AlmaAlexander
@almaalexander.bsky.social
Duchess of Fantasy (http://www.AlmaAlexander.org)
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Patreon https://www.patreon.com/AlmaAlexander
browse my books: https://shorturl.at/t00Mw
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okay then - the lates dropped only a few short weeks ago - www.amazon.com/Winds-Four-Q... - take a look! (oh and BTW I did the embroidery that's on the cover, too :) )
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
okay then - the lates dropped only a few short weeks ago - www.amazon.com/Winds-Four-Q... - take a look! (oh and BTW I did the embroidery that's on the cover, too :) )
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AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
TAPS SCREEN
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
For like the zillionth time: Libraries are FREE for you, but WE still get compensated for our work!!
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
AND supporting your local library is super important! If you actually DO want books to be available to everyone, the library *already exists* and is staffed by the people who are deep in the trenches of fighting censorship! Supporting the library is doing actual good for your community!
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And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
And I mean look, if you're going to pirate a book, there's not really anything I or anyone else can do to stop you from doing that. Whatever. You just can't expect everyone to pat you on the back and tell you what a good leftist you are for doing it.
My car needs major surgery. They have made an appointment for dec 8. I try to ask if there is any way I can bring it in this Friday (yes, yes, Thanksgiving) and they say, sure, you can bring it in but we won't be able to work on it until the 8th. So, as in, why then would I bring it in on Nov 28???
November 26, 2025 at 9:06 PM
My car needs major surgery. They have made an appointment for dec 8. I try to ask if there is any way I can bring it in this Friday (yes, yes, Thanksgiving) and they say, sure, you can bring it in but we won't be able to work on it until the 8th. So, as in, why then would I bring it in on Nov 28???
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Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
Where can I get one of these doodads?!
Today on Volts: I've had more requests to cover this than almost any other topic in the pod's history, so now, at long last, balcony solar! We dig into how "plug-in solar" took off in Europe & how it's making its way to the US, starting in Utah. Backyard DIY types rejoice!
What's the deal with balcony solar?
Cora Stryker joins me to explain how "plug-in" solar took Europe by storm and is finally, via Utah (?), making its way to America.
www.volts.wtf
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Where can I get one of these doodads?!
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*taps sign* bsky.app/profile/this...
REMINDER: if you think your right-on lefty/socialist/communist/etc. politics justifies pirating books, well guess what? Most writers don't make a living wage from their books or writing work, and stealing from them makes you a class traitor.
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
*taps sign* bsky.app/profile/this...
Ok so it's the rainy season in the PNW, my car lives outside... and it's LEAKING. I'm currently sitting in a "slammed" service department, waiting to hear "when they can look at it ". LOOK AT IT. Not fix it. I may be here a while. (Failing a fix i don't know what my alternatives are....)
November 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Ok so it's the rainy season in the PNW, my car lives outside... and it's LEAKING. I'm currently sitting in a "slammed" service department, waiting to hear "when they can look at it ". LOOK AT IT. Not fix it. I may be here a while. (Failing a fix i don't know what my alternatives are....)
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If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
If you want literature to exist you have to support it and that doesn't always mean you, personally, will pay. The more we USE our libraries the better they can justify their funding, and the more people they can serve.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
By stealing instead, you're cheating your neighbors AND the artists. Dick.
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Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none
About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.
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95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
November 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.
pre-Christmas “what do I get for my bookworm” gifting guide
this is for those of you who know other writers far better than you know my work - but if you want to gift someone any of my books for Christmas (but aren't sure which). Here's a quick and dirty gifting guide: if you like Guy Gavriel Kay…
this is for those of you who know other writers far better than you know my work - but if you want to gift someone any of my books for Christmas (but aren't sure which). Here's a quick and dirty gifting guide: if you like Guy Gavriel Kay…
pre-Christmas “what do I get for my bookworm” gifting guide
this is for those of you who know other writers far better than you know my work - but if you want to gift someone any of my books for Christmas (but aren't sure which). Here's a quick and dirty gifting guide: if you like Guy Gavriel Kay (historical Fantasy) or Sharon Kay Penman (historical fiction, straight, no chaser) - the two faces of the Kay coin - you might like my historical fantasy trio, "Secrets of Jin Shei", "Embers of Heaven", "Empress".
almaalexander.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:45 PM
pre-Christmas “what do I get for my bookworm” gifting guide
this is for those of you who know other writers far better than you know my work - but if you want to gift someone any of my books for Christmas (but aren't sure which). Here's a quick and dirty gifting guide: if you like Guy Gavriel Kay…
this is for those of you who know other writers far better than you know my work - but if you want to gift someone any of my books for Christmas (but aren't sure which). Here's a quick and dirty gifting guide: if you like Guy Gavriel Kay…
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I 100% set Gemini up for failure here but I appreciate LLMs' game willingness to go along when I asked it for details on the musical number I had just entirely made up
November 24, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I 100% set Gemini up for failure here but I appreciate LLMs' game willingness to go along when I asked it for details on the musical number I had just entirely made up
Is there nothing that AI isn't going to ruin...?
