colink
@colink.bsky.social
Disc golfer, programmer, podcaster (find me on 101sf.blogspot.com and Take Me To Your Reader), creator of frolfle.com
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A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.
Unlock and upgrade in the Return to Metroidvania rebundle, read up on exciting Sci-Fi with Matha Wells’ Murderbot & more, and add character to your game environments with the Best of Synty 4 Game Dev Assets rebundles! https://bit.ly/4oxXmjd
December 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A brief return of the Murderbot Humble Bundle! The charity is still World Central Kitchen.
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Here's something different!
New Original MicroFiction! "Bookends, or Libromancy," by Seth Heasley, in both print and audio:
hugospodcast.com/podcast/orig...
New Original MicroFiction! "Bookends, or Libromancy," by Seth Heasley, in both print and audio:
hugospodcast.com/podcast/orig...
Original Fiction: Bookends, or Libromancy, by Seth Heasley
Hi everyone, I hope you enjoy this microfiction fantasy story I wrote and submitted as part of NYC Midnight’s 250-word Microfiction Contest. This story made the cut in Round One, and then I h…
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December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Here's something different!
New Original MicroFiction! "Bookends, or Libromancy," by Seth Heasley, in both print and audio:
hugospodcast.com/podcast/orig...
New Original MicroFiction! "Bookends, or Libromancy," by Seth Heasley, in both print and audio:
hugospodcast.com/podcast/orig...
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A federal ICE supervisor also testified he created and signed arrest warrants after-the-fact for people already arrested without warrants.
ICE officers reveal arrest quotas, facial recognition use in Oregon dragnet
A federal ICE supervisor also testified he created and signed arrest warrants after-the-fact for people already arrested without warrants.
www.oregonlive.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A federal ICE supervisor also testified he created and signed arrest warrants after-the-fact for people already arrested without warrants.
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New story! "To Speak in Silence" by Mary Robinette Kowal! buff.ly/1FERBCe
December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
New story! "To Speak in Silence" by Mary Robinette Kowal! buff.ly/1FERBCe
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
@uncannymagazine.bsky.social I know you probably don't need more work to do, but I'd pay for a curated collection of works like The Year Without Sunshine; something to read to offset the darkness of the world and to be reminded that there's still hope.
THE YEAR WITHOUT SUNSHINE by @naomikritzer.bsky.social in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social
www.uncannymagazine.com/article/the-...
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The Year Without Sunshine - Uncanny Magazine
During one of the much smaller disasters that preceded the really big disaster, I met a lot of my neighbors online. I can’t remember if we set up the WhatsApp group because of the pandemic or the civi...
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November 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@uncannymagazine.bsky.social I know you probably don't need more work to do, but I'd pay for a curated collection of works like The Year Without Sunshine; something to read to offset the darkness of the world and to be reminded that there's still hope.
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I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I've seen people say that getting attached to ChatGPT is like "believing the stripper really loves you", but that's not true. It's more like believing that the dryer personally composed that little jingle on a lonely sockless night just to win your affections.
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Want to avoid AI writing? Turns out Wikipedia has the answer
The best guide to spotting AI writing comes from Wikipedia | TechCrunch
Wikipedia's guide to “Signs of AI writing” is a great resource for learning to spot LLM-generated prose.
techcrunch.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Want to avoid AI writing? Turns out Wikipedia has the answer
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons Wednesday morning or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.
Driver makes unbelievable 911 call: ‘I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my windshield’
It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons Wednesday morning or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.
www.oregonlive.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons Wednesday morning or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.
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GOLD!
Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...
Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...
Солярис (4К, фантастика, реж. Андрей Тарковский, 1972 г.)
YouTube video by Киноконцерн "Мосфильм"
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November 22, 2025 at 1:37 AM
GOLD!
Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...
Mosfilm has now made Solaris available in 4K on YouTube for free. Specialists from Mosfilm's Telecinema and Computer Graphics branch finished the restoration of the film.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-Wr...
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This year’s holiday train rides feature beautiful scenery and visits from Santa.
Holiday train rides 2025: Where to find the Polar Express in Oregon and Washington
This year’s holiday train rides feature beautiful scenery and visits from Santa.
www.oregonlive.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This year’s holiday train rides feature beautiful scenery and visits from Santa.
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PolitiFact - Do ICE officers have ‘federal immunity’ as White House official Stephen Miller said?
No
www.politifact.com/f... #wipolitics
No
www.politifact.com/f... #wipolitics
Do ICE officers have ‘federal immunity’?
Stephen Miller said ICE agents have federal immunity. Agents have broad protections when they’re conducting official duties. But they’re not immune from prosecution if they break state or federal law.
www.politifact.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
PolitiFact - Do ICE officers have ‘federal immunity’ as White House official Stephen Miller said?
No
www.politifact.com/f... #wipolitics
No
www.politifact.com/f... #wipolitics
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A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
November 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...
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Every race. It’s basically been every race.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Every race. It’s basically been every race.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
Governors. Mayors. Long-held GOP dog-catchers. School boards. Water boards. Flipped a dungeon master in a rural Iowa D&D club. State senators. State reps. A janitor in Duluth. State justices. Three GOP Uber drivers.
