Notices by Fully Automated! Solarpunk RPG (fullyautomatedrpg@mstdn.games)

TIL that in Canada, graduating engineers receive an iron pinkie ring, bestowed by the Seven Wardens in a ritual known as "The Calling of an Engineer" to dedicate themselves to ethically using their powers as engineers for good.

This is not a joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritual_of_the_Calling_of_an_Engineer

I have a new quest.

#engineering

Saw this floating around reddit and Discord:

#solarpunk #ttrpg #rpg #hopepunk

Hey Mastodon, we need some expertise on #soil #remediation for a story. Have you ever done any hand-on #fieldwork inoculating dirt with a new #microbiome? Do you know anyone who has?

#SoilBiodiversity #solarpunk #bioremediation #ecology #microbiology

Hey everyone:

Enjoy a nice meme. (You deserve it!)

Sorry for more podcast talk, there's more I gotta note: on Weekly Show, J Stewart interviews dissident journalist Maria Ressa. Notables:

1) Stewart recognizing #fascism
2) Jon discovers #enshittification
3) They talk about @matrix

We're seeing sprouts of a revolution breaking into the mainstream! Long road ahead, tho.

@matrix

The ep:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-authoritarianism-great-again-with-maria-ressa/id1583132133

Again, it's a very promising sign when mainstream figures begin to publicly process what it means to be in a coup and what it looks like to not just "resist" but build robust, durable institutions to replace the very foundations on which authoritarianism relies.

If one half of #worldbuilding a #solarpunk #space #ttrpg is accommodating popular existing #scifi tropes, the other is fostering stories that heretofore have been absent for lack of the setting.

What are some examples of space stories and themes that are specific and exclusive to solarpunk?

#hopepunk #gamedev

@Lazarou can you provide details? Where did you hear about this?

@mastodonmigration @Lazarou

I think there might be some confusion here.

I'm looking at their site (https://freeourfeeds.com/) and it doesn't have Meta. It doesn't even have a page for "Partners".

It also starts the page with the statement, "With Zuckerberg going full Musk last week, we can no longer let billionaires control our digital public square."

@Lazarou @mastodonmigration I see.

I wasn't familiar with them, but this post about the establishment of the Social Web Foundation is illuminating.

It's a nonprofit which promotes the use of ActivityPub. Meta is a partner because Threads uses it.

I don't believe Meta is affiliated with FreeOurFeeds.

https://www.apc.org/en/blog/announcing-launch-social-web-foundation

We've got exciting news for folks who like #solarpunk in #space: we've started work on our space expansion!

Do you long to venture across the Sol star system in a hard-science post-capitalist future? Then prime your turbopumps and unfurl your solar sails for Fully Automated: Maximum G!

#ttrpg

If you're looking for an introduction into what Fully Automated is, this interview on the Solarpunk Presents Podcast is a great place to start!

https://www.solarpunkpresents.com/season-six/pg89c8hur6qwl12krag7swsw1cs7k2

If anyone has been thinking of playing Fully Automated! #solarpunk #rpg, now is a great time to join a play test of our latest campaign: "The 1000 Year Cleanup"!

https://slrpnk.net/post/16264722

#cyberpunk #hopepunk #ttrpg

Just finished "Four Futures: Life After Capitalism" by Peter Frase, and it's fantastic!

Frase examines 4 scenarios: abundance & egalitarianism (Communism); abundance & hierarchy (Rentism); scarcity & egalitarianism (Socialism); and scarcity & hierarchy (Exterminism).

His descriptions of #communism and #socialism both sound very similar to the conditions of Fully Automated!

Anyone else read this book?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22551901-four-futures

He wrote this article first:
https://jacobin.com/2011/12/four-futures

#solarpunk

The latest episode of the Bright Green Futures podcast is an absolute treat! It's ep. 14, and it's a must-listen for folks interested in #solarpunk and publishing.

The chemistry between host @susankayequinn and guest @sarenaulibarri makes for a very lively, informative interview with lots of great insights and book recommendations!

Check it out!

Ep. 14: Imagining Another Life w/ Sarena Ulibarri
https://brightgreenfutures.substack.com/p/ep-14-imagining-another-life-with

@seanbala
True.

My hope is that if we focus on the big picture, we can learn to enjoy watching progress even if we know that the work is for the next generation more than it's for us.

Like a tree. You can enjoy the shade and comfort of a fruit bearing tree well before it bears fruit. And you can make some pies and stuff out of early harvests, even if the first few are pretty sour. There's satisfaction early, even if the best stuff is very slow.

When it seems like our timeline is headed in the wrong direction, it helps to write stories about how things got better.

Not magically: MADE better, by people who used the strengths only accessible to those who believe in things like collectivism and universal equality.

In our game world, the road to the next age takes decades. It's a winding route, but a much better world grows slowly from seeds nurtured a long time.

We are our descendants ancestors. Live like it.

#solarpunk #hopepunk

@burningbird
It is journalistic malpractice that this article omits mention of Minister of Security Itmar Ben-Gvir.

Ben-Gvir is a convicted terrorist who managed to rise from the extreme political fringe to head of the police.

While he is not on the war cabinet, he's established himself as the primary executor of the project to ethnically cleanse Israel domestically and within the West Bank.

"Far right israeli settler attacks" is coded language for police-led ethnic cleansing.

Our #solarpunk #game has been out for a week, so this seems like a good time to drop our first playable story: "A Demonstration of Power"!

This story is written to be an easy, breezy dive into the world and game mechanics. It's simple, but in a good way. Check it out now (for ZERO DOLLARS) and if you like it, leave a review!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/482551/fully-automated-a-demonstration-of-power

#cyberpunk #hopepunk #games #ttrpg #rpg #scifi #tabletopgames

@bunvoyage17 @dohappybelove @seanbala @pluralistic @coffee @bookstodon

That's a great book, and that sounds like a fantastic use of an afternoon!