Actual Bear
@actualbear.bsky.social
I love my family and friends, coffee, history, science, and games. Living with Lewy Body Disease, the most metal way to die. Please forgive me if I don't follow back, I only follow accounts with mostly or all original content.
Like an Ivan Albright painting come to life
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Like an Ivan Albright painting come to life
Possibly Clutch Cargo. Unsettling to say the least.
November 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Possibly Clutch Cargo. Unsettling to say the least.
To the double-O extreme!
November 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
To the double-O extreme!
The second sketch, by Tom Jung, was the basis for the Hildebrandt brothers’ painting that was ultimately used for the film poster. Greg and Tim were famously given only 36 hours to paint it.
November 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The second sketch, by Tom Jung, was the basis for the Hildebrandt brothers’ painting that was ultimately used for the film poster. Greg and Tim were famously given only 36 hours to paint it.
Photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller taking a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment, April 1945. She wanted to stomp her boots, muddy with the filth of Dachau, over the pristine floor of this fucker. No idea why this image came to mind...
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Photographer and war correspondent Lee Miller taking a bath in Hitler's Munich apartment, April 1945. She wanted to stomp her boots, muddy with the filth of Dachau, over the pristine floor of this fucker. No idea why this image came to mind...
I learned this early, could never figure out why I was called gay when it was the football players who took showers together and put their hands on each other.
October 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I learned this early, could never figure out why I was called gay when it was the football players who took showers together and put their hands on each other.
I fulfilled my dream of seeing Pompeii before this disease takes my body and mind. Life is good.
September 19, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I fulfilled my dream of seeing Pompeii before this disease takes my body and mind. Life is good.
The incomparable Burg Eltz, in the Rhineland Palatinate. An absolute fairy tale:
September 3, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The incomparable Burg Eltz, in the Rhineland Palatinate. An absolute fairy tale:
“Hmm, that’s odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor.”
August 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“Hmm, that’s odd. Usually the blood gets off at the second floor.”
Famous for its giant orange dinosaur. The mini golf place is closed but the dinosaur was saved.
August 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Famous for its giant orange dinosaur. The mini golf place is closed but the dinosaur was saved.
Happy Tanksgibbon Day, pass it on
June 18, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Happy Tanksgibbon Day, pass it on
A recent arrival in a new land kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again
June 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
A recent arrival in a new land kills the first person she meets, then teams up with three strangers to kill again
Trump invites Elon Musk and Musk's inner child to a reconciliatory brownie sundae party at the White House
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trump invites Elon Musk and Musk's inner child to a reconciliatory brownie sundae party at the White House
Donald Trump invites Elon Musk and Musk's inner child to a brownie-sundae-fueled reconciliation at the White House
June 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Donald Trump invites Elon Musk and Musk's inner child to a brownie-sundae-fueled reconciliation at the White House
Milton beheld him on the English throne,
And Bunyan sitting in the Papal chair;
The hermits fought him in their caves alone,
At the first Empire he was also there,
Dangling his Pax Romana in the air:
He comes in dreams at puberty to man,
To scare him back to childhood if he can.
--WH Auden 1936
And Bunyan sitting in the Papal chair;
The hermits fought him in their caves alone,
At the first Empire he was also there,
Dangling his Pax Romana in the air:
He comes in dreams at puberty to man,
To scare him back to childhood if he can.
--WH Auden 1936
May 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Milton beheld him on the English throne,
And Bunyan sitting in the Papal chair;
The hermits fought him in their caves alone,
At the first Empire he was also there,
Dangling his Pax Romana in the air:
He comes in dreams at puberty to man,
To scare him back to childhood if he can.
--WH Auden 1936
And Bunyan sitting in the Papal chair;
The hermits fought him in their caves alone,
At the first Empire he was also there,
Dangling his Pax Romana in the air:
He comes in dreams at puberty to man,
To scare him back to childhood if he can.
--WH Auden 1936
Banker or landlord, booking-clerk or Pope,
Whenever he’s lost faith in choice and thought,
When a man sees the future without hope,
Whenever he endorses Hobbes’ report
‘The life of man is nasty, brutish, short,’
The dragon rises from his garden border
And promises to set up law and order. /2
Whenever he’s lost faith in choice and thought,
When a man sees the future without hope,
Whenever he endorses Hobbes’ report
‘The life of man is nasty, brutish, short,’
The dragon rises from his garden border
And promises to set up law and order. /2
May 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Banker or landlord, booking-clerk or Pope,
Whenever he’s lost faith in choice and thought,
When a man sees the future without hope,
Whenever he endorses Hobbes’ report
‘The life of man is nasty, brutish, short,’
The dragon rises from his garden border
And promises to set up law and order. /2
Whenever he’s lost faith in choice and thought,
When a man sees the future without hope,
Whenever he endorses Hobbes’ report
‘The life of man is nasty, brutish, short,’
The dragon rises from his garden border
And promises to set up law and order. /2
Against the ogre, dragon, what you will;
His many shapes and names all turn us pale,
For he’s immortal, and today he still
Swinges the horror of his scaly tail.
Sometimes he seems to sleep, but will not fail
In every age to rear up to defend
Each dying force of history to the end. /1
His many shapes and names all turn us pale,
For he’s immortal, and today he still
Swinges the horror of his scaly tail.
Sometimes he seems to sleep, but will not fail
In every age to rear up to defend
Each dying force of history to the end. /1
May 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Against the ogre, dragon, what you will;
His many shapes and names all turn us pale,
For he’s immortal, and today he still
Swinges the horror of his scaly tail.
Sometimes he seems to sleep, but will not fail
In every age to rear up to defend
Each dying force of history to the end. /1
His many shapes and names all turn us pale,
For he’s immortal, and today he still
Swinges the horror of his scaly tail.
Sometimes he seems to sleep, but will not fail
In every age to rear up to defend
Each dying force of history to the end. /1