Colin
@alsheimer.me
Building Kineticist and This Week in Pinball. Boston sports fan, music nerd, film lover, writer, entrepreneur, pinball player, marketer by trade.
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I covered this story extensively for @kineticist.com—six pieces from Nov 13-Jan 23. Disappointed as an indie journalist who covers the pinball community to see @nbcnews.com frame it as an exclusive with no credit.
kineticist.com/post/ifpa-obx-fall-flippers-event
kineticist.com/post/ifpa-obx-fall-flippers-event
February 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
I covered this story extensively for @kineticist.com—six pieces from Nov 13-Jan 23. Disappointed as an indie journalist who covers the pinball community to see @nbcnews.com frame it as an exclusive with no credit.
kineticist.com/post/ifpa-obx-fall-flippers-event
kineticist.com/post/ifpa-obx-fall-flippers-event
@nbcnews.com reporting this as an exclusive when my outlet has been covering it for months. cool.
February 1, 2026 at 3:37 AM
@nbcnews.com reporting this as an exclusive when my outlet has been covering it for months. cool.
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10 years since Bowies’s final masterpiece. One of my favorite albums.
Nothing’s been right since he left us.
Nothing’s been right since he left us.
David Bowie's 'Blackstar' Turns 10
When I awoke that Sunday morning, I was so confused. My wife, not much of a music fan, mentioned she’d just read some news about David Bowie. I replied something along the lines of, “Yeah, he just rel...
stereogum.com
January 8, 2026 at 2:46 PM
10 years since Bowies’s final masterpiece. One of my favorite albums.
Nothing’s been right since he left us.
Nothing’s been right since he left us.
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@massago.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social
Know the plates are full. Can this be replicated in Massachusetts. Check it out. CA has a state portal that provides a single free form that you can demand deletion of personal data of over 500 registered data brokers
Know the plates are full. Can this be replicated in Massachusetts. Check it out. CA has a state portal that provides a single free form that you can demand deletion of personal data of over 500 registered data brokers
January 2, 2026 at 3:00 AM
@massago.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social
Know the plates are full. Can this be replicated in Massachusetts. Check it out. CA has a state portal that provides a single free form that you can demand deletion of personal data of over 500 registered data brokers
Know the plates are full. Can this be replicated in Massachusetts. Check it out. CA has a state portal that provides a single free form that you can demand deletion of personal data of over 500 registered data brokers
the new epstein drop is wild
December 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
the new epstein drop is wild
I don't always know what to do with this stuff other than be mildly frustrated by it but here's a major pinball distributor taking my work (I took the photo, it's even watermarked) and using it for their own promotional materials w/o permission, explicit credit, or compensation.
December 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I don't always know what to do with this stuff other than be mildly frustrated by it but here's a major pinball distributor taking my work (I took the photo, it's even watermarked) and using it for their own promotional materials w/o permission, explicit credit, or compensation.
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December 18, 2025 at 12:30 AM
As someone who much prefers writing boy do I need to hear this sometimes
Don't disagree with the point that most people watch videos and do not read, and reaching them there is probably important, but this is also true. It's cooked books top to bottom. I'm also not going become a video person because I am a writer! And I look like shit! I DON'T WANT TO DO IT!
Every few years there's a bunch of "pivot to video" discourse about how creatives should all start making videos instead of doing text-based work. And every few years we discover again that the supposed "popularity" of video is based on fake audience numbers created by the video platforms.
December 17, 2025 at 1:25 PM
As someone who much prefers writing boy do I need to hear this sometimes
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first daycare induced sickness of the season knocked me out for the week, but in good news I was able to binge all 12 hours of the american revolution
December 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
first daycare induced sickness of the season knocked me out for the week, but in good news I was able to binge all 12 hours of the american revolution
"We make for ourselves the world we write, and we can only write the world we imagine."
December 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"We make for ourselves the world we write, and we can only write the world we imagine."
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loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
December 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default
can I sell non-licensed open ai generated creative work featuring disney characters too? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Bob Iger: Disney’s OpenAI Deal “Does Not In Any Way” Threaten Creatives
The CEO suggested that Disney would prefer Paramount to prevail in the battle for Warner Bros. Discovery, citing Netflix's streaming dominance and the perilous state of movie theaters.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
can I sell non-licensed open ai generated creative work featuring disney characters too? www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
The new Pinball Roundtable Awards are such BS. Two of the hosts were "100% committed" to the twipys this year until a few weeks ago, when they apparently decided to do their own thing, which seems to be essentially a version of what we had been discussing most of the year.
December 8, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The new Pinball Roundtable Awards are such BS. Two of the hosts were "100% committed" to the twipys this year until a few weeks ago, when they apparently decided to do their own thing, which seems to be essentially a version of what we had been discussing most of the year.
so far I've only see two people actually upset at the changes we announced for the twipys this year. which either means people don't care about the twipys anymore or people are finally ok with some changes. both are fine outcomes.
December 5, 2025 at 12:49 AM
so far I've only see two people actually upset at the changes we announced for the twipys this year. which either means people don't care about the twipys anymore or people are finally ok with some changes. both are fine outcomes.
it's taken a few years but finally took over the #1 search ranking spot for my own brand name, over the pathfinder character class that goes by the same name
December 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
it's taken a few years but finally took over the #1 search ranking spot for my own brand name, over the pathfinder character class that goes by the same name
Tarantino is open for business. Someone snap up the rights to Kill Bill pinball variety.com/2025/film/ga...
Quentin Tarantino Never Thought Lost ‘Kill Bill’ Chapter Would Get Made — Until Fortnite Stepped In: ‘I Sent Them the Script’ and They Said, ‘Let’s Do This’
Quentin Tarantino talks about the 'Kill Bill' and Fortnite crossover and the lost chapter "Yuki's Revenge."
variety.com
December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Tarantino is open for business. Someone snap up the rights to Kill Bill pinball variety.com/2025/film/ga...
glad I'm not in this world anymore! www.adweek.com/agencies/omn...
Omnicom to Cut 4,000 Jobs, Retire FCB, DDB, and MullenLowe
BBDO, TBWA, and McCann emerge as the three global creative networks in post-IPG overhaul
www.adweek.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:52 AM
glad I'm not in this world anymore! www.adweek.com/agencies/omn...
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Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
November 27, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...
Things I want to scream to various people in the IFPA discourse... "I TOO HAVE RECEIVED DEATH THREATS IN PINBALL"
I get it, honestly. But context matters.
I get it, honestly. But context matters.
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Things I want to scream to various people in the IFPA discourse... "I TOO HAVE RECEIVED DEATH THREATS IN PINBALL"
I get it, honestly. But context matters.
I get it, honestly. But context matters.
As a people pleaser by nature it’s fun being in a position where lots of people are mad at you for different reasons all of the time.
November 22, 2025 at 7:52 PM
As a people pleaser by nature it’s fun being in a position where lots of people are mad at you for different reasons all of the time.