Scott Lynch
@scottlynch78.bsky.social
47, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
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I think it is important that Greg Bovino, personally, is prosecuted for what he has done and continues to do in service of all of this
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I think it is important that Greg Bovino, personally, is prosecuted for what he has done and continues to do in service of all of this
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It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:16 PM
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
I have had an extremely challenging week health-wise and I just wanted to note there are many people I need to be contacting and making arrangements with; I am behind in every manner of business but hoping to get my shit tied back together in the next day and a half or so. Apologies.
January 23, 2026 at 11:02 AM
I have had an extremely challenging week health-wise and I just wanted to note there are many people I need to be contacting and making arrangements with; I am behind in every manner of business but hoping to get my shit tied back together in the next day and a half or so. Apologies.
The Trump administration is a project of lies. It is an enterprise of corruption, theft, and vandalism in total opposition to moral and historical truth. It's also fresh proof that bigots are the most fragile little bitches on the face of the planet.
Crews today dismantled plaques telling the stories of enslaved people who lived in the President's House in Philadelphia following orders by President Trump and Interior Secretary Burgum to remove content at national parks that “inappropriately disparage” the US. 6abc.com/post/philade...
Slavery exhibits at President's House in Philadelphia removed after Trump administration directive
Crews dismantled plaques telling the stories of the nine enslaved people who lived in the President's House and were owned by George Washington.
6abc.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM
The Trump administration is a project of lies. It is an enterprise of corruption, theft, and vandalism in total opposition to moral and historical truth. It's also fresh proof that bigots are the most fragile little bitches on the face of the planet.
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Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now
January 15, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Roth is always well worth reading, but this is one of the Roth essays where you think to yourself, yeah, people trying to understand this era are gonna be reading this 40 years from now
Procedure eve. Still drinking my pound of polyethylene glycol lightly flavored with Gatorade. Hooooo dawg.
January 12, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Procedure eve. Still drinking my pound of polyethylene glycol lightly flavored with Gatorade. Hooooo dawg.
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Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.
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This is how they played The First of Us
🚨FLASH : on a retrouvé une manette de l'âge de pierre, indiquant que nos ancêtres jouaient déjà aux jeux vidéos.
January 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
This is how they played The First of Us
Colonoscopy prep peekin' around the corner of my day like
January 10, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Colonoscopy prep peekin' around the corner of my day like
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Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
January 10, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Taunting is not a justification for arbitrary executions. Collective guilt is contrary to the rule of the law. Resisting the state— even if unlawful and prosecutable—doesn’t justify a death sentence. Our colonial ancestors rejected that agents of the state are absolutely immune for their wrongdoing.
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This is quite literally Trump declaring himself a dictator and the Times is framing it like “Trump’s bold new redefinition of executive power.” This is anathema to the whole project of America and the republicans enabling it need their feet held to the fire and our media won’t do it.
This bizarre and dangerous claim violates literally every section of our Constitution, which was built by geniuses explicitly to limit individual power.
Those entrusted with enforcing our Constitution have a duty to every Conservative and Liberal American. A duty to act. Now.
Those entrusted with enforcing our Constitution have a duty to every Conservative and Liberal American. A duty to act. Now.
January 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This is quite literally Trump declaring himself a dictator and the Times is framing it like “Trump’s bold new redefinition of executive power.” This is anathema to the whole project of America and the republicans enabling it need their feet held to the fire and our media won’t do it.
These are the first two cassettes I ever bought for myself. Long, long ago.
January 9, 2026 at 8:38 AM
These are the first two cassettes I ever bought for myself. Long, long ago.
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I remain convinced that if the mainstream media simply treated this administration the same way it treated the Biden administration *or even Trump 1*, this one would already have collapsed less than a year in. These people are deeply, fundamentally insecure and terrified of any resistance.
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM
I remain convinced that if the mainstream media simply treated this administration the same way it treated the Biden administration *or even Trump 1*, this one would already have collapsed less than a year in. These people are deeply, fundamentally insecure and terrified of any resistance.
The vice-president of the land of the free and the home of the brave, everybody. Say a prayer for the guy who shot a 37-year-old mother in cold blood. He "deserves a debt of gratitude."
