W. Dow Rieder
@riderius.bsky.social
Mathematician, writer, lover of books, rememberer of computers past.
Writing at Dreamwidth: https://riderius.dreamwidth.org/
My old writing tumblr: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/
Old Stories archive: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories
Writing at Dreamwidth: https://riderius.dreamwidth.org/
My old writing tumblr: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/
Old Stories archive: https://docfuture.tumblr.com/post/62787551366/stories
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You waaaaant this. My beloved editor is also a very good writer of comics, and Ale’s art is fantastic.
Right! Links to preorder, should you need them! And as the book comes out in March, if you want to give a gift for Christmas, we are also giving away FREE printable Molly files!
December 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
You waaaaant this. My beloved editor is also a very good writer of comics, and Ale’s art is fantastic.
It's been a while now since I've enthused just how wonderful this comic is, so time to re-up 8-)
It's Sunday! Want to read a #free #comic?
SIDEQUESTED is a fantasy comedy romp about a bunch of dorks trying to find the source of magic. Queer af with a young librarian caught in a love triangle, and the prince and princess who think she's just really super.
sidequested.com
SIDEQUESTED is a fantasy comedy romp about a bunch of dorks trying to find the source of magic. Queer af with a young librarian caught in a love triangle, and the prince and princess who think she's just really super.
sidequested.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
It's been a while now since I've enthused just how wonderful this comic is, so time to re-up 8-)
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My brain is freaking out, would you mind reblogging this to make sure people know you can download a free baby dragon?
.........gotta make a "You would download a dragon" meme.
.........gotta make a "You would download a dragon" meme.
Right! Links to preorder, should you need them! And as the book comes out in March, if you want to give a gift for Christmas, we are also giving away FREE printable Molly files!
December 14, 2025 at 10:16 PM
My brain is freaking out, would you mind reblogging this to make sure people know you can download a free baby dragon?
.........gotta make a "You would download a dragon" meme.
.........gotta make a "You would download a dragon" meme.
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Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between dark chocolate and slower aging. A natural cocoa compound called theobromine was found in higher levels among people who appeared biologically younger than their real age.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
Scientists find dark chocolate ingredient that slows aging
Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between dark chocolate and slower aging. A natural cocoa compound called theobromine was found in higher levels among people who appeared biologically young...
www.sciencedaily.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between dark chocolate and slower aging. A natural cocoa compound called theobromine was found in higher levels among people who appeared biologically younger than their real age.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
I have an online friend, a crafter, with a different approach to Christmas decorating:
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I have an online friend, a crafter, with a different approach to Christmas decorating:
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Multiplayer
December 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Multiplayer
I read his original version of this, quite some time ago now, and it is amazing. Got me to start following @garius.bsky.social for his writing. Start at the first one and you are in for a historical *ride* 8-)
conclusion now live!
The final part of this incredible long-read from @garius.bsky.social is genuinely epic.
Out now for all to read for free — but you can support our work bringing you more incredible stories like this by subscribing for the price of a couple of coffees a month!
theupfront.media/bringing-her...
Out now for all to read for free — but you can support our work bringing you more incredible stories like this by subscribing for the price of a couple of coffees a month!
theupfront.media/bringing-her...
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I read his original version of this, quite some time ago now, and it is amazing. Got me to start following @garius.bsky.social for his writing. Start at the first one and you are in for a historical *ride* 8-)
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Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.
(Against Entropy, John M. Ford.)
Picture of me and the staff who operate my Bluesky account.
December 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Picture of me and the staff who operate my Bluesky account.
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Absolutely fucking dying here www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner Interviews Santa Claus
For several centuries, Santa Claus has been one of the most prolific mythical gift-givers in the world. Formerly known as Saint Nicholas of Myra, a...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 5, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Absolutely fucking dying here www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
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This hit me straight in the feels
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
This hit me straight in the feels
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Me, then: I shall take a quick nap and be refreshed to fight on for the rest of the day!
Me, now, lurching around like a beheaded zombie’s corpse: GOT STUCK IN BLANKETS WHAT YEAR IS THIS AM I IN NARNIA AGAIN?
Me, now, lurching around like a beheaded zombie’s corpse: GOT STUCK IN BLANKETS WHAT YEAR IS THIS AM I IN NARNIA AGAIN?
December 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Me, then: I shall take a quick nap and be refreshed to fight on for the rest of the day!
Me, now, lurching around like a beheaded zombie’s corpse: GOT STUCK IN BLANKETS WHAT YEAR IS THIS AM I IN NARNIA AGAIN?
Me, now, lurching around like a beheaded zombie’s corpse: GOT STUCK IN BLANKETS WHAT YEAR IS THIS AM I IN NARNIA AGAIN?
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Live your life such that a lack of polar bear rug won in a poker game is your only regret.
Times like this I remember the chat with 93yo Kermit McGranahan, when asked if he had any regrets in his life, said “Should taken the polar bear skin rug in that poker game in my 20s. Never got a chance for another.”
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Live your life such that a lack of polar bear rug won in a poker game is your only regret.
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Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel
Amazon.com: A Conventional Boy: A Laundry Files Novel eBook : Stross, Charles: Kindle Store
www.amazon.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Psst: if you're in the USA or Canada, Amazon.com are selling my novel "A Conventional Boy" for $2.99 for the next two weeks! (It's a promo to push my next novel, "The Regicide Report", which comes out at the end of January.)
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
www.amazon.com/Conventional...
"...and that was the spring after the bad winter. No, not the one two years ago, the *bad* one; you might have been further south then, but it would have been bad enough..."
December 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
"...and that was the spring after the bad winter. No, not the one two years ago, the *bad* one; you might have been further south then, but it would have been bad enough..."
@profanity.accountant Okay I am curious. I *think* I've mostly kept it internal...
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
@profanity.accountant Okay I am curious. I *think* I've mostly kept it internal...
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Bison
Red-winged blackbird
Pileated woodpecker
Snapping turtle
Porcupine
Bison
Red-winged blackbird
Pileated woodpecker
Snapping turtle
Porcupine
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Virginia Opossum
River otter
Puffin
Great Horned Owl
Alligator
Virginia Opossum
River otter
Puffin
Great Horned Owl
Alligator
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you've seen in the wild:
Moose
Caribou
Humpback Whale
Humuhumunukunukuāpua’a
Cattle Egret
Moose
Caribou
Humpback Whale
Humuhumunukunukuāpua’a
Cattle Egret
November 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild:
Bison
Red-winged blackbird
Pileated woodpecker
Snapping turtle
Porcupine
Bison
Red-winged blackbird
Pileated woodpecker
Snapping turtle
Porcupine
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Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
November 25, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.
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Short of a remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I don't think I've seen a program that I wanted 20 years ago more. I got ambitious and tried to use ArcGIS to do D&D maps/DM info tools. It went poorly.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
Canvas of Kings on Steam
Canvas of Kings is a minimalistic mapmaking tool that focuses on randomness and auto-generated elements on user-definable and interactive paths, plots and rooms.
store.steampowered.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Short of a remaster of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, I don't think I've seen a program that I wanted 20 years ago more. I got ambitious and tried to use ArcGIS to do D&D maps/DM info tools. It went poorly.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
@mightofmerchants.bsky.social is out there doing nice things.
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I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 AM
The Chotiner
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The Chotiner is out
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Look y'all, this is coming up on the end (560/571) I'm gonna need some of ya to re skeet this far and wide to keep the random pictures coming.
Okay. The people have spoken.
For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).
Let the games begin.
For every reskeet this gets, I will post a random picture from my camera roll with no explanation (other than alt text).
Let the games begin.
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Look y'all, this is coming up on the end (560/571) I'm gonna need some of ya to re skeet this far and wide to keep the random pictures coming.
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Funny story: Pandora's box was actually filled with chocolate. She just needed an explanation for why the gods would give her a now empty box.
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Funny story: Pandora's box was actually filled with chocolate. She just needed an explanation for why the gods would give her a now empty box.