most people don't know this, but if you die in SEO, you die in real life

new website (because I accidentally let the old one expire) esther-alter.com

My website expired and then godaddy registered it?? I guess I don’t have a website anymore??? How do I get it back????

#yiddish speakers: What's a word for "sweetheart" that connotates some condescension and a little misogyny? Asking for a story I'm writing. Right now, I'm using "zissele"

I have a story in this!

"At Escape Pod, there’s Esther Alter’s remarkable “Magical Girl Antifa War Machine”, a brash and fierce story [...] that doesn’t shy away from the dangers and complications (and advantages) of superpowers, and it’s also one of the strangest (and sexiest) stories I read last year.

It’s make a late dinner in a cute sweater o clock

OK actually I want to brag about this. My partition table was: windows linux(/) linux(/home) The / partition was way too small. The windows partition had plenty of free space. But! You can't resize partitions leftward. So, I copied and resized the / partition with the power of dd 1 of 🧵

*nothing* makes me feel more like a hot cyberpunk hacker than successfully running dd on drive partitions several times in a row

Laid off :/ I know: - Unity C# - Rust - Python 8 years at MIT, another 7ish elsewhere. Anyone got anything? #rust #python #unity3d #softwaredevelopment

Three days, slightly under $3k to go in order to fund WHAT ELEGANT STARS, a space opera & fashion anthology that I am deeply, deeply excited to write for ... if it gets funded. www.kickstarter.com/projects/dav...

I’m probably about to have a bad day but on the other hand my writing is getting a lot of attention and I took my shot this morning and I’m looking great today

okay this story legit broke me, it's so good, i'm gonna read it every day until i become a bubble of anti-cruelty light

IT'S HERE! We are SO thrilled to officially reveal our Issue 1 table of contents! Every single piece in this issue is unbelievably good, and we cannot wait for you to read these stories and poems in March. These authors are amazing 🪐🗡️ More details in the thread! 🧵 (1/6)

jesus fucking christ read this, do not - or maybe do? - read this in a hallway corner while doing political work, unless you can keep both heat and emotion off your face. But read it. Filthy, transcendent, violent, upsetting, brilliant.

The author, whoever she is, hopes that you get something from this that you really needed

I think I’m even more stunned by how good the graphic design is?

We have 12 days to go on our crowdfund for WHAT ELEGANT STARS and still need to raise about $7k. We've just added a reward "add-on" for a short story critique with editor dave ring if that would be of interest. We also still have two Benefactor Rewards at $1k that would be incredibly impactful.

Persona by @ravineangel.bsky.social contains something that is too scary and too *tangible* than what ought to be possible to contain within a book. I feel like I just released a trapped nightmare into reality that was already, always, here. Read it, and have an aftercare plan.

One of my favorite things about writing horror is that the less world building you do the scarier it gets

Magical Girl Antifa War Machine is on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list!! You can vote for it for the Locus Award locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Thanks so much for including ‘Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity’ on the Recommended Reading List, @locusmag.bsky.social! And thanks to the contributors and @erewhonbooks.bsky.social as always 🖤

Surprised but happy to see my one scifi pub from last year, a short story “Coda” in Future Tense Fiction on here! Link to story, & a a response essay by Professor Cristopher Moore on the math, in replies below. thank you Future Tense Fiction for asking me to write it! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

hey, my story standardized test is on here!! also wire mother by isabel. kim which i loved, and magical girl antifa war machine by esther alter, which is on the short story club list tomorrow!! locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

Magical Girl Antifa War Machine is on the @locusmag.bsky.social recommended reading list!! You can vote for it for the Locus Award locusmag.com/2026/02/2025...

TIL about female tanks and their trans Mother en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_...

Wtf how is this book this scary

Possibly no one who follows me cares about this but oh this is *such* good news, I'll finally be able to run xfce with per-monitor pixel scaling settings alexxcons.github.io/blogpost_15....

My copy of @ravineangel.bsky.social ‘s Persona couldn’t be delivered 2 days in a row due to snow, this is structural transmisogyny

NEWS! My next book, TRANSLUNAR, about a closeted trans woman who's an astronaut in the sixties, is coming out in fall 2027! It'll be on Wildthorn, Tor's brand-new general fiction imprint -- a dream, as it lets me work with @englelaird.bsky.social on my literary and historical fiction as well as SFF.

I don’t know who, if anyone, will want to read my WIP trans femme neo-Bundist mecha erotic horror, but if you *do* want that, good news (eventually, hopefully)

Cool story, once upon a time I made a game called Neocolonialism and I opted for an inverse Galls-Peter projection to make players second guess this specific graphical distortion. It annoyed everyone and here’s the steam page so it can annoy you too store.steampowered.com/app/333540/N...

IMO I’m good at chunky prose-poem paragraphs with run on sentences and a fractured sense of time that spell out, starkly, an anger and a sadness that you might already have felt but couldn’t describe. Also I’m good at writing about autistic transbians.

It’s that time again.

New profile picture

Do it!

if i had access to a substance that, if injected, really does cause autism, id first do a research deep dive to confirm that it can also augment existing autism and then, if so, I’d obviously inject it, like are you fucking kidding me, it would only make me hotter and more powerful

1. There was a time when Zionists and non Zionist leftist Jews were roughly at parity 2. Some stuff in the Book of Kings probably happened 3. America really didn’t need to drop the atom bombs on Japan 4. The history of the CIA is always more fucked up than you think 5. Shrapnel is named after a guy

Not yet theintercept.com/2026/01/04/t...

2025 Awards Eligibility Magical Girl Antifa War Machine on @escapepod.org The Shabbos Bride in the anthology Amplitudes, edited by @leemandelo.bsky.social And a mysterious story in @strangehorizons.bsky.social under a pseudonym… DM about it I guess?

2026 is going to full of people assuming that a contravening force will magically appear and yield a blue wave that will (I guess?) reverse everything we’ve lost (again, magically) and it just won’t happen. Nothing will get better until enough people are done waiting for magic

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

Today is the last day that you can repost this image

The stranger that Rachel encounters in my story Rachel is at a Protest was a real person. Rachel meets him in 2009 and I met him in 2014. Aside from a few small details, that’s the only autobiographical part of the story. I still think about him often.

2025 Books We Loved: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo locusmag.com/2025/12...

I have a pimple on my face, which is transmisogyny

4 types of characters I write: 1. Angry sadomasochistic autistic transbians 2. Cute patient trans mascs 3. Fucked up cis dudes 4. Any of the above but Jewish

What the fuck this is so good what the fuck

You could read my story and vote for it! If you wanted to!