Alexander Dan
@alexanderdan.bsky.social
kalt ytra byrði með sérstakri einangrun – Icelandic SFF author. Ég skrifa bækur // I write books // in two languages // á tveimur tungumálum. Repped by @arcaedia
https://www.alexanderdan.net/
https://www.alexanderdan.net/
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Fantastic 1st day at #IcelandNoir, the Rescue Team panel was worth the ticket price alone! Eliza Reid, fab pair @hildur.bsky.social & @alexanderdan.bsky.social, and also finally got to meet the lovely @villimeymist.bsky.social! At Kjarval also got to fangirl at Kalmann author Joachim Schmidt 🤩
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Fantastic 1st day at #IcelandNoir, the Rescue Team panel was worth the ticket price alone! Eliza Reid, fab pair @hildur.bsky.social & @alexanderdan.bsky.social, and also finally got to meet the lovely @villimeymist.bsky.social! At Kjarval also got to fangirl at Kalmann author Joachim Schmidt 🤩
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Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
November 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.
ah, yes. the anti-climax of finishing a draft. then you get to rewriting or editing or proofreading (which all then have their own anti-climax) until the finished thing is done and ready and by then you're so done with it.
which is great motivation to work on a new thing and do it all over again.
which is great motivation to work on a new thing and do it all over again.
September 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
ah, yes. the anti-climax of finishing a draft. then you get to rewriting or editing or proofreading (which all then have their own anti-climax) until the finished thing is done and ready and by then you're so done with it.
which is great motivation to work on a new thing and do it all over again.
which is great motivation to work on a new thing and do it all over again.
Went to a coffee shop to write for a change of scenery and one hour in I became suddenly so self-aware that I was writing in public. When is writing in public not performative? STOP PERCEIVING ME
September 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Went to a coffee shop to write for a change of scenery and one hour in I became suddenly so self-aware that I was writing in public. When is writing in public not performative? STOP PERCEIVING ME
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Ekki gera handritshöfundum þann greiða að eyða allri orku og fókus á hlutverk smjörkúksins. Horfum á leikritið í heild sinni. Það snýst um að skipta í fylkingar, venjuvæða hatur og fá hrætt fólk sem veit ekki betur til að setja X á réttan stað. Móta jarðveginn fyrir öfgahægrið.
September 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Ekki gera handritshöfundum þann greiða að eyða allri orku og fókus á hlutverk smjörkúksins. Horfum á leikritið í heild sinni. Það snýst um að skipta í fylkingar, venjuvæða hatur og fá hrætt fólk sem veit ekki betur til að setja X á réttan stað. Móta jarðveginn fyrir öfgahægrið.
want to read something so specific but still too hard for me to explain concisely so badly that it probably means it's just something I have to write
August 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
want to read something so specific but still too hard for me to explain concisely so badly that it probably means it's just something I have to write
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We are not trivialising LLMs.
Copyright theft is not trivial.
Environmental damage is not trivial.
Unreliability is not trivial.
Risk to human cognition is not trivial.
Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.
Copyright theft is not trivial.
Environmental damage is not trivial.
Unreliability is not trivial.
Risk to human cognition is not trivial.
Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.
August 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We are not trivialising LLMs.
Copyright theft is not trivial.
Environmental damage is not trivial.
Unreliability is not trivial.
Risk to human cognition is not trivial.
Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.
Copyright theft is not trivial.
Environmental damage is not trivial.
Unreliability is not trivial.
Risk to human cognition is not trivial.
Ignoring consent when shoving it into every fucking thing while making us pay our hard-earned money for it is not trivial.
Fountain pens are nice. But most often only on good paper. Good paper is good for everything. A Blackwing pencil or a Cinnamoroll gel pen will write beautifully on good paper, just like a Sailor 1911 will. Paper, paper.
I love paper.
#fountainpens
I love paper.
#fountainpens
August 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Fountain pens are nice. But most often only on good paper. Good paper is good for everything. A Blackwing pencil or a Cinnamoroll gel pen will write beautifully on good paper, just like a Sailor 1911 will. Paper, paper.
I love paper.
#fountainpens
I love paper.
#fountainpens
Non-Icelandic speakers, you’d better pray you get this book by @hildur.bsky.social in translation sooner rather than later. It made me tear up a dozen times at least.
