Rowan River
@rowanrivers.bsky.social
Progressive Marxist. I'm not a Leninist, but I don't reject him entirely either.
I will not attempt to moderate my posts and likes to be safe for work. Minors Do Not Interact.
I will not attempt to moderate my posts and likes to be safe for work. Minors Do Not Interact.
If you are a law enforcement officer enforcing fascist laws, you are a fascist. It doesn't matter what your personal beliefs are.
January 10, 2026 at 5:29 AM
If you are a law enforcement officer enforcing fascist laws, you are a fascist. It doesn't matter what your personal beliefs are.
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If Trump can simply decide he owns Greenland, can I lay claim to any country I want? New Zealand will be mine now. As will Kazakhstan.
January 7, 2026 at 12:19 PM
If Trump can simply decide he owns Greenland, can I lay claim to any country I want? New Zealand will be mine now. As will Kazakhstan.
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The pedophile political movement known as American Conservatism strikes again
Petition signatories are a public record, no?
Track them down and ask them why they need to look at children's genitals.
Track them down and ask them why they need to look at children's genitals.
January 5, 2026 at 10:38 PM
The pedophile political movement known as American Conservatism strikes again
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So when Biden was giving billions of dollars to the Saudis and Israelis to help them exterminate the Yemeni/Palestinians, was it not a life and death matter then? Or where those lesser people whose lives didn’t matter?
December 7, 2025 at 7:14 AM
So when Biden was giving billions of dollars to the Saudis and Israelis to help them exterminate the Yemeni/Palestinians, was it not a life and death matter then? Or where those lesser people whose lives didn’t matter?
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Fuck vote blue no matter who. If all this madness isn't enough to get the Democrats to field a candidate who can support trans rights and be against genocide they're telling me they don't want my vote and I'm happy to oblige.
I'm not voting for a more polite Trump. Full stop.
I'm not voting for a more polite Trump. Full stop.
December 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Fuck vote blue no matter who. If all this madness isn't enough to get the Democrats to field a candidate who can support trans rights and be against genocide they're telling me they don't want my vote and I'm happy to oblige.
I'm not voting for a more polite Trump. Full stop.
I'm not voting for a more polite Trump. Full stop.
The philosophy behind 'Your Party' is a bit alienating. Democracy as a value has been put before all other considerations, including decency and left-wing values in general.
The strategy seems to be -
The strategy seems to be -
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The philosophy behind 'Your Party' is a bit alienating. Democracy as a value has been put before all other considerations, including decency and left-wing values in general.
The strategy seems to be -
The strategy seems to be -
So, I decided to Google Your Party to see if they had gotten their shit together. Apparently not. The two co-leaders are still fighting it out, potentially suing each other. It seems obvious to me that the Greens are the way. I look forward to watching the trainwreck founding conference.
November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So, I decided to Google Your Party to see if they had gotten their shit together. Apparently not. The two co-leaders are still fighting it out, potentially suing each other. It seems obvious to me that the Greens are the way. I look forward to watching the trainwreck founding conference.
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This also applies to reporting on trans issues, where transphobes are routinely represented (including Maitliss) and trans people never are.
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This also applies to reporting on trans issues, where transphobes are routinely represented (including Maitliss) and trans people never are.
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Call me anti-democratic, but a party whose premise is 'we can be bigots if you join in enough numbers. YOU get to decide whether the party is evil!' doesn't sound like a great sales pitch to me.
September 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Call me anti-democratic, but a party whose premise is 'we can be bigots if you join in enough numbers. YOU get to decide whether the party is evil!' doesn't sound like a great sales pitch to me.
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The Trump authoritarian crackdown builds on the assault on individuals and organisations opposing Israel's genocide.
That crackdown began under the Democrats.
Yet many "centrists" stayed silent, or actively cheered it on. You paved the way for what happens now.
That crackdown began under the Democrats.
Yet many "centrists" stayed silent, or actively cheered it on. You paved the way for what happens now.
September 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The Trump authoritarian crackdown builds on the assault on individuals and organisations opposing Israel's genocide.
That crackdown began under the Democrats.
Yet many "centrists" stayed silent, or actively cheered it on. You paved the way for what happens now.
That crackdown began under the Democrats.
Yet many "centrists" stayed silent, or actively cheered it on. You paved the way for what happens now.
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I'm not expecting a reply to this, but I'll say it anyway. If she had truly cared about beating Trump, she would have called for Biden to step down months in advance and called for a robust primary season. The Democrats fed you to the lions, and now you want to praise them for it.
They had the polls
They had the polls
August 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I'm not expecting a reply to this, but I'll say it anyway. If she had truly cared about beating Trump, she would have called for Biden to step down months in advance and called for a robust primary season. The Democrats fed you to the lions, and now you want to praise them for it.
