Martin Rundkvist

Uni Łódź archaeologist, table-top gamer, book worm, punster, science fan, blogger, Leftie, Swede

#archaeology #ttrpg #boardgames #books #science #blogging #progressive #stockholm #sweden #lodz #poland

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2024-09-27 07:36:47

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@npub13l8…azlm Mad God absolutely blew my mind!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/
#movies

2024-09-20 12:14:41

There are no sacred writings in any genre that deserve your respect. Never read more than 50 pages of any boring book unless you get paid.
#reading #books

2024-09-12 07:34:37

1960s urban legends about immigrants to Sweden didn't have them hunting and eating people's pets. Here they were breaking up the wooden flooring in their rental apartments to grow potatoes, and putting rats on a strange foreign dish they sold, the so-called "pizza".
#immigration #cats #dogs

2024-09-11 19:15:25

#Sailing in strong wind with a little rain is way more fun than sailing in no wind with sunshine.

2024-09-11 18:40:56

As an explanation for why working men vote for fascists, many have pointed out that they can't support a family on their own like their dads did. Now, I'm in a phase of life where I no longer *need* to support anyone or anything beyond my own Assam tea habit. What is the correct response to this at the ballot box?

2024-09-09 15:09:45

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@npub1rje…l738 Praehistorische Zeitschrift, which is basically the German-speaking world's Antiquity.

2024-09-09 14:28:12

I've got a big paper out tomorrow with some highly distinguished co-authors, about one of the most distinguished personages of the Scandy Bronze Age. This one's going to see some *heavy* citation in coming decades, or you can call me Grauballe Man.
#archaeology #academia

2024-09-08 05:27:09

Sometimes you hear a song that instantly takes you back decades, and you think "Man, I really hate that song", and that's the reason that you haven't listened to it since it was a radio hit.
#music

2024-09-07 13:05:38

We are 3 km tall interdimensional frogs who eat the crust of planets. Also coincidentally we're playing the 2020 boardgame Cosmic Frog.
#boardgames #psychedelic
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2024-08-31 05:22:01

The Europa Clipper orbiter is enormous. The reflective surface to the left is one of its solar panels. Note workers bottom right. Image: #NASA / Frank Michaux. #space
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2024-08-30 20:00:29

Here's your periodic reminder that the #Chinese word for sausage means "fragrant intestine".
#language

2024-08-26 15:13:25

#ttrpg #dnd
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2024-08-20 09:55:54

My #marriage is a dialectical force field in equilibrium. My wife tries to cram as much food as possible into cupboards, fridge, freezer. She also avoids looking inside any not obviously attractive food container. I try to empty cupboards, fridge, freezer completely.
#cooking #food

2024-08-20 09:45:28

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@npub10km…x7z0 Danke schön, mein Deutsch ist leider sehr schlecht.

2024-08-19 19:52:05

Driving my youngest child to university on Saturday. #parenting

2024-08-19 19:27:44

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@npub1yrs…7j04 Lantligt värdshus som erbjuder undervisning i Torah och Talmud: yeshiveri.

2024-08-18 18:27:11

Waiting to watch Princess Mononoke in a park with thousands of kids. #movies #anime
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2024-08-16 07:36:23

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@npub1d94…9d22 I'm currently running a 2017 system-agnostic campaign module usung a BRP Magic World edition in Swedish from 1985.
#ttrpg

2024-08-15 17:05:37

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@npub1rye…gnxh Not really, no

2024-08-15 16:54:39

#Watching Miyasaki's "Ponyo". As usual I don't remember how I came to put it on my watchlist. Maybe at the suggestion of my son, the #manga translator.
#anime #movies
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2024-08-11 16:41:58

Potato Hill is the only reliably frost-free land in Ammarnäs.
#farming #sweden
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2024-08-08 14:59:33

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@npub1g32…c74h Broarna i Tärnasjön!

2024-08-08 14:54:33

#hiking #sweden
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2024-08-07 08:41:41

Going up the mountain! #hiking
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2024-08-06 18:58:30

Buses and trains take 15 hours including meals from our house to Vindelfjällen National Park. Driving a car takes 11 hours plus meals and breaks. I've read 1/5 of Chatwin's novel "On the Black Hill" while travelling today.
#trains #books

2024-08-06 17:34:59

Wonder if Saruman the White Wizard is going to show up.
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2024-08-06 07:33:17

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@npub1m4c…6s7u Burbling as he comes!

