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Alexander Chee

@alexanderchee.bsky.social
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Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net

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A Tea Walks Home Alone at Night @teaberryblue.net · 9h
Come work with me!!! BOOM! is hiring a full-time comic editor to the team! This role doesn’t report to me so I won’t be heavily involved in the hiring process, but our whole team is amazing and you’ll get to work with all of us! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote) at Penguin Random House — New York, NY | LinkedIn Jobs
Apply for Editor, BOOM! Studios Open to Remote (Open to Remote) at Penguin Random House in New York, NY. Full-time Mid-Senior level role. See responsibilities, qualifications, and similar jobs on Link...
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Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 8h
This is an important statement people, and especially elected Dems need to really understand. The current Republican project is one of destruction, by design. Yes, they have other goals, in RFK’s case he’s objectively pro-disease, but their primary metric of success is breaking government.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 45m
Many congratulations
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 13h
In Gaza, 15-year-old Aboud suffers from epilepsy & severe, sudden seizures that are becoming more frequent without medication. His condition is worsening, but his family cannot afford his expensive treatment. He urgently needs $160 for his Keppra epilepsy treatment💔 chuffed.org/project/1844...
Picture of Abood with a text 
"I'm Abood from Gaza"
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 3h
Oh yes
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 15h
We’re moving 10,000 low-income children off the child care voucher waitlist — at absolutely no cost to their families. Eligible families with children ages 6 weeks to 13 years, and through age 19 for children with special needs, will be invited to apply for a voucher on a rolling basis.
Mayor Mamdani and others make an announcement at a podium with signage that reads “Child Care for all”Children hold hands in front of signage that reads “Child Care for all”
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 9h
New York, it’s official. We’re extending our Open Play program to keep select fields lit at night for free pickup soccer this fall & next summer. Restarting tonight, you can play soccer from 10pm-2am at select parks in all 5 boroughs. Drop in or sign up online. Locations/details at nycopenplay.com
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spooky rachel @introspectre.online · 6h
this is one of the best headlines i have ever seen www.washingtonpost.com/gender-ident...
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‘Katy Perry, please stop,’ begged a nun. Then she collapsed and died.
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 11h
Thread: Late this afternoon and early evening. Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @scootercasterny.bsky.social on X NOW: Thousands march through Cornell University campus, demanding Justice for Jane Doe. Chants: "Tear Down the Fkn Frats!" and "Fuck off Kotlikoff!" Posted 5:53 pm · Oct 5, 2026
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6h
NY theater folks and/or gay history folks (my people!): Kramer/Fauci is about to become a very hot ticket, and deservedly so. Go if you can. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/t...
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‘Kramer/Fauci’ Review: A Thrilling Episode From the AIDS Battlefield (Gift Article)
Daniel Fish’s staging of a C-SPAN segment reveals the complex yet tender relationship between the fiery Larry Kramer and the diplomatic Anthony Fauci.
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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 13h
Susan Collins's antisemitism did not get enough attention. "I don't think it's a coincidence that ProPublica has as some of its funders George Soros, Donald Sussman, and other [pause] left-wing billionaires."
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 11h
Hilarious. No, just gay.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 12h
I don't want to be reckless but I bet I would be.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 14h
I understand that paywalls are annoying, but the grim reality for everything right now, is if you want something to exist, you have to put money towards it. Every creative person is having their life's work hoovered up by AI companies. Layoffs never end. Private equity keeps making things worse.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 14h
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 15h
this is concerning enough that I'm going to ask about this or similar policies/practices before agreeing to speak to ANY journalist on or off the record. if you can't promise me in writing that this isn't happening, that's the end of the conversation.
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 15h
it is interesting that I can't find any mainstream media coverage of Altman's sister Annie going viral on social media over the weekend for uploading footage of the first hour of her deposition in her lawsuit against him (one of two) in which she is alleging years of CSA
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Accept ‘bad things’ in return for benefits of AI, says Sam Altman
Boss of OpenAI calls for a regulatory light touch because of the ‘good stuff’ the technology can deliver
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16h
Foolishly left for the UK without any of my hand fans, never again.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 19h
Thanks friend!
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 19h
As always, when a devastating new report about book bans in America is published, I challenge you to think less about the most banned author — Stephen King is fine — and more about the banned authors who are trying to scrabble together a living from their art. pen.org/report/book-...
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A Spotlight on School Book Bans
Nearly 12,000 books were banned in public schools during the 2025-2026 school year, according to PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 21h
I don't know who needs to hear this, but the autonomous vehicle developers who most vocally argued that society must accept a certain number of deaths to enjoy the technology's safety benefits (Tesla & Uber ATG) were the only ones who killed people and never actually delivered on their promises
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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 21h
People in jail have the right to vote, but it's rarely accessible. I wrote about how Dallas election officials basically mocked the rights of the legally innocent. boltsmag.org/dallas-count...
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Dallas County Jail Adds Election Day Polling Place After Pressure from Activists - Bolts
Last summer, Dallas County Sheriff Marian Brown sat inside her car to record a video to post on social media talking about voting inside her jail. Progressive activists had been... Read More
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 21h
been thinking about this a lot lately -- AI seems like a tech that inherently creates economic "doom loops" that extract value from original creative work while destroying the financial incentives to produce more of it ruining culture while making itself worse futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the Economy
The AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The young roofers who fled the ICE agents into the trees around the house and stayed there, that is something I won't forget.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I know some folks won't read a Substack, so here's her same coverage at The Addison Independent: www.addisonindependent.com/2026/10/01/t...
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Terror in the Backyard: ICE’s shadow surges in Vermont
Liza Cochran, author of Brave Little Voices, delves deep into the Aug. 8 ICE raid of Mary Richards’s home in Cornwall.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Linda Lindas are too photogenic
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
jail
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thank you, Wendy!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you!
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still amazed to be paying federal taxes.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I would also have a crazy dead-man file.
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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 04/10/2026
how am I gonna explain to my therapist that 149,000 people on twitter want me dead
tweet that says “we need to go back in time and kill the wendys social media manager from 2017”
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I’m so glad it’s finally out. Thank you!
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Small victory
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After Outcry, Monitors the Trump Administration Tried to Scrap Return to Sea (Gift Article)
Under pressure from Congress, a network of ocean monitors that provides vital data to meteorologists, climate scientists, oceanographers and the fishing industry is being restored.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
a beautifully dressed man: yasuto kamoshita
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Julio Peña III @juliopenabk.com · 04/10/2026
The former chair of the BK Dems is trying to call a meeting at 10pm tonight to pick a new chair, in defiance of a judge’s order and using rules that the court struck down. No one should attend this meeting. Democrats respect the results of elections and the rule of law.
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I don’t think I’m ever going to get the appeal of pivoting to video for podcasts. I’ve been listening to podcasts for 20 years, and never once have I thought, my God, I need to SEE these people! I’m on a walk or doing the dishes, I don’t need video. 
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks Alma!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thanks so much, Chuck!
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN making this sound more mysterious than it is. It was Yersinia pestis, the plague, the researcher died because she inhaled it into her lungs and developed pneumonic plague, there is no danger but to those directly exposed in the lab. Fear-mongering in the time of global terror is a sick choice.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He doesn’t even look like he believes this.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Not yet but soon. Thank you!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What an amazing arrangement
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 04/10/2026
It’s genuinely remarkable how complete the consensus around anti-Black racism as an unremarkable feature of public and political life has become.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank you, your Grace!
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tis I indeed. Surprise! Thank you.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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