Zebulon Vitruvius Pike
@vitruviuspike.bsky.social
Gentleman adventurer, mercenary explorer, dime novel hero, and itinerant warrior in Meiji-era America.
https://dime-novel-hero.dreamwidth.org
#steampunk #19thC #victorian #airships #shootingsports #firearms #cowboyaction #spaghettiwestern #cosplay
https://dime-novel-hero.dreamwidth.org
#steampunk #19thC #victorian #airships #shootingsports #firearms #cowboyaction #spaghettiwestern #cosplay
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another in my occasional series of accidental Victorian superheroes
December 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
another in my occasional series of accidental Victorian superheroes
I've turned another thread into an article for easier reading.
Film review (sort of): ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
Read it here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/f...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Film review (sort of): ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
Read it here;
fakehistoryhunter.net/2025/11/30/f...
or here;
fakehistoryhunter.substack.com/p/film-revie...
Film review: ‘The First Great Train Robbery’ (1978)
This article was originally a thread on social media, which is why it is formatted with lots of images and short responses.The text is about the image below that paragraph. Remember ‘The Firs…
fakehistoryhunter.net
November 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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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
#FezORama #fez #hat #smallbusiness
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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
#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
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#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
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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This week in #steampunk: Scenes from the Dickens Fair; New albums from Valentine Wolfe, Scott Helland; Dust Bowl Faeries single; Abney Park streaming concert; Weekend calendar. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
November 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This week in #steampunk: Scenes from the Dickens Fair; New albums from Valentine Wolfe, Scott Helland; Dust Bowl Faeries single; Abney Park streaming concert; Weekend calendar. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
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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
#FezORama #Fez
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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
#FezORama #Fez
November 27, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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
#firearms #bullpup #sarb15 #shootingsports
November 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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
#firearms #bullpup #sarb15 #shootingsports
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We have a new article! 🎉
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖
@krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations.
#GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal
👉 Read it here:
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖
@krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations.
#GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal
👉 Read it here:
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology
Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani1,2 1Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. 2Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, UiT – The Arctic Universit…
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November 25, 2025 at 9:43 AM
We have a new article! 🎉
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖
@krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations.
#GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal
👉 Read it here:
Steampunk dinosaurs and Victorian-era palaeontology ⚙️🦖
@krakenscholar.bsky.social and @babimt.bsky.social discuss Iguanodon, from its discovery to modern-day interpretations.
#GeekStudies #ScienceHistory #GeekCulture #anime #PrincessPrincipal
👉 Read it here:
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𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1859, Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book of the century and the foundation of the field of evolutionary biology.
November 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑖𝑛 1859, Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, arguably the most important book of the century and the foundation of the field of evolutionary biology.
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We talked about "bicycle face" and other things people thought cycling did to women in the late 1800s during our conversation with @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on episode 69:
thewaroncars.org/2021/09/21/t...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We talked about "bicycle face" and other things people thought cycling did to women in the late 1800s during our conversation with @jessicavalenti.bsky.social on episode 69:
thewaroncars.org/2021/09/21/t...
thewaroncars.org/2021/09/21/t...
Looks like @inrange.tv won't be having CQB-East this year. There's pretty much no way I'm hitting anything at 100 yards with a pistol. I have trouble enough at short ranges. Do I accept skipping targets I'll never hit and suck up the penalty or abandon the entire project? I do have a new bullpup.
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Looks like @inrange.tv won't be having CQB-East this year. There's pretty much no way I'm hitting anything at 100 yards with a pistol. I have trouble enough at short ranges. Do I accept skipping targets I'll never hit and suck up the penalty or abandon the entire project? I do have a new bullpup.
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Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
November 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Here's a🧵about the San Francisco Egg Wars of the 1800s. It has bloody gunfights, marauding pirates, a bunch of (literally) batshit deaths & some nasty looking eggs...
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Nothing to says "here come the holidays" like a screaming horse skull! Our Mari Lwyd design is available now at Fez-o-rama.com. Support a small business by buying handmade wearable art.
#FezORama #Fez #MariLwyd #holidayArt #christmasArt
#FezORama #Fez #MariLwyd #holidayArt #christmasArt
November 21, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Nothing to says "here come the holidays" like a screaming horse skull! Our Mari Lwyd design is available now at Fez-o-rama.com. Support a small business by buying handmade wearable art.
