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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike
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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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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 1d
To me it looks like it's trying to be the bastard child of an F-18 and an F-16. Because it's AI, it changes angle to angle.
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Steve Morris >> MCM London @stevewmorris.bsky.social · 2d
Scarlet Traces is the story of what happens AFTER The War Of The Worlds ends. What would the world become if Empire-obsessed Victorian England got hold of a bunch of futuristic alien tech?

Hell for enemies of the British Empire, that’s what. By Ian Edginton and D’Israeli >>>>
Scarlet Traces Volume 1
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 2d
"There were giants in the earth in those days. . . "
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 2d
Tempting. I'll have to go out to my garage and find the box.
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The Steampunk Explorer @steampunk-explorer.com · 3d
This week in #steampunk: Scenes from Haworth Steampunk Weekend; Clockwork Alchemy preview; New Frenchy and the Punk video; New Brazzmatazz video; Weekend calendar; New Kickstarters: “Boston Metaphysical Society” and “Heirs of Isildur.” steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
Steampunk Digest - The week’s top stories from The Steampunk Explorer. With photos from Haworth Steampunk Weekend by Bill Nesbitt.
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InRangeTV @inrange.tv · 4d
John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry started today, October 16th, in 1859.

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Harper's Ferry & John Brown - YouTube
I've seen reports in the news of Harper's Ferry being "sanitized" of uncomfortable historical content. I don't know what they've removed, or added, but here'...
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 4d
When they stand with you, you stand with them.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 4d
I helped Kickstart the original release of All Quiet on the Martian Front. Never got a chance to play it and the miniatures still sit unpainted in their box. Nice, though, to learn that you can print your own miniatures now and get out from the pay-to-play model.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 4d
"War of the Worlds" was Wells' masterwork and I can't say how many times I have read it. Falcon is right, no film has ever been able to capture the narrative properly. Only Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater has come close.
#steampunk #19thc
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 5d
Can't decide between steampunk and dieselpunk? Why not both?
#steampunk #dieselpunk #trains
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The Soviet Steam-Diesel Hybrid - 5 Minute History
YouTube video by History of Everything
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 5d
No miracle. There is an AI prompt that does exactly this.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 6d
"You cannot support the truth with a lie." AI is a liar. It lies all the time about everything. If it happens to get something right, it's not because it is true, merely because the random number generator chose the one answer. The pages that promote inspirational AI are using you to promote lies.
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Gail Carriger @gailcarriger.bsky.social · 6d
Japanese Covers for the Finishing School Books: Do You Think They’re As Cute As I Do? (Special Extras) gailcarriger.com/2018/01/12/j...
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 6d
#OTD, 14 October 1899, the first making of Cavorite. "The chimneys jerked heavenward, smashing into a string of bricks as they rose, and the roof and miscellany of furniture followed. Then, overtaking them, came a huge, white flame."

#steampunk #19thC
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 7d
"Oh, dear," Clair said to herself after having thoroughly concussed the aggressively amorous Mr. Harris with a well placed upper-cut. "However shall I find some ice for my bruised knuckles?"
#GirlsOwnCC #steampunk #19thc
girlsown.bsky.social Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 8d
Enjoy the Sunday caption contest. Give away ❤️s, retweet to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC
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Victorian Web @victorianweb.bsky.social · 8d
Want to know "Where the Victorians Got Their Reading"? Another excellent new review on our site, by Sheldon Goldfarb, looks at Frederick Nesta's collection of essays on the subject. Clue: it wasn't just at railway bookstalls! victorianweb.org/authors/revi...
Cover of the book, showing customers, young and old, buying books at the shop counter like any other commodity.
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 8d
Front cover to Flatland (1884) by Edwin Abbott Abbott, who died #onthisday in 1926. Read Ian Stewart's introduction to the strange tale of A. Square's geometric adventures, the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction” publicdomainreview.org/essay/a... #otd
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 8d
I am sure that journalists pronouncing it an-TEE-fa is intentional to further distance it from its definition.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 10d
Welcome to the neighborhood.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 10d
Oil was first discovered in Texas in 1894. The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park RPG sounds very much like something that would find a place in a Deadlands campaign.
#ttrpg #steampunk
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Mystery Flesh Pit RPG Special
Welcome, visitor, to Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: The RPG, the Cypher System tabletop roleplaying game rulebook from Ganza Gaming about the Permian Basin Superorganism. This bizarre natural geobio...
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Specialist Pops Builds @specialistpopsblds.bsky.social · 11d
The Lumibricks Steampunk Ore Factory is now available for purchase!
#SpecialistPopsBuilds #Lumibricks #LooneyForLumibricks #LumibricksKOC #LumibricksSteamPunk

Click the link below to order yours today!

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Merlins Steine @merlinssteine.de · 11d
#Lumibricks (Funwhole) Steampunk Watch Tower KURZ REVIEW | Set F9070. ...mehr
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 11d
This picture is 19 years old from a German anti-globalization protest in Germany.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 12d
And, thus, not the anarchists they claim we are.
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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike @vitruviuspike.bsky.social · 12d
#WorldOctopusDay
The cover of The Illustrated Police News, Saturday, October 17, 1896. The headline reads "Alarming Experience of Fair Bathers who are Attacked by an Octopus." Four women swimmers at a cliffside beach are "menaced" by an inaccurately, but very adorably drawn, cephalopod. The women seems more puzzled than frightened.
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