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Alex Feinman

@afeinman@wandering.shop
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Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist.

Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer.

I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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Joined March 30, 2023
Tags I follow include::
#pixelArt, #ttrpg, #math, #amWriting, ...
Why did this guy randomly like one of my posts?:
Probably saw it through a hashtag or boost.

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Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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Alex Feinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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@afeinman@wandering.shop · Mar 01, 2026
It says something that I don't even remember which war this was about originally.
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I have just spent the evening calculating how many defleshed human skulls it would take to collapse inside their own Schwartzschild Radius and create a black hole (roughly 16.5 solar masses, or 2 x 10
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Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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Alex Feinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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@afeinman@wandering.shop · Feb 27, 2026
@cstross@wandering.shop "You don't get to be the skull god by thinking, yeah, that's a reasonable amount of skulls"
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This Quiz was motivated because I'm thinking of using the term "instar" in an SF novel set in a culture that practices serial reincarnation (using technology): is it reasonable to use "instar" to deno
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Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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Alex Feinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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@afeinman@wandering.shop · Dec 19, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I use it to refer to the various Doctors Who, but may be an outlier.
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RESEARCH QUESTION (for work): I know what an instar is
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Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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Alex Feinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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@afeinman@wandering.shop · Dec 19, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop I do, but nowadays wonder if people think instar stands for "involuntary Starmer supporter" or something
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The novel I'm working on at the moment WILL use adversarial poetry as a plot point in the middle of a (futuristic) bank heist: vaults may be protected by an anti-sphinx as well as conventional locks (
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@cstross@wandering.shop Bad doggerel? Sounds like a job for an LLM! (/sarc)
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@afeinman@wandering.shop There will of course be Idiot Bank Guards who can't spout doggerel on demand so use an LLM to pre-write their poetry slams, resulting in a security breach (eg. guard remembere
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Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

wandering.shop
Alex Feinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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@afeinman@wandering.shop · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Using one is the security equivalent of taping the password to the monitor...
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The novel I'm working on at the moment WILL use adversarial poetry as a plot point in the middle of a (futuristic) bank heist: vaults may be protected by an anti-sphinx as well as conventional locks (
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afeinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

wandering.shop
Alex Feinman
Alex Feinman
@afeinman@wandering.shop

Obligate infovore; I write fantasy, sci fi, and software. All posts made with 100% recycled electrons, sustainably crafted by artisanal artisans. He*/him/his. Doctor, if you absolutely insist. Nothing said here should be construed as in any way connected to my daytime employer. I boost and star freely. Boosts of my stuff are jes' fine. I control follow requests to avoid scrapers and spammers, is not personal.

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@afeinman@wandering.shop · Nov 22, 2025
@cstross@wandering.shop Bad doggerel? Sounds like a job for an LLM! (/sarc)
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