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Hello, new followers! I don't make nearly as many Star Trek jokes as you may be hoping for, but I do try to make the world a little bit better through my writing. If you're interested in books that explore the idea of rebuilding a better world after an apocalypse, check out the Shelter Trilogy.

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The Shelter Trilogy

In a new America where civilization as we know it has ended, every hour counts. Everything is ticking along perfectly in the sanctuary community of Osto until a band of raiders arrives intent on viole...

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Honestly, not worse advice than you'd find on LinkedIn.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

In Japan, the work for a buffet-style restaurant is "viking." I don't know the official etymology, but I like to think it's because you set forth from your table to go loot and pillage the food offerings, victoriously bringing it back to your party.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I once got into a fight with a friend because I picked Darkwing Duck as the answer to, essentially, a game of 20 questions. He swore I'd either made it up or chosen something super obscure to fuck with him. So I hope he sees this and knows, somehow, just how smug I'm feeling right now. Mark Hamill!

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ToonHive @toonhive.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

‘Knights of Guinevere’ Season 1 will consist of 8 episodes. Episode 2 will premiere on YouTube on October 9th.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why is it my dumbest posts on here are the ones that get the most attention? I swear I have more to contribute than mid Google Image Search results!

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Jules @ds9official.singles · 23/09/2026

one thing about newsom is that once you notice his gul dukat vibe you can't unsee it

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Every so often one of the artists that I follow here or elsewhere (some one, mind you, that I chose to follow because their art amazes or delights me) will say something like, "Man, I can't believe I've peaked at 23" and I will just... walk into the sea.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Do I want to leave the apartment after work today? No. But do I want to wear my Phantom of the Opera lace mask and Labyrinth-themed shimmery blue gown to my town's masquerade-themed night market? Yesssssssss.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have incredibly fond memories of the Kennedy Center. It's the place my best friend and I went the first time we had enough money and independence to go somewhere nice without any parents. We saw the Scarlet Pimpernel together, and it's one of my fondest memories.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

DMing is the most stressful thing ever, but sometimes it is also the most rewarding thing ever. When the moments that you thought about and wrote down months ago finally happen and they hit perfectly? So fucking satisfying.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I spent more money than I should have this weekend at SPX, but I think my favorite purchase was a collection of four tiny Star Trek zines by @radicalbears.bsky.social. They keep making me smile as I flip through them. :D

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This pseudo-European fantasy book has featured modern understandings of chronic pain, anxiety attacks, and breathing techniques. And I was okay with it! It's a fantasy, it doesn't have to stick to our world's timeline! ...but it did just use the word yeet, and I might have to draw the line there.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Man, fascists really do hate modern art, huh?

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Been a while since I made any jewelry, but during last night's Critical Role, I felt the urge to be doing something with my hands. So here's my first piece of Viking knitting, which I'm pretty pleased with!

Photo of a hand holding a bracelet. The bracelet is created out of woven rose gold wire terminating at a central disc of rose quartz.

Photo of a hand holding a bracelet. Bracelet is created out of woven rose gold wire. From this angle, no other features are visible.

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Josh Moretto @joshmoretto.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Art by @reforest-kelley.bsky.social. A reminder for Labor Day.

Fan art of Chief Miles O'Brien, Leeta, and Rom from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The three are seated in Quark's bar. Miles is explaining something to the other two. The upper caption reads, "The boss needs you, you don't need the boss"; the lower caption reads, "Labor is entitled to all it creates".

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Forever Louise Brooks @foreverlouiseb1.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Katharine Hepburn by Ernest Bachrach for Sylvia Scarlett (1935).

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

When I was 14 or 15 an Australian child said to me, "I like how you speak. It's how teenagers should speak." She refused to elaborate, and I have wondered ever since what exactly she meant. But maybe she meant that teenagers should all sound like they're from one very particular region of the US.

A dialect map of the US striated into red, white, and blue sections. The vast majority of the country to the West is white and blue, with the darkest blue in the upper Midwest. The red is centered over the Mid-Atlantic, with Washington, DC, Baltimore, and Philadelphia all within the darkest red spot.

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Capital Weather @capitalweather.com · 04/09/2026

12:02am Fri: Beltway area warning for dangerous 70mph wind gusts now expanded east to the Chesapeake Bay including Annapolis. Crazy lightning with these storms along with the heavy rain. See radar and updates at CapitalWeather.com and our app.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My favorite thing anyone's ever said to me at a con was, "This is a crazy coincidence, but I'm actually reading your book right now!" I tend to assume I'm a small time author no one's ever heard of, so this made me happy for the rest of the day.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know they say history rhymes rather than repeats, but a lot of nursery rhymes do both, you know? placesjournal.org/article/post...

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Congrats to all the Hugo winners! I didn't watch the Hugos last night, but apparently I should have, as my mom was on the in memoriam scroll. Thank you, Worldcon, she would have been honored.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Me, sitting down to write: Gonna advance the plot today! They're finally gonna get to <redacted>! My chosen viewpoint character: What if science led to the downfall of civilization and everything I've been trying to do with my life is... wrong? Me: Well, fuck.

