Fiona Moore (Management Lessons from The Lord of the Rings)
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BSFA Award winning SFF author represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency. Anthropologist who wandered into a business school. Author of Management Lessons from Game of Thrones (2022). https://drfionamoore.com https://www.fiona-moore.com
In 2022, before Chatgpt and everything that came next, I participated in this study. It was framed as a research on a new tool that I could try and offer my opinion on. I didn't know that it was trained on copyrighted material.
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I'd like to know what these "themes that don't engage most men" are. I don't read either of the authors named but a quick search suggests one writes about working-class Irish lives, and the other, about people rebelling against "stultifying" postwar Italian culture. How are those themes women-only?
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · yesterdayEXCUSE ME?
My favourite secondhand bookshop, Bookmongers, literally has an entire section entitled "Books By White American or British Men."
Adrian 'buy HAIR SHIRT' Sobol@yoadrianididit.bsky.social · yesterdayExcuse me?
Posting because I know a lot of colleagues use Google Docs for collaborative work and might not be aware of the copyright issues.
Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now@understatesmen.bsky.social · 3d agoThis needs to be a bigger story. Google Docs is no longer safe for copyrighted material. Any writer on contract needs to stop using it *immediately*.
New on my blog, a return to Discworld for some Food That's A Bit Rude, as I make Maids of Honour (aka tarts) to Nanny Ogg's recipe! adoctorofmanythings.wpcomstaging.com/2026/08/05/i...
I Cook These Things So You Don’t Have To: Maids of Honour (Discworld)
Pretty sure these get mentioned at least once in the Discworld novels, along with an explanation for the double-entendre (Maids of Honour: take your eyes off ’em and they end up as tarts). So…
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Bold New Mancunian Future@dismalchips.bsky.social · 3d agoHow Stella Got Her Gazebo Back
The finalists for the World Fantasy Awards have been announced! Here's the list: www.andrewliptak.com/world-fantas...
Here are the finalists for the 2026 World Fantasy Awards
The World Fantasy Convention has announced the finalists for this year's awards. The World Fantasy Award has been been handed out annually since 1975, and they're amongst the highest honors in the fan...
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If AI disappeared tomorrow it would actually make my job a hell of a lot easier.
Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 3d agoMy answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
The Soviet animated version is set on Dec 31 2026, but it is also very much worth experiencing (thank you to @rblemberg.bsky.social who showed it to me!) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oxP... Possibly even more terrifying than the original story.
Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]
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Lisa DeBruine@debruine.bsky.social · 4d agoToday is the only day you can experience Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains” on the day it is set. Audio: archive.org/details/brad... PDF: thephilosopher.net/bredberi/wp-...
This week's Dick Turpin on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social was a step above. Sidelining Dick for a power struggle among the villains and a rather adult subtext to the guest bad guy (who seems to be a queer sadomasochist, don't tell Mrs Whitehouse). Also, a tiny bit of ethnically diverse casting!
Folks, give my publishing house, @journeypress.bsky.social , a follow, wouldja? They're way cooler than me. ^_^ #queeraf #queer #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #awesome
Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com
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On Spec magazine had a do-it-yourself ethos, a positive mandate, guided not by lucre, but by art and passion and inclusivity. The best aspects of fandom. After 35 years it shut its doors ... but also earned its first Hugo Award nomination. I'll be voting for On Spec for Semiprozine. 1/2
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Just ban them, with regulated exceptions where there's a professional, artistic or security use-case. End of.
I broke down and watched Masters of the Universe because I wanted to see it but I didn’t pay to see it in the theater so I’m justifying it. I have some thoughts. I don’t see anyone talking about it this way, so here goes (spoilers ahead) I loved it.
This is something I have been convinced of on anecdata alone, but it's good to learn that someone has done the stats.
Bertha Mason@thornfieldhall.bsky.social · 2w agoExactly. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma... And also, old research, but US study showed the rich don't even move state to dodge taxes, let alone country www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
It's really made my weekend seeing all the happy photos from Trans Pride London. Things are going to get better!
To every trans Londoner: this city is yours too. Today we celebrate London Trans+ Pride and reaffirm a simple truth: you should be free to live as yourself, without fear or prejudice. You are loved. You are wanted. You belong here.
Unexpected writing research rabbit holes: I currently have calendars open and dated 1948 and 1942 and am making notes like "the meeting with the rabbi can't take place on Saturday."
Increasingly clear to me that we're seeing the inevitable end point of casualisation in HE. Treating all academics as transferable or disposable is easy for management to follow because it's just an extension of how ECRs have been treated for years already.
Glen O'Hara@gsoh31.bsky.social · 2w agoEvery academic outside of a small inner core of universities should consider themselves permanently at risk of redundancy. The sector will operate a rolling redundancy wave from about this point on. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/nuclear...
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Frances Hardinge@franceshardinge.bsky.social · 3w agoExciting news! From today until Friday 24th July, there's a 25% discount on pre-orders of TRAITORS' NEST when ordering through the Waterstones website and app! Use the code SUMMER26 at checkout to redeem the offer. www.waterstones.com/book/traitor...
Depends how they're thrown. If you're fast-bowling then a baguette is more aerodynamic, but if you're throwing it like a discus or frisbee I'm pretty sure the naan bread would win.
Sophie Hall@sophlouisehall.bsky.social · 2w agoFinally, someone asking the important questions
<deep breath> E-ZER GOOD! E-ZER GOOD! HE'S EBENEZER GOOD! (Got any Veras? Love-leee....)
Every Film Now@everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 2w agoFirst poster for Ti West’s ‘EBENEZER’ has been released. Starring Johnny Depp as Scrooge. #Ebenezer #JohnnyDepp
Apologies for the petition fatigue and I know Gabriel's Wharf might not be on people's radar as much as, e.g., Brixton Market, but I do love South Bank and I don't want it to succumb to an infestation of luxury flats. c.org/rXDWjQ86MM
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!["Print books from the pre-LLM era are structurally guaranteed to be free of this contamination. That alone is a significant advantage," it explains in an article on its website, as quoted by
404. "Physical books published before this date [pre-2022] are structurally clean of modern poisoning tools."
Once focused on helping libraries, distributors, and book shops find and sell books, ISBNdb now helps Al companies bulk-buy anywhere between 1,000 to one million books per order, according to 404.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pxunhtt4zdl4rkkjub54m5ia/bafkreic7burhqtyy3mrqnzzf5gwr3pokwr6gznvg7p5htr4gz3mghh4hny)
