Boardgames, fancy comic books, history. He/Him.
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Jun 8
I was looking for academic work on personal names and stumbled across what seems to be an amateur genealogy society called GOONS: The Guild of One-Name Studies. They also seem to be vaguely Masonic for some reason and yet, bafflingly, do not appear to be Mormons?
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Jun 8
These guys seem like they could work equally well in a Pynchon novel or The Venture Bros.
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Chinese Communist Party members in Yan'an celebrate the Normandy landings. Two actors play Hitler and Goebbels as they learn about the invasion. June 1944.
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Apr 27
The National Library of Finland has digitized many Finnish and Swedish antique tabletop games from 1810-1950s. The games range from ones where players traveled europe to those set in contemporary World Wars or even the Finnish Civil War.
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This is gotta be the most insane monster i have for a fan made tokusatsu.
The short is called Bukyo Sentai Buddhaman and their enemies are Christian who sent out Jehovah witnesses to convert people to Christianity.
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Apr 10
Japanese fire chief disciplined for forcing subordinates to play board games he invented while on the clock. Subordinates also discipline for playing board games on the clock…
自作ボードゲーム10種超 参加強要の消防士長を懲戒処分 愛知
mainichi.jp/articles/2026041…
ボードゲームは10種類以上あり、消防士長が白紙に文字を書くなどして全て自作していました。参加は最も多い職員で14回、延べ35時間。金銭のやり取りはなかったとしています。
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Apr 6
I just encountered a really funny 1950s bibliography. The trio of subject, title, and publisher in each case is superb.
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Apr 5
In light of that post about Reid Miles not actually being interested in Jazz despite doing so many album covers for Blue Note, it's funny to consider how Moody Photo Bauhausy Text became "what jazz looks like" for people all over the world.
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Mar 15
One of my favorite systems in any board game. It's up there with the literal Race Card from 1960: The Making of the President in terms of incentivizing you to act like a (historically accurate) total psychopath.
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this never stops blowing my mind
"How do you determine word order in your language? Topic? Focus? Definiteness?"
"No, it's based on HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE."
Jan 30
Dine mogging everyone with noun hierarchy.
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heatmap of bayou placenames in the US looks like the Jumpman logo. Food for thought
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11 Dec 2025
How quarry workers in Port Maddock, North Wales, travelled home after their long shifts, 1935
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29 Oct 2025
One of the more obscure traditions in al-Kāfī is this tradition which the sixth Shīʿī Imām reportedly claims that God sent Jupiter to the Earth in the form of a man. He taught an Arab man astrology but he couldn't realize his teacher was Jupiter. He then taught an Indian 1/2
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25 Oct 2025
I love this photo so much
24 Oct 2025
Does anyone have more of this genre of image of old and new cultures colliding
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15 Sep 2025
One of my favorite bits in The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain going full incel after the world-famous art hoes of Paris fail to live up to his expectations.
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15 Sep 2025
Sun-Maid's branding is so insanely communist-coded that I'm amazed they kept it all through the Cold War. It looks like a poster exhorting collective farm workers in the People's Republic of Fresno to, "Meet and Exceed Raisin Quotas in Order to Fulfill the Five Year Plan"
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9 Sep 2025
This is an incredible biography. The guy almost certainly had Body Integrity Dysphoria. Imagine serving in WW2, working in military intelligence, writing a history of cricket, and the whole time, for reasons you can't possibly understand, you want to cut off one of your own legs.
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9 Sep 2025
The whole story is just... wow. This is one of the most British men to have ever lived.
theguardian.com/sport/2017/j…
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9 Sep 2025
Oh my god, a stiff-lipped British military man who is fundamentally uninterested in *anything* except for the history of cricket is such a good bit.
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