Mike Riverso
Sci-fi, games, and progressive politics. “De-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy.” #BlackLivesMatter. #TransLivesMatter. He/him. Toronto.
- Reposted by Mike Riversoproduction of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
- Reposted by Mike RiversoIt’s weird how the White House can just blame a “staffer” for the racist post as if just any low level flunky can pretend to be the President of the United States at any random time.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoLast night we had 2 ICE agents get out of a car, pepper spray legal observers, shout something to the effect of "I'm fucking ICE motherfucker" and drive away.
- I never did watch Bo Burnham’s Inside. There’s a hilarious clip going around making me think I should check it out. Is it worth going back to it, or was it specifically of its time?
- Reposted by Mike RiversoWhy are the men’s names redacted and the victims names exposed?
- Reposted by Mike RiversoYou’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.
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- Reposted by Mike Riverso1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.
- Reposted by Mike Riversowho called it Heated Rivalry and not Fuck Ice
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- Reposted by Mike Riversoit would be more accurate in each of these cases to say "one of several relatively early dominos" but i didn't and now the post has spread widely oh no
- Reposted by Mike Riversojeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind
- Reposted by Mike Riversohe's the forest gump of hitlers
- Reposted by Mike RiversoTTRPGs are such beautiful, impossible things. Think of how hard it is to get any group to get on the same page on *anything*, and then marvel at how we play these games that allow you to build worlds together. I think about that a lot.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoI hope this happens every day for the rest of his miserable life lasvegassun.com/news/2026/fe...
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- Reposted by Mike RiversoSitting down to make an Official Neopets TRPG, taking out a copy of D&D5E and staring at it thoughtfully for 16 hours before crossing out "Gelatinous Cube" and writing "Blopple" next to it, I make 100 billion neopoints and get a card that says I can now legally duplicate items
- Reposted by Mike RiversoOur capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip
- Reposted by Mike RiversoSabrina Carpenter being on The Muppet Show makes perfect sense. I think she’s basically a muppet to begin with. Like in the field of contemporary celebs she’s gotta be in like, the top ten of obvious muppets masquerading as people.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoYup. This is also why I get annoyed when people start suggesting "golden age" science fiction titles to people who are new the genre and are asking for suggestions. You want to turn a modern 15-year-old off science fiction forever, recommend stories that were old when her grandparents were her age.
- Reposted by Mike Riverso"Every single day for four years I have thought about Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt gloating that you can dismantle a democracy right in front of a liberal's face piece by piece and all they'll do is convene committee meetings till the boots are in the halls." ― Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa.bsky.social)
- Reposted by Mike Riversocan't help but think there is probably a corrosive effect of having sex trafficker-elite emails unveiled for months on end as one of the biggest cultural/news stories of the last year— unearthing an inexcusable moral rot in the upper echelons of power—but without any real accountability/justice
- Reposted by Mike RiversoI have always known that my place in my community, my career, and my art is dependent on a cis man of equal or greater rank not deciding he has the right to assault me. I hate this knowledge. But I am not unique in holding it.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoAOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoWhile reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.
- Epstein had many known connections to Silicon Valley CEOs, but less known was how he made money from those relationships. We did a deep dive into how he got dealflow in Silicon Valley, giving him shots to invest in Coinbase, Palantir, SpaceX and other companies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...
- Reposted by Mike Riversothese people aren't capable of feeling bad but they should be forced to
- Reposted by Mike RiversoActually Star Trek isn't preachy *enough* come to think of it. We needed to have Patrick Stewart climb through the screen, grab us by the lapels, and scream "HOW MANY PEOPLE DOES IT TAKE BEFORE IT BECOMES WRONG?" whilst shaking vigorously, apparently.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoBitcoin is completely collapsing right now.
- Reposted by Mike Riversofunny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
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- Reposted by Mike RiversoThe neat thing about a Bitcoin crash is that the schadenfreude doesn’t stop at 4 PM
- Reposted by Mike Riverso“.. Our BTC price target is 0.0. That’s not just for shock factor. It’s where the math takes us,” the strategist said, noting that Bitcoin has failed to function as a dollar hedge and instead operates as “a speculative instrument correlated to the Nasdaq.” #Bitcoin seekingalpha.com/news/4547997...
- Reposted by Mike Riversoa real SICKOS YES day for all of us in the "all my apes gone" comedy club
- Reposted by Mike Riversodecided to see what upscrolled was like, and the third post i saw after making an account was csam i already had concerns about the platform’s leadership, but now you can be certain i’m going nowhere near it and would recommend others stay away too
- Reposted by Mike RiversoIt’s really weird for some corners of the media to do a whole “the Epstein files are a moral panic that has gone too far” thing when no one has faced any sort of punishment and doesn’t sound like they’re going to.
- Reposted by Mike Riversotoday has been an amazing day for refreshing webpages
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- Reposted by Mike RiversoIt was always inevitable that the loudest and best-funded (by people in Epstein's emails) anti-trans freaks who spent years trying to brand trans people as sexual predators, would instantly start defending Epstein. It's not hypocrisy, it's them reinforcing their hierarchy.
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- Reposted by Mike RiversoElon so desperately wants to be liked, and there's plenty of things he could do with the wealth and resources he has to make people think better of him, but that would require him to part with some of that wealth and improve people's lives, and that's the one thing he'll never do. He'd sooner...
- Reposted by Mike RiversoMan goes to Grok. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Check out Elon, has dankest memes. Pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, But Grok...I am Elon.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoReally, Elon is sad because he is fundamentally incapable of human connection. Humor is a form of human connection. Love, empathy, trust, repair, and genuine affection are, too.
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- Reposted by Mike RiversoBluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost
- Reposted by Mike RiversoThis is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoMy actual job description is activist and here’s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.
- Reposted by Mike RiversoA public servant texted Doug Ford's number to express concern with his government's return-to-office mandate. They received a voicemail suggesting they "go get another job." pressprogress.ca/public-serva...
- Reposted by Mike RiversoI think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Mike Riversoi think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by Mike RiversoThe CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
