Essentially, what stops abductions is when crowds outnumber the masked kidnappers. When people aggressively follow ICE with whistles and horns, crowds are ready to show up. If they show up fast enough, ICE leaves and a family is not broken. (People here understand the stakes).

(sorry for FB link, it's 3:45m long, bluesky limit is 1:00m)

If you hear that a think tank is telling your members of Congress not to say "abolish ICE," here's what you do: contact your members of Congress and tell them that you, a constituent, absolutely do want them to abolish ICE and you wanna hear them say it. Then get your friends to do it too.

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we did in fact do all these things, unplanned in this order, as we went on our Solstice walk today in the Hoge Veluwe. It felt very much dreamlike, fae-touched, and we had to wonder if tonight we would sleep in our beds or dance in the fae courts for the next 20 years

Even better! Now I can definitely hear it in my head

It's not fair of me but I immediately hear this in an English accent.

Maybe it's about that size / agility of the organization? I have seen many small businesses using it with business accounts for a variety of purposes ... Typically 1-100 person companies

FEED by Mira Grant. Post-zombie-apocalypse story.

A good fun beach read Took me a while to get into it (maybe because I wasn't yet at that beach when I started?) but now it's rolling and I'm having a good time heading to the conclusion.

I don't have an answer to your question but I love how you capture what Pargin did in this book. I have been trying to homebrew this vibe into my Call of Cthulhu games... it's very hard to match it!

Oh and @jasonkpargin.bsky.social is on here and might like to see your positive vibes

I still remember the shock upon reading this page as a teenager! An amazing moment