Just everything.
The Ctr for Urban Research at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social (led by @jomoko.bsky.social) has prepared an online map for tonight's NYC mayoral results. Link below in #thread. For now the map is blank, but it'll fill in w/unofficial returns tonight.
The map will do more than show the 2025 #s.
1/n
The map will do more than show the 2025 #s.
1/n
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Norwescon showing some @scalzi.com love for their monthly book club!
It's already November which means you should be reading the November #Norwescon Bibliophiles book selection, Old Man’s War by John Scalzi. Join us Monday November 17 at 7 p.m. to discuss the book and meet other bibliophiles! More information at buff.ly/SoIAXJO.
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Norwescon showing some @scalzi.com love for their monthly book club!
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The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.
Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
![Slide with the title “The anti-vaccination movement has no new material”.
Montague R. Leverson,
Lawyer, Liar, Quack
1895
Robert F. Kennedy, Lawyer, Liar, Quack
2025
Accuse expert vaccine advisory committees of pro-vaccine "bias"
"That commission was deliberately packed at its very outset..."
"The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine".
Falsely state that vaccines cause death
"Vaccination has caused more deaths and diseases than ever has smallpox".
"This [COVID19 vaccine] is the deadliest vaccine ever made..."
Claim that healthcare practitioners and scientists are only in it for the money, not because of scientific evidence
"...Jenner was a mercenary charlatan whose ignorance and impatience of scientific methods were equaled only by his mendacity..."
"Doctors are being paid to vaccinate, not to evaluate. They're pressured to follow the money, not the science".
Use false and inflammatory words about vaccines
The "Blood-poisoning process of vaccination"
"They went on a search... looking for the most toxic things that they could find...to](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:flwgfsh2mhpoqwjwwt2mesjv/bafkreiawfvj625afa5wnrcyjftu3y2gjlyw377ksesk54mypnnln737t6i@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The anti-vaccine movement has the same talking points now as it did in the 1800’s. It’s always been a rejection of science, scientists, and progress, with a soupçon of paranoia.
Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
Below is a slide for a talk I’m preparing that illustrates the identical strategies. I have more examples, too.
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One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
One Halloween I dressed up as the GOP's Healthcare plan.
I never made it out of the House.
I never made it out of the House.
For years I've been using a made-up term, "elliptical sex" to describe sex that is implied. I invented it based on Piers Anthony's use of the ellipsis in his Xanth series for sex and intimacy that is implied but not explicitly described. The downside is that no one understands the term.
Normally, I don't respond to negative reviews, but if you tag me...
For the record: there's 1 off-stage sex scene. And a second 5 sentence on-stage scene in which the body parts mentioned are, back, thighs, and butt.
This is your reminder that everyone has a different threshold for "porn."
For the record: there's 1 off-stage sex scene. And a second 5 sentence on-stage scene in which the body parts mentioned are, back, thighs, and butt.
This is your reminder that everyone has a different threshold for "porn."
Pass - went to Audible to buy the audio book and the review is below. I really enjoyed The Spare Man. I really dislike sex in my science fiction (or urban fantasy books) - and won't knowingly buy such books, or if I do find out after buying and spending my time and money, will review accordingly.
October 25, 2025 at 7:19 PM
For years I've been using a made-up term, "elliptical sex" to describe sex that is implied. I invented it based on Piers Anthony's use of the ellipsis in his Xanth series for sex and intimacy that is implied but not explicitly described. The downside is that no one understands the term.
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New episode!
In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...
In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...
Toynbee Convecting for Beginners (episode 60)
Back in episode 57 , Colin and Phil recommended books and movies to each other. Now they act on those suggestions, reporting back with their...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
New episode!
In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...
In which our intrepid co-hosts act upon the recommended reading and viewing suggested by each other!
101sf.blogspot.com/2025/10/toyn...
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Pub on Tuesday!
THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!
buff.ly/Bf9BguU
With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social
3 ways to WIN:
@thestorygraph.com
tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea
#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF
#giveaway
THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!
buff.ly/Bf9BguU
With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social
3 ways to WIN:
@thestorygraph.com
tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea
#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF
#giveaway
October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Pub on Tuesday!
THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!
buff.ly/Bf9BguU
With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social
3 ways to WIN:
@thestorygraph.com
tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea
#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF
#giveaway
THE ESSENTIAL PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP!
buff.ly/Bf9BguU
With an intro by @ellenkushner.bsky.social
3 ways to WIN:
@thestorygraph.com
tinyurl.com/mr3w7cea
#Goodreads buff.ly/4W4cPWn
@fantasycafe.bsky.social buff.ly/ENz9qCF
#giveaway
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"People are literally going to die from it," warns researcher who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades.
Anti-science bills spread nationwide as Kennedy allies target health protections
"People are literally going to die from it," warns researcher who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades.
www.oregonlive.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"People are literally going to die from it," warns researcher who has tracked the anti-vaccine movement for decades.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.