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Vi Linden

@vilinden.bsky.social
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Author and editor. Very liberal. Very unhappy with the state of things right now.

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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is why Cornell will quickly vanish into the background noise. A huge chunk of the only people who can affect the problem of SA in any real way sees it as inevitable, inescapable, and incontrovertible. They feel like women may as well be asking them to prevent thunderstorms.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
So many men can accept the wildest premises, from fire-breathing oxen to worlds without disease or armpit hair, but they draw the believability line at worlds where SA is as rare and taboo as coprophagia. The presence of *gravity itself* is more negotiable than the presence of SA/the threat of SA.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I keep coming back to this thought every time Cornell comes up in my feed: SO many men view SA as a societal axiom. The fiercest literary arguments I've had were over my refusal to ever write SA or the threat of SA in my fantasy novels. Ex: "If any conflict between people exists, SA will exist."
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
“I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” - Henry James
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Of course I'm going to blame you. You decided you were fine with P2025. Otherwise, you would have tried to stop it. Not important enough, though. Just like Gaza wasn't important; Trump saying he wanted to level it and turn it into a beach resort with his name on it ALSO wasn't a deal-breaker.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Anyone who didn't vote against Trump and P2025 was fine with both. They decided they could live with it, and with what it was going to do to their neighbors.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
100% this. The people who voted for this are *salivating* for the day Trump tells them it's "time to cut the tall trees."
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I love how Project 2025 wasn't a deal-breaker to you, but stuff some other government was doing on the other side of the world and that Trump vowed to increase US support for was... for the *other* candidate. You looked at Trump and P2025 and said "I'm fine with all of this."
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Unlike MAGA, it takes more than one social media post of a screenshot of a single article from an outlet owned by a Trump-aligned billionaire to adopt the position that something has been "debunked." Especially when it conflicts with our lived experience from the time period ("PrEdIsPoSiTiOnS").
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I've finally managed to claw my way out of a bunch of mental health nonsense and am back in the saddle after too many months! My goal for this week is to finish the first major revision pass on the first 8 chapters of my manuscript! #queerwriters #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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AmaraJLynn 🦹 drafting Fire & Feathers @amaralynn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
#queerwriters Monday: Goals Day! What do you hope to accomplish this week? Can be anything, big or small! Let us know so we can cheer you on! #WritingCommunity #lgbtqwriters
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#Queerwriters
What are your goals this week?

