Carter Newton
@tinpanspaceship.bsky.social
I.T. guy, writer, grumpy archivist, actually has a history hat
May ramble about history, railroads, greyhounds, kayaks, science, fiction, gaming, and combinations thereof.
May ramble about history, railroads, greyhounds, kayaks, science, fiction, gaming, and combinations thereof.
My writers group challenged each other to write a sword and sorcery story and submit it before the end of September. Now, I'm an idiot, and I never pass up an opportunity to take an easy assignment and make it insanely harder.
September 26, 2026 at 10:16 PM
My writers group challenged each other to write a sword and sorcery story and submit it before the end of September. Now, I'm an idiot, and I never pass up an opportunity to take an easy assignment and make it insanely harder.
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Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well...
...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
September 25, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Advice for my younger friends: if you want to encourage yourself to stay healthy and functional, to exercise and eat well...
...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
...pick a couple of motherfuckers you really want to outlive.
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I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet:
I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s
I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s
I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
September 13, 2026 at 10:34 PM
I DESPERATELY need your help with something, even if it’s just sharing this skeet:
I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s
I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
I’m working on a piec about the evolution of video games and the KEY to my story is a guy named Oscar Munoz who worked for Sega in the early 1990s
I’ve tried everything to find him and social media is my last resort
Two or more people: y’all.
Many people: all y’all.
Emphasis: all y'all MFers knock it off.
Many people: all y’all.
Emphasis: all y'all MFers knock it off.
August 28, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Two or more people: y’all.
Many people: all y’all.
Emphasis: all y'all MFers knock it off.
Many people: all y’all.
Emphasis: all y'all MFers knock it off.
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“Adorable” preteen trying to figure out how the 100 year old artifact could possibly be older then me. On the one hand, get out of here, kid. On the other, now accepting skin care recommendations, since I apparently look to be a hundred and twenty five.
August 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
“Adorable” preteen trying to figure out how the 100 year old artifact could possibly be older then me. On the one hand, get out of here, kid. On the other, now accepting skin care recommendations, since I apparently look to be a hundred and twenty five.
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I don't mean to press, but if you're not interested yourself, could you reskeet? Just paying for the tow truck knocked out a third of our rent money for this month.
We just had a car accident and totaled our only vehicle. If you've got $5 a month & like the idea of a trans space epic from a bestselling, award-winning author inspired by 1980s cinema, my serial sure could use the subscribers right now. :(
www.patreon.com/sahuntbooks
www.patreon.com/sahuntbooks
July 24, 2026 at 12:04 AM
I don't mean to press, but if you're not interested yourself, could you reskeet? Just paying for the tow truck knocked out a third of our rent money for this month.
Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis locomotive 576 with pressure in the boiler and coal smoke from the stack. One step closer to seeing her under way on her own power again! Hats off to the Nashville Steam Preservation Society!
July 17, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis locomotive 576 with pressure in the boiler and coal smoke from the stack. One step closer to seeing her under way on her own power again! Hats off to the Nashville Steam Preservation Society!
Super impressed with the work these folks have done, proud to be even loosely affiliated with them. Can’t wait for the next chapter!
She's Alive! Nashville Steam has fired up Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway 4-8-4 576 for the first time in 72 years, a major step forward in the eagerly anticipated restoration. railfan.com/ncstl-576-fi...
NC&StL 576 Fired Up For First Time in 74 Years
The Nashville Steam Preservation Society, the non-profit restoring Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway 4-8-4 576, has fired up the locomotive for the first time since 1952.
railfan.com
July 17, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Super impressed with the work these folks have done, proud to be even loosely affiliated with them. Can’t wait for the next chapter!
Missed the alt text: view from a covered porch out onto a pond in with an active waterfall on a tree covered shelf, with a copy of Benjamin Houston’s “Expelled: James Lawson Jr and Vanderbilt University“ on a table.
June 23, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Missed the alt text: view from a covered porch out onto a pond in with an active waterfall on a tree covered shelf, with a copy of Benjamin Houston’s “Expelled: James Lawson Jr and Vanderbilt University“ on a table.
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Random comment seen on Mastodon: "AI artwork looks the way Christian Rock sounds."
June 14, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Random comment seen on Mastodon: "AI artwork looks the way Christian Rock sounds."
