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’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
November 17, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
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Cries in crim adjudication prof
I’m not a lawyer but I’m pretty sure you’re not allowed to tell the jury to “vote assuming we actually have a whole bunch more secret evidence”
November 18, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Cries in crim adjudication prof
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I hope the many disastrous economic crises looming on the horizon all happen at once and this happens
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I hope the many disastrous economic crises looming on the horizon all happen at once and this happens
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#3157 A helpful tutorial
November 17, 2025 at 11:40 PM
#3157 A helpful tutorial
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This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.”
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.
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BOOKMARKED!!
November 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM
BOOKMARKED!!
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Working in the game industry
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Working in the game industry
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this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
President Trump walking past the flag at the Whitehouse which has fallen to the ground
November 18, 2025 at 12:38 AM
this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011
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THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
Per CNN, Elizabeth Warren is calling on Harvard to cut ties with Larry Summers after Jeffrey Epstein's emails released last week by House Dems featured Summers making sexist comments + asking for Epstein’s romantic advice.
November 18, 2025 at 12:43 AM
THIS IS BIG
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
For non-academics who might not understand why:
1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house
2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.
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Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
Fox guest on how to save money during the holidays:
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
"Remember, adults don't need gifts. Focus on the people in your life who are aged 3 to 18. Grandma doesn't need slippers. If they don't live by you, don't get them a gift."
November 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Oh, so now it's fine to have a war on Christmas
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leave it up to trans people for preserving game history properly www.videogamer.com/news/fallout...
Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 source code isn't actually lost, reveals former Interplay founder, despite orders to destroy all assets
The source Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 is not lost as former Interplay founder Rebecca Heineman reveals she kept all backups for the game.
www.videogamer.com
May 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
leave it up to trans people for preserving game history properly www.videogamer.com/news/fallout...
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Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based
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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.
