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Debbie Moon

@debbiemoon.bsky.social
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Screenwriter, hiker, fangirl, armchair astronaut. Eater of cake and friend of cats. WOLFBLOOD, HINTERLAND, THE SPARTICLE MYSTERY. Reps: Gary Wild, JFL Agency (UK), Sukee Chew, Hopscotch (US). She/they.

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 1h
I love Avatar: Seven Havens! It skews slightly younger like ATLA, introducing a post-apocalyptic setting that revitalizes the Avatar world in a similar way to Legend of Korra - both visually and in terms of its political themes.
tvguide.com
Avatar: Seven Havens Review: A Triumphant Return for the Animated Last Airbender Franchise - TV Guide
The Avatar universe reinvents itself with this vibrant tale of post-apocalyptic recovery
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 2h
"Not a decision to be taken lightly"? No shit, Sherlock. Most people spend too long worrying it's the wrong decision and stay in contact longer than they should...
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 2h
This goes rather lightly on the problematic family members, in my opinion, but in case it's useful for anyone (pay particular attention to Q11)...
theguardian.com
11 questions to ask yourself before going no contact with a family member
In the UK, one in five families are affected by permanent estrangement – it’s not a decision to be taken lightly. These are the questions experts suggest you ask yourself before cutting a relative out...
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 2h
I would watch that 😂
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 2h
Just to say: things are HARD right now. For everyone. So many writers I know out of work, who always worked before. So many companies closing down. So don't judge yourself too harshly. Things will turn around, eventually. Create what you can, and hang on...
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 4h
Oh, yeah, Lost In Translation. Terrifying.
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 4h
Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.
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Andy Diggle @andydiggle.bsky.social · 4h
*taps sign*
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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 4h
Writers’ room is phoning it in again…
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Matt Round @mattround.com · 7h
Product idea: caps lock key with Brian Blessed’s face on it
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Eddie Robson is at Fantasycon @eddierobson.bsky.social · 6h
I'm about twenty minutes away from Glasgow so it seems safe to say I will be at the con in time for my reading at 3pm. Do come. We're basically the first act on.
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Film Stories @filmstories.bsky.social · 7h
Don't worry, everyone! David Zaslav is going to be okay, trousering over $600m as a result of the Skydance/Warner Bros deal. Phew! filmstories.co.uk/news/yep-dav...
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Yep, David Zaslav pocketed over $600m from Warner/Paramount deal
Don't worry, everyone! David Zaslav is going to be okay, trousering over $600m as a result of the Skydance/Warner Bros deal. Phew!
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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 6h
I never in my life would've dreamed up Clair Obscur, it would not appear in my preferences, and it's one of my favourite games of the last few years. There's so much joy in finding something beyond yourself.
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 6h
Come on, guys. We all want to see the Dance of Joy, surely...
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 6h
Committee recognises efforts of 85-year-old former UN human rights chief for efforts to promote international law www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
theguardian.com
Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay wins Nobel peace prize
Committee recognises efforts of 85-year-old former UN human rights chief for efforts to promote international law
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay for her efforts to ensure that war crimes and genocide are prosecuted.
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Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Former U.N. Human Rights Commissioner, Wins
Ms. Pillay, a South African lawyer, led an investigation that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, a finding the Israeli government rejected.
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Jake Kanter @jakekanter.bsky.social · 9h
Revealed: Royal Mail used an AI voiceover in a Christmas ad about human connection. We only know this because a startled viewer thought she heard the voice of her dead Dad: Paul Vaughan, the mellifluous BBC host and Paddington narrator. A cautionary tale. deadline.com/2026/10/paul...
deadline.com
Did Royal Mail Revive BBC & 'Paddington' Voiceover Star With AI?
Daughter of Paul Vaughan, an acclaimed BBC and 'Paddington' voiceover artist, accuses Royal Mail Christmas ad of resurrecting her father using AI.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 20h
Like I said: Hays Code White!
hollywoodreporter.com
TV’s So White Again: Diversity Now Seen as “Optional”
After a couple years of major progress, creators of color are seeing “real regression,” the president of the TV Academy tells THR.
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Jim Ross 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎞 @jimgr.com · 08/10/2026
Not sure there’s been a more London Film Festival thing ever than the fact I was making some draft review notes on my phone near a screen, and a queue of thirty odd people spontaneously formed behind me by the time I looked up.
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Jay suis amusé @freejay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
WRITERS, USE A COPY EDITOR. I knew my spec had typos and things my brain couldn’t see, but OMG! I engaged Liz Thurmond, @countmystars.bsky.social , to copy edit my draft. WOW! — USE A COPY EDITOR. Liz’s rates are fair and she delivers exactly what’s promised. LIZ THURMOND, COPY EDITOR, THANK YOU!
