@Tarbosaur
@tarbosaur.bsky.social
Consulting historian of science, the occult, esoterica and obscuranta, pseudoscience, monster studies, Darwiniana, knows who really discovered America. Currently retired.
https://sites.google.com/a/kean.edu/brian-regal-phd/
https://sites.google.com/a/kean.edu/brian-regal-phd/
Driving to the store this morning and Sirius played ELO's Telephone Line. I did the only thing reasonable, I started screaming the lyrics out the window.
"Oh, oh telephone line, give me some time...!"
"Oh, oh telephone line, give me some time...!"
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Driving to the store this morning and Sirius played ELO's Telephone Line. I did the only thing reasonable, I started screaming the lyrics out the window.
"Oh, oh telephone line, give me some time...!"
"Oh, oh telephone line, give me some time...!"
I just found out my house insurance doesn't cover attacks by arch enemies.
November 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I just found out my house insurance doesn't cover attacks by arch enemies.
Watching what I think is one of the all time great war movies: A Walk in the Sun. It has one of the most subtle gut wrenching scenes. The platoon sergeant, a vet who has seen plenty of action, can no longer take it and he breaks down burying his face in the dirt.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Watching what I think is one of the all time great war movies: A Walk in the Sun. It has one of the most subtle gut wrenching scenes. The platoon sergeant, a vet who has seen plenty of action, can no longer take it and he breaks down burying his face in the dirt.
#Veteransday2025 How I misspent my youth.
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#Veteransday2025 How I misspent my youth.
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🚨⚠️ New blog post ⚠️🚨
Unlocking the mysteries of a Magdalen College treasure. Read our latest blog post, written by our lovely volunteer Yanjing, all about our 1665 volume "An Embassy from the East-India Company to the Emperor of China." www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/from-tw...
Unlocking the mysteries of a Magdalen College treasure. Read our latest blog post, written by our lovely volunteer Yanjing, all about our 1665 volume "An Embassy from the East-India Company to the Emperor of China." www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/from-tw...
November 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
🚨⚠️ New blog post ⚠️🚨
Unlocking the mysteries of a Magdalen College treasure. Read our latest blog post, written by our lovely volunteer Yanjing, all about our 1665 volume "An Embassy from the East-India Company to the Emperor of China." www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/from-tw...
Unlocking the mysteries of a Magdalen College treasure. Read our latest blog post, written by our lovely volunteer Yanjing, all about our 1665 volume "An Embassy from the East-India Company to the Emperor of China." www.magd.ox.ac.uk/blog/from-tw...
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Thrilled to see my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social's brilliant first book reviewed in @theatlantic.com.
American Suburbs Have a Financial Secret
Municipal bonds have become an unavoidable part of local governance—and their costs divide rich towns from poor ones.
www.theatlantic.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Thrilled to see my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social's brilliant first book reviewed in @theatlantic.com.
#VETERANSday25 I want to remember my dad Henry who fought the war in Korea on a half track called a 'meat chopper.' He wasn't a loud man like today' so called 'Alpha Males.' But he could kick your ass up one side of the street then down the other and never raise his voice.
November 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
#VETERANSday25 I want to remember my dad Henry who fought the war in Korea on a half track called a 'meat chopper.' He wasn't a loud man like today' so called 'Alpha Males.' But he could kick your ass up one side of the street then down the other and never raise his voice.
Ladies, if there is a man in your life who insists on calling you 'Baby Girl.' Dump him immediately. It's never going to work out.
October 27, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Ladies, if there is a man in your life who insists on calling you 'Baby Girl.' Dump him immediately. It's never going to work out.
"On Earth, two hundred years ago...I, was a prince..."
October 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"On Earth, two hundred years ago...I, was a prince..."
If I had known Thomas Eakins
I would have bought that man a black guitar to play...
I would have bought that man a black guitar to play...
October 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
If I had known Thomas Eakins
I would have bought that man a black guitar to play...
I would have bought that man a black guitar to play...
How 'true' is North?
October 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
How 'true' is North?
