Valerie Alexander

Cannot wait to move back to Boston.

#scottsdalenokings #nokingsaz #nokingsscottsdale

The real King. #nokings #scottsdalenokings #nokingsaz

People in Bass Pro Shop hats honking for #NoKings. We love to see it.

Arizona represent at #NoKings! #seatgrijalva #scottsdalenokings

#NoKings looking good so far! Even though I'm the loser who forgot to bring her sign. 🙃

More Weight: A Salem Story|Paperback “Every word is an accusation…and every whisper kills.” This staggering graphic novel explores the infamous Salem witch trials and the long shadows they cast more than 300 years late...

"More Weight" by Ben Wickey is such a feast of a book. It's not only a great depiction of the Salem witch trials, but has the reaction of Hawthorne and Longfellow almost 200 years later. My favorite September read. #booksky #graphicnovels
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someone writing and editing

Clients always want the moon, but I have never seen such high expectations for free work from #creatives - and more disturbingly, writers offer to work for free for me 2-3x a month. The power imbalance is so stark right now. #freelance #creativelife #freelancewriter

Re-reading Bradbury's Dandelion Wine and short stories, as I do every summer. "He had been waiting a long, long time in the summer night, as the darkness pressed warmer to the earth and the stars turned slowly over the sky." - At Midnight, in the Month of June

This sounds amazing.

Jurassic Park Rebirth was so mid. I feel like a screenplay about InGen injecting Sea Monkeys with dino DNA would be better.

Home with a flat tire so it looks like it's #Caturday night in.

One of my favorite books.

The energy it must take to be this cruel.

Loving Ron Chernow's Mark Twain bio so far - everything I hoped it would be. #booksky

There's an art to wearing a baseball cap and Kristi Noem doesn't know it. #petty

Office Space Bill

How embarrassing for Elon Musk that he has transformed into the out-of-touch, micromanaging Bill Lumbergh from Office Space.

Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the DAR when they refused to let Marian Anderson perform at Constitution Hall. I really hope we can count on donors & influencers to lead with their voices in a similar fashion. This is chilling.

#Yellowjackets coming back and delivering up a new lesbian couple is all I wanted for Valentine's Day.

Ithaqua | Hammer Films announces new monster movie with a seemingly AI-generated poster Good news: Hammer Films is making a new monster movie: Ithaqua. Not-so-good news: it appears to have used AI to generate the poster.

Hammer Horror coming out with their first new film in 60 years was not on my 2025 bingo card. No candelabras, castles, or Christopher Lee, but I'll take it. filmstories.co.uk/news/ithaqua... #filmclub #horrormovies

Does anyone know of a progressive mentorship program? Meeting with some women this week about maybe setting one up. 1:1 mentoring will be one of the strongest ways to impart real history and actionable advice to anyone young who isn't white, straight, or male.

CEO prospective client just told me I offer no value because "no one reads anymore, I never read anything." What a terrible #freelance timeline to be living in.

When your suave black cat grows in white whiskers to look extra distinguished, it must be #Caturday.

I know Shock Doctrine by Klein and On Tyranny by Snyder are recommended reading right now, but people would also be well served by reading Camus' Resistance, Rebellion, and Death. #booksky

I really thought I was prepared for this week. I'm not.

So Trump revoked Biden's EO on addressing AI risk. There aren't enough knots for my stomach to twist into.

Nothing like hiking a New England forest on a mild winter day.

Did someone say #Caturday? Lux was rescued from the Telegraph Wildfire as a kitten - support animal rescue teams in LA if you can!

These stunned LA evacuees talking numbly about grabbing their cat, a family heirloom, an elderly parent's medication... You realize what life really comes down to.

Impromptu film

Howards end

I'm starting the new year off right by watching the Merchant Ivory documentary. I thought I'd seen most of their oeuvre; it's delightful to realize how wrong I was. #filmclub #movies