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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 10m

I was not prepared for a comment about how medieval archers were given orders on the battlefield has gotten more likes than anything I've posted here

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 12m

I mean, Paxton, what the hell? The new WSJ revelations alone would be a knockout blow to any campaign prior to the Trumpocene era.

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 38m

I think of it more like the naval command "Fire at will," giving discretion to individuals to choose targets and attack until told to stop

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2h

My god how is this not the end of that man’s career

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2h

Edit: I went back to my sources and the command used (at Agincourt in 1415 anyhow) was “Now strike!” as shouted by the commander of archers, Thomas Erpingham.

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2h

I feel you. Sandra Bullock always plays Sandra Bullock, no matter what the role is. She’s incapable of inhabiting a role

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2h

My mom hated the author Rona Jaffe, whom she called “Sleaze Queen.” She even dialed in to a radio call-in show just to harangue her for promoting her sensational D&D-panic novel “Mazes & Monsters” because I played D&D and I was not mentally ill

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 2h

My mom hated Mel Gibson. She said, “Have you seen his films? I think he has serious anger issues with England”

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 13h

The actual command was “Strike now!”

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 20h

Just here to say that Columbus was recognized as an evil person by his contemporaries, and that’s no small feat in 15th century Europe

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

They’re all named Spartacus

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Like the Nazi leadership, above all, it’s about the grift. Ideology is the cloak.

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Check your link, PBS, this is a picture of a dinosaur

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Patrick McCale also worked with Guillermo del Toro on his stop-motion Pinocchio, which is a masterpiece

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

LOTR: The Return of the King of Comedy

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Traveler above a sea of bullshit by Caspar David Friedrich

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ghost of Christmas future in the Albert Finney musical

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the magazine that thought Olivia Nuzzi was a great hire

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m more of a morally compromised paddle boarder

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If the Apollo landings were faked they wouldn’t have made the moon so boring

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I'll always appreciate how the M*A*S*H* opening theme music tacks "Shave and a Haircut" onto the end of "Suicide is Painless" to remind you it's a comedy

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I went to a seminar with Gary Gygax at a museum of arms and armor, and he said, a little sheepishly, you know, I suspect that most polearms do about the same damage in real life

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Much easier to ask, What’s a good introductory book for a lay reader in your discipline

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ned Beatty was fresh off his performance in Deliverance

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I see an ad like this and I remember how grungy and violent the 70s were and how so much TV of that era was driven by fear of strangers

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Other work by the Ladybird artists Llangollen Valley Artist: SR Badmin

A view over a green, lightly- wooded valley at Sunset or dawn

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s how I picture The Shire in Lord of the Rings

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This guy thought Japan had a bright future in 1987:

Cover image of Paul Kennedy’s 1987 book The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

No, but look me up if you want background on growing up with Spiritualist grandparents and their warnings about fucking around with ghosts

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This actually happened — Harlan Ellison has said that a producer once pitched him this idea

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Let’s do “The Wiz,” but white

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Noid — the only food mascot to inspire a real-life hostage incident

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

“Have you tried turning your body off and restarting it?”

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And people will helpfully suggest treatments or fixes for you. “Have you tried yoga?” is my favorite. Don’t fix me. Talk to me, accept me, listen to me, help me.

me.talk

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Finally, someone else who loves that show

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Mr. Sputter… if that is your real name

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2013: $380,000 Mike Rogers' estimated net worth in 2026: $14,600,000 He cashed in and sold out Michiganders.

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

According to ProPublica, she took money from a defense-industry lobbyist, tried to disguise the source, and gave the lobbyist’s clients federal contracts. The FBI was closing in on her and then Trump shut it down. How about writing about that?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They lived in a newly built abandoned railway station

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Tuileries? I was there the other day.

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Actual Bear @actualbear.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And he won’t worry about global warming untIl his hat is on fire

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