Monte Lin
@montelin.bsky.social
Managing Editor of Uncanny Magazine. Staff Editor of Angry Hamster Press. Clarion West 2019. Tin House YA Workshop 2022.
(I am available for writing or copy editing for speculative fiction and tabletop roleplaying games. Contact me here!)
(I am available for writing or copy editing for speculative fiction and tabletop roleplaying games. Contact me here!)
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Monte Lin
@montelin.bsky.social
· Nov 16
hi, new people!
I'm a freelance writer and editor, so that means I have many, many small jobs I try to Voltron into one normal job.
Some would say I wear many hats. Some would say I have a financial shoggoth that threatens to devour me...
The following is a list of things I do:
(1/?)
I'm a freelance writer and editor, so that means I have many, many small jobs I try to Voltron into one normal job.
Some would say I wear many hats. Some would say I have a financial shoggoth that threatens to devour me...
The following is a list of things I do:
(1/?)
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This is a sobering read that starts from a straightforward premise: look at how the poverty threshold is calculated in the US and see how well it holds up as an actual measure.
I expected it to be bad. It’s much worse, in ways it’s hard not to see.
I expected it to be bad. It’s much worse, in ways it’s hard not to see.
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is a sobering read that starts from a straightforward premise: look at how the poverty threshold is calculated in the US and see how well it holds up as an actual measure.
I expected it to be bad. It’s much worse, in ways it’s hard not to see.
I expected it to be bad. It’s much worse, in ways it’s hard not to see.
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Unbearably depressing news. 20+ years here.
A brilliant Chef. Helps make my seedy neighborhood rad. Has a wife and kids here.
Now Portland gets another empty lot, and a heartbroken family.
www.wweek.com/food/2025/11...
A brilliant Chef. Helps make my seedy neighborhood rad. Has a wife and kids here.
Now Portland gets another empty lot, and a heartbroken family.
www.wweek.com/food/2025/11...
Reeva Closes Indefinitely After Co-Owner Denied Reentry to the United States
Roberto Hernandez Guerrero was advised he could attend his final immigration hearing in Mexico and still return to his family and business.
www.wweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Unbearably depressing news. 20+ years here.
A brilliant Chef. Helps make my seedy neighborhood rad. Has a wife and kids here.
Now Portland gets another empty lot, and a heartbroken family.
www.wweek.com/food/2025/11...
A brilliant Chef. Helps make my seedy neighborhood rad. Has a wife and kids here.
Now Portland gets another empty lot, and a heartbroken family.
www.wweek.com/food/2025/11...
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I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 25, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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I've never gotten over this. Ever. We marked the first year after his murder with a "play-in" event in Chicago. I had the idea for this and I have never forgotten him. You can see some of the photos from the event here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I've never gotten over this. Ever. We marked the first year after his murder with a "play-in" event in Chicago. I had the idea for this and I have never forgotten him. You can see some of the photos from the event here: www.facebook.com/media/set/?v...
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If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top.
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...
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I have a story coming out this December in Issue 99 of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social, and it’s all the more bittersweet knowing that this beautiful magazine is going on hiatus after that. Please support the independent magazines and presses that you love, however you can. This is the only way.
a post about Psychopomp in 2026
please read and share
thank you very much
please read and share
thank you very much
what's next for Psychopomp - PSYCHOPOMP.COM
what to expect from Psychopomp (and The Deadlands and Fantasy Magazine) in 2026.
psychopomp.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
I have a story coming out this December in Issue 99 of @fantasymagazine.bsky.social, and it’s all the more bittersweet knowing that this beautiful magazine is going on hiatus after that. Please support the independent magazines and presses that you love, however you can. This is the only way.
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I have news! My debut novel is coming soon!
November 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I have news! My debut novel is coming soon!
This was a fun one to write! A lot of puzzle solving (things to make it easier for me to figure out the story) and then puzzle unsolving (things to make it harder for _characters_). Hope you like it!
It's Day Three of the TTL 2025 celebration and here's @montelin.bsky.social with The In-Between Sister, a story of haunting, possession - and the relationships between elder and younger sisters.
November 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
This was a fun one to write! A lot of puzzle solving (things to make it easier for me to figure out the story) and then puzzle unsolving (things to make it harder for _characters_). Hope you like it!
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Do not under any circumstance link your financial data with ChatGPT and DEFINITELY don’t take its tax advice.
Intuit to pay OpenAI over $100 million for model access, ChatGPT integrates with TurboTax
Intuit has struck a $100 million-plus deal with OpenAI to bring AI into its financial products like TurboTax and QuickBooks.
www.cnbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Do not under any circumstance link your financial data with ChatGPT and DEFINITELY don’t take its tax advice.
