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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦

@redantisocial.bsky.social
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Father, Husband, Writer, Browncoat, Padawan, Whovian, EV Enthusiast, Salary Man. Unapologetically Canadian. Sorry. (He/Him) Blog redantisocial.blogspot.com

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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Every time someone says "Tax the Rich", the immediate push back is "Then they'll leave and take the jobs with them!" If they want to leave, let them go. The "jobs" still need to be done. People will still need groceries, Internet connections, cars, and houses. Someone will fill the market.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Big shout to tech, old and new, that don't have AI, or make it easy to disable (so far): Paper books My ancient MacBook CachyOS Firefox (and Floorp) LibreOffice Vinyl Records Notepad++ Scrivener Pen & Paper The cave in the forest (not the one that smells like rotting flesh)
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
This is so far out of hand. Everything doesn't need AI. But it's everywhere I turn: Windows, browsers, phones, cameras, cars, JIRA, GitHub and the constant vibe coded pull requests, TV's, GPU filters, support agents, BOOKS?!?!? ART?!?!?! social media. It's everywhere. I'm tired of turning it off.
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Kevin Gaughen 🇺🇸 @gaughen.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/12/2025
One of the most incredible shots I've ever gotten, in Yellowstone. This coyote walked over a ridge in the blowing snow and posed for me, with a small grin on its face, the snowfalkes like stars in the background. The desolation and beauty of life and nature is grounding, and so good for the soul.
Coyote in the snow.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I'm game!
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
It's the last day for the sale! And like last year 100% of my earnings, regardless of format or sale status, for the month of December is going to be donated to the Mary Cariola Children's Center. Grab one of my books (mybook.to/TheCrowsGambit) or any of the other wonderful books included below!
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The Crow's Gambit
The Crow's Gambit
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Niranjan 🇮🇳 @ormakal.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
So, Blade Broken got nominated for quite a few categories. Thank you everyone who nominated this, and now, it's time to VOTE. #booksky #queersky 📚💙💕🌈📚🖤♿📚🌈📚🪐 indiestorygeek.com/a/indie-ink-...
A parchment paper like background with the cover of Blade Broken on the left, the logo of Indie Ink Awards on the right top corner, and words VOTE FOR BLADE BROKEN heading and bulleted list of categories

