@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/
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The corporal says to him quietly, "Keep crying, Porter. You're crying because you're wounded. You don't have to be bleeding to be wounded; you just had one battle too many."
Few, even modern films have done this as good.
Few, even modern films have done this as good.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The corporal says to him quietly, "Keep crying, Porter. You're crying because you're wounded. You don't have to be bleeding to be wounded; you just had one battle too many."
Few, even modern films have done this as good.
Few, even modern films have done this as good.
#Veteransday2025 How I misspent my youth.
November 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
#Veteransday2025 How I misspent my youth.
#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.
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.
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).
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.
In the living room/Wunderkammer eating homemade #sundayroast of Meatloaf, mash, green beans and high alcohol beer. I hear a noise and looked out into the alchemical garden and saw a bunny rabbit chowing down on Wormwood. I wonder what hallucinations she'll have.
I wish @docbotz was here.
I wish @docbotz was here.
September 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
In the living room/Wunderkammer eating homemade #sundayroast of Meatloaf, mash, green beans and high alcohol beer. I hear a noise and looked out into the alchemical garden and saw a bunny rabbit chowing down on Wormwood. I wonder what hallucinations she'll have.
I wish @docbotz was here.
I wish @docbotz was here.
In 2001 in Berlin for a history of science fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science I rode the Berlin U-Bahn by myself so I could sing Iggy Pop's 'Passenger' all night long.
"I am the Passenger, I ride and I ride and I ride and ride..."
"I am the Passenger, I ride and I ride and I ride and ride..."
September 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
In 2001 in Berlin for a history of science fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science I rode the Berlin U-Bahn by myself so I could sing Iggy Pop's 'Passenger' all night long.
"I am the Passenger, I ride and I ride and I ride and ride..."
"I am the Passenger, I ride and I ride and I ride and ride..."
Too young for Vietnam, too old for the Gulf. What did those who served in the 70s and 80s do? Not much, we just kept World War Three from happening. We kept the Russians from taking over, you know those guys @Realdonaldtrump loves.
September 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Too young for Vietnam, too old for the Gulf. What did those who served in the 70s and 80s do? Not much, we just kept World War Three from happening. We kept the Russians from taking over, you know those guys @Realdonaldtrump loves.
This week in 1978 I was about to graduate from Tank School at Ft. Knox. We received our orders for our first duty stations. I was headed to West Germany and the First Armored division to patrol the Iron Curtain.
I was off to see the world on Uncle Sam's dime. I was never so happy.
I was off to see the world on Uncle Sam's dime. I was never so happy.
September 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
This week in 1978 I was about to graduate from Tank School at Ft. Knox. We received our orders for our first duty stations. I was headed to West Germany and the First Armored division to patrol the Iron Curtain.
I was off to see the world on Uncle Sam's dime. I was never so happy.
I was off to see the world on Uncle Sam's dime. I was never so happy.
One of the greatest literary anecdotes in history.
When JRR Tolkien began reading Lord of the Rings to his Inkling friends at the Eagle and Child in Oxford, Hugo Dyson reportedly rolled his eyes and exclaimed, "Oh no, not more F---ing elves!
When JRR Tolkien began reading Lord of the Rings to his Inkling friends at the Eagle and Child in Oxford, Hugo Dyson reportedly rolled his eyes and exclaimed, "Oh no, not more F---ing elves!
September 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
One of the greatest literary anecdotes in history.
When JRR Tolkien began reading Lord of the Rings to his Inkling friends at the Eagle and Child in Oxford, Hugo Dyson reportedly rolled his eyes and exclaimed, "Oh no, not more F---ing elves!
When JRR Tolkien began reading Lord of the Rings to his Inkling friends at the Eagle and Child in Oxford, Hugo Dyson reportedly rolled his eyes and exclaimed, "Oh no, not more F---ing elves!
May 1, 1898: the battle of Manila Bay, Commodore George Dewey calls out to the Captain of the USS Olympia, "You may fire when ready, Gridley!" With that single command the US became the world's first Super Power.
September 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
May 1, 1898: the battle of Manila Bay, Commodore George Dewey calls out to the Captain of the USS Olympia, "You may fire when ready, Gridley!" With that single command the US became the world's first Super Power.
At 19yo I could stand in the commander's cupola of my tank for a two week field mission and not even notice. At 65yo I just spent five minutes sweeping the floor and my back is in excruciating pain. I'm downing a bottle of Bayer Back and Body extra strength pills.
Getting old is the worst.
Getting old is the worst.
August 28, 2025 at 3:28 PM
At 19yo I could stand in the commander's cupola of my tank for a two week field mission and not even notice. At 65yo I just spent five minutes sweeping the floor and my back is in excruciating pain. I'm downing a bottle of Bayer Back and Body extra strength pills.
Getting old is the worst.
Getting old is the worst.
It's now four years since @docbotz passed. To me, it seems like only yesterday.
"I met Lisa when she was employed
at the Route 22 Bob's Big Boy
I remember Lisa up on Snake Mountain hill
With those big brown eyes
that made my heart stand still..."
"I met Lisa when she was employed
at the Route 22 Bob's Big Boy
I remember Lisa up on Snake Mountain hill
With those big brown eyes
that made my heart stand still..."
August 24, 2025 at 8:59 PM
It's now four years since @docbotz passed. To me, it seems like only yesterday.
"I met Lisa when she was employed
at the Route 22 Bob's Big Boy
I remember Lisa up on Snake Mountain hill
With those big brown eyes
that made my heart stand still..."
"I met Lisa when she was employed
at the Route 22 Bob's Big Boy
I remember Lisa up on Snake Mountain hill
With those big brown eyes
that made my heart stand still..."
This month in 1848 the British Frigate HMS Daedalus on a home bound course in the Mediterranean has what will become the most famous Sea Monster sighting of the 19thC. Some argue it inspired Jules Verne. That inspiration however, was from the French Corvette Alecton in 1861.
August 22, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This month in 1848 the British Frigate HMS Daedalus on a home bound course in the Mediterranean has what will become the most famous Sea Monster sighting of the 19thC. Some argue it inspired Jules Verne. That inspiration however, was from the French Corvette Alecton in 1861.
Coming home from the pizzeria the radio played "I'll Stop the World." I was instantly transported to the 1980s and my days as a tank commander. My stoner loader had attached a car stereo to the radio of the tank so we could listen to the local rock station.
August 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Coming home from the pizzeria the radio played "I'll Stop the World." I was instantly transported to the 1980s and my days as a tank commander. My stoner loader had attached a car stereo to the radio of the tank so we could listen to the local rock station.
In the original Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston and his crew land on the planet (which turns out to be Earth) on Thanksgiving day 3978.
August 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
In the original Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston and his crew land on the planet (which turns out to be Earth) on Thanksgiving day 3978.
Cryptozoologists never seem to engage with history. They don't seem to be familiar with the incident during the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941 where the crew of an M3 Lee medium tank encountered a Bigfoot-like creature on the edge of the Bayou.
Unfortunately, they machine gunned it to pieces.
Unfortunately, they machine gunned it to pieces.
August 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Cryptozoologists never seem to engage with history. They don't seem to be familiar with the incident during the Louisiana Maneuvers of 1941 where the crew of an M3 Lee medium tank encountered a Bigfoot-like creature on the edge of the Bayou.
Unfortunately, they machine gunned it to pieces.
Unfortunately, they machine gunned it to pieces.
Just found this photo on my computer from 2018. @docbotz's favorite seat in the Bodleian Library. @bodleianlibs
August 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Just found this photo on my computer from 2018. @docbotz's favorite seat in the Bodleian Library. @bodleianlibs
The Nazis had the most advanced weapons the world had ever seen, designed by some of the smartest engineers on the planet. The Allies had stuff that looked like it had been designed by Willey E. Coyote. Spoiler: The Allies won. So, why did the Nazis loose?
Because they were Nazis.
Because they were Nazis.
July 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
The Nazis had the most advanced weapons the world had ever seen, designed by some of the smartest engineers on the planet. The Allies had stuff that looked like it had been designed by Willey E. Coyote. Spoiler: The Allies won. So, why did the Nazis loose?
Because they were Nazis.
Because they were Nazis.
We didn't know how good we had it in the early 1970s. I loved Libby Land TV dinners. If I had been a good boy all week I'd get one on Saturday night to eat while watching Emergency! The box folded out into a tray.
I mean there was the threat of nuclear annihilation and all, but whatever...
I mean there was the threat of nuclear annihilation and all, but whatever...
July 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We didn't know how good we had it in the early 1970s. I loved Libby Land TV dinners. If I had been a good boy all week I'd get one on Saturday night to eat while watching Emergency! The box folded out into a tray.
I mean there was the threat of nuclear annihilation and all, but whatever...
I mean there was the threat of nuclear annihilation and all, but whatever...
I like to run out this little pram every once in a while.
July 28, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I like to run out this little pram every once in a while.
Thinking about my parents for some reason today. Here they are on the town in NYC 1954.
They held together
when the times grew thin
and the boy looked like her
and the girl looked like him...
They held together
when the times grew thin
and the boy looked like her
and the girl looked like him...
July 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thinking about my parents for some reason today. Here they are on the town in NYC 1954.
They held together
when the times grew thin
and the boy looked like her
and the girl looked like him...
They held together
when the times grew thin
and the boy looked like her
and the girl looked like him...