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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1h

1 The Omen (saw that way too young thought I'd never sleep again)
2 Jaws (was SO horror you should have seen me near the ocean post that movie)
3 Chucky (dolls can be freaky)
4 is something that I can see before my eyes but whose title i seem to have wiped from my brain...

John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 2h

Quote this with the first four Horror movies that come to your mind that are 10/10s for you. No cheating. Just the first four that pop into your head.

I'll go first:
-Silence of the Lambs
-I Saw the Devil
-Coherence
-Jaws

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 1d

Farmers grow what they grow because of farm policy.

We don’t need all the soy and corn that we grow, but those are the commodities that receive subsidies and markets.

If we want something better, if we want to heal the Earth and grow food, now is the time to do it.

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 22h

...getting Windows ready for what??? WTF is going on here?

AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 22h

I swear I am about ready to hulksmash my computer (this posted on my phone) in the middle of a zoom thing it stopped 'recognizing' my camera then the browser froze then I couldn't even get it to properly restart and cold-rebooted...and now it's sitting there telling me it's "getting Windows ready"

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

One market took 123 days to reject a story I did manage to squeeze through a shifting sub window in time. In that time I was not permitted on pain of death and blacklisting to try and sub anywhere else. I do appreciate the market situation but few of us can afford to wait four months for a rejection

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

...is this what you want, what you're working for, AI people? Three centuries of no creative human thought at all, just regurgitation? Because you're going to get it, when you annihilate your human creatives by stealing every single blessed thing that they made because it made their souls sing.

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

No. Two perfectly cute schoolgirl braids. :)

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

Mine was in two long thick plaits at schoolgoing age so yeah :)

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

Were you going through your Beatles period in 1972?...

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't ring any immediate bells through that description.

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

What pretentious diplomats daughter?

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

Heh. (But pre-fledged baby nerds are fully cute, too, and that's a hill to die on...)

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

You wuz CUTE, Baby Nisi. :)

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 1d

PREACH.

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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 1d

Writers should get paid more.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 2d

All fiction is fantasy, BY DEFINITION. It. Is. ALL. Made. Up. So that's why it sticks in my craw when the genre fantasy is treated as lit'rachur's red headed stepchild and disparage and dismissed. If anything "literary" fantasy is just fantasy written by people with no imagination.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Janicket the So-So @janicket.bsky.social · 2d

Indeed.

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 2d

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand."

Food: well, cheating a little by choosing a DRINK - but decaf coffee is just coffee colored water. Fight me.
Movie: Mad Max. For many reasons.
Song: "don't worry be happy".

Patrick Ziselberger @ziselberger.com · 2d

"Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you'll never watch again, and one song you can't stand."

Food: Octopus. They're too smart

Film: Jane Campion's "Portrait of a Lady" an well crafted movie that is loathsome to watch."

Song: The Waitresses "Never Say Never"

Paul Duane 🥔 @paulduane.bsky.social · 2d

“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand”

Food: cucumber, however if you pickle it I'll eat em all day

Film: Jacob's Ladder, avoided it for years then was tricked into seeing it

Song: the whole of the fucking moon

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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 3d

And here's me making a somewhat angry plea to teachers who are going down this (self)destructive path. engagededucation.substack.com/p/if-you-use...

If You Use AI to Grade Student Writing, Stop or Quit Your Job

Some things you can't be polite about.

engagededucation.substack.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 2d

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@gooseymaine on Twitter writing: can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if AI does?

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Holly Wade Matter @weemallard.bsky.social · 3d

"Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof," but we know tomorrow is going to be as bad, if not worse, than today, so it's rather difficult.

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jfoy.bsky.social @jfoy.bsky.social · 4d

"You expect me to go on Fox News and just put the truth in front of those human rabies cases?"

"No, Mr. Bond... I expect you to lie."

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AlmaAlexander @almaalexander.bsky.social · 4d

...no lie.

I closed up the catio for the season because it's cold and now wet out there. Little Emperor wants out there but BAD. So I let him. He went out like a shot but less than 90 seconds later he was back with an accusing "why didn't you tell me it was raining?" stare drilling into me...

MTH @megt.bsky.social · 4d

Pumpkin & Pookie: meow, meow, meow! (transl.: open window!)
Me: it's 40F out. Don't be ridiculous.
Cats, in unison: meow, meow, meow! (Translation: we have the hooman's attention! Open it! OPEN IT!)
Me, opening the damned window
Cats: um, it's cold out there, no thanks.
Happy #Caturday!

A black cat and an orange tabby stand in an open window, looking at the their human with disappointment.

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Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 4d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Melissa Ryan @melissaryan.bsky.social · 4d

I love what Portland is doing so much. Joy is resistance. Dancing animals are resistance. ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 4d

PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'

Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.

www.nbcnews.com

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