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Men need to do hard emotional things and face emotional realities
The only way over is through
The only way over is through
May 31, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Men need to do hard emotional things and face emotional realities
The only way over is through
The only way over is through
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"Is hummus on cooked pita just beans on toast" is the "is a hot dog a sandwich" of Levantine food discourse
May 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"Is hummus on cooked pita just beans on toast" is the "is a hot dog a sandwich" of Levantine food discourse
Can anybody explain why the MLB app is this bad? I don’t have high expectations, but streaming audio is not a new technology. STOP MAKING IT HARD TO LISTEN TO A GAME YOU DOLTS.
April 12, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Can anybody explain why the MLB app is this bad? I don’t have high expectations, but streaming audio is not a new technology. STOP MAKING IT HARD TO LISTEN TO A GAME YOU DOLTS.
"If we want Nashville to be a better place, then we get there not with one sweeping grand gesture, but with little, insufficient steps."
God, yes. Let's take a thousand of these insufficient steps together and see if we aren't closer to the goal than hoping for the perfect, sweeping, grand gesture.
God, yes. Let's take a thousand of these insufficient steps together and see if we aren't closer to the goal than hoping for the perfect, sweeping, grand gesture.
March 30, 2026 at 12:55 PM
"If we want Nashville to be a better place, then we get there not with one sweeping grand gesture, but with little, insufficient steps."
God, yes. Let's take a thousand of these insufficient steps together and see if we aren't closer to the goal than hoping for the perfect, sweeping, grand gesture.
God, yes. Let's take a thousand of these insufficient steps together and see if we aren't closer to the goal than hoping for the perfect, sweeping, grand gesture.
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Like ok not ALL Irish music is political, there's also "Ah shit, the fey" of course, but like, "tally-tally-whack-fol okay the English have stopped paying attention listen up boys" is maybe half of Irish folk music on its own.
March 10, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Like ok not ALL Irish music is political, there's also "Ah shit, the fey" of course, but like, "tally-tally-whack-fol okay the English have stopped paying attention listen up boys" is maybe half of Irish folk music on its own.
Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare.
Tabloid creature solves a murder.
Tabloid creature solves a murder.
Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare.
Con-girl scams magically lucky rich
Con-girl scams magically lucky rich
Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare.
"Not everything is for us." -Stanislaw Lem, The Invincible (paraphrased)
"Not everything is for us." -Stanislaw Lem, The Invincible (paraphrased)
March 8, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Describe your plot in five words or less - if you dare.
Tabloid creature solves a murder.
Tabloid creature solves a murder.
Early morning writing session showed me a path to land the thing I'm working on with a coherent theme. 24 new words plus a note to myself, and suddenly I feel like I have a clue. Much gratitude to @bernietheflumph.bsky.social for the magic feather for my impostor syndrome.
February 18, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Early morning writing session showed me a path to land the thing I'm working on with a coherent theme. 24 new words plus a note to myself, and suddenly I feel like I have a clue. Much gratitude to @bernietheflumph.bsky.social for the magic feather for my impostor syndrome.
Not to fed post, but does America need an infrastructure plan to have enough lampposts for the coming era?
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Not to fed post, but does America need an infrastructure plan to have enough lampposts for the coming era?
Pat, I’ve got plenty of vowels, for everyone’s sake, can I buy a comma?
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece.
CBP officer faces federal charges over allegations he harbored an unauthorized immigrant who was also his girlfriend and niece
The Justice Department alleges that CBP officer and supervisor Andres Wilkinson had been living in Laredo, Texas, with a woman who had overstayed her visa and is now in the U.S. illegally.
cbsn.ws
February 13, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Pat, I’ve got plenty of vowels, for everyone’s sake, can I buy a comma?
Check out Vault of Villainy by @leightonc.bsky.social and @bernietheflumph.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lei...
Vault of Villainy
A Menagerie of Malevolent Miscreants for the Million-Colored Sun RPG
www.kickstarter.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Check out Vault of Villainy by @leightonc.bsky.social and @bernietheflumph.bsky.social on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/lei...
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I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?” Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?”
January 20, 2026 at 1:50 AM
I know you are asking today, “How long will it take?” Somebody’s asking, “How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?”