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Rajiv Moté@rajivmote.bsky.social |
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SFFH writer (Codex, ex-SFWA), software professional, Dragonmount contributor, shiftless dreamer.
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Rajiv Moté
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Ugh. Since Amazon acquired both GoodReads and Comixology, GoodReads has been counting every comic book I read toward my reading challenge goal. This... isn't what I was trying to optimize.
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Rajiv Moté
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😭
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I would thwart Freddie by falling asleep WITHIN the dream as well. Body snatchers? Well, the joke's on them.
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Rajiv Moté
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It's really what we normally do, but inside-out. There is no sin here.
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[Reminding myself that there remain a great many writers and artists I admire who are also decent human beings]
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Rajiv Moté
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Weird. It's like we watched different trailers. If anything, I'm MORE excited for this.
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It's really alarming how much of the rich and influential American population implicitly or explicitly support these monsters.
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Rajiv Moté
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Metaphors for power, mostly.
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Christy, Butlerian Jihadist
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🎵🎶 Life is a highway 🎶🎵 🎶🎵 It should be maintained 🎵🎶 🎵🎶 With public funds 🎶🎵
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Rajiv Moté
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The media-fueled Democratic panic around Biden's debate performance is started to look a lot like investing bubbles and busts. I did some reading, and discovered it might be exactly like that.
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"Grottmata" by Thomas Ha in Nightmare is a science fiction post-colonial gothic horror full of shivers and delights. Intriguing characters, sins rising in a monster shape, and... well, I won't give it away. I loved this one.
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Rajiv Moté
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Sir. Shrekuiem for a Dream is RIGHT THERE.
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Lots of media-fueled speculation on the behavior of unspecified others, reminiscent of manufactured investing bubbles.
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🅿️rofessor Kiosk 💊
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Mike's Hard Problem of Consciousness
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Rajiv Moté
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I will note that Wednesday is New Comic Book Day! #NCBD
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Rajiv Moté
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"The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats
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OMG
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It occurs to me that if SCOTUS has ruled that a president is even partially immune to prosecution for crimes, it becomes even more important not to vote criminals into the presidency.
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Thomas Ha
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June 27, the Shirley Jackson lottery day, is also our wedding anniversary, a slightly happier ceremony where a few people were probably also stoned
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Faine Greenwood
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Every day I try to be a real amiable sort of freak, just keeping pace
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Rajiv Moté
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Tiniest unit of collapse-of-civilization apocalypse.
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Rajiv Moté
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Oh J.D. A human still has their soul!
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Doctor Manhattan Was Right (in this)
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All is answered. It's a better flick than it has any right to be!
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Diabolical Plots
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Hey if you're a writer in the Chicago area and could take a six month job opportunity (with health insurance) writing Onion news articles, check this out!
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Rajiv Moté
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Their onstage posing and strutting is absolutely on point, and pure rocka rolla.
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Rajiv Moté
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I took my daughter to see the Swedish devil-metal band Ghost's concert movie, Rite Here Rite Now. I get it now. They put on a hell of a show.
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Rajiv Moté
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My first ever translated story! "The Air Will Catch Us" now appears in German in NOVA 34--with a new illustration too! It's a good looking magazine. I wish I could read it!
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Wyrd Science Magazine
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“Disney have retconned Jedi master Ki-Adi-Mundi’s birthday to push their woke agen…” You bolt awake in the mountains of Carthage. You are not online. It is 217 BC. You are the general Hannibal, and you have changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Rome must burn.
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Rajiv Moté
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When Mandatory-Ten-Commandments-In-Schools advocates talk about the need to reinforce commandments 5-10, why don't interviewers press them on 1-4?
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Code of Hamurabi in classrooms when?
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I also wonder if there are other Chandrasekera stories that were considered for absorption into Rakesfall but for some reason didn't make the cut.
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Rajiv Moté
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Interesting interview that opens with my own question when reading Rakesfall: were the standalone, independently published stories meant to come together like this, were their connections a discovery, or was the meta-narrative grafted on?
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Rajiv Moté
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A friend sent me this based on a common interest. It starts jokey, but it becomes a serious meditation on stories, shared understanding, curation of a canon, and how we apprehend the narrative of reality.
youtu.be/vps9UjKek0U?...
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Tertium Quid
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Gen X’s Chosen One has come at last
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Rajiv Moté
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That's way too meta.
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High Seas Science
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Today’s Daily Jelly is a beautiful pink and purple root-mouth jelly topped by a baby paper nautilus octopus. These babies ride jellies, using them for transportation, protection, and may occasionally nibble the jelly’s food. Giddy up little octo! 📸 Songda Cai #dailyjelly #inc3 🧪🍃🪼
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National Security Counselors 🕵
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this is sublime
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Teresa Ardrey (She/Her)
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Check this out and help if you can! Archive of the Odd is putting out really neat stuff and would like to raise their rates for authors and artists.
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Thomas Ha
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Hey!! The news is out! My freaky little @clarkesworldmagazine.com story "Window Boy" is in Best American SFF. Huge thanks to @johnjosephadams.com, @hughhowey.com, Neil, and all the folks who read it last year! Talk abt a dream come true.
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Rajiv Moté
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Rand al'Thor says...
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Ray
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*shakes fist in impotent rage* *takes a shower in impotent rage* *does a crossword puzzle in impotent rage* *drinks sleepytime tea in impotent rage*
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Rajiv Moté
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In India, I have relatives whose experience with the RSS was as a volunteer, community-based, pubic-works group who materially helped the poor and fought against British rule. They won hearts and minds. They're also virulent Hindutva supremacists.
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Rajiv Moté
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Which leader hasn't? That can be a circular, self-serving argument that either side can use. It makes it harder to appeal the premise that fascism is bad, actually, when people see tangible benefits under a fascist's government. It'd be easier to reject fascism if nobody benefited at all.
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Rajiv Moté
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Last week John Oliver did a segment on Narendra Modi, India's newly re-elected PM, who did make much-needed, ground-level improvements like clean water infrastructure and food distribution. All while doing some really awful fascist shit too. Not sure if it helps to oversimplify the narrative.
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Rajiv Moté
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(For those--like me--who can't read German, the original in English is here.)
reckoning.press/the-air-will...
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Rajiv Moté
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My first published translation! My story "The Air Will Catch Us," originally published in @reckoningmag.bsky.social issue 7, now appears in German as "Die Luft fängt uns auf" in NOVA issue 34!
www.pmachinery.de/archive/11563
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The Ones Who Won't Shut Up About Omelas
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Rajiv Moté
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I wish I were the devil-may-care type who, when coming into some reading time, cracked whatever book--read or unread--that suited my fancy, and didn't go straight to the advanced review copy and book club obligations. Live a little for yourself, self!
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Jana H-S (they/she)
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a moth flies into a dentist's office. she flutters against a lamp in the waiting room, destroying herself in the heat and light of something she could not possibly comprehend. a dental hygienist softly announced the name of a patient, who turns away from the moth, which he has been watching idly
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