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Dirck de Lint

@dirck.bsky.social
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Intermittently clever writer of horror and SF, he/him (won't get salty about they/them). Find me hither and yon at linktr.ee/dirckdelint

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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That's almost exactly the colour of a trunk-hose outfit I made for myself years ago following a Janet Arnold book. Merely adequate craftsmanship. Not silk. Still felt enriched through having Done The Thing. Absolute agreement with your last two sentences.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Nice fuzzy cryptid
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Let me air out my own fixation once more ;) dirck.delint.ca/beta/
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Ravens March Fountain Pens
Visit the post for more.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“One day, when it’s safe, when there is no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will always have been against this”
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
How do you make a president say "WOOF"?
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Mentezula On Fire
Alt: A man whose head is On Fire
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well. I guess, based on what I've heard about it, this is OK (although Yugoslavia of the previous age is a bit dubious).
According to this sampling mechanism, what I want to live in is Allende's Chile, modern Scotland, or the Paris Commune.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My wife and I have sold our hair and watch respectively (and figuratively) to be able to go to this in an actual theatre next week. You've done nothing to change that intention ;)
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Let's talk about a book series NOT getting attention that is among the finest of the decade: James Elkins' Five Strange Languages, the latest of which is Stories, Like Illnesses-- just released to resounding silence. Prior 2 novels are among my favorites ever and the new one so far is as good 1/?
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
WELL THAT WILL TEACH ME TO SKIM
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The revelation that Musk Sr. (or was it Grampa Musk?) left Saskatchewan for South Africa because things were insufficiently racist here in the mid-20th C. makes all of that extremely unsurprising
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"What if we could go back in time and kill baby Hitler?" is one thing. "What if we could go back in time and *possibly* kill the grandparents of Hitler, Salk, Einstein, Oishi, Chandrasekar, Banting, Best, Franklin, and Parton so there's more ice cream now?" is quite another.
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Doctor Memory @blank.org · 16/09/2026
I believe it was @dsquareddigest.bsky.social who noted that the only way to survive an argument with Milton Friedman was that when he said “let us assume” to immediately interject “no, we will not assume that” and it’s an equally valid approach to discussing “AI risk”.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My favourite, in terms of imagined backstory, is the single snowshoe. [comfortable shiver]
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Johnathan Perkins @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Intersex” is the “I” in LGBTQIA. Learned a lot, watching this.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A lot of people seem to take it as a fact that the private sector has secret efficiency magic the public sector doesn't have. It doesn't. It pays workers less and charges more for the same service. That's like 99% of private sector "efficiency." And everyone's worse off, except shareholders.
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Wool-Encased Tea Addict @passeriform.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
""WHY DOES WANTING CLEAN DRINKING WATER MAKE YOU AN ACTIVIST, WHILE POISONING IT DOESN'T MAKE A CORPORATION A TERRORIST?" - WINONA LADUKE
""WHY DOES WANTING CLEAN DRINKING WATER MAKE YOU AN ACTIVIST, WHILE POISONING IT DOESN'T MAKE A CORPORATION A TERRORIST?"
- WINONA LADUKE
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Guy can't even self-regulate his PornHub urges. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Mike Johnson Admits He and His Son Monitor Each Other's Porn Intake in Resurfaced Video
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The oft-spoken-of Israeli toilet paper industry.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026
hearing mark carney talk about how privatizing airports will free up money to invest in regional airports, transport links, broadband infrastructure makes me think of how nationalizing the pipeline was supposed to deliver revenues to pay for climate measures
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: University of Florida Scientists Develop an mRNA Cancer Vaccine That Reprograms the Immune System to Hunt Down Cancer Cells Without Genetically Engineering Immune Cells Outside the Body Led by Elias Sayour, M.D., Ph.D.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Real men make sure babies’ little beans aren’t cold. Photo from my collection, no date/info. 
Black-and-white photo of a light skinned man standing outside wearing heavy winter clothing. He is in front of a clapboard wooden house. He is looking down at a ginger tabby kitten in his arms and tending to it with hands that are covered in heavy duty, leather mittens.
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Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I made this design in 2019, and it’s been ripped off by countless creepy little Temu shops, as well as by Shein. Seeing it in an AI ad is ruining my day, ngl. If you like it, buy one from me - link in bio. I actually give money to queer mutual aid and medical care groups.
A shitty AI ad on Instagram showing my “you are safe with me” design being sold by a company that is not me.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think the dorsme feeds semi-digested sprunkle to the cofeve.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A tired and sad looking man beside a caption: "Seriously... just stop it."
