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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike
@vitruviuspike.bsky.social
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Gentleman adventurer, mercenary explorer, dime novel hero, and itinerant warrior in Meiji-era America.

https://dime-novel-hero.dreamwidth.org

#steampunk #19thC #victorian #airships #shootingsports #firearms #cowboyaction #spaghettiwestern #cosplay
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dreadships.bsky.social
A modest proposal
Italian (?) soldier standing next to a bicycle with a machine gun bracketed on the seat tube The same chap in firing position. A stand has swivelled down from its rising position along the top tube and a stirrup at the bottom allows him to brace it with his foot. The blighter won't try a close pass like that again, I can tell you.
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
A powerful message from today's youth.
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · 5d
this has become a very important video to me
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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davidlambertart.bsky.social
Land Rush Bicyclists:

Tumbleweeds (1925), directed by King Baggot
3 Bad Men (1926), directed by John Ford
Cimarron (1931), directed by Wesley Ruggles
Cimarron (1960), directed by Anthony Mann
Far and Away (1992), directed by Ron Howard
December 7, 2025 at 12:35 AM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
I replaced by SARB-15 Bullpup's prisim+3X magnifier setup with a Vortex Spitfire 3X. I tried to laser bore sight it but was off by about 2 feet. Walked it in to a pretty decent grouping that was half the size of my previous setups. After this, it's all on my skills or lack thereof.
The image is of a target board with four sighting targets. The "X" designating the point of aim is in the center of the lower left target. The first shot grouping of five rounds is above the upper left target. The group size is labeled as 2.22 inches and 21.64 inches high. After shooting this group I turned the adjustments many many "clicks" to bring it down but, even then, did not bright it down enough. The second group is lower and to the right but still near the upper left target rather than the intended lower left point of aim, 1.51" group size, 12.11" high and 4.27" right. The third group is lower still but still off the intended target paper. Group size 2.38", 5.39" high, 5.39" right. Finally, the last group is very close to the point of aim. Only 0.58" left and 0.27" low. The group size is a nice and tight 1.5". Shooting off of sandbags, I should be able to do this all the time. #firearms #shootingsports #bullpup #sarb15
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Presenting proper pugilism.
#19thc
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Why Did Old Timey Boxers All Pose for Photos With the Same Silly Stance?
YouTube video by Today I Found Out
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December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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steampunk-explorer.com
This week in #steampunk: Steampunk Streaming Guide; Bandcamp Friday; Scenes from Fan Expo SF; Meet author Dito Abbott; “Over Morrow” in paperback; Steampunks celebrate the holidays. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
Steampunk Digest - The week’s top stories from The Steampunk Explorer. With photos from Fan Expo San Francisco and the Mad Hatter Holiday Parade.
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Each year, Japanese airsofters have a wild west get-together and look to be having more fun than I ever had in a decade of American cowboy action shooting. I love these videos (after I turn of the damnable AI auto-dub).
#firearms #shootingsports #19thc #airsoft
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ガンマン100人集結！西部劇ごっこ2025レポート
YouTube video by ハイパー道楽
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December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Rowing cycles are, in fact, still a thing. Not a big thing but I have seen them out in the wild.
victorianlondon.bsky.social VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 9d
looks like rowing tricycles were briefly a thing in the 1880s (tricycles generally were definitely a thing)
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
anisota.net/harvest is one of those sites that analyses your social media presence. According to them, I am "below average"
A graphical representation of the most used words and tags in my posts. Steampunk, firearms, shootingsports, 19thc, cowboyaction, shooting range. . . A graphical representation of the various other Bluesky sites I most interact with. The Steampunk Explorer, InRangeTV, The Public Domain Review, Ironlily, Crystal Palace Dinos, Dreadnought Holiday, Queer Armorer, The Fake History Hunter . . .
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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publicdomainrev.bsky.social
Our End-of-Year Fundraiser is launched! https://publicdomainreview.org/support

We're a not-for-profit project reliant on reader donations to stay afloat. Please do give if you can! Available to donors, our themed postcard packs: upcoming theme on... ATTENTION.

