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David Thomas Moore

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World Fantasy and Hugo Award-nominated Editorial Director at Solaris (Profile Books). Clarion West Instructor 2026. he/him

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
All this mucking about trying to draw some arbitrary distinction between "English the ethnicity" and "British the nationality" is just an awkward way to say "white" without saying "white." And if you're trying not to say "white" it's because you know you're racist.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Both terms have clearly and uncontroversially meant "anyone who lives in [England/Britain]" for centuries. Even the actual racists a hundred years ago or so we're honest enough to just say "white."
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
When last consistently used as ethnonyms, "English" didn't even refer to the founders of the kingdom of "England" (that being, of course, the Normans), and "British" referred to a culture (the Welsh and Cornish) that no longer uses it to refer to themselves.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
And it's all rather ahistorical. "England" is the name of one of the four kingdoms making up the UK, "Britain" the name of the island.
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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever
A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
not being actively petty, it just put me off listening to them and I never got around to it
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
yes! not Ned's Atomic Dustbin, though; I got terribly excited by the name (from an old episode of the Goon Show) and was crushed to discover Penney just saw it written on a cassette case in his dad's collection and didn't know the show.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
incredible album!
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
his music video background almost certainly played a part in the movie's rock soundtrack, penned and recorded by Queen specifically for the movie but more to the point, he clearly still loved his fucking transitions:
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1986 Russell Mulcahy - "Highlander" (scene transition compilation)
YouTube video by magical media museum
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
having said that, Mulcahy did transition to film, starting with Australian schlock horror "Razorback"... ...and a little-known contemporary dark fantasy called "Highlander"
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
he's known for a sort of mad, kitchen-sink approach to visuals: jump cuts, neon lighting, black-and-white, wind machines, spot colour, body painting and weird, dramatic transitions. shit no audience would tolerate in a film, but for three and a half minutes, it's fucking magical
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a legendary music video director, Mulcahy created such seminal videos as the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" and Duran Duran's "Hungry Like the Wolf". he cameos in the video for Elton John's "I'm Still Standing," which he also directed
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
fun random movies fact: Tyler's video for "Total Eclipse" was directed by Australian director, writer and producer Russell Mulcahy (cont'd)
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
*ahem* four things, TIL four things about them
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
4. they've had hundreds of members over the years, including Danny Carey and Maynard James Keenan, who went on to form Tool!
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3. they got their "shitty puppets and claymation" schtick from fucking GWAR of all things, having met them in 1988
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
2. they actually officially changed their name to Green Jellÿ. I bought Cereal Killer Soundtrack under that name (in Australia where I grew up), but I'd always assumed that was an alternative name for the Commonwealth market. turns out Kraft threatened to sue and they had to change it
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
also, TIL three things about them! 1. they were founded in 1981! my first encounter with them was in 1993. it's not unusual for a band to wallow through their garage band days for a bit, but I would not have pegged them as starting that early
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Green Jellö, in their own words, sucked. but in the best way. if you've never treated yourself before, check out some of their stuff. but in video, please.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
in 1993, they released Cereal Killer as an audio album through BMG's Zoo Entertainment, under the title Cereal Killer Soundtrack. everyone chuckled at that, of course, but it was properly a soundtrack - the videos predated the album 😊
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
in that sense, they anticipated the phenomenon of a "viral success" - they took off (charting, selling gold or platinum and garnering award nominations in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand and Australia) because people laughed at them
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
into this, in 1992, came Green Jellö's Cereal Killer, a "video album" released on cable TV and VHS video. the actual music was terrible (the band have always made a point of this!), but the videos of cheaply made hand puppets and claymation caught the public
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it gave us such legendary videos as Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" (in which, on the line "Turn around, Bright Eyes," a child turns around with brightly glowing eyes), and that incredible half-animated "Take On Me" video
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this led to this mad, desperate tide of innovation: from early, carefully produced recordings of the band via increasingly deranged "story videos" to weird high-concept abstraction and then back round to grainy shaky-cam footage of the band
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
of course, bands still make music videos, but they're not so crucial to the success of a single anymore. when I was a kid, most of us accessed new music first and foremost through MTV, VH-1, Top of the Pops - if you wanted a hit, you needed a great video
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm not terribly nostalgic about "the good old days," by and large - whichever good old days you may be thinking of - but I do sometimes reflect sadly that the 80s & 90s golden age of music videos is something that will never return
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if you're not familiar with them, Green Jellö are a comedy punk-band that went global in 1993 with their album Cereal Killer Soundtrack, and especially the single release Three Little Pigs and its accompanying video (linked in the OP above)
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I sing this to my kid sometimes! Fucken love Green Jellö
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yep, I remember going to see my grandmother in a home ten-fifteen years ago and even then there was music from the 20s and 30s playing. I've seen better since, though: my in-laws have just moved into a retirement home and they play the Stones and the Beatles there, it's brilliant.
