Yoon Ha Lee (he/him)
@deuceofgears.bsky.social
Sf/f writer (NINEFOX GAMBIT, DRAGON PEARL). MFA student in media composition. Hobbies: 2D animation, game design, destroying readers. Rep'd by @sethasfishman.bsky.social.
https://www.yoonhalee.com/
https://ninefoxgambit.com/
https://candlearc.com/
https://www.yoonhalee.com/
https://ninefoxgambit.com/
https://candlearc.com/
Pinned
After foxing up WordPress last year, I've finally gotten the Ninefox Gambit webcomic back online. Echoes the Candle Arc *comic* although the *2D animation* (preproduction) is over at the sister site candlearc.com. Signed, still buried under orchestration homework, back to work!
ninefoxgambit.com
ninefoxgambit.com
Break time after morning's emotional support weaving & spinning, then brunch, then back to music production (indoors) now that it's no longer ass o' clock and BRAAAAAMS won't wake people.
November 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Break time after morning's emotional support weaving & spinning, then brunch, then back to music production (indoors) now that it's no longer ass o' clock and BRAAAAAMS won't wake people.
I don't know that I'm going to get all that far into today's to-do list but that's not a reason not to try...
November 23, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I don't know that I'm going to get all that far into today's to-do list but that's not a reason not to try...
Doubling down on the one career (writing sf/f) my parents told me was a waste of time, as opposed to viola (support!) or medieval history (support!) or linguistics (support!).
Their reaction to the math B.A. was "But you hate math! What about history?" 😅
Their reaction to the math B.A. was "But you hate math! What about history?" 😅
November 23, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Doubling down on the one career (writing sf/f) my parents told me was a waste of time, as opposed to viola (support!) or medieval history (support!) or linguistics (support!).
Their reaction to the math B.A. was "But you hate math! What about history?" 😅
Their reaction to the math B.A. was "But you hate math! What about history?" 😅
Today's emotional support spinning: IxChel's guanaco blend (Guanaco 60%, Mulga Silk 25%, Cashmere 12%, Angora Bunny 3%). Fountain pen for ~scale, not integral to the spinning process!
November 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Today's emotional support spinning: IxChel's guanaco blend (Guanaco 60%, Mulga Silk 25%, Cashmere 12%, Angora Bunny 3%). Fountain pen for ~scale, not integral to the spinning process!
I am being supervised while writing.
November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I am being supervised while writing.
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Started a blog to track my journey as a writer who, for once, doesn't know the ending. Discovering my next chapter whether it be writing, Proj Mgmt, Mixology, deep-dives into forgotten women in history, or just antiquing who knows! If any of that sounds interesting, welcome... writingandwhatnot.com
Writing and Whatnot — Benson Sisters
writingandwhatnot.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Started a blog to track my journey as a writer who, for once, doesn't know the ending. Discovering my next chapter whether it be writing, Proj Mgmt, Mixology, deep-dives into forgotten women in history, or just antiquing who knows! If any of that sounds interesting, welcome... writingandwhatnot.com
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Useful for a whole bunch of games I can think of
November 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Useful for a whole bunch of games I can think of
Catten would never impede -important- work!
November 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Catten would never impede -important- work!
We who committed this mechanical keyboard because it's the *most Kel keyboard imaginable* salute you? Yours in calendrical heresy etc.
November 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
We who committed this mechanical keyboard because it's the *most Kel keyboard imaginable* salute you? Yours in calendrical heresy etc.
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Finally here! I've been working on this article for a few months now.
Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show.
Well, I aim to change that. My investigation.
www.salon.com/2025/11/21/t...
Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show.
Well, I aim to change that. My investigation.
www.salon.com/2025/11/21/t...
The online clip factory that's radicalizing teen boys - Salon.com
How a wildly popular YouTube “dating” show heaps mockery on women to create "so many more incels”
www.salon.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Finally here! I've been working on this article for a few months now.
Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show.
Well, I aim to change that. My investigation.
www.salon.com/2025/11/21/t...
Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show.
Well, I aim to change that. My investigation.
www.salon.com/2025/11/21/t...
XYZZY!!! XYZZY!!!
Hey, I bet you didn't hear that Zork 1, 2, and 3 were open-sourced today!
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
…Oh, you have heard. Yeah. Way ahead of me. :)
Here's my comments, and some details that you might not have seen.
blog.zarfhome.com/2025/11/zork...
Zork is now open source
Two years ago, I wrote: Microsoft-the-company does not care about Infocom. But a lot of people in Microsoft must care. Microsoft is heavily populated by greying GenX nerds just like me. Folks who grew...
blog.zarfhome.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
XYZZY!!! XYZZY!!!
Aside: you would think that anyone who spent *30 seconds* getting old-school ELIZA to spew complete horrifying nonsense in some old-timey LISP or BASIC implementation would...have anticipated...this...development???
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Aside: you would think that anyone who spent *30 seconds* getting old-school ELIZA to spew complete horrifying nonsense in some old-timey LISP or BASIC implementation would...have anticipated...this...development???