#GivingTuesday
December 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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victorianlondon.bsky.social
another in my occasional series of accidental Victorian superheroes
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Spot the hippies.
#19thc #steampunk
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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fezmonger.bsky.social
Want to support a small business? There's only the two of us making fezzes all weekend. Help us clean out some space by getting 15% off all weekend on our "in-stock" styles while supplies last. These are made and ready to ship. Order now at Fez-o-rama.com
#FezORama #fez #hat #smallbusiness
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
#RangeDay trying to make my bullpup's prism/1x magnifier dual optic setup work and it was entirely shit. Nothing good came of it except the conclusion that I will be getting a Vortex Spitfire 3X. #shootingsports #firearms
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
#airships #steampunk #19thc
The image is of an early 20th Century greeting card with the text "Hearty Thanksgiving Greetings." An early Zeppelin rigid airship (looks to me modeled off of the LZ-4, completed June 1908) is dropping a naval anchor on a rope. A turkey is riding the tine of the anchor. Image shared on Facebook group Airship Advocates for Zeppelins, Blimps & all Dirigibles https://www.facebook.com/groups/103874423033779
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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steampunk-explorer.com
This week in #steampunk: Scenes from the Dickens Fair; New albums from Valentine Wolfe, Scott Helland; Dust Bowl Faeries single; Abney Park streaming concert; Weekend calendar. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
Steampunk Digest - The week’s top stories from The Steampunk Explorer. With photos of Scott Helland, Dust Bowl Faeries, and Valentine Wolfe, plus scenes from the Great Dickens Christmas Fair.
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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fezmonger.bsky.social
Our tradition of offering a black on black on black Black Friday Edition fez has been going for 15 years. No point in stopping now! This year we have our Silver Planchette rendered in all black, on black velvet. Only available thru Black Friday at Fez-o-rama.com
#FezORama #Fez
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Come one, come all. Free and equal.

#19thc #thanksgiving
“Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner” by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly, 1869. https://www.nyhistory.org/blogs/uncle-sams-thanksgiving-dinner-thomas-nasts-powerful
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
The advice is to buy optics for the 80% that you shoot. However, the 1x prism isn't good enough for my eyes to do the other 20% at range so I added a 3x magnifier. Not sure I'm liking the setup. Will need to take it to the range to evaluate.
#firearms #bullpup #sarb15 #shootingsports
The top rail of my SARB-15 bullpup platform with two optics. The first is a Vortex Optics Spitfire 1x Prism Scope. After that is a Monstrum Ghost G3 3X Micro Magnifier with Flip-to-Side Mount. The guidance is to have the magnifier first but this terribly distorted the reticle so I put the magnifier after the prism. In this way, the illuminated circle and dot will remain the same size whether magnified or not. I am concerned that having the magnifier after might add some distortion that affects accuracy at range. I will need to take it to the range and re-zero it and test. The alternative becomes getting a single 3x prism. How will that work for me when I'm doing CQB at close range? I'll have to test that at the range, too.
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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jgeekstudies.bsky.social
We have a new article! 🎉
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖

@krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations.
#GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal

👉 Read it here:
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology
Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani1,2 1Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic Universit…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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inrange.tv
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The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Earlier this year, I attended a shooting competition for queer, often trans, very online misfits. Then Charlie Kirk was killed.
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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19thcenturyph.bsky.social
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1859, Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book of the century and the foundation of the field of evolutionary biology.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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thewaroncars.bsky.social
We talked about "bicycle face" and other things people thought cycling did to women in the late 1800s during our conversation with @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on episode 69:

thewaroncars.org/2021/09/21/t...
November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Looks like @inrange.tv won't be having CQB-East this year. There's pretty much no way I'm hitting anything at 100 yards with a pistol. I have trouble enough at short ranges. Do I accept skipping targets I'll never hit and suck up the penalty or abandon the entire project? I do have a new bullpup.
"GENERAL INFORMATION STAGES • Expect 5 stages combining physical challenges, target identification, and marksmanship under pressure. • Par times are now 6 minutes. Proficient shooters should expect to use 50-66% of that time to complete the stages. • Maximum Required Rifle Range is 300 yards. • Bonus Rifle Targets to 500 yards • Maximum Pistol Range is 100 yards • Most pistol targets will be at 10-40 yards."
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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davidlambertart.bsky.social
Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM