Survive the Tyrant!
@survivethetyrant.bsky.social
an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime: https://survivethetyrant.infy.uk
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A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
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Six months ago we shared Survive The Tyrant! with you. I just reread it, and I am sad to say I would not change a single word.
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
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July 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Six months ago we shared Survive The Tyrant! with you. I just reread it, and I am sad to say I would not change a single word.
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
Six months ago we shared Survive The Tyrant! with you. I just reread it, and I am sad to say I would not change a single word.
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
July 14, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Six months ago we shared Survive The Tyrant! with you. I just reread it, and I am sad to say I would not change a single word.
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
We are still not going to be publicly active apart from publishing the guide. But I was inspired by recent events to share a few thoughts.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
I think this is really goodbye this time. If anyone is interested in taking over and running this account and the other links, please let us know in the replies and we may send you our usernames and passwords. If nobody does, we’re just going to go dark and go do what the guide says in secret.
January 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I think this is really goodbye this time. If anyone is interested in taking over and running this account and the other links, please let us know in the replies and we may send you our usernames and passwords. If nobody does, we’re just going to go dark and go do what the guide says in secret.
We would love it if people would bring some paper copies of Survive the Tyrant! to #worldcon and #magicon #magiconchicago to leave out on tables for people to find. There are pdfs that print nicely into booklets on the website and the deviantart page
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A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
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January 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
We would love it if people would bring some paper copies of Survive the Tyrant! to #worldcon and #magicon #magiconchicago to leave out on tables for people to find. There are pdfs that print nicely into booklets on the website and the deviantart page
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@spice8rack.bsky.social, we wrote Survive the Tyrant! to help people answer the question “what can *we* do?” Would you be willing to take a look, and maybe boost it?
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Neoliberalism is designed so that individuals become so atomised that the only question in response to rising fascism is "what can I do?" & the subsequent answer is "nothing". But the moment you reach out to an org asking & answering "what can *we* do?" the impossibility of action is proven false.
January 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
@spice8rack.bsky.social, we wrote Survive the Tyrant! to help people answer the question “what can *we* do?” Would you be willing to take a look, and maybe boost it?
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@questauthority.bsky.social, sorry to intrude but could you please tell @kbspangler.com that when we wrote “No rights reserved / Public domain / CC0” and “This guide has no copyright protections” we waived copyright and she can look at our guide without worrying about legal mumble-blorp? Thank you!
This showed up in my inbox! I can’t look at it bc they gave me explicit permission to use it in the Headdesk Project (nirn) which now means I can *never* look at it thanks to legal mumble-blorp, but the idea sounds fascinating!
A group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
January 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
@questauthority.bsky.social, sorry to intrude but could you please tell @kbspangler.com that when we wrote “No rights reserved / Public domain / CC0” and “This guide has no copyright protections” we waived copyright and she can look at our guide without worrying about legal mumble-blorp? Thank you!
Additional reading for anyone who is interested in Survive the Tyrant! Professor Chenoweth is amazing and her work is one of the reasons we emphasized nonviolence so strongly in our guide
I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...
Readings - Civil Resistance How It Works Fall 2022.pdf
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January 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Additional reading for anyone who is interested in Survive the Tyrant! Professor Chenoweth is amazing and her work is one of the reasons we emphasized nonviolence so strongly in our guide
We are drawing on our own family history to take the lessons from experiences like these and present them in an accessible way in Survive the Tyrant!
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My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
January 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
We are drawing on our own family history to take the lessons from experiences like these and present them in an accessible way in Survive the Tyrant!
bsky.app/profile/surv...
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Reappearing very briefly because we added a new link (deviantart) for people who were having technical problems.
If you follow us, please consider sharing Survive the Tyrant! one more time. Thank you!
If you follow us, please consider sharing Survive the Tyrant! one more time. Thank you!
A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
January 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Reappearing very briefly because we added a new link (deviantart) for people who were having technical problems.
If you follow us, please consider sharing Survive the Tyrant! one more time. Thank you!
If you follow us, please consider sharing Survive the Tyrant! one more time. Thank you!
A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
January 26, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A group of us made something heartfelt. Survive the Tyrant! is an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive state. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.deviantart.com/survivethety...
drive.google.com/file/d/1n0XG...
