Subnautica 2: lead designer Anthony Gallegos says the ban on killing predators is deliberate design, not some preachy NOT PACIFISM, the team at Unknown Worlds came from shooter mods and want players to learn to coexist, not conquer.

Inspired by SOMA and Alien: Isolation, the game will keep the tension but add gadgets for scaring off and baiting predators. Despite the debate, since May 14 it sold > 4M copies. ⚠️

#SteamAndEpic #Subnautica #Isolation #Gallegos #PACIFISM #Inspired

Can we *cough* the media *caugh* please stop calling it peace talks and peace treaties when violent, opressive, colonialist regimes start a war and then negotiate an end to that war while getting everything they want?

#pacifism #PeaceTalks #PeaceTreaty #peace #war #StopWar #NobelPeacePrize

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

"The vile, corrupt implosion of the American empire portends our preventative planning for familial security; let's fucking go." - Bombastic Bert Russell

Monday, May 18 is not Victoria Day. It is the 154th birthday of Welsh, anti-imperialist pacifist, Bertrand Russell. Celebrate wisely.

#cdnpoli #canada #mexico #fascism #antifa #antifascist #elbowsup #bcpoli #vancouver #burnaby #canlab #bcgreens #bcndp #ecosocialism #wales #pacifism #imperialism

"On May 15th, International Conscientious Objection Day, we join together to send a clear and powerful message: we reject militarisation and affirm the right to refuse to kill, in response to growing efforts to promote military service as a solution to today’s crises."

#ConscientiousObjection
#RefuseToKill #nonviolence
#pacifism #WarResistersInternational

https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/international-conscientious-objection-day-2026

If the essay Pacifism and the war was really written by George Orwell during WW2, it's very strange to me that his views on pacifism is not mentioned at all in his Wikipedia article.

https://orwell.ru/library/articles/pacifism/english/e_patw

The reason I feel uncertain about the origin of the text is because the best source for it I can find is this Russian website, and otherwise seemingly random blogs. Which is why I went to Wikipedia for more information about it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell

#orwell #pacifism

A Child of Our Time by Michael Tippett, Sir Colin Davis, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, released in 2008 on LSO Live.

A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the British composer Michael Tippett, who also wrote the libretto. Composed between 1939 and 1941, it was first performed at the Adelphi Theatre, London, on 19 March 1944. The work was inspired by events that profoundly affected Tippett: the assassination of a German diplomat by a young Jewish refugee in 1938, and the Nazi government's reaction to the assassination which was in the form of a violent pogrom against Germany's Jewish population: Kristallnacht. Tippett's oratorio deals with these incidents in the context of the experiences of all oppressed people, and it carries a strongly pacifistic message of ultimate understanding and reconciliation. - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS3HpUFUiWs&list=RDbS3HpUFUiWs&start_radio=1

#MichaelTippett #WW2 #ClassicalMusic #ColinDavis #LSO #Music #Kristallnacht #Pacifism

Today in Labor History May 2, 1919: Soldiers of the Freikorps murdered Gustav Landauer, anarchist, pacifist, and Education Minister, in the short-lived Bavarian Workers Republic. The Freikorps were right wing veterans of World War I. Many went on to become Nazis. Landauer believed that social change could not be won solely through control of the state or economy, but required a revolution in interpersonal relations. "The community we long for and need, we will find only if we sever ourselves from individuated existence; thus we will at last find, in the innermost core or our hidden being, the most ancient and most universal community: the human race and the cosmos." Landauer’s grandson is the acclaimed film director, Mike Nichols (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Catch-22, Carnal Knowledge, Silkwood). British writer Philip Kerr wrote the novel, “Prussian Blue,” in which Hitler is one of the Freikorps militants who murdered Landauer.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #pacifism #soviet #Revolution #gustavlandauer #fascism #nazis #hitler #film #books #novel #writer #author @bookstadon

RE: https://mastodon.online/@SocraticEthics/116469409656045207

That is real #pacifism.

Solving conflicts instead of abusing them. #Russia tried to hold #Transnistria hostage, deprived them of energy for example. And now the tide may turn.

Similar to Crimea, which turned from an asset to a liability, too.

Listen to that, #Putin fanboys!

#Moldova #Ukraine