Eric is deep in the word mines
@ericgmoore.bsky.social
Working on observability stuff at a place. Lover of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror—currently working on a novel.
Other interests include: tech, finance, TTRPGs and poker.
Other interests include: tech, finance, TTRPGs and poker.
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I never did a proper intro post, so here it is!
I'm Eric, and I have a day job helping make the computers go brrrr at a big boy business place.
I'm also a writer, reader, and book collector with a love for SFF and horror.
Expect unhinged shitposts interspersed w/ writing, book, and tech stuff
I'm Eric, and I have a day job helping make the computers go brrrr at a big boy business place.
I'm also a writer, reader, and book collector with a love for SFF and horror.
Expect unhinged shitposts interspersed w/ writing, book, and tech stuff
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
This is, and I cannot possibly stress this enough, a profoundly evil company.
Like,self-evidently, cartoonishly evil.
Like,self-evidently, cartoonishly evil.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
This is, and I cannot possibly stress this enough, a profoundly evil company.
Like,self-evidently, cartoonishly evil.
Like,self-evidently, cartoonishly evil.
This edition of BLACK STONE HEART is seriously one of the most beautiful things on my shelves.
The writing and story itself is (obviously) fantastic. The binding is gorgeous. The typeset and pages are gorgeous. The art is gorgeous, and there's even an insane fold-out map.
The writing and story itself is (obviously) fantastic. The binding is gorgeous. The typeset and pages are gorgeous. The art is gorgeous, and there's even an insane fold-out map.
December 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This edition of BLACK STONE HEART is seriously one of the most beautiful things on my shelves.
The writing and story itself is (obviously) fantastic. The binding is gorgeous. The typeset and pages are gorgeous. The art is gorgeous, and there's even an insane fold-out map.
The writing and story itself is (obviously) fantastic. The binding is gorgeous. The typeset and pages are gorgeous. The art is gorgeous, and there's even an insane fold-out map.
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ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.
December 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.
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One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
December 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential
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I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
www.hr-brew.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
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Are you on generic Vyvanse? There was a nationwide recall in the fall that a lot of people missed because they put out the news generally but didn’t tell people who were on it directly.
Check your lot numbers here: www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...
Check your lot numbers here: www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...
December 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Are you on generic Vyvanse? There was a nationwide recall in the fall that a lot of people missed because they put out the news generally but didn’t tell people who were on it directly.
Check your lot numbers here: www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...
Check your lot numbers here: www.pharmacy.ca.gov/about/recall...
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To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about family togetherness. It's about dancing with yetis. It's about making ill-advised, Faustian bargains with the Peppermint Man. It's about shrinking down the super rich and trapping them in snow globe pocket dimensions.
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
To me, Christmas isn't about perfection or consumerism. It's about family togetherness. It's about dancing with yetis. It's about making ill-advised, Faustian bargains with the Peppermint Man. It's about shrinking down the super rich and trapping them in snow globe pocket dimensions.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
I'm so tired of reading about morally bankrupt pretty reporter lady who it turns out doesnt write very good.
December 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm so tired of reading about morally bankrupt pretty reporter lady who it turns out doesnt write very good.
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No one has scammed and beclowned the human race like cats. "Aww she's sitting on me" she's sapping your energy. "Aww she's purring" she's communicating with the devil, her father in hell
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No one has scammed and beclowned the human race like cats. "Aww she's sitting on me" she's sapping your energy. "Aww she's purring" she's communicating with the devil, her father in hell
Wild, but me and my friend group just rewatched Johnny Tsunami on a lark a couple of days ago. For a made for TV Disney movie from the late 90s, it held up remarkably well.
Tagawa steals every scene he's in.
Tagawa steals every scene he's in.
Rest In Peace to the great Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (seen here in License to Kill)
December 5, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Wild, but me and my friend group just rewatched Johnny Tsunami on a lark a couple of days ago. For a made for TV Disney movie from the late 90s, it held up remarkably well.
Tagawa steals every scene he's in.
Tagawa steals every scene he's in.
I discovered Koja this year, and the extent to which the experience of reading her books has run roughshod over everything else in what has been one of the best reading years of my life is truly astounding.
You're going to want Kathe's book. As a friend said the first time they handed me a Cormac McCarthy novel, "Don't ask questions. Just read it."
Richard Kadrey (Sandman Slim) says Kathe Koja's Dark Matter is like stepping into the ultimate club.
https://smpl.is/af6qe
#BunnyGraves #DarkFactory #DarkPark #DarkMatter #KatheKoja @kkoja.bsky.social @Richard Kadrey
https://smpl.is/af6qe
#BunnyGraves #DarkFactory #DarkPark #DarkMatter #KatheKoja @kkoja.bsky.social @Richard Kadrey
December 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I discovered Koja this year, and the extent to which the experience of reading her books has run roughshod over everything else in what has been one of the best reading years of my life is truly astounding.
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Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵
Heated Rivalry is so incredibly horny, a bit toxic (in an honest way), and sometimes cheesy.
And I am so fucking here for it.
And I am so fucking here for it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Heated Rivalry is so incredibly horny, a bit toxic (in an honest way), and sometimes cheesy.
And I am so fucking here for it.
And I am so fucking here for it.
Seven Psychopaths
Inception
Arrival
Inglorius Basterds
Sicario
Little Miss Sunshine
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Dark Knight
LOTR trilogy
Inception
Arrival
Inglorius Basterds
Sicario
Little Miss Sunshine
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Dark Knight
LOTR trilogy
As people keep positing their top 10 movies of the 21st century, here’s mine (in no particular order):
The Wolf of Wall Street
Sinners
Inception
Shaun of the Dead
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Children of Men
The Dark Knight
Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Shape of Water
The Wolf of Wall Street
Sinners
Inception
Shaun of the Dead
Mad Max: Fury Road
The Children of Men
The Dark Knight
Kill Bill Vols 1 & 2
Lord of the Rings trilogy
The Shape of Water
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Seven Psychopaths
Inception
Arrival
Inglorius Basterds
Sicario
Little Miss Sunshine
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Dark Knight
LOTR trilogy
Inception
Arrival
Inglorius Basterds
Sicario
Little Miss Sunshine
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
The Dark Knight
LOTR trilogy
Outstanding piece by @davidjroth.bsky.social on the conservative perpetual grievance machine.
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was a...
defector.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)
December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposting with Alt text (this one is too good to miss!)
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who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
December 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there
Just once I'd like my state to make headlines for something not unrepentantly dumb and awful.
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Just once I'd like my state to make headlines for something not unrepentantly dumb and awful.
Truly one of the GOATs
Hard to overstate the impact his writing made on me.
Rest easy.
Hard to overstate the impact his writing made on me.
Rest easy.
BREAKING: British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love," dies at 88.
Playwright Tom Stoppard who won Academy Award for screenplay for “Shakespeare In Love" has died
British playwright Tom Stoppard, who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s “Shakespeare In Love” has died. He was 88.
bit.ly
November 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Truly one of the GOATs
Hard to overstate the impact his writing made on me.
Rest easy.
Hard to overstate the impact his writing made on me.
Rest easy.
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Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Seen on Reddit:
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
"42 is just old people 6 7"
And... well... yeah. Can't really argue.
Got 2k words down today. Been a while since I've had a writing session this productive.
November 23, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Got 2k words down today. Been a while since I've had a writing session this productive.