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Marcus Falk (She/They)

@attusfalk.bsky.social

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PhD in Economic History and post-doc in History, Lund University. Early modern wealth, consumption, and household economy. Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · Oct 28

Sure, this is a self-plug thread now:

First in the bundle is Paint Stockholm Red, a setting guide to Paint the Town Red (on backerkit, go back it!) which lets you take your disaster vampires to Stockholm in three different points in time: 1532, 1783, & 1912.

attusfalk.itch.io/paint-stockh...

Paint Stockholm Red by Attusfalk

Travel to the capital of Sweden in three different points in time, in this setting guide to Paint the Town Red.

attusfalk.itch.io

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 1d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

www.unilu.ch

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 1d

Someone found the exact point when the bunny numbers jumped ahead by 100 a year ago…

I don’t think I’ll correct the order at this point (messes up my bookkeeping) but that means that THIS autumnal bunny is actually number 3000!

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 1d

Everyone says they want a traditional marriage until they get a traditional marriage.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d

“I left my wife, Nicole Kidman, because I was sick of her, Nicole Kidman, needing me to have sex with her, Nicole Kidman” do you hear yourself man

Tweet from Daily Mail Celebrity @DailyMailCeleb
How Nicole Kidman's 'bottomless need for sexual attention' led to the end of her marriage to country music star Keith Urban: Nashville insiders open up to
ALISON BOSHOFF

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june $118/$3900 @juneever.green · 1d

gavin newsom hates trans people

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snow @snow117.bsky.social · 1d

I've been working on an essay about The Struggles of TTRPG Outreach and Fandom but I think this tumblr post just captured the whole sentiment im like 100 words.

Fact: Apart from pure recognition factor, one of the major reasons your fanart gets more eyes on it than your OCd is because people are perverts for narrative context, and your OCs don't have any.

Corollary: you don't actually need to write a whole-ass graphic novel to achieve that narrative context. You do need to know what your OC's story is, but once you do, you can literally just draw contextless snapshots from that story that raise more questions than they answer and people will fill in the blanks.

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The Content Apologist @contentapologist.bsky.social · 1d

@oddthisday.bsky.social

Roses are Red,
Porridge has me in stitches,

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Rose Ruane @regretteruane.bsky.social · 1d

John Cage is here to say fuck you

www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Organ Playing 639-Year-Long Experimental Piece by John Cage Changes Chord

The last chord change for Cage's experimental composition 'As Slow As Possible' took place two years ago.

www.artnews.com

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Louise @selkies.bsky.social · 1d

As a European I strong feel I shouldn't even know why Gavin Newsom is

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier in September, we were able to welcome the Catalan TV for a news report on Catalan documents found in our collection at the National Archives, UK. Quentin Daste, an associated researcher of the Prize Papers and expert for the Catalan sources from the ship San Magin...

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD 7 Oct 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter and Industrial Workers of the World (@IWW) revolutionary union martyr, was born in Sweden. He wrote such working-class anthems as 'The Preacher and the Slave', and was executed in the US. Learn more in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 2d

I spent the day looking at applications for licenses to deal second hand goods, which were required in Boston in 1839, and was struck by how many were on blue paper. Made from coarse rags dyed with indigo, they form a sort of class-based material vernacular. No rich person used paper this color 🗃️

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

"the Bad Faith Threshold" is a great coinage.

The first wave of comments on a post, from those who do actually follow you, is usually interesting or fun or both.

But the later waves are of scolds, humourless reply-guys, "sorry to be pedantics", "whatabouts", and "why are you insulting".

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 2d

Ah, I see this post has crossed the Bad Faith Threshold: that indefinable moment on social media when people stop behaving as if you’re a normal human person who, say, loves your child and is making a mildly humorous observation, and start responding with wild criticisms and imagined slights.

Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 3d

Yesterday my eleven-year-old daughter claimed that Taylor Swift had embraced a range of genres which included punk. The retribution was swift and included considerable mockery and a lesson on punk which probably took longer than she would have liked.

