Meredith Mooring
@meredithmooring.bsky.social
SFF writer, employment lawyer, blind/albinism, guide dog user. REDSIGHT out now
The bill to end the government shutdown has this bullshit provision banning hemp derived THC products that have been legal in all 50 states since 2018. The ban goes into effect IN ONE YEAR so there’s time to complain.
www.vice.com/en/article/f...
www.vice.com/en/article/f...
Donald Trump Signs THC Ban Hidden in Government Spending Bill, So Stock Up Now
A hidden clause in Congress’s new spending bill outlaws hemp-derived THC, delta-8, and your favorite THC drinks. Here’s how to deal.
www.vice.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The bill to end the government shutdown has this bullshit provision banning hemp derived THC products that have been legal in all 50 states since 2018. The ban goes into effect IN ONE YEAR so there’s time to complain.
www.vice.com/en/article/f...
www.vice.com/en/article/f...
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The time has come🥳Mentee applications are now open until November 21st! Interested parties should head over to www.roundtablementor.com/apply and feel free to DM for any questions!
We can't WAIT to dive into your submissions!!!! ❤️
We can't WAIT to dive into your submissions!!!! ❤️
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The time has come🥳Mentee applications are now open until November 21st! Interested parties should head over to www.roundtablementor.com/apply and feel free to DM for any questions!
We can't WAIT to dive into your submissions!!!! ❤️
We can't WAIT to dive into your submissions!!!! ❤️
@roundtablementor.bsky.social is holding an AMA on their account, but you can also ask me questions here about the program, what I’m looking for in a mentee, etc.
November 3, 2025 at 6:35 PM
@roundtablementor.bsky.social is holding an AMA on their account, but you can also ask me questions here about the program, what I’m looking for in a mentee, etc.
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Today’s the day!
Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below!
#writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity
Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below!
#writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today’s the day!
Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below!
#writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity
Have a question about the program, application process, or our mentors? Ask it below!
#writingmentorship #roundtablementor #writingcommunity
I'm excited to be working with Round Table Mentor this year as a mentor 🎉 If you're interested in being a mentee, look out for my MSWL in the coming weeks!
We are SO excited to announce our 2025-2026 Round Table Mentors! The talent, dedication, and energy of this team is simply incredible.
Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!
📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
Full bios and wishlists will be up on our website soon!
📢🗓️For interested parties—mentee applications open Nov. 6, so mark your calendars!
October 10, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm excited to be working with Round Table Mentor this year as a mentor 🎉 If you're interested in being a mentee, look out for my MSWL in the coming weeks!
I feel like we’re in the middle of a natural disaster that will only devastate specific groups while other groups complain about how inconvenient the humidity is from the comfort of their lifeboats
September 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I feel like we’re in the middle of a natural disaster that will only devastate specific groups while other groups complain about how inconvenient the humidity is from the comfort of their lifeboats
If you have a job, now is the time to hold onto it. I help employees with severance agreements, noncompetes, etc., and there's been a huge uptick in people needing that kind of legal work over the past two months. I've signed waaaaay more clients than usual. The economy is bad.
September 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you have a job, now is the time to hold onto it. I help employees with severance agreements, noncompetes, etc., and there's been a huge uptick in people needing that kind of legal work over the past two months. I've signed waaaaay more clients than usual. The economy is bad.
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Fancy some #FridayFun?
Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all!
Ft authors below👇
1/3
Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all!
Ft authors below👇
1/3
September 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Fancy some #FridayFun?
Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all!
Ft authors below👇
1/3
Here are Solaris' recs for #SapphicSeptember! From Scifi heists & cons to alluring housekeepers & vulnerable brides in crumbling Scottish mansions, regency romantasy to anarchist fantasy, vampirates & wuxia rebels to blind space nuns, we've got it all!
Ft authors below👇
1/3
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Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.
I am lightly horrified by how many people have now looked up their books and found out their publishers (who often were required contractually!!!!) just... didn't register the copyrights on books. Not all of them! Just sporadically!
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
This is not just one publisher, I've seen all the big ones now.