They had the polls
They had the polls
If GTA 6 requires me to put in my ID to play it, then I am not buying it. This is a practice that will continue if we give in and decide to just go along with it. Passivity will always make things worse. Boycott it.
August 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
If GTA 6 requires me to put in my ID to play it, then I am not buying it. This is a practice that will continue if we give in and decide to just go along with it. Passivity will always make things worse. Boycott it.
People are now being arrested for sending non threatening emails about the genocide in Gaza to their MP’s in England. It is not safe to express your disapproval of genocide in a fundamentally genocidal country. These people will use state violence to silence you.
August 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
People are now being arrested for sending non threatening emails about the genocide in Gaza to their MP’s in England. It is not safe to express your disapproval of genocide in a fundamentally genocidal country. These people will use state violence to silence you.
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when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago
Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.
www.404media.co
August 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...
It is not over. It is a slow, creeping encroachment. The government will not be satisfied until it can watch everything you do online. The Patriot Act already did this in America, to an extent, but there were certain ways around it. Each government will continue its quest until no privacy exists.
August 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It is not over. It is a slow, creeping encroachment. The government will not be satisfied until it can watch everything you do online. The Patriot Act already did this in America, to an extent, but there were certain ways around it. Each government will continue its quest until no privacy exists.
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I know they think they may be, because they hated the Tories and insist they are ‘woke’, but would all Starmer fans on here stop calling themselves left wing and referring to Labour as the left? It’s embarrassing to shit yourself in public
August 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
I know they think they may be, because they hated the Tories and insist they are ‘woke’, but would all Starmer fans on here stop calling themselves left wing and referring to Labour as the left? It’s embarrassing to shit yourself in public
The UK is going in the right direction but not nearly far enough. I propose the wanking loicence. It is clear that we cannot trust people in the UK to wank responsibly, so I propose that in order to get a licence to wank, a microchip must be inserted into your brain.
August 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The UK is going in the right direction but not nearly far enough. I propose the wanking loicence. It is clear that we cannot trust people in the UK to wank responsibly, so I propose that in order to get a licence to wank, a microchip must be inserted into your brain.
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Free speech is inherently tied to freedom of artistic expression. Media isn't only made to be privately enjoyed, it's made to be talked about, analysed, learned from, and iterated upon.
July 31, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Free speech is inherently tied to freedom of artistic expression. Media isn't only made to be privately enjoyed, it's made to be talked about, analysed, learned from, and iterated upon.
The Grooming Gangs story that the right perpetuates never rang true to me. They argue that the police are so afraid of being called racist that they let that go on unabated. When have the police ever been afraid of being called racist? Now, the truth has come out, and it's far more believable.
July 30, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The Grooming Gangs story that the right perpetuates never rang true to me. They argue that the police are so afraid of being called racist that they let that go on unabated. When have the police ever been afraid of being called racist? Now, the truth has come out, and it's far more believable.
I'm spitballing alternatives to the Online Safety Act. If anyone familiar with cybersecurity follows me, let me know what you think of this.
July 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I'm spitballing alternatives to the Online Safety Act. If anyone familiar with cybersecurity follows me, let me know what you think of this.
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I suspect the techbroligarchs are behind it - the Dark Enlightenment bunch, Thiel, Andreessen et al. They apparently want to break our society down, wipe the slate clean, then rebuild it as a kind of New Feudalism - independent city-states ruled by the ultrarich, the rest of us being serfs, etc.
July 29, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I suspect the techbroligarchs are behind it - the Dark Enlightenment bunch, Thiel, Andreessen et al. They apparently want to break our society down, wipe the slate clean, then rebuild it as a kind of New Feudalism - independent city-states ruled by the ultrarich, the rest of us being serfs, etc.
Things are just getting worse and worse. Rampant censorship, far-right nationalism, supposedly left-wing parties parroting the right, trans and women's healthcare stripped, and this isn't even mentioning the long-term problems like wage stagnation and corporate profit records.
July 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Things are just getting worse and worse. Rampant censorship, far-right nationalism, supposedly left-wing parties parroting the right, trans and women's healthcare stripped, and this isn't even mentioning the long-term problems like wage stagnation and corporate profit records.
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After 9/11, almost all my liberal friends were ok with the creation of the Patriot Act and DHS. I couldn't convince a damn one of them that this is how fascism starts. I was appalled at how easily people were convinced to trade their freedom, privacy and autonomy for a false promise of safety. 🫤
July 29, 2025 at 6:49 AM
After 9/11, almost all my liberal friends were ok with the creation of the Patriot Act and DHS. I couldn't convince a damn one of them that this is how fascism starts. I was appalled at how easily people were convinced to trade their freedom, privacy and autonomy for a false promise of safety. 🫤