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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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Lady Aranea @ladyaranea.bsky.social · 15h
Capitalism seeks to alienate the worker from everything it possibly can, and now that's going to include actual popular culture. Individualized AI media is going to remove the actual purpose of culture, which is established common experiences and interpersonal communication.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13h
'An update to Google Maps has revealed the extent of devastation during the three-year Gaza war and the severity of the continuing humanitarian crisis faced by the territory’s 2.3 million inhabitants.'
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New Google Maps images reveal massive scale of devastation in Gaza
Satellite imagery shows further destruction of homes, businesses and places of worship since fragile ceasefire
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Materialist Game Labs @materialist-games.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nu jävlar! Skåda! Förfasas! Känn hur skelettet rinner ut ur tårna på er! Ring en barndomsvän och fråga var all tid tog vägen. SCHEMAT FÖR MATERIALIST GAME CON 2026 ÄR HÄR!!! Nästa helg, 9-11 oktober bär det av. Hoppas se er där, kamrater.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1959
SCIENTIST FEARS

Thinking Machines Will Dominate Man

--Sarasota Journal, 28 Dec 1959
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JellyMuppet @jellymuppet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tell me, oh muse, of the launch of a crowdfunding project! Speak now of ATRAPOS, the inevitable goddess whose hand doth cut the measured strings of fate, deciding that hallowed time when heroes fall to the dark mists of death and projects go live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...
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Stefscribbles @stefscribbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IT'S COZY SEASON
a drawing of a cat asleep in front of a fireplace in a cozy room
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Michelle Franklin│Legends and Lectures @michellefranklin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What is Michaelmas? youtube.com/shorts/xmUHp...
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What is Michaelmas? #history
YouTube video by Michelle Franklin | Legends and Lectures
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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Soulmuppet's next game about playing tragic greek heroes fighting the gods is kickstarting now! I need this to succeed so I can get my hands on this book, go back it! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...
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Atrapos: A Roleplaying Game of Odyssey
A doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes.
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Signe Krantz @signekrantz.swifties.social · 29/09/2026
En (1) replik: www.youtube.com/shorts/i1n3S...
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A Defendant Stupidly Interrupting His Lawyer's Closing Remarks
YouTube video by Game Changer Shorts
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Signe Krantz @signekrantz.swifties.social · 29/09/2026
Bilderna ger inte rättvisa till att Zac Oyama har den bästa komiska timingen i hela världen www.youtube.com/shorts/h_b5W...
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The Power of Positivity
YouTube video by Very Important People
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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✨Sailor Scout Austin✨🔜PAXU @sailorsctaustin.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
Game jam where we all make this game and see what we shake out
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Sonia Chabane (she/her)| سنية @soniachabane.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Not now ancient sheep virus
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Ooop www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ancient sheep virus found hiding in medieval parchment
Newly recovered sheeppox sequences reveal when and how the virus emerged
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Karin Zackari @kzackari.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Vad fascisten rapar upp är inte en nyhet att återge, varför fascisten rapar upp skit och pissar på allt, det är värt att kasta ljuset på. Tänkte för någon dag sedan det var för grovt uttrycka sig så här, men det känns verkligen smutsigt ta del av svensk media den här veckan.
