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E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ

@ebmoon.bsky.social

Queer SFF author. Grad school dropout. Now independent scholar of eugenics and religion in pop culture. Writing a book on William Blake and Thomas Merton. MILLIONS OF SUNS LEFT shorturl.at/PBLyN https://ko-fi.com/ebmoon

created March 26, 2025

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Profile picture Santa Goldstein (@goldstein.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

If you are transgender in America, your 2nd amendment right is under assault by Trump.

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Profile picture Kit Yates (@kityates.bsky.social) reposted

โ€œAfter a gunman reportedly deceived by anti-vaccine disinformation opened fire on the CDC and fatally shot David Rose, a community grieves as Trump officials remain silent. A lie murdered David Rose.โ€ www.theguardian.com/... 1/4

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

With the face/neck ratios reversed.

12/9/2025, 1:15:27 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

(Just kidding, they're Americans, they haven't learned shit.)

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

The McDonald's wage slave/class traitor who helped frame up Luigi didn't get shit. Maybe someone out there has learned.

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Profile picture bakoon (@bakoon.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

he got loaded being a mondo cunt and now hes in a box. too bad, too bad

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

Every government employee with a gun is trained to shoot first and ask questions later, so exactly what difference does it make?

12/9/2025, 12:54:53 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Raea ๐Ÿฆ‹โœจ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ๐Ÿด (@raea.meangirls.online) reposted

jason momoa made public rape jokes and it didnโ€™t stop him from being a face of DC but gretchen refuses to mourn a man who literally worked to kill her and they try to take away her livelihood. this is how transmisogyny operates.

11/9/2025, 9:50:55 PM | 716 220 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social)

Never forget that DC Comics continued employing this shitbag well after he basically created Comicsgate and was burning Kelly Marie Tran in effigy on his Youtube channel.

11/9/2025, 11:40:05 PM | 2 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Senator David Shoebridge (@davidshoebridge.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Solidarity with the Chilean community as they remember, grieve, and struggle for justice. The debt to truth and accountability always fall due.

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Profile picture Senator David Shoebridge (@davidshoebridge.bsky.social) reposted

Today we remember 11 September 1973, where Chileโ€™s democratically elected Allende govt. was overthrown in a military coup backed by Washington and facilitated by Australiaโ€™s intelligence services. The result was Pinochetโ€™s dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands. ๐Ÿงต๐Ÿ‘‡

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Profile picture DOG of BLUD (@dogblud.bsky.social) reposted

I am sincerely hands and knees begging people to do this. The existential threat is getting pretty immense and it's not slowing down, not with the gov't *openly stating* that "consensual porn" is in the crosshairs. *Please* call. Please write physical letters. Please keep the pressure on.

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Profile picture The Dax Symbiont ๐Ÿด๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ (@thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social) reposted

I think this post is informative because it premises the Kirk situation being bad on being in a decent and stable society, something we have not been in for basically my entire 32 years of life. All these people dream of like home and garden magazine worlds. Little shop of horrors ass epistemology

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Profile picture Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) (@brainnotonyet.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Fuck Charlie Kirk Fuck the Republican crybabies Fuck the fascists urging us to find common ground. Fuck anyone claiming we just need to be nicer to the fascists now calling for genocide and war. they got what they wanted And we will be forced to live with the consequences of their bloodlust.

11/9/2025, 2:23:30 AM | 131 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rap Bastardzยฎ (@rapbastardz.bsky.social) reposted

Without comment:

Oct 12, 2022 - Screen grab of a tweet from Jason Campbell: Still from the Charlie Kirk show Charlie speaking. Underneath the quote from Charlie reads a quote from Charlieโ€™s broadcast that day: โ€œI canโ€™t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.โ€
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Profile picture Roxy (@redrawnoxen.bsky.social) reposted

@moderation.bsky.app please unban @scumbelievable (Gretchen Felker-Martin) and maybe figure out a way to stop being exploited by TERF brigading

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Profile picture Adrian+Shane (@adrianandshane.bsky.social) reposted

They erased the new Banksy mural in London. But the stain remains.

