Richard Pearce Moses
@pearcemoses.bsky.social
Retired archivist. Fellow, Society of American Archivists. Author.
The Order of Lazarus (https://hamlit.org/the-order-of-lazarus/).
Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (https://www2.archivists.org/glossary-old)
More: www.pearcemoses.info/
The Order of Lazarus (https://hamlit.org/the-order-of-lazarus/).
Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (https://www2.archivists.org/glossary-old)
More: www.pearcemoses.info/
Some good news today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Some good news today.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Such a great expression, I used it when I contacted my senators.
@durbin.senate.gov No one is answering the phones in your office.
Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal.
It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown.
No quarter, Senator.
Any deal that doesn’t have some sort of guarantees for ACA subsidies, or guarantees period beyond “we swear, this time we’ll play ball” isn’t a deal.
It’s Lucy, holding the football, and you’re Charlie Brown.
No quarter, Senator.
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Such a great expression, I used it when I contacted my senators.
25 people who signed up for a writing workshop Saturday will miss it because the instructor's flight was canceled. It'll be rescheduled for the spring, and the instructor is going to give a shorter workshop via Zoom. Incredibly gracious and generous of him. Nice reminder good people are out there.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
25 people who signed up for a writing workshop Saturday will miss it because the instructor's flight was canceled. It'll be rescheduled for the spring, and the instructor is going to give a shorter workshop via Zoom. Incredibly gracious and generous of him. Nice reminder good people are out there.
Next Saturday, I'm in a day-long, F2F workshop with @mdbell79.bsky.social. His Refuse to be Done is the best craft book I've read, and having taken several short, online lectures, he's a brilliant teacher. I AM SO PSYCHED!
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Next Saturday, I'm in a day-long, F2F workshop with @mdbell79.bsky.social. His Refuse to be Done is the best craft book I've read, and having taken several short, online lectures, he's a brilliant teacher. I AM SO PSYCHED!
Just finished Apprehension, the new book by
@maryrobinettekowal.com. Great story! And I love how I can hear her style in a work that's so very different from her other works.
#Sci-Fi #Reading
@maryrobinettekowal.com. Great story! And I love how I can hear her style in a work that's so very different from her other works.
#Sci-Fi #Reading
November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Just finished Apprehension, the new book by
@maryrobinettekowal.com. Great story! And I love how I can hear her style in a work that's so very different from her other works.
#Sci-Fi #Reading
@maryrobinettekowal.com. Great story! And I love how I can hear her style in a work that's so very different from her other works.
#Sci-Fi #Reading
"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences." (h/t @stancarey.bsky.social)
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)
Writing Is Thinking With the Training Wheels Off
www.joanwestenberg.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:55 PM
"Don't do it with publication in mind, don't do it for posterity, don't do it for the likes…Just write for the sake of it. Write to see what your own thoughts look like when you force them into sentences." (h/t @stancarey.bsky.social)
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
www.joanwestenberg.com/p/why-you-sh...
So many books in the TBR pile, but @maryrobinettekowal.com's Apprehension just came out and is at the top. Can't wait to dive in later today. Bonus: Bound with @sentencebender.bsky.social's Red Star Hustle.
maryrobinettekowal.com/writing/appr...
maryrobinettekowal.com/writing/appr...
Apprehension/Red Star Hustle
Release Date: October 21st, 2025 Two expertly crafted crime stories, by two Nebula award winning authors, set in a far-future science fiction universe, from two award-winning authors known for thei…
maryrobinettekowal.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
So many books in the TBR pile, but @maryrobinettekowal.com's Apprehension just came out and is at the top. Can't wait to dive in later today. Bonus: Bound with @sentencebender.bsky.social's Red Star Hustle.
maryrobinettekowal.com/writing/appr...
maryrobinettekowal.com/writing/appr...
Finished The Mourning Fields by friend and local author @thedancerwrites.bsky.social. Stories based on Greek myths set in modern times. Great tales and some really beautiful sentences.
Read more at: atmospherepress.com/interview-wi...
Read more at: atmospherepress.com/interview-wi...
October 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Finished The Mourning Fields by friend and local author @thedancerwrites.bsky.social. Stories based on Greek myths set in modern times. Great tales and some really beautiful sentences.
Read more at: atmospherepress.com/interview-wi...
Read more at: atmospherepress.com/interview-wi...
