Sunny Moraine
@dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.
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Bunch of new followers recently, so here’s a quick rundown of stuff I work on:
I WROTE A BOOK. It’s about isolation and madness and our desperate need for human connection. You can buy it. I also read the audiobook and venture to say I do it very well torpublishinggroup.com/your-shadow-...
I WROTE A BOOK. It’s about isolation and madness and our desperate need for human connection. You can buy it. I also read the audiobook and venture to say I do it very well torpublishinggroup.com/your-shadow-...
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yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
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Shut up, Carville.
November 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Shut up, Carville.
Turkey Discourse appears to have begun so what I’ll say is that I roast it whole and intact with the cavity stuffed with apple, lemon, onion, and herbs, and a blend of butter and chopped herbs rubbed over and under the skin, and for almost a decade now it’s been good every year
November 25, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Turkey Discourse appears to have begun so what I’ll say is that I roast it whole and intact with the cavity stuffed with apple, lemon, onion, and herbs, and a blend of butter and chopped herbs rubbed over and under the skin, and for almost a decade now it’s been good every year
WAIT WHAT
A lot of you MST3K nerds like "The Final Sacrifice" more than I do, so you may want to fund this:
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@optimstie.bsky.social , care to give it a signal boost?
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@optimstie.bsky.social , care to give it a signal boost?
Coming soon: The Making of THE FINAL SACRIFICE
The Flying Dutchman Tells All: After years of wild rumors & speculation, the director of this MST3K classic comes clean!
www.kickstarter.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
WAIT WHAT
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I get that part of the media cycle is for deep thinkers to come up with global Takes on what the Nuzzi outrage means for our culture, but...like, the main thing to me seems to be that she helped whitewash a genocidal eugenicist? who is killing people? right now?
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I get that part of the media cycle is for deep thinkers to come up with global Takes on what the Nuzzi outrage means for our culture, but...like, the main thing to me seems to be that she helped whitewash a genocidal eugenicist? who is killing people? right now?
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PRE-ORDER NOW IF 100 OF YOU SHOW ME RECEIPTS I WILL HAVE LIVESTOCK DELIVERED TO KB'S HOUSE
Please preorder our book, shit's getting weird again.
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You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 NOW! - Side Quested Webcomic
Yes, finally! You can preorder SideQuested Book 1 wherever books are sold! Here are convenient links to some of the big stores (but your local indie brick-and-mortar store will also…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:32 PM
PRE-ORDER NOW IF 100 OF YOU SHOW ME RECEIPTS I WILL HAVE LIVESTOCK DELIVERED TO KB'S HOUSE
I like Rogue One personally but tbh I would only defend it as either an interesting artifact of a troubled creative process or a potentially promising proof of concept for Andor
It’s extremely flawed at best
It’s extremely flawed at best
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 25, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I like Rogue One personally but tbh I would only defend it as either an interesting artifact of a troubled creative process or a potentially promising proof of concept for Andor
It’s extremely flawed at best
It’s extremely flawed at best
Can this fucking bubble please burst and free us from this madness*
* into whatever new antihuman madness these utter turnip brains get enamored with next
* into whatever new antihuman madness these utter turnip brains get enamored with next
November 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Can this fucking bubble please burst and free us from this madness*
* into whatever new antihuman madness these utter turnip brains get enamored with next
* into whatever new antihuman madness these utter turnip brains get enamored with next
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it would be so much less wasteful to just burn a literal bonfire of cash
November 25, 2025 at 12:40 AM
it would be so much less wasteful to just burn a literal bonfire of cash
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Hot take: since Thanksgiving food is *all* food that is far better as leftovers you mcguyver get into strange sandwiches at 3am the next day, that is what Thanksgiving should be.
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
November 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Hot take: since Thanksgiving food is *all* food that is far better as leftovers you mcguyver get into strange sandwiches at 3am the next day, that is what Thanksgiving should be.
