AlmaAlexander
@almaalexander.bsky.social
Duchess of Fantasy (http://www.AlmaAlexander.org)
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browse my books: https://shorturl.at/t00Mw
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It’s #Caturday, so I wanted to try something a little different.
If you’re posting your cat today and feel like it, I’d love if you could add a little love for Luna. She’s a my kitty who needs surgery, and the support has meant everything.
Even just sharing or mentioning her helps 💛
#CaturdayForLuna
If you’re posting your cat today and feel like it, I’d love if you could add a little love for Luna. She’s a my kitty who needs surgery, and the support has meant everything.
Even just sharing or mentioning her helps 💛
#CaturdayForLuna
February 7, 2026 at 3:22 PM
It’s #Caturday, so I wanted to try something a little different.
If you’re posting your cat today and feel like it, I’d love if you could add a little love for Luna. She’s a my kitty who needs surgery, and the support has meant everything.
Even just sharing or mentioning her helps 💛
#CaturdayForLuna
If you’re posting your cat today and feel like it, I’d love if you could add a little love for Luna. She’s a my kitty who needs surgery, and the support has meant everything.
Even just sharing or mentioning her helps 💛
#CaturdayForLuna
So, went to the cat show today (and happy Caturday to you too) the little guy pictured is a great-great-grandcousin twice removed or something to my own White Lady so I got to meet and cheer on, well, FAMILY...
February 14, 2026 at 11:43 PM
So, went to the cat show today (and happy Caturday to you too) the little guy pictured is a great-great-grandcousin twice removed or something to my own White Lady so I got to meet and cheer on, well, FAMILY...
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Ayn Rand novels combines the sugary emptiness of a romance novel written by a person who has never been in love with the political intellectual rigor of a drunk at a bar solving all the world problems.
February 14, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Ayn Rand novels combines the sugary emptiness of a romance novel written by a person who has never been in love with the political intellectual rigor of a drunk at a bar solving all the world problems.
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"But it's okay, Sarah. The Dow is at 50,000..."
February 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
"But it's okay, Sarah. The Dow is at 50,000..."
Would going to get buffet lunches for myself and my husband and, on my return and bearing food, finding him happily chatting to Ursula Le Guin who was sitting next to him count for this...?
What is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter?
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
February 13, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Would going to get buffet lunches for myself and my husband and, on my return and bearing food, finding him happily chatting to Ursula Le Guin who was sitting next to him count for this...?
after THAT AD, Ring walks it back...
Days After Its Super Bowl Ad, Ring Cancels Flock Partnership Amid Surveillance Concerns
Under pressure over potential surveillance, Amazon's smart home division has backtracked on the partnership.
www.cnet.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
after THAT AD, Ring walks it back...
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Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
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It always strikes me, in news items about AI licensing schemes and/or startups, how often authors are simply not mentioned: it's all about making things easy for publishers. Writers will need to fight their publishers--not just the AI companies www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Cashmere.io Wants Better AI Licensing Deals for Publishers
The little-known startup, which powers publishing deals with AI firm Perplexity, aims to help publishers monitor, monetize, and control their content inside AI systems. CEO Jonathan Munk says the indu...
www.publishersweekly.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
It always strikes me, in news items about AI licensing schemes and/or startups, how often authors are simply not mentioned: it's all about making things easy for publishers. Writers will need to fight their publishers--not just the AI companies www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
Breaking News: The Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being, meaning that the EPA can no longer regulate them. nyti.ms/4rSszQu
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 PM
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
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The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.
hello this is the official petition to bring back mass market paperbacks!! mmpbs are good actually and everyone should do them!! i think esp romantasy readers would really love that shit! and you can still spray those edges!!! bring back mass market paperbacks thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)
...it's all very well... but I use em dashes dammit. And no AI has been measured any of my work. I don't like being tarred with that brush even slightly.
Interesting: tips for independent editors on how to handle manuscripts with AI-generated content bernoff.com/blog/how-edi...
How editors should handle AI-generated manuscripts - Josh Bernoff
In yesterday’s newsletter, I pointed out that editorial experts are now cleaning up other people’s AI-generated messes. And I’ve now heard from lots of ghostwriters and editors that their clients are ...
bernoff.com
February 11, 2026 at 6:05 PM
...it's all very well... but I use em dashes dammit. And no AI has been measured any of my work. I don't like being tarred with that brush even slightly.
