This week in #steampunk: Scenes from CONpossible; Nikola Tesla rock opera; Tippy Golden Teapot Awards; Abney Park “Mad Max” video; Holographic singer goes steampunk; Weekend happenings; Kickstarter updates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

You would think an editor at the Single Action Shooting Society would have known what a pistol actually looked like before approving this ad. #firearms #shootingsports #cowboyaction #noai #aislop

“[the instructor] should occasionally place himself in front of each man, and cause him to aim at his eye with a view to ascertain if he attains the alignment quickly and readily, and does not loose his aim in pressing the trigger.” - - - “Manual for Rifle Practice” by George Wood Wingate (1872)

“The instructor should not allow the recruits to be discouraged . . . but should explain to them . . . that any man who has no defect in his sight can, by perseverance, become a good shot.” - "Manual for Rifle Practice" by George Wood Wingate (1872)

the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this every plantation owner should have been put to death

"This concept of 'wuv' confuses and irritates us!" #steampunk #19thc #valentine #victorian

French novelist Jules Verne was born #onthisday in 1828. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — publicdomainreview.org/collection/e... #otd

"If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy." The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866. archive.org/details/illu...

#OnThisDay in 1862, Union gunboats pounded the everloving fuck out of traitors in Fort Henry in Tennessee. It was the first important victory for the Union in the Western Theatre. READ: https://open.substack.com/pub/sonsoflibertyofficial/p/onthisday-in-1862-battle-of-fort

Tangentially related, I read Dracula for the first time and I was surprised to learn there was a cowboy who was like, "YEEHAW AHM FROM TECKSAS, I'VE BROUGHT ENOUGH WINCHESTERS FOR ALL, LET'S KILL THIS SON OF A BITCH"

From Utagawa Hiroshige’s New Edition of Shadow Making series, 1853. More from this shadow series, and other Hiroshige prints, in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/artist/utagawa-hiroshige

Made only one purchase at a local gun show today; an adorable 10-round magazine. Very low profile for my bullpup. I passed on the beefy 60 round double-stack magazine. It seemed a little too performative and more expensive than two 30-round mags. #firearms #shootingsports #sarb15 #bullpup #cyberpunk

My neighbors fighting the good fight. #firearms #2a #lgbtq @publicsource.org @pinkpistols.bsky.social

I am dragging my anchor, and that flag has been flying for quite some time.

Agnes Giberne's The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (1898) transports us to the most remote astral bodies, but also quickens every reader’s lost seven-year-old sensibility that the universe was made to be brought within one’s humble yet unbounded reach: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...

Me, too, Teleosaurus cadomensis. Me, too.

Dellschau created an early graphic novel and got attached to mystery airship lore. #steampunk #airships

. . . and then they shot him nine more times.

This week in #steampunk: Scenes from Jewelry City; Girl Genius and Lady Mechanika on Kickstarter; Kickstarter search change makes steampunk projects harder to find; Abney Park streaming concert; Critters Readers Poll winners; Scientists create “liquid gears.” steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

An incredible, trippy daydream from 1889 - artist unknown(?) - from the book “The Story Of Man: A History Of The Human Race”, by J. W. Buel There are a few Crystal Palace and Crystal Palace-adjacent creatures here, including the classic depiction of a horned Iguanodon from decades earlier! 1/2

How to eat like a Victorian workhouse inmate. It’s more than just gruel 😁 youtu.be/zjMQgMshYM8?...

#girlgenius #webcomics We have climbed back atop the Kickstarter horse (www.kickstarter.com/projects/gir...) and we're doing not 1 new book, but 2! And it funded in less than twelve hours, so there's no risk! Such a deal! Of course NOW we have to fiddle with stretch goals– but we have a few in mind…

in 1843, Frenchman Émile Gire patented a steam-powered (aeolipile) balloon, armed with bombs and a cannon “FR-1843-11213: Means and Methods of Directing Aerostats, Without Using Ballast, and Their Application as a War Machine” this was one of the first “serious” proposals for an armed aerial craft