July 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Non-Icelandic speakers, you’d better pray you get this book by @hildur.bsky.social in translation sooner rather than later. It made me tear up a dozen times at least.
I accidentally opened what was once known as the bird site and thought it was bluesky and just couldn’t figure out why it had become so incomprehensibly and unbelievably shit in just a few days or so
July 3, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I accidentally opened what was once known as the bird site and thought it was bluesky and just couldn’t figure out why it had become so incomprehensibly and unbelievably shit in just a few days or so
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Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
June 19, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.
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Ooh waa we're just big rich babies our industry is dying because of tech taking over so obviously only tech can save us with their anti-art superweapons everyone's doing it stop hating us for it waa. Pathetic.
June 4, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Ooh waa we're just big rich babies our industry is dying because of tech taking over so obviously only tech can save us with their anti-art superweapons everyone's doing it stop hating us for it waa. Pathetic.
Image from RÚV (Ragnar Visage) of the eruption that just started, again, in Grindavík. It lies right through the defensive walls and the new fissure is 500 meters from the nearest house in town.
April 1, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Image from RÚV (Ragnar Visage) of the eruption that just started, again, in Grindavík. It lies right through the defensive walls and the new fissure is 500 meters from the nearest house in town.
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jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
March 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️⚧️
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”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
OpenAI CEO Responds to ChatGPT Users Creating Studio Ghibli-Style AI Images
The latest version of OpenAI's image generation technology has resulted in a flood of users sharing images transformed in the style of Studio Ghibli.
variety.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:01 PM
”Miyazaki said, 'I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.' He also said, 'I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.'"
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You should listen to this book!
Audiobook for THE STORM BENEATH A MIDNIGHT SUN is out today! Icelandic weird fantasy ft: Centipede locomotives, chipper brain cylinders, flying demon-fortresses, raven-people, volcanic eruptions, excavating an ancient god-thing, and, of course, the high-stakes drama that is the fishing industry.
The Storm Beneath a Midnight Sun
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The stand-alone follow up to Shadows of the Short Days is a gritty, dark fantasy novel for fans of China Miéville that will thrill listeners as they explore...
www.audible.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:49 AM
You should listen to this book!
Audiobook for THE STORM BENEATH A MIDNIGHT SUN is out today! Icelandic weird fantasy ft: Centipede locomotives, chipper brain cylinders, flying demon-fortresses, raven-people, volcanic eruptions, excavating an ancient god-thing, and, of course, the high-stakes drama that is the fishing industry.
The Storm Beneath a Midnight Sun
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The stand-alone follow up to Shadows of the Short Days is a gritty, dark fantasy novel for fans of China Miéville that will thrill listeners as they explore...
www.audible.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Audiobook for THE STORM BENEATH A MIDNIGHT SUN is out today! Icelandic weird fantasy ft: Centipede locomotives, chipper brain cylinders, flying demon-fortresses, raven-people, volcanic eruptions, excavating an ancient god-thing, and, of course, the high-stakes drama that is the fishing industry.
Um daginn / The other day
March 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Um daginn / The other day
Just another night (I cannot emphasize that enough).
March 9, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Just another night (I cannot emphasize that enough).
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there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
January 28, 2025 at 11:14 PM
there is no "defensible use case" for chatgpt. do your own work and use your own brain or fuck off
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Neil Gaiman is a monster. His statement is idiotic and delusional. Sorry Neil, I don’t think anyone believes that 9 (or 14?) women are lying about you, and it’s cute that you think your “readers” will stick with you after this. Several of the people you assaulted were your readers.
January 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Neil Gaiman is a monster. His statement is idiotic and delusional. Sorry Neil, I don’t think anyone believes that 9 (or 14?) women are lying about you, and it’s cute that you think your “readers” will stick with you after this. Several of the people you assaulted were your readers.
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It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty.
You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/
You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/
January 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
It was your eyes that saw the colour, your brain that interpreted it, your heart that felt its beauty.
You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/
You didn't love it because they're the Blue Artist, but because you were always a person who could love the sky. 4/
I’m on the third book of the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb and I know a lot of people know how great these books are and they are huge but I absolutely love reading them and want everyone to experience them there are so many good things here and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. Pls read.
January 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I’m on the third book of the Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb and I know a lot of people know how great these books are and they are huge but I absolutely love reading them and want everyone to experience them there are so many good things here and I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. Pls read.