Debbie Moon

@debbiemoon.bsky.social

Screenwriter, hiker, fangirl, armchair astronaut. Eater of cake and friend of cats. WOLFBLOOD, HINTERLAND, THE SPARTICLE MYSTERY. Reps: Gary Wild, JFL Agency (UK), Sukee Chew, Hopscotch (US). She/they.

You've read @gavia.bsky.social 's Vampire Lestat recaps. Now that the season has wrapped up, she's going deep behind the scenes, talking to production designer Andres Cubillan about a range of setpieces, from the tour bus to Lestat's childhood home to the Fang Gang's hideout. 🩸✨ Read or listen:

Inside The Vampire Lestat’s Brilliant Production Design

Blood farms and custom guitars: TVL production designer Andres Cubillan shares insights into the season’s most memorable setpieces.

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Image from a specially designed camera that is destined to go to Mars 🚀 in 2028. The camera is a collab of Computer Science and Physics departments at @aberuni.bsky.social Image is a little blurry, because humans aren't very good at keeping still for the number of images taken. The post explains…

Aberystwyth Uni Computer Science@abercompsci.bsky.social · 5h ago

Last week we hosted fellow future PanCam operators from the Open University and MSSL (UCL). We were training them to operate AUPE for the field trial and testing out software we’ve been working on. AUPE is the Aberystwyth University PanCam Emulator. It is very 🧵 1/4

Picture from the AUPE camera

We have an announcement. Tomorrow is Dounby Show Day which is a local public holiday in #Orkney. Orkney Library & Archive will be CLOSED ALL DAY so the staff can dress in their finest outfits and stroll around the park looking at all sorts of bullocks. 🐂 See you on Friday.

A black and white archive photograph of cows looking over a wall

This year's Edinburgh International Book Festival kicks off shortly and for the first time ever Orkney Library & Archive is delighted to be holding several FREE events where you can come along to the library and watch LIVE STREAMS of the events as they happen! 🎉

A poster for a series of live streamed events from Edinburgh International Book Festival, streamed at Orkney Library & Archive

Did you know we administer a number of grants for authors? Grants currently open for applications include: 🖊️Authors' Foundation grants for works-in-progress 📜Strachey Trust Grants to enable authors to access literary manuscripts in a UK or Republic of Ireland archive

“Immense gratitude to the Society of Authors for awarding me one of their grants. These are so valuable for authors - allowing a period of focused work with a little less financial stress. Do apply - the process is very straightforward and they’re a hugely supportive organisation.” Sam Byers

I am bang in favour of neo-Nazis reforming, or of any repentant person getting a chance to do better in life. But, as a friend who works in improving life for ex prisoners says, if you were convicted for embezzlement, your redemption does not mean you're entitled to a finance job.

Medical advances. All of them. I was told in 2006 when I went into a t1 diabetic coma that if I'd showed up to ER in state I was in 20 years before, I'd be dead. We got a COVID vaccine in a YEAR. Spouse has a friend w/a major brain aneurysm who SURVIVED. And no one smokes inside anymore!!!!!!!!!

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 18h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian

@doriantaylor.com

air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime

question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*?

like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*?

2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026