Alexandra Peers
@peersalexandra.bsky.social
Environmental science, history, art, fiction, technology, writing. Buddhist. She/her. Tweets/views are my own.
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What a hero. A mom who lost her pension to do what’s right. 1 bajillion times more courageous and heroic than so many leaders in politics, law, universities, corporations, media, and journalism
IRS executive Kathleen Walters was asked to break the law by the Trump administration, and refused.
February 1, 2026 at 4:53 PM
What a hero. A mom who lost her pension to do what’s right. 1 bajillion times more courageous and heroic than so many leaders in politics, law, universities, corporations, media, and journalism
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Tomorrow! I talk about the book!
That means: no institution pays our bills. We run on what we raise during our annual Twitch fundraiser, from donors like you
Our fundraising season starts TMW with a free, public talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his new book on Assassin's Creed. Tix and more info here: bit.ly/4t0NwKn
Our fundraising season starts TMW with a free, public talk by @ckunzelman.bsky.social about his new book on Assassin's Creed. Tix and more info here: bit.ly/4t0NwKn
Select Tickets – ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed – Twitch
ROMchip Presents: Cameron Kunzelman on his book Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin's Creed – Twitch, Fri Jan 23, 2026 - **Tickets serve as calendar reminders for the event; they are not required to ...
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January 23, 2026 at 4:51 AM
Tomorrow! I talk about the book!
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this is a good piece that claws at some of the stuff i’ve been thinking about re: Life is Strange lately. what kind of ending do Max and Chloe “deserve”? why did they not “deserve” the ending of the original game? just because it was sad? aftermath.site/life-is-stra...
A Game Doesn't Need To Be ‘By And For Fans’
Life Is Strange: Reunion could be a story that grapples with old choices and mistakes, or it could be one that tells fans and characters they "deserve" stories that make everything OK
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January 22, 2026 at 5:48 PM
this is a good piece that claws at some of the stuff i’ve been thinking about re: Life is Strange lately. what kind of ending do Max and Chloe “deserve”? why did they not “deserve” the ending of the original game? just because it was sad? aftermath.site/life-is-stra...
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there's something wrong with the rabbits
October 14, 2025 at 9:28 PM
there's something wrong with the rabbits
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newspaper comic strips were one of the great twentieth century art forms and even though millennials were only there to experience the worst decade for comic strips that the twentieth century had to offer it was still better than what the next century had in store
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 PM
newspaper comic strips were one of the great twentieth century art forms and even though millennials were only there to experience the worst decade for comic strips that the twentieth century had to offer it was still better than what the next century had in store
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FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!
January 1, 2026 at 5:00 AM
FUCK YOU IT'S JANUARY!!!
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When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
December 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
🧵👇
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My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My no-fun-at-parties take is that "christmas is a secular holiday" is an uncomfortable way of assuring me that christianity is the status quo and everything outside of that is an aberration. Sorry! It's still a christian holiday!! Just because you're an atheist doesn't make it secular!
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Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Very weird feeling waiting for the president to announce an illegal war based on total bullshit that they made up right in front of our faces on TV, almost like I've lived through this moment before
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the death of the twentieth century continues apace.
December 15, 2025 at 7:01 PM
the death of the twentieth century continues apace.
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You do not need generative AI, you need the Emberly easy art books!
From 1973, Ed Emberley’s Little Drawing Book of Weirdos. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/e...
October 31, 2025 at 4:17 PM
You do not need generative AI, you need the Emberly easy art books!
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I am just a little bit of a media historian, but I've read enough to say that I think this has a pretty easy explanation: there was a time where if you wanted to be a movie exec you had to socially succeed with other movie people; now you have to socially succeed with finance and tech bros.
last 15 years feel like an experiment in putting individuals who don't know why people see movies in charge of getting people to see movies
David and Larry Ellisons’ sloptastic vision for Hollywood is coming into focus:
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
“Paramount has reportedly signed a $200M+ multiyear deal for Higgsfield AI to use mass-use Popcorn AI model that ingests dailies and script notes, then outputs regional cuts: new leads, alternate jokes, revised endings”
October 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I am just a little bit of a media historian, but I've read enough to say that I think this has a pretty easy explanation: there was a time where if you wanted to be a movie exec you had to socially succeed with other movie people; now you have to socially succeed with finance and tech bros.
