AlmaAlexander
@almaalexander.bsky.social
Duchess of Fantasy (http://www.AlmaAlexander.org)
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I need your help... a retaining wall that is holding up the land on which my house is built needs urgent replacement or repair and the amount of money quoted for it is... eyewatering.if there's anything i can do for you in return for your assistance (like editing...) let me know gofund.me/49e68ea25
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December 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I need your help... a retaining wall that is holding up the land on which my house is built needs urgent replacement or repair and the amount of money quoted for it is... eyewatering.if there's anything i can do for you in return for your assistance (like editing...) let me know gofund.me/49e68ea25
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1/2 Apropos of nothing in particular, I guarantee I will never write a piece of fiction with the "help" of a large language model because a) I spent too many years developing skills to just fuck off now, b) I don't plagiarize other authors, whether intentionally or by way of statistical matches.
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
1/2 Apropos of nothing in particular, I guarantee I will never write a piece of fiction with the "help" of a large language model because a) I spent too many years developing skills to just fuck off now, b) I don't plagiarize other authors, whether intentionally or by way of statistical matches.
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BCS 2025! "Out of Draconia" @almaalexander.bsky.social BCS #436 "back into the village, staggering, thin to the point of being gaunt, her eyes hollowed out...but blazing. And cradled across her body in a makeshift sling...was a dragon egg." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/out-... #BCSof2025
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Out of Draconia by Alma Alexander
She was gone for a long time—so long, in fact, that I began to come to terms with the possibility that she would never return, and to regret my urging for her to go out there and seek her dragon-egg f...
www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
BCS 2025! "Out of Draconia" @almaalexander.bsky.social BCS #436 "back into the village, staggering, thin to the point of being gaunt, her eyes hollowed out...but blazing. And cradled across her body in a makeshift sling...was a dragon egg." www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/out-... #BCSof2025
"I iz Tribble now."
December 17, 2025 at 4:58 AM
"I iz Tribble now."
THIS. With bells on. People, we writers are NOT natural performing seals. That's part of the bargain. We WRITE. We do not do it wrapped in performative dance for random scrollers' passing eyeballs.
I have no aspirations of being a TikTok or IG influencer because I don't have it in me. I don't have the right look; I don't use makeup (nor am I interested). Also, learning how to record & edit in video (& doing it over & over again WITH NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS) is time I could be writing books.
December 16, 2025 at 5:55 AM
THIS. With bells on. People, we writers are NOT natural performing seals. That's part of the bargain. We WRITE. We do not do it wrapped in performative dance for random scrollers' passing eyeballs.
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The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing.
All from his movies.
All from his movies.
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
December 15, 2025 at 12:31 AM
The Internet was never perfect but it used to be usable, functional. I know how we got here and I want the old Internet back. I want forums back. I want personal sites. I want stuff not written by a machine. I just want shit to work again.
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Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.
December 15, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Rob Reiner directed some of the most beloved movies of all time, including Stand By Me, This is Spinal Tap, and The Princess Bride. His production company also made movies like The Shawshank Redemption, Before Sunrise and Michael Clayton. The film industry has lost one of its titans.
...that moment when your computer freezes, then flashes a friendly message that something is wrong "we're just gathering some error details and then we'll restart for you" and then adding guilelessly, "if you're calling support send message 'critical-component-died' ". But not to worry, eh...?
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
...that moment when your computer freezes, then flashes a friendly message that something is wrong "we're just gathering some error details and then we'll restart for you" and then adding guilelessly, "if you're calling support send message 'critical-component-died' ". But not to worry, eh...?
Okay i just "meowed" at her. I don't know what I said but she is clearly APPALLED. :)
December 14, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Okay i just "meowed" at her. I don't know what I said but she is clearly APPALLED. :)
I've been asking the same question for years...
As a *science* fiction writer (amonst many talents 😀) why, oh why, do you present the weather forecast in Fahrenheit?!? Let's get real and stick to SI units .... Centigrade rules! (everywhere but USA)
December 14, 2025 at 7:38 PM
I've been asking the same question for years...
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With the latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
December 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
With the latest mass shooting at Brown University, this might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton’s assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43% - but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, mass shooting deaths spiked by 239%.
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
It's the GUNS
-Joann Duman
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Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight.
Today: Alma Alexander’s life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has ...
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Today: Alma Alexander’s life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has ...
#AuthoSpotlight #ScienceFiction @almaalexander.bsky.social
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December 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Welcome to my weekly Author Spotlight.
Today: Alma Alexander’s life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has ...
#AuthoSpotlight #ScienceFiction @almaalexander.bsky.social
www.jscottcoatsworth.com/author-spotl...
Today: Alma Alexander’s life so far has prepared her very well for her chosen career. She was born in a country which no longer exists on the maps, has ...
#AuthoSpotlight #ScienceFiction @almaalexander.bsky.social
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If you ❤️ owls, you’re about to love them even more:
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
December 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
If you ❤️ owls, you’re about to love them even more:
Second that. Make it a Survivor type show and follow their journey (back to) wealth, if any. The ratings will be stellar.
I move that we run this experiment on all billionaires, I think it would be fascinating
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
December 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Second that. Make it a Survivor type show and follow their journey (back to) wealth, if any. The ratings will be stellar.
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Washington State Issues Evacuation Orders for 100,000 Amid Floods #Climate
Washington State Issues Evacuation Orders for 100,000 Amid Floods
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December 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Washington State Issues Evacuation Orders for 100,000 Amid Floods #Climate
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This is probably one of the topics I hope to tackle in the local paper, ie how LLM evangelism is more about marketing and selling the promise of labor discipline than it is a utopian technology
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This is probably one of the topics I hope to tackle in the local paper, ie how LLM evangelism is more about marketing and selling the promise of labor discipline than it is a utopian technology
Nice little cliffhanger I have here, just right for the end of a chapter. I think I might leave it there for the night. #AmWriting
December 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Nice little cliffhanger I have here, just right for the end of a chapter. I think I might leave it there for the night. #AmWriting
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I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
men’s loneliness gets “more airtime”?
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
baby I have lived the past three decades of my life witnessing corporate media elevate men’s loneliness into a full-blown balls-to-the-wall CRISIS once every 4-5 years
“more airtime” is hilarious
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I think it’s also true that loneliness among women has historically been treated as an individual problem, while loneliness among men is treated as a societal problem. That, in turn, comes from an assumption that women are supposed to earn the company of others while men are entitled to it.
Tomorrow marks three years precisely since my White Lady came to live at my expense. That's ridiculous. I mean, it's just, well, she's ALWAYS been here...
December 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Tomorrow marks three years precisely since my White Lady came to live at my expense. That's ridiculous. I mean, it's just, well, she's ALWAYS been here...
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TLDR is the mark of the beast. FFS read. Learn. Go down the rabbit holes (and not on Tik Tok or YouTube, but at the library...
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 AM
TLDR is the mark of the beast. FFS read. Learn. Go down the rabbit holes (and not on Tik Tok or YouTube, but at the library...