Vicky/Victoria Alvear
@valvear.bsky.social
Author of historical fiction set in the ancient world. Novels include Day of Fire (soon to be an Amazon/UK series); A Year of Ravens; Cleopatra's Moon and Curses and Smoke. Also NF author of books for kids: Warrior Queens, Hades Speaks, Cleopatra Rules!
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
October 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Medicare for All would save $450B a year.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.
Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.
It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.
It’s about priorities.
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Me: *shows 17yo the photos and videos of the demonstrating froggos*
17yo: CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE FROGS OF WAR
17yo: CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE FROGS OF WAR
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Me: *shows 17yo the photos and videos of the demonstrating froggos*
17yo: CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE FROGS OF WAR
17yo: CRY HAVOC, AND LET SLIP THE FROGS OF WAR
Excuse me, but what didn't David Brooks see coming?
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Excuse me, but what didn't David Brooks see coming?
Hard pass on this long plea for empathy from a horrified old-school conservative.
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October 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Excuse me, but what didn't David Brooks see coming?
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Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Tomb Belonging to a Doctor Who Treated Egyptian Pharaohs 4,100 Years Ago - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... @smithsonianmag
Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Tomb Belonging to a Doctor Who Treated Egyptian Pharaohs 4,100 Years Ago
The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" and "chief dentist"
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August 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Tomb Belonging to a Doctor Who Treated Egyptian Pharaohs 4,100 Years Ago - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a... @smithsonianmag
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Hey #BookSky!
You want to get your hot little hands on a copy of OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES a couple of weeks early? What about a limited special edition PDF? What's so special about it? Well, along with the stories, I added three pieces of art to it. And there are only ten of them.
You want to get your hot little hands on a copy of OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES a couple of weeks early? What about a limited special edition PDF? What's so special about it? Well, along with the stories, I added three pieces of art to it. And there are only ten of them.
August 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Hey #BookSky!
You want to get your hot little hands on a copy of OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES a couple of weeks early? What about a limited special edition PDF? What's so special about it? Well, along with the stories, I added three pieces of art to it. And there are only ten of them.
You want to get your hot little hands on a copy of OLD GODS AND OTHER TALES a couple of weeks early? What about a limited special edition PDF? What's so special about it? Well, along with the stories, I added three pieces of art to it. And there are only ten of them.
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Sabu Disk: A mysterious 5,000-year-old Egyptian stone sculpture that looks like a hubcap www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
Sabu Disk: A mysterious 5,000-year-old Egyptian stone sculpture that looks like a hubcap
This unique disk-shaped bowl, found in a 5,000-year-old Egyptian tomb, has puzzled archaeologists for nearly a century.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Sabu Disk: A mysterious 5,000-year-old Egyptian stone sculpture that looks like a hubcap www.livescience.com/archaeology/...
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In other words: They lied.
August 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
In other words: They lied.
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The “American Dream” of owning a home is now a pipe dream for most of us.
The rich have taken all the wealth and left us to fight over the scraps.
The rich have taken all the wealth and left us to fight over the scraps.
August 5, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The “American Dream” of owning a home is now a pipe dream for most of us.
The rich have taken all the wealth and left us to fight over the scraps.
The rich have taken all the wealth and left us to fight over the scraps.
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It should be illegal to be this cute
August 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It should be illegal to be this cute
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Freyja and her cats, Ludwig Pietsch, 1874. A generous gift from Thor, especially since they could fly and pull a chariot. If you want a good harvest, you should leave offerings for cats…Dreamies, meat sticks, mice braised in cream…
August 3, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Freyja and her cats, Ludwig Pietsch, 1874. A generous gift from Thor, especially since they could fly and pull a chariot. If you want a good harvest, you should leave offerings for cats…Dreamies, meat sticks, mice braised in cream…
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Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
August 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
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Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
July 31, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is my birthday (turning 29), which is the only time all year that I ask for a repost 🌿
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
I hope you get lost in fantasy worlds as much as I do 🔮
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Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course?
Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.
Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.
July 29, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Why is it acceptable for the president to use taxpayer money to fly overseas and cut a ribbon at his own golf course?
Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.
Don’t normalize this abuse of office. It’s blatant corruption.
What happens when you plunk 600 introverted history nerd authors in the middle of Vegas? tinyurl.com/4kv8ptze
Point of View Pointers, Vegas, and Wretched Excess - Vicky Alvear Shecter
Take 600 introverted history nerds and authors and plunk them in Vegas and what do you get? Outside of overwhelmed, of course.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
What happens when you plunk 600 introverted history nerd authors in the middle of Vegas? tinyurl.com/4kv8ptze
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July 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
WTF?! Is MAGA finally cracking?
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WTF?! Is MAGA finally cracking?
If rumors are true, we're confronted with a choice
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July 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
WTF?! Is MAGA finally cracking?
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