children are hungry and their schools are underfunded in this country. Being confronted with the results of our societal priorities is sad and scary and we should all do more to change them. Especially the wealthy who have more power and influence

m@keptsimple.bsky.social

many centrists are as disdainful of science as MAGA these days. virtually every study on the topic, and there have been many, show that youth programs reduce crime. it's a settled question. this is no different from claiming vaccines are a hoax.

This makes the compromise position to merely abolish ICE

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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I wrote about Christa Pike, and the urgency of our mandate to dismantle the prison-industrial complex and grow the world we need. Let's push ourselves to imagine and build the life-affirming vision that abolishes death penalties of all kinds. truthout.org/articles/we-...

truthout.orgWe Must Move Beyond the Era of State-Sponsored, State-Celebrated MurderLet’s build a world in which the torture of Christa Pike — or anyone — is unthinkable.

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"The U.S. eugenics movement shaped sterilization campaigns and immigration laws. ... [F]orced sterilization is 'not a relic of our distant past.' California, a trailblazer in the eugenics movement, forcibly sterilized 150 incarcerated women between 2006 and 2010."

Truthout@truthout.org

ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers who cannot access the medical care they need, according to the reporting. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many people had miscarriages after October 2025.

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"There is no question that the number of police killings of civilians in the U.S. – who are disproportionately Black and other people of color – are the result of policies and practices that enable and even encourage police violence. ... American police kill civilians at incredibly high rates[.]"

prisonpolicy.orgNot just “a few bad apples”: U.S. police kill civilians at much higher rates than other countriesPolice violence is a systemic problem in the U.S., not simply incidental, and it happens on a scale far greater than other wealthy nations.
Prison Policy Initiative@prisonpolicy.org

U.S. police kill civilians at a rate nearly incomparable to other wealthy democracies. It's not just "a few bad apples."

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"ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers who cannot access the medical care they need ... [ICE] appears to have lost count of how many people had miscarriages after October 2025."

Prism@prismreports.org

“Over hundreds of years, eugenics transformed into policy, practice & law, as illustrated by today’s immigration quotas, surveillance systems, detention centers & instances of modern-day slavery.” The experiences of pregnant women in ICE detention show that eugenics remains, Edith Romero reports.

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Bisan Owda explains what having money in Gaza means today after 3 years of genocide.

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This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

Dhruv Mehrotra@dmehro.bsky.social

NEW: Footage from Thursdays shooting shows an ICE agent in a construction vest brandishing a rifle. His name is Brenden Cuni. Federal judges have found multiple arrests involving Cuni unlawful. He has been accused of repeatedly Tasing a handcuffed man and tackling a pregnant woman in Minneapolis.

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"ICE has detained more than 8,750 kids since Trump retook office. ... [A] baby and two other young children were held without their mother for around 10 days. No one in their family could locate them. The family later learned the children were kept in a hotel room before they were [deported]."

The Marshall Project@themarshallproject.org

Children detained for long stretches are usually sent to Dilley. But the Trump administration has also held children and families for shorter stints in locations that lawyers say are “black boxes,” where families and lawyers cannot find them. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/08/i...

Instead of destroying the planet, my next game will only destroy prisons and police stations. Sorry folks, the technology is just too powerful to stop

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com

Folks, I'm happy to announce my next game will use up all water, destroy humanity in a global blaze, & lose $8 billion weekly. IPO starts at a 20 gazillion euros valuation based on me counting the amount of zeroes wrong. Upon checking the prototype I realized bigger number is better. Supersentience.

Police were responsible for nearly one in three homicides in Vallejo, California in 2012. They are also responsible for a large proportion of homicides by strangers across the US. This case shows the people of Vallejo may have been safer with a complete defunding, before that was a common idea

This is most policy debate: "The masses don't realize what we're doing is actually good for them. That's why we need to undermine democratic modes of participation even more to bring about what the wealthy want."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

BLANCHE: AI has a lot of benefits. The fact that AI is able to understand what you want, where you want to shop -- you don't know it, but you actually benefit from that CAMPOS DUFFY: I don't want that! BLANCHE: I know you think you don't, but it's not all bad CD: I don't want my govt spying on me

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"Several new women's prisons are being built despite a growing chorus of voices arguing that prisons only inflict more harm on women who have already endured abuse and trauma. ... Instead of sentencing reform or much-needed mental and medical services, legislators chose to build a new prison."

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3 days until the End of End Demo Launches! For #ScreenshotSaturday we thought we'd show off the 3 bosses you'll face demo dungeon, the ruins. To save the last sanctuary of End you must defeat: - Court Mage ✨ - Warmaster 🗡️ - Last Queen 👑 #indiegame #indiegames #godot #roguelite #roguelike #game

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Nikole Hannah-Jones w/ a sobering follow-up on her decision yrs ago to enroll her daughter in a poor, majority-Black public school rather than a wealthier, whiter private school. You leave heartbroken for the kids being failed by this grossly unequal system. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/m...

nytimes.comIn Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.

Reading this good piece today: "Today, neoclassical textbooks continue to wax about the market production of ‘stuff’ (i.e. ‘widgets’). But in the mean time, American capitalists have offshored their factories, leaving the dirty work of making things to others.

economicsfromthetopdown.comThe Business-to-Industry Index and the Geography of Global Capitalism – Economics from the Top DownI use the business-to-industry index to chart the rise and fall of capitalist hegemony, and to map the uneven structure of global capitalism.

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"One video [of the US attacks' aftermath] shows a man holding the severed arm of a young child ... Bloodied backpacks and schoolbooks can be seen in additional footage. Sources interviewed by media described burned, dismembered, and headless bodies. Several families lost more than one child."

Truthout@truthout.org

A UN fact-finding mission has concluded that the U.S. committed war crimes in two attacks on Iran that killed scores of civilians, including over 120 children, on the first day of the war.

A man who reshaped our entire economy around monopolies through his investment strategies, but who also put on a show of being down to earth