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MCU fan, recovering Star Wars fan, Roman and medieval historian, fanfic writer. All opinions are my own.

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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 1h
University homecoming parade today, a.k.a. prime campaigning opportunity for all of SD's election candidates on all sides. The fact that the university colors are bright red may send some mixed messages, but the Dems got the biggest cheers. Bengs was also here in person shaking hands.
Person waving an American flag, person wearing a blue VOTE flag.
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
sometimes i delete a post because i've grown as a person in those 45 seconds
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Andrew Reeves @andrewsshi.bsky.social · 23h
The issue with "monsters are marginalized people in fantasy clothes" is that it ends up with things like people making orcs more explicitly like people from IRL sub-Saharan Africa. "There's kind of a racist subtext with orcs, so we've fixed it by making them H. Rider Haggard Zulus." Which, um.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 14h
sad again
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I am still vibrating with fury tbh
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm in a horrible mood but the new VisionQuest trailer looks so goooooooood.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
with all due respect to my students. what is wrong with you.
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jam @socialistboat.dad · 01/10/2026
Caffeine doesn't replace lost hours of sleep, it only masks the fatigue signals to your brain so you don't realize how tired you actually are. You still suffer the cognitive and physiological deficits from the sleep deficiency, you just can't tell. Which is good actually and fine I've decided
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Tell me you don't know any historians without telling me that you don't know any historians. We're *always* down for believing that historical actors were incredibly stupid/corrupt/wrong/wicked.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
how is the 2010 Clash of the Titans like noticeably, significantly worse about women than the 1981 Clash. (anyway, guess what we watched in Film today!)
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
oh my god I forgot that in the mid-2000s film critics and scholarship were actively uncomfortable with sexy male actors in sword and sandals movies (or anywhere else). that changed so drastically in the last 20 years.
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
wisn.com
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Man, I have absolutely no memory of Troy beginning like this.
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Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
While recognizing that this is partly a reflection of differences between the UK and US models…I do think it’s kinda instructive to think about how this post would play in the world if the author had transposed “history” and “engineering.”
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
the Tooth of Time is an incredible name for a peak. geological feature, whatever. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_o... (I am reading about mountaineering again.)
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Tooth of Time - Wikipedia
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
why is this town holding Oktoberfest in September
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
okay I'm testing contacts again and yes I have been doing this for the past month and somehow they're just getting worse?
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
*stares at list of actresses I kind of vaguely dislike* gods, maybe I just don't like brunettes. (important to note that I am a brunette.)
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
everything is annoying me
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
was wondering why there were parade noises (also an actual parade) when D-Days (university homecoming) is next week and oh yeah we also have a high school.
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Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you need an emergency serotonin boost may I recommend this perennial fave, a tiny video of some of the GODZILLA MINUS ONE team watching the Academy Award nomination announcements to see if they were going to get one: youtu.be/bZXl3BxX5hQ?...
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GODZILLA MINUS ONE team reacts to their Oscars nomination
YouTube video by Concoct Inc
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
clawed open a different part of my anatomy. you have gotta be kidding me. (this is at least somewhere I can put a bandage, which you'd think would be helping more than it is. I need to buy bigger bandaids.)
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
there's demonic chanting going on outside (it is 1:48 am) so I assume that's the college boys again
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sad again
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
this did not really make me into a life-long gamer (mostly for tech reasons), but it did definitely define me.
King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Put of Voles cite in my legit academic book...didn't cite the fic author either.
Endnote page that includes a fanfiction.net citation for the fic Mount Olympus Movie Night
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
First of two (non-consecutive) days this week I'm up about two hours earlier than I usually am. there's a reason I don't teach 9 am classes, y'all.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
wow two weeks after my package went missing in Massachusetts it has turned up in Wisconsin. (you will note I live in neither MA nor WI but I do live considerably closer to WI than MA.)
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Sorrowscopes @sorrowscopes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Capricorn: One skill that will help this week is hibernation. Seriously. Try to figure out how to turn into a bear.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Well done to the picture editor who captioned this delightful snap of a black pig swimming off the west coast of Greece “swine-dark sea” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Swine-dark sea ... Mediterranean black pigs swim at a beach on the private island of Atokos, in the lonian Sea off the west coast of Greece. The island, which is uninhabited by humans, is owned by a shipping magnate
Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A lot of people are not well right now: physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. This is an excellent time to de-escalate conflicts and to lean into patience. This is true in our personal lives and also (maybe especially) online when it's overwhelmingly strangers crashing into each other.
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Socks the Plushy ✡️ @rainbowsockscat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"Are you proship or antiship" I'm in my 30s
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ʀʏᴀɴ ᴛʜᴏᴍᴀꜱ ʀɪᴅᴅʟᴇ 🇵🇭 🏳️‍🌈 @ryanthomasriddle.com · 18/09/2026
Blue-tie guy: It’s Kryptonite, your holiness. The Pope: No shit. Please place that in a lead container and let Superman know we shall keep it safe from Lex Luthor.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I bought a different brand of hard lemonade than I usually drink much earlier this summer (tbh, before the end of spring semester) and have just now been getting to it this past week and tbh it sucks.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I do laundry when I'm stressed so as you can imagine I do a lot of laundry.
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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!
a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I was down a Wiki rabbit hole and Sir Edmund Hillary's coat of arms is the best thing I've ever seen, THE KIWI WITH THE ICE AXE -- THE EMPEROR PENGUINS --
Coat of arms of Sir Edmund Hillary (description from Wiki)

Crest
A kiwi Azure grasping in the dexter foot an ice axe bendwise Or.
Escutcheon
Azure, a chevron embowed between two chevronels embowed in fess Argent between three prayer wheels bendwise Or.
Supporters
On either side an emperor penguin Proper gorged with a plain collar Or.
Motto
Nothing venture, nothing win
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
there were so many weird little caste systems in Europe, most of which are forgotten. "dishonored professions" in Germany, for instance - de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unehrli...
de.wikipedia.org
Unehrlicher Beruf – Wikipedia
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
new Hunger Games trailer is cut like a horror movie trailer
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
why did the price of gas jump up 25¢ between when I went to work and when I came back. (it is now $4.24 in, and I cannot emphasize this enough, rural South Dakota.)
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
today's movie for Ancient World in Film was 300, a movie that certainly exists.
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Down to the Flood chapter 9 is up! in which Steve's Games begin. archiveofourown.org/works/663509...
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16/09/2026
oh my god this all happened today please sedate me
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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
The one thing I can say is that I’m completely Suetonius pilled now. Tiberius tortured a man with a fish. Caligula declared war on the ocean and made his horse consul. Nero fiddled while Rome burned. They did all of this because they were insane and bad people.
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Octopus/Caveman @octopuscaveman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
People think a post is “successful” if it gets a lot of likes but personally I think a post is successful if it reaches just one person and absolutely ruins their day
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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I think this would work on a regular guy too
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14/09/2026
WILDLY UNDERRATED CHOICE
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why don't people ALPHABETIZE anymore!!!
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bedlamsbard @bedlamsbard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
AA, you and I have very different definitions of 'fandom.'
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