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 19h
"I leave feeling pleased to have dipped my toe into a small segment of the Shropshire Way. As far as rambling weekends go, it’s ticked all the right boxes, and whetted my appetite to discover more."
theguardian.com
Fine scenery, historic towns and great pubs: a weekend walk on the Shropshire Way
A new series of rambles cuts the 185-mile trail into bitesize portions reachable by train, with urban beavers the Devil’s Chair tor and some delicious food along the way
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
News from me: there are two versions of OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof, one for humans, one for computers. Now it seems that they don't match. That does NOT mean OpenAI hasn't solved Navier-Stokes (both proofs can be correct) but it does mean that there are big questions about trusting AI mathematics
newscientist.com
OpenAI mistranslated mathematics into code for its Navier-Stokes proof | New Scientist
When OpenAI announced its surprise solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, it produced one proof for humans and one for computers – however, they don't match
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 21h
NO! Incredible.
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Mo Moshaty @momoshaty.bsky.social · 22h
As an author, producer & lecturer, I'm available for panels, guest lectures, festivals, interviews & literary events, particularly around horror, trauma, psychology, folklore, representation & criticism. International & Virtual. If you're putting together a programme, let's talk. 👻 momoshaty.com
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
1) If you're considering submitting a story -- or are approached to create art for any publications that Must Read Magazines owns, including Asimov's -- walk away. Their current contracts are too predatory and do not suitably value you, your work or your rights. There will be other opportunities. 2/
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John Picacio @johnpicacio.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/
John Picacio’s response to Must Read Magazine’s request for his waiver of all Moral Rights and Copyright of his commissioned art for an ASIMOV’S assignment. Short version — Picacio says a resounding NOPE.
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, the new Nobel Laureate in literature, has Icelandic citizenship. We as a nation will become absolutely insufferable about now having TWO Nobel winning writers. Just imagine all the per capita calculations we can drum up with this one!
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Adrian Chills @adrianchills.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#87: Kiwifruit
A screenshot of a headline to a Guardian column by Adrian Chiles. It reads 'My latest discovery? You can eat the skin of a kiwifruit - and the benefits are myriad'

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I was carrying out maintenance on the hull when the ion drive exploded. The force of the blast sent me hurtling away from the body of the craft, where I could only watch helplessly as it ruptured and burst, section by section, expelling the rest of the crew into space. While I was kept anchored to a large segment of the living quarters by my tether, my crewmates -  my friends - went sailing on by me, already suffocated by the airless void, scattershot corpses heading for oblivion.
That was six months ago. My life since has been amongst the debris. With all long-range comms disabled or destroyed, I am adrift, lost. But not alone.
In the first weeks after my shipwrecking, I became aware of another creature living amidst the remnants. I don’t know its name or provenance, but I suspect it is some kind of space-borne parasite. My first glimpse of it came as I was scavenging in the lower decks. Turning a corner, I found the body of an engineer, splayed out on the floor, its chest pulsating, so at first I thought him alive. Then I saw it - a large shape, near-transparent, a thin proboscis lodged in between the engineer’s ribs, sucking on his flesh. As it sucked, the human’s body seemed to deflate, while at the same time the creature’s transparency began to colour pink.
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Since then, I have come across countless other bodies, some stripped of flesh, some of bone, some of skin. And the creature I have seen many times too - each time pinker, bloodier, as though building itself layer by layer into completeness.
I believe that the creature’s survival depends on its ability to adapt to its circumstances, to create itself anew from its surroundings. Gradually it is becoming bigger, stronger, smarter.
Weaponless, stranded, I am helpless to defend myself against it.
Unless by doing what it does.
For months I have been collecting the creature’s excretions and using them as fertilizer in the improvised greenhouse I have erected in the ship’s sauna. The only plants I was able to scavenge from the ship’s garden were a handful of established kiwi fruit vines and these I have nurtured as though they were my own children.
A week ago I carried out my first harvest - a bowl of mature fruits, bred on the waste from the creature. These I devoured, from seed to skin - the skin, I soon discovered, being the repository of the most useful nutrients - savouring the sweet taste of fresh food after so long living on dried rations.
The results have been promising. I no longer need to use my suit when travelling between the broken parts of the ship; breathing has become optional. Even better, I have found that by ingesting small fragments of the debris through my newly-grown proboscis, I have been able to develop a new skin made of that same metal.
Like the creature I am becoming what I need to be in order to survive.
And if I fear that my humanity is drifting away like the corpses of my friends, into oblivion? That is just the price I have to pay for survival.]
