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Fiona Moore πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦
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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022).

www.fiona-moore.com

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Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works of TV criticism, short fiction, stage and audio plays, and academic texts on the anthropology of business and organisations. Her research work has been described by Professor Roger Goodman at the University of Oxford's Nissan Institute as "engaging head-on with the growing and increasingly complex literature on transnationalism and globalisation and relating it constructively to key ideas in symbolic anthropology." A graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, she is Chair of Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the BSFA Award for Shorter Fiction, and in 2023 she won the BSFA Award for Short Non-Fiction. .. more

Business 31%
Communication & Media Studies 20%
Pinned
Updated my calling card again.

And if she’s talking about after the fall of Rome, I think Charlemagne would like a word.

β€œOffside!”
'You can't park there, mate'

Haven’t seen S3 yet, but I’m not hearing great things.

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'You can't park there, mate'

Rewatching ST:SNW S1 (it's on ITVX-- go watch it!) and it's really nailing the balance between story arcs and standalone episodes. The episodes are all part of arcs, but so far any backstory you need to catch up has been included in the episode itself, so you could just drop in at any point.

But is anybody reading it?

Other than AI, that is.
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

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Another Β£1k sent to AKT from pin badge sales.
[over Β£46k in total]
24% or young homeless people are LGBTQ+ and AKT offers dedicated and informed support. So valuable, especially in winter.

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This is a great photo of a cat sitting in a bowl. "No way she could top that", you're thinking. WELL GUESS WHAT...
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

Steeleye Span
Spirit of the West
Sex Pistols
Billy Bragg
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

The Prodigy
Rammstein
Madness
Nickelback
Electric Six
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

L7
Beastie Boys
Faun
Gwar
Okilly Dokilly

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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.

The Prodigy
Rammstein
Madness
Nickelback
Electric Six
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.

L7
Beastie Boys
Faun
Gwar
Okilly Dokilly
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen

Vienna Teng
Hoizer
The Mountain Goats
The Decemberists
Great Big Sea

I really hope I can get tickets for this. 1930s television! I can watch what my grandparents watched!

I'm so sorry. Long Covid reduced my speed but six months later I was over it, and if it had stopped me completely I don't know what I'd do.

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Magic Rays season: the documentaries

More on the screenings at BFI Southbank in January; go here for my first notes on the documentaries that we will screen on the 8th and 15th of the month.

www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-s...
Magic Rays season: the documentaries - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: As noted earlier in the week, I have curated a screening season at BFI Southbank in January to tie in with the publication by Bloomsbury and the BFI of Magic Rays of Light: The Earl...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk

I swear eligibility post season comes round earlier every year... anyway, graphic and links:

adoctorofmanythings.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/2...

Richmond be Richmond, but I know people who bought London flats in the 1960s which are now worth millions, while the people themselves are on state pensions. Diamond shoes, I know, but it seems a bit sad that they'll have to sell their flats to billionaires and leave their neighbourhoods.
It's an extra Β£200 a month.
For people who's houses are worth over Β£2m.

These people probably spend more than that on a bottle of wine when they go out for dinner.
β€˜I don’t live in a mansion. It’s a 1930s house’: Richmond residents react to council tax rise

No, thank *you*! It drew me in and kept me guessing, and the ending was both sad and satisfying.

"all change is not growth, and all movement is not forward."
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".

How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.

even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.

they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS!

gonna be reposting your books because hoo you made a book!

books2read.com/u/mVLQgp

"The Apologists" by @tadethompson.bsky.social is going on all my recommendation lists this year. clarkesworldmagazine.com/thompson_11_...
The Apologists by Tade Thompson
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com

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It's an extra Β£200 a month.
For people who's houses are worth over Β£2m.

These people probably spend more than that on a bottle of wine when they go out for dinner.

The problem with β€œAI” isn’t the tech, it’s the predatory capitalism, part 94.
I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.
In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality".

How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?
the bbc changed their article from saying 'trans woman' to saying 'biological male who identifies as a woman'.

even if you don't care about trans ppl it should alarm you just how captured the bbc has become.

they will no longer even say 'trans woman'. that's not normal and shows massive bias.

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I'm not the only author I know who has a huge surfeit of ideas for books that we would love to write and send out into the world if only we had the time to write them.

In 2001 LSE economist Leslie Sklair published a book called The Transnational Capitalist Class, which is worth revisiting in light of all of this.
"If the power elite remains poorly understood, it may be because it is not just a financial elite or an educated elite, a noblesse-oblige elite, a political elite or a narrative-making elite. It straddles all of these, lucratively, persuaded of its own good intentions."

Free link. archive.ph/TbYs7

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"If the power elite remains poorly understood, it may be because it is not just a financial elite or an educated elite, a noblesse-oblige elite, a political elite or a narrative-making elite. It straddles all of these, lucratively, persuaded of its own good intentions."

Free link. archive.ph/TbYs7

Time to share my favourite Christmas advert again. I am old so have no idea who the influencers are, but it's fun, joyful, campy and with a little zing about unpaid labour at holiday time.

youtu.be/ob0oLMhGV9I?...
Boots 2024 Christmas advert with Adjoa Andoh
YouTube video by The Mirror
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I'm quite fond of Solo and The Force Awakens, and of the prequel trilogy I think Revenge of the Sith stands up best (though only if you've seen The Clone Wars as well).