JD Vance: "It was a legitimate law enforcement operation. We were going door to door to try to find criminal illegal aliens and deport them from the United States ... say a prayer for that agent ... he deserves a debt of gratitude."
January 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM
The vice-president of the land of the free and the home of the brave, everybody. Say a prayer for the guy who shot a 37-year-old mother in cold blood. He "deserves a debt of gratitude."
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Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
January 7, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Like those before it, that insane, vile DHS statement about the Minneapolis shooting isn't about covering anything up. It's performative lying.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
They aren't trying to persuade anyone that their agents did nothing wrong. They're trying to project that their agents can get away with anything.
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ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
January 7, 2026 at 7:47 PM
ICE shot and killed a woman on camera today. We all saw the video.
The Trump administration is lying.
The Trump administration is lying.
Heeeyyyyyyyyyyy guess what I get to fuckin' do on Monday
January 7, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Heeeyyyyyyyyyyy guess what I get to fuckin' do on Monday
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DHS should go away. This should be a real goal, to unwind this un-American beast created by the War on Terror. Send the agencies under its umbrella back to their historic homes. Maybe save TSA and send it to DOT. But nuke the rest of it.
January 7, 2026 at 7:31 PM
DHS should go away. This should be a real goal, to unwind this un-American beast created by the War on Terror. Send the agencies under its umbrella back to their historic homes. Maybe save TSA and send it to DOT. But nuke the rest of it.
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I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper
The White House is laser focused on threatening a military takeover of Greenland.
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
Where’s the same focus on lowering costs?
January 7, 2026 at 4:38 PM
I want to find the consultant who convinced Dems to stick with this framing, tie them to a stake, light a match, and tell everyone they have to decide between caring about saving them or caring about milk being 2% cheaper
Whew... Blakes 7.
The fourth series of Blackadder.
I was finding season three of The Good Place just adequate, but the finale was a heartbreaking leap back to form.
TNG's "All Good Things" deserves credit for going out so solidly on its own terms and for such a perfect last scene.
"Saul Gone."
The fourth series of Blackadder.
I was finding season three of The Good Place just adequate, but the finale was a heartbreaking leap back to form.
TNG's "All Good Things" deserves credit for going out so solidly on its own terms and for such a perfect last scene.
"Saul Gone."
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 7, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Whew... Blakes 7.
The fourth series of Blackadder.
I was finding season three of The Good Place just adequate, but the finale was a heartbreaking leap back to form.
TNG's "All Good Things" deserves credit for going out so solidly on its own terms and for such a perfect last scene.
"Saul Gone."
The fourth series of Blackadder.
I was finding season three of The Good Place just adequate, but the finale was a heartbreaking leap back to form.
TNG's "All Good Things" deserves credit for going out so solidly on its own terms and for such a perfect last scene.
"Saul Gone."
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Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.
So Capitol Police officers were assaulted and injured on Jan 6th, the White House today is blaming them for the violence, and the people who attacked them have been pardoned and are back to mock and abuse them on the 5th anniversary.
And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??
And the GOP is the party of the police? Really? REALLY??
White House's newly-posted "timeline" of Jan 6 blames Capitol Police for Jan 6, which included an attack on ..... Capitol Police
January 6, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.
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Tech companies are not seriously trying to build sustainable platforms or businesses. We are not the market anymore. Their market is investors and their sole business goal is duping as many gullible investors as they can this quarter.
my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
January 6, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Tech companies are not seriously trying to build sustainable platforms or businesses. We are not the market anymore. Their market is investors and their sole business goal is duping as many gullible investors as they can this quarter.
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The land of free speech, where disrespecting the Dear Leader’s image gets your pass revoked.
Department of Interior says if you put a sticker over Trump's face on your national park entrance pass, the pass will be invalidated.
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
Meanwhile Trump's decision to put his face on the passes is being challenged in court
DOI cracks down on stickers covering Trump's face on national park passes
Park passes with protest stickers are facing new scrutiny.
www.sfgate.com
January 6, 2026 at 5:25 PM
The land of free speech, where disrespecting the Dear Leader’s image gets your pass revoked.