Side-by-side images of Banksyโ€™s mural on the Royal Courts of Justice in London. On the left, the artwork appears faded and scrubbed, leaving only a ghostly outline of a judge raising a gavel over a protester holding a placard. On the right, the mural is fully visible in sharp black and white stencil, showing a judge in a traditional white wig and robes striking down at a protester who defends himself with a bloodied sign.
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Profile picture Jordan Fischer (@jordanonrecord.bsky.social) reposted

BREAKING: A grand jury has REJECTED charges against D.C. attorney Paul Bryant, a West Point grad accused of assaulting and threatening to kill National Guardsmen. Easily the most serious charges to get no true billed so far during the federal surge. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

9/9/2025, 10:28:20 PM | 3257 769 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

There's no good or ethical reason to wonder that unless you're collecting testimony.

8/9/2025, 11:49:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

A few miles freeze and melt every year with the coming of polar day/night, flooding the surrounding plains, and it serves as a symbol of the cold and famine from which the Emperor guards his citizens. #Septopolis #Writingcommunity #Writesky

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

(Getting caught up on these.) #Septopolis 6 Probably the most notable local landmark to the city of Rama is The Glacier (provisionally the Ramรกn Glacier, but I'd like to come up with a more creative name for it). #Writesky #Writingcommunity

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

This occurs ~3,000 years before my first stories, and led eventually to the imperial cult prevailing in the Empire at the time of the first novels. With fire comes industry, though, and we'll see how changing modes of production complicate things politically. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Septopolis

8/9/2025, 10:14:41 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social)

#Septopolis 8 Rama was founded by some of the first humans to harness the magic of fire. While a few communities had existed south of the glacier, they made the permanent settlement of Rama possible--and started the chain of events leading to the birth of the Empire. #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

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Profile picture A.P. Brown (@apxbrown.bsky.social) reposted

What this should prompt is a thorough reflection of what the label โ€œcriminalโ€ actually means to the government versus what people think it means. Because people think it means โ€œviolent felonโ€ but the reality is if you got a traffic violation you are in the system.

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social)

Kel stops by the karlek Baltigai's farm after disposing of the sacred bug he accidentally killed. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

6/9/2025, 5:21:24 PM | 16 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

on what little they're able to horde, the rich feast on the best of Springrise's bounty. Those caught curing meat or drying fruit during winterset are subject to harsh penalties, seen as denying the Emperor's bounteous generosity. 3/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

that brought the eternal flame, Thrift is a capital sin. The sun god, embodied in the Emperor, is said to imprison the spirit of austerity and conservation, and the winter months are full of profligate consumption, at least for the higher classes. While the poor subsist, 2/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social)

Winter (really Winterset, the two-month-long polar night that encompasses much of the empire) is a sacred season in Rama. In other cultures the emphasis is on conserving food and minimizing waste through the long months of frost. But in Rama, thanks to the ancient alchemy 1/3 #SeptemberWorldbuilders

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

I do not now nor have I ever had enough drugs to make me believe this. (MKULTRA, my DMs are open.)

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social)

Mike Q. Johnson

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

The fire mages and their eternal flame made the founding of a permanent city at Rama a miraculous possibility. (We'll see later how this develops into the city's founding myth and, eventually, the imperial religion.) #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

and most societies at the time of its founding were organized nomadically, migrating south during winterset and north during springrise. The few permanent cities in the area that predate Rama are founded on the region's scattered hot springs. #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

Annual glacial melt from the nearby glacier provides a source of drinking water and floodwater for the surrounding fields. But not nearly enough to maintain a year-round settlement. Most human settlements as far north as Rama are seasonal, 1/ #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

Civil conflict was nothing new even in 1861. But I was thinking of the Battle of Blair Mountain. The airplane was around for less than 20 years before the US Army was using it to kill American citizens. From MOVE to Nawar al-Awlaki, they haven't stopped.

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

The US has airbombed its own citizens on its own soil multiple times, and it will do so again.

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

I take a lot of shit for saying this, but: there is absolutely no well thought-out reason for anyone ever to have gone begging to the government to get their driver's license/passport gender marker changed. An "x" is and always was going to become a pink triangle.

