Alias Messier
@amampersand.bsky.social
SF-raised (both senses) • educator, labor mischief-maker, passionate about free college • all things change in a season • another world is possible • dogs, bees, bunny • she/her/y’all
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Relationship counseling but just blind texting each other your semiotic and power analysis of Mamdani and Trump meeting to see if you’re compatible.
November 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Relationship counseling but just blind texting each other your semiotic and power analysis of Mamdani and Trump meeting to see if you’re compatible.
This looks amazing and I frikkin loved the Jade City books. (Also I know it’s the way of publishing now, but I do not love getting excited about a book only to discover it’s half a year away…)
COVER REVEAL: My next book is a standalone science fiction cyberpunk thriller starring aging corporate samurai. The Last Contract of Isako will be out on May 5, 2026 from @orbitbooks.bsky.social. Can't wait to share it with you. Thank you to @tommypocket.bsky.social for this kickass cover ⚔️
November 22, 2025 at 1:55 AM
This looks amazing and I frikkin loved the Jade City books. (Also I know it’s the way of publishing now, but I do not love getting excited about a book only to discover it’s half a year away…)
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Connie Chan, a progressive San Francisco lawmaker with close ties to prominent labor unions, is entering the newly open race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
Connie Chan, progressive S.F. supervisor, will run to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress
Connie Chan, a progressive San Francisco lawmaker with close ties to prominent labor unions, is entering the newly open race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
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November 20, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Connie Chan, a progressive San Francisco lawmaker with close ties to prominent labor unions, is entering the newly open race to succeed Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi.
This 🧵 gets closer to what is actually happening in my writing classroom than most. I’ll be working away and then—BAM—existential professional crisis as I see just enough confirmation of synthetic text/synthetic ‘thought’ that it erodes everything…
Finally got to the "I want to burn it all down" portion of the gen AI-era semester, where I realize they're all using some sort of LLM to "help" organize their thoughts and it's just spitting out raw sewage onto the screen.
November 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
This 🧵 gets closer to what is actually happening in my writing classroom than most. I’ll be working away and then—BAM—existential professional crisis as I see just enough confirmation of synthetic text/synthetic ‘thought’ that it erodes everything…
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OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
Celebrating Hild
On this day in 680 CE Hild of Whitby, patron saint of learning and culture (including poetry) died. I mark her feast day because she marked my life, and my writing, indelibly.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
OTD in 680 CE Hild of Whitby died. Ever year I celebrate. This year by a) showing off my fabulous, specially commissioned snakestone cast in silver to wear as a lapel pin, silver jacket pin cast in silver, and her death
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
b) my imagined version of her grave marker
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For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
Alice Wong
Alice Wong had an outsized impact on Disability justice. As a community organiser, activist, mentor, and co-conspirator, as writer, editor, and friend, she is irreplaceable.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.
I’ve learned so much from Alice. What a loss.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I’ve learned so much from Alice. What a loss.
Whoa that was quick
BREAKING: Just 7 days after Mayor Lurie appointed her to be the Sunset supervisor, Beya Alcaraz is out.
She resigned today after multiple unflattering stories, including one just hours ago broken by Mission Local on a potential tax dodge.
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She resigned today after multiple unflattering stories, including one just hours ago broken by Mission Local on a potential tax dodge.
missionlocal.org/2025/11/new-...
New S.F. supervisor, Beya Alcaraz, abruptly resigns after controversy
Beya Alcaraz resigned from the District 4 seat after allegations of negligence at her former pet store and tax fraud emerged.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Whoa that was quick
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Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
November 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Let my gravestone read "PUNCTUATION GOES INSIDE THE QUOTATION MARKS."
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This is one of several books I recommend (repeatedly) to people who want to better understand the current tech broligarchy of which AI is (now) the leading edge. It is disturbing and it is excellent.
If you want to understand the delusions behind this push for AI in everything, and how we can fight back against it, read my book: bookshop.org/p/books/more...
More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity
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November 8, 2025 at 8:32 PM
This is one of several books I recommend (repeatedly) to people who want to better understand the current tech broligarchy of which AI is (now) the leading edge. It is disturbing and it is excellent.
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I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
Recently met someone who was very surprised to hear I didn’t use ChatGPT or any LLM.
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
I said my job depended on doing distinctive work. That was my selling point. If I started to sound like ChatGPT and turn out what it did, then how on earth could I justify doing it? What would that make me?
November 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.
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And there are many other reasons I don't use LLMs. They're not reliable, they are built on theft, their creation incurs environmental costs & direct harm to people. The broader societal push to use AI for everything is destructive in countless ways & has horrifying political ramifications.
November 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
And there are many other reasons I don't use LLMs. They're not reliable, they are built on theft, their creation incurs environmental costs & direct harm to people. The broader societal push to use AI for everything is destructive in countless ways & has horrifying political ramifications.
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I am offended, deeply offended… Red delicious apples are DISGUSTING. The Big Apple is a HONEYCRISP! And in Mamdani’s New York, EVERYONE will be able to afford honeycrisps—as a city owned grocery store!!!
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I am offended, deeply offended… Red delicious apples are DISGUSTING. The Big Apple is a HONEYCRISP! And in Mamdani’s New York, EVERYONE will be able to afford honeycrisps—as a city owned grocery store!!!
My feed for the last hour’s worth of posts:
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
My feed for the last hour’s worth of posts:
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From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
November 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
From Evan: it's a huge night of hope for the trans community. The Republicans went all in on anti-trans ads in multiple races and so far there's no sign it got them anything.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Perhaps the page can be turned on blaming us for Harris' loss last year.
Wow opening up this app at this moment is just joy joy joy and I love seeing everyone so excited and hopeful
November 5, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Wow opening up this app at this moment is just joy joy joy and I love seeing everyone so excited and hopeful
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OpenAI is a social arsonist.
November 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
OpenAI is a social arsonist.
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October 27, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Here's a thought, if you're stuck and you feel like some shitty random text would spur you to find the way forward...why don't you *write* some shitty random text. You might actually learn something.
October 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Here's a thought, if you're stuck and you feel like some shitty random text would spur you to find the way forward...why don't you *write* some shitty random text. You might actually learn something.
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Librarian: “20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me” hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me
To listen to the generative AI enthusiasts and vendors with exclamation riddled decks, you would think that every boring and mundane task was now easily handled, freeing me up to lead that mythical…
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October 28, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Librarian: “20 Ways “AI” Has Created More Work for Me” hedgehoglibrarian.com/2025/10/27/2...
@charliejane.bsky.social has hereby captured a large chunk of what I feel about reading literature.
October 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
@charliejane.bsky.social has hereby captured a large chunk of what I feel about reading literature.
This is everything right now
October 25, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This is everything right now
The Bay shows up #ICEOUT @bayresistance.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The Bay shows up #ICEOUT @bayresistance.bsky.social