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Phoebe Barton 🚀🇺🇳 @phoebebarton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
writers: remember that we must be in solidarity with our artist comrades. this affects all creatives. do not be like those quislings who disdain genai writing but eagerly use genai imagery.
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Man's Cringe Fake Smile
Alt: Ted Lasso turns to camera and grimaces as if to say "Yikes!"
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Congratulations!
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Nick Kodama 🌳👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LLM (Large Line Man) solves math problem
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 08/10/2026
Um, long shot but I don’t suppose I know anyone with library privileges at the university of Wisconsin-Madison (who might be able to look at a physical holding for me or get it digitised)?
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Alex Harvey @alexharvv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh this can just fuck off An AI-'written' complete copy of my own book is now on Amazon; same title, more-or-less the same blurb, and exactly the same impetus. Reviewers of Amazon, I urge you to absolutely dive-bomb this plagiaristic piece of shit: www.amazon.co.uk/FORGOTTEN-VI...
A hollow copy of my book with a shit AI-generated cover
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).
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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007
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the pickwicker man @pickwick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Very similar vibes from AI and Harry Potter at the moment in that I do not like them, I do not want them, I am actively trying to avoid them, yet every single company and organisation in the world seems to be trying to force them on me
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wales, this is our time to shine...
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 07/10/2026
The Hopper Prize is now accepting entries for $4,500 and $1,000 artist grants. Two artists will each receive $4,500 and four artists will each receive $1,000. This is an international open call, and all visual media is eligible. The deadline is November 17, so apply today! hopperprize.org
a painting of three figures dancing in bent positions
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Damn. What an icon. RIP
news.mit.edu
Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
Margaret H. Hamilton, a profoundly influential computer scientist best known for leading the software engineering team at MIT’s Instrumentation Lab during NASA’s Apollo program, died at age 90.
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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026
ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...
old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)
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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Six months have passed since the #ArtemisII mission and NASA has just released the reentry video from the Orion capsule! Here is a timelapse of the reentry, but be sure to check out the realtime version linked below! 🔭🧪
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Patrick Mulkern @patrickmulkern.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#TimCurry & #RockyHorror fans! Wed 7 Oct BBC4: a rare screening of #Schmoedipus – a #DennisPotter #PlayForToday. First aired 20 June 1974 yet actually recorded on 18 Dec 73 when Tim was still in the original London run of Rocky. Don Smith photographed him on set for @radiotimes.bsky.social
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Debbie Moon @debbiemoon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here is the resident cat at Ty Newydd writing centre in North Wales, where I was in August. She's writing a novel, you know 😂
A tabby cat with white belly and feet crouches on a wooden table. A stone wall and some stairs behind her.
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High Priestess, Low Patience @cheriepriest.com · 07/10/2026
nobody finishes a book and concludes “that was great; now I shall never read another one.” other writers are your teammates and coworkers, not your competition.
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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 07/10/2026
Preeti and Cassie, avoid them!!! (They tracked me down via means they should have had no access to.) authorsguild.org/news/claimsh...
authorsguild.org
Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know
In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litiga...
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Adam Mallinger @bitterscriptreader.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah, the conspiracy theories of "Wow, the writers really hate this character/actor" always fail to consider this. When bad things happen to a character that usually means we LOVE them and the actor and we're trying to give the actor a meaty story to play.
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In 2010, Ellison again tried to bankroll a movie for himself to star in. He wrote a script for "Northern Lights," and almost signed Taylor Lautner to co-star (for $7.5 million!) but then Lautner backed out when he found out Ellison was trying to co-star hahahah
Screenshot of 2010 Deadline article by Nikki Finke reading "So I’ve got to ask: If Taylor Lautner was supposed to be paid $7.5 million to co-star in David Ellison’s Northern Lights, then what’s Liam Hemsworth worth now to play the same role? Say, half? A quarter? The project by the son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison has seen several young actors pass ever since Taylor dropped out. “It’s scaring some actors off because David has written himself a big role in the movie which he’s also financing,” an insider tells me. [Ellison’s people say he is not financing the pic, just producing it.] “What, you’re going to work for your co-star who doesn’t have a big body of work? I’ve never seen anything like this before.” You may recall that Lautner was being paid per ab, making the then 17-year-old the highest paid Hollywood teen. Northern Lights was supposed to have a start date of April 1st. The pic is about extreme flying and follows four young pilots as they compete against the world’s best. It’s being made by David Ellison’s new company Skydance Productions, and Paramount has a first look at his development."
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Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Never forget that David Ellison's Skydance Media was originally created so he could be an actor. Skydance's first film was 'Flyboys' starring James Franco and... David Ellison. David and his daddy invested $60m to make Flyboys. It grossed $17m Here's a bit of David's acting:
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