Goddammit, I really wanted that exit to be the end, and then I saw this news.
We couldn't have done this without Proton.
So for whoever needs to hear it, it is basically impossible to excise free speech anonymously on the internet right now. You need email to do anything, make a website, etc.
We couldn't have done this without Proton.
So for whoever needs to hear it, it is basically impossible to excise free speech anonymously on the internet right now. You need email to do anything, make a website, etc.
I have used @proton.me VPN for years until ... well, now. Time to switch.
How in the hell is @proton.me being led by a straight up maga chud not the biggest news right now.
January 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Goddammit, I really wanted that exit to be the end, and then I saw this news.
We couldn't have done this without Proton.
So for whoever needs to hear it, it is basically impossible to excise free speech anonymously on the internet right now. You need email to do anything, make a website, etc.
We couldn't have done this without Proton.
So for whoever needs to hear it, it is basically impossible to excise free speech anonymously on the internet right now. You need email to do anything, make a website, etc.
We’re going to ride off into the sunset now, to go and do in secret what the guide describes. If anyone is interested in running this account and the website, say so in the replies here and we’ll send one of you the usernames and passwords. Thank you, and keep yourselves safe, you’re all marvels!
January 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We’re going to ride off into the sunset now, to go and do in secret what the guide describes. If anyone is interested in running this account and the website, say so in the replies here and we’ll send one of you the usernames and passwords. Thank you, and keep yourselves safe, you’re all marvels!
We really mean it when we say anyone can do anything they want with this document. We’ve waived all copyright and posted it in RTF format on the website, so if anyone thinks “good idea but it could have been done better” then please improve it!
January 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We really mean it when we say anyone can do anything they want with this document. We’ve waived all copyright and posted it in RTF format on the website, so if anyone thinks “good idea but it could have been done better” then please improve it!
In this thread we’re asking for signal boosts for Survive the Tyrant!, our guide to surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime. We hate to impose, but we honestly believe this document could save lives. And in a few minutes, we’re stepping away forever.
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A group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
January 15, 2025 at 10:58 PM
In this thread we’re asking for signal boosts for Survive the Tyrant!, our guide to surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime. We hate to impose, but we honestly believe this document could save lives. And in a few minutes, we’re stepping away forever.
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[Takes a deep breath.]
I hate this so much, and I’m not good at it, but if we can save even one person...
I hate this so much, and I’m not good at it, but if we can save even one person...
January 15, 2025 at 10:57 PM
[Takes a deep breath.]
I hate this so much, and I’m not good at it, but if we can save even one person...
I hate this so much, and I’m not good at it, but if we can save even one person...
A group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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January 15, 2025 at 10:54 PM
A group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
Today is the last day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
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Writing this thing we made felt like those good old days.
Every day since we posted the website and tried to start sharing it has felt like crawling through a river of shit, and I only hope and pray we come out clean on the other side.
Every day since we posted the website and tried to start sharing it has felt like crawling through a river of shit, and I only hope and pray we come out clean on the other side.
periodically I look around at the state of the internet and the way it is clearly contributing to making the world worse in so many ways, and I think back to dicking around in a computer lab in the early 00s and how full of promise it all felt, and I feel sad
it didn't have to be this way
it didn't have to be this way
January 15, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Writing this thing we made felt like those good old days.
Every day since we posted the website and tried to start sharing it has felt like crawling through a river of shit, and I only hope and pray we come out clean on the other side.
Every day since we posted the website and tried to start sharing it has felt like crawling through a river of shit, and I only hope and pray we come out clean on the other side.
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periodically I look around at the state of the internet and the way it is clearly contributing to making the world worse in so many ways, and I think back to dicking around in a computer lab in the early 00s and how full of promise it all felt, and I feel sad
it didn't have to be this way
it didn't have to be this way
January 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
periodically I look around at the state of the internet and the way it is clearly contributing to making the world worse in so many ways, and I think back to dicking around in a computer lab in the early 00s and how full of promise it all felt, and I feel sad
it didn't have to be this way
it didn't have to be this way
Hey free speech activists, FYI doing this anonymously was really hard. We couldn’t have done it without some real digital security expertise. One thing everyone can do to help is routinely use TOR, VPNs, and Signal so that’s just normal and they don’t get blocked so often.