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
All the food made the day before, everyone gathers in the kitchen in their pajamas at 3am to go goblin mode on leftovers
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You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
November 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
You know, I'm not sure I ever really read the Pond Rules at our local nature preserve all that closely before
I think it’s yet to be properly understood just what a subtly radicalizing effect both 2008 and Occupy had on Millennials in particular, and we are aging into that “reliable voter” cohort
One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I think it’s yet to be properly understood just what a subtly radicalizing effect both 2008 and Occupy had on Millennials in particular, and we are aging into that “reliable voter” cohort
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Beyond honored and absolutely thrilled to see AUDITION FOR THE FOX included here in @npr.org’s 2025 Books We Love, amidst such incredible company!
What a joyful way to start the week, I’m over the proverbial AND literal moon 🦊💜🦊 @tachyonpub.bsky.social
What a joyful way to start the week, I’m over the proverbial AND literal moon 🦊💜🦊 @tachyonpub.bsky.social
Books We Love is back with a brand new batch of hand-picked titles. Mix and match tags like “Book Club Ideas” and “Eye-Opening Reads.” Find 380+ new 2025 reads, and stick around to browse more than 4,000 books from the last 13 years.
Books We Love
Here are 380+ great reads from 2025 handpicked just for you by NPR staffers and trusted critics.
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November 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Beyond honored and absolutely thrilled to see AUDITION FOR THE FOX included here in @npr.org’s 2025 Books We Love, amidst such incredible company!
What a joyful way to start the week, I’m over the proverbial AND literal moon 🦊💜🦊 @tachyonpub.bsky.social
What a joyful way to start the week, I’m over the proverbial AND literal moon 🦊💜🦊 @tachyonpub.bsky.social
Basic as hell but two grad program friends of mine got married with a (not live) beautiful string quartet version of Birdhouse in Your Soul as the processional and so in addition to it being a genuinely lovely song it will always be special to me for that reason
Name your fav They Might Be Giants song.
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Basic as hell but two grad program friends of mine got married with a (not live) beautiful string quartet version of Birdhouse in Your Soul as the processional and so in addition to it being a genuinely lovely song it will always be special to me for that reason
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You: might need a gift.
Me: makes cool, affordable stuff.
$19.20, $4 flat US shipping.
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Me: makes cool, affordable stuff.
$19.20, $4 flat US shipping.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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Three of us spent three lovely days lakeside, crafting pretty, simple bracelets while listening to the loons.No. Like. The actual birds. Components: Czech glass, base metal alloy, leather, Lampwork be...
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November 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
You: might need a gift.
Me: makes cool, affordable stuff.
$19.20, $4 flat US shipping.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
Me: makes cool, affordable stuff.
$19.20, $4 flat US shipping.
www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...
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They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.
"It seems like a marvel of financial engineering: Meta is building a $27 billion data center in Louisiana, financed with debt, and neither the data center nor the debt will be on its own balance sheet."
AI Meets Aggressive Accounting at Meta’s Gigantic New Data Center
Favorable treatment off the balance sheet hinges on some convenient assumptions.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:30 PM
They're offloading all the debt onto special purpose vehicles (SPV) that are legally distinct entities propped up by promises from meta for decades of demand in compute. The banks take all the risk, Nvidia gets the equity and revenue, Meta gets the stock bump without the downside.
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💯 As someone who teaches culture and human terrain (including the banned knowledge of gender), people do not realize how much being unprepared and unequipped to deal with this stuff really screwed people up, impacting morale and effectiveness.
I hear this constantly: "Nobody prepared me for that."
I hear this constantly: "Nobody prepared me for that."
My infantry Bn had a really hard time parsing the gender and sexuality issues of Southern Helmand.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
When people say, "you wouldn't want a 'purple haired gender studies major' in the Marines" I reply "YES we desperately needed them!" We had teams of anthropologists who published studies for us.