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Profile picture Santa Goldstein (@goldstein.bsky.social) reposted

Be advised.

 Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan I'm told that a senior DOJ official said, discussing the matter: โ€œWe're not playing semantics with words like dysphoria. We're talking about trannies, and we don't think they should have guns.โ€ Mary Margaret Olohan @MaryMargOlohan โšซ 57m BREAKING: The Justice Department is deliberating banning guns for transgenders as part of a range of options blocking mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, @realDailyWire has learned. Story to come. 11:36 AM ยท Sep 4, 2025 9,525 Views 15 7716 104 ฮฃ 6 <<]
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Profile picture Andrew Ferguson (@epikt.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

yeah that one's not going away that easy

post from Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.me Keeping series of replies: tobias wilson-bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social you think zitron is on level with the most toxic mouthpiece for misogynistic racism in our recent history? ted underwood @tedunderwood.me in terms of quality of thought yes; name-calling ranks fairly high among his argumentative strategies matt seybold @mattseybold@bsky.social not especially a fan of his work, which strikes me as having the techno-libertarian foundation like much doomerism, but ted...limbaugh?!? there are some names that should not be invoked so lightly.
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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

Personally I can see why many find Zitron annoying (it comes with the job to a certain extent), but this is unhinged.

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

๐Ÿ‘€

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

(There is some astronomy math to be checked and corrected here, obvs.) Built into a glacial valley, Rama serves as a fortress against the cold, warmed by the eternal flame that was lit thousands of years ago and powers the city's ever-developing industry. #Septopolis #Writesky #Writingcommunity

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

As mentioned above, the planet is at about a 45-degree tilt relative to its sun, so the Arctic/Antarctic zones are quite larger than on our Earth. Rama is well within the Arctic circle, though, probably roughly at the latitude of Iceland, and sees 2-3 months of polar day/night per year. #Septopolis

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

Physically it's modeled on some of the places I attached photos of above: mostly the more heavily glaciated areas of the Alps, and the farther-flung Norse settlements (Reykjavik probably the closest in scale, tho Rama is much larger and not coastal). #Septopolis #Writesky #WritingCommunity

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

The culture of Rama was originally inspired by the Fire Nation from A:TLA, though I like to think it has become more distinct with each iteration of the story through my campaigns (arctic instead of tropical, mechano-scientific rather than theocratic, etc.). #Septopolis #Writesky #WritingCommunity

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It's in the alt text, but the artist is DrawingNightmare on Deviantart if anyone is wondering!

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Profile picture Pamela Cochran (@pamelaelaela.bsky.social) reposted

For now, these are the first lines of the last chapter. ๐ŸŒ„ #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #AmWriting #AmQuerying ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’™

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reposted

Another snip from Riyana's short story (going out on sub today or tomorrow). #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

You're helping me make up a lot of stuff as I go along so I'm having no problem pacing myself, trust. ๐Ÿ˜›

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

Love this! It's not the locale I chose for #Septopolis, but my current WIP also takes place underground. Though their organization is almost the opposite (scattered communities with loose cultural ties that periodically bud off from one another, limited to a population of ~500 max for *reasons*).

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social) reply parent

It hasn't actually appeared in any play or written prose yet tho (& per my current series outline might not show up until *AHEM* book 7 or 8), but the worldbuilding is important, plenty of characters *from* Rama will appear, and I'm hoping for a few short stories in the setting between now and then.

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Profile picture E. B. Moon (they/them) ๐Ÿด ๐ŸŒฑ ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€โšง๏ธ (@ebmoon.bsky.social)

Another snip from Riyana's short story (going out on sub today or tomorrow). #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

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Rama was originally the far-off imperial center of the short-lived TTRPG campaign I ran in 2019-2021. Now it's the far-off imperial center of the novel series I'm currently writing (starting with DELVER, which long-time readers have seen some excerpts from). #Septopolis #Writesky #WritingCommunity

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I'm not on any platforms that the real Mona frequents (and to be clear she's not responsible for any of this), but reporting for impersonation would be much easier if she would register an official account here, even if she didn't want to maintain it. The scammers are active on Twitter as well.

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For anyone who has rec'd the message "Do you have any published books?" from a user maxtonhall12.bsky.social - its a scam and apparently an identify thief of an actual legit author. #Writer #Writing #LuciferFanfiction #Publishing

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Ix'sha schemes. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

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It's the imperial capital but hasn't featured in anything I've actually written so far. This should be a fun way of fleshing out the city itself. Some photo refs for what I imagine it looking like (but bigger): Skardu, Pakistan; Chamonix, France; Zermatt, Switzerland. #WritingCommunity #Septopolis

A large valley between two huge mountains in the distance. Fields of green and clusters of trees are visible, along with a town and smaller human-built structures farther off. A mountain glacier that looks like a cross between a ski slope and a storm-tossed ocean. A brightly lit alpine town nestled tight in a valley between two mountains. In the distance is the Matterhorn, a huge snow-capped mountain.
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I'll play along. Rama is the dominant city on the surface of Osian, an alternate earth with an extreme axial tilt that gives much of the planet long months of polar day (springrise) and polar night (winterset). It's in the far northwest of the main continent, and *very* cold. #Septopolis #Writesky

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Rugby pulling amateur numbers.

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Profile picture David Graeber Institute (@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social) reposted

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Greg Rucka's Batman: No Man's Land is an all-timer, if you've not read.

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Profile picture Scifi Art (@scifiart.bsky.social) reposted

Near Earth space combat as envisaged in the 1980s. Art by John Berkey (first slide) and Wilf Hardy

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K-12 and academia both.

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Profile picture jpfetherston (@fetherstunned.bsky.social) reposted

When they want to enclose literacy itself, print is a rent strike

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Profile picture EL BARTO ANTI-WORK (@elbarto.bsky.social) reposted

Something that is completely fucking obvious to me but I think most people don't consider is when democrats politicians promise to fund the police, they are promising to prop up an armed, lawyered up, reactionary political bloc who are ultimately virulently opposed to those very politicians.

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Legalize this.

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You seem fun.

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I'm glad we agree.

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It helps to have a sense of humor and not be an asshole to people who make silly little jokes on the Internet. ๐Ÿ‘

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๐Ÿ’™ Right here with you buddy. COVID still hasn't gotten me, but my life went to shit in February 2020 and has largely been one long slide down Shit Mountain into Shit Valley since. I would very much like to live in a world where Existing was enough, and I'm getting pretty tired of Enduring.

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Kel encounters a strange house (built in a human style) found among the wealthier strata of the architects. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

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Kel encounters a strange house (built in a human style) found among the wealthier strata of the architects. #WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

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#WIPSnips #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts #amwriting #fantasy #darkfantasy #weirdfiction

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Profile picture Michael Hobbes (@michaelhobbes.bsky.social) reposted

This is a poorly framed question. Lots of conservatives would cut off a family member for being LGBT, for example, but that doesnโ€™t clock as a โ€˜political viewโ€™ to them. Also, the narrative that leftists cut off their conservative family members too easily is extremely widespread on the right.

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Profile picture anticiv anarchist hellfire and brimstone preacher (@freeprincessluigi.bsky.social) reposted

holy shit. praying for their total freedom. ๐Ÿ™

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Profile picture Jeneral Anxiety (@jenyetagain.bsky.social) reposted

gavin newsom today deployed militarized divisions of the california highway patrol to reinforce and extend the violent crack downs trump has been implementing. he is actively expanding trump's authoritarian program totally voluntarily.

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His book was on my TBR until that... whatever that was. Glad to see this site is proudly fulfilling the Twitter legacy of producing totally unprovoked circular firing squad-style crashouts.

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The rejection of the idea that physical changes to the brain can result in concrete behavioral changes is (in addition to being stupid) just the belief in an immaterial soul. You simply can't hold an opinion like this and not be a deeply, unscientifically religious person.

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Profile picture Angela Collier (@acollierastro.bsky.social) reposted

I wonder if the short term success of fascism is partly due to how embarrassing it is. It's so fucking pathetic. You don't want to look at it.