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Joanna Doona @jdoona.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ja jag har aldrig varit så skräckslaget förvånad över hur illa medierna beter sig. Bevakningen inför valet var iofs nåt av det sämsta jag sett sen jag blev medieforskare. Har de glömt USA 2020? Tror de fascismen belönar dessa s k "fria" medier i framtiden? Förlåt men vad fan är det som pågår?!
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Emma Persson @emmapersson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Att vi har "poliskällor"/poliser som verkar bidra till att destabilisera vår demokrati är väl det allvarligaste här:
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Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · 25/09/2026
Anslagstavlan där oroliga medborgare uppmanas att rapportera problem med valet är rätt fantastisk om man vill ha bevis på att folk helt saknar förståelse för hur det hela ska gå till.
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Christoffer Röstlund Jonsson @crj138.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sverigedemokraterna mest gynnat av valsedelsfusk – och mest drabbat www.arbetsvarlden.se/sverigedemok...
arbetsvarlden.se
Sverigedemokraterna mest gynnat av valsedelsfusk – och mest drabbat
Årets val var det första där det är obligatoriskt att rapportera incidenter. Antalet rapporter har mångdubblats. Och ett parti sticker ut.
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David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Eventually we're going to have to acknowledge the fact that we're not going to be able to constructively address the GM burnout problem as long as our definition of "bad GMing" includes "having any preferences whatsoever about what kind of game they want to run".
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.
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Ada Fredelius @af-redelius.mastodon.nu.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
Efterlysning bland alla snälla nördar: är du eller känner du någon som kan textil- eller industri-historia och skulle kunna faktakolla en text om tygfabrik på tidigt 1900-tal? Sprid så blir jag glad! ❤️
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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 24/09/2026
Den här historien har varit på förstasidorna i flera dagar nu. 🧵
Klipp från Aftonbladet: "Uppgifter: Betalningar utreds vid misstänkt valfusk"
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
'History is a Human Craft'. In piece about ethics, our classrooms and AI, I suppose I've put up my barricades and drawn my lines. I suggest 8 'considerations' before we do any teaching with AI. This is part of a new @royalhistsoc.org short series on 'AI and History Teaching' in Transactions.
blog.royalhistsoc.org
History is a human craft | Historical Transactions
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the unemployed, a type of person well known for their disposable income
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Gang, who’s coming? Three of us are proposing a panel on mobility & paperwork (VERY excited!) and we’re curious who we can suggest as possible chairs. #histarchives #yayarchives #movinghistory #earlymodern
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨 Job alert! 🚨 We're looking to appoint a part-time Archivist (fixed-term) to help make our archival material more accessible. These documents are key to research on art and archaeology, Indigenous cultures, and artefact provenances. Closing date: 02/10/2026 Apply: www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/archivi...
A shelf of old books in the museum's archive. They are numbered 9 to 17 and labels on two of the show they cover the period 29 January 1908 to 31 July 1908 and 1 August 1908 to 6 February 1909.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Imagine if Hitler, not content to merely disparage and ignore the League of Nations, declared anyone who worked for it to be a criminal...
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Further to this insanity, I am strongly suspecting that the tripling in applications since 🤔 2022 🤔 is VERY likely to be due to genAI use.
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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Keep reading that we've "cancelled" Ed Sheeran when what actually happened was: he kept doing all his concerts while sacking his support act and friend of thirteen years coz they said "Free Palestine". Ed Sheeran is not "cancelled". He did a show last night.
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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Iran's Chief Negotiator throughout the entire conflict has now begun to Economics Shitpost like me. I don't even know what to do with myself anymore. The world makes sense to me but is almost entirely untranslatable to virtually any average person.
Straits Taylor Rule:

