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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 2h

netflix can't take my dvds off streaming

a man with a beard wearing headphones looks at the camera .

ALT: a man with a beard wearing headphones looks at the camera .

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 5h

mr skellington, that is not a toilet!

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Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com · 8h

You should read Extremophile. I loved it - it's a manic antifascist adventure that doesn't offer easy answers but does have music, great characters and bad people getting their comeuppance.

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · 8h

I've decided that whilst critical success is lovely, I'd like to sell some books.

If you liked EXTREMOPHILE, recommend it to a pal! (If your pal is fucking COOL and not a narc)

Eco-terrorism biohacking body horror, smart shit with dumb characters. Your new favourite book

Ian Green @ianthegreen.bsky.social · Oct 30

'A visceral, doesn't-give-a-damn biopunk thriller that treats the "punk" part of that subgenre not as mere window-dressing but as an antifascist shriek... vital and urgent SF that reaches places realist writing never could' ― @interzone.press

If you like cool shit get this 🕶️

geni.us/extremophile

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 22h

they can't hold a tune, tho

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 1d

these fucken guys are back again *sigh*

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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Michael Kupperman @mkupperman.bsky.social · 2d

At the end, Bruce Willis finds out he's been dead the whole time. That's right, a dead person killed all those terrorists

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 2d

(Honestly, Wilhelm should be Gulielmus in Latin, and was in some sources. Wilielmus seems to have come from some very scrupulous translator.)

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 2d

Parallel. Willelmus in Latin becomes Williame in Norman French and Guillaume in Central French.

"Gu" = "W" (like "Qu" = "Wh") is a Romance/Germanic transition reflecting pronunciation, it's also reflected in the questioning words "quoi" = "what," "quand" = "when" etc.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 3d

but rendered into modern English more directly from its Germanic roots, it would be

"willing helmet"

which certainly in the UK would carry a very different energy than intended... 😏

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 3d

*wiljô here means something like "loyal" or "devoted," while *helmaz is being used figuratively to mean "guardian" or "protector" (your helmet being your most important piece of armour in battle), so William means "Loyal Guardian," which is rather nice

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 3d

*Wiljahelmaz is a compound - this is super-common with Germanic names, like Ethelred ("noble" + "counsel") or Osric ("divine" + "rulership")

it's constructed from the words *wiljô ("will, desire") and *helmaz ("helmet")

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 3d

it's taken quite a meandering journey to get here! theoretically *Wiljahelmaz could have entered English directly, probably as *Wilhelm (pronounced with a "W" rather than a "V" as it is German), but there's no record of it doing so - it's not used as an English name until after the Norman Conquest

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 3d

bit of etymology:

although William is originally Germanic, it entered English from the Norman French Williame, from the Latin Willelmus (the Latin double ll picking up an i when it entered French, as it tends to), which in turn is from the Germanic Wilhelm, from a proto-Germanic name *Wiljahelmaz

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 4d

Heh. There's a screencapped tweet about how everyone hates AI until their homework is due, and people are commenting to refute it with their examples of mad, last-minute assignments that got high marks, and yes, I too have an adult ADHD diagnosis.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 4d

I genuinely don't even think they resent thinking itself; they just don't believe it exists. All they see is someone _not working_, and the idea that this might in some nebulous way be _part_ of the working process doesn't make any sense to them.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 6d

me trying to teach bechamel:

her: how much butter?
me: [squints, cups hand] that much?
her: how much flour?
me: like, it should *look* like the same amount, if that makes sense?

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 6d

I posted on here a few months back about my toddler once throwing a fit because her banana was broken (and she didn't want a new banana, she wanted me to fix *that* banana), and fully five people responded "oh, god, broken bananas!" 😆

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

Sympathies! I find the whole medieval/Christian era of philosophy pretty dire - either do philosophy or theology, don't try and do both. My medieval studies were all about the literature.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

...An app to download, on your telephone...

David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

After the Resurrection, Thomas both was and was not an Apostle until he touched Jesus's wounds and collapsed the probability wave.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

I mean, the existence of "Doubting Thomas" suggests that uncertainty applies?

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

Happy birthday, Alasdair! Lots of love and joy on the day.

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

thirty silver dollars (£22.26 at today's prices)

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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor.bsky.social · 9d

john of patmos rn:

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