Angela Korra'ti

https://mastodon.murkworks.net/@annathepiper

Angela Korra'ti. Writer. SDET/QA Engineer. Resident Tolkien nerd of the Murkworks. Adventurer across Tamriel. Lisa Ornstein's fiddle padawan. Fangirl of Quebecois trad and cute little mammoths. Bi. Pronouns: she/her.

I'm also known as Anna the Piper (my common Internet handle) and Angela Highland (my pen name for some of my books). If you're confused about what to call me, Anna always works!

Avatar: Jean-Claude, my genderqueer mammoth. Jean-Claude's pronouns are variable!

Main site: https://www.angelakorrati.com
Gaming site: https://skyrim.annathepiper.org
GitHub portfolio: https://github.com/annathepiper
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/annathepiper

Public Key

npub1j2q7thyqxwgk4sdvmyq6fqv638vjynnwxdr5fvuca6p50yjcdnhqd77n86

NIP-05 Address

annathepiper_at_mastodon.murkworks.net@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqsf9q09mjqr8yt2cxkdjqdysxdgnkfzfehrx36ykwvwaq68jfvxemsprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntqyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnswf5k6ctv9ehx2aqz76cv3

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

relay.primal.net

offchain.pub

Author Public Key

npub1j2q7thyqxwgk4sdvmyq6fqv638vjynnwxdr5fvuca6p50yjcdnhqd77n86

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-10-05 02:10:12 UTC

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH
#monsterdon
https://mastodon.murkworks.net/system/media_attachments/files/117/385/778/492/013/064/original/97db8595dc92d3f2.png

2026-09-17 16:56:36 UTC

I have just been informed by Dayjob that my position is being eliminated. They aren't punting me out the door immediately, they're at least giving me 60 days' notice, but they are nonetheless punting me out the door.
So joy oh glee, I get to go back on the job market. 😩 And try to find whatever few positions may remain in tech that a) involve as little AI bullshit as possible, b) will let me work remote, and c) are actually willing to hire a worker within shouting distance of 60.
#FediHire #GetFediHired

2026-08-17 02:22:15 UTC

- reply

I have in fact been known to write from time to time. :)

2026-08-17 02:10:25 UTC

- reply

(hastily quaffs Potion of Restore Magicka)
(pants and crawls behind bolstered wards)
Friends we're gonna need WAY MORE WARDS for this one
#Monsterdon

2026-08-17 02:02:45 UTC

- reply

(attempts to cast Ward Against Inane Robot Lovers Dialogue)
(frantically attempts to invent an entire new school of magic to come up with ANYTHING THAT CAN FIX THIS MOVIE)
(runs out of Magicka and collapses in a heap)
I'M DONE FOR FRIENDS GO ON WITHOUT ME PORT BACK TO WHITERUN AND WARN THE JARL
#Monsterdon

2026-08-17 01:57:47 UTC

(attempts to cast Summon Plot)
(attempts to cast Conjure Plot)
(attempts to cast Make at Least One Scene Make Sense)
(scours the entire Arcanaeum of the College of Winterhold)
DAMMIT THERE MUST BE A SPELL IN HERE SOMEWHERE TO FIX THIS MOVIE
#monsterdon

2026-08-03 01:06:16 UTC

Also, on behalf of the Princes of Mongo and Brian Blessed, I would now like to express my pique that the villain's name is Voltan.
And also how this soundtrack really wants to be Jephro Tull.
#monsterdon

2026-06-29 01:23:53 UTC

Tommy. TOMMY, MY DUDE, this is not the way to get the Unknown Animal Expert willing to do anything except kick you in the crotch.
#Monsterdon

2026-04-03 18:46:54 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theseattletimes/seattle-news-27p8llobz/-/a--xFeknGgQ92GM4LMs4HQ8A%3Aa%3A2857557016-%2F0
Three things I'd like to call out about this Seattle Times article:
1. Way to go, WA, sue him!
2. It is incredibly fucking hypocritical to bloviate about vote-by-mail being an avenue for fraud when you yourself, in fact, _vote by mail_. But what else is new when it comes to the orange shitgibbon?
3. What I DO see as new here is the article using this phrasing: "Trump has repeatedly lied about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election".
The same sentence then says "falsely claimed", which dampens the impact. BUT STILL. More journalists need to say "Trump has repeatedly lied". Call it what it IS.
#note1tc9…v3nd

2026-03-10 13:41:17 UTC

GOSH WHO COULD POSSIBLY HAVE PREDICTED THAT USING AI FOR IMPORTANT CODE GOING INTO PRODUCTION MIGHT BREAK EVERYTHING
(sighs heavily in disgruntled QA Engineer)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/after-outages-amazon-to-make-senior-engineers-sign-off-on-ai-assisted-changes/

