repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

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YES! So long overdue for so perfect a movie.

Scam alert: there's an IngramSpark impersonator at ingramsparkbookpublishers dot com. Part of a wave of publishing/ghostwriting scams from Pakistan that hijack authors looking to self-publish--they often "borrow" well-known publisher names but this one also "borrows" the real IngramSpark's logo

To Conquer Death is available for Preorder! Are you interested in the interplay of ancient history and mythology? Do you enjoy deep reflections on life and death, souls and family, and also rip-roaring adventure? Then check out To Conquer Death! richardmoonbooks.com

Well this is extremely on-brand.

"All The President's Men", for its SECOND time at the top? COME ON!

oh AND I definitely wouldn't have met ANY of my current writing groups, who are all of them extremely-dear friends and some of the best people I've ever had the pleasure to know.

In a very round-about way, yeah. Getting back on twitter six years ago directly began a series of choices and results that lead to me getting involved with Voyage Media, which has been great. Oh, and I wouldn't have even known about AWP this year, and wouldn't be getting published next month.

Jack Black, best known for his role as Best Friend of the Kid With Lightning Powers in the X-Files episode "D.P.O."

As predicted, some of them are going to start pretending they were never like this

The intoxicating excitement about my book being available for pre-order and the existential fear of needing to tell people about it being available for pre-order...

also a more general point about this: I'm starting to lose respect for tech people who have to run around being condescending about people who don't understand the various nuances of machine learning. It frustrates me, too! But I also recognize where the blame for this mass societal confusion lies

Watching the first ep of Succession for the first time, Connor Roy: Tall Blue eyes Fan of Sourdough Starter Doesn't want anything to do with your inheritance bullshit. Oh my god, Alan Ruck is playing a guy based entirely on me.

The unbelievable thing is that these guys seem to think this is how professionals would handle any of this.

“contempt” is the word that’s been circling in my mind around all this for the past few weeks and it was good to see that I’m not alone in that

I'm just here talking to friends and getting ready to sell a little book and trying to comprehend the mindset that builds something *millions of people want to use* and then acting like you'd like them to all stop and go away.

Occurring to me that making NG troops leave their homes to go get yelled at and feel resentful about it is entirely the Evangelical and Mormon playbook for making their young people feel ostracized from wider society. Except that these are adults with bills and mortgages and shit

Seeing some people bending hard to say "It's right and proper that Link got permabanned for a shitpost" and wooooo nelly are the unfollow, mute, and block buttons getting workout today.

This is really excellent. I may have half-joked about how if the devs want this place to tank they *could* just turn off their servers, but I am seriously curious as to who they think wants "Mastodon, but less-developed and jankier" as a product. They have something better, and they *hate it*

Lots of people are saying Bluesky is Twitterfying and Jay is Elon-maxing, but in my heart of hearts I have to say everything is still giving me real strong Bouzyfication vibes.

Bring back @spacelawshitpost.me right goddamn now, you cowards.

"World Without Ceasars" shirt, with "but Lucius Cornelius Sulla had some good ideas" on written on the back.

I have not watched a single episode of The Wire. I'm familiar with a lot of it through cultural osmosis, but the actual show? Not a jot, not a bit.

"World Without Ceasars" shirt, with "but Lucius Cornelius Sulla had some good ideas" on written on the back.

Getting some strong Spoutible vibes from the management here, lately.

Bring back @spacelawshitpost.me right goddamn now, you cowards.

My book is *technically* historical fantasy, but the number of horrifying situations in it gives it a horror hall-pass, I say. Whereas the script I wrote that's explicitly about mass undead murder at a Chicken Processing Plant fits the bill quite nicely.

I understand Jay's thinly veiled crash out on a human level — getting dogpiled sucks, and a lot of people act annoying as hell when they don't like something. But also, all of this happened because BlueSky doesn't respond to good-faith criticism. We tried it and nobody felt heard or respected.

