Zebulon Vitruvius Pike

Nicer, and larger, than the facilities in my home.

Trying to do web design using AI instead of a a human who knows what words are.

Ice agent looks like he's wearing a disguise under his mask.

Steampunk Digest - October 24, 2025 Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein opens to positive reviews; Scenes from a steampunk picnic; A new steampunk sport?; New Lee Presson video; Weekend happenings; Kickstarter updates.

This week in #steampunk: Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” opens to positive reviews; Scenes from a steampunk picnic; A new steampunk sport?; New Lee Presson video; Weekend happenings; Kickstarter updates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

SARB-15 | AR-15 bullpup chassis | SRU PRECISION SARB-15 is a bullpup chassis designed for converting AR-15 to bullpup rifle

I'm hoping this doesn't suck because I've decided that my first foray into modern design firearms is straight into an AR bullpup kit gun. See you, space cowboy.
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I know what all you Blueskyers want: a 🧵 about guns!

Ok, a 🧵 specifically about the cosmetic modifications done to many Western movie guns to make one model of gun look like another & the historical reasons behind those changes.

If you're not into Western minutiae you might want to turn back now

a group of people sitting around a table in a room with a samurai standing in the doorway ALT: a group of people sitting around a table in a room with a samurai standing in the doorway

Finally got the Ghost of Yotei soundtrack and it reduced me to a sobbing mess.

Its equal parts grand like Ifukube or Hayasaka,a Morricone spaghetti western and laced with this haunting pain like the revenge films of Meiko Kaji.

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.

Scarlet Traces Volume 1

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 >>>>

"There were giants in the earth in those days. . . "

Tempting. I'll have to go out to my garage and find the box.

Steampunk Digest - The week’s top stories from The Steampunk Explorer. With photos from Haworth Steampunk Weekend by Bill Nesbitt.

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...

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'...

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry started today, October 16th, in 1859.

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When they stand with you, you stand with them.

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.

"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

YouTube video by History of Everything The Soviet Steam-Diesel Hybrid - 5 Minute History

Can't decide between steampunk and dieselpunk? Why not both?
#steampunk #dieselpunk #trains
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No miracle. There is an AI prompt that does exactly this.

"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.

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...

#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

"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

Cover of the book, showing customers, young and old, buying books at the shop counter like any other commodity.

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...

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

I am sure that journalists pronouncing it an-TEE-fa is intentional to further distance it from its definition.

Welcome to the neighborhood.

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...

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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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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#Lumibricks (Funwhole) Steampunk Watch Tower KURZ REVIEW | Set F9070. ...mehr

This picture is 19 years old from a German anti-globalization protest in Germany.