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
💯 As someone who teaches culture and human terrain (including the banned knowledge of gender), people do not realize how much being unprepared and unequipped to deal with this stuff really screwed people up, impacting morale and effectiveness.
I hear this constantly: "Nobody prepared me for that."
I hear this constantly: "Nobody prepared me for that."
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DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
hey don't be so hard on yourselves; it delivered oceans of sensitive government and citizen data to billionaires
Musk’s DOGE Quietly Killed Off After Delivering Almost Nothing
The agency disbanded eight months ahead of schedule.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
DOGE was always a very thinly disguised con to dress up data theft and extraction class destruction of federal corporate oversight as innovative, and it's important to remember that part of the reason it worked so well is that the press helped legitimize it
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Is the capitalism that creates a society that acts in a coordinated effort to ensure a better outcome for all in the room with us right now?
“Capitalism forces you to wake up at 7am against your body’s natural rhythms” no that’s Taylorism and if you don’t like living in a society that coordinates effort to ensure a better outcome for all then I don’t think you’ll love the alternatives
November 24, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Is the capitalism that creates a society that acts in a coordinated effort to ensure a better outcome for all in the room with us right now?
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this is the big, main difference
Also Chris Carter thinks he’s a straight-up good and deep writer, whereas the Hannibal writers understand *exactly* what they are fucking doing
November 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
this is the big, main difference
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Authors: we're broke don't steal from us, please.
Some person on the internet: this person is an idea landlord. I've uploaded every book they ever wrote over years to a streaming site because fuck them.
We're tired.
And idea landlord was a lift from Twitter. Literally aimed at us to shame us.
Some person on the internet: this person is an idea landlord. I've uploaded every book they ever wrote over years to a streaming site because fuck them.
We're tired.
And idea landlord was a lift from Twitter. Literally aimed at us to shame us.
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Authors: we're broke don't steal from us, please.
Some person on the internet: this person is an idea landlord. I've uploaded every book they ever wrote over years to a streaming site because fuck them.
We're tired.
And idea landlord was a lift from Twitter. Literally aimed at us to shame us.
Some person on the internet: this person is an idea landlord. I've uploaded every book they ever wrote over years to a streaming site because fuck them.
We're tired.
And idea landlord was a lift from Twitter. Literally aimed at us to shame us.
I mean I will say that Mads’s whole vibe is such that he can absolutely make that kind of dialogue work
Also that line objectively rules
Also that line objectively rules
when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
I mean I will say that Mads’s whole vibe is such that he can absolutely make that kind of dialogue work
Also that line objectively rules
Also that line objectively rules
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when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
when people are like "x media is good but the dialogue is overwrought" i'm like dude my favorite show is Hannibal where in the first episode one guy asks another guy "what do you see me as" and he responds "i think you are the mongoose i want under the house when the snakes slither by"
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when I was
indestructible
i touched my tongue
to lightning
kissed hard
breathed ragged
but now with you here
i lick wounds shyly
touch lips to
hallowed damage
and rejoice
indestructible
i touched my tongue
to lightning
kissed hard
breathed ragged
but now with you here
i lick wounds shyly
touch lips to
hallowed damage
and rejoice
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
when I was
indestructible
i touched my tongue
to lightning
kissed hard
breathed ragged
but now with you here
i lick wounds shyly
touch lips to
hallowed damage
and rejoice
indestructible
i touched my tongue
to lightning
kissed hard
breathed ragged
but now with you here
i lick wounds shyly
touch lips to
hallowed damage
and rejoice
I know for a fact that people who are genuinely friends of mine either do not follow me or have/had me on mute for precisely this reason and it’s fine, I get it, I stress me out too
Pro-tip: It's okay to unfollow the person who doesn't do anything wrong or problematic but whose entire vibe stresses you out.
November 24, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I know for a fact that people who are genuinely friends of mine either do not follow me or have/had me on mute for precisely this reason and it’s fine, I get it, I stress me out too