January 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Hey free speech activists, FYI doing this anonymously was really hard. We couldn’t have done it without some real digital security expertise. One thing everyone can do to help is routinely use TOR, VPNs, and Signal so that’s just normal and they don’t get blocked so often.
Oh man how do all you authors, podcasters, and video presenters do it?
We had this idea and said, "well, I guess we have to do it," but we aren't natural creative types. The anxiety of launching a thing into the world and hoping people like it is incredible!
Much appreciation for you all.
We had this idea and said, "well, I guess we have to do it," but we aren't natural creative types. The anxiety of launching a thing into the world and hoping people like it is incredible!
Much appreciation for you all.
January 11, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Oh man how do all you authors, podcasters, and video presenters do it?
We had this idea and said, "well, I guess we have to do it," but we aren't natural creative types. The anxiety of launching a thing into the world and hoping people like it is incredible!
Much appreciation for you all.
We had this idea and said, "well, I guess we have to do it," but we aren't natural creative types. The anxiety of launching a thing into the world and hoping people like it is incredible!
Much appreciation for you all.
Hello RPG and tabletop gamers, on this #SelfPromoSaturday we're hoping you will consider taking a look at Survive the Tyrant!, our new RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and and oppressive regime. We put a lot of work into it and we hope it will help people.
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Hi Bluesky, a group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime called Survive the Tyrant! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
January 11, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Hello RPG and tabletop gamers, on this #SelfPromoSaturday we're hoping you will consider taking a look at Survive the Tyrant!, our new RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and and oppressive regime. We put a lot of work into it and we hope it will help people.
bsky.app/profile/surv...
bsky.app/profile/surv...
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This was surprisingly hard to do anonymously, and we’re afraid the original link might be taken down. We also uploaded it to DriveThruRPG. If anyone out there is willing to mirror it anywhere else, please reply with the link.
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Survive the Tyrant! - Survive The Tyrant | DriveThruRPG
An RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime
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January 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This was surprisingly hard to do anonymously, and we’re afraid the original link might be taken down. We also uploaded it to DriveThruRPG. If anyone out there is willing to mirror it anywhere else, please reply with the link.
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...
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If our guide makes you think of any movies, articles, books (nonfiction and fiction), or anything else that you think could help people trying to survive an oppressive regime, we’d love to hear about it in the replies. Here’s one:
medium.com/@tanadue/sur...
medium.com/@tanadue/sur...
Surviving President Tr*mp: Lessons from the 1960s and Octavia E. Butler
I originally wrote this essay to coincide with the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. It deeply grieves me to publish it…
medium.com
January 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
If our guide makes you think of any movies, articles, books (nonfiction and fiction), or anything else that you think could help people trying to survive an oppressive regime, we’d love to hear about it in the replies. Here’s one:
medium.com/@tanadue/sur...
medium.com/@tanadue/sur...
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If you’d like more resources that relate to data privacy and operational security, there’s a great set of links at the bottom of: digitaldefensefund.org/learn
Here are some others:
www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.nlg.org/wp-content/u...
www.nrdc.org/stories/how-...
Here are some others:
www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.nlg.org/wp-content/u...
www.nrdc.org/stories/how-...
Learn — Digital Defense Fund
digitaldefensefund.org
January 10, 2025 at 6:38 PM
If you’d like more resources that relate to data privacy and operational security, there’s a great set of links at the bottom of: digitaldefensefund.org/learn
Here are some others:
www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.nlg.org/wp-content/u...
www.nrdc.org/stories/how-...
Here are some others:
www.wired.com/story/the-wi...
www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
www.nlg.org/wp-content/u...
www.nrdc.org/stories/how-...
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Hi Bluesky, a group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime called Survive the Tyrant! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
January 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Hi Bluesky, a group of us made something heartfelt. It’s an RPG-style guide for surviving an authoritarian and oppressive regime called Survive the Tyrant! If you like it, please boost and share it however you can.
Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk
Today is the only day you’ll hear from us. Stay safe!
survivethetyrant.infy.uk