So yeah please do this. Really. (Go ask for some of mine, too...)
honestly if you want to do something book-ish to support us, nothing gives us more joy than requesting our books at your library. (and also, you know, supporting your library!!!)
also I mean, what better tribute to the Mercenary Librarians. 💓💃
also I mean, what better tribute to the Mercenary Librarians. 💓💃
Huh. Apparently Kit Rocha as an author is getting notice since I just had four books added across two library systems. @mostlybree.kitrocha.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:36 AM
So yeah please do this. Really. (Go ask for some of mine, too...)
Something for you to read.
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If there is a race I've already won it.
There is no "race" between real writers and AI slop. And if there was one... we were here first, the real writers. Without us there would be no slop at all.
almaalexander.org
February 11, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Something for you to read.
almaalexander.org/2026/02/11/i...
almaalexander.org/2026/02/11/i...
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“This is a deliberate act of erasure . . . The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth."
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍎
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍎
Trump administration removes Rainbow Flag from Stonewall National Monument
The Trump administration removed a large Rainbow Flag from a flagpole at the Stonewall National Monument, the National Park Service confirmed to Gay City News
gaycitynews.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:28 PM
“This is a deliberate act of erasure . . . The Pride Flag is history, resistance, and Pride born at Stonewall itself. Taking it down does not diminish our community. It exposes an administration afraid of visibility and truth."
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍎
gaycitynews.com/trump-rainbo...
🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🍎
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Got hit with a $3000.00 vet bill yesterday. Still looking for work. So, uh, buy my books, maybe?
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...
Eric Carter
Buy books online and find book series such as Eric Carter written by Stephen Blackmoore from PenguinRandomHouse.com
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Got hit with a $3000.00 vet bill yesterday. Still looking for work. So, uh, buy my books, maybe?
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...
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This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.
HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.”
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
This is unsurprising. "AI" is just another middle-man between you and your work.
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kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
February 7, 2026 at 10:25 PM
kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them
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All of this. I am the first of my target audience.
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
"Why would I read something someone couldn't be bothered to write" is a great refrain but I would also add as a writer "I won't write something I couldn't be bothered to read" because that's what every one of my books are: something *I* want to read.
February 8, 2026 at 5:54 PM
All of this. I am the first of my target audience.
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
Part of this is, if you aren't creating for someone, it's like creating for everyone, which is creating for no one.
And as a writer, that someone should be me since I HAVE to reread my work over and over and over 🫠 that's publishing, bay-bee
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Everyone else: wooo, superbowl! Go this team or that team! Paint your faces! Yell and scream as grown men chase a pigskin bladder (and each other) across random lines drawn on a greensward!
Me: is there a new Clydesdale commercial? And if so where can I see it without having to endure "the game"?
Me: is there a new Clydesdale commercial? And if so where can I see it without having to endure "the game"?
February 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Everyone else: wooo, superbowl! Go this team or that team! Paint your faces! Yell and scream as grown men chase a pigskin bladder (and each other) across random lines drawn on a greensward!
Me: is there a new Clydesdale commercial? And if so where can I see it without having to endure "the game"?
Me: is there a new Clydesdale commercial? And if so where can I see it without having to endure "the game"?
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Because, here's the thing. We're told: "it's the way of the world; it's human nature," as an excuse for every act of cruelty or selfishness we witness, in the hope that we'll just stand by and watch. But it's not human nature. It's human choice. And we don't have to stand by. We can stand up.
February 7, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Because, here's the thing. We're told: "it's the way of the world; it's human nature," as an excuse for every act of cruelty or selfishness we witness, in the hope that we'll just stand by and watch. But it's not human nature. It's human choice. And we don't have to stand by. We can stand up.
A whole bunch of my books are now available via Bookshop.org via Draft2Digital. I'm... just saying.
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
A whole bunch of my books are now available via Bookshop.org via Draft2Digital. I'm... just saying.
...one does wonder where all these tropes of artists in drafty garrets, hungry and shivering and still painting with paint bought on credit but with the light of fucking GOD in their eyes, ever came from... or where all the actual pre-AI *art* actually came from...
"Being anti AI is class privilege! Poor people can't afford to learn how to make art without it!"
Yes. Famously, all artists are extremely wealthy.
Yes. Famously, all artists are extremely wealthy.
February 6, 2026 at 8:29 PM
...one does wonder where all these tropes of artists in drafty garrets, hungry and shivering and still painting with paint bought on credit but with the light of fucking GOD in their eyes, ever came from... or where all the actual pre-AI *art* actually came from...
Seriously - went to the movies, bright sunshine when I went in, came out to... this... it's just a little eerie and strange...
February 6, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Seriously - went to the movies, bright sunshine when I went in, came out to... this... it's just a little eerie and strange...