2025-12-06 08:35:23 UTC

- reply

"Oh, but they're unobtrusive, you don't have to use the features if you don't want them" isn't good enough. My baseline is "I don't want that crap in programs I use AT ALL". Period. Full stop.
So I will for the foreseeable future remain on Calibre 8.10, the last known version to have no AI features in it whatsoever. And if an AI-free competitor eventually shows up, I am prepared to transfer my ebooks into a new manager if I have to.
Am I extremely fucking salty about this? YES I AM. Because, again: THIS TECHNOLOGY STOLE MY WORK and that of countless other creatives all over the world. And it's insulting and infuriating to me to see it creeping into each and every corner of my daily computer use no matter how much I DO NOT WANT IT. /End

2025-12-06 08:28:04 UTC

- reply

This is getting a bit more traction than my posts usually do, so hi, people reading me, a bit more context for my being pissed off about Calibre putting AI into its feature set:
I am an author. I've released work with Carina Press, and I've released work on my own. My released work is on record as HAVING BEEN STOLEN BY OPENAI, and I am in fact one of the many, many authors who've had to file claims on the settlement with Anthropic.
So I am not kidding when I say I don't want that technology, technology which HAS STOLEN FROM ME, anywhere near a program I use. ESPECIALLY the program I've used to not only manage my ebook library, but even perform format conversions on my work to prep it for sale. /1

2025-12-06 04:03:24 UTC

It has come to my attention that Calibre has started adding AI shit into its functionality.
GOD FUCKING DAMMIT CAN I MAYBE HAVE JUST ONE PROGRAM THAT DOESN"T TRY TO DO AI BULLSHIT?
Just one? Maybe?
Anyway, if you want to have an AI-free calibre, you'll need to not upgrade past version 8.10. 😡

2025-09-02 23:13:01 UTC

- reply

Now I totes want to hear the sermon in the church where _that_ is one of the stained glass windows. :D
"Our monster, who art in Tokyo
Hallowed be thy flames..."

2025-01-02 22:27:04 UTC

I see a lot of pointing and laughing at the brouhaha between Musk and Ramaswamy, and the MAGA crowd who's pissed off at them for the whole H1B thing, and claiming America doesn't have enough engineers.
But here's the thing. Musk had a whole helluva lot of engineers when he bought Twitter. He decimated his own workforce.
Every other tech CEO looked at that, went "HEY THAT LOOKS PROFITABLE," and chucked a bunch of their own engineers out the door, too.
The tech job market is STILL reeling from this.
So I call bullshit on the whole "America doesn't have enough engineers" claim. What they really mean is, there's a shortage of engineers they can get away with paying shit wages.
Signed, QA Engineer still out of work after a year and a half

2024-12-20 00:19:35 UTC

Y'all. Y'ALL.
I HAVE A JOB INTERVIEW TOMORROW. Second of two in a chain. Outcome of this will determine whether or not I get this job.
Any and all appeals to higher powers on my behalf would therefore be welcome! (Specific appeals to Zenithar, the Divine of work and commerce, optional. 😆)

2024-11-19 17:52:16 UTC

Heads up Seattle area locals: looks like we're due for some wind this afternoon and into the night. Seattle specifically has a Wind Advisory up, but Eastside, including Kenmore, has a High Wind Warning.
Check your preferred sources of weather info for deets, and might wanna make sure all your electronics are charged.
#Seattle #wawx

2024-11-13 21:51:38 UTC

Warning to all COVID-conscious and health-compromised persons in the Seattle area and in particular on the Eastside:
If you have to get an MRI, under no circumstances go to Rayus Radiology on 116th Ave NE in Bellevue.
Despite us asking for personnel to mask around us, the technician who was going to run my wife's MRI today _flat out refused_ to mask up in our presence. And was actively hostile and confrontational when I told him that as my wife's advocate, I had to insist. He sneered at us, "Why should I mask?"
BECAUSE A HEALTH-COMPROMISED PATIENT ASKED YOU TO, MOTHERFUCKER.
He refused. So we bailed on the appointment.
And I am furious enough to spit nails.
#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask

2024-08-06 20:42:53 UTC

I've been seeing a bunch of positive things about Tim Walz on my feeds today, now that Harris has tapped him as her running mate. But I wasn't terribly familiar with him, so I went and looked at this Politico roundup of stuff about him. And this one stood out for me:
"He is a self-proclaimed sci-fi fantasy guy when it comes to books. “I just finished reading the four-book series Mortal Engines. I read a lot of these young adult ones, because I do it with my kids. I was reading that one with Gus,” he said in 2019. “And then I just finished one I would not suggest reading because it is terrifying: Command and Control. It traces the history of America’s nuclear arsenal.”"
AWESOME. Dude not only reads, he reads SF. :D
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/08/06/tim-walz-55-things-harris-vp-00172790