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I want to meet a California Condor and the chances of that happening some day are thankfully increasing.
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I want to meet a California Condor and the chances of that happening some day are thankfully increasing.
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Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
August 4, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.
From my dissertation:
From my dissertation:
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Brown girl in the ring is so good, just a totally electrifying novel, and the discussion in this ep brings out such interesting elements of the text. Totally worth a read + listen
On SHELVED BY GENRE we're starting the last book of our post-apocalypse unit, journeying to Canada with a post-collapse near-future where science, magic, politics, and family intertwine in Nalo Hopkinson's BROWN GIRL IN THE RING: rangedtouch.com/2025/07/18/b...
July 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Brown girl in the ring is so good, just a totally electrifying novel, and the discussion in this ep brings out such interesting elements of the text. Totally worth a read + listen
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"82 year old dies" is in a sense hardly news at all. "singular genius who transformed popular culture dies" is news, but also not uncommon. but "one-time symbol of bravura youth culture, trapped for decades by the fallout of the sixties, who fought free and became a widely beloved elder, dies," phew
June 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"82 year old dies" is in a sense hardly news at all. "singular genius who transformed popular culture dies" is news, but also not uncommon. but "one-time symbol of bravura youth culture, trapped for decades by the fallout of the sixties, who fought free and became a widely beloved elder, dies," phew
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finally, the opportunity i've been waiting my entire podcasting career for: me and austin going in on cmrn for not knowing what cardcaptor sakura is
It's a SHELVED BY GENRE day, and we're talking the final part of A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ: come ponder with us cyclical history and the annihilation of nuclear war (again), the wedding of science and mysticism, and the shortcomings of institutional religion: rangedtouch.com/2025/06/06/a...
June 6, 2025 at 2:49 PM
finally, the opportunity i've been waiting my entire podcasting career for: me and austin going in on cmrn for not knowing what cardcaptor sakura is
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Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Dodgers broadcast was discussing the science behind the perception of time between children and adults. After hearing the explanation, the color commentator pauses and asks, "Am I gonna feel any better?"
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
Andy Pages then smashes a dinger into space, thus ending the existential crisis on commentary.
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The next SHELVED BY GENRE unit has been decided: we're doing a POST-APOCALYPSE VARIETY SHOW, with
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Grabbing them through our Bookshop list helps us out: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Grabbing them through our Bookshop list helps us out: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
Shelved By Genre
These are books discussed on the podcast Shelved by Genre!
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March 27, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The next SHELVED BY GENRE unit has been decided: we're doing a POST-APOCALYPSE VARIETY SHOW, with
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Grabbing them through our Bookshop list helps us out: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K. Dick
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson
Grabbing them through our Bookshop list helps us out: bookshop.org/lists/shelve...
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February 23, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵
February 16, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵
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this is what "silicon valley made the modern world" is about. they believe they have captured the apparatus of culture. but what they have actually done is shrunk it: trapped its illusion in the screens you and I are looking at right now. yet there's a burning world outside, and computers crash too.
what they understand is that humans are downstream of the environments they inhabit, the acts of cultivation from which "culture" is derived, and seeing the flourishing of things that oppose their domination and exploitation, they opt to burn the field in the hopes of lording over their chosen weeds
there is little need to map out the ideology as it is personally imagined, its weirdness or inconsistencies or hypocrisies; the material point is to create so much misery and fear that they can present themselves, with their hordes of plundered resources, as the only viable path forward
February 6, 2025 at 4:25 PM
this is what "silicon valley made the modern world" is about. they believe they have captured the apparatus of culture. but what they have actually done is shrunk it: trapped its illusion in the screens you and I are looking at right now. yet there's a burning world outside, and computers crash too.