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Fiona Moore is a Canadian academic, writer and critic based in London (UK). She is best known for writing works… more

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by Fiona Moore

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And his waving it off as "oh, those fibres weren't tough enough to make the cut" yeah, and the hole left by the fibres is still there, it's not skin, scar tissue doesn't grow into it!
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Sometimes they point to cases where something is allowed in one jurisdiction and not another, but it's usually cases where there's a balance of actual/potential harms and benefits and different places make different calls (e.g. melatonin being over-the-counter medicine in Canada but not the UK).
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Yeah. That.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I regularly use the Titan submersible case when explaining to my business-school students why regulations are a good idea and not, in fact, something that stifles innovation.

Well, it does stifle innovation, but only those innovations that might accidentally kill people if implemented.
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 5h
"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.
BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.
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dreadships.bsky.social
"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials."

Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.
BBC headline - Titan submersible inked sure to poor engineering, say US officials - above an image of the submersible in happier times, eg when it hadn't yet imploded and turned its occupants into a seawater-flavoured paste.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Can’t say I’d complain.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
<controversial opinion> good? The first movie was a fun novelty but that was about it, the second was dire.
gizmodo.com
Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 23h
A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.
'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'
A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.
gizmodo.com
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Hm, very similar to the immigration discourse.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Kingdom. It's a Korean historical horror that's a bit like Game of Thrones without the gratuitous sex.
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gizmodo.com
A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.
'Tron' Might Really Be Doomed After 'Tron: Ares'
A new report suggests that the disastrous opening weekend for the Jared-Leto-starring sequel may lead to Disney pulling the plug on the Grid once and for all.
gizmodo.com
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I find myself increasingly looking to the Financial Times for reality checks. This week: no, the benefits system isn't "broken" and welfare costs aren't "spiralling", nor is there an employment crisis: www.ft.com/content/ee67...
No need for a moral panic about the welfare system
It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high
www.ft.com
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Reposted by Fiona Moore, Nick Hubble

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In other news: Angry Robot Books has acquired Juliet E. McKenna’s The Riven Kingdom, described as a “fresh and gripping fantasy” that “blends politics, religion, and a battle for a dead king’s throne, perfect for fans of the Realm of the Elderlings series.”
britishfantasysociety.org/book-news-an...
Book News: Angry Robot Acquires New Juliet E. McKenna Novel – The British Fantasy Society
britishfantasysociety.org
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
It's sadly not surprising though. One problem with doing historical research on television is that it was, and still often is, seen as ephemeral and not worthy of serious consideration. There's a lot of material that survives only because of fans and collectors, not actual academics and archivists.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Remembers? I still *own* two!
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Bona Books Presents A new queer literary magazine FANTABULOSA! Tales of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical, from radical and unapologetic queer voices. Science fiction, fantasy and horror Short fiction & poetry Submissions open now
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Yes. They tried that before, and it had a definite impact on one of my Doctor Who books: there were some pieces of original material that I know existed once, because Andrew Pixley refers to them in his articles-- but I have to take it on faith that he was reporting it right.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I write academic and popular works of television criticism. The Written Archive has been an invaluable source for my research on Doctor Who and Blake's 7. I had plans for a work on the groundbreaking multiethnic 1970s series Gangsters, which it will be much harder to do without the Archives.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
And again, this is a travesty of what an archive should be for.
eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
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by Margot C. Finn — Reposted by Fiona Moore, Lesley A. Hall, Justin Lewis , and 2 more

eicathomefinn.bsky.social
For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.
Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...
Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research
observer.co.uk
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
For forty light-years have we known her,
The Space Marine Chapter Master of old
And for eighty light-years shall us perish
Ere the fame of her deeds shall grow cold...
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the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14
People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Went to see a movie by some Mexican guy. He was there too and brought his friends. #LIFF
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
Sergio Leone of course. Next question.
katelynburns.com
Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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cherylmorgan.bsky.social
It has been a bit quiet today. I know yesterday was very good, but we are not funded yet so I am going to have to keep pestering you until we are. If you have already backed it, why not share it with your friends? www.kickstarter.com/projects/191...
They Are Still Here (Maen Nhw Yma O Hyd)
An anthology of contemporary fantasy stories featuring creatures and characters from Welsh mythology and folklore
www.kickstarter.com
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Reposted by Fiona Moore, Shannon Vallor, Alan Richardson

katelynburns.com
name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I liked the BSG remake, and Caprica was a series that deserved a longer run: a sort of The-Godfather-Meets-Mark-Zuckerberg story of the origin of the Cylons. Uneven but nothing that an extra season wouldn't have fixed.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
My reference point is always the original, but I heard somewhere that post-millenial readers assume he was talking about a blue sky and I've never forgotten that.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
It's outside of your sample (being American and also something of a television footnote these days), but just out of interest, the Battlestar Galactica spinoff series Caprica was shot using the multi-camera method.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I think it's funny that "the sky was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel" still works-- but it's shifted in meaning from dull grey to sunny blue.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
The Stewart Lee op-ed about the flag-posters was genuinely funny.
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by Fiona Moore

drfionamoore.bsky.social
I mean, I know the answer, but yeah.
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 3d
We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.
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