Martin Rundkvist

Archaeologist, table-top gamer, book worm, punster, science fan, blogger, Leftie, LGBTQ ally, Swede

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

Blog: https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/
Bookwyrm: https://bookwyrm.social/user/mrundkvist
Academia.edu: https://dot.academia.edu/MartinRundkvist
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=OqsOf74AAAAJ

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2025-05-03 06:04:48

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"From station to station
Back to Düsseldorf City
Meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie"

2025-05-01 09:05:17

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När kom den fram?

2025-04-28 11:46:46

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Javisst ja, undskyld!

2025-04-16 10:15:43

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Aha, du menar medlemskvantitet, inte kvalitet. Fattar.

2025-04-10 08:13:36

I just learned the French word proxénétisme. It means "pimping, procurement of prostitutes", and is something one of the Polish Fascist presidential candidate's buddies is being tried for.
#language #poland #polska

2025-04-10 08:01:35

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Um... Have you noticed who just became the president of the United States?

2025-04-10 08:00:56

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Kunskapslyftet 👍

2025-04-10 07:32:20

Oh wow, China Miéville is a guest on the new instalment of the Grognard Files podcast!
https://thegrognardfiles.com/2025/04/10/more-magic-in-rpgs-with-china-mieville/
#ttrpg #scifi #fantasy #podcast

2025-04-10 07:27:46

Gilet de sauvetage sous votre siège. It just feels good to say it.

2025-04-10 06:47:58

Le Monde reports from a Ukrainian drone operations centre. For 200 years, war has entailed intense technical development. "'We help each other to kill better and better,' laughs Anton Serbin, referring to the Russians."
This place has newly delivered drones, captured Russian drones, an assembly workshop and a tactical operations room. The drone you are driving was soldered together next door.
https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2025/04/09/a-chostka-dans-le-nord-de-l-ukraine-les-innovations-des-dronistes-aident-l-armee-a-tenir_6593200_3210.html
#ukraine

2025-04-08 06:35:04

Though Sw. förort is a direct translation of Eng. suburb, the two words have very different connotations. In Swedish, the suburbs are where poor people live, in English it's the other way around. I wonder how we got rid of inner-city slumification in Sweden, and how we've kept it from returning.
#language

2025-04-06 08:45:26

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You have nothing left to prove there, Doc.

2025-04-06 08:09:28

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Explain that it's your strict parental duty to help him become a competent autonomous adult.

2025-04-04 07:02:26

Has anybody made a timeline of which year #Tolkien 's countless fictional characters are first mentioned in writing?

2025-04-04 05:52:35

#Goodmorning from Fisksätra! I'm taking the day off: visit the Museum of Modern Art with my wife and mom to look at my ex-brother-in-law's paintings, eat cake, go to a gig with the Swedish AC/DC soundalikes Bullet and Ström. What are you up to?

2025-03-31 19:49:20

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And maybe not buy any real estate below 3 metres above sea level, or to which the road passes below that elevation.

2025-03-30 06:31:56

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What kind of museum?

2025-03-28 18:18:35

Lärde mig att ordet "långtradare" är mycket äldre än lastbilen och betydde "sjöman som seglar på interkontinentala rutter".

2025-03-28 18:17:24

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Du har rätt, jag skall bli manipulativ sexsektledare och tappa min moraliska kompass helt! 😁

2025-03-28 17:57:55

I've raised two children and achieved chaired professor qualification. But honestly, I feel like I'm still in school, I've finished all my assignments, and I'm waiting for the teacher to tell me what to do next. Only there is no teacher. And there is no school.
#academia #career #humanities

2025-03-28 17:50:57

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I'll grant #McD one thing. The only plastic items I find are the containers for McNuggets sauce.
#environment

2025-03-28 17:22:00

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Idig. Jfr "dagens id", "ideligen".

2025-03-28 14:49:00

The scenic road I cycle into town is popular with youth who bring McD takeaway and throw the trash out along the roadside. I keep picking it up. But also, people on their way to the recycling center drive this way and drop large objects from thoughtlessly loaded trailers.
It's hard for me to cycle with an old floor board under one arm. So driving home from the garden centre with soil and manure today, I collected two boards and took them to #recycling.
#environment #cycling
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2025-03-05 18:47:24

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Someone pointed out that it wouldn't be a great idea to bring mammoths back now that there is no mammoth habitat anywhere on the planet.
@npub19p4…8fp9

2025-01-28 07:52:55

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Not with wool or synthetic fibres.