2024-08-06 07:31:33

Heading north to the Cold Fells of Vindelfjällen National Park, playing Innovation.
#hiking #boardgames #trains
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2024-08-06 06:14:03

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
Antonio Banderas"
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2024-08-05 20:00:42

I would like to give one of those lectures named for an obscure donator. The Malachi Schaufensterpuppe Memorial Lecture.
#academia

2024-08-05 14:00:13

Hey fans of #scifi & #fantasy #audiobooks: the current instalment of the Imaginary Worlds #podcast is full of interesting interviews with narrators.
https://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/episodes/narrating-audiobooks-from-other-worlds

2024-08-05 13:27:04

To do:
* Make improvised chest strap for ancient backpack
* Wax up #hiking jacket
* Proofread journal paper about Bronze Age battle casualty found under lake sediment in Kungsängen
#archaeology

2024-08-05 12:01:05

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@npub1zpw…dk8l Interesting cultural difference there. Annual conferences in European archaeology don't invite anyone.

2024-08-05 11:28:38

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@npub1zpw…dk8l Are they on that same theme every year?

2024-08-05 11:27:59

Going mountain #hiking with two of my best boardgaming friends. Caylus Magna Carta and Innovation are two amazingly compact yet gamerly mid-length #boardgames.
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2024-08-05 10:11:32

Hey natural #science folks! Do you also have these annual conferences where every year has an ostensible theme, but hardly any speakers conform to it, and most just talk about whatever they've been doing lately?
#academia

2024-08-05 07:46:46

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@npub1rqe…qcrd Certainly not. They are something for young punks to look up to and emulate.

2024-08-05 07:42:01

My buddy is at the Rebellion Festival, a #punk rock event in #Blackpool, England. He's seen cops and punks jointly fighting #nazis in the streets.

2024-08-05 06:47:42

I have a major itch to game-master. The last month when my group had our usual three sessions was April, playing Brindlewood Bay. We've since started up Hot Springs Island using the BRP Magic World rules, but it's been slow going with people traveling and having health issues.
#ttrpg

2024-08-04 15:14:30

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@npub1msv…gmrm No idea! Never come into contact with Troika.

2024-08-04 09:05:10

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@npub1sgu…zjjt And you ignore the cathedral in case of too few Acolytes?

2024-08-04 08:00:59

Funny thing about American #fantasy novels and games: the *place names* are often clearly American colonial, even in a pseudo-Medieval European setting. You'll arrive at this village threatened by goblin raiders, and it's named Burton's Freehold. Aha, right. This is a re-skinned Western movie.
#ttrpg #placenames

2024-08-04 06:22:16

I'm a little confused about #Shadowdark's Ennies awards sweep. What does this game offer above and beyond the best dozen of previous #DnD clones from the #OSR's first 20 years? This movement is so old now that it's almost ready for its own OSR meta-Renaissance.
#ttrpg

2024-08-04 05:41:18

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@npub1cy3…ra4a I'm kidding. The organisers actually book me for the programme. I had a slot at WorldCon 2017 that wasn't scheduled against anything much at all, so the room was completely packed!

2024-08-03 20:33:46

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@npub1sgu…zjjt Any strategy tips please?

2024-08-03 19:56:49

Taught Architects of the Western Kingdom to two friends, he beat me by 1 point, she beat us both by 15-16 points. #boardgames

2024-08-03 11:12:21

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@npub1jxc…qug0 Yes, that was how cladistics were invented. By philologogists editing ancient works.

2024-08-03 11:10:42

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@npub1zwu…2wdm Humanistisk bildning är en form av kulturmarxism för SD

2024-08-03 08:27:00

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@npub1x7v…0aqn Confession: I had to google to learn that this is a Stargate reference.

2024-08-03 08:25:35

I am filtering heavily to get rid of messaging about a couple of worthy causes that I support but which I am not interested in reading toots about every day.

2024-08-03 08:23:31

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@npub1fl6…ss9u Now *that's* an idea! 😄

2024-08-03 08:17:36

I like to infiltrate #scifi conventions and spring #archaeology lectures on the unsuspecting participants.