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Draculosity Jones: Ghost Skeleton @brainmage.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hey guys! I'm Burke, he's Hare, and before we get into today's unboxing video, we just wanna talk a little about today's sponsor, Surfshark
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I suspect a reference to the famous "they're good dogs brent" weratedogs exchange?
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
omg
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
that's what Big Chocolate wants you to believe
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's a scene in Ted Lasso about this - "Rebecca, all those children are *dead*." Honestly there's no way any of them actually survived what happened to them, their being alive at the end is blatant Wonkaist propaganda.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tthis, so many times the past couple of months: bsky.app/profile/dtmo...
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Alex de Campi @alexdecampi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
With alt text. I know someone who actually did this
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On my first big overseas client conference, I was at a dinner seated next to a drunk client who kept trying to fondle me under the table. I was young, distressed, and had no idea what to do. I moved my legs as far away from him as I could, moving into the space of the man next to me, who then started patting my legs! The Regional Manager was a French woman who caught my eye, gestured for me to go to the bathroom and when I came back had switched chairs with me. What happed next was epic. A few minutes after I sat back down, she raised her hand with his hand captured in hers and announced loudly "Does anyone know whose hand this is? I found it in my lap." There was dead silence at the table. She threw his hand back at him and said calmly "next time I pick it up with my fork." Then she started a new conversational thread and things moved on. After the meeting she found me, gave me a hug, and said seriously "Never be afraid to make some noise. It is their shame, not yours."
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Premee Mohamed @premeemohamed.com · 29/09/2026
Yes but --
the cover of fiasco's next novel, 'the hamsome man,' featuring him (the hamsome man) sitting on a faux-wood table in front of some blue and gold curtains
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not sure! It ends with a setup for more seasons, but it definitely has an arc. Hard to answer that without spoilers!
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Special nod to the episode titles and summaries, which are done in the style of a visitors guide to the island. Highly recommended.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Matthew Rhys (with a bloody decent New England accent), Kate O'Flynn and Stephen Root bounce off each other beautifully, straight-facing through a succession of steadily weirder events as the nightmares build.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's blackly comic - I laughed my ass off throughout - with lots of wonderful absurd details rendering the supernatural charmingly banal (or, conversely, rendering the mundane unsettlingly otherworldly). There's a sort of Scarfolk Council weirdness throughout.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The horror is super lightweight, mostly atmosphere and tension with the occasional off camera nastiness (my wife spent half the show hiding behind a blanket, but by her own admission she is a "massive wuss").
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's sort of "The Cabin in the Woods, but instead of a cabin it's a whole creepy-ass North Atlantic island and the hero is the mayor from Jaws."
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just finished #WidowsBay on Apple TV with my wife. It's good, a kind of nightmare-of-the-week horror pastiche show in the vein of Eerie, Indiana with a central plot device revolving around the hidden history of the island.
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Solaris Books @solarisbooks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In February 2027...the Mickeys are multiplying! Meet MICKEY PRIME, the latest novel in @edashtonwriting.bsky.social 's fan-favourite MICKEY7 series - the inspiration for Bong Joon Ho's silver-screen SciFi sensation, MICKEY17, starring Robert Pattinson! Preorder now: buff.ly/Kzuc8Ui
A stack of Solaris edition MICKEY7 novels against a black background streaked with gold falling stars.
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Maddie (delicious, nutritious) @pbastronaut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I need centrists to understand that the bar for being the most beloved and effective PM of our lifetimes is in the fucking toilet. Saving the world would be nice but simply making everything merely as shit as they were ten years ago would earn my lifelong loyalty.
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
more seriously, mentally compiling a list of undiagnosed ADHD sufferers from your replies
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tealeaves Georg, who drinks over 10,000 cups a day,
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Verdell Walker, Writer @vwalkerwrites.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I have a new flash piece out in Neon & Smoke today. “Light of Zahraun” follows a little girl with a strange habit and a bright destiny. Link to read: www.neonandsmoke.com/september-sm...
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
i mean, i took the seat, don't get me wrong
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