2025-01-21 08:22:40

Getting into Boney M. Shockingly good German 70s #funk & #disco. Every song has this really meticulous production and engineering. It has no authenticity whatsoever and it's great!
#music

2025-01-21 07:08:45

#Goodmorning from Fisksätra. It's 2 Celsius, dark and drizzling here. I'm giving an interview today to a PhD student from a Turkish university. He's looking at how archaeological knowledge is communicated to the public through digital platforms. I've been doing that for a bit less than 30 years now. What are you up to?
#scicomm #archaeology

2024-11-19 20:11:56

This is amazing from a Swedish perspective. After grad students formed a #labour #union at Boston #University (privately owned, est. 1839) and striked for seven months, BU has now discontinued the PhD programmes in a dozen humanities and social sciences. Including my subject, #archaeology. The two Deans in charge "referenced the new collective bargaining agreement multiple times as the source of what they called 'budgetary implications'."
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/admissions/graduate/2024/11/19/bu-suspends-admissions-humanities-other-phd-programs
#academia #boston

2024-11-17 17:47:28

I ordered a book from a US used-book store via #AbeBooks, paid for it and received nothing. The seller says they sent it and refuses to offer any compensation. AbeBooks offers no way to file a complaint or even grade the seller. What do I do now?
#books

2024-11-11 20:55:14

My dad and his wife, 81 and 76, have managed to get two separate subscriptions to Microsoft 365. She just renewed hers. His will lapse two weeks from now. At the moment she can't offer him the family share option, because he already has a subscription. *sigh*

2024-11-05 14:33:48

Here's a fun detail from the Kyndby grave II sword pommel. Both beasts have a beak and a jaw angle. But one's beak is bent up, the other's down relative to the jaw angle. It's probably because the artist wants them both to be bent down relative to the ground. C. AD 700.
#archaeology #art
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2024-11-05 09:54:53

Love Addison's 1711 vignette "The Trunk-maker At The Play". So funny, like something out of Pratchett!
http://archive.twoaspirinsandacomedy.com/spectator/spectator.php?line=235
#books #humour #history #theatre

2024-11-05 09:34:24

OK, I'll come clean. I'm an infiltrator at #scifi conventions. I give talks there on unrelated topics, I try to lure people into the #boardgames room, I mostly don't read genre literature, what I do read is 30 years old, I don't watch any TV series, I have no idea who the guests of honour are.

2024-11-05 09:20:37

What Kind Of Genre Reader Am I?
https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/what-kind-of-genre-reader-am-i/
#books #fantasy #scifi

2024-10-26 19:44:54

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Which version of the rule book have they translated?

2024-10-18 15:02:10

Our daughter reports that when you're at engineering school in Lund, they invite you to a big recruitment event where prospective employers court you -- during the first semester.
There doesn't seem to be anything similar for students on the #archaeology programme. How odd...
#jobs #humanities

2024-10-11 10:01:07

"Irvine and Mallory were last seen on June 8, 1924, while attempting to become the first people to reach the top of the world’s highest peak. The question of whether they had summited has endured as the greatest climbing mystery of all time."
This demonstrates that no #climbing mysteries whatsoever are great.

2024-10-03 18:00:42

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Isn't SLS more than anything a national resource redistribution and job creation programme, and a successful one at that?

2024-10-01 18:33:11

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I have no idea what this was before they discontinued it.

2024-09-28 08:46:20

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Yeah, it would be super difficult to collect data on what is being *played*. But you suggest that people are rating these talked-about games highly on the web sites?
#ttrpg

2024-09-28 07:40:13

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This is not data on what people thought during these decades. It's data on what people today think about games published in the past. Also of course there is no information about how representative the users of the two web sites are of gamers in general.
#ttrpg

2024-09-14 16:06:18

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You mean you expected a steady job for a mid-career researcher?

2024-09-14 16:04:46

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Ow, get well soon!

2024-09-13 11:38:53

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The rise of a Right-wing Populist party has led to a lot of pretty odd coalitions in Swedish local politics. Our Tories and Labour have discovered repeatedly that it is easier for them to run a muncipality together with their ancestral arch enemy than with confused, inexperienced, poorly educated, aggressive and anti-establisment R.W. Pop. representatives.
#svpol

2024-09-13 11:07:53

The chairman of the Committee on Justice in the Swedish parliament is suspected of two cases of incitement of hatred against an ethnic group.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/jomshof-sd-kliver-at-sidan
#svpol

2024-09-13 09:51:24

Casanova's autobiography: the girls in the Paris Opera's dancing troupe around 1750 received no pay. It was assumed that they would find wealthy lovers to support them. Part of the job for actresses, singers and dancers at this time was to also be courtesans catering to rich men in the audience. These men had access to dressing rooms and green rooms during intermission.
#history #prostitution #opera #theatre

2024-09-11 14:13:27

I receive advertising for an Imagine Dragons tour. I say to myself, "No, let's not imagine that".