2024-08-03 07:01:03

Photofacsimile is an amazing though under-appreciated technology. It's like after 2600 years of error-prone production of single manuscript copies by slaves and monks, we suddenly got this one monk who never made an error and could just as easily give us 10,000 copies as one.
#history #philology

2024-08-03 05:47:22

#academia
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2024-08-02 18:19:06

Reading about ethnic customs surviving in the US, I'm reminded that I'm a generalized Stockholmer whose ancestors came to the city from all over Sweden around 1900. They married someone from another random part of the country and left no regional identities to their children in my grandma's generation. Except for one thing, that survived until 25 years ago. The family goose dinner on St. Martin's day, brought to Stockholm from Österlen by my paternal grandma's dad.
#family #traditions

2024-08-02 12:48:15

Wiping your behind with a straw hat really ain't much fun. But you know what's worse? Wearing it afterwards.

2024-08-02 09:41:43

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@npub1ujw…z49n It took me hours to get that one. 😄

2024-08-02 06:04:57

The debate over intersex participants in boxing offers a good opportunity to solve a wide range of problems by abolishing boxing.

2024-08-01 20:33:17

I recently had a small anniversary: my first academic journal paper is 30 years old. It's currently my seventh-most cited piece of work! Deals with Bronze Age burnt mounds.
https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1226028/FULLTEXT01.pdf
#archaeology

2024-08-01 19:10:57

I have computed the alcohol percentage of Sneaky Pete, a cocktail consisting of rye whiskey, coffee liqueur, cream and milk. It's about 14%. I did this because of a proofing error in the Avram Davidson Treasury, where someone was drinking "sneaky pet".
#drinks #cocktails

2024-08-01 18:07:54

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@npub17d6…evz4 No, they use damaging cleaning methods and mispaint the carvings. But local historical societies do clear brush from around runestones, and that's useful.

2024-08-01 18:05:59

Most writers have fewer and fewer readers per decade after they die, disregarding faculty and students at universities. Consequently entire centuries of literature eventually recede into oblivion. I don't think anybody even back in the 1980s read Swedish 18th century fiction for fun anymore. Wonder when the 19th century will reach this point as well.
#books #reading

2024-08-01 16:59:56

Swedes are often super annoyed that their local runestone is not being kept free from moss with the carving neatly painted in. But they can't explain why their runestone is more important than the thousands of other ones we've got, nor why the care and accessibility of runestones in particular is more important than that of the hundred other categories of registered ancient monument.
#archaeology #runes

2024-08-01 16:27:33

Hey #Russian speakers, is it true that smaravatchnik means "one who, for immoral purposes, pretends to be a chimney sweep"?
#language

2024-08-01 12:54:07

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@npub1rqe…qcrd How is this better than listening to them on your phone?

2024-08-01 12:19:07

I've published two papers in a Springer journal this year. Now they email me "Tips for getting your manuscript published"!
#academia #journals

2024-08-01 12:16:32

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@npub1rqe…qcrd Because you have many mp3s and don't want to pay for a streaming service?

2024-08-01 11:38:33

My short-lived #music technologies:
* I bought a portable MiniDisc player and a combined bench-model CD and MD player.
* I bought an iPod and a Firewire connector card for my tower PC.

2024-08-01 11:27:24

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@npub1tkt…6g6q Me too until now!

2024-08-01 11:02:15

My wife compared me to a gondoleer. Here are Giovanni Capurro's 1898 #lyrics to "O sole mio" in the original Italian and English translation.
But another sun
More beautiful, oh, girl!
My sun, is on your face!
The sun, my sun,
Is on your face,
Is on your face.
https://www.saberitaliano.com.ar/songs/48.html
#music

2024-08-01 09:13:00

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@npub1kuq…6zhe You're in good company with Oliver Wendell Holmes.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/03/31/turpentine-prevails/

2024-08-01 07:09:39

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@npub1y5s…8htj Build it and they will come! Quietly, discreetly, then being reassigned by the bishop to another parish.

2024-08-01 05:53:30

"Kamikaze drone" and "suicide drone" are silly terms since we've never called guided missiles "kamikaze missiles". But "loitering munitions" is just a great term for something extremely nasty!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
#language #peace

2024-08-01 05:31:19

July Pieces Of My Mind #3
https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/08/01/july-pieces-of-my-mind-3-9/
#blogging
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2024-07-31 13:44:02

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@npub1erp…6rah Nobody had heard of the Swedish custom either before today. So I'm guessing Denmark has these burials too.

2024-07-31 13:39:18

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@npub1erp…6rah Can't tell with current data, someone has to trawl through more excavation reports.

2024-07-31 13:36:52

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@npub1x3f…ahtg Not allowed to bury plague dead in churchyard, ancient monuments were known to contain burials.

2024-07-31 11:22:37

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@npub1g32…c74h Det finns värre. Docenter!!!

2024-07-31 06:22:31

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2024-07-31 05:40:58

Before #COVID, I wasn't aware of vaccines that reduce the severity of an illness but don't make infection impossible or even very rare. Apparently this has been known for flu vaccines for ages. I thought that just meant that you hadn't been vaccinated against exactly the right flu strain.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
#vaccination #health

2024-07-31 05:33:37

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@npub1te4…tex4 Krya på dig! Hoppas du har bra vaccinskydd mot covid.

2024-07-30 20:14:34

Haroun al-Rashid: Aaron the Righteous. You learn these things from reading Avram Davidson. ♥️
#language #history

2024-07-30 17:38:35

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@npub132s…p2wl
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2024-07-30 16:13:23

Could somebody please record a cover of Ultravox's 1980 song "Vienna", but with lyrics about the 11th century Muslim sage Avicenna?
#music #1980s

2024-07-30 15:19:07

I want an #archaeology where a lot of things are allowed to mean nothing.

2024-07-30 09:58:40

They're should be more stories about people who get really sick, and the doctors can't help them, so they go to a traditional healer, and they can't do anything either, so the patient just dies or ends up permanently insane.

2024-07-30 07:36:43

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@npub1xyf…5ww5 They should be sentenced to community service and D&D.

2024-07-30 07:20:23

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@npub1xyf…5ww5 Sounds like families that can afford a car and the fees for youth activities.

2024-07-30 06:15:24

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Never mind bookishness and the aptitude for reading the Dungeon Master's Guide. A lot of young people simply don't have anywhere they could play D&D even if they wanted to. When I was 13 and started to find TV with my parents annoying, I didn't have to leave the house. I just closed the door to my spacious room. I had my own couch!
The kids who live in big houses and have rooms of their own and *still* do sports, though, they're fucking incomprehensible. 😁 2/2

2024-07-30 06:14:43

I'm bookish, never been interested in sports. When there's talk about laying out new football fields to give the youth something to do, I've always said "They should be playing D&D, not sportsball". And I've only been half joking. But recently I've realised something that should probably have been clear to me long ago. 1/2
#ttrpg #dnd #nerd

2024-07-29 20:57:12

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@npub1ewc…2j9a Thank Azathoth for my gaming group!

2024-07-29 20:32:03

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@npub147a…zglh You will forget about all the really annoying bits and miss your toddlers for the rest of your days.

2024-07-29 20:20:43

Parenthood really is the strangest thing if like most couples around me you only have a few kids. You accept this big, intricate, time-consuming, vastly important, extremely rewarding, life-changing task. It becomes a huge part of what you do. And then one day, a quarter century later, you've accomplished it. The kids are working or at college. And you're still almost 20 years from retirement. Now what?!
#parenting

2024-07-29 13:37:19

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@npub1h55…jfjp These same high schoolers invariably also believe that Earl Grey is unflavoured #tea.

2024-07-29 13:23:56

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@npub1rye…gnxh He's proud now, though he still worries about how this son will support himself financially. (-;

2024-07-29 12:56:12

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@npub1rye…gnxh There is no Eignungsprüfung for wannabe parents. (Actually, there used to be in 1930s Sweden, known to posterity as forced sterilisation...)

2024-07-29 12:53:40

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@npub1h55…jfjp Very common in Swedish cafés staffed with high schoolers. Can I offer you a "fresh" sandwich? (-;

2024-07-29 11:57:31

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@npub1h55…jfjp For extra tort'ure, have them use accent`s instead of apostrophe`s.

2024-07-29 11:49:43

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@npub1rye…gnxh It's interesting to learn though that a psychopath can get PTSD. It's like "I lack the ability to emphathise with *others*, but man did *my own feelings* get messed up by that tour of duty!"

2024-07-29 11:32:12

Anybody else got a relative who gives extremely detailed practical instructions because ossified routine is how they get things done in their old age? And who cannot see that either a) the details of how you do this thing don't matter in practice, or b) their version is an accommodation to being physically frail?