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Kenny Mooney

@kennymooney.bsky.social
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Software dev and writer of books you’ve never read.

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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Immensely proud of my partner @drflewis.bsky.social for finally seeing the publication of her book. Challenging, bold, and really going for something. If you’re in any way interested in new materialist philosophy or psychology you should try and check this out via your library/academic institution
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Finished reading through the WIP last night a thing I’ve had very mixed feeljngs about. it’s taking shape into something. It’s in some ways very different to what I’ve written before. Still a lot of work needed but it’s always pleasing to see something that felt formless begin to find its own form.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Once in a while I read a mainstream commercial novel, I am constantly amazed at how badly written they are. I shouldn't be. But I am. Like, they're getting like streaming shows now. A series of scenes strung together with generic exposition and plenty of handholding so the reader doesn't get lost.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
When you log in to Ingram and see a bunch of book sales and get excited then realise it was probably just Amazon hoovering up more copies and you just want to throw Ingram's reporting into the fucking bin
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's becoming very clear to me over the last few months that I am very possibly in the wrong job. Or rather, developments in the tech world are such that I no longer FEEL like I'm in the right job. And yet as someone in their late 40s, I really don't know what else I can do.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I hear Starmer is going to resign on Monday. Great. Good. Bye bye, dickhead. I can’t wait for Burnham to continue doing to same shit with a different face.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The history of collaborationism is, uh, a checkered one…
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Veronica Heney @veronicaheney.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
So exciting to see this! @drflewis.bsky.social and I have an essay in here about royal women, the visual politics of madness, and mad relationality. We're so delighted to be included among such august company!
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
The monster tries to look adorable
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Who cares. Reading is not a competitive sport, for fucks sake.
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What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers?
They read laps around the rest of us, wearing out their library cards and overflowing their bookshelves. They stack up hundreds of finished books each year. They are super-readers: people who read …
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≠matthew←kinlin●●◯♜ @matthewkinlin.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
“To look too closely is to become corrupted.” Absence as mystery. Time and identity. The 1970s Midwest reality of Satan. Motels. Blue Velvet. I had the great honour of interviewing Nicholas Rombes for @hfr.bsky.social about his neo-noir modern classic, The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing 📼🔥📼🔥
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“Evil Was Real”: Matthew Kinlin & Nicholas Rombes Discuss His Novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing
Released just over a decade ago, the mystery of The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing from Nicholas Rombes only deepens. In the mid 90s, a journalist tracks down and interviews a rare film librar…
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Oh hey, someone bought one of my books. Thank you, whoever you are.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Whoop annual pay award day! 88%?! Holy fu- Wait what? You mean? Oh. That’s a dot? Oh. So? Yeah. Ok. .88%. Thanks for your hard work over the year.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
The new episode of Writing the Rapids is out now! I'm rejoined by the one and only Shane Jesse Christmass to talk about the reissue of Yeezus in Furs (Modern Alchemy Press), learning about yourself as a writer, how deranged america looks to non-americans, and more!
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Rejoinder: Yeezus in Furs with Shane Jesse Christmass
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
All the remakes of John Carpenter's films have been turds, but if Jordan Peele wants to do a version of They Live, I'll be there for it.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
When your ms status in Submittable finally changes from Received to In Progress after almost a year.
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kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and the word anticipation is written on the bottom .
ALT: kermit the frog is covering his mouth with his hand and the word anticipation is written on the bottom .
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Watching Mr Mercedes on Netflix cos I like Brendan Gleason and I’m a sucker for bad cop thrillers. It’s okay but it has the exact same basic plot as the 1995 Sigourney Weaver movie Copycat.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I was never one for doom scrolling but over the last few months I’ve fallen into the habit. It’s not good.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Writing the Rapids is back! I start the year off talking to @saramatson.bsky.social about her poetry, fashion as costume, period romances, and my early theory about a Chicago style of poetry. youtu.be/aGGUsFpIKNY?...
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Chicago Style with Sara Matson
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
This is a real blow for Glasgow
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Glasgow's troubled Centre for Contemporary Arts to permanently close
The announcement comes just a year after it secured £3.4m in funding from arts body Creative Scotland.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
One of the most haunting images put in my head by @drflewis.bsky.social - what if Zizek had a BBL? 😐
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
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Burning House Press @thearsonista.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
The full December 2025 edition guest edited for BHP by @matthewkinlin.bsky.social is now live! Check it out at link below 🖤🥳 burninghousepress.com/2025/12/27/m...