2024-09-11 14:06:12

Working on a paper about Stockholm's earliest suburbs, I learn a neat old surveyor's trick. When surveying islands and shorelines, wait until winter when the water freezes over. Then you can have stationary surveying stations on the ice with unobstructed sightlines between them.
(This is no doubt taught in Land Surveying 101 at technical colleges to this day.)
#mapping #maps

2024-09-08 08:55:30

September #roses. This one is named Yellow Submarine.
#gardening #stockholm
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2024-09-07 19:25:47

Most boardgamers play to win. Halfway through a game though, I often find myself with a completely different main aim: to not place last. This demands a drastically different strategy in most games. #boardgames

2024-09-05 14:54:37

September swim #stockholm #swimming
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2024-09-04 14:25:11

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Mastodon has about 10 million users right now, Bluesky has about 6.
https://mastodon-analytics.com/
https://www.namepepper.com/bluesky-statistics
I find Mastodon easy and fun. I'm following a few hundred active users.
@npub1h76…yfv8

2024-09-04 07:31:31

English people use the verb "prepare" in a funny way, as a synonym of "make".
#language #english

2024-08-23 08:04:31

The World Wide Web is over 30 years old. And still you come across web sites where "www.website.com" works, but "website.com" gives an error message.
#www

2024-08-22 08:01:02

These guys are into #birding. Photo by Anders Arnell.
https://mstdn.archaeo.social/media_attachments/files/113/004/619/819/972/088/original/139ca9b276ec49f4.jpg

2024-08-22 07:57:54

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My buddy's (grownup) neighbours used to make such a racket with the bedroom window open that he eventually recorded them and used them as vocals for a techno tune.

2024-08-22 07:34:58

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Admittedly, the level of discreetness varies. A buddy of mine had to endure two years of her son's highschool girlfriend's full-throated roars.

2024-08-22 07:25:19

Hey Americans, did you know that Lovers' Lanes are almost unknown in Scandyland? In mainstream Swedish society, highschoolers have sex discreetly in their sweethearts' bedrooms after saying goodnight to the parents.
#sex #parenting

2024-08-21 05:40:29

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This must be familiar to anyone who has taken #Documentary #Filmmaking 101. But "Secrets of Blackmoor" really illustrates the problem of when you have hours of good interviews but only 15 minutes of relevant visuals. This film could have been a short plus a podcast series.
#movies #ttrpg

2024-08-20 20:39:11

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One breakthrough moment that impressed me: David Wesely has gathered a bunch of players for the first Braunstein and is acting as referee. He is in a small separate room and players come in to interchange information with him. He believes that he owns the game state. But the players start talking to each other out in the other room, coming in to inform him about what they have done without him.
#ttrpg

2024-08-20 20:35:32

#Movie: Secrets of Blackmoor -- the True History of Dungeons & Dragons (2019). Oral history of the new play styles that David Wesely's and Dave Arneson's circle of wargamers developed in the ten years before #DnD was published. Excellent interview material, mostly rather pointless visuals, annoyingly over-ominous and over-romantic score that clashes with what people are saying. Grade: good!
#movies #ttrpg

2024-08-15 18:28:26

#Movie: Ponyo (2008). Sort of The Little Mermaid in Japanese with psychedelic Miyazaki imagery and improvised plotting. Grade: OK.
#anime

2024-08-15 17:05:37

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Not really, no

2024-08-15 16:51:18

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My wife has recently started a big embroidery project?

2024-08-15 16:35:01

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So my gaming group does not need to get some metal table assembly kits?

2024-08-05 11:28:38

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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.
https://mstdn.archaeo.social/media_attachments/files/112/909/173/831/065/762/original/3e93d9c0b24f6b57.jpg

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

2024-07-29 07:07:44

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If only the *customers* could be replaced with AI

2024-07-29 06:26:55

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I'm glad you are also living under circumstances where you don't need to fight to get *out* of your situation!

