J.D. Moyer
@jdmoyer.bsky.social
sci-fi author, beatmaker, against fascism jdmoyer.com
Removing helmets in the NFL would change the game dramatically, but could vastly increase player safety and career length. Would probably be more fun to watch as well. huffsports.com/football/cte...
CTE In NFL Vs Rugby: Shocking Truths About Player Safety
Explore the impact of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in the NFL and rugby, highlighting health risks from repeated head collisions. Discover how each sport approaches player safety differently...
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Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns
Loved the book, loved the show, loved reading the tweets while the book was written and pivoted due to world events, want more
BGR@bgrcom.bsky.social · 2w agoPrime Video's The Peripheral, is based on William Gibson's cyberpunk novel of the same name, which was sadly canceled due to the SAG-AFTRA strike.
In 2014 I published what would become one of my most shared and taught essays, 12 Fundamentals of Writing the Other (and the Self). Now you can read it without giving a click to the A.I. slop factory known as Buzzfeed. www.patreon.com/djolder/post...
12 Fundamentals Of Writing "The Other" (And The Self) | Daniel José Older
NOTE: This piece was originally published on January 15, 2014 on Buzzfeed Books. In an effort to get my work away from that slop-infested he
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My favorite piece of news today, AI eating the surveillance state www.techspot.com/news/113381-...
Google's AI told people Flock cameras were full of gold. They weren't.
The story starts with a meme: privacy advocates joking online that Flock's surveillance cameras are secretly loaded with valuable metals, worth cracking open for scrap. AI Overviews...
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The best case scenario for home improvement is two steps forward, one step back (because starting a project invariably results in discovery of new shit to be fixed)
mRNA vaccines for multidrug-resistant bacteria: promise, challenges, and microbiome-informed strategies - The Lancet Microbe www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
mRNA vaccines for multidrug-resistant bacteria: promise, challenges, and microbiome-informed strategies
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has made multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs), particularly ESKAPE-E pathogens (including Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobac...
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Generally against AI slop as well as TikTok, but I'll make an exception for this work of art www.reddit.com/r/LoveTrash/...
From the LoveTrash community on Reddit: New HOA president roasting the former HOA president
Explore this post and more from the LoveTrash community
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Good work today, 725 words on the new novel. Slowly but surely. #dailywords
Criminals accountable for their actions, imagine that...
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2mo ago"Bolsonaro has begun a twenty-seven-year prison sentence for his role in January 8, while the instigator of January 6 sits in the Oval Office...Should we in the United States try a Brazilian strategy?" spoiler: I answer yes. me, for @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/tru...
did you know that the English words druid, trust, truth, betroth, and truce all share a root word with “tree”? this reflects the longstanding spiritual and symbolic significance of trees in many European cultures
Back to the novel after a distracted week. 727 words on Saint Arcology #dailywords
Oliver's response post-slap makes him look like the Angriest Muppet Ever and like everyone else I am living for it
Josephine beckbook.com Riesman@josie.zone · 2mo agoIn better news, John Oliver's three-day stint/stunt as a corporate villain on legendary soap opera "General Hospital" appears to be going... fucking brilliantly?? I have watched this clip on a loop for like 20 mins I really, truly need to see the full episodes NOW
New post on the blog (Biolibertas) www.jdmoyer.com/2026/07/01/t...
*The alleged "Secret History of Polymarket," which somehow involves a Texan outfit called "Sterling Software" way back in the 1980s *along with Trump children, Netanyahu nieces, crypto, DARPA, A16, Palantir and a host of other eccentricities unlimitedhangout.com/2026/06/inve...
The Secret History of Polymarket - Part 1
Part 1 of a two-part series exposing the truth behind the world’s most popular prediction market and its dark ambitions to alter both markets and representative government forever
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New story up at GNS: Trying to rebuild his life, Nick takes a job delivering packages in the Bristol Channel archology, an otherworldly network of pearly tunnels built by eel-slugs Read “The Portishead Tunnel” by J.D. Moyer @jdmoyer.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/07/01/the-portishead-tunnel
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My novelette "The Portishead Tunnel", now live on GigaNotoSaurus, thank you to @tbonejenkins.bsky.social and @giganotosaurus.bsky.social giganotosaurus.org/2026/07/01/t...
New novelette THE PORTISHEAD TUNNEL out tomorrow in @giganotosaurus.bsky.social (mollusks, free housing, Catholic saints)
AOC: The Republican Party’s brand is fear. They constantly want Americans in fear of somebody because, if you are not afraid of someone who is your neighbor, you’re going to realize who’s actually pickpocketing you.
“Well, if you don’t like it, run for office.” “NOT LIKE THAT”
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
Keep talking about the reflecting pool, and the Epstein files, and the self-dealing, and the corruption, and the incompetence, and the waste and theft of taxpayer dollars. It's all still relevant and important and of course grossly abnormal.
I see a few people saying “stop talking about the algae, there are bigger deals” and yeah sure, but the fact that the White House *thinks* the Reflecting Pool is a bigger deal than war or the economy makes it a big deal—and it is both metaphor AND embodiment of our whole squalid government now 👇
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 2mo agoLike a dung beetle’s ball rolling down a hill, the reflecting pool keeps picking up more layers. Incompetence, antiscience, corrupt contracting, and now now the self-protective police state and sabotage conspiracy theories.
JD Vance soft-launched his presidential campaign this week and the timing could not be worse. Tagged as the Iran war architect, left to sanewash Trump's worst decisions, and humiliated on the world stage. The irony is that Vance was right about almost everything. He just can't say so.
The Deal JD Vance Made With The Devil Is Coming Due
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Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events in a large study, surprising researchers. www.statnews.com/2026/06/15/c...
Covid vaccination cut risk of adverse heart events, large study finds
Covid vaccination was also tied to a nearly 24% reduction in all-cause cardiac events in a large study, surprising researchers.
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guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.