Best book cover and cover artist, 
Best friendship, 
Best morally gray character, 
Best setting, 
Prettiest book interior, 
Writing the Future We Need: Bisexual or Biromantic Representation, 
Writing the Future We Need: Gay or Lesbian Representation, 
Writing the Future We Need: LGBTQ+ Representation
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
The r/Fantasy 2025 Holiday Mega Sale is on! You can buy ebooks from over 600 authors (including me) for $0.99 with donations going to the Mary Cariola Children's Center. I'm donating 100% of my earnings for all of December (regardless of format or sale status). #books #sale megasale.yrliu.com
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r/fantasy MegaSale 2025
The 2025 r/fantasy MegaSale. Dec 26-27. All books free or 99 cents. Money going to charity for each sale or download. Brought to you by Wraithmarked Creative and Space Wizard Science Fantasy.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
The cats were right all along...
2 X and Y vectors with an Xmas tree on the X axis and a Ymas tree on the Y axis.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Well that was a nice surprise in my inbox. The Blood of Crows has been nominated for the indieinkawards.com I don't know which categories, or who nominated my book, but if you're seeing this: Thank you!
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Home - Indie Ink Awards
Nominations Now Open Now is your time to vote! Now is your time to nominate your favorite indie and self-published books for the 2025 Indie Book Awards. Nominate your favorite book on IndieStoryGeek. ...
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
You ever get stuck thinking about how you normally don't think about where your tongue rests in your mouth? Yeah... That.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Nothing quite like dusting off decades old html knowledge to hand craft a "pretty" error page. All because it needs to fit within 4kb and the marketing team's software can't barf out less than 160kb. #DayJob
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
We need a word for when someone joins your jam/shareplay and queues a bunch of their songs before yours. Queue-jacking? Jam-jacking? Song-stuffing? Help be out here while I listen to my kid's admittedly good music...
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ok, good catch #BBC, but now I need to go and sign up to the #Bluey newsletter too...
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
I'll report and block it every time. It's always a different advertiser
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Just got it again in the next ad break!!! It looks like the tools are there to solve this?!? Why aren't they being used? Can anyone recommend some good ad blockers for Android and iOS?
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This scam is showing up everywhere. It’s a deepfake of Canada's PM Carney. This BS is why people want to use ad blockers. If #Google / #YouTube can’t effectively block scam ads, why should we be required to watch them? The #Enshitification continues.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
How did the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles make the money they used to pay for all that pizza? 🍕 🍕🍕 🍕
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
We found a Taco and Cheesecake festival near enough for a day trip. It's very "fairground food truck" and I think I'm in heaven.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I've sent some copies of The Blood of Crows and The Blood of Queens to the wonderful @palmerpickering.bsky.social to include on the freebies table just inside the doors of Worldcon in Seattle this weekend. Swing by and pick up some good books (there's more than just mine there!).
The cover of The Blood of Crows, book 1 of The Crow's Gambit, featuring the protagonist, Ren looking at a crystal castle on a mountain top beneath 2 moons in the skyThe cover of The Blood of Queens, book 2 of The Crow's Gambit, featuring the protagonist, Ren crouched in the middle of the street holding a girl wearing a yellow kerchief while the buildings around them burn
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
They definitely have the same ownership landmine as the Google books case. But that can be mitigated by filtering on the class involved. The likelihood of a case like this including 7 million claimants is slim to begin with. But it's a nice scary bully for the AI industry to hold up.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Oh, I didn't have that! Thanks
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
I'm really hoping it has legs
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michelle⁷ @poisonivy47.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
If you need any sources on AI being shitty, I've been collecting and compiling them: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another g...
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
ccianet.org/library/amic... Needless to say I'll be keeping an eye on this one.
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Amicus Brief of TechNet CCIA et al. in Bartz v. Anthopic (9th Cir.) - CCIA
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
"Anthropic warned that a single lawsuit ... over their AI training now threatens to "financially ruin" the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement." Has the financial ruin argument ever worked for an individual? And... Do they promise?
arstechnica.com
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Zim and GIR hadv their one year weigh in and a nail trim at the vet. I think it went well...
GIR, a long haired black cat with bright orange eyes savagely reaching and staring through the bars of her crate.Zim a black and white tuxedo cat relaxing in her carrier with her sister in the background
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I don't know how many of you have noticed, but Goodreads changed their logo typeface and the favicon.ico (the icon on the browser tab) and for the life of me I couldn't find the right tab for a solid minute...
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
I'm so tired of being disappointed... apnews.com/article/meta...
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Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
A federal judge on Wednesday sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train i...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 27/05/2025
Pretty much all of my novels are in these data sets, and I certainly wouldn't mind getting several million in damages. I even have a charitable foundation I could put that money into.
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
So…uhm… I TURNED IN MY NEXT NOVEL TODAY!!!! (Bear Creek Lodge is slated for 2026 from Saga.)
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a black and white photo of a woman smiling and touching her hair .
Alt: Lena Horne looking gorgeous
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
That sort of scorched earth scenario is the worst. It'll feel like forever before everything seems "just right" again. And you'll never know if it's because you fixed everything that was off, or if you've stopped noticing the things that still are.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
That's horrific.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
So many beautiful things are dangerous.
Trees in a backyard covered in a thick sheet of ice.Trees in a backyard covered in a thick sheet of ice. Plenty of broken branches.A shrub coated in ice.
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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
According to Meta's own data, in 2024 they had revenue of $164 billion and a net income -- ie, profit -- of $62 billion. Yet they thought paying me and thousands of other authors anything for the use of our writing was "unreasonably expensive." That's BS. 4/ investor.atmeta.com/investor-new...
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Meta Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2024 Results
Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2024. "We continue to make good progress on AI, glasses, and the future of social ...
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 20/03/2025
Look I have zero excuses for this, but the idea popped into my head and now it's in your head, sorry
A six panel comic. In panel 1, a yellow warbler says "Hey, so I'm going to go out on a limb here". For the next four panels, it hops down along a branch. In the last panel, at the end of the branch, it sings a little song. I'm sorry.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Teach your kids about taxes, different levels of government and their responsibilities for spending this taxes, and where their taxes go. Many schools have Civics and Home Economics classes, but they don't typically get into that much detail, if any.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
First world problem: Nobody teaches you growing up that changing jobs within a year can lead to messy taxes, and sometimes a hefty tax bill. It's a good idea to plan ahead, do the math, and if necessary, put some extra aside. #taxSeason #2thingsInLife
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 20/03/2025
Teen Vogue presents: Introducing Vivian Wilson @thevivllainous.bsky.social In her 2nd-ever interview, the 20-year-old tells @ellayurman.bsky.social about going viral, protecting trans youth, her “pathetic man-child” estranged dad Elon Musk, and more @teenvogue.com www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
Vivian Wilson on the cover of Teen Vogue, with the headline “Introducing Vivian Wilson”. It’s a close up shot of her looking at the camera in a black suit jacket and blue button down
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 10/03/2025
As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life: Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO. I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."
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Sygnin @sygnin.com · 09/03/2025
I wanna make a new starter pack - 🇨🇦 Canadian artists that do commissions! If that’s you & you want to be added, drop a 🇨🇦 in comment! Otherwise, reposts appreciated! Human artists only, no AI or EnFT jokers pls
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Bittersweet news. But @delilahsdawson.bsky.social is a wonderful choice.
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I asked her out every day for a solid month afterwards before she said yes. But she always said, "Maybe?" a little softer each time.
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a man is talking to a woman in a room while wearing a native american shirt .
ALT: a man is talking to a woman in a room while wearing a native american shirt .
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
I asked her to semi-formal in highschool. She said "Uh, no?" To which I replied, "That was fast. Why not?" She looked at me like I had a screw loose, "Because I don't even know you?" From there I launched into a 5-minute autobiography and ended it with, "So, semi-formal?" "Maybe..." 28 years later!
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The energy I bring to Blue sky:
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
A movie you've watched more than six times.
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a man with long hair and a mustache says i do not mean to pry but you do n't
ALT: a man with long hair and a mustache says i do not mean to pry but you do n't
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Alex Pierce 🇨🇦 @redantisocial.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Thanks Shannon.
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