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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break

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On a break. Message via website (link below) Writer | Science Advisor (Star Trek franchise) | Producer | PhD, Astrophysics | she/her just an ancient tattooed 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 N7 Starfleet rebel pagan soul trapped in modern times https://linktr.ee/drerinmac

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · Nov 9

So many new folks! Welcome! I’m Erin, I have a PhD in gravitational astrophysics and now work as a TV writer, producer, voice actor, and science consultant.
Most people know me from my work on all the modern Star Trek shows.
This is a personal social page for me so expect lots of content on: (1/2)

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John Van Citters @jvancitters.bsky.social · 8d

Flowers, flowers, everywhere...

Stan Pham @thisisspiffy.bsky.social · 8d

‘Star Trek’ is headed to the Rose Parade. Here’s an exclusive first look at the float - LA Times | www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

‘Star Trek’ is headed to the Rose Parade. Here’s an exclusive first look at the float

Check out this first look at 'Star Trek's' float for the 2026 Rose Parade. The float celebrates the sci-fi franchises 60th anniversary.

www.latimes.com

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 8d

I LOVE CHUNK. His broken jaw is especially endearing this year!

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 8d

I interrupt your regularly scheduled horrors to remind you that Fat Bear Week is still going on. Vote now in the semifinals! explore.org/fat-bear-week

Fat Bear Week 2025

explore.org

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404 Media @404media.co · 9d

New: the world of Ruby has gone completely off the rails over the past few weeks. Developers suddenly locked out, corporate pressure, and claims of a "hostile takeover" of one of the most critical pieces of infrastructure for the internet we all rely on everyday
www.404media.co/how-ruby-wen...

How Ruby Went Off the Rails

What happened to RubyGems, Bundler, and the Open Source drama that controls the internet infrastructure.

www.404media.co

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 9d

I went to my first this year and it was AMAZING. None of the new dates are near me but I’ll keep an eye if there’s convenient travel!

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah!!!

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 10d

So great!! Season 4 is a masterpiece.

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 10d

Sounds lovely. The real question is…which episode(s) of DS9?!?!

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 11d

But folks, in all seriousness

Hannibal Burress meme: Hahahah this sucks man

(THIS IS NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF THE SAUDI REGIME)

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 11d

This entrance fundamentally changed my being (or, released something already there I guess). I have many fond memories of this film. Happy 50th and remember:

Don’t dream it. Be it.

ptklein @ptklein.com · 12d

The Rocky Horror Picture Show opened on US screens 50 years ago today. Initially a major box office bomb, cult cinema outsiders and queer audiences quickly took up the film’s mantle and turned it into a unique and exciting way of engaging with the movies. Remember kids, don’t dream it—be it!!

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Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11d

every trans person I've spoken to is feeling the Drag Down right now. not everybody has fallen into despair but we're all feeling it creeping in around the edges, doing our best to fight it. things are bad. if you know a trans person, look after them.

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 12d

Euphemia Maclean - one of many women executed for witchcraft in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

“Maclean was also accused of being offered and accepting pain relief during labour by a midwife”

🔥Trump’s Christian nationalist agenda🔥 #paracetamol associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Euphemia Maclean, Agnes Sampson and pain relief during labour in 16th century Edinburgh

Click on the article title to read more.

associationofanaesthetists-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks to the X-Files, I also looked into an absurd amount of #2 as well. I wrote a high school paper on Project Blue Book.

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

Ancient Celtic history is also on my (not top 3) list!

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

No, YOURE magic 🖤

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

X-Files is definitely one I had to exclude but I could talk about it too! Yay!

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

My list is way longer than 3 things btw

a woman in a suit looks up at something in the dark

Alt: Scully from the x-files looks up innocently and shrugs

media.tenor.com

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:

1. Mass Effect story/lore/world
2. General relativity in science fiction
3. Lucille Ball and her impact on the television industry

#1 happens pretty regularly when I find a fellow BioWare nerd in the wild!

Sky - Impossible Things Era @ketchup-dressup.bsky.social · 12d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:

1. Aircraft & spacecraft disasters
2. Psychology
3. Physics & mechanics of martial arts

Skeletrina 💀 @ohcatrina.bsky.social · 12d

List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours without prep:
1. Theme Park Design
2. Norse Mythology
3. The History of Fandom Culture

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

Why Mass Effect is the greatest game...

Antiva City🎃 @antivacity.bsky.social · 13d

The opening segment of Mass Effect 1, even prior to engaging in combat on Eden Prime, is a (near) masterclass in introducing a player to a setting, a style of game, and *easing* the experience along.

🧵 (1/8)

#MassEffect
#MassEffectSpoilers

Nihlus, Anderson, and Shepard watch a transmission from Eden Prime.

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Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

YESSSSS!!!

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 12d

Happy solar orbit day, sir!

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 13d

... ... what? This is so bizarre.

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 13d

This is amazing! I got to meet Mark while working on "Good American Family" -- what a great person. Already shared to my trans filmmaker siblings! ❤️

Erin Macdonald is on a social media break @drerinmac.bsky.social · 13d

I really needed this -- thank you!! <3

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Lydia Mulvey @lydiamulvey.bsky.social · 13d

i am begging screenwriters to stop using shitty AI generated stills to promote their spec scripts

if you can't afford to pay an artist to make you one, that's fine, but don't use a program that steals other artists' work to try to make your own work stand out

it's a huge double standard

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