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Mary inspires a frank and - at times - emotional discussion about Brian's friendship with J. F. Gonzalez, recounting how the two met, things they achieved together, what J. F. would think of things now, and his lasting legacy on the horror genre. www.patreon.com/posts/ido-pe...
November 21, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Mary inspires a frank and - at times - emotional discussion about Brian's friendship with J. F. Gonzalez, recounting how the two met, things they achieved together, what J. F. would think of things now, and his lasting legacy on the horror genre. www.patreon.com/posts/ido-pe...
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I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
November 20, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.
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Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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This entire article highlights one of the big reasons I love this fucking city even though it's got more problems than you can shake a stick at
I’m howling.
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This entire article highlights one of the big reasons I love this fucking city even though it's got more problems than you can shake a stick at
Ten years ago this was probably harder to wrassle for a civilian, but from here on out, NOVEL DRAFTING using private git repos because LITERALLY it handles version control and if it doesn't immediately need to be in e.g. .docx for client/agent/publisher/editor/school-facing reasons...
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Ten years ago this was probably harder to wrassle for a civilian, but from here on out, NOVEL DRAFTING using private git repos because LITERALLY it handles version control and if it doesn't immediately need to be in e.g. .docx for client/agent/publisher/editor/school-facing reasons...
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this is fucking amazing and so incredibly Baltimore
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
this is fucking amazing and so incredibly Baltimore
You know you need more sleep when you keep typing "microncontroller" for "microcontroller"... /o\
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
You know you need more sleep when you keep typing "microncontroller" for "microcontroller"... /o\
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January 16, fam!
『葬送のフリーレン』第2期 PV第2弾／EDテーマ：「The Story of Us」milet／2026年1月16日(金)放送開始／日本テレビ系
YouTube video by TOHO animation チャンネル
youtu.be
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
January 16, fam!
M5stack Cardputer v.1.1 as a handheld writerdeck (using VoidNoi's BadCard).
(I have wrecked hands & wrecked health, so v lightweight + physical buttons were desiderata for something I can use when stuck in bed. On a v bad day, I keep dropping my *phone* because it's too heavy.)
(I have wrecked hands & wrecked health, so v lightweight + physical buttons were desiderata for something I can use when stuck in bed. On a v bad day, I keep dropping my *phone* because it's too heavy.)
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
M5stack Cardputer v.1.1 as a handheld writerdeck (using VoidNoi's BadCard).
(I have wrecked hands & wrecked health, so v lightweight + physical buttons were desiderata for something I can use when stuck in bed. On a v bad day, I keep dropping my *phone* because it's too heavy.)
(I have wrecked hands & wrecked health, so v lightweight + physical buttons were desiderata for something I can use when stuck in bed. On a v bad day, I keep dropping my *phone* because it's too heavy.)
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If anybody happens to have a spare $900, I will set this for free if you have it sent to me.
(Serious offer, actually, although I doubt anybody will take me up on it because, well, $900? In this economy? But it is GORGEOUS.)
www.etsy.com/listing/1361...
(Serious offer, actually, although I doubt anybody will take me up on it because, well, $900? In this economy? But it is GORGEOUS.)
www.etsy.com/listing/1361...
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If anybody happens to have a spare $900, I will set this for free if you have it sent to me.
(Serious offer, actually, although I doubt anybody will take me up on it because, well, $900? In this economy? But it is GORGEOUS.)
www.etsy.com/listing/1361...
(Serious offer, actually, although I doubt anybody will take me up on it because, well, $900? In this economy? But it is GORGEOUS.)
www.etsy.com/listing/1361...
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The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The four horsemen of internet service outages are DNS, BGP, the Greater American Cable Seeking Backhoe, and a fucked up config file getting propagated through the network, and the result is in: the fourth horseman is what got Cloudflare this time blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...
This is why I'm sitting here messing around with Linux, C, Forth, cyberdeck/writerdeck builds, and microcontroller tomfoolery but this is absolutely not a -good- situation (or solution). I like tinkering but not everyone has the time, -resources-, or inclination!
Business are willing to accept broken code if it means they don't have to pay humans anymore
#AmWorking
Big businesses: "We do n% of our code with AI now"
Me: BUT IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE! YOU BROKE IT! YOU COMPLETELY RUINED IT!
Had this TWICE today with two different kinds of big business software product and I am ready to throw things.
Big businesses: "We do n% of our code with AI now"
Me: BUT IT DOESN'T WORK ANYMORE! YOU BROKE IT! YOU COMPLETELY RUINED IT!
Had this TWICE today with two different kinds of big business software product and I am ready to throw things.
November 19, 2025 at 11:28 PM
This is why I'm sitting here messing around with Linux, C, Forth, cyberdeck/writerdeck builds, and microcontroller tomfoolery but this is absolutely not a -good- situation (or solution). I like tinkering but not everyone has the time, -resources-, or inclination!