#FezORama #Fez #MariLwyd #holidayArt #christmasArt
#FezORama #Fez #MariLwyd #holidayArt #christmasArt
I have ridden several scenic railroads (notably the Western Md Scenic Railroad) and should I ever have to travel across the country, there is a good chance I will choose to travel by train.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcmr...
#19thc #railroad #steampunk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcmr...
#19thc #railroad #steampunk
The Horrors of Victorian Train Travel
YouTube video by Kaz Rowe
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November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I have ridden several scenic railroads (notably the Western Md Scenic Railroad) and should I ever have to travel across the country, there is a good chance I will choose to travel by train.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcmr...
#19thc #railroad #steampunk
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcmr...
#19thc #railroad #steampunk
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Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Albert Alberg's Frost Flowers on the Window (1899) communicates a “new, truly great discovery”, that frost is able to make “ice photographs”, expressing the form of objects near it — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/frost-flowers
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
(Image: ca. 1905 photograph of frost by Wilson Bentley)
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Our 8th edition Krampus Fez returns for a limited time and with it comes a NEW low-profile option as well as a double-sided double-horned chapeau! PLUS we have a very limited run on green velvet
Available until Dec 13th @ Fez-o-rama.com
#FezORama #fez #Krampus #Holiday #krampusnaucht
Available until Dec 13th @ Fez-o-rama.com
#FezORama #fez #Krampus #Holiday #krampusnaucht
November 20, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Our 8th edition Krampus Fez returns for a limited time and with it comes a NEW low-profile option as well as a double-sided double-horned chapeau! PLUS we have a very limited run on green velvet
Available until Dec 13th @ Fez-o-rama.com
#FezORama #fez #Krampus #Holiday #krampusnaucht
Available until Dec 13th @ Fez-o-rama.com
#FezORama #fez #Krampus #Holiday #krampusnaucht
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November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025
For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:34 AM
November 18, 2025
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Solar Eclipse, 1880.
Supposedly of the January 11, 1880, solar eclipse from California's Mount Santa Lucia. Although attributed by @GettyMuseum to Carleton Watkins, some scholars doubt this to be the case.
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Available as a print from our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/product/s...
Supposedly of the January 11, 1880, solar eclipse from California's Mount Santa Lucia. Although attributed by @GettyMuseum to Carleton Watkins, some scholars doubt this to be the case.
⠀
Available as a print from our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/product/s...
November 16, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Solar Eclipse, 1880.
Supposedly of the January 11, 1880, solar eclipse from California's Mount Santa Lucia. Although attributed by @GettyMuseum to Carleton Watkins, some scholars doubt this to be the case.
⠀
Available as a print from our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/product/s...
Supposedly of the January 11, 1880, solar eclipse from California's Mount Santa Lucia. Although attributed by @GettyMuseum to Carleton Watkins, some scholars doubt this to be the case.
⠀
Available as a print from our shop here: publicdomainreview.org/product/s...
Second range day with my #SARB-15. I used the green reticle instead of the red, used a black bull's eye target instead of the red diamond, and had a much better sandbag setup. Consistently made my groups half their previous size compared to last week.
#firearms #shootingsports #bullpup
#firearms #shootingsports #bullpup
November 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Second range day with my #SARB-15. I used the green reticle instead of the red, used a black bull's eye target instead of the red diamond, and had a much better sandbag setup. Consistently made my groups half their previous size compared to last week.
#firearms #shootingsports #bullpup
#firearms #shootingsports #bullpup
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My old Martian Fighting Machine moc from six years ago. Based on the design from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
My old Martian Fighting Machine moc from six years ago. Based on the design from the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics.
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This week in #steampunk: Steampunks in California’s Gold Country; New steampunk TV series from France; News from your humble editor; Steampunk November returns as the SPN Festival; Steampunks gather in Boston; Kickstarter updates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
Steampunk Digest - November 14, 2025
Steampunks in California’s Gold Country; New steampunk TV series from France; News from your humble editor; Steampunk November returns as the SPN Festival; Steampunks gather in Boston; Kickstarter upd...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
This week in #steampunk: Steampunks in California’s Gold Country; New steampunk TV series from France; News from your humble editor; Steampunk November returns as the SPN Festival; Steampunks gather in Boston; Kickstarter updates. steampunk-explorer.com/digest/steam...
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More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. @PM_Keeling drills into the early history of the Channel Tunnel — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
More than a century before the Eurostar and LeShuttle, a group of engineers and statesmen dreamed (and fretted) about connecting Britain to France with an underwater tunnel. @PM_Keeling drills into the early history of the Channel Tunnel — publicdomainreview.org/essay/t...