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tweety fish @sifu.tweety.fish · 27/08/2026

gulf of mexico lake ontario national airport ha ha fuck you make me

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I know it’s hard to watch all these beautiful things be carried away by time and see the wrong things growing in their place. But listen. Listen. We have to be the beautiful things now. It has to be us. It has to be us. Courage.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

So it turns out that a vacation of five days replenishes just about five days of spoons! Last week I was all ready to return to work and conquer; this week I am a useless lump already overwhelmed by emails. Clearly, the solution here is an alternating pattern of work weeks and tropical island weeks.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Do I know anyone in NYC who can help out? I can vouch for Shecky not being a secret axe murderer or anything like that.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 25/08/2026

this made me cry

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Guy: I'm not a robot! Sarah Connor: Prove it. How would you email Stephen King? Guy: Dear Stephen King, Carrie White is a complicated young woman whose story needs to be told. I spent last night reading everything I could about Carrie-- Sarah Connor: *empties her entire clip*

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Jesse Lansner @jesse.lansner.com · 21/08/2026

The only way to avoid spreadsheet jobs is to go on a whaling voyage. 🐋

Where could one find men like this? The men Ishmael knew were pent up in lath and plaster, tied to counters, nailed to benches,
clinched to desks.

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Shecky @shecky.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

FRIENDS IN THE NYC AREA: Okay, this is a tough one, but please bear with me. My wife's lifelong friend has stage 4 pancreatic cancer and is desperately seeking a home for his two cats when that time comes. The elder, Wally, is something like 13 years old and DELIGHTFULLY dim. The younger, Doris,

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I called Ashley Johnson's ex a creep long before his abuse became known publicly. It was just clear from his words and actions that he thought CR was some sort of con that he and the gang were running on their own fandom, whereas everyone else was pretty genuine.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

If I ever pen a book of writing advice, I'll dedicate a whole chapter to the "pomodoro-but-with-a-pool" method.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Upload the 3rd photo no matter what it is I mean, if you insist.

Interior shot of an outdoor bar festooned in fairy lights. On the right is a stage with a man and a guitar, toned purple. On the left, one of the patrons has a cockatiel on his shoulder.

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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Hey folks! Tomorrow is my birthday, which means you have a chance to do one thing that would make me very, very happy. I have been sitting at 199 total reviews on Goodreads for ages now, and if just one person could push that over to 200, I would be freed from such torment as you have never dreamed.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This morning I took the DC Metro to the airport and by 5:00 I had walked a beach and explored three different pools. Mass transit is a wonder and vacations are a miracle.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Oooooooh. What if AI psychosis and affluenza are the same damn thing?

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/08/2026

I found the coolest AI stickers at defcon

Stickers with cats looking behind them, with the Anthropic and OpenAI logos as their buttholes

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I have a vacation coming up soon and I've decided that I'm going to make at least one extremely ill-advised decision on it. What will it be? A new tattoo? An outrageously expensive piece of art? A timeshare? Stay tuned to find out!

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The problem with medicating your cat is that, as they feel better from the medication, they are better able to evade you when they see the medication coming.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

What if... Hear me out, here. What if things got better? Just a little? Just once?

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Tyler Britten @tyler.britten.us · 03/08/2026

A quick TL;DR for the upcoming thread haha

A political satire graph titled "Every Graph About the US" features two trend lines plotted against a horizontal axis labeled "Some metric." A dotted vertical line marks the era of "Ronald Reagan." To the left of this marker, a green line representing "Good thing" remains high and flat, while a red line for "Bad thing" stays low and flat. At the Reagan point, the lines cross: the green line trends downward to the right, and the red line rises steeply. A legend identifies green as "Good thing" and red as "Bad thing."

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I wonder when I'll stop being sad about the things my mom isn't going to be able to do. ...maybe some time after I sell off her WorldCon 2027 membership.

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M. Newton @ridelee.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Honestly, I'd love to get a definitive answer about the Voynich Manuscript. Even if that answer is just, "this one monk had too much time on his hands and a vivid imagination, it was easier to give him a bunch of vellum rather than keep listening to his ramblings."

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Kym Deyn @kymdeyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This is a sheer indulgence on my part, but it turns out I never actually shared the poem here, so: 🍃

Sir Gawain Fucks the Green Knight

Here’s a tale ripe for telling. Can’t say where I heard it first—in pretty French or Dutch. Perhaps as a young lady walking ‘longside the Rijn. I’ll spin it for you in an English tongue, fine as frost on lace, sweet as malmsey wine. So it goes that young Gawain, strength kissed into his limbs, fresh as the bright dawn, comes trembling down to the Green Chapel. You’ve heard this tale, I know. His breath makes peach fuzz in the air, fear into him like worm to apple. Christmas Morn is too soon, time is short. You have your own life to save, he says, picking through thorn and bough to an ivy-clad cave.
The creature is the Jack O’ the Glen / forest prince / the wood’s own laughter. Beard of lichen and eyes like dark elder. I need not repeat their exchange—my boy’s flinching heart—a songbird in a rattled cage. It is after the blows are dealt, he asks, what god is worshipped in these green trees? Boy, the Knight replies, boy, were you not just down on your knees?
The Knight is the tang of sap / bark rough and petal soft / everywhere leaves scatter / easily crushed / Gawain clings / hardly knows what he clings to / he is the forest and the flower / a turmoil of roots / where god and tree meet and melt / the birch the oak the fern the deer / mushroom maggot crow / here Gawain is branch and bud / blow returned for blow

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