Yeah, the olden days of the City Of Heroes forums hitting a lot of my memory slots today...

there's a deliberate misreading of what violence is by bsky leadership—saying words that feature hyperbolic violence is *more* violent than saying "respectful sounding" words that lead to actual, off site violence. And it's not just bsky, this is societally pervasive rn. It sucks.

hire someone who can handle comms already. jesus

Again, it really does feel now and then like the staff of BSky actively hates this place and wants it to fail. Which is extra weird considering that they could just shut off the servers, rather than engage in the stuff theyre doing now.

Some things that will never stop amazing me: 1) that the Twitter BoD had a legal obligation to consider selling, but no obligation whatsoever to consider whether the sale would actually be good for the company, and 2) how much it seems like the staff of BSky wants BSky to fail.

This is wildly insensitive & a bad look & IMO the whole team should reconsider how they approach these issues. Some people are annoying or worse. Obv. But there are good faith critiques you & Jay etc ignore. I want this place to succeed. But this kind of response is unserious, troubling & tone deaf

Huh. Just caught a block that I was not ever expecting, but at the same time I guess makes sense considering my feelings on the moderation policies hereabouts, lately.

Well, a) neither did a whole shitload of trans ppl after the Kirk thing and yet Oh Well Here's Suspensions For No Raisins, and B) a simple good-faith reading of Bsky's TOS says Signal absolute did and has, but Oh Well.

Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog. Patients with brain fog may have disrupted AMPA receptor (AMPAR) expression—key molecules for memory and learning. Imaging of Long COVID patients showed elevated AMPAR density tied to more severe cognitive impairment.

📢 What do we want? TRANSLATIONS 📢 Translated by who? HUMANS 📢 When do we need the money? NOW (well, October 31) Please keep boosting!!! A project like this needs EYES ON IT

HAPPY OCTOBER! COVER REVEAL! TO CONQUER DEATH is a story of family and migration, grief and purpose, in the bronze-age world teetering on the edge of collapse as the dead rise from their rests to destroy the world of the living. Coming out November 18th, 2025. Pre-order links coming soon!

Really happy that I finally jumped in on this. Seeing some great answers and plenty of new stuff to check out. For myself, I've got a book releasing NEXT MONTH: bsky.app/profile/rmoo... #HorrorWritersChat

Fear of aging, and what comes after, is the whole reason things are going wrong for my characters, and the entire Bronze Age world, really. One character winds up experiencing more aging(via disability, which is a whole other issue besides) than he ever figured he would. #HorrorWritersChat

Having more experience can also mean having more trauma. Younger characters confront a man who has been dragged back from death, they're scared, but for the older ones it's a memory from their childhoods, it's the loss of their own children, it's years of horror, all at once. #HorrorWritersChat

Doryah is old for her time, has been through a lot of life, and thinks the younger people she's next to are naïve idiots, more often than not. But she's also more scared of dying than any of them. Survival has become so essential that she's forgotten what living is. #HorrorWritersChat

Hello hello, #HorrorWritersChat I'm Richard, my friends know me for writing the sort of horror that involves ancient peoples confronting mortality directly, or getting eaten by chickens. I'm pushing up towards 50 and am enjoying it, honestly.

2 space agencies, 2 epic missions, 1 in-coming asteroid, and 1 sweet logo! A joint launch for the ESA Ramses and JAXA DESTINY+ missions onboard the JAXA H3 is under consideration 🚀🛰️🛰️ Both missions will observe asteroid Apophis which will NOT HIT THE EARTH but make a close approach in 2029.

HAPPY OCTOBER! COVER REVEAL! TO CONQUER DEATH is a story of family and migration, grief and purpose, in the bronze-age world teetering on the edge of collapse as the dead rise from their rests to destroy the world of the living. Coming out November 18th, 2025. Pre-order links coming soon!

let the gourd times roll

Honestly, feels a little funny to have finally filed my taxes today.

"Peanut? What are you doing, bud?" "Mrrffnn"