Robbie Moore
@robbiemoore.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English at UTAS. "Hotel Modernity: Corporate Space in Literature and Film" from Edinburgh UP. He/him.
It is, once again, St Andrew's Day
Hotel Modernity now available at half price in a 🔥 red hot 🔥 St Andrew's Day sale from EUP, for all you sickos who purchase copies of academic books edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-hotel-m...
Hotel Modernity
Hotel Modernity
edinburghuniversitypress.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
It is, once again, St Andrew's Day
Going to start a drama school for musical theatre/opera singers that only teaches the art of guffawing and breaking into song in tavern scenes. "A toast, gentlemen!" etc. The RADA of carousing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEb...
Jolly Old Hawk
YouTube video by The Revels Chorus - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Going to start a drama school for musical theatre/opera singers that only teaches the art of guffawing and breaking into song in tavern scenes. "A toast, gentlemen!" etc. The RADA of carousing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEEb...
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In the post: a big Danse Macabre book.
November 28, 2025 at 11:59 AM
In the post: a big Danse Macabre book.
A teenage Björk recorded a yule cat carol youtu.be/BeHunHocp5Q?...
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 AM
A teenage Björk recorded a yule cat carol youtu.be/BeHunHocp5Q?...
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A century of Strike and Battleship Potemkin.
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
A century of Strike and Battleship Potemkin.
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Hang it all, Robert Kennedy
ok I’m sorry to ever say anything but what the fuck does she think a canto is
November 18, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Hang it all, Robert Kennedy
I don't think I nailed this piece, just between you and me, but here it is in full anyhow: on Gothic fungi www.griffithreview.com/articles/the...
The animal in the walls - Robbie Moore
Humans have tried to categorise fungus in many ways over the years; here Robbie Moore examines how this part-animal part-plant has been used to represent malevolent forces in gothic tales.
www.griffithreview.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I don't think I nailed this piece, just between you and me, but here it is in full anyhow: on Gothic fungi www.griffithreview.com/articles/the...
Reposted by Robbie Moore
Re-read this gem from @robbiemoore.bsky.social — applies to everything:
”TH Huxley imagined a planet emptied of humanity but pulsing with fungal and algal life. He used the image as a way of refuting the idea that survival of the fittest necessarily means survival of the most complex or intelligent”
”TH Huxley imagined a planet emptied of humanity but pulsing with fungal and algal life. He used the image as a way of refuting the idea that survival of the fittest necessarily means survival of the most complex or intelligent”
The animal in the walls - Robbie Moore
Humans have tried to categorise fungus in many ways over the years; here Robbie Moore examines how this part-animal part-plant has been used to represent malevolent forces in gothic tales.
www.griffithreview.com
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Re-read this gem from @robbiemoore.bsky.social — applies to everything:
”TH Huxley imagined a planet emptied of humanity but pulsing with fungal and algal life. He used the image as a way of refuting the idea that survival of the fittest necessarily means survival of the most complex or intelligent”
”TH Huxley imagined a planet emptied of humanity but pulsing with fungal and algal life. He used the image as a way of refuting the idea that survival of the fittest necessarily means survival of the most complex or intelligent”
"Telephone to glory, oh, what joy divine!
I can feel the current moving on the line,
Built by God the Father for His loved and own,
We may talk to Jesus through this royal telephone."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn73...
I can feel the current moving on the line,
Built by God the Father for His loved and own,
We may talk to Jesus through this royal telephone."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn73...
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 AM
"Telephone to glory, oh, what joy divine!
I can feel the current moving on the line,
Built by God the Father for His loved and own,
We may talk to Jesus through this royal telephone."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn73...
I can feel the current moving on the line,
Built by God the Father for His loved and own,
We may talk to Jesus through this royal telephone."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn73...
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Absolute nightmare. For professors, but also for students, who will be deprived of life-altering truths.
Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”
November 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Absolute nightmare. For professors, but also for students, who will be deprived of life-altering truths.
Extremely charming that Sharon Van Etten is (a) visiting Hobart and (b) dropping in on our tiny feminist record store for an album signing
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Extremely charming that Sharon Van Etten is (a) visiting Hobart and (b) dropping in on our tiny feminist record store for an album signing
Trust me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mym_...
Ramer Sans Rame
YouTube video by Akofa Akoussah - Topic
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Trust me www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mym_...
Watching The Terror, many years late. Polar despair. Grim as heck. Episode 6 echoing the final shot of The Thing.
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Watching The Terror, many years late. Polar despair. Grim as heck. Episode 6 echoing the final shot of The Thing.
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mystic bridge (with train window filter)
November 10, 2025 at 8:57 AM
mystic bridge (with train window filter)
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This epistolary novel could have been an email
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
This epistolary novel could have been an email
Ambushed! On the Staircase
November 8, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Ambushed! On the Staircase
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We're so back
MOTHERFUCKING IS QUOTING EUGENE DEBS IN THE FIRST SENTENCE OF HIS MAYORAL VICTORY SPEECH OMFG
November 5, 2025 at 4:21 AM
We're so back
Last minute oppo drop: he likes soccer and cricket
November 4, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Last minute oppo drop: he likes soccer and cricket
The managerial class have discovered the word “cadence”. Get your hands off our words, bandits!
November 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
The managerial class have discovered the word “cadence”. Get your hands off our words, bandits!
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No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.
November 2, 2025 at 6:43 PM
No memento mori more effective than needing to scroll ever longer to select your birth year.
Men will literally record an album on a four-track TEAC 144 Portastudio rather than go to therapy
November 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Men will literally record an album on a four-track TEAC 144 Portastudio rather than go to therapy
I have looked
on the Works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
saving
for ye Mighty to despair at
Forgive me
they were lifeless
so vast
and so trunkless
on the Works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
saving
for ye Mighty to despair at
Forgive me
they were lifeless
so vast
and so trunkless
November 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I have looked
on the Works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
saving
for ye Mighty to despair at
Forgive me
they were lifeless
so vast
and so trunkless
on the Works
that were in
the desert
and which
you were probably
saving
for ye Mighty to despair at
Forgive me
they were lifeless
so vast
and so trunkless
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Crackly old jazz, blues and gospel playlist for Hallowtide open.spotify.com/playlist/4T7...
Radio Séance [early jazz // gospel // haunted phonographs]
open.spotify.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Crackly old jazz, blues and gospel playlist for Hallowtide open.spotify.com/playlist/4T7...
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They literally ruin everything they touch
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 AM
They literally ruin everything they touch
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When you look at your Google Scholar citations
October 31, 2025 at 4:33 AM
When you look at your Google Scholar citations