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
News headline three days hence: 50FT MCCONNELL WRECKS DOWNTOWN, POLICE ASK FOR MILITARY ASSISTANCE
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
“Guys, they want us to go home.” 🔥 🇫🇷 French short film about what would happen to society if all the immigrants listened to angry old racist white men and left (aka the Republican agenda)
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I just hear angry duck noises. Real ducks, not Donald or Daffy.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The answer to this probably best visualized as a pair of sliders. One is labelled GREED, the other WEIRD END-TIMES RELIGIOUS NOTIONS. The former will be set no lower than 45%, but both can be all the way up at full power.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
A perfect capture of a raven and the moon by British Columbia photographer Shelley Lewis. #Canada Goodnight
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End Political Homelessness Now @raaleh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We have an episode coming out with @doctorow.pluralistic.net tomorrow that’s all about one thing: THIS IS NOT MYSTICAL! IT IS REAL TECHNOLOGY THAT IS EXPLAINABLE
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I read Adam Smith about 15 years back, to see what all this invisible hand stuff people who "understood economics" were on about. I was surprised at how often he mentioned that the point of Gov't is to act as a *counterbalance* on Business for the good of humanity. 250 years ago, alas.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Those of us old enough to have vague memories of the pre-R/T time are often baffled by the general mild acceptance of the current state of affairs (until recently, anyway). But who listens to Gen X, anyway? Buncha slackers.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026
Vaccines worked so well to eliminate a terror that stalked the land and stole people's lives and loved ones and little children, an achy arm or an infinitesimal chance of a few days of feeling like shit seemed worse by comparison.
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Cathy @cathyby.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Both vaccines and anti-monopoly laws were so effective we forgot what caused the decline in child deaths and the rise in living standards for ordinary people. We let one be demonised and the other be rolled back as a result of forgetting. (Halfway down thread)
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
My own take on ST is that the politics are about as coherent as what I take as Heinlein's view of women as "only good when ultra-competent in a way few men can hope to be but also consciously desiring to be subservient to an adequately competent man." I was a fan, briefly, when I was about 14.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Warning for National Trust members who have previously voted to keep the reactionaries of Restore Trust out - they seem to be trying a new tactic this year of not being quite as obvious in their candidates' potted summaries
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
As a longtime fountain-pen guy, I generally say "Don't use India Ink in 'em" but I support all that you say here. Chances are that a full deconstruction of the point and feed, an ultrasonic cleaner, and some sheet brass to scrape channels will be needed. dirck.delint.ca/beta/?page_i...
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Inks
Jump to: Inks to avoid. What is ink, exactly? Ink, Pen and Paper– a balancing act. Shading, Feathering, and Bleedthrough. Manufacturers. Without ink, a pen is mere decoration.  One of the gre…
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Jack Saint @lackingsaint.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Almost every video I've made in the past year has been demonetised. YouTube is getting much worse, and it has now made it impossible for me (and most video essayists) to earn a living. Please share.
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YouTube just killed my channel.
YouTube video by Jack Saint
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Too many legs
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Who has baby?
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not my hands.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I have a vague memory of reading this: someone who had a "pet" chimp on an island on his property was delayed between regular visits, and the chimp was so happy to see him when he finally reappeared it partially dismembered him in high spirits. Off the cliff, watch the clouds. Absolutely.
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Dirck de Lint @dirck.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Me: [laments inabilities to find vintage clothing for my size or afford bespoke new tailoring, then says] Could people maybe be kind and decent? This freak, wearing OK-to-decent vintage kit (that hat, tho... ugh): HUZZAH INCEST This world is steeped in unpleasantness.
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Betty - play 🌌AstraX🌌 please @neutronio.games · 07/09/2026
The thing with AI is much like when Radium☢️ was discovered in 1898. It was used in paint, glass, advertised as healthy, without care or knowledge of the actual costs it came with. Historically, capitalists jumped into trends to sell a fancy new technology thing that just happen to kill you
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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
GOOD NEWS! Phase I clinical trial results out of Johns Hopkins show a first-of-its-kind vaccine designed to target common KRAS mutations was safe AND stimulated KRAS-specific T-cell responses in 90% of study participants who were at HIGH risk of developing pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC).
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Pancreatic Cancer Vaccine Triggers Immune Response Before Tumors Develop
Phase I results show early promise for a vaccine designed to prevent pancreatic cancer in people at high risk of developing the disease.
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elcanaco.bsky.social @elcanaco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
With the news that the US will impose another round of trade attacks on Canada next week, this thread will provide advice to Canadians who want to cancel Netflix/ Prime/ AppleTV/ Disney+ and replace them with Canadian or non-US options. You don't need those US apps. 1/x #BoycottUSA #cdnpoli
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 08/09/2026
Bernie D. Jones really led the way on this stuff with Critical Race Theory and the Law in 2002-ish and these were all her observations
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