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simonm223.bsky.social
Artist, critic, weirdo pomo leftist. Opinions do not represent anybody else. Ask me my opinions on wizards. He / Him Blogger at http://simonmcneil.com
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I find Mike Mearls' critique of D&D 2024 as avoiding story in favor of mechanics as an avoidance of political content interesting considering how much of the political brinksmanship surrounding the new edition subsequently settled on visual art elements.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Something like this needed to be said. For comfort to mean something there has to be pain.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

My latest article in Typebar Magazine is a close reading of the Cities of the Weft trilogy by the inestimable @alexpheby.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

As soon as Typebar came out this was the first article I read. It's an interesting read about whether we choose game editions due to game mechanical issues or due to broader social factors.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Buckle up for some deep, deep analysis in another @simonm223.bsky.social classic!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Bitch that's how you got Trump.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I probably would have been writing a ton about Project 2025 in 2024 if it were not for the genocide. I'm sure that's true about a ton of the best policy researchers out there. The impact of Democratic Party-backed genocide comes through in a thousand different ways that are largely not measurable

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Oh this! The Democrats embracing genocide and not fighting it took away so many of the people who usually help on policy stuff. Like people are all up in arms about who everyone voted for but what really hurt them is the lack of organizers

submitted 3 days ago • 69 comments

r/offmychest: i spent 15 years in the forums reading leftist theory and furry smut just for one of elon's DOGE incels to lay off my entire cia unit using a form email

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

TFW people are calling you out for putting a bunch of innocent people on your nazi pedophile blocklist.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Throwback to an old review of "The Wingspan of Severed Hands" that still astounds me. Thank you, @simonm223.bsky.social for your brilliant writing. simonmcneil.com/2023/08/18/z...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Is it too much to ask people making political arguments against me to have actually read theory

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submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

In the 2024 election, some of us urged a vote for the Greens or independents. We said that this was the only way to build pressure on Labour, otherwise they would just act on pressure from Nigel Farage. Next time, maybe listen to us.

submitted 14 days ago • 48 comments

Anyone currently got any journals doing an issue on fascism and the USA?

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Does Google have an account here? I want to shout at them about this Gulf of America Vichy bullshit.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Specifically a neo-nazi occult Satanist terrorist cyber crime ring. 9 Angles are the sort of people who should be shot on sight as a good community defense tactic.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment