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

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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

RED SUN is one of the better so-called east meets west crossovers. It boasts an insane cast and delivers on all fronts. Underrated, if you ask us. Click here to learn more: www.spaghetti-western.net/index.php/So... #filmsky

The tech bros call us Luddites as an insult but they were, in their day and for just a moment, the voice of us all, crying out that the worst instincts of capitalism can and must be resisted. Change may be inevitable but suffering need not be. #19thc #steampunk

I think I misunderstand the "reason for the season."

Holy shit! If you haven't been keeping up with this project, this looks amazing! =D www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFWZ...

I do not understand this holiday.

A Dime Novel Hero's Everyday Carry #steampunk #edc #firearms #shootingsports #19thc

A modest proposal

A powerful message from today's youth.

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

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.

Presenting proper pugilism. #19thc www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqp...

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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...

Rowing cycles are, in fact, still a thing. Not a big thing but I have seen them out in the wild.

anisota.net/harvest is one of those sites that analyses your social media presence. According to them, I am "below average"

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another in my occasional series of accidental Victorian superheroes

Spot the hippies. #19thc #steampunk

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

#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

"As god is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." #airships #steampunk #19thc

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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

Come one, come all. Free and equal. #19thc #thanksgiving

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

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