Monday, Saturday, Sunday
All LGBTQIAP writers welcome
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Also, Re: "know your rights with ICE," do you want me to spoonfeed you the articles about lawyers and priests are being illegally denied access to clients in ICE detention facilities? Since you don't seem to know anything about the news, but still feel free to tell everyone else to stop worrying?
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
He called them "Wellness Farms", but thanks for proving you're either an op or have been paying *exactly zero* attention to anything going on around you for the last year and change. nursingclio.org/2025/05/08/r...
nursingclio.org
RFK’s ideas about “wellness farms” for young people are eugenic and unconstitutional
Before he became Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted an idea about sending young people with substance abuse and other mental health issues to “we…
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Well, let's see. My GF looks close enough to Latina that she's at risk of being black-bagged by ICE and sent to A LITERAL DEATH CAMP, my kid is trans, and I'm autistic, which means RFK wants to send me to a forced labor camp. Excuse me, I mean a Happy Government Work Camp or w/e he's calling it.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
If you cared about genocide, you'd have voted for the candidate who's in favor of fewer genocides. You're fine with genocide as long as Trump's doing it. Genocide is just a club for you, that you'll only ever use on Democrats. It's not about real people to any of you. Just scoring points. Go away.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I'm not reaching out to anyone who cheers whenever the people they voted for talk openly about murdering me and my family. Unless there's a brick in my hand.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Imagine being fine with genocide as long as Trump is the one doing it.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
176,002 words later, the (very) ROUGH draft of my YA (I think) dark magitech fantasy novel is done! Don't worry, only 137,790 words are in the story. The rest are in the "cut content" section, which means I have 104 single-spaced pages of stuff I ditched basically the second I finished typing it.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Stewart was even pushing the "lab leak" conspiracy in his "jokes" from the earliest days of the pandemic. He's never taken any part of it seriously. That was the moment when a lot of thw shine came off of him for me.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The "new" meaning of "literally" has been in the dictionary since 1769. Sort of like how "decimate" hasn't colloquially meant "reduce by 10%" since the 1660s. www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misu...
merriam-webster.com
Did we change the definition of 'literally'?
Literally every modern dictionary includes this definition
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
She recently told a hell of a story about how she was manipulated into all of that by Jenny McCarthy's anti-vaccine foundation. Though she still says she wasn't faking it (she's better now).
nbcnews.com
The ‘Flu Shot Cheerleader’ is back — with a warning about the anti-vaccine movement
In 2009, Desiree Jennings went viral for saying a flu shot triggered her mysterious illness. Now she sees things differently.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
What they think is that they *want* to murder him (and everyone else who's not MAGA, white, and straight) but they'll settle for putting him in prison. *For now.*
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Update: After three days of working with Paradox tech support, we finally got the game running! After all that, it turns out, I just needed to move it from the HDD to the SDD. I guess I need to get around to updating all my hard drives to SDDs. It looks like that's the standard for games now.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
This is literally the only game I've ever bought from Steam that I've had any problem running. I am so incredibly sad. I can get my money back, but that's not even close to being the point.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The troubleshooting is no help. The forums are no help. ONE GUY had the same problem I did, in 2024, and the only reply to the thread was asking if DirectX 12 was installed, which honestly just felt like dude was being mocked. I went through hundreds of forum threads and reddit topics. No help.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
There's no crash, there's no error message, it generates no log in any folder on any drive that I can find. It just sits there, forever, using 31% of my CPU and going frost-screen if I touch anything. I let it go for 20 minutes at one point before I gave up and task-managered it again.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I am so sad. I just bought AoW 4 today, to remind me of the good times. My best friend and I used to play Age of Wonders 3 together. We always talked about how to make it better and what we'd like 4 to be. He died during COVID. It won't launch. Hangs forever on the logo screen. Can't fix it.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I spent WAY TOO LONG watching the .gif and waiting for the "It's a snake!" part.
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Here lies JD. He drew as many comics as he could. @lostcity.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
“Libraries generate $3.75 for every dollar invested.” So many public goods are like this. Housing. Education. The arts. However much tax money you invest, you get MORE tax money back. All of these pay for themselves. The only conclusion is, govts would rather make less money than have more good.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
While I know there are a thousand new challenges springing up in the wake of NaNoWriMo's demise, I can't resist dropping a shameless plug for the group I'm a part of: Rogue Writers does RAWR (Rogue's Amazing Word Rush) across Oct *and* Nov. Less icky burnout, same great results!
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
It's probably going to be *Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.*
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
My favorite part about the discussion my GF and I had this morning about Geralt getting isekai'd into Spider-Man's body isn't necessarily the part where Spider-Man now has Two Big Swords. My favorite part is the required prologue crossover between Geralt and Truck-Kun. "??? ...fuck."
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Jette is a trans noble teenager whose parents have just been murdered. She's hiding in a school that's secretly teaching commoners magic (gasp!). It's run by an evil(?) cult, but nobody knows that yet. She's naive, trusting, and believes rules keep everyone safe. Lots of rules here in magic school!
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Cuidado! Piso mojado!
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I guess not. Well, let's see what kind of cultural landscape the combination of end-stage capitalism and laziness leaves us with! I'm sure it'll be cool and good.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Welcome to Ayatollah Roberts's America, where the Supreme Court will rubber-stamp this as part of the path to a theocratic ethnostate. Laws no longer matter.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
The policy of "only successful influencers deserve to be authors" surely won't have any detrimental impact on the nation's cultural or creative landscape.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The #rapture happened! Millions of people all over the world are confirming it! ...you just weren't picked. Sorry. Better luck next time!
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I've been fantasizing about that for years. I want everyone who believes they'll be raptured to be raptured. Post haste. I can hardly *imagine* how much we could get done without them violently fighting and threatening us every time we suggest being marginally less cruel to the poor and oppressed.
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Katie Cook @katiecandraw.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
What about that which is not dead but can eternal lie?
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
You'd think "I support not letting a captive audience of children starve" would be the easiest policy position to adopt in the history of policy positions. And yet, it's a tooth-and-nail fight.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
It's Hulk Hogan's influence that has led to a situation where all the wrestlers who get real, consistent ring time are in their 50s and all the younger, new talent gets cut after a year or two. Also, I believe Vince McPredator would have been ousted a long time ago w/o Hulk, but that's just imo.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Aww, I was excited for 85 opinions. I mean, I knew it was an unreasonable expectation, but still...
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"Elon's Death-Note-flavored sex tulpa" may be the best thing I've read in years, and I edit books for a living.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
18-year-old Army infantrymen manage to do a better job minimizing civiliant casualties in an active war zone than cops do at home. They have no excuses.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Which is nonsense. They're "not allowed" to break into an innocent person's apartment and shoot them in their sleep, either, and yet... They're allowed to do whatever they want. They don't help because they don't want to.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Not much; what's bofa with you? HAH HAH! GOT EM!
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Mice can be a nightmare. I fought those little assholes for close to 15 years. Calling in a professional is the right move; there's no room for mercy or half-measures once they get bad.
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Vi Linden @vilinden.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
You just can't with these people. They'll talk in circles and redefine common words (like "good" or "blood") and *never once* notice how absolutely unhinged they sound to anyone who wasn't exposed to this stuff from the moment they were born.
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