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This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
November 18, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu
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Community organizing update from the Oregon coast:
We asked people with lived food insecurity experience what they actually needed. Turns out it's NOT what we thought.
Water-only prep items (many families have no milk/eggs). Seasonings (dignity = flavor).
#MutualAid #CommunityOrganizing #FoodJustice
We asked people with lived food insecurity experience what they actually needed. Turns out it's NOT what we thought.
Water-only prep items (many families have no milk/eggs). Seasonings (dignity = flavor).
#MutualAid #CommunityOrganizing #FoodJustice
November 17, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Community organizing update from the Oregon coast:
We asked people with lived food insecurity experience what they actually needed. Turns out it's NOT what we thought.
Water-only prep items (many families have no milk/eggs). Seasonings (dignity = flavor).
#MutualAid #CommunityOrganizing #FoodJustice
We asked people with lived food insecurity experience what they actually needed. Turns out it's NOT what we thought.
Water-only prep items (many families have no milk/eggs). Seasonings (dignity = flavor).
#MutualAid #CommunityOrganizing #FoodJustice
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Also reminder that the Salvation Army uses your donations to bring ICE pizza:
bsky.app/profile/unra...
bsky.app/profile/unra...
It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.
November 17, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Also reminder that the Salvation Army uses your donations to bring ICE pizza:
bsky.app/profile/unra...
bsky.app/profile/unra...
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@indivhillsboro.bsky.social I want to promote this event. For some reason it doesn't show up on the main Mobilize map and search. Just wanted you to know.
www.mobilize.us/indivisibleh...
www.mobilize.us/indivisibleh...
Weekly ICE Protest Sign Waving - We Say NO to ICE in Hillsboro! · Indivisible Hillsboro
Join us for weekly peaceful, high-visibility protests to stand against the inhumane practices of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). We'll gather on sidewalks to wave signs, raise awareness, an...
www.mobilize.us
November 16, 2025 at 1:30 AM
@indivhillsboro.bsky.social I want to promote this event. For some reason it doesn't show up on the main Mobilize map and search. Just wanted you to know.
www.mobilize.us/indivisibleh...
www.mobilize.us/indivisibleh...
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Part 127 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A women's glove from 1850s London, modified for self defense.
A women's glove from 1850s London, modified for self defense.
November 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Part 127 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg
A women's glove from 1850s London, modified for self defense.
A women's glove from 1850s London, modified for self defense.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
The production of TWELTH NIGHT with Lupita Nyong’o, Junior Nyong’o, Peter Dinklage, Sandra Oh, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Daphne Rubin-Vega is now on the PBS app!!!!
www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/t...
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One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Hello friends! I’m going to need two sensitivity readers for some personal writing I’ve done (ongoing). Looking for individuals with Korean and Mexican heritage.
Feel free to share! Or drop deets below 🫶🏽
PAID - $25 AUD per 5k words (open to negotiation)
Feel free to share! Or drop deets below 🫶🏽
PAID - $25 AUD per 5k words (open to negotiation)
November 15, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Hello friends! I’m going to need two sensitivity readers for some personal writing I’ve done (ongoing). Looking for individuals with Korean and Mexican heritage.
Feel free to share! Or drop deets below 🫶🏽
PAID - $25 AUD per 5k words (open to negotiation)
Feel free to share! Or drop deets below 🫶🏽
PAID - $25 AUD per 5k words (open to negotiation)
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See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
See, look, U.S.A., it's this easy
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
(and should have been done immediately upon the knowledge that these cheats and grifters were STEALING our work)
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NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
US firefighter detained on the job speaks out after deportation: ‘I feel betrayed’
Exclusive: Border patrol arrested José Bertin Cruz-Estrada while he was battling a wildfire in Washington. He is now in Mexico, separated from his family in Oregon
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
NEW: The US has deported a longtime Oregon firefighter who was arrested by Border Patrol while deployed at a major wildfire in Washington state.
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
José Bertin Cruz-Estrada, separated from his family, is speaking out from Mexico for the first time:
“I feel betrayed ... What am I going to do now?"
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A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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Tonight's the night!!! If you're in Portland, stop by the Rose City Book Pub between 4 and 9 pm to hear nine amazing authors read and to share your own work! Let's gather to raise money for hungry people in Oregon -- and to have a really terrific time.
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tonight's the night!!! If you're in Portland, stop by the Rose City Book Pub between 4 and 9 pm to hear nine amazing authors read and to share your own work! Let's gather to raise money for hungry people in Oregon -- and to have a really terrific time.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️