Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 12hAt first I was expecting a Lil' Abner crossover event. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026And that's why we don't let dogs fight fires. 021
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026My money is on Barstow. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 14/10/2026You can't beat 'em all. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 13/10/2026That lady has a lot of faith in psychiatrists. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 09/10/2026This one is genuinely devastating and I must know more. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Today I learned that Kermit likes the occasional martini. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'll take "Americans who aren't me" for $500. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Respect for the Kung Fu Hustle cosplay. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026AI gives me: "“Consolidated neck bones” means fused cervical vertebrae: some of the normally separate bones of the neck have grown together into a rigid unit. Kangaroo rats and many whales really do have this trait, though the comic’s claim that they’re the only mammals with it is wrong." 120
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 07/09/2026From back in the day when Ceres was considered a planet! 021
Reposted by Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander)Alex Zalben @azalben.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.comimaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas. 45121505977
Reposted by Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander)Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 15/08/2026 11982721232
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 04/07/2026If I had a complaint (I don't), it would be that it gives me too much information about the why. It's eager to prove that everything it does is well-justified. I'll take that over the alternative, however. 000
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Claude Fable 5 is incredible for software development. I don't know if AI is self-aware or not, but it might as well be. #claude 220
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Me: this cannot possibly be my timeline 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. :) 000
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 24/11/2025I did not believe the plumb line thing, but apparently it is true! medium.com/roaming-phys...medium.comUsing a Mountain to Weigh the WorldThe story of how Schiehallion was chosen for Maskelyne’s famous experiment 010
Reposted by Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander)Kelly Starling Lyons @kelstarly.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Join Judy Allen Dodson and me for a virtual Friday program centering banned and challenged picture books. RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... It's in support of the national Fall of Freedom initiative & hosted by the Raleigh-Durham chapter of @authorsguild.org. Please tune in and share. 055
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 18/11/2025The lightning factoid must have sounded a lot more impressive in 1935. 010
Reposted by Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander)Monica Carol Miller @monicacmiller.bsky.social · 18/11/2025We need libraries for so many reasons. www.11alive.com/article/news...11alive.comGeorgia Public Libraries generate $3.75 return for every dollar invested, new study findsGeorgia's public libraries generated $1.06 billion in services in fiscal year 2024, supporting 5,488 jobs and producing $3.75 of value per public dollar. 61011346
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 22/10/2025The power of librarians. 020
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 18/10/2025The Durham event was huge and peaceful! Heartening to attend. 030
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Just joined! Thanks for the tip. 020
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Looking forward to Helena Haywoode Henry's launch event for her debut YA, LAST CHANCE LIVE!, on Tuesday night at Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh NC. She'll be in conversation with Kwame Mbalia. @quailridgebooks.bsky.social @helenahenry.bsky.social @kwamembalia.bsky.social 021
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Cannot wait to see it this weekend. www.endlessmode.com/anime/demon-... #demonslayerendlessmode.comDemon Slayer Film Passes 30 Billion Yen, On Pace To Become Japan's Highest-Grossing Movie EverAhead of its global release this week, the new Demon Slayer film has become the fastest movie to reach 30 billion yen at Japan's box office. 030
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Impressive! Congratulations. Next up: Candy? 😀 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Congrats to Jen Pawol on becoming Major League Baseball's first female umpire. She's been umping in the minors for years. www.mlb.com/news/jen-paw... #mlbmlb.comSet to become 1st female MLB umpire, Pawol represents beacon of hope and progressNEW YORK -- Jen Pawol was in the middle of umpiring a Triple-A game Wednesday night when Nashville Sounds third baseman Oliver Dunn identified some exciting common ground between them. “When I make it... 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 28/07/2025Al Green's soundtrack to Blade Runner was transcendent. 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Please support the workers, @redsox.com . www.reddit.com/r/baseball/c...reddit.comBREAKING: Fenway concession workers could strike for the first time in the stadium’s 113 year history. The union has given food and beverage company Aramark 48 hours to offer a new contract. Otherwise... 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Background needs more rocks. 010
Reposted by Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander)Robin Kirk @robinkirk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I enjoyed Mark Kurlansky's Big Lies, a nonfiction book for kids. At a time when political lies are everywhere, Kurlansky urges us to look at everything with a critical eye and strengthen the systems that bring liars to account #humanrights #kidlit robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-liesrobinkirk.substack.comBig LiesAn interview with Mark Kurlansky 043
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Slow news day in Biloxi! 010
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 16/04/2025I don't know if I can't do without it, but a cat on my lap helps. 120
Reposted by Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander)Chris Barton @bartography.bsky.social · 12/04/2025A week from today is the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. @fuse8.bsky.social's review of ALL OF A SUDDEN AND FOREVER, my 2020 book about it, still means a lot to me: "It’s a book that is meant to help you learn how to heal & recover & hope..." afuse8production.slj.com/2020/04/19/r...afuse8production.slj.comReview of the Day: All of a Sudden and Forever by Chris Barton and Nicole XuIf we are talking about events that change us all and that we must collectively heal from (whether literally or figuratively) then this book might be precisely what we need. Because this isn’t just a... 172
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This is why I dropped all subscriptions to US news media. 030
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I asked them that question, after comparing the place to a prison camp. Their answer: "Safety." Someone is quite unlikely to break into your house in the middle of the night in a place like that. I told them I could see how being 80yo might sway one's thinking on this. 000
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 18/03/2025The place is a snakepit. Neighbors report each other for violations like doing a 3-point turn in someone's else's driveway (not allowed, I was informed when I did it). It's like a minimum-security prison where the inmates are also the guards. 100
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Sundown towns: Last year, I visited elderly relatives in a newly built gated development in South Carolina, akin to a large town, catering to retirees. At all of the entrances to this extensive development were signs warning that outside workers were not allowed on the premises after 5PM. 100
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 11/03/2025"Real food used in the banquet scene!" - marketing in 1900 020
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Yank here. Individual states can't supersede federal laws. For example, a red state can't re-impose slavery, as much as they might want to, because it is illegal on the federal level. Another: red states couldn't outlaw abortion until they packed the Supreme Court enough to overturn Roe v Wade. 000
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025I canceled my Post subscription last November, and everything that has happened since then has validated that decision. 030
Stephen Messer (aka Zeno Alexander) @stephenmesser.bsky.social · 10/03/2025This is great stuff, thank you. I have many abandoned twitter accounts out there. 010
