Eric is deep in the word mines
@ericgmoore.bsky.social
Working on observability stuff at a place. Lover of Sci-fi/Fantasy/Horror—currently working on a novel.
Other interests include: tech, finance, TTRPGs and poker.
Other interests include: tech, finance, TTRPGs and poker.
Pinned
I never did a proper intro post, so here it is!
I'm Eric, and I have a day job helping make the computers go brrrr at a big boy business place.
I'm also a writer, reader, and book collector with a love for SFF and horror.
Expect unhinged shitposts interspersed w/ writing, book, and tech stuff
I'm Eric, and I have a day job helping make the computers go brrrr at a big boy business place.
I'm also a writer, reader, and book collector with a love for SFF and horror.
Expect unhinged shitposts interspersed w/ writing, book, and tech stuff
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
Oreoboros
oh wow that’s crazy
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
oreos with bits of
of oreos. in them
Real Bits of Oreos
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Oreoboros
Me: puts a normal sized load of clothes into dryer
Dryer: this will take me about 50min
Dryer, 2hours later: I'm done!
Me: checks clothes. Still not dry
What does it get out of lying to me every step of the way???
Dryer: this will take me about 50min
Dryer, 2hours later: I'm done!
Me: checks clothes. Still not dry
What does it get out of lying to me every step of the way???
need a technology connections style investigation into why the eco mode on my dryer is so bad at ensuring the clothes are dry. surely there is some sensor and I guess if the clothes get balled up it cannot detect wet inside the ball.
but if I wash less clothes at a time I will use more energy
but if I wash less clothes at a time I will use more energy
November 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Me: puts a normal sized load of clothes into dryer
Dryer: this will take me about 50min
Dryer, 2hours later: I'm done!
Me: checks clothes. Still not dry
What does it get out of lying to me every step of the way???
Dryer: this will take me about 50min
Dryer, 2hours later: I'm done!
Me: checks clothes. Still not dry
What does it get out of lying to me every step of the way???
This book wrecked me in the best possible way.
It is... quite bleak. But fuck it is so damn good. Read it couple years ago and I still remember it vividly.
It is... quite bleak. But fuck it is so damn good. Read it couple years ago and I still remember it vividly.
COLD WEST
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
Convincing you to read my novel by the first sentence. Share yours if you want!
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
This book wrecked me in the best possible way.
It is... quite bleak. But fuck it is so damn good. Read it couple years ago and I still remember it vividly.
It is... quite bleak. But fuck it is so damn good. Read it couple years ago and I still remember it vividly.
I don't need another set. I have the TBB editions, and yet I am absolutely going to get em anyway
The First Law special hardcover edition...
joeabercrombie.com/the-first-la...
joeabercrombie.com/the-first-la...
The First Law Special Hardcover Edition - Joe Abercrombie
The First Law Trilogy was first published in 2006 – nearly 20 years ago, if you can believe it – but in all that time – aside from some small format book club editions and some beautiful but highly li...
joeabercrombie.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I don't need another set. I have the TBB editions, and yet I am absolutely going to get em anyway
Not me delusionally rewatching an episode of The West Wing before bed last night so I can live out the fantasy of compitent political leadership
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Not me delusionally rewatching an episode of The West Wing before bed last night so I can live out the fantasy of compitent political leadership
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
It's okay. It's all gonna be okay. Andy jumped on the grenade for us already.
bsky.app/profile/amer...
bsky.app/profile/amer...
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
It's okay. It's all gonna be okay. Andy jumped on the grenade for us already.
bsky.app/profile/amer...
bsky.app/profile/amer...
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
There are still 37 working days left in 2025 - 58 days total. There's still plenty of time to hit that writing goal & finish that script or book.
3 pages a day - just 750 words a weekday - and you can write a complete script. 4 pages a day - 1000 wds a day - and you can write a novel. You got this.
3 pages a day - just 750 words a weekday - and you can write a complete script. 4 pages a day - 1000 wds a day - and you can write a novel. You got this.
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
There are still 37 working days left in 2025 - 58 days total. There's still plenty of time to hit that writing goal & finish that script or book.
3 pages a day - just 750 words a weekday - and you can write a complete script. 4 pages a day - 1000 wds a day - and you can write a novel. You got this.
3 pages a day - just 750 words a weekday - and you can write a complete script. 4 pages a day - 1000 wds a day - and you can write a novel. You got this.
This video is so fucking good
i drew devil horns on my head. I thought about wearing a costume but then I figured it would be somebody's fetish so I wore a hat and a giant flannel and also a giant coat.
faust and the furious
YouTube video by acollieralso
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
This video is so fucking good
4 by a lot. Then 1, then 3. Then, after several thousand light-years, 2.
In class today, I showed my students four short, unidentified excerpts from novels, and we talked about which one was the "best" and what it means for prose to be "good." I'm actually curious if you all will agree with them. so here goes:
October 31, 2025 at 7:47 PM
4 by a lot. Then 1, then 3. Then, after several thousand light-years, 2.
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
This is so normal in so many cultures -- including mine! There are lots of people I refer to as aunt/cousin/uncle (etc) that are not, I dunno, technically that by blood. This is normal and everyone knows its normal, just desperate stuff if you are reduced to this kinda attack.
In a bit of a tense moment, one of the La Mega co-hosts presses Mamdani on why he "lied" about his "aunt" having been scared to ride the subway after 9/11 while wearing a hijab.
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
Mamdani says it was "not a lie" because he refers to his father's cousin as his "aunt."
October 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is so normal in so many cultures -- including mine! There are lots of people I refer to as aunt/cousin/uncle (etc) that are not, I dunno, technically that by blood. This is normal and everyone knows its normal, just desperate stuff if you are reduced to this kinda attack.
Rest easy, Double Rainbow guy.
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Rest easy, Double Rainbow guy.
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.
October 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Powerful letter from a non-verbal autistic person. Give it two minutes of your night and feel your heart expand.
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
dawg we are gonna lose a war because ChatGPT has this guy mobilizing divisions that don't exist and tasking real troops with holding mountain passes and ports an LLM hallucinated
October 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?
This is such a wild thing to write down and then post in public.
Literally, "redistribution of children is preferable to redistribution of wealth."
Literally, "redistribution of children is preferable to redistribution of wealth."
/3 But this is the core oooh-look-at-me-aren’t-I-a-little-freethinker masturbatory stuff that brings the clicks.
October 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is such a wild thing to write down and then post in public.
Literally, "redistribution of children is preferable to redistribution of wealth."
Literally, "redistribution of children is preferable to redistribution of wealth."
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
October 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
ANNOUNCEMENT🎺🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
Introducing our bona new quarterly literary magazine:
FANTABULOSA!
Pushing the boundaries of bold, authentic, QUEER storytelling. Bringing you stories of the uncanny, the dangerous and the fantastical.
& thanks to our brilliant #WrathMonth backers, we're fully funded for 2026 🤘
I really need to stop hate watching/reading Ezra Klein
October 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I really need to stop hate watching/reading Ezra Klein
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts
Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.
www.popsci.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:06 PM
super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
TIL that never watching a Sabine Hossenfelder vid, knowing who Neil Breen is, and having basic media literacy/comprehension skills apparently makes you a unicorn YT subscriber for @acollierastro.bsky.social
I really enjoyed the video. Sorry the existential bummers are gnawing at you.
I really enjoyed the video. Sorry the existential bummers are gnawing at you.
October 1, 2025 at 3:25 AM
TIL that never watching a Sabine Hossenfelder vid, knowing who Neil Breen is, and having basic media literacy/comprehension skills apparently makes you a unicorn YT subscriber for @acollierastro.bsky.social
I really enjoyed the video. Sorry the existential bummers are gnawing at you.
I really enjoyed the video. Sorry the existential bummers are gnawing at you.
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
Reposted by Eric is deep in the word mines
It feels like the door to an entire era of American cinema has been finally and irrevocably closed. RIP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
Robert Redford, Screen Idol Turned Director and Activist, Dies at 89
www.nytimes.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It feels like the door to an entire era of American cinema has been finally and irrevocably closed. RIP.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...
Having a particularly dark chuckle at the thought that some news coverage somewhere is undoubtedly going to screw up and use a shopped Pic of him with a slightly shrunken face.
September 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Having a particularly dark chuckle at the thought that some news coverage somewhere is undoubtedly going to screw up and use a shopped Pic of him with a slightly shrunken face.
Finished @danielkraus.com's Angel Down about a week ago, and I can't get it out of my head.
One helluva book.
if you've not yet heard anything about it, I highly, highly recommend going in completely blind. Don't even read the jacket copy. Just know that pretty much every content warning applies
One helluva book.
if you've not yet heard anything about it, I highly, highly recommend going in completely blind. Don't even read the jacket copy. Just know that pretty much every content warning applies
August 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Finished @danielkraus.com's Angel Down about a week ago, and I can't get it out of my head.
One helluva book.
if you've not yet heard anything about it, I highly, highly recommend going in completely blind. Don't even read the jacket copy. Just know that pretty much every content warning applies
One helluva book.
if you've not yet heard anything about it, I highly, highly recommend going in completely blind. Don't even read the jacket copy. Just know that pretty much every content warning applies