David Thomas Moore
@dtmooreeditor.bsky.social
World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Rebellion Publishing Ltd. he/him
britain's inevitable confusion at the discovery that the murderous ice guy is called jonathan ross is reminding me of anerica's confusion when our chris evans turned up in epstein's little black book
January 10, 2026 at 10:11 PM
britain's inevitable confusion at the discovery that the murderous ice guy is called jonathan ross is reminding me of anerica's confusion when our chris evans turned up in epstein's little black book
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Karin Lowachee - The Desert Talon & Covenant of Ice.
Hugely effective storytelling in unflashily brilliant prose; packs a *lot* into short books. & *goes there* with its ending on the consequences of extractive colonialism pretty fearlessly; doesn't shy away from the consequences of its narrative.
Hugely effective storytelling in unflashily brilliant prose; packs a *lot* into short books. & *goes there* with its ending on the consequences of extractive colonialism pretty fearlessly; doesn't shy away from the consequences of its narrative.
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Karin Lowachee - The Desert Talon & Covenant of Ice.
Hugely effective storytelling in unflashily brilliant prose; packs a *lot* into short books. & *goes there* with its ending on the consequences of extractive colonialism pretty fearlessly; doesn't shy away from the consequences of its narrative.
Hugely effective storytelling in unflashily brilliant prose; packs a *lot* into short books. & *goes there* with its ending on the consequences of extractive colonialism pretty fearlessly; doesn't shy away from the consequences of its narrative.
Apart from anything else, 2016 was the year of Harambe, the Brexit referendum and the first Trump victory; it's basically the start of *waves hands* all this.
Guys, can we please not have nostalgia for a year I consider to have been ‘basically the other day’?
Why 2016 nostalgia is taking over social media in 2026
Fidget spinners, filters and feeds that worked. Why are young people pining to go back a decade?
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Apart from anything else, 2016 was the year of Harambe, the Brexit referendum and the first Trump victory; it's basically the start of *waves hands* all this.
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I can't help but feel I experienced the world in microcosm on the way to the shop today.
I saw a queue of cars stuck trying to enter a single lane tunnel. I thought the roadworks on the other side must have caught everyone out with the different traffic lights.
Then I got closer. 1/9
I saw a queue of cars stuck trying to enter a single lane tunnel. I thought the roadworks on the other side must have caught everyone out with the different traffic lights.
Then I got closer. 1/9
January 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
I can't help but feel I experienced the world in microcosm on the way to the shop today.
I saw a queue of cars stuck trying to enter a single lane tunnel. I thought the roadworks on the other side must have caught everyone out with the different traffic lights.
Then I got closer. 1/9
I saw a queue of cars stuck trying to enter a single lane tunnel. I thought the roadworks on the other side must have caught everyone out with the different traffic lights.
Then I got closer. 1/9
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Just fucking help people. If you can do something to fix a problem, and it costs you nothing (and in cases like this, *actually helps you too*), just do it, for god's sake.
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
January 10, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Just fucking help people. If you can do something to fix a problem, and it costs you nothing (and in cases like this, *actually helps you too*), just do it, for god's sake.
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
Sometimes it doesn't matter who made the problem, what matters is who's in a position to sort it.
9/9
the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
the very, very old etymology of two computery terms...
the more I read about the collapse of TSR in the 1990s, the more stunned and appalled I become
January 9, 2026 at 10:47 AM
the more I read about the collapse of TSR in the 1990s, the more stunned and appalled I become
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Roland Barthes tells us about the Marquis de Sade’s big pillow:
January 9, 2026 at 6:51 AM
Roland Barthes tells us about the Marquis de Sade’s big pillow:
joking suggestion made in tonight's Mage game that I am now 90% likely to actually write and run some day:
A cabal of mages in Georgian London must combat Nephandi while seeking suitable husbands in PRIME AND PREJUDICE @stewarthotston.com, @gavingsmith.bsky.social
A cabal of mages in Georgian London must combat Nephandi while seeking suitable husbands in PRIME AND PREJUDICE @stewarthotston.com, @gavingsmith.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 10:36 PM
joking suggestion made in tonight's Mage game that I am now 90% likely to actually write and run some day:
A cabal of mages in Georgian London must combat Nephandi while seeking suitable husbands in PRIME AND PREJUDICE @stewarthotston.com, @gavingsmith.bsky.social
A cabal of mages in Georgian London must combat Nephandi while seeking suitable husbands in PRIME AND PREJUDICE @stewarthotston.com, @gavingsmith.bsky.social
It's amazing the number of issues, from gun control to trans rights to welfare to healthcare to civil rights to fucking everything else, that are simplified and streamlined by starting from a position of empathy.
"Is this affecting a human being?"
"Yes."
"Then do whatever makes their life better."
"Is this affecting a human being?"
"Yes."
"Then do whatever makes their life better."
Like there’s a ton of individual issues but the broader problem is that there’s an assault on giving a shit about anyone besides yourself, nihilism that tells people the only way to prevent getting hurt is to hurt enough other people and that sickness is filtering into the bones of everything.
January 8, 2026 at 11:28 AM
It's amazing the number of issues, from gun control to trans rights to welfare to healthcare to civil rights to fucking everything else, that are simplified and streamlined by starting from a position of empathy.
"Is this affecting a human being?"
"Yes."
"Then do whatever makes their life better."
"Is this affecting a human being?"
"Yes."
"Then do whatever makes their life better."
Actually, gonna immediately contradict myself with a real-life story from the 1870s, because this is one of my favourite stories about publishing history. Gather round, children, for the story of Around the World in Eighty Days...
this (OP, not the quote post) is... mental. brands are not paying authors for product placement. no-one who doesn't regularly appear in the top-ten lists would be worth the brands' time, and the best-selling writers don't need the money.
reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti
January 7, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Actually, gonna immediately contradict myself with a real-life story from the 1870s, because this is one of my favourite stories about publishing history. Gather round, children, for the story of Around the World in Eighty Days...
this (OP, not the quote post) is... mental. brands are not paying authors for product placement. no-one who doesn't regularly appear in the top-ten lists would be worth the brands' time, and the best-selling writers don't need the money.
January 7, 2026 at 11:24 AM
this (OP, not the quote post) is... mental. brands are not paying authors for product placement. no-one who doesn't regularly appear in the top-ten lists would be worth the brands' time, and the best-selling writers don't need the money.
Both Ted Lasso and The Good Place more or less hit perfect goodbye notes for me.
Given that apparently the Stranger Things finale was meh (idk, didn't watch it, just the scuttlebutt) and we're not that far removed from the disastrous GOT finale that retroactively made everyone have never cared about the show:
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
What's the *best* ending to a show you've ever seen? Quote/reply etc
January 6, 2026 at 10:58 PM
Both Ted Lasso and The Good Place more or less hit perfect goodbye notes for me.
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Thanks to the support and compassion of my wonderful editor @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social at @solarisbooks.bsky.social , and my amazing agent Cameron McClure, I managed to turn in my new novel, INTERGALACTIC FEAST.
✨ It’s out March 2026 and available to pre-order! ✨
geni.us/intergfeast
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✨ It’s out March 2026 and available to pre-order! ✨
geni.us/intergfeast
4/?
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Thanks to the support and compassion of my wonderful editor @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social at @solarisbooks.bsky.social , and my amazing agent Cameron McClure, I managed to turn in my new novel, INTERGALACTIC FEAST.
✨ It’s out March 2026 and available to pre-order! ✨
geni.us/intergfeast
4/?
✨ It’s out March 2026 and available to pre-order! ✨
geni.us/intergfeast
4/?
just seen some callow youth describe Robert Smith as having "Edward Scissorhands hair," and no, child--
January 5, 2026 at 8:21 AM
just seen some callow youth describe Robert Smith as having "Edward Scissorhands hair," and no, child--
I step out of the time machine through whirling mists. The UK is suffering after more than a decade of Tory misrule and austerity. Russia and NATO is fighting a proxy war in Eastern Europe. The US has illegally invaded an oil-rich South American country to abduct its head of state. It is 1990.
January 5, 2026 at 8:13 AM
I step out of the time machine through whirling mists. The UK is suffering after more than a decade of Tory misrule and austerity. Russia and NATO is fighting a proxy war in Eastern Europe. The US has illegally invaded an oil-rich South American country to abduct its head of state. It is 1990.
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Oh hey, Indigo has Mercutio among its "most anticipated books of 2026", so it is 30% off until Jan. 11. ($18.89 CAD for the paperback, which comes out in August). I'd love this novel to find its readers, and pre-orders help, so Canadians, please check it out if you can www.indigo.ca/en-ca/mercut...
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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I-Monster - Daydream in Blue (High Quality)
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January 5, 2026 at 7:47 AM
"if you ban torture, you will make it impossible to be Christian" is perhaps Not It, Chief
An open letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some people illegal” has more than 5000 signatories.
Full ban on conversion therapy would ‘criminalise mainstream Christian teaching’, Government told
AN OPEN letter to the Government warning that its plans for a “full, trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices” could “criminalise mainstream, historic Christian teaching on marriage and sexual ethics, and make sharing the Gospel with some peopl...
www.churchtimes.co.uk
January 4, 2026 at 4:59 PM
"if you ban torture, you will make it impossible to be Christian" is perhaps Not It, Chief
in a week when it has been revealed that AI appears to have been a cause in a substantial number of murders and suicides, and to have produced CSAM imagery on demand on Twitter, we may have to accept that it is bad not just due to its environmental impact or for reasons of principle
January 4, 2026 at 4:24 PM
in a week when it has been revealed that AI appears to have been a cause in a substantial number of murders and suicides, and to have produced CSAM imagery on demand on Twitter, we may have to accept that it is bad not just due to its environmental impact or for reasons of principle
Actually, what's interesting to me is that they used Delta Force rather than the Navy SEALs. Pretty sure if you can use the SEALs, you do, which suggests Trump has more secure control of the Army than the Navy.
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Actually, what's interesting to me is that they used Delta Force rather than the Navy SEALs. Pretty sure if you can use the SEALs, you do, which suggests Trump has more secure control of the Army than the Navy.
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British voters want to be part of the EU more than the French and Italians, new poll reveals
Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
British voters want to be part of EU more than French and Italians, poll reveals
Exclusive: Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit
www.independent.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 9:41 AM
British voters want to be part of the EU more than the French and Italians, new poll reveals
Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Campaigners said Labour had to ‘catch up with public opinion’ as PM faces calls for closer ties to the EU after Brexit
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
as of today, the cast of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York have invaded a combined total of one foreign country on false pretexts and kidnapped their head of state
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
as of today, the cast of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York have invaded a combined total of one foreign country on false pretexts and kidnapped their head of state
Ooh, interesting. I've been waiting for something like this to happen.
Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.
January 2, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Ooh, interesting. I've been waiting for something like this to happen.
"conservative panic when any left-of-centre candidate is elected" is always hilarious, but of all genres of CPWALOCCIE, the "his wife is too hot and glamorous!" is the hilariousest
January 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
"conservative panic when any left-of-centre candidate is elected" is always hilarious, but of all genres of CPWALOCCIE, the "his wife is too hot and glamorous!" is the hilariousest