S.E. Sinkhorn
@sesinkhorn.bsky.social
Mother. Bi. She/her/hers. Californian. Atheist. Writer. Marketer. Occasional watercolor artist. Still loves sci-fi and feminism. altChristian newsletter author: https://altchristian.beehiiv.com/
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S.E. Sinkhorn
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· Jan 30
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Ben Shapiro is used to being around conservatives who make tasteless jokes about Jews, & assuming that’s as deep as the antisemitism goes. These deep cut tropes coming into wider circulation on the right now are the sorts of things people say who have had conversations about murdering lots of Jews.
When I say that it's grim that Jewish people on the right are about to find themselves unwelcome, I am referring to rising antisemitism, which is dangerous and bad
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens aren't just against Israel. They are actively promoting antisemitic tropes. This is a problem!
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens aren't just against Israel. They are actively promoting antisemitic tropes. This is a problem!
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Ben Shapiro is used to being around conservatives who make tasteless jokes about Jews, & assuming that’s as deep as the antisemitism goes. These deep cut tropes coming into wider circulation on the right now are the sorts of things people say who have had conversations about murdering lots of Jews.
incredible stuff.
December 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
incredible stuff.
I read writing advice once that was like, "The first idea you think of is crap. So is the second, the third, and the fourth. That's the stuff on the surface of your brain, the stuff you didn't have to dig deep for. Keep going. Get to the fifth idea. Keep going. That's where it gets good."
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I read writing advice once that was like, "The first idea you think of is crap. So is the second, the third, and the fourth. That's the stuff on the surface of your brain, the stuff you didn't have to dig deep for. Keep going. Get to the fifth idea. Keep going. That's where it gets good."
wouldn't it be cool to have reliable and affordable power. wouldn't it be neat if our government would invest in that instead of undercutting it.
Nearly 130,000 San Francisco households and businesses lost power due to PG&E outages that brought a massive portion of the city to a halt — darkening homes and causing traffic jams.
PG&E outages in S.F. leave 65,000 customers without power, street lights out, BART, Muni disrupted
More than 65,000 customers acorss San Francisco lost power Saturday due to PG&E outages, causing traffic jams at dark street lights and forcing Muni and BART trains to bypass powerless stations.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
wouldn't it be cool to have reliable and affordable power. wouldn't it be neat if our government would invest in that instead of undercutting it.
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Video game companies, big and small as well as indies, please do not use GenAi AT ALL for anything. You have perfectly functional human beings in your workplace who can do whatever it is needed to be done. Ai cannot do what a human can. GenAi is entirely unethical and it makes YOU look unethical.
Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
insider-gaming.com/indie-game-a...
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Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage
Sandfall Interactive and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 has been stripped of its wins at The Indie Game Awards due to use of generative AI.
insider-gaming.com
December 21, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Video game companies, big and small as well as indies, please do not use GenAi AT ALL for anything. You have perfectly functional human beings in your workplace who can do whatever it is needed to be done. Ai cannot do what a human can. GenAi is entirely unethical and it makes YOU look unethical.
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This is awkward, but as of yesterday I'm no longer employed with Nightdive Studios. I'm currently looking for full-time work and would be happy to share more info via DMs. I'm also open to freelance work!
December 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This is awkward, but as of yesterday I'm no longer employed with Nightdive Studios. I'm currently looking for full-time work and would be happy to share more info via DMs. I'm also open to freelance work!
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if you missed it, i wrote the definitive oral history of LucasArts' innovative and influential adventure game, Day of the Tentacle—and you can buy it physically AND digitally from @bossfightbooks.com via the link below: bossfightbooks.com/collections/...
Day of the Tentacle by Bob Mackey
Release Date: October 9, 2023ISBN: 978-1-940535-33-3Foreword by Larry AhernAfterword by Tim Schafer 160 pages Six years after helping the Edison family defeat the designs of a malevolent meteor in Ma...
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March 31, 2025 at 11:00 PM
if you missed it, i wrote the definitive oral history of LucasArts' innovative and influential adventure game, Day of the Tentacle—and you can buy it physically AND digitally from @bossfightbooks.com via the link below: bossfightbooks.com/collections/...
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The only group of people whose take on the “release” really matters.
“‘They are proving everything we have been saying about corruption and delayed justice,’said Jess Michaels, one of the earliest known victims of Mr. Epstein. ‘What are they protecting? The coverup continues.’”
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“‘They are proving everything we have been saying about corruption and delayed justice,’said Jess Michaels, one of the earliest known victims of Mr. Epstein. ‘What are they protecting? The coverup continues.’”
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Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The only group of people whose take on the “release” really matters.
“‘They are proving everything we have been saying about corruption and delayed justice,’said Jess Michaels, one of the earliest known victims of Mr. Epstein. ‘What are they protecting? The coverup continues.’”
Gift link
“‘They are proving everything we have been saying about corruption and delayed justice,’said Jess Michaels, one of the earliest known victims of Mr. Epstein. ‘What are they protecting? The coverup continues.’”
Gift link
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
December 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
I don't give a single solitary fuck about what happens to Bill Clinton, specifically, but I also want to go on record as saying there is no one, famous or a personal friend, who I hold so dear that if they were a rapist, I would not want that news coming out. Name, shame, prosecute. ALL. OF. THEM.
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
December 20, 2025 at 3:37 AM
My husband is doing another run of Baldur's Gate 3 to try out paladin class and he's ending up a Gale girly and I'm dying. Watching my spouse play a giant paladin lady being wooed by this exploding nerd. Love it.
December 20, 2025 at 3:32 AM
My husband is doing another run of Baldur's Gate 3 to try out paladin class and he's ending up a Gale girly and I'm dying. Watching my spouse play a giant paladin lady being wooed by this exploding nerd. Love it.
The way we look the other way when adult men leer, remark, and pursue preteen and teen girls is a society-deep sickness, all the way to the very top.
If a man sexualizes a girl, we treat it as natural. Biology. Not what it is -- domination, power, control, abuse.
If a man sexualizes a girl, we treat it as natural. Biology. Not what it is -- domination, power, control, abuse.
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.
The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
The way we look the other way when adult men leer, remark, and pursue preteen and teen girls is a society-deep sickness, all the way to the very top.
If a man sexualizes a girl, we treat it as natural. Biology. Not what it is -- domination, power, control, abuse.
If a man sexualizes a girl, we treat it as natural. Biology. Not what it is -- domination, power, control, abuse.
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Hey if you need a good Christmas watch this weekend, you absolutely should make it Bob's Burgers "The Plight Before Christmas" (season 13, episode 10) because it is something really, really special.
It was nominated for an Emmy and totally should have won.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSwJ...
It was nominated for an Emmy and totally should have won.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSwJ...
Two Parents And Three Christmas Performances | Season 13 Ep. 10 | Bob's Burgers
YouTube video by AniDom
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December 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hey if you need a good Christmas watch this weekend, you absolutely should make it Bob's Burgers "The Plight Before Christmas" (season 13, episode 10) because it is something really, really special.
It was nominated for an Emmy and totally should have won.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSwJ...
It was nominated for an Emmy and totally should have won.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSwJ...
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Remember, his children’s grandparents are refugees. When I say this man’s a piece of shit, it’s impossible to overstate the depth of my sincerity.
Zuck continues to back away from causes he previously championed. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zuckerberg Cut Ties With Pro-Immigration Organization He Founded
Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy has cut ties with the pro-immigration advocacy group that he founded more than a decade ago, a move that parallels other sweeping changes he’s made to his company’s poli...
www.bloomberg.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Remember, his children’s grandparents are refugees. When I say this man’s a piece of shit, it’s impossible to overstate the depth of my sincerity.
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And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
December 19, 2025 at 9:45 PM
And just like that, SFWA capitulates. Keep fighting. It works.
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One major problem, bluntly, is that lots of folks can't distinguish between good writing and poor writing. This is about education, not intelligence: they could learn the difference, but it's frequently not taught, even in "good" schools. This is ultimately a competitive disadvantage for them.
it's so wild that people conflate quickness with quality so they think chatGPT writing a wall of text in 10 seconds means it's good writing.
December 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
One major problem, bluntly, is that lots of folks can't distinguish between good writing and poor writing. This is about education, not intelligence: they could learn the difference, but it's frequently not taught, even in "good" schools. This is ultimately a competitive disadvantage for them.
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Roughly 20,000 immigrant drivers have received notices their trucking licenses will be cut off in the new year — even though many of them hold valid federal work permits.
Feds block California from issuing new commercial licenses to immigrant drivers
Roughly 20,000 immigrant drivers have received notices their trucking licenses will be cut off in the new year — even though many of them hold valid federal work permits.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Roughly 20,000 immigrant drivers have received notices their trucking licenses will be cut off in the new year — even though many of them hold valid federal work permits.
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Only five judges will remain to handle cases in one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts, after the Trump administration fired 12 judges this year.
Four S.F. immigration judges are retiring, deepening staffing crisis
Only five judges will remain to handle cases in one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts, after the Trump administration fired 12 judges this year.
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December 19, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Only five judges will remain to handle cases in one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts, after the Trump administration fired 12 judges this year.
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Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx