Kim Wincen
@wincenworks.bsky.social
Law graduate (New Zealand), debt collector, former fraud investigator, huge nerd for all things story related (but also super cool), a man of semi-reasonable means and taste.
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i see this shit, the game goes in the bin, doesn't matter how much I'd enjoyed it or what my plans to write about it had been
November 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
i see this shit, the game goes in the bin, doesn't matter how much I'd enjoyed it or what my plans to write about it had been
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New comic! Why write hundreds of board game guides when one piece of advice fits all? 😎🎲
You can read this week's blog post at
semicoop.com/comic/one-guide-to-rule-them-all/ #boardgames
You can read this week's blog post at
semicoop.com/comic/one-guide-to-rule-them-all/ #boardgames
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New comic! Why write hundreds of board game guides when one piece of advice fits all? 😎🎲
You can read this week's blog post at
semicoop.com/comic/one-guide-to-rule-them-all/ #boardgames
You can read this week's blog post at
semicoop.com/comic/one-guide-to-rule-them-all/ #boardgames
Starting to think maybe this guy wasn't the sort of person who should have been given a gun and authority, and that if this is the best you can get maybe you should disestablish your whole department.
November 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Starting to think maybe this guy wasn't the sort of person who should have been given a gun and authority, and that if this is the best you can get maybe you should disestablish your whole department.
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Are we supposed to feel bad?
Border agent seen in viral arrest of U.S. citizen fatally overdosed, lawyer says
“Everyone just f****** hates me here."
ktla.com/news/local-n...
“Everyone just f****** hates me here."
ktla.com/news/local-n...
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Are we supposed to feel bad?
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When the AI bubble bursts, can we take the blame for it? Like Millennials get blamed for a lot of shit that is definitely capitalism’s fault but I WANT us to take the blame for killing THIS shit
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 AM
When the AI bubble bursts, can we take the blame for it? Like Millennials get blamed for a lot of shit that is definitely capitalism’s fault but I WANT us to take the blame for killing THIS shit
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By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
The Curious Question of AI-written Lists: Or, LLMs are Genre Machines
Ending with a solution for teaching writing
meresophistry.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
By far one of the most impactful readings of the semester in "Writing with Robots" has been @johnrgallagher.bsky.social's piece on LLM’s propensity to substitute lists for argumentation—students are suddenly *noticing* the lists everywhere & engaging them critically
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- This horrible incredible unmitigated violence is bad, but have more
- You too can learn to do the thing
- Simulated acid trip
- Romance but with monsters and death and stuff
- It says comedy, but it's going to teach you about what it means to be human
- This horrible incredible unmitigated violence is bad, but have more
- You too can learn to do the thing
- Simulated acid trip
- Romance but with monsters and death and stuff
- It says comedy, but it's going to teach you about what it means to be human
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- This is depressing and funny at the same time
- Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic
- Fairytale but spooky
- Vampires make bad decisions
- Musical that involves several murders
- This is depressing and funny at the same time
- Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic
- Fairytale but spooky
- Vampires make bad decisions
- Musical that involves several murders
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-forced to play games & the punishment is death
-this woman can't escape loneliness, but maybe she'll be okay
-we're trapped in outer space and sometimes there's an alien
-nothing happens for 2 hours and life is beautiful
-time loop. time loop. time loop.
-forced to play games & the punishment is death
-this woman can't escape loneliness, but maybe she'll be okay
-we're trapped in outer space and sometimes there's an alien
-nothing happens for 2 hours and life is beautiful
-time loop. time loop. time loop.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- This horrible incredible unmitigated violence is bad, but have more
- You too can learn to do the thing
- Simulated acid trip
- Romance but with monsters and death and stuff
- It says comedy, but it's going to teach you about what it means to be human
- This horrible incredible unmitigated violence is bad, but have more
- You too can learn to do the thing
- Simulated acid trip
- Romance but with monsters and death and stuff
- It says comedy, but it's going to teach you about what it means to be human
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What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- This is depressing and funny at the same time
- Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic
- Fairytale but spooky
- Vampires make bad decisions
- Musical that involves several murders
- This is depressing and funny at the same time
- Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic
- Fairytale but spooky
- Vampires make bad decisions
- Musical that involves several murders
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-forced to play games & the punishment is death
-this woman can't escape loneliness, but maybe she'll be okay
-we're trapped in outer space and sometimes there's an alien
-nothing happens for 2 hours and life is beautiful
-time loop. time loop. time loop.
-forced to play games & the punishment is death
-this woman can't escape loneliness, but maybe she'll be okay
-we're trapped in outer space and sometimes there's an alien
-nothing happens for 2 hours and life is beautiful
-time loop. time loop. time loop.
