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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️

@ebmoon.bsky.social

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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

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Aug 22

MANIFEST DESTINY is about love and resistance in an authoritarian post-apocalyptic United States.

It will be the last fiction I publish under my old pen name, and it's coming out SEPTEMBER 12. Mark your calendars (or hit me up for an ARC if you're so inclined).

A book cover: A man and woman, seen from behind, hold hands while facing a squad of armed soldiers wearing gas masks. All is in greytones, except for wispy flames that swirl up from the road in front of them. Title: MANIFEST DESTINY

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Santa Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Aug 27

“After 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.”

www.theguardian.com/...

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How vaccine misinformation led to an officer’s murder at the CDC: ‘In the face of danger ... he ran into the fire’

After 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

www.theguardian.com

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 27d

Ladies First Ahmed GIF

Alt: Ladies First Ahmed GIF

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 27d

With the face/neck ratios reversed.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 27d

reminder that the girl that found luigi mangione didn't get the reward and lost her job and reputation

The FBI is offering a $100k reward for information that could lead to the arrest of Charlie Kirk's assassin.

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 27d

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

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 27d

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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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 27d

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

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 27d

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

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Hell-Raea-ser 🦋✨🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @raea.meangirls.online · 27d

jason momoa made public rape jokes and it didn’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.

Stella Cheeks @stellacheeks.bsky.social · 27d

Ridiculous! @dc.com just sent out an email to retailers asking them to stop selling Red Hood # 1. They are acting like Gretchen pulled the trigger! It’s so fucking insane.

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · 27d

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.

Elsiemon @elsiemon.bsky.social · 28d

Fuck Ethan Van Sciver

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28d

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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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 28d

Today we remember 11 September 1973, where Chile’s democratically elected Allende govt. was overthrown in a military coup backed by Washington and facilitated by Australia’s intelligence services.

The result was Pinochet’s dictatorship that killed and tortured thousands.

🧵👇

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DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 29d

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.

DOG of BLUD @dogblud.bsky.social · 29d

This is one of those things btw where calling/mailing VISA et al and being as willfully dense as possible is an amazingly good idea.

Bring up everything you own that falls under the category 'fantasy.'

Bring up everything you own with cat ears.

Be a pedantic little fuck about ALL of it.

DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 29d

Woke up to quite the update on this. I had been in contact with Payment Cloud about getting their service and they waited until now to hit me with the image below. Again, stringing me along instead of being upfront. They had seen my website multiple times before this.

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 27d

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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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 28d

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.

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Rap Bastardz® @rapbastardz.bsky.social · 28d

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 Charlie’s broadcast that day:

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made up New Age term that does a lot of damage.”

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Roxy @redrawnoxen.bsky.social · Aug 19

@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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Adrian+Shane @adrianandshane.bsky.social · 29d

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

Side-by-side images of Banksy’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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Jordan Fischer @jordanonrecord.bsky.social · 29d

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...

Grand jury rejects charges against DC lawyer accused of assaulting, threatening National Guard

Prosecutors accused Paul Anthony Bryant of assaulting and yelling threatening statements at members of the National Guard in D.C. as part of President Trump's surge.

www.wusa9.com

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

(Getting caught up on these.) #Septopolis 6

Probably the most notable local landmark to the city of Rama is The Glacier (provisionally the Ramán Glacier, but I'd like to come up with a more creative name for it).

#Writesky #Writingcommunity

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · Sep 6

#Septopolis 6

The world is beautiful, and that probably goes for yours too. There's surely places even in the most grimdark of settings that could be considered wonders.

Tell us about the natural wonders that exist nearby. ✨

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 6: Are there any significant natural landmarks nearby? What are they referred to as, and how did they get these names?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

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

E. B. Moon (they/them) 🏴 🌱 🚀 🏳️‍⚧️ @ebmoon.bsky.social · Sep 8

#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

Khonri 🎃👻 @khonri.com · Sep 8

#Septopolis 8

Since this might have been inadvertently covered yesterday... Who specifically were the founders? Maybe some history on them or the legend surrounding a hero.

Take yesterday's specific why to a specific who. 😅
(I'm not updating the card, I'm lazy.)

#WritingCommunity #Writesky

A daily prompt card for #Septopolis 2025, hosted by @khonri.bsky.social. Sept 8: Who were the founders? Where did they come from?

Interpret each prompt as suits your needs! Yap! Or don't!
Build a new place or talk about one you have. Make friends.

The background features a third of the monthly card’s image, a slightly blurred and purple hued image of a set photograph of Main Commercial Street in Fritz Lang's Metropolis (UFA, 1927).

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