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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I saw this on an ao3 appreciation post on tiktok and i cant stop thinking about it its so perfect

Ao3 screenshot saying: Notes: English is not my first language and I don’t want it to be. Any mistakes are made out of pure hatred and disrespect for this language. The English have taken enough from this world, I will not let them have my tongue as well. Thank you.

Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

That's it. I'm marking all as read in my email inbox. I can't do this anymore. Now, to find the willpower to migrate from gmail to something else...

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

There is so much and varied beautiful weirdness to be found in Sword and Sorcery, and it deserves better than to be confined to a narrow cliche.

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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

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(I'm sorry I don't have time to type this whole thing as alt text my poor thumbs owww)

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Honestly, I don't want to hear about how near-future novels are too pessimistic or without hope. Look at the goddamn world around you. This is peak dystopia.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

You mean Ópal the candy, the joy of children, the ancestral bridge? As liquid, the mirth-maker, hangover-harbinger, poetry-mead descendant? I will tolerate no slander.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Iceland is a volcano Iceland is an earthquake Iceland is an avalanche Iceland is a shipwreck Iceland is a snowstorm Cattle-killer, harvest-failure, hunger-maker Experience it.

Streetsign ad for a tourist experience that states: Iceland is a volcano - experience it.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Tonight we stay in Borðeyri right next to the shoreline. The waves probably crash into the window during storms.

View from a window of the very nearby sea at Borðeyri, Iceland.

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Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Not all books are meant to survive their generation. Times change, social attitudes change; aesthetics change. Editing and re-editing a book to keep it palatable for modern readers is like trying to keep a person alive long after their body has given up. Let books die when their time is over.

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Tsveira @phantasm.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

This is still an all timer from her tbh

isabela @the4thbondsmith • 1d
i want to play magic the gathering with a girl who hits me when i lose

Halimede @HalimedeMF •1h
this is self-harm. please don't resort to that

isabela @the4thbondsmith • 11m
it's not self harm if another girl is doing it to me >.< beautiful women hurting me is one of my favorite activities you wouldn't deprive a girl of her hobbies would you

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what? no. consensual bdsm is fine. of course. I'm a lesbian - do you think I'm some kind of prude??? I mean the magic gathering part

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Icecon 2028 @icecon.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Thank you to all who attended IceCon 2026. Hopefully you had a great weekend with us. Special thanks to our guests of honor Gunnar Birgisson @fannargg.bsky.social @alexanderdan.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social I hope to see many more of you in 2028. Ella

The guests of honor, left to right:
Gunnar Birgisson
Fannar Georg Gilbertsson
Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson
Edward Ashton

Guests of honor looking towards Ella who is standing behind a podium

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Icecon this year was so great, thank you to everyone who came!

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

The author readings at @icecon.bsky.social last night were brilliant! If you've not read @edashtonwriting.bsky.social, @villimeymist.bsky.social, @emilhpetersen.bsky.social & @alexanderdan.bsky.social you need to get them on your #TBR STRAX! (ie stat!) Thanks to all for a fab day! #BookSky #Iceland

Edward Ashton on a stool by a mic stand, in front of a pink DJ desk, reading an apocalyptic 'listicle'

Villimey Mist on a stool by a mic stand, in front of a pink DJ desk, reading from book one of her vampire series, where the character meets her first ghoul

Emil Hjörvar Pétursson on a stool by a mic stand, in front of a pink DJ desk, reading the prologue of his book, about an android woman working at the Ásbyrgi visitor Centre when a cataclysm hits

Alexander Dan standing by a mic stand, in front of a pink DJ desk, reading from his mission to make cosy romantasy as depressing as possible 😂

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Dead Weight is out TODAY! 🎉🥳 It's translated by the very talented @maryrobinettekowal.com, it got a starred review from Publisher's Weekly and a bunch of very nice blurbs from people I admire a LOT. It's available wherever books are sold*! (*In the US, UK rights are still up for grabs!)

publishersweekly.com

Dead Weight by Hildur Knútsdóttir

A woman leading a routine life is pushed by circumstance to violent extremes in this impressively subtle and slow-burning psycho...

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

"The new ambition isn’t to keep scaling new heights — it’s to cling to what you already have."

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Franchesca Ramsey @chescaleigh.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

why does the “you can’t fight it” rhetoric around AI feel so familiar?? 🤔

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Finally someone is asking the real questions

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Nobody needs to use Google Search anymore. Just switch.

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

“Help! Being a fraud is too much hard work!”

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Icecon 2028 @icecon.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Það er alveg að koma að því. Hátíðin hefst föstudagskvöldið 29. maí og um að gera að skrá sig sem fyrst. It's almost time. IceCon begins Friday evening, May 29th, and you should register ASAP. icecon-reykjavik.is @alexanderdan.bsky.social @fannargg.bsky.social @edashtonwriting.bsky.social

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I see no lies here

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Óli Sindri @olisindri.is · 15/12/2025

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

This is the joy they would deprive us of.

Two famous art pieces. Above: Frieren drawn from below in a flawed perspective. Below: Famous art restoration failure of Ecce Home, Christ crowned with thorns.

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𝕃.𝕁.𝔽𝕆𝕏 🇮🇸☕📚 @onefootiniceland.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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 🤩

Three smiling Reykjavík firemen (L-R: Hlynur, Ásgeir & Stebbi) and a fire station worker & crime author Anna Margrét Sigurðardóttir seated on a stage in a church

Guðjón Helgason interviewing Author Eliza Reid on a stage in a church, her book Death of A Diplomat/Death on the Island (UK/US) is on the table

Icelandic Guest of Honour author Hildur Knútsdóttir laughing on stage with author Alexander Dan. Her books The Night Guest and Dead Weight are on the table

Selfie of 2 smiling women, one middle aged blonde curly haired, with glasses, and one younger with straight darker hair

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

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.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

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.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

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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Haukur @haukur.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

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

Writing sample on lined paper of a Sailor 1911 L in medium-fine, Sailor blue-black ink; Pilot Falcon in soft-medium, iroshizuku yama-budo ink,; Cinnamoroll gel pen in black; and Blackwing 602 pencil, along with each writing instrument on top of the page.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

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.

Cover of the novel “Kasia og Magdalena” by Hildur Knútsdóttir.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

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.

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Alexander Dan @alexanderdan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

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.

Eruption in Grindavík, fissure volcano approx. 500 meters from the town of Grindavík.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

jupiter wishes you a very happy trans day of visibility 🏳️‍⚧️

The planet Jupiter with its cloud bands seen in shades of pink, rusty red, blue, and purple. The Great Red Spot is a deep navy blue, surrounded by bands and swirls of pink, and light blue.

Hubble's ultraviolet view of Jupiter shows the planet in hues of pink and blue.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 27/03/2025

”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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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.

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

You should listen to this book!

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