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Ancient Eldritch Abomination. Asexual. Autistic. Boatie. Feminist. Genderqueer-Agender. Ineffable Auncle. Misfortune Teller. Parent of shinyshinyleaf. Space Monkey. SteamGoth. TBI Survivor. Therian. paypal.me/CanalCryptid

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Canal Cryptid 🦀 @canalcryptid.bsky.social · 7d

Phone is definitely on it's last legs.
If I up and disappear for a few months, means it's died and I'm still saving for a replacement.
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Fossilized Tree Resin @jamberee13.bsky.social · 23h

Not interesting or captivating but a curse upon the soil, an unsettling feeling, a fluttering at the corner of the eye

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 2d

Little Zombie Mari
She is on the look out for Br..ead based products, with her worm friend Theodore

(Channeling the way I have felt today into little mari)

A little Mari crawling out of a grave with a worm friend on her headdress

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Goth Auntie @cupcakegoth.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie:
- Sit up straight, drink some water, take your meds.
- You can be sweet AND full of weary rage.
- I think we need to help the ghost choir add more soothing tunes to their collection. Yesterday was a little screechy for me.
❤️Auntie Jilli

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 1d

Due to tiredness, my voice telling me not to do something silly is gone.

So here is little mari and some ghosts having a rave in the disco grotto

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

They always start with free speech. It sounds reasonable, doesn’t it? Free speech? And they can use it to shut down anyone who criticises them, because it’s all “free speech”

After “free speech” it’s “protecting women and girls”

And then it’s whatever they actually wanted.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 2d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Jana H-S (they/she) @jana-aych-ess.bsky.social · 2d

mycologically accurate angels

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 2d

So my buddy Carlota, who is taking over Dogskull Patch, has a group of feral cats to deal. She’s been trapping and neutering as possible, but one sweetheart named Big Daddy showed up on the porch limping. Some asshole shot him. She’s raising money for his amputation and care. gofund.me/3b6cf293e

Donate to Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot, organized by Carrie Sykes

There's a colony of lovely cats living in a rural neighborhood in Goldston, NC. Fr… Carrie Sykes needs your support for Help Big Daddy Recover from being Shot

gofund.me

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TJ Alexander (they/them) @tjalexandernyc.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder this holiday season that donating to the SA sucks. Ignore the red buckets.

Vivian Moira Vampire @itsviviactually.bsky.social · 3d

The Salvation Army really is the epitome of a certain kind of white conservatism

They prey on the most vulnerable. They happily leave the sort of people they don't like to die in the streets

But they smile a lot and don't cuss and say "Jesus", so they get to be respectable

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 3d

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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J || Vampire Pyramid Scheme 🦇 🏳️‍⚧️ | ✨ Get Me My Coffin, Louis✨ @vampirepyramid.bsky.social · 3d

Went to see a tiny library about a ghost infestation.

So flippin cute. 👻

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 3d

Just an experiment tonight

A horse skull in a tattered shawl with the moon behind

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 3d

The four sisters of autumn

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fleurgold 🔞 @fleurgold.bsky.social · 7d

$134/$300!!! Thank you so much, let's keep it going! Please share and donate if you can!

#MutualAid
#HelpFolksLive2025
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fleurgold 🔞 @fleurgold.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks to an amazing donation near the end of September my fundraising goal for October is just $300!

$0/$300

#MutualAid
#HelpFolksLive2025
💸💕

www.paypal.me/fleurgoldFG

Pay fleurgold

Tap to finalize your purchase. No PayPal account? No worries.

www.paypal.me

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 4d

MARI LWYD CHARITY AUCTION UPDATE!
A wonderful postcard by @lri.bsky.social and his partner ( a collab) has arrived!

Please go see all the entries so far here!: skullsandsheetsauction.wordpress.com

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Canal Cryptid 🦀 @canalcryptid.bsky.social · 4d

He's so beautiful 🥹

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Libby from Biscuit @thisisbiscuit.org.uk · 4d

We're still a grand down from running the bi+ community fair on 31 Aug. If we dont break even there won't be another one!

But look at these cute seasonally appropriate stickers!

Holographic Bi to the Bone Sticker — Biscuit: Advocacy, Community and Support for Bi+ People

Bi from skull to phalanges

thisisbiscuit.org.uk

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PUMPKIN SPICE SLUGGO @saintsluggo.bsky.social · 4d

DEVILS WIZARDS FAMILIARS AND ANTHROPOMORPHIC PERSONIFICATIONS TO THE FRONT

An astonishingly handsome gentleman with a large beard, dressed as Satan with devil horns coming out of his red pimp hat Fedora with a leopard print band stands, blocking a person in a red baseball cap in front of an umbrella wall with one hand up

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Hell Ray-ser @sireviscerate.myatproto.social · 4d

YA or "young adult" books is a misleading way to describe most novels in the genre. Many of them have been published within the last year, making them baby books, if anything

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Canal Cryptid 🦀 @canalcryptid.bsky.social · 4d

My Cub's been busy 🥰

shiny_shiny_leaf @shinyshinyleaf.bsky.social · 4d

I'm nearly done with the cowl. I love the way it's shaping up. I can't say I'm looking forward to weaving in all the ends though 😂🧶

#crochetsky #crochet #interlockingcrochet #crochetersofbluesky #handdyed #indieyarn #moonlightfibre #yarnsky

An interlocking crochet cowl with a repeating pattern of rows of crosses and boxes. The main colour, so the colour outlining the crosses and boxes, is white. Each pattern repeat is worked in a different colour to form a gradient: from bottom up, neon pink, violet, purple-violet, light blue, aqua light blue, then the same in reverse. The cowl has been worked up to the purple violet on the reverse side of the gradient. A tied-off bundle of loose ends can be seen poking out the bottom of the cowl.

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Jeremy Ghost Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 4d

Fall snacks are so fun. I love unhinging my jaw to swallow whole pumpkins and dry leaves.

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🦇🤘 Rigg-or mortis 🔶️🏳️‍🌈 @rigg.lgbt · 4d

Really interesting thread here

Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 4d

It occurs to me that the Doctor's polyethnic identity in recent times recontextualises Peter Davison's casting in quite an interesting way.
(For context, although you'd be unlikely to guess it by looking at him, Davison's paternal family is Guyanese. He has close relatives who are visibly Black.)

Peter Davison, a fair-skinned blond man, as the fifth Doctor, circa 1982.

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway, I share this other vid (a Japanese Halloween song, I used to play daily in October years ago ha).

This may also be beneath me too!

youtu.be/uEFvs6RBtpk?...

Halloween Party - Halloween Junky Orchestra

YouTube video by gengiegengar

youtu.be

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Homeless ♿⚧️ Please Help @day10machine.bsky.social · 5d

Skull earrings! For the holidays. Any holidays.
ko-fi.com/s/f0c43071af

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Oz 9 Podcast @oz9podcast.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, did we mention we have a #newepisode out? Yeah, you might have noticed the smell, but we hear some mentholated balm rubbed under the nose can help. Or at least make this nonsense smell minty.

On @pocketcasts.com pca.st/K67k

Oz 9

It's Spring 2142 (a Tuesday), and Gated Galaxies has launched its 400 Oz-8000 ships, each carrying 50,000 "resting guests" to, hopefully, a new home on a shiny, brand-new planet. Except this whole "te...

pca.st

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💀Skulls and Sheets👻 @skullsandsheets.bsky.social · 4d

A Mari watching the autumn leaves fly past while sitting on an arch.

A mari sits on a lesge watching the autumn leaves blow past under the moonlight

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