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Counterpoint: they should not ask him to provide more details but should, instead, prevent him from saying anything ever again.

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Profile picture Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary) (@bowiesongs.bsky.social) reposted

50 years ago: Bowie completes the filming of "The Man Who Fell to Earth," with the last scene shot at Butterfields restaurant, on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. An image from the scene later appears in The Defenders, No. 52 (Oct 1977, Kraft/Giffen/Stone)

Terry O'Neill's still of DB in character Bowie as Newton, with a glass of water and Claudia Jennings' fedora Man Who Fell to Earth being screened at the Elgin
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Profile picture Aster Vรฉritรฉ (@aster-verite.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

This is a direct threat to human, as clear and present a danger as if RFK Jr pointed a gun at your head. So, what happens if RFK Jr visits a stand your ground state?

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Profile picture Timothy McBride (@mcbridetd.bsky.social) reposted

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

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Do Androids Dream is one of my favorite novels, but in a way it is too "smart" for its own good, has too much to say about race and eugenics and on and on. Much like The Man in the High Castle, the adaptation isn't particularly faithful, but it's the one we needed at the time.

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Anyway, much as I love Blade Runner, I think it's pretty clearly worse on gender and labor than the novel. It's aesthetically monumental but politically very shallow. Like c'mon, it's the height of the Reagan era and Scott can't translate the tiniest bit of the novel's racial politics to film?

โ€œThe TV set shouted, โ€œโ€”duplicates the halcyon days of the pre-Civil War Southern states! Either as body servants or tireless field hands, the custom-tailored humanoid robotโ€”designed specifically for YOUR UNIQUE NEEDS, FOR YOU AND YOU ALONEโ€”given to you on your arrival absolutely free, equipped fully, as specified by you before your departure from Earth; this loyal, trouble-free companion in the greatest, boldest adventure contrived by man in modern history will provideโ€”โ€ It continued on and on.โ€
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The US military is a single entity for the purposes of that report. The other countries represent that nation's total CO2 emissions across all sectors. It's a silly way of visualizing the data imo, but I guess helps drive a certain point across.

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If Orion, why Dragon-shaped?

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The only state that matters when it comes to the US-Saudi relationship is the security state, and human rights enforcement is the absolute last thing it's interested in. Ditto for US-Israel, which is largely an extension of the same.

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Neil Smith already had it right 19 years ago: In a globalized world with institutions of the size and scope of the US federal government, there is no such thing as a natural disaster.

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Profile picture Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) (@nora.zone) reposted

kind of feels like american fascism is trying to get the same things the nazis got out of putting the entire population on meth but with "ai" instead

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Profile picture The Ugly Machine (@theuglymachine.bsky.social) reposted

LOCAL SCUMFUCK COP HITS AND KILLS A PEDESTRIAN WHILE WATCHING AN ANTI TRANS M*TT W*LSH YOUTUBE VIDEO WHILE DRIVING

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I'll just see myself out.

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acollierastrodamus

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Profile picture Francisco Lemos (@lemosfran.bsky.social) reposted

They are a peculiar species that thrive in the arid plains. Telepathic and featureless, they often wear masks to facilitate interaction with humans, and scavenge gear from those who donโ€™t survive the heat. #osr #ttrpg #art #illustration

Illustration of an humanoid cactus, in the desert, wearing combar geat, with 2 white masks, holding a basket of smaller cacti.
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Ha thank you! Evan is still what I go by in daily life, and Ms. Rachel Wood makes it gender-neutral enough that I don't really dislike it as much as I used to. But this is also probably the most heterosexual work of writing I'll ever publish, so it fits.

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Profile picture Ana Marie Cox (@anamariecox.bsky.social) reposted

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthenโ€™s monologue from Andor. Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1996...

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This weekend's to-do: - finish tidying up this DELVER-adjacent short story to submit on Monday - start looking at job listings for next month's move to Raleigh - put together a thorough bibliography for the [REDACTED] podcast project

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Neil Smith already had it right 19 years ago: In a globalized world with institutions of the size and scope of the US federal government, there is no such thing as a natural disaster.

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