It's all over cross-stitch patterns as well. I'm looking only for patterns made pre 2023 at this point. Much of the patterns on etsy are chatgpt generated slop.
AI has been infiltrating knitting and crochet spaces, filling them with useless patterns. Here's why that's happening and what can be done about it.
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
www.plagiarismtoday.com/2025/11/24/t...
#AI #Knitting #Crochet #FiberArt #Copyright
November 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Is there nothing that AI isn't going to ruin...?
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Kau'i: It's Ka-ooh-ee.
Teacher: I'll call you Katherine.
Kau'i: And I'll call you Motherfucker, motherfucker.
Teacher: I'll call you Katherine.
Kau'i: And I'll call you Motherfucker, motherfucker.
"I'm half Japanese, half white, but both sides lived in Hawai’i for 3 plus generations. My name is Kau’i. It looks daunting but it’s just Ka-ooh-ee."
But when Ms White read out her name, she tripped up on the name and Kau’i corrected her pronunciation. Ms White said: "I'll call you Katherine".
But when Ms White read out her name, she tripped up on the name and Kau’i corrected her pronunciation. Ms White said: "I'll call you Katherine".
November 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Kau'i: It's Ka-ooh-ee.
Teacher: I'll call you Katherine.
Kau'i: And I'll call you Motherfucker, motherfucker.
Teacher: I'll call you Katherine.
Kau'i: And I'll call you Motherfucker, motherfucker.
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Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 23, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Mike Johnson is big mad that we forced through a petition and forced a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
So let’s do it again. This time to restore the ACA credits he stole from us:
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Celan renounced the poem that is most meaningful to most people, most powerful. His ‘Death Fugue’ is harrowing and heartbreaking, and he later felt, by report, that it was *too* much so, too direct in addressing the Holocaust.
A shattering work, and a complex rejection. I think about both, often.
A shattering work, and a complex rejection. I think about both, often.
Remembering Paul Celan on his birthday 🎂
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1970
"It was the peculiar genius of Paul Celan to be able to strip language of its normal socioeconomic occasions without cutting the lines that lead language to the heart."
- Robert Kelly
📷 Gisèle Freund, 1970
"It was the peculiar genius of Paul Celan to be able to strip language of its normal socioeconomic occasions without cutting the lines that lead language to the heart."
- Robert Kelly
November 23, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Celan renounced the poem that is most meaningful to most people, most powerful. His ‘Death Fugue’ is harrowing and heartbreaking, and he later felt, by report, that it was *too* much so, too direct in addressing the Holocaust.
A shattering work, and a complex rejection. I think about both, often.
A shattering work, and a complex rejection. I think about both, often.
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“A dozen AI raters, workers who check an AI’s responses for accuracy and groundedness, told the Guardian that, after becoming aware of the way chatbots and image generators function and just how wrong their output can be, they have begun urging their friends and family not to use generative AI…”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“A dozen AI raters, workers who check an AI’s responses for accuracy and groundedness, told the Guardian that, after becoming aware of the way chatbots and image generators function and just how wrong their output can be, they have begun urging their friends and family not to use generative AI…”
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Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
“Insurers increasingly view AI models’ outputs as too unpredictable and opaque to insure, said Dennis Bertram, head of cyber insurance for Europe at Mosaic. “It’s too much of a black box.”
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Are you using AI, as a professional? Check your insurance cover, because a lot of the big insurers are about to pull out of insuring it. Which means that if you let it write your stuff or control your operations, you are potentially personally liable for its errors...
oy. yes. this. I trust nothing these days...
It's a very bad time to be a legitimate book club or reading group hoping to get authors to pop in for a Zoom call or other appearance. The absolute flood of predatory email spam targeting authors means it all goes into the bin.
book PR scam copy has gotten just better enough in the last year that it drives me insane. I can't handle the extra five seconds of sleuthing before sending to spam!
www.thechatner.com/p/the-worst-...
www.thechatner.com/p/the-worst-...
November 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
oy. yes. this. I trust nothing these days...
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And why is Theology still a professional degree???
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 AM
And why is Theology still a professional degree???
Pet bloody peeve. And this applies from everyone from highfalutin' trad news anchors to your Joe Vlogger types - for the love of God if you're faced with a foreign name that looks daunting... take the time to learn to pronounce it before you go on air. /1
November 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Pet bloody peeve. And this applies from everyone from highfalutin' trad news anchors to your Joe Vlogger types - for the love of God if you're faced with a foreign name that looks daunting... take the time to learn to pronounce it before you go on air. /1