Alexander Danner

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There's no one whose book recommendations I enjoy more than Josh's!

Josh Cook@joshthelibromancer.bsky.social

3. You can get a book recommendations newsletter that's not on a Nazi friendly playform! My monthly recommends an old book, a new book, a forthcoming book, and a book I haven't finished. It's fun! The books are almost all small press & all weird!

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@radiantg.bsky.social

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So in a radical career pivot, after not being invited back to teach this semester, I have taken up events bartending. It's been a little over a week now, but so far...I kinda really like it? It's so refreshing to have a job that I leave and go home, and don't have to keep doing!

Ultimately, I'd like to move into a real cocktail bar. I enjoy craft cocktails, both at bars and at home, and love the creativity that goes into them. What I mostly get to make now is like...vodka sodas. Experience the absence of flavor! It's refreshing when someone orders an Old Fashioned.

Also, attendees at catered events don't tip much. Best I've done in a day is $50. But shoutout to the National Association of Gay Pilots for being the best tippers so far. It would help if we were allowed to put out a tip jar, but you know... *aesthetics.* 😡

It gets me out of the house many more hours than teaching did, but the majority of my work hours when teaching were at home. And it was so hard to set boundaries around when I was working and when I wasn't. Now, I'm either working or not, and it's a clean divide.

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It's also very social work, which is good for me. I don't enjoy being alone much, as most of my work, both professional and personal, has required. Now, I'm home for my creative work, and out for my money work. It's a good separation. And the money work breaks up the solitude of the creative work.

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Ryan Estrada

@ryanestrada.com

16 Sept

One week until Banned Book Club: Color Edition comes out from @ironcircuscomics.bsky.social! (It'll arrive in your local bookstore or library in 3 weeks) Every day until then, I'll share a #BannedBookClubFact Do I have enough facts to last? I dunno, I'm winging this. Let's see.

22 Sept

Same, at the peak of my webcomics days, I had separate bookmarks folders for daily, weekly, and monthly comics, and would start my day by opening one of the folders and clicking "Open all bookmarks." A lot of comics really tailored their sites to support their comic, so there was cohesiveness.

Oni@onidraws.bsky.social

I remember reading people's webcomic in sites they made. It was charming and cool to see so I have a whole bookmarks file and would open that every week. Maybe it wasn't perfect and reach was different, but I think the trap of modern social media is to stay there and taking the risk to lose it all.

22 Sept

The site wasn't just a portal to access the comic, it was part of the experience of the comic, with the whole framework aesthetically of a piece. I miss it!

21 Sept

Absolutely mind-boggling to me that this hasn't been a top-level dem priority every single time they have any amount of power.

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JRho

@jrho.bsky.social

6 Sept

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

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Meghan Fitzmartin

@megfitz89.bsky.social

6 Sept

This weekend is a reminder of the GREAT audio dramas coming this month. @woodenovercoats.bsky.social - Rudyard on the Moon (+ the mini series coming!) @tincanaudio.co.uk and @gejwatts.bsky.social have a new AD you can get on bandcamp - The Bird Roads @gabrielurbina.com - NEW HARBINGERS NEXT WEEK

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Ryan Estrada

@ryanestrada.com

4 Sept

Separating the art from the artist with JK Rowling is like separating the girl scout cookies from the girl scouts. Your opinion on the cookies is irrelevant, their purpose is to fund scouting. Which is good! But if every cent funded hate groups, it'd be bad, even if the cookies were yummy as hell

So, with the new semester about to start, Emerson still hasn't told me whether or not I have a job this semester. I'm going to go ahead and assume I don't. And even if they asked me this late, I'd decline. My teaching career has come to an end. I'm okay with this. I saw it coming from last semster.

(I know the student who organized it follows me on here, but I'm not sure of his handle--I hope he knows how much it really meant to me!)

1 Sept

Ha ha, okay, there you are, I see you. 🙂

I got hired by a catering company for events bartending, so that's a starting place. I hope to find my way into a craft cocktail bar more longterm. I'm excited about this! I love making cocktails, especially when I get to be creative with it. And it'll be nice to have work that I can leave at work.

So anyway...that's some stuff going on. I had a good run as a teacher. 2008 -- 2026. I loved working with my students. Some of the relationships I built there continue on, and that's deeply gratifying. But moving on to something new feels good to.

(I know the student who organized it follows me on here, but I'm not sure of his handle--I hope he knows how much it really meant to me!)

So what's next? More sound design. Really focusing on finishing @greaterpodston.bsky.social. Plans with the good folks at Imploding Fictions. I expect to be available to take on more paid work if anyone needs a writer or sound designer. As a dayjob...I think I'm getting into bartending?

(It's nothing personal--the incoming class is very small, and they're overstaffed, so they just left all the adjuncts hanging in limbo. I suspect the goal is for us to self-select out so they don't have to actually terminate us.)

I was open about what was happening with my students, and on the last day of the semester, I arrived to what turned out to be my surprise funeral! They all wrote eulogies for me, and it was about as heartwarming as you can imagine. Truly the best possible note to end on.

My wife is drunk. But so am I. We are taking a Lyft.

@librarybrandy.bsky.social

I am flirting with my wife via blue sky. That's how these things work. Now you know.

My wife is drunk. But so am I. We are taking a Lyft.

She's also really hot. Did you know my wife is hot? I certainly know it.

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CocoEagle

@cocoeagle.bsky.social

20 Aug

I cannot express this any better.... the frustration is real

@theameliaproject.bsky.social

14 Aug

I knew it was coming this summer, but now it has officially happened. My baby boy is taller than I am. ♥️

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The Amelia Project

14 Aug

Still buzzing from our audio drama event on the Thames! So lovely to meet listeners and old friends, make new friends, and it was a special honour that @alexanderdanner.bsky.social came over from the US for the first screenings of Delivery after Dark! We hope to do something like it again next year!

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The Amelia Project

@theameliaproject.bsky.social

8 Aug

What a week! 3 Amelia shows in which you voted for different outcomes every time. 2 previews of our horror “Motion Podcast” Delivery After Dark with sound designer @alexanderdanner.bsky.social An onstage talk about all things audio drama (which descended into sibling rivalry between Pip & Julia!)

2 Aug

@greaterpodston.bluesky.social Wandering Brussels with my family. J: I want the liege waffle I had yesterday. B: I have no idea where that is from here. Me: If we wander the streets randomly enough, we'll find it. Let's try this way. (One block later) Me: There it is! (Dimitri is me.)

31 July

I am drunk with @librarybrandy.bsky.social at a goth bar in Belgium.

@theameliaproject.bsky.social

31 July

Update: still drunk

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The Amelia Project

29 July

Next week we’re taking over Theatreship in London, with a series of events! ⚓️ 3 interactive live shows! ⚓️ A talk hosted by an audio academic from Bucharest! (With @alexanderdanner.bsky.social) ⚓️ 2 screenings of our new “audio film!” 4th, 5th, 6th August! Join us on the Thames! theatreship.co.uk

theatreship.co.ukTheatreshipThe world's largest floating arts centre. Across two historic cargo ships. In the old docks of Canary Wharf.

26 July

I'm having dinner at an English pub in London, and there were Christmas carols playing a moment ago?

you are good love you all goodnighrt

the best use of social meddia is gettin gdrunk and flirting with your already spouse, yes/no?

love

NOBODYS ACTUALLLY ON BLUESKY RIGHT??

The weirdest thing about @librarybrandy.bsky.social figuring out that she's autistic is that she is suddenly much more insistent that soup is inherently *round*.

I'm drunk and watching Yellowjackets, AMA. Joel McHale, holy shit!