Gladwyn d’SouzaSep 3, 2023

Opinion: I can’t afford to pay parking tickets, so my car got towed. It upended my life https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-08-31/car-towed-unpaid-parking-tickets-california-los-angeles

#povertyisexpensive: The toll on my mental #health has hit me hard. From Day 1, I couldn’t be there for my daughter when she was in the #hospital. I’m unable to make the #income I need to #support my #family. Now I face losing my car and am buried in even greater #debt.

#InstitutionalizedPoverty #BrokenTaillightPolicing #ShreddedSafetyNet #HowTheLawFailsWomen #FailingTransit #sprawlscape

Opinion: Can't find your car in Los Angeles? Maybe you got 'poverty towed' like me

As a widow and single mother in L.A., I knew I was just one disaster away from poverty. It's time to stop tows that target low-income Californians.

Los Angeles Times
Show thread⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 11, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: Cancertown 🌇
Hazardous chemical pools, burnt earth, toxic foam, smoke that burns your lungs. Factories before humans. Production before health. Death before life.
Desperate inhabitants ready to make it all end even if it cost them their lives.
Finished the red sectors! Placed the wall surrounding it and the lifts to the higher sectors, and added the water routed between cards.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #NETWORK23 #Sprawlscape
Show thread⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 10, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: Garden of Delights 🌇
Just like the famous painting, a nice place, people minding their own business, doing weird shit naked. There is something in the air... A mix of the contaminated lakes fumes and the giant fungus spores.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Network23 #Sprawlscape
Show thread⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 9, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: Sunset Dunes 🌇
There is a special kind of people; those who end living an the beach, contemplating sunset, the tides, the everchanging sands, and the infinite horizon. People contemplating eternity. The flow time. Their place in the universe.
Once you have acepted your fleeting existence no corp, no gob, nor any asshole can dominate you. You are free.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Network23 #Sprawlscape
Show thread⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 8, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: The Space Loop 🌇
A kosmodrome now irrelevant, the corps just stopped paying their employees after decades of preposterous profits, workers have organized and are ready to riot; they have the knowledge, the motivation, and highly explosive rockets. Someone on the Blues are going to regret abandoning them to their luck.
(Also, I've realized I've been rolling the Riot/Control clocks wrong all the time 🤦‍♂️)
#ttrpg #Dungeon23 #OSR #NSR #Sprawlscape #Network23
Show thread⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 7, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: Disco Wharf 🌇
Materially destitute or medically destitute, this is the place to dance until you forget how fucked up can life be.
Dance the fear away, for the police or the reaper, will eventually come and stop the fun.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #NETWORK23 #SPRAWLSCAPE
Show thread⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 6, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: Hospital City 🌇
This sector contained several healthcare companies, but at some point in the past they all merged into a single faceless, burocracy ridden, company too big to really care for their customers nor their workers. Rogue doctors and nurses urban exploring abandoned labs and facilities for solutions an ossified system cannot deliver.
Think Brazil, but with healthcare.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #NETWORK23 #Sprawlscape
⛧ Victor J Merino ⛧Jun 5, 2023
🌇 IN THE RED: The Procession of Dolls 🌇
Even the most impoverished need art in their lives. Soul is something you can't buy, but surely authorities can look for a way to monetize it.
I'm still guessing how to approach drawing this "dungeon". I will probably come with something tomorrow.
Today, a glimpse to one of the Mega Deck cards. Chock full of random inspiration and oracular tools.
#Dungeon23 #TTRPG #OSR #NSR #Network23 #Sprawlscape