iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 05/09/2026

This is *the* crucial point to keep in mind. The future is not a binary between a pure, perfect world and a ruined, apocalyptic one. As I write in my book, the future is more like a tree, w/different futures branching out in all directions. It matters profoundly which branch we end up on.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 16/08/2026

The American Nightmare, that whirlpool of poverty that, once it starts sucking you down, grows ever more vicious and inescapable, eventually leading to a state of total social dislocation Dombek calls the "great loneliness," is a topic that can never be explored enough, in my opinion.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 06/08/2026

This is orthogonal to, well, pretty much everything, but I just wanted to point out that Berton has what might be the best author photo on all of Wikipedia. I especially love that someone took pains to credit his cat by name.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 04/08/2026

In my book I talk about how one of Trump’s most surprising traits is that he loves trees. Specifically, he loves driving around in a limo, buying old trees from people’s yards, and them transplanting them on his golf courses. (Which is *the* most Trumpy way to love a tree, if you think about it…)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 01/08/2026

Pretty sure it’s set in the present day (although it’s somewhat ambiguous as I recall), but this is one of the saddest (and funniest!) sad sack films I’ve seen in forever. It might just be the epitome of the genre.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 18/07/2026

Kinda love the painterly texture of this fluke shot I took through my windshield with my phone, of the peculiar confluence of wildfire smoke and monsoon rains. (Zoom in.)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 18/07/2026

Some wild scenes here on the Long Island Expressway, as monsoon rains lash through the apocalyptic haze of wildfire smoke and infrastructure built for a bygone climate visibly fails.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 12/07/2026

Wonder what Rene Descartes would think about the fact that the cover of his book on the nature of consciousness was designed by a machine that is imitating, and feigning, human consciousness

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 11/07/2026

We dropped by Stephen King’s old house in Bangor, and nearby someone has posted missing posters for a dog named Ghost

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 06/07/2026

Excited to announce the (very swiftly) upcoming tour dates for the East Coast leg of my book tour! Can't wait to talk with all of these brilliant folks—including @brdemuth.bsky.social and @sandyernestallen.bsky.social—about tree-climbing and 'tree-thinking'.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 02/07/2026

Italo Calvino traveling in the US in 1960: “Capitalism wraps itself round & permeates everything…We are in a totalitarian structure of a medieval kind, based on the fact that no alternative exists nor even any awareness of the possibility of an alternative other than that of individualist escapism.”

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 26/06/2026

Italo Calvino, writing home after crossing the Atlantic on a luxury ocean liner filled with aging rich people: “Long live Socialism. Long live Aviation.”

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 11/06/2026

how my brain feels after spending all day thinking and talking about trees

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 08/06/2026

Japanese editions of: Neuromancer, by @greatdismal.bsky.social The Unteleported Man by P.K. Dick Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan 1985 by Anthony Burgess

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 08/06/2026

Kinda love this creepy Japanese edition of "Against Nature" I just ran across on ebay. (Published in 2010!)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 30/05/2026

Walter Benjamin, with two of the all-time worst pieces of writing advice, back to back. I can only assume he was trying to sabotage his rivals.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 21/05/2026

I mean to each his own, but sprinting through lovely forests and mountains and deserts, subsisting on twinkies and cold ramen noodles and cigarettes, listening to Kitchen Confidential on audiobook over and over, just to nab a record no one cares about...seems like a huge wasted opportunity to me.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 21/05/2026

Australia is a horrifying place. Horrifying.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 20/05/2026

Nothing warms an author's cold heart like seeing photos of a well-thumbed, dog-eared, highlighted-all-to-hell book. Please don't ever hesitate to share a photo like this with a writer. The whole reason we write is to have our work read this deeply.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 13/05/2026

There was a time when I thought a great deal about the axolotls. I went to see them in the aquarium at tbe Jardin des Plantes and stayed for hours watching them, observing their immobility, their faint movements. Now I am an axolotl.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 11/05/2026

After holding out for many years, I've finally broken down & joined IG. Follow me over there? I'll mostly be posting pictures of trees & bits of nature philosophy & poetry I've squirreled away over the years. I hope it will be a little green oasis amid the endless stream of flesh, fury, & food.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 11/05/2026

How am I just now learning about the existence of this book

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 10/05/2026

Went on book tour. Came home with too many books. A tale as old as time.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 10/05/2026

Remi just remarked in passing that, last night around 2 a.m., when he was alone downstairs, the door to our house mysteriously blew open, stayed open “just long enough for a person to walk through,” and blew shut again. Then he just changed topics, like anyway, lalala

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 08/05/2026

A friend just emailed me this photo of me yammering about God knows what, and Attenborough listening patiently. (As I recall, he was quizzing me on the particular rope climbing system we were using to scale the sequoias.)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 08/05/2026

Happy 100th bday to Sir David Attenborough! He was 93 when I met him. What struck me most was his curiosity. He was always asking q’s: about the depth of sequoia roots, the rain patterns, the endemic animals. Big, branchy brain; small ego. Wanna live to 100? Stay curious!

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 06/05/2026

Can you imagine living near one of these facilities, seeing flames 90 meters (!) high shooting out of the top, and watching black ash raining down on your kids while they play in the yard, and then being told by men in suits that it's no big deal?

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 05/05/2026

C.S. Lewis on the nature of friendship. This is essentially what philosophers mean when they say that the 'individual' is a relatively modern construct, and that many other cultures conceive of people in a more porous, contingent, interwoven fashion. Weird as it sounds, it's just observably true.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 05/05/2026

Psyched for this issue to arrive. The intellectual travelogue—smart person takes a trip, deconstructs everything they see w/devastating precision, returns disillusioned but also oddly wistful for the place & its people—is perhaps my favorite sub-genre of essay, & n+1 nails it consistently.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 04/05/2026

Home at last! The sun is shining; the birds are flirting; life is finally flowing back into this desiccated husk I once called a brain.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 03/05/2026

Lying in the sun, on a houseboat, in Seattle, enjoying an N/A beer at 10 a.m. (a faintly, if illogically, illicit thrill), thoroughly emotionally wrung out by this roadtrip, but also happy. We should be home by tonight. Feeling thankful! And tired! But mostly thankful!

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 03/05/2026

Only in moments of rupture does the profound surreality of the everyday reveal itself

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 03/05/2026

Ran across this the other day in the first pages of Susan Sontag's "As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh." Is it possible she didn’t know this line was from Nietzsche? (It's his single most famous aphorism!)

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 30/04/2026

About to go on a local morning TV show to talk about my book, which I feel confident will be exactly as surreal and sweaty as the one other time I went on a local morning TV show to talk about my book, ten years ago.

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 28/04/2026

I describe it in chapter 1, when talking about Tolstoy

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 28/04/2026

How you know your coastal Oregon motel is legit

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𝐑𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐨𝐫 @robertmoor.com · 26/04/2026

The last stop on my book tour! Extremely excited for this one. @ferrisjabr.bsky.social is one of the most brilliant, botanically obsessed, philosophically curious writers I know, & Portland is packed with tree people. Guaranteed to be a fascinating conversation. April 30 / 7 PM / Powell's

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