This week in #steampunk: The Year in Movies & TV; A steampunk author’s tough year; Brilliant time travel comedy; New Velvet Jeanie video; Jewelry City preview; Steampunk festivals announce 2026 dates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

Back in my day, snowball fights were played for keeps. #19thc #steampunk

I believe that I may require the mega-fez in the center. #fez #19thc #steampunk #nationalhatday

Range Day started pretty well. After zeroing my SARB-15 (finally) at 50 yards, took it out to 100. Just as it started pouring rain. Was shooting where I wanted it to but sloppy grouping. Wasn't being productive so I called it an early day. #firearms #sarb15 #bullpup #shootingsports #rangeday

Wonderful sketch of “teeth painlessly extracted by steam power” adorning an envelope addressed to a certain Dr J. Chapman of Totton, Southampton, and dated 1894. Was it sent in the mail like this? publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...

The Victorian Gentleman's Self-Defense Guide. #victorian #19thC #bartitsu #selfdefense #steampunk

Jumprope and sabre practice at Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. #19thc #steampunk @gailcarriger.bsky.social

"Baby crocodiles are priced at Covent Garden at £1. When they grow too big they are returned to the dealers."

@atelierroot.bsky.social is a scam site selling generative AI slop and other stolen posters and engaging with bots. Do not buys their stuff or engage with them. Report and block. #steampunk #noai

Beef and cocaine lozenges for cycling endurance. And here I've been all this time just hydrating and the occasional so-called "power bar." #19thC #steampunk

This week in #steampunk: The Year in Pictures; Top News Stories; Public Domain Day; Streaming Guide; New albums from Unwoman, Prof Elemental; Yuletide Oddities Market; Mad Hatter 2024 video; Facebook AI bots; SFWA backtracks on AI; Steampunk double feature. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...

The Cabin Fever Challenge has officially opened, now through the end of March. It is a test of traditional musketry; 5 rounds standing, kneeling, prone, sitting, reload between each posture, on the clock. www.riflechair.com/cabin-fever-... #firearms #shootingsports

According to this bot, I wrote 128 posts and 327 replies. I received 924 likes, with a maximum of 69 likes for one post (unfortunately about JDVance). Though I want to be more about steampunk I am mostly about shooting and the 19th Century in general. www.madebyolof.com/bluesky-wrap...

10 Graphic Novels You’ll Enjoy if You Loved Soulless the Manga gailcarriger.com/2020/02/21/1...

It's time for our annual New Year's celebration of the Marx Brothers and the return of the Freedonian Fez. This year we're spicing it up a bit with the debut of the deluxe two-tone edition. Available thru Jan 5th at Fez-o-rama.com #FezORama #fez #HailHailFreedonia

I do not understand New Year's well wishing any better than I understand Christmas. #19thc #victorian #steampunk

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

Range Day. The math says that I should be about an inch and a half low at 50 yards, zero at 100 yards and also at 200 yards. I'm a little high at all ranges. Maybe bring it down a 1/2 MOA click or two then move on to Cabin Fever Challenge drills. #firearms #sarb15 #shootingsports

A whale and three fish sitting down to a formal dinner of Russian sailors, in a propaganda cartoon created by Kobayashi Kiyochika (1847-1915), during the Russo-Japanese war (1904-5). View more from this superb series of prints here: https://buff.ly/2w0DK1S

Victorian Christmas Frog Luchador. #19thc #victorian

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Is revenge and turnabout the reason for the season? The Victorians seemed to think so. What's old is new again, I suppose. #19thc #victorian

Wait. Is the lepidopteran version of Macbeth a Christmas play? #19thc #victorian

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpJ-... #firearms #shootingsports #19thc #victorian

People who holiday will need to explain this to me. #19thc #victorian #jellyfish #airkraken

Range day without the sandbags has me thinking that, while the Hera CQR foregrip is cyberpunk and cool, I may be better off without it. Many decades of shooting has me naturally wanting a more traditional rifle hold. #sarb15 #bullpup #firearms #shootingsports #cyberpunk

Born #onthisday in 1838, theologian and schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, who in 1884 published the remarkable Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever example of “mathematical fiction”. More on the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/aspiring-to-a-higher-plane #OTD