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 3d

King: boy that sure was a long and relaxing break but it's sure nice to get back to the campfire
King: [dusting cobwebs off campfire] sure hope nothing crazy happened while we were gone
JK Rowling: [in full SS uniform] ACHTUNG!

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d

If Bugs Bunny was invented in 2023 he would be our nations most controversial figure

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

so you were too stupid to understand the point of kid shows when you were a kid

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 3d

The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Dan of the Year @downwithdan.bsky.social · 4d

That she's cool as fuck?

Leviathan @l3vlat4an
X.com
Greta Thunberg donned a keffiyeh with an
"AUTISM" T-shirt that included an image of a skeleton dual wielding automatic rifles before she left on her flotilla.
What do you think she was trying to convey with this t-shirt?
AUTISM

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Maria Josephson @mariajosephson.bsky.social · 3d

Stolt som en tupp över Sveriges enorma kanelodlingar!

Marcus @marcuslofstrom.bsky.social · 3d

Förutom en liiiiten råvara, nästan helt oviktig i sammanhanget.

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 3d

It absolutely does not matter even the least, it was purely a dig at myself for taking 5 years to find it ^.^

Five years isn't actually even that old, tbh

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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 3d

The original is legit an amazing song, but there's something extremely wholesome about this version ^.^

Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 4d

It's kind of sad that this game was such a fundamental part of my childhood that I could probably write a decent tactica for it by heart, but absolutely no one else still play it so it would be a completely useless thing to do.

Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking of still playing this very old game from time to time. Meet the Hound or Culann, one of the available rulers to play as and (as he probably should be) the best warrior in the game.

Photo of a laptop running the game Celtic Tales: Balor of the Evil Eye. A very pixelated peninsula with the top part of the screen for resources and the regional leader. In the top left corner is a picture of a bearded man with a horned helmet. The name Chuchulainn is on top beside him, under the clan name "Aes Aedha". Beneath is the name of the region, "Taghmon".

Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 4d

Speaking of still playing this very old game from time to time. Meet the Hound or Culann, one of the available rulers to play as and (as he probably should be) the best warrior in the game.

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SoulMuppet Publishing @soulmuppet.co.uk · 5d

HARKEN MY WORDS OH FORSAKEN
Doomspiral GM screen now available!

One side features a beautiful triptych illustration from
@dwynartist.bsky.social. The reverse features quick references on mechanics, status effects and additional GM guidance.

Add it to your pledge www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...

mockup of the Doomspiral GM screen with a three panel illustration by Dwyn. The illustration features golden church-like carvings of worshippers on the edge panels praying towards the central panel which features some ancient diety surrounded with golden thread

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Jalle 🖤 @yakovpettersson.bsky.social · 5d

"De senaste decennierna har vänstern – inklusive svenska Vänsterpartiet – lämnat den ekonomiska politiken. I stället har man intresserat sig för sådant som feminism och identitetsfrågor."

"Decennierna" är intressant tidsspann. Jag ger er V sedan 2010:

www.expressen.se/ledare/ledar...

v valplattform 2010: gemensam trygghet individen frihets frihet en hållbar värld

v 2018: ett sverige för alla, inte bara de rikaste

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Uncle Rester @unclerester.bsky.social · 5d

vi är rika nog att vi har råd att ge rabatter till medel- och överklass men vi har inte råd att leva upp till rättigheter utsatta har, t.ex assistans till blinda och andra funktionedsatta, och vi har inte råd med marginaler inom sjukvården utan måste spendera de anställdas hälsa för att klara det 🤷

Sara Stylbäck Vesa @saravesa.bsky.social · 5d

Kan vi inte i stället prata om att välbärgade hushåll med två vuxna kan få 150 000 årligen i bidrag för ofta onödiga RUT- och ROT-tjänster? När vi är klara med det kan vi gå över till att prata om ifall fattiga barn ska ha rätt till en skälig levnadsstandard eller ej.

Är ni i S ett arbetarparti? Då är det upp till bevis...

DEBATT. ”Gör din plikt och kräv din rätt” var en gång ett populärt mantra i arbetarrörelsen. Men i Sverige i dag kan det i vissa fall löna sig att leva på bidra

www.aftonbladet.se

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