Monte Lin

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

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if you’re cis and you don’t get it this is LITERAL TORTURE

it will result in dead trans people

and with their other goal of making us “sexually explicit” for existing

you see the pipeline right?

we exist -> we’re jailed for it -> we’re tortured and die

WE NEED YOU TO STOP THIS

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country.

In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits.

This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

According to payment processors, purchasing fictional sexy art is grossly immoral.

Betting on school children getting blown up is fine though.

I'm addicted to these videos from a bakery in Uzbekistan

this bread is beautiful

It’s always “whoops I didn’t know it was a Nazi tattoo” and never “I just thought a crescent moon and star looked cool” or “I have been a big fan of this trans streamer for years.”

One thing consistent about escalation at protests is that it’s cops that start it.

I’m sorry, Wendy. This is awful

Genuinely chuffed to see my @uncannymagazine.bsky.social novelette "The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends" be a @bsfa.bsky.social finalist alongside such great authors!!

bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-...

If you're a SFWA member doing last-minute reading for your Nebula ballot, I'd be honored if you considered any of my work out last year—including novelette "Bunny Ears" and story "Head of the Household." All my eligible works: www.kristinaten.com/award-eligib...

Ballot: www.sfwa.org/2025-nebula-...

We bombed Iran?! | I need to pay that bill | Kansas antitrans ID law!! | Don’t forget Hugo noms | do we still have Venezuela’s president? | *an email re: book promotion* | I can’t pay this bill | cutting funds to MN?? | I need to check on my friends | timeline fights about doomerism | taxes | REPEAT

There are currently 711 bills under consideration that target trans people.

This is an all out assault that has not abated since the moment Republicans understood they could target trans people with little pushback and much support from moderates and liberals.

Incredibly proud of our massive win on behalf of tens of thousands of people detained by the GEO Group in Aurora, Colorado--a case I've been working on for more than a decade. Just claiming you're following the orders of the federal government doesn't put you above the law.

Students hold walkout against ICE with banner reading, "FIGHT BACK AGAINST ICE."

The far-Right and the MAGA state wants to crush the growing groundswell of working-class resistance to ICE. This is why they are clamoring for school administrators to go after students talking part in walkouts. Stand in solidarity with all students taking action. Show up in support.

Quakertown, PA Police Chief Scott McElree violently attacks a student protester during an anti-ICE walkout.

Student walkouts against ICE show no signs of slowing down - even in the face of violent attacks from the police, suspension of students by school administrators, and even arrests of supporters.

In Pennsylvania, a police chief violently attacked one student as police made multiple arrests.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Twitter Post: “We've assembled 100 people with ADHD and 5 people with no soft skills to manage them, and given them a simple goal: make an impossible amount of money. We call it the games industry, and we think it's going to work great”.

Evergreen.

Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate🧧

The last Year of the Fire Horse began in '66 & saw anti-war protests & civil rights struggle. It was the year Rev. Jackson left seminary to join Dr. King’s Freedom Movement.

May 2026 bring New York the same bold change people deserve.

holy shit. hell of an analysis

I didn’t make an eligibility post this year, because I am out of spoons and all kitchen utensils, but Hugo noms are open, and if you consider anything from me, I’d love it if you considered my @fantasymagazine.bsky.social story “Ichthyosis," that involves the sea, a queer throuple, and a fish.

"we shouldn't have to work for free on a game until it's nearly-done enough to get funding" and "it's the only thing you can really do so you should do it if you want to make games" are both true imo and it's shit but what else is there really to do that isn't just give up

Actually just so I have my own wee database, artists please do feel free to link me to your portfolios for any VNs style work e.g. character sprites and backgrounds (non-3D)! Love seeing what kinda art is out there.

The Clarion West logo and text that reads: Six-Week Workshop Applications Are Open: Applications Close February 13 at Noon Pacific Time.

If you're still thinking about applying for the 2026 Six-Week Workshop, applications close on Friday, February 13 at 12:00 PM PT (Noon!).

The 2026 workshop is virtual with instructors @taracampbell.bsky.social, @indrapramitdas.bsky.social, David Thomas Moore, and @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social!

an image flashed in my head of a discord exec seeing everyone get together in IRC in protest and rambling to himself like the grinch trying to figure out christmas: "they chat without exclusive unlock quests. they chat without memes. they chat without emojis, video chat, and streams."

screenshot of the Influences for this project: Poetry, Comics and Literature ❖ The Thunder, Perfect Mind ❖ Hypostasis of the Archons ❖ The City & the City ❖ The Vampire Lestat ❖ Tokyo Babylon Film and Television ❖ Twin Peaks ❖ The Prophecy ❖ The Killer (1989) ❖ Dark City ❖ Lost Highway ❖ The Pink Opaque Games and Gaming Culture ❖ Asians Represent Podcast discussion of Kindred of the East ❖ Houses of the Blooded (John Wick) ❖ Make Our Own Heaven (Reizor) Music and Fashion ❖ Goths, Punks, New Romantics, Club Kids, Visual Kei and Nu-Rave ❖ The Thunder Perfect Mind Playlist

This list of influences is, like, 80% of my interests, recalling my college days back in the '90s (+ the handful of d10s mentioned in the Kickstarter)

Really keen to see this game come to life!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/flo...

Neighborhood life when ICE agents terrorize your city. #iceoutcomics #iceoutmpls

I encourage you to consider that the @cato.org is right about this

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.