James Dempster
@cocktaillion.bsky.social
Heraldist, delver into obscure, arcane & occult. Photos, bad art, worse poems. Even stranger than I think I am. Lefty. All views own/odd. He/him. 🩷💛🩵
0-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
3/20 Marco Visconti: Aleister Crowley's Mysticism
3/20 Marco Visconti: Aleister Crowley's Mysticism
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 AM
0-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
3/20 Marco Visconti: Aleister Crowley's Mysticism
3/20 Marco Visconti: Aleister Crowley's Mysticism
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Photograph of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair (1995).
December 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Photograph of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore by Annie Leibovitz for Vanity Fair (1995).
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
2/20 Lucius Valiant: Grave Matters
2/20 Lucius Valiant: Grave Matters
December 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
2/20 Lucius Valiant: Grave Matters
2/20 Lucius Valiant: Grave Matters
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
1/20 Iain Sinclair: Lud Heat
1/20 Iain Sinclair: Lud Heat
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.
1/20 Iain Sinclair: Lud Heat
1/20 Iain Sinclair: Lud Heat
You'll be visited by three spirits.
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
You'll be visited by three spirits.
How has the evening gone? From 4.5% cider and Akriza to 48.7% Calvados and this 🙃
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth [1991][Reissue]
YouTube video by Kinetic Engineers
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December 5, 2025 at 11:31 PM
How has the evening gone? From 4.5% cider and Akriza to 48.7% Calvados and this 🙃
As a Scot with memories of 74 & 78, anyone found a source of Haiti tops to wear in the later stages? 😁
December 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
As a Scot with memories of 74 & 78, anyone found a source of Haiti tops to wear in the later stages? 😁
One for some of my friends but not others. ‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian share.google/euXygPbnqTWS...
‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures
The imposing concrete buildings that defined British postwar architecture held a vision of the future – but many fell into disrepair. A new book finds the finest examples
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December 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
One for some of my friends but not others. ‘They rose out of the ground!’: Scotland’s brutalist beauties – in pictures | Photography | The Guardian share.google/euXygPbnqTWS...
Having not been over in that part of town for a couple of months, I didn't realise that the signs were up. I just wish that they'd picked a local witch rather than Isobel. Then, as now, Auldearn is actually in a different county/council area.
December 1, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Having not been over in that part of town for a couple of months, I didn't realise that the signs were up. I just wish that they'd picked a local witch rather than Isobel. Then, as now, Auldearn is actually in a different county/council area.
Describe your cat's personality with one photo:
November 29, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Describe your cat's personality with one photo:
I'm sure my friends who are artists have no issues with this.
November 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm sure my friends who are artists have no issues with this.
Not a headline I expected to see, nor one that tempts me to read the story. No sick bucket nearby.
November 25, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Not a headline I expected to see, nor one that tempts me to read the story. No sick bucket nearby.
RIP
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff has died - Jamaica Observer
International reggae icon Jimmy Cliff has died, his family announced Monday. In a post to his official social media pages, his wife Latifa Chambers said Cliff passed away after a battle with pneumonia...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
RIP
I could be some time - found BBC2's "Weird Night" from back in 1994 on YT. Sadly missing the X-Files episode.
1.Fortean Review of the Year
2.Strange Days-Coincidences
3. The last American Freak Show
4.Strange Days-Visions
5.W.S.H
6.Strange Days-Beasts
7. Weird Thoughts
youtu.be/mzits-uqM-g?...
1.Fortean Review of the Year
2.Strange Days-Coincidences
3. The last American Freak Show
4.Strange Days-Visions
5.W.S.H
6.Strange Days-Beasts
7. Weird Thoughts
youtu.be/mzits-uqM-g?...
BBC Weird Night- The Fortean Review of the Year 1994
YouTube video by skynet42
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November 23, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I could be some time - found BBC2's "Weird Night" from back in 1994 on YT. Sadly missing the X-Files episode.
1.Fortean Review of the Year
2.Strange Days-Coincidences
3. The last American Freak Show
4.Strange Days-Visions
5.W.S.H
6.Strange Days-Beasts
7. Weird Thoughts
youtu.be/mzits-uqM-g?...
1.Fortean Review of the Year
2.Strange Days-Coincidences
3. The last American Freak Show
4.Strange Days-Visions
5.W.S.H
6.Strange Days-Beasts
7. Weird Thoughts
youtu.be/mzits-uqM-g?...
Best story of the day. Just a pity that it coincded with Amazon delivering two packages to some random address.
Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time
Hacking the planet with florid verse.
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November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Best story of the day. Just a pity that it coincded with Amazon delivering two packages to some random address.
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Sent to me by a friend
November 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Sent to me by a friend
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This is why kerning is 🍆 so 🍆 important 🍆
November 16, 2025 at 2:35 PM
This is why kerning is 🍆 so 🍆 important 🍆
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
YouTube video by Ben Selvin - Topic
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November 14, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Without downloading new pics, describe your gender.
November 13, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Without downloading new pics, describe your gender.
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:40 AM
If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
A film you're seen more than 7 times with a gif
November 7, 2025 at 11:35 PM
A film you're seen more than 7 times with a gif