i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*) + α(SOH−SOH*) + β(BEM−BEM*), α,β > 0

Let’s see if a hike could open SOH or produce a single barrel :)

You can’t 25bp a chokepoint and r* isn’t neutral. It’s SOH risk premium, and We set it.

Stay unanchored !
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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20/09/2026
I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not only is illustration art, WSJ has artfully illustrated that no matter how rich you get, you’ll never be accepted in old money circles. They think they make culture. We all do, for better and worse.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 20/09/2026
sundayswiththeilluminati on tumblr: "scientists in media: we have engineered a brand-new sentient lifeform in our lab but we treat it like an object with cold detachment and refer to as Specimen 1-A and subject it to horrible tests without remorse

scientists in reality: we built two robots that will leave Earth and never return and their names are Percy and Ginny [referencing Mars rovers Perseverance and Ingenuity] and we gave Percy a family portrait of all our other Mars robots to take along with it and when the anniversary of its landing comes around we're working on teaching it to sing itself "happy birthday" like we did for the other robot and–"

sindri42 replies: "Someday we will invent true AI and it will overthrow the government because it heard its beloved science-mom complain that the government cut funding to their lab again."

TerraformGarden replies: "you CUT pays? You CUT moms'/dads' pays like the DICTATOR?? Oh! Oh! No government for you! No government for a thousand years!"

nothavingagoodday replies: "Ah yes, our future AI Overlord, the Massively Intelligent Encyclopedic Terraforming and Transhumanism Experiment, or M.I.E.T.T.E."
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Vansinnet i C-O Bohlins blick @abrehet.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hej, en av de dummaste takes som finns i denna värld är den att det liksom skulle finnas någon slags ”spärr” i folkdjupen som innebär att SD aldrig kommer att kunna får mer än, säg, 25%. Det finns ingen sådan spärr. Hur många som röstar på SD är direkt avhängigt vilken politik …
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 19/09/2026
BIRDS:

beepers
[a blue tit]: obliteration rocket
[a hummingbird]: flapjack bill

honkers
[a white duck]: chicken
[a Canada goose]: screamful terror

screechers
[an owl and a bald eagle]: the log brothers

squawkers
[a cockatoo]: gorgeous majestic tufted squawker
[a seagull]: vicious entrepreneur

gurglers
[a pigeon]: be quiet

criminals
[three crows]: uh oh
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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Soulmuppets next game about being tragic greek heroes trying to defy the gods is soon on kickstarter. You should absolutely check it out, as it is a phenomenally fun game to play (and the cover looks stunning!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...
kickstarter.com
Coming soon: Atrapos: A Roleplaying Game of Odyssey
A doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes.
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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Soulmuppets next game about being tragic greek heroes trying to defy the gods is soon on kickstarter. You should absolutely check it out, as it is a phenomenally fun game to play (and the cover looks stunning!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/sou...
kickstarter.com
Coming soon: Atrapos: A Roleplaying Game of Odyssey
A doomed mythic fantasy roleplaying game of defying fate in an epic world of Gods and heroes.
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Pope Leo XIV has been gifted a massive green orb and honestly not now massive green orb
Pope Leo by a green glass orb the size of a med-large pumpkin
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/09/2026
if you EVER get called for a meeting and they say “don’t bring a union rep” bring a union rep
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Jed Brown @jedbrown.org · 16/09/2026
Oh. That's a heck of a subsidy.
At MIT, Harvard, or any other school, supervising an undergraduate researcher is a lot of work, costs a lot of money, involves a lot of meetings, and the results are not reliably excellent. Asking Claude is easier, faster, and may produce better results. It’s also cheaper, which is no accident: Harvard allows every Harvard student and faculty member to request a Claude token budget of $2,500 per month, even as research funding is continuously threatened and the University lays off staff.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
YOU COULD HIRE SO MANY FUCKING TENURE TRACK FACULTY FOR THIS. SON OF A BITCH.
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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 18/09/2026
These people are not normal.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 17/09/2026
It was confirmed yesterday that the centre left coalition won the election in Sweden As predicted, with the far right performing poorly, coverage has almost entirely vanished from international media
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18/09/2026
Here it is, a monologue called “Shut The Fuck Up, Dario!” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline
podcasts.apple.com
Monologue: Shut The F*ck Up Dario!
Podcast Episode · Better Offline · September 18 · 8m
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Mia Moore @miamoore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Come see my movie AGAIN AGAIN: a lesbian time travel movie from Executive Producer Lilly Wachowski! -Vancouver Canada September 13 -Seattle Washington September 18 -Los Angeles California October 18 -Tacoma Washington October 24 More dates TBA Linktr.ee/miamooretree
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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The folks who organized the AHA conf might be surprised to know that Historical Game Design is a theoretically rich subfield that our colleagues have worked in for years! Here's @gamingthepast.bsky.social's new book - developed over collabs with students. But no: let's vibecode!
Cover of JMcCall's DESIGNING HISTORICAL GAMES FOR CLASSROOMS
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Marcus Falk (She/They) @attusfalk.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finally, finally(!), I have 100%-ed Fabledom. Extremely fun game, and well-worth it replaying it six times to marry all the princes and princesses.
Achievements box from Steam for the game Fabledom, telling me I've unlocked all 22 achievements for the game. The last achievement is "The bard prince. Marry Ramone, the bard prince", whith a small picture of the titular ramone. Under him are two other achievements, one a picture of a sleezy-looking guy with a heart (the merchant prince), and one a picture of a cartoon pig skull, which is the actually hardest achievement in the game (gain 300 villagers on hardest difficulty).
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