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Zebulon Vitruvius Pike
@vitruviuspike.bsky.social
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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A modest proposal
December 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
A powerful message from today's youth.
this has become a very important video to me
December 8, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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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
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.
December 6, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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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...
December 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezdo...
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
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Rowing cycles are, in fact, still a thing. Not a big thing but I have seen them out in the wild.
looks like rowing tricycles were briefly a thing in the 1880s (tricycles generally were definitely a thing)
December 3, 2025 at 10:08 PM
anisota.net/harvest is one of those sites that analyses your social media presence. According to them, I am "below average"
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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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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another in my occasional series of accidental Victorian superheroes
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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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
#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
"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
#airships #steampunk #19thc
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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...
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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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
Come one, come all. Free and equal.

#19thc #thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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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…
jgeekstudies.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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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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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
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.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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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