1978: I got off the plane in Frankfurt in what used to be West Germany. Europe was so old and I was so young. But I was now an Soldier/Scholar, and that's all that mattered to me. I started writing secretly about my experiences which became 45 years later my autobiography, The Monster of Newark.
October 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
1978: I got off the plane in Frankfurt in what used to be West Germany. Europe was so old and I was so young. But I was now an Soldier/Scholar, and that's all that mattered to me. I started writing secretly about my experiences which became 45 years later my autobiography, The Monster of Newark.
My dad in the 1950s and me in the 1980s served to keep the Commies out. Now @realdonaldtrumppar.bsky.social is just letting them take it. Makes me wonder what it was all for.
October 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
My dad in the 1950s and me in the 1980s served to keep the Commies out. Now @realdonaldtrumppar.bsky.social is just letting them take it. Makes me wonder what it was all for.
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Tomorrow is Indigenous People's Day, I mean #ColumbusDay or something. In honor I'm rerunning this little pram I wrote back in 2021.
www.nj.com/opinion/2021...
www.nj.com/opinion/2021...
How our hero, Columbus, has fallen | Opinion
We seem to need to have heroes, but we’re often not sure what to do with them.
www.nj.com
October 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Tomorrow is Indigenous People's Day, I mean #ColumbusDay or something. In honor I'm rerunning this little pram I wrote back in 2021.
www.nj.com/opinion/2021...
www.nj.com/opinion/2021...
It's almost Indigenous People's Day. I've been on a hundred podcasts, one of my favorites is still @buzzkillprof.bsky.social
professorbuzzkill.com/2024/01/09/a...
professorbuzzkill.com/2024/01/09/a...
America’s Origin Stories and Myths Professor Buzzkill
Dr. Brian Regal joins us to discuss some of the stories and myths about who “discovered” America, and what the continued popularity of those myths tell us
professorbuzzkill.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
It's almost Indigenous People's Day. I've been on a hundred podcasts, one of my favorites is still @buzzkillprof.bsky.social
professorbuzzkill.com/2024/01/09/a...
professorbuzzkill.com/2024/01/09/a...
"Seven days to Bellus! Waste anything but time!"
October 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Seven days to Bellus! Waste anything but time!"
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“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow
Next Monday is Indigenous People's day. So @realDonaldTrump
wants everyone to read my book on who discovered America: Spoiler alert, it wasn't #Columbus
wants everyone to read my book on who discovered America: Spoiler alert, it wasn't #Columbus
October 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Next Monday is Indigenous People's day. So @realDonaldTrump
wants everyone to read my book on who discovered America: Spoiler alert, it wasn't #Columbus
wants everyone to read my book on who discovered America: Spoiler alert, it wasn't #Columbus
When I was a technical illustration student at @risd (Rhode Island School of Design) in the mid 1980s we had an assignment to design a futuristic vehicle--it could not be an automobile. This is what I came up with (Oh, and it's a marker rendering).
October 6, 2025 at 2:20 PM
When I was a technical illustration student at @risd (Rhode Island School of Design) in the mid 1980s we had an assignment to design a futuristic vehicle--it could not be an automobile. This is what I came up with (Oh, and it's a marker rendering).
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I'm so glad that I and a hundred thousand Americans along with British, Dutch, French, and West Germans faced down the commies on the Iron Curtain to keep the Russians from taking over, just to have #Trump hand it all over to Putin without a second thought.
It makes we wonder what it all was for.
It makes we wonder what it all was for.
October 5, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I'm so glad that I and a hundred thousand Americans along with British, Dutch, French, and West Germans faced down the commies on the Iron Curtain to keep the Russians from taking over, just to have #Trump hand it all over to Putin without a second thought.
It makes we wonder what it all was for.
It makes we wonder what it all was for.
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Can't believe this actually needs to be said.
But it does.
But it does.
October 5, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Can't believe this actually needs to be said.
But it does.
But it does.
October 2018: Soylent Green is developed.
October 4, 2025 at 9:00 PM
October 2018: Soylent Green is developed.