Alex Koppel
@arsduo.bsky.social
book reader, staff engineer at Slack, @awesomefoundgta.bsky.social organizer, 🏳️🌈, he/him.
Just realized we never updated Oscaround, our Oscars tracking website, with last year's winners 🤦😅
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
November 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Just realized we never updated Oscaround, our Oscars tracking website, with last year's winners 🤦😅
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
That's now updated, thanks to the shiny new superuser "Set as Winner" buttons!
Having a great rainy afternoon digging back into our Oscars website and building for fun again ✨
November 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Having a great rainy afternoon digging back into our Oscars website and building for fun again ✨
Got to see Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence at @tiffnet.bsky.social tonight—a strange, beautiful, haunting movie about a girls' boarding school where new students arrive to the walled-off campus in coffins. I'll be thinking about this movie for a while.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Got to see Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence at @tiffnet.bsky.social tonight—a strange, beautiful, haunting movie about a girls' boarding school where new students arrive to the walled-off campus in coffins. I'll be thinking about this movie for a while.
Book 34: Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social. A fantastic, rewarding graphic novel with the space to tell its rich story fully. A+, easily one of my new favourites.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Book 34: Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social. A fantastic, rewarding graphic novel with the space to tell its rich story fully. A+, easily one of my new favourites.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
All of that and *also* a powerful and moving sharing of a schizoaffective character's experience. Can't recommend this enough.
Had the great pleasure of seeing @edgarwright.bsky.social's The Running Man tonight at @tiffnet.bsky.social! A sharp, funny, and beautifully realized dystopia with so many delightful beats. Great director Q&A afterwards too 👏
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Had the great pleasure of seeing @edgarwright.bsky.social's The Running Man tonight at @tiffnet.bsky.social! A sharp, funny, and beautifully realized dystopia with so many delightful beats. Great director Q&A afterwards too 👏
Matthew 7:21-23 is really clear about the kind of folks whose political platform is their Christianity:
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Matthew 7:21-23 is really clear about the kind of folks whose political platform is their Christianity:
![A Final Indignity: Cuomo's White Ford Bronco Got a Parking Ticket
Thanks to an eagle-eyed New Yorker, who saw the car illegally parked outside of the ex-gov's Sutton Place apartment on Wednesday, and reported it to 311.
["and reported it to 311" is underlined with a laughing turtle clip art next to it]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:dj2zpew3hkeqf42i5l5k43uy/bafkreif53tpnmvynxbtynvsx6ygqqpnrhbyemrfjdvbnaozre5zjm6j6oi@jpeg)
Just returned my newly past job's work laptop! Treating myself to a coffee and cookie and read in a cafe I've never been to 💖
November 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Just returned my newly past job's work laptop! Treating myself to a coffee and cookie and read in a cafe I've never been to 💖
Last week just disappeared into Halloween, eh?
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
November 3, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Last week just disappeared into Halloween, eh?
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
Finally back at the laptop. Today's goal: get the Oscar pool invite infrastructure built out. 🧑💻
✅ forgot to follow up on this one—got the predictions moved into their own database table and all the dependencies updated.
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 PM
✅ forgot to follow up on this one—got the predictions moved into their own database table and all the dependencies updated.
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
Next week will be a sprint to build Oscar pools!
I picked up an [😬😅] number of books at the @thebookpeople.ca event tonight, including the first in @marthawells.com's so-highly-recommended Murderbot series and @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's amazing-looking new book You Weren't Meant To Be Human. Very excited for the reading ahead!
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I picked up an [😬😅] number of books at the @thebookpeople.ca event tonight, including the first in @marthawells.com's so-highly-recommended Murderbot series and @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social's amazing-looking new book You Weren't Meant To Be Human. Very excited for the reading ahead!
Our local bookstore @thebookpeople.ca threw an amazing social event tonight! I walked in right as @meakoopa.bsky.social was reading from Dayspring and even gave an impromptu reading myself from a book I loved -- so great to be in community, so glad for a space like them 💖
October 31, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Our local bookstore @thebookpeople.ca threw an amazing social event tonight! I walked in right as @meakoopa.bsky.social was reading from Dayspring and even gave an impromptu reading myself from a book I loved -- so great to be in community, so glad for a space like them 💖
Awesome! I donated $100 for now -- happy to match more if I have some capacity after a day or two.
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Awesome! I donated $100 for now -- happy to match more if I have some capacity after a day or two.
Awesome! Just matched that, and am also submitting it to my work to get an additional match 🙂
October 31, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Awesome! Just matched that, and am also submitting it to my work to get an additional match 🙂
Book 33: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and @sanatakeda.bsky.social. Epic in every sense.
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Book 33: Monstress by Marjorie Liu and @sanatakeda.bsky.social. Epic in every sense.
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
Rereading the first six volumes and catching up on the rest highlighted the incredible scope of the story and world, juxtaposed with Maika's intimate emotional arc. The art is stunning, I lingered on every page. 💯
Book 32: ??!?!? ??!!!???!, the first eight chapters of a friend's novel set in the Viking era. It's really excellent, queer and thoughtful and engaging—can't wait to read the rest of the story and for it to be out in the world someday!
October 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Book 32: ??!?!? ??!!!???!, the first eight chapters of a friend's novel set in the Viking era. It's really excellent, queer and thoughtful and engaging—can't wait to read the rest of the story and for it to be out in the world someday!
Book 31: Excession by Iain M Banks. A good Culture novel, though not my favourite (despite how cool the premise sounded). Banks does his usual good job working with an unlikeable protagonist and with multiple different strands that come together, but all in all it didn't quite gel for me.
October 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Book 31: Excession by Iain M Banks. A good Culture novel, though not my favourite (despite how cool the premise sounded). Banks does his usual good job working with an unlikeable protagonist and with multiple different strands that come together, but all in all it didn't quite gel for me.
Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)
October 26, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Book 30: The Oblivion Bride by @caitlinstarling.com. A fun queer romance-by-way-of-a-deadly-curse—I liked the world of magic-powered tech and I liked the central relationship. (I may be developing a taste for novellas!)
Book 29: The Iron Below Remembers by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. I came for the combo of academia and superheroics set against a cool inversion of our colonial history—you should come for that and also for its delightful and unabashed horniness 😉 I'd gladly read more in this world!
October 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Book 29: The Iron Below Remembers by @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. I came for the combo of academia and superheroics set against a cool inversion of our colonial history—you should come for that and also for its delightful and unabashed horniness 😉 I'd gladly read more in this world!
"the Babadook, like most queer people, has made a zine"—@meakoopa.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
"the Babadook, like most queer people, has made a zine"—@meakoopa.bsky.social
Been looking forward to Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social for months—excited to finally have my copy in my hands 🍂
October 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Been looking forward to Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social for months—excited to finally have my copy in my hands 🍂
Sneaking in at the last minute
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Sneaking in at the last minute
adorned for the holiday
October 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
adorned for the holiday
Merry Canadian Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! And a good and powerful Indigenous People's Day too
October 13, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Merry Canadian Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! And a good and powerful Indigenous People's Day too