Catherine Winters

Catherine Winters

@catherinewinters.com

She/her, SFF writer, narrative video game designer/developer. Not AI. 📖 Querying my science fiction heist novel. 📚 Writing about queer people who steal. 🎮 Making After Work, a game about rummaging around in your coworkers' desks. Yeah, there's a theme.

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F/NB WAYFARERS x MURDERBOT Ship's cook Tai is horrified to discover their new crewmate is a terrifying alien: an ordinary human woman. Now Tai's stuck with bickering crewmates, sinister criminals, explosions, and worse, a human who wants to be friends. #QuestPit #Q #SF #A #R #LGBT

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Why does DuckDuckGo only let me block up to five sites from my search results? There are rather a lot more AI slop sites out there that I'd like to block.

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I rounded up 13 bone-chilling Indigenous horror reads that’ll crawl under your skin and into your dreams. Stephen Graham Jones is back with Off the Reservation, Never Whistle at Night returns for blood, and writers from Alaska to Aotearoa are bringing the scares. redpopnews.com/13-bone-chil...

redpopnews.com13 Bone-Chilling Indigenous Horror Reads That Will Crawl Under Your Skin and Into Your DreamsIndigenous people have been telling scary stories for thousands of years. For most of modern horror's history, though, we showed up as the curse instead of the storytellers. Think of the Overlook Hote...

How are you all finding this reply to like it this evening?

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Wow, if ever there was a case to be made for still manufacturing pennyround titles, and they went with that? Still though, there's not a single feature in there that wouldn't be completely identifiable to someone a hundred years ago. Those LED lightbulbs might give them pause, but beyond that...

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I don’t think it’s ok that they information for us to understand what the hate vector is. That’s a form of whitewashing. “This man did a bad thing because he hated people of a different race” but not telling us which race means we can’t track and combat trends of hate.

Dear Expedia: no, I do not want to receive other people's hotel bookings. Yes, I will be good and not click "cancel booking", refunding them their money on their Mastercard that ends in 1234.

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social

The Iranian regime could ultimately fall if a devastating direct strike on its leadership is paired with military measures never used before. Past operations already set a precedent for this kind of strike.

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I don't think he's wrong, but ideally the pitch ends up being something other than "we're going to fire a bunch of civil servants and raise indigenous people's taxes". Phasing in reforms like a general "sales tax exempt" card might be useful for how we approach disability or elder benefits though.

APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told Prime Minister Mark Carney, premiers and First Nations leaders that it's time to abolish the Indian Act. Here's what Kinew said to reporters afterward.

If I went back to the 90s, I’d track down Chris Carter and pitch my X-Files spinoff about an off-the-books wet ops team run by Skunner and made up of the monsters of the week that Scully and Mulder find. Their leader in the first season is Tooms, replaced by Eve 8 after he dies licking red mercury.

Catherine Winters@catherinewinters.com

Bluesky has three kinds of users

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Canada should garnish the Bioware IP and nationalize them so anybody can make a game using them, with profits going to a fund that supports the arts Call it a national cultural treasure and give it the same status as protected land or species

Hayes Madsen@solfleet.bsky.social

Does it need to be said that Mass Effect shouldn’t exist without the developers and team that was working on this game? Either they come back and make the game they were, or Mass Effect dies. kotaku.com/mass-effect-...

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goths you have GOT to stop putting activated charcoal in these lattes and pastries!!! you're on wellbutrin!!

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the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

Consider: Is it possible the reason we gravitate towards fascism every other generation is out of a need for reaction gifs?

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social

TMZ: "Nicki Minaj Floated As Press Secretary Replacement By White House Staffers"

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Replying to @alixeharrow.bsky.social

it's like no, you'll never be 10 years old watching The Fellowship of the Ring in theaters for the first time again, but if you're very lucky you WILL get to listen from the front seat while the fifth graders debate What They Changed From the Book. circle of life etc

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Wow after I realize I’m Ace/Aro I find out it’s asexual awareness week! If you’d like to follow an Ace artist with Ace characters, u should follow me! I have a range of different identities on the Ace spectrum, as well as some characters I’ve never revealed yet, (but I will for the special occasion)

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Mr. @rianjohnson.bsky.social sir, the people cry out for Isaac pretending to listen to Blanc while he adjusts a gardenia in his lapel. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Jessica Ritchey@jmritchey.bsky.social

Oscar Isaac needs to show up n the next Knives Out movie as a frenemy detective of Blanc's, where it is incredibly obvious the tension between the two men is the fallout of a very messy breakup.

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Eby lost this election through multiple egregious mistakes, arrogance & lack of political skill. But we also need to see his catastrophic loss as proof of what happens when "progressives" swing to the right. Eby is not the first centrist to be taught this lesson. Can the NDP learn? #bcpoli

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If you are USian, pay attention. We are fighting fascists funded by your oligarchs, tomorrow I have faith and hope we will win and it will be DESPITE THEIR FORTUNE. We organized in the streets and online and there is a LOT that can be applied to your fight as well

S. H. Marr@shmarr.bsky.social

If you’re American and don’t care about the Brazilian election, you should learn how much the corrupt powerful people in the US really care about the Brazilian election.