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My Heart Is Empty: Responses to The Life and Work of Nico – December 2025 edition Guest Edited/Curated by Matthew Kinlin
Visit the post for more.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
The latest WIP is going in the bin. Sometimes you have to just accept that something isn’t working out and move on.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
returning to a WIP that I had set aside after a crisis in confidence with its direction. Still uncertain but the only way through is forward so pushing on and hope to have a draft finished over the holidays. Yep, working on the bleakest, darkest thing I've ever written over Christmas. Should be fun.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
it's always a disappointment when I catch a band performance live and they're intense, powerful, face-tearingly good. Then I listen to the album and it's...very tame. It's not just the death of live music, it's the death of the very idea of a band, what it means to perform, to feel that energy.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Just waiting for Starmer to make the Greens a proscribed organisation
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Every person who works in IT who watched the latest episode of Slow Horses just through a brick at the television
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Always caught slightly off guard when someone buys one of my books, like, “oh yeah, that’s a thing isn’t it”
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Goddammit why couldn’t my Irish ancestry be a couple of generations closer to me so I could get a passport out of here.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Seeing Nine Inch Nails hawking for a bunch of Hollywood wankers, including Jared Fucking Leto, while promoting a dumb CGI pile of trash movie financed by fucking Disney, is the least impressive thing I think I've seen in a while. And the score is shit anyway. We've all seen techno clubhouse NIN.
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
New episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talk to Jenkin Benson about his new book, his academic pursuits, neologisms, and more!
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Podrocking with Jenkin Benson
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Sometimes you write 10.5k words only to realise that that’s 10.5k words too many.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I love the way modern management dogma has shifted the definition of leadership from being "we managers are responsible" to "we're all responsible", meaning, it's your job now. All dressed up in the language of "co-operation" and "collaboration".
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The newest Episode of Writing The Rapids is out now! I talked to @raviddice.bsky.social about his new book The Squimbop Condition ( @1111press.bsky.social ), and all that wild ride of a book entails. Take a listen.
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Rejoinder: The Squimbop Condition with David Leo Rice
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
So if Palestine Action are terrorists for spray painting an aircraft, what does that make the 150k flag shaggers who brought "wholly unacceptable violence" to central London today?
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
So Starmer out before or after Christmas?
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
@drflewis.bsky.social what could possibly go wrong?! 😑
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Going back to a piece of music I recorded some years ago and realising as I try to relearn it that I have no idea how my guitar was tuned and it makes no sense at all.
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Rebelle Solitaire @rebellesolitaire.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Concluding @goliathwriter.bsky.social 's Our Nomad Souls trilogy in December 2026, is PRIDE. Synopsis to follow
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The notes I made while brainstorming new book ideas specifically say "No apocalypses". I think I was very clear on that matter. And yet...
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The remastered version of Alice In Chains' Dirt is fucking awful.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ah, Bowie, what could have been... www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...
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Archivists discover that David Bowie was working on a musical set in 18th Century London when he died
You can see his notes and ideas for the proposed show at the David Bowie Centre, which opens at London’s V&A East Storehouse this month
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My only complaint with the new house is that empty cardboard boxes appear to be breeding. If I was back home in Glasgow I'd just pile them up in the back close and set them on fire. The rats would have a BBQ. Here I have to do some weird bourgeois York thing called "recycling". Fetch my flamethrower
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Rebelle Solitaire @rebellesolitaire.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Kicking things off in May 2026. LUCID, by @goliathwriter.bsky.social Our Nomad Souls, Book One. Synopsis to follow.
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Filling out my submissions spreadsheet like a nerd for the first time since 2019
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Joe bielecki @noisemakerjoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
New episode of Writing The Rapids is out! @maeisafraid.bsky.social and I talk about her book, writing place and identity, revenge stories, my love for her character Dwayne, and more!
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I'm Sorry if I Podcasted at You with Mae Murray
YouTube video by Joe Bielecki
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Kenny Mooney @kennymooney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Had this week off work taken up mostly by work on the new house, so trying to make some progress on the WIP today. SunnO))) - The Grimm Robe Demos
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