2024-07-27 06:41:04

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And apparently she had binoculars!

2024-07-27 06:08:37

Just saw an elk swim 300 m from one island to another.

2024-07-14 07:49:15

#Facebook seems to have discovered that I am fond of generously built women. It is acting on this information by trying to sell me *clothes for generously built women*. That's not how that works for most men, Zuckerberg.
#ads

2024-07-10 21:04:44

My youngest child is nervous about whether she'll be admitted to the engineering & management programme she's applied to. Admissions are announced tomorrow.
#parenting

2024-07-10 12:15:10

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Yes, that was the first LLM application I tried. I'm thinking of the opposite now.

2024-07-10 10:35:26

I wonder if you can force an #LLM to play #DnD. "You are in an underground tunnel complex searching for loot. To either side of you are closed oaken doors. You faintly hear rough voices conversing behind the right one. Tell me what you want to do."
#ai #ttrpg

2024-07-10 08:25:38

Help me Google this please. *Where* is the break in the official bloodline of the Windsors, the one that was discovered when they ran #DNA on Richard III? Who's the previously unknown bastard?
#genealogy

2024-07-10 06:40:40

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Allons-y!

2024-07-10 06:04:35

I filter out mentions of FoxiMax, Heardle, Wordle and Letterle.

2024-07-09 21:07:50

I'm waiting to hear about a bunch of applications I've made to various academic and heritage management authorities. Nothing happens in Sweden between 20 June and 20 August. #bored #frustrated

2024-07-09 19:10:28

I suffer from GMing withdrawal. Only run one sesh in the past 7 weeks. I want to get back to three sessions a month. We're playing Hot Springs Island next. #ttrpg

2024-07-09 18:45:02

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Cool! One detail though. Fossilised bone contains no DNA. Those are simply archaeologically retrieved bones.

2024-07-09 16:47:12

The yellow one's called Yellow Submarine and the red one is a wall climber named That's Jazz.
#gardening #Stockholm #roses
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2024-07-08 15:15:00

The First Prehistoric Find In A Swedish Museum Catalogue
https://aardvarchaeology.wordpress.com/2024/07/08/the-first-prehistoric-find-in-a-swedish-museum-catalogue/
#archaeology #museums
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2024-07-08 14:28:46

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Guess who makes up the core voter base of the Crypto-Fascist party that got 21% in the last Swedish parliamentary election. A party that is vocally opposed to, among other things, academic gender studies. Yep. White men with no higher education.

2024-07-08 13:46:51

Glimpsed a young woman at the bakery in Neglinge, where I grew up. Thought for a second that it might be a girl I recognised from school, five or six years my junior. Then I recalibrated my chronology and decided that it was probably her daughter.
#aging

2024-07-08 09:27:53

Reading about animal art. #archaeology
https://mstdn.archaeo.social/media_attachments/files/112/750/157/521/387/614/original/23d8f5171629b664.jpg

2024-07-07 20:55:00

Vive la #France! Looks like the Fascists are losing!

2024-07-07 18:18:51

#books #parenting
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2024-07-07 11:44:01

Snösätra Wall of Fame #grafitti #art #stockholm

2024-07-07 06:41:25

Continuity error in the first 1945 #Moomin book: Moominmamma hasn't got a handbag in the illustrations until her bag is mentioned in the text because she needs to give her son dry socks.
#books

2024-07-07 06:05:36

#Goodmorning from #Stockholm! A summer Sunday ahead with no particular plans or duties. There will be reading, cycling and a nap.

2024-07-06 18:34:00

Relieved to learn that my buddy, who has recently had some serious health issues, is not also suffering from retinal detachment. He went to the emergency room with some really weird visual symptoms, and it turned out he was simply having a #migraine attack with a visual aura.

2024-07-06 16:56:20

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Into what? How are you doing?

2024-07-06 07:43:01

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Jag skäms fortfarande för den gången då jag bad en humanistförening i Minneapolis att ordna en pubträff med anledning av mitt besök i stan, och så var jag så jetlaggad att jag sov mig igenom alltihop på hotellrummet.

2024-07-05 20:11:00

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Kvalitetstid!

2024-07-05 20:09:08

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Thanks, getting the games mixed up here

2024-07-05 20:06:22

Brian Boru (2021)
#boardgames #gamenight
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2024-07-05 18:43:00

Pueblo (Andreas Steding 2009) #boardgames #Gamenight
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2024-07-05 16:42:24

Hansa Teutonica #boardgames #gamenight
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