Binging Fiat Lex: A Dictionary Podcast by @korystamper.bsky.social and @skleinedler.bsky.social. As an amateur lexicographer, I'm loving it. (And wish I'd heard it when working on my glossary: www2.archivists.org/glossary-old.)
www2.archivists.org
October 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Binging Fiat Lex: A Dictionary Podcast by @korystamper.bsky.social and @skleinedler.bsky.social. As an amateur lexicographer, I'm loving it. (And wish I'd heard it when working on my glossary: www2.archivists.org/glossary-old.)
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Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋
November 11, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Welcome to Bluesky 💙🦋
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If you'd like to know my political views, here's one: standing fellow citizens up to humanize them and give them personhood. That's a political choice, as much as dehumanizing is. If you pick the latter, you have chosen violence, and I pity you and pray for you. Great statements here.
UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.
As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
If you'd like to know my political views, here's one: standing fellow citizens up to humanize them and give them personhood. That's a political choice, as much as dehumanizing is. If you pick the latter, you have chosen violence, and I pity you and pray for you. Great statements here.
Needed a little inspiration to get started editing the novel and ran across this quote from Jane Smiley that Matt Bell shared in one of his lectures.
October 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Needed a little inspiration to get started editing the novel and ran across this quote from Jane Smiley that Matt Bell shared in one of his lectures.
Every time I see "talismans" in my novel, I want to correct it to talismen. And confirm with @merriam-webster.com yet again.
(Google ngram suggests I might have gotten away with "talismen" in the 1820s, although it doesn't appear in the OED.)
#Writing #WordNerd
(Google ngram suggests I might have gotten away with "talismen" in the 1820s, although it doesn't appear in the OED.)
#Writing #WordNerd
October 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Every time I see "talismans" in my novel, I want to correct it to talismen. And confirm with @merriam-webster.com yet again.
(Google ngram suggests I might have gotten away with "talismen" in the 1820s, although it doesn't appear in the OED.)
#Writing #WordNerd
(Google ngram suggests I might have gotten away with "talismen" in the 1820s, although it doesn't appear in the OED.)
#Writing #WordNerd
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Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚
I read banned books! (And you should, too!)
Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
Today kicks off #BannedBooksWeek, and this year's theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.
https://www.ala.org/bbooks.
October 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I read banned books! (And you should, too!)
Looking for alternative words for "AI" for a SF novel and have come up with syntelligence and siliconsciousness. First is a corporate name, also proposed to Collins Dictionary in 2019 but not included. First is an analytic machine, second would be a sentient being.
September 25, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Looking for alternative words for "AI" for a SF novel and have come up with syntelligence and siliconsciousness. First is a corporate name, also proposed to Collins Dictionary in 2019 but not included. First is an analytic machine, second would be a sentient being.
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September 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Last sail of 2025. At bow watch on the Schooner Zodiac.
September 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Last sail of 2025. At bow watch on the Schooner Zodiac.
I'm constantly recommending Matt's book as the best craft book I've read. Practical advice: tactics that have helped me improve my writing.
I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!
September 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I'm constantly recommending Matt's book as the best craft book I've read. Practical advice: tactics that have helped me improve my writing.
A great resource with lots guidance on the mechanics of the language. Plus, Dreyer has a great wit that makes this book a pleasure to read.
HEY HEY. The DE ebook is on sale in the U S of A today (and, I think, today only) for $1.99 just about everywhere you look.
If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*
If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer: 9780812985719 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A sharp, funny grammar guide they’ll actually want to read, from Random House’s longtime copy chief and one of Twitter’s leading language...
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September 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
A great resource with lots guidance on the mechanics of the language. Plus, Dreyer has a great wit that makes this book a pleasure to read.
71. Another year wiser.
August 31, 2025 at 2:16 AM
71. Another year wiser.
Just finished re-reading Matt Bell's (@mdbell79.bsky.social) Appleseed. Enormous depth, amazing ideas, rich story, strong characters. I feel like I should go read it again while it's fresh in my memory. The kind of SF I want to write (and I've got a long way to go to approach what he's doing).
Matt Bell
www.mattbell.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Just finished re-reading Matt Bell's (@mdbell79.bsky.social) Appleseed. Enormous depth, amazing ideas, rich story, strong characters. I feel like I should go read it again while it's fresh in my memory. The kind of SF I want to write (and I've got a long way to go to approach what he's doing).
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"A group of librarians is called a cardigan.
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."
Collective Nouns for Librarians
A group of librarians is called a cardigan.
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading.
A collection of Eric Carle books covered in s...
www.mcsweeneys.net
August 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
"A group of librarians is called a cardigan.
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."
A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading."