Alex Koppel
@arsduo.bsky.social
book reader, software engineer ex-Slack ex-eSpark, @awesomefoundgta.bsky.social organizer, 🏳️🌈, he/him.
Had the immense pleasure of seeing The Pansy Craze last weekend.
@masonalexanderpark.bsky.social's review of recent queer history was smart & funny, with Sasha Velour as a great guest. Mason had performed as Hedwig and gave some deeply moving (and thematically so on point) songs from the show 🥲
@masonalexanderpark.bsky.social's review of recent queer history was smart & funny, with Sasha Velour as a great guest. Mason had performed as Hedwig and gave some deeply moving (and thematically so on point) songs from the show 🥲
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Had the immense pleasure of seeing The Pansy Craze last weekend.
@masonalexanderpark.bsky.social's review of recent queer history was smart & funny, with Sasha Velour as a great guest. Mason had performed as Hedwig and gave some deeply moving (and thematically so on point) songs from the show 🥲
@masonalexanderpark.bsky.social's review of recent queer history was smart & funny, with Sasha Velour as a great guest. Mason had performed as Hedwig and gave some deeply moving (and thematically so on point) songs from the show 🥲
Book 36: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. @meakoopa.bsky.social gifted me this classic of Canadian high school curricula & I really enjoyed it!
A fascinating urtext for the X-Men (incl flipflopping on mutant/ human relations) and sense8. It also uses the term "spider-man" 7 years before P Parker 🕷️
A fascinating urtext for the X-Men (incl flipflopping on mutant/ human relations) and sense8. It also uses the term "spider-man" 7 years before P Parker 🕷️
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Book 36: The Chrysalids by John Wyndham. @meakoopa.bsky.social gifted me this classic of Canadian high school curricula & I really enjoyed it!
A fascinating urtext for the X-Men (incl flipflopping on mutant/ human relations) and sense8. It also uses the term "spider-man" 7 years before P Parker 🕷️
A fascinating urtext for the X-Men (incl flipflopping on mutant/ human relations) and sense8. It also uses the term "spider-man" 7 years before P Parker 🕷️
Book 35: You Weren't Meant to Be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social.
I keep thinking about one particular moment that, at first, reads as hopeful and upbeat, but that actually reframes the story with an additional profound horror.
Just such a great story, great characters, recommended for sure.
I keep thinking about one particular moment that, at first, reads as hopeful and upbeat, but that actually reframes the story with an additional profound horror.
Just such a great story, great characters, recommended for sure.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Book 35: You Weren't Meant to Be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social.
I keep thinking about one particular moment that, at first, reads as hopeful and upbeat, but that actually reframes the story with an additional profound horror.
Just such a great story, great characters, recommended for sure.
I keep thinking about one particular moment that, at first, reads as hopeful and upbeat, but that actually reframes the story with an additional profound horror.
Just such a great story, great characters, recommended for sure.
Obligatory mosaic hot dog post
November 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Obligatory mosaic hot dog post
Incredibly good advice from someone who used to rate AI results. Definitely going to use this.
November 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Incredibly good advice from someone who used to rate AI results. Definitely going to use this.
Currently cooking on Oscaround, our little Oscars-tracking website: Oscar contenders!
We've pulled together some lists of films guesses so we can beta test new features like the upcoming Oscars pools (track movies and predictions with your friends!).
Coming soon!
We've pulled together some lists of films guesses so we can beta test new features like the upcoming Oscars pools (track movies and predictions with your friends!).
Coming soon!
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Currently cooking on Oscaround, our little Oscars-tracking website: Oscar contenders!
We've pulled together some lists of films guesses so we can beta test new features like the upcoming Oscars pools (track movies and predictions with your friends!).
Coming soon!
We've pulled together some lists of films guesses so we can beta test new features like the upcoming Oscars pools (track movies and predictions with your friends!).
Coming soon!
chat what do you think, bedroom or dining room
November 21, 2025 at 10:55 PM
chat what do you think, bedroom or dining room
Really enjoy the National Ballet of Canada's production of The Winter's Tale. Great score and incredible performances.
I'm always surprised how much I enjoy and am engaged by ballet—we're already planning to go back for The Nutcracker.
I'm always surprised how much I enjoy and am engaged by ballet—we're already planning to go back for The Nutcracker.
November 20, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Really enjoy the National Ballet of Canada's production of The Winter's Tale. Great score and incredible performances.
I'm always surprised how much I enjoy and am engaged by ballet—we're already planning to go back for The Nutcracker.
I'm always surprised how much I enjoy and am engaged by ballet—we're already planning to go back for The Nutcracker.
Just realized we never updated Oscaround, our Oscars tracking website, with last year's winners 🤦😅
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just realized we never updated Oscaround, our Oscars tracking website, with last year's winners 🤦😅
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
Having a great rainy afternoon digging back into our Oscars website and building for fun again ✨
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Having a great rainy afternoon digging back into our Oscars website and building for fun again ✨
Got to see Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence at @tiffnet.bsky.social tonight—a strange, beautiful, haunting movie about a girls' boarding school where new students arrive to the walled-off campus in coffins. I'll be thinking about this movie for a while.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Got to see Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence at @tiffnet.bsky.social tonight—a strange, beautiful, haunting movie about a girls' boarding school where new students arrive to the walled-off campus in coffins. I'll be thinking about this movie for a while.
Book 34: Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social. A fantastic, rewarding graphic novel with the space to tell its rich story fully. A+, easily one of my new favourites.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Book 34: Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social. A fantastic, rewarding graphic novel with the space to tell its rich story fully. A+, easily one of my new favourites.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
Had the great pleasure of seeing @edgarwright.bsky.social's The Running Man tonight at @tiffnet.bsky.social! A sharp, funny, and beautifully realized dystopia with so many delightful beats. Great director Q&A afterwards too 👏
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Had the great pleasure of seeing @edgarwright.bsky.social's The Running Man tonight at @tiffnet.bsky.social! A sharp, funny, and beautifully realized dystopia with so many delightful beats. Great director Q&A afterwards too 👏
Matthew 7:21-23 is really clear about the kind of folks whose political platform is their Christianity:
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Matthew 7:21-23 is really clear about the kind of folks whose political platform is their Christianity:
![A Final Indignity: Cuomo's White Ford Bronco Got a Parking Ticket
Thanks to an eagle-eyed New Yorker, who saw the car illegally parked outside of the ex-gov's Sutton Place apartment on Wednesday, and reported it to 311.
["and reported it to 311" is underlined with a laughing turtle clip art next to it]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dj2zpew3hkeqf42i5l5k43uy/bafkreif53tpnmvynxbtynvsx6ygqqpnrhbyemrfjdvbnaozre5zjm6j6oi@jpeg)
Just returned my newly past job's work laptop! Treating myself to a coffee and cookie and read in a cafe I've never been to 💖
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just returned my newly past job's work laptop! Treating myself to a coffee and cookie and read in a cafe I've never been to 💖
Last week just disappeared into Halloween, eh?
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Last week just disappeared into Halloween, eh?
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
✅ forgot to follow up on this one—got the predictions moved into their own database table and all the dependencies updated.
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
✅ forgot to follow up on this one—got the predictions moved into their own database table and all the dependencies updated.
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
I picked up an [😬😅] number of books at the @thebookpeople.ca event tonight, including the first in @marthawells.com's so-highly-recommended Murderbot series and @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's amazing-looking new book You Weren't Meant To Be Human. Very excited for the reading ahead!
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I picked up an [😬😅] number of books at the @thebookpeople.ca event tonight, including the first in @marthawells.com's so-highly-recommended Murderbot series and @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's amazing-looking new book You Weren't Meant To Be Human. Very excited for the reading ahead!
Our local bookstore @thebookpeople.ca threw an amazing social event tonight! I walked in right as @meakoopa.bsky.social was reading from Dayspring and even gave an impromptu reading myself from a book I loved -- so great to be in community, so glad for a space like them 💖
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Our local bookstore @thebookpeople.ca threw an amazing social event tonight! I walked in right as @meakoopa.bsky.social was reading from Dayspring and even gave an impromptu reading myself from a book I loved -- so great to be in community, so glad for a space like them 💖
Awesome! I donated $100 for now -- happy to match more if I have some capacity after a day or two.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Awesome! I donated $100 for now -- happy to match more if I have some capacity after a day or two.
Awesome! Just matched that, and am also submitting it to my work to get an additional match 🙂
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Awesome! Just matched that, and am also submitting it to my work to get an additional match 🙂
Book 33: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and @sanatakeda.bsky.social. Epic in every sense.
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Book 33: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and @sanatakeda.bsky.social. Epic in every sense.
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
Book 32: ??!?!? ??!!!???!, the first eight chapters of a friend's novel set in the Viking era. It's really excellent, queer and thoughtful and engaging—can't wait to read the rest of the story and for it to be out in the world someday!
October 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Book 32: ??!?!? ??!!!???!, the first eight chapters of a friend's novel set in the Viking era. It's really excellent, queer and thoughtful and engaging—can't wait to read the rest of the story and for it to be out in the world someday!