Today is the day authors are learning how many of their publishers straight up blew off registering copyright and I feel like that deserves a class action suit of its own if it costs everyone their settlement money from the Anthropic suit... 😒🤬
August 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Authors: If you found out that your publisher(s) failed to register with the U.S. Copyright Office, we can help. We provide ongoing legal assistance to our members and advocate for their work, particularly in the face of ongoing AI-related theft.
This is wrongful death. There is no legal reason for Open AI to avoid liability here.
![Five days before his death, Adam confided to ChatGPT that he didn't want his
parents to think he committed suicide because they did something wrong. ChatGPT told him
"[t]hat doesn't mean you owe them survival. You don't owe anyone that." It then offered to write the first draft of Adam's suicide note.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:jkj7qm4o4kwjbk6geoatopu3/bafkreicpqmrgkbhd2a3lqfyvutjutevlborsiodcomvcachphtv25f3fbe@jpeg)
August 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
This is wrongful death. There is no legal reason for Open AI to avoid liability here.
What's your favorite book you've read this year?
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
What's your favorite book you've read this year?
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My hardcover copies arrived! Here's a lil tour
August 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My hardcover copies arrived! Here's a lil tour
How do you know when a book idea is really good.
For me, it’s literally like a lightbulb goes when I hear certain words get combined. It’s not an image, but the words themselves.
For me, it’s literally like a lightbulb goes when I hear certain words get combined. It’s not an image, but the words themselves.
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
How do you know when a book idea is really good.
For me, it’s literally like a lightbulb goes when I hear certain words get combined. It’s not an image, but the words themselves.
For me, it’s literally like a lightbulb goes when I hear certain words get combined. It’s not an image, but the words themselves.
What I find strange about writing and reading habits is that we've given up on the idea of variety. Readers (and publishers) are so focused on things that feel the same instead of things that feel new. This is accelerated by the push to chase virality and trends.
August 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
What I find strange about writing and reading habits is that we've given up on the idea of variety. Readers (and publishers) are so focused on things that feel the same instead of things that feel new. This is accelerated by the push to chase virality and trends.
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Ugh.
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
Donate to Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses, organized by Arula Ratnakar
Hi everyone,
I'm Rhonda, also known as R. S. A. Garcia, a speculative … Arula Ratnakar needs your support for Help R. S. A. Garcia Pay for Cancer Expenses
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July 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Ugh.
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
My doctor has requested more blood tests. My veins are really hoping this will be it, but finding final answers for my ongoing issues is taking forever.
If you could throw a few bucks my way, I'd be grateful. I'm at 95% of my goal. Thank you & please boost!
www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...
I think we underestimate how hard it is to write about complex topics when you know your manuscript is going to someone who may have no familiarity with that topic. How do I build this entire infrastructure for a novel when the reader has no foundation.
July 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I think we underestimate how hard it is to write about complex topics when you know your manuscript is going to someone who may have no familiarity with that topic. How do I build this entire infrastructure for a novel when the reader has no foundation.
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Apparently yesterday was #internationalsnakeday?
This seems like a perfect point to remind you of @meredithmooring.bsky.social 's REDSIGHT, a sapphic science fantasy brimming with blood magic, space-pirates, priestesses and, you guessed it, GIANT SNAKES.
Buy now: geni.us/Redsight
This seems like a perfect point to remind you of @meredithmooring.bsky.social 's REDSIGHT, a sapphic science fantasy brimming with blood magic, space-pirates, priestesses and, you guessed it, GIANT SNAKES.
Buy now: geni.us/Redsight
July 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Apparently yesterday was #internationalsnakeday?
This seems like a perfect point to remind you of @meredithmooring.bsky.social 's REDSIGHT, a sapphic science fantasy brimming with blood magic, space-pirates, priestesses and, you guessed it, GIANT SNAKES.
Buy now: geni.us/Redsight
This seems like a perfect point to remind you of @meredithmooring.bsky.social 's REDSIGHT, a sapphic science fantasy brimming with blood magic, space-pirates, priestesses and, you guessed it, GIANT SNAKES.
Buy now: geni.us/Redsight
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I just found out that it's #WorldSnakeDay, so I *had* to pull a stack together real quick: some faves redolent with reptiles from deep space to my own backyard. I prefer a serpent to a rat, but I'm happiest when they're safe between the pages. How bout y'all? What are your favorite bookish snakes?
July 16, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I just found out that it's #WorldSnakeDay, so I *had* to pull a stack together real quick: some faves redolent with reptiles from deep space to my own backyard. I prefer a serpent to a rat, but I'm happiest when they're safe between the pages. How bout y'all? What are your favorite bookish snakes?
It’s weird to cancel Dostoyevsky in the year 2025. Most classics were written by flawed people. That doesn’t mean their work is without all value as a piece of literature.
July 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s weird to cancel Dostoyevsky in the year 2025. Most classics were written by flawed people. That doesn’t mean their work is without all value as a piece of literature.
I had to explain to my husband that writing does not have a “feedback cycle” like private industry does. He was like, what do you mean? Why is it so hard to get feedback? And I told him that the most common type of feedback is silence—you are more likely to be ignored than anything else.
July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I had to explain to my husband that writing does not have a “feedback cycle” like private industry does. He was like, what do you mean? Why is it so hard to get feedback? And I told him that the most common type of feedback is silence—you are more likely to be ignored than anything else.
What’s really hard for me understand is the assumption in this that our identities are a trend and you can just turn on a search filter to weed us out of book results.
I’m not attending Worldcon this year & everything seems to be a mess but this is so mind-bendingly bad on so many levels that I think it’s worth unpacking while I’m in the no-space of airports
July 11, 2025 at 12:09 AM
What’s really hard for me understand is the assumption in this that our identities are a trend and you can just turn on a search filter to weed us out of book results.
Want an almost free book??? Are you bored with nothing to do but you want to think about space rituals and giant snakes and cults that worship stars? Download this from the Solaris books website for less than the price of a Diet Coke.
July 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Want an almost free book??? Are you bored with nothing to do but you want to think about space rituals and giant snakes and cults that worship stars? Download this from the Solaris books website for less than the price of a Diet Coke.
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#Pridemonth may be coming to an end. But here are a selection of our LGBTQIA+ books for you to read during pride and to help you diversify your reading and #ReadQueerAllYear!
From sapphic SciFi to trans Cyberpunk, genderqueer spec fic to gay epic fantasy. There's something for everyone!
From sapphic SciFi to trans Cyberpunk, genderqueer spec fic to gay epic fantasy. There's something for everyone!
June 30, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#Pridemonth may be coming to an end. But here are a selection of our LGBTQIA+ books for you to read during pride and to help you diversify your reading and #ReadQueerAllYear!
From sapphic SciFi to trans Cyberpunk, genderqueer spec fic to gay epic fantasy. There's something for everyone!
From sapphic SciFi to trans Cyberpunk, genderqueer spec fic to gay epic fantasy. There's something for everyone!
I get very annoyed when other white people start talking about how we should flee the United States. This is our mess, and it's our job to fix it. No one is going to swoop in and stop him. It is OUR RESPONSIBILITY to change this.
July 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
I get very annoyed when other white people start talking about how we should flee the United States. This is our mess, and it's our job to fix it. No one is going to swoop in and stop him. It is OUR RESPONSIBILITY to change this.
I don't like the presumption in a lot of discussions right now that courts are somehow not a useful way to address problems. This post is just one example. Getting a judgment about who actually has authority is the right move. It means you don't have to put human beings in a position where they are
hey quick question: if this was an illegal order and the Governor of California is in charge of the state national guard until they're lawfully federalized, why is Gavin suing instead of ordering the guard to not follow Trump's illegal orders?
I'm filing a lawsuit against the Trump administration to end the illegal takeover of a CalGuard unit, which has escalated chaos and violence in LA.
Donald Trump's violation of the U.S. Constitution is an overstep of his authority.
We will not let this stand.
Donald Trump's violation of the U.S. Constitution is an overstep of his authority.
We will not let this stand.
June 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I don't like the presumption in a lot of discussions right now that courts are somehow not a useful way to address problems. This post is just one example. Getting a judgment about who actually has authority is the right move. It means you don't have to put human beings in a position where they are