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@Tarbosaur

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Consulting historian of science, the occult, esoterica and obscuranta, pseudoscience, monster studies, Darwiniana, knows who really discovered America. Currently retired. https://sites.google.com/a/kean.edu/brian-regal-phd/

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 19h

It's almost Indigenous People's Day. I've been on a hundred podcasts, one of my favorites is still @buzzkillprof.bsky.social

professorbuzzkill.com/2024/01/09/a...

America’s Origin Stories and Myths Professor Buzzkill

Dr. Brian Regal joins us to discuss some of the stories and myths about who “discovered” America, and what the continued popularity of those myths tell us

professorbuzzkill.com

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 3d

"Seven days to Bellus! Waste anything but time!"

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 4d

I'm waiting for the day when someone asks him about his wife Melania, and he says, "Who?"

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 4d

Next Monday is Indigenous People's day. So @realDonaldTrump
wants everyone to read my book on who discovered America: Spoiler alert, it wasn't #Columbus

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 4d

Most #MAGA types can barley speak English.

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 4d

#Tomhoman is every hated High School Vice Principal.

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 5d

When I was a technical illustration student at @risd (Rhode Island School of Design) in the mid 1980s we had an assignment to design a futuristic vehicle--it could not be an automobile. This is what I came up with (Oh, and it's a marker rendering).

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Orange Dotard Slayer @dotard-slayer.bsky.social · 6d

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so glad that I and a hundred thousand Americans along with British, Dutch, French, and West Germans faced down the commies on the Iron Curtain to keep the Russians from taking over, just to have #Trump hand it all over to Putin without a second thought.
It makes we wonder what it all was for.

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Wm. Schumacher @wmschumacher.bsky.social · 5d

Book cover reading “Soylent Oceanographic Survey Report 2015 to 2019 Volume 1”

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💙🦋🌊 Political Americans 🌊🦋💙 @politicalamericans.bsky.social · 5d

Can't believe this actually needs to be said.

But it does.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 6d

October 2018: Soylent Green is developed.

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 13d

In the living room/Wunderkammer eating homemade #sundayroast of Meatloaf, mash, green beans and high alcohol beer. I hear a noise and looked out into the alchemical garden and saw a bunny rabbit chowing down on Wormwood. I wonder what hallucinations she'll have.

I wish @docbotz was here.

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 13d

Can't @realdonaldtrump just use his sharpie to fix it?

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 14d

Apparently #ICE agents are untrained. If I had handled my sidearm like these guys I would have been on KP duty for the entire length of my enlistment.

enlistment.ir

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 14d

When I was a kid attending St. Cecelia's grammar school they had those steamed Stewarts Sandwiches. I loved those! I know they were mostly fiber and vegetable substitute but I still loved the taste. Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore.

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 14d

Trump is a toddler whose face and hands are covered in cookie crumbs but insists he never touched the cookies.

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 16d

Oh, and my collection of books on antique globes and scientific instruments too.

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 16d

From the office of 'This Never Happened.'

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 16d

I left my books on Middle Eastern Astrolabes to the Kean University Special Collections Library.
www.kean.edu/research-lib...

www.kean.edu

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@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 17d

With @realDonaldTrump 's crazy quotes about #TYLENOL causing #Autism I thought I'd run this little pram I wrote in 2015 about how vaccinations cause autism.
www.nj.com/opinion/2015...

Vaccination debate needs a heavy dose of reasoned thought: Opinion

By Brian Regal As if we don't have enough to worry about, measles epidemics are on the rise. This is not the result of bad hygiene, or a breakdown in the healthcare system, but from parents intentiona...

www.nj.com

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 23d

I don't want to change the world
I'm not looking for a New Jersey...

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 23d

In 2001 in Berlin for a history of science fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science I rode the Berlin U-Bahn by myself so I could sing Iggy Pop's 'Passenger' all night long.
"I am the Passenger, I ride and I ride and I ride and ride..."

@Tarbosaur @tarbosaur.bsky.social · 23d

Too young for Vietnam, too old for the Gulf. What did those who served in the 70s and 80s do? Not much, we just kept World War Three from happening. We kept the Russians from taking over, you know those guys @Realdonaldtrump loves.