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- Smart people! Solving problems! In Space!
- Witty murder mystery in messy class dynamics.
- Mind bending time travel adventure.
- Let's smash this dystopia!
- Much ado at this crazy wedding.
- Smart people! Solving problems! In Space!
- Witty murder mystery in messy class dynamics.
- Mind bending time travel adventure.
- Let's smash this dystopia!
- Much ado at this crazy wedding.
November 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
- This is depressing and funny at the same time
- Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic
- Fairytale but spooky
- Vampires make bad decisions
- Musical that involves several murders
- This is depressing and funny at the same time
- Existential despair/loneliness but there's magic
- Fairytale but spooky
- Vampires make bad decisions
- Musical that involves several murders
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Fighting the war on "the male loneliness epidemic" on the side of the epidemic.
November 17, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Fighting the war on "the male loneliness epidemic" on the side of the epidemic.
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It absolutely is pernicious.
Also something I think a LOT of men don’t get;
Once you’ve had someone boost you, and you find out it was only because they wanted to have sex with you/thought you were hot?
It poisons previous and future successes. “Is it because…”
It’s fucking evil.
Also something I think a LOT of men don’t get;
Once you’ve had someone boost you, and you find out it was only because they wanted to have sex with you/thought you were hot?
It poisons previous and future successes. “Is it because…”
It’s fucking evil.
Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
I mean
November 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
It absolutely is pernicious.
Also something I think a LOT of men don’t get;
Once you’ve had someone boost you, and you find out it was only because they wanted to have sex with you/thought you were hot?
It poisons previous and future successes. “Is it because…”
It’s fucking evil.
Also something I think a LOT of men don’t get;
Once you’ve had someone boost you, and you find out it was only because they wanted to have sex with you/thought you were hot?
It poisons previous and future successes. “Is it because…”
It’s fucking evil.
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Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.
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Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 16, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗
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It’s always hilarious when people who don’t understand romance try to post romance content.
The JD Vance/Erika Kirk photo had more sexual chemistry.
The JD Vance/Erika Kirk photo had more sexual chemistry.
White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail
November 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
It’s always hilarious when people who don’t understand romance try to post romance content.
The JD Vance/Erika Kirk photo had more sexual chemistry.
The JD Vance/Erika Kirk photo had more sexual chemistry.
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You get to see Glenn Powell’s beautiful bare ass and they do Home Alone shit to ICE Agents so like I’m not sure what else you’d want in a movie.
November 17, 2025 at 1:44 AM
You get to see Glenn Powell’s beautiful bare ass and they do Home Alone shit to ICE Agents so like I’m not sure what else you’d want in a movie.
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Video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell y
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell y
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell y
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell yeah
Another video game: [thinly veiled metaphor for how capitalism is bad]
Me: Hell y
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Have the people who approved this ever heard of Robodebt? 🤦♂️
ACC's use of AI to help decide who gets help shocks advocate
"It's all about 'how can we ramp up exits, how can we get more people coming off the scheme," says an ACC advocate
www.rnz.co.nz
November 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Have the people who approved this ever heard of Robodebt? 🤦♂️
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NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
www.lawdork.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: Gregory Bovino is exactly who E.B. White — author of 'Charlotte's Web' — warned us about.
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
DHS named its North Carolina anti-immigrant effort "Operation Charlotte's Web." In 1940, White wrote of the "smell" that "rises" from those who "adjust to fascism" over freedom.
Tonight, at Law Dork:
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I've known Tanya for several years now, she is awesome and could definitely use some help.
So I did the thing before I chickened out (or came to my senses) and threw up a GFM as a stop gap measure. I hate doing it more than anyone will hate seeing another fund raiser.
gofund.me/f5615787f
gofund.me/f5615787f
Donate to Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt., organized by Tanya DePass
Like many of those in the games industry, I was laid off back… Tanya DePass needs your support for Chip in to help with the cost of existence while I job hunt.
gofund.me
November 16, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I've known Tanya for several years now, she is awesome and could definitely use some help.
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"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
"There are about a thousand of us" is devastating.
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Tell me you don't understand consent without telling me you don't understand consent.
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Tell me you don't understand consent without telling me you don't understand consent.
These kinds of confessions used to require an investigative journalist backed by a legal team and armed security...
epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump
November 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
These kinds of confessions used to require an investigative journalist backed by a legal team and armed security...
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everyone in this is like "the sane voice of the left" of us politics now.
4 Awful Ways Our Ancestors Got High (That We Tested!) - Cracked Goes There with Robert Evans
YouTube video by Cracked
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
everyone in this is like "the sane voice of the left" of us politics now.