Alex Yuschik
@alexyuschik.bsky.social
author | professor of mathematics | traveler | pigeon enthusiast | pronouns: any
Rep: Bridget Smith. Work in: Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Glittership.
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Rep: Bridget Smith. Work in: Strange Horizons, Escape Pod, Glittership.
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Alex Yuschik
@alexyuschik.bsky.social
· Nov 10
just realized I haven't announced it here yet, BUT: I'm thrilled to share that my short story "Endless Thirst, Undying Desert" will be appearing in an upcoming issue of @kaleidotrope.bsky.social! 🏜️🗡️❄️
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“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to
dentist: wow
dentist: is your blood pressure normally this bad
dentist: because you don't look like it should be this bad
me: probably not, I am just anxious and incredibly mad
dentist, checking cuff again, shaking head: wow
dentist: is your blood pressure normally this bad
dentist: because you don't look like it should be this bad
me: probably not, I am just anxious and incredibly mad
dentist, checking cuff again, shaking head: wow
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
dentist: wow
dentist: is your blood pressure normally this bad
dentist: because you don't look like it should be this bad
me: probably not, I am just anxious and incredibly mad
dentist, checking cuff again, shaking head: wow
dentist: is your blood pressure normally this bad
dentist: because you don't look like it should be this bad
me: probably not, I am just anxious and incredibly mad
dentist, checking cuff again, shaking head: wow
the greek chorus of the roaring twenties scion was his devoted valet send skeet
rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"
December 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
the greek chorus of the roaring twenties scion was his devoted valet send skeet
unable to visit my out-of-state family for thanksgiving, a friend invited me to celebrate with her family bubble. we fed her turtle lettuce as her very pittsburgh parents poked fun at each other over a delightful meal. I felt like I was stepping into an AU where I grew up in the city and I loved it
What's a charming memory you have from the worst period of the pandemic?
December 1, 2025 at 2:02 AM
unable to visit my out-of-state family for thanksgiving, a friend invited me to celebrate with her family bubble. we fed her turtle lettuce as her very pittsburgh parents poked fun at each other over a delightful meal. I felt like I was stepping into an AU where I grew up in the city and I loved it
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Professors who see teaching as a skill, a trust & a responsibility are the ones who are burned out by these conditions. The ones who care about students’ well-being are the ones whose methodologies are unsustainable in these conditions. It’s agonizing.
November 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Professors who see teaching as a skill, a trust & a responsibility are the ones who are burned out by these conditions. The ones who care about students’ well-being are the ones whose methodologies are unsustainable in these conditions. It’s agonizing.
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It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
WRITING TIP, something simple but it catches many of us out: if you have a great/fun idea for your story, *use it now*.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
Don’t save your ideas for some nebulous other story you might write tomorrow. I promise you’ll have more.
Break your story’s status quo. Go a step further. Use the big idea.
November 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
It was Downey who coined the phrase in the LEVERAGE writers room “future episodes do not win out over present episodes”. Trust me, you’ll have more ideas. You’ll die full of them.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
Acquired Tastes: A Call for Submissions
For younger writers, ages 15-21
audacity.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I'm editing an anthology about unlikable characters and seeking work from younger writers, 15-21. If you know of one such writer who might want to submit their work for consideration, please share this call for submissions: audacity.substack.com/p/acquired-t...
dreamed I got an email I was waiting for and when I woke up I was lowkey disappointed in myself for having such a boring dream and then double disappointed that I did not in reality have that email
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
dreamed I got an email I was waiting for and when I woke up I was lowkey disappointed in myself for having such a boring dream and then double disappointed that I did not in reality have that email
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Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
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buttondown.com/charliejane/...
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Excellent speech by @charliejane.bsky.social about imagination in service to society. Great stuff.
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
THIS
THIS
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"What these pundits are nudging us to do, ever so politely, is accept that women, in the main, are accustomed to being a little degraded, a little underpaid and ignored and dampened in their ambitions, in ways that men are not and never will be."
THIS
THIS
reached the end credits on Hades II and if that's not a good way to spend an All Hallows I don't know what is 👻⌛
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
reached the end credits on Hades II and if that's not a good way to spend an All Hallows I don't know what is 👻⌛
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Great job, everyone, we did it again
November 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Great job, everyone, we did it again
call and response, but it's just you and your auditory mimic cat screaming modem start-up noises back and forth at each other across the house
October 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
call and response, but it's just you and your auditory mimic cat screaming modem start-up noises back and forth at each other across the house
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Reminder to disable biometrics on your phone before attending any protests. If police ask for the passcode, you do not have to provide it.
October 18, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Reminder to disable biometrics on your phone before attending any protests. If police ask for the passcode, you do not have to provide it.
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When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot
October 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
When people ask me what I think about using AI in writing I’m going to send them this screenshot
love when my library holds from 2+ months ago finally come in and now present Alex must figure out what made past Alex need to read A SHROPSHIRE LAD and ANGLE OF REPOSE
October 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
love when my library holds from 2+ months ago finally come in and now present Alex must figure out what made past Alex need to read A SHROPSHIRE LAD and ANGLE OF REPOSE
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
October 4, 2025 at 5:38 AM
If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.
me, a Serious Writer: do you know how many pomegranates I've eaten and how many kpop dance classes I've taken to for this project
September 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
me, a Serious Writer: do you know how many pomegranates I've eaten and how many kpop dance classes I've taken to for this project
okay, KATABASIS may be my favorite book of 2025-- I am open to being surprised, but as a fellow academic and underworld-lover MY GOODNESS THIS WAS A STUNNER
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
okay, KATABASIS may be my favorite book of 2025-- I am open to being surprised, but as a fellow academic and underworld-lover MY GOODNESS THIS WAS A STUNNER
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Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
September 16, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Strange Horizons published our first issue 25 years ago this month! 🎉
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
Thank you to everyone who has ever read, shared, submitted, donated! We wouldn't be here without you and we hope you'll continue to support us into the future!
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Hey! Are you sure being on social media is what you need right now? Maybe you'd be better served by a book, a Discord call with friends, or diving face-first into a tub of chocolate pudding.
If socials are right? Then great. But please be good to yourselves.
If socials are right? Then great. But please be good to yourselves.
September 11, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Hey! Are you sure being on social media is what you need right now? Maybe you'd be better served by a book, a Discord call with friends, or diving face-first into a tub of chocolate pudding.
If socials are right? Then great. But please be good to yourselves.
If socials are right? Then great. But please be good to yourselves.