Florida Man, PhD
@casusscribere.bsky.social
Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
An immoveable Parliament is more obnoxious than an immoveable King.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 AM
An immoveable Parliament is more obnoxious than an immoveable King.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
It's not great that I'd be down for an American Cromwell right about now.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 AM
The webpage for our upcoming book has the cover on it now which is enough of a milestone for me to write another post about the book we have coming out soon. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Look guys I’ve spent the last day playing this over and over again. Don’t read the comments first and stick it through to the second verse. It is in fact one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard.
Even a cursory skim through regional histories often reveal just how staggeringly destructive plague and famine have been for millennia. Today we've (nearly) slain two horses of the goddamn apocalypse; this retvrn nostalgia is not just profoundly ahistorical but also staggeringly ungrateful.
it drives me actually insane to have people romanticizing subsistence agriculture as if that's not just playing russian roulette with your family's lives year by year, and that every single one of their ancestors would throttle them for suggesting giving up their email jobs
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Even a cursory skim through regional histories often reveal just how staggeringly destructive plague and famine have been for millennia. Today we've (nearly) slain two horses of the goddamn apocalypse; this retvrn nostalgia is not just profoundly ahistorical but also staggeringly ungrateful.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Clausewitz was deeply emotionally affected by witnessing famine in the Rhineland, describing skeletal figures scrounging for underripe potatoes that were no doubt already ruined by the blight. It is a crowning achievement of our society to have solved this problem that plagued countless generations.
it drives me actually insane to have people romanticizing subsistence agriculture as if that's not just playing russian roulette with your family's lives year by year, and that every single one of their ancestors would throttle them for suggesting giving up their email jobs
November 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Clausewitz was deeply emotionally affected by witnessing famine in the Rhineland, describing skeletal figures scrounging for underripe potatoes that were no doubt already ruined by the blight. It is a crowning achievement of our society to have solved this problem that plagued countless generations.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
They terrorized the fucking Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:10 PM
They terrorized the fucking Girl Scouts
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
It is, & it’s too moderate. For example: only 24 top Nazis were tried at Nuremberg. Everyone involved in horrendous abuses such as those reported in the thread below should be tried, down to the lowliest prison guard. The “Nuremberg defence” – “I was only obeying orders” – must be disallowed.
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It is, & it’s too moderate. For example: only 24 top Nazis were tried at Nuremberg. Everyone involved in horrendous abuses such as those reported in the thread below should be tried, down to the lowliest prison guard. The “Nuremberg defence” – “I was only obeying orders” – must be disallowed.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
All these trend pieces are super interesting - another one today #medievalsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
November 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
All these trend pieces are super interesting - another one today #medievalsky
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/s...
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
This is amazing
This will spark some great papers: an open digital dataset of roads in the Roman Empire
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Google Maps’ for Roman roads reveals vast extent of ancient network
A high-resolution digital map nearly doubles the known length of the ancient road network.
www.nature.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
This is amazing
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
TFR, a terminally online mod for Hoi4,has a path for China where an ai takes over and runs the state that is represented by a cute anime girl.
For as bad as you think the tech dystopia is here in the US, it seems way worse in China
November 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
TFR, a terminally online mod for Hoi4,has a path for China where an ai takes over and runs the state that is represented by a cute anime girl.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Nope. Read this, it’s perfect.
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
anthonymoser.github.io
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Nope. Read this, it’s perfect.
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
“But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”
anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
June 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
we’re about to find out if loving SimCity makes you a better mayor
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
Mamdani was asked in 2002 by NY Mag what he wanted for Christmas and said SimCity 3000
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Young men everywhere joined Liu Bei because they heard of his talent and virtue. And he welcomed them all as equals. ☯️🌈
November 5, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Young men everywhere joined Liu Bei because they heard of his talent and virtue. And he welcomed them all as equals. ☯️🌈
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
opening it up now is to open a portal into a nazi simulacrum where expressing views consistent with those of ronald reagan brings six pedophile shut ins posting your daughters SSN at you. it's a poisonous madness rune. it's like that recording from the event horizon in the warp
Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
opening it up now is to open a portal into a nazi simulacrum where expressing views consistent with those of ronald reagan brings six pedophile shut ins posting your daughters SSN at you. it's a poisonous madness rune. it's like that recording from the event horizon in the warp
Years of therapy lessons summed up in a single thread full of wisdom.
You there. I want you to say, aloud, at some point today "I'm really glad I'm good at..." And then you're gonna say something you think you do pretty well.
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
If you don't think you do anything pretty well, I want you to say "one little thing that makes me unique is..."
And if you can't do either?
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Years of therapy lessons summed up in a single thread full of wisdom.
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?'... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Charles Babbage, inventor of the mechanical computer, 1864
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
Wanna hear a scary story?
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Wanna hear a scary story?
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
The first American vampire was Black.
Seriously.
78 years before Dracula appeared in American literature, there was "The Black Vampyre" by Uriah D'Arcy.
It was written in 1819 as an antislavery critique and the effect the Haitian Revolution had on the States
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
"The framing of LLMs as preserving the lives of those we have lost distracts from the lost livelihoods, and worsened material conditions, of a generation of writers on whose work the technology of LLM feeds—and the loss of innumerable voices and the stories they won’t be able to tell" bit.ly/48Vv1iT
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"The framing of LLMs as preserving the lives of those we have lost distracts from the lost livelihoods, and worsened material conditions, of a generation of writers on whose work the technology of LLM feeds—and the loss of innumerable voices and the stories they won’t be able to tell" bit.ly/48Vv1iT
Reposted by Florida Man, PhD
It's always nice when a physical book copy hits your hands, especially when your work is alongside so many great scholars' contributions.
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
(Given the date, I was tempted to wear my vampire teeth, but that, uh, seemed like a mixed message)
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
(Given the date, I was tempted to wear my vampire teeth, but that, uh, seemed like a mixed message)
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It's always nice when a physical book copy hits your hands, especially when your work is alongside so many great scholars' contributions.
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
(Given the date, I was tempted to wear my vampire teeth, but that, uh, seemed like a mixed message)
www.routledge.com/Contemporary...
(Given the date, I was tempted to wear my vampire teeth, but that, uh, seemed like a mixed message)