David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site.
GPA, NJ, & VT
GPA, NJ, & VT
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David Haraldson
@lostdiarist.bsky.social
· Apr 24
Increasingly noticing that the real insurmountable division in the world is not dog or cat owners but Adrian Chiles fans & Adrian Chiles haterz (who secretly wish they were him).
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A timely story about the decline of local newspapers and why local journalism (not the version that is mainly syndicated news) is important.
The MEN is now the only local newsroom in Greater Manchester that has more than a handful of staff reporters, but go back 25 years and it would have been one of a dozen.
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
Our weekend read is the tale of what’s been lost.
manchestermill.co.uk/the-clatteri...
The clattering, chaotic, romantic world of Greater Manchester’s lost newspapers
What happens when a community loses its champion?
manchestermill.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 1:35 PM
A timely story about the decline of local newspapers and why local journalism (not the version that is mainly syndicated news) is important.
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It took 7 yrs to find a publisher for my 1st novel because young women writers in the early 2000s weren't currency. Finally a balancing out & the menz are unhappy. Good points here:
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated
As debates over the ‘disappearing’ young male novelist rumble on, some authors and critics push back against claims that fiction has closed its doors to men. Hannah Ewens learns that the real problem ...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It took 7 yrs to find a publisher for my 1st novel because young women writers in the early 2000s weren't currency. Finally a balancing out & the menz are unhappy. Good points here:
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
'Men aren’t vanishing from fiction. The truth is much more complicated' | The Independent share.google/r26w5CexAUon...
I have found, for the first time in many years, some lapsang souchong tea. And I like it. The Laphroaig of teas?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang...
Lapsang souchong - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I have found, for the first time in many years, some lapsang souchong tea. And I like it. The Laphroaig of teas?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapsang...
Death to the Trade Paperback! Long live the Mass Market Paperback!
Signed, A Wanderer Who Likes Being Able to Stick a Novel in His Bag or Coat Pocket.
bookriot.com/different-ty...
Signed, A Wanderer Who Likes Being Able to Stick a Novel in His Bag or Coat Pocket.
bookriot.com/different-ty...
Book Formats: The Different Types Explained
You love books. But how much do you know about them? Dive in to the various book formats.
bookriot.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Death to the Trade Paperback! Long live the Mass Market Paperback!
Signed, A Wanderer Who Likes Being Able to Stick a Novel in His Bag or Coat Pocket.
bookriot.com/different-ty...
Signed, A Wanderer Who Likes Being Able to Stick a Novel in His Bag or Coat Pocket.
bookriot.com/different-ty...
Anyone know what happened to the folks behind this #psychogeography blog?
I not infrequently wonder whatever happened to the London Archaeologist and the Windowless Consultant and the Landless Landlord. I used to enjoy their blog ("Pub Signs Taken for Wonders") so very much. Does anyone know what happened to this psychogeographic team?
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
The London Archaeologist and the Windowless Consultant: Pubsignstakenforwonders
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Anyone know what happened to the folks behind this #psychogeography blog?
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I not infrequently wonder whatever happened to the London Archaeologist and the Windowless Consultant and the Landless Landlord. I used to enjoy their blog ("Pub Signs Taken for Wonders") so very much. Does anyone know what happened to this psychogeographic team?
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
The London Archaeologist and the Windowless Consultant: Pubsignstakenforwonders
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
November 28, 2023 at 4:57 PM
I not infrequently wonder whatever happened to the London Archaeologist and the Windowless Consultant and the Landless Landlord. I used to enjoy their blog ("Pub Signs Taken for Wonders") so very much. Does anyone know what happened to this psychogeographic team?
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
londonarchaeologist.blogspot.com
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object-oriented hauntology
“When a world dies, much dies alongside it. Ways of thinking, ways of building, ways of living so mundane no one noticed their presence or their passing.”
Idle Things | Robert Rubsam
In “Things That Disappear,” Jenny Erpenbeck grapples with ruins, revealing the virtue of unproductive places and idle things.
thebaffler.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
object-oriented hauntology
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#NowPlaying Oneohtrix Point Never albums, 5 of which were also released as 'Rifts' (2012). #Hauntology morphing into #vaporwave. Dreamy, hypnagogic, experimental; echoes of vintage games consoles, Boards of Canada, Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich, Wendy Carlos, old TV ads on warped VHS tapes.
November 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
#NowPlaying Oneohtrix Point Never albums, 5 of which were also released as 'Rifts' (2012). #Hauntology morphing into #vaporwave. Dreamy, hypnagogic, experimental; echoes of vintage games consoles, Boards of Canada, Tangerine Dream, Steve Reich, Wendy Carlos, old TV ads on warped VHS tapes.
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Thanks to Adam for sharing Smith's effortless writing. One of the greatest perks of reading is stumbling on a word I don't know and then tumbling down a rabbit hole & landing on another delicious bit of writing.
The word: psychogeography
The rabbit hole:
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/psychogeogra...
The word: psychogeography
The rabbit hole:
thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/psychogeogra...
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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52. Jeff Noon & Steve Beard, Ludluda
There's something so shocking about a fantasy novel being focused on a woman in her seventies that episodic plotting is forgotten. Set in alternate London powered by an ancient dragon's ghost, it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness.
There's something so shocking about a fantasy novel being focused on a woman in her seventies that episodic plotting is forgotten. Set in alternate London powered by an ancient dragon's ghost, it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness.
November 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
52. Jeff Noon & Steve Beard, Ludluda
There's something so shocking about a fantasy novel being focused on a woman in her seventies that episodic plotting is forgotten. Set in alternate London powered by an ancient dragon's ghost, it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness.
There's something so shocking about a fantasy novel being focused on a woman in her seventies that episodic plotting is forgotten. Set in alternate London powered by an ancient dragon's ghost, it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness.
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"it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness"
That will do nicely, thank you very much.
That will do nicely, thank you very much.
52. Jeff Noon & Steve Beard, Ludluda
There's something so shocking about a fantasy novel being focused on a woman in her seventies that episodic plotting is forgotten. Set in alternate London powered by an ancient dragon's ghost, it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness.
There's something so shocking about a fantasy novel being focused on a woman in her seventies that episodic plotting is forgotten. Set in alternate London powered by an ancient dragon's ghost, it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness.
November 15, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"it pings with psychogeography and aching tenderness"
That will do nicely, thank you very much.
That will do nicely, thank you very much.
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A quick question. I'm in my early 50s & considering applying to be a USPS mail carrier in Vermont. Asking USPS employees, if this is ... "inadvisable."
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A quick question. I'm in my early 50s & considering applying to be a USPS mail carrier in Vermont. Asking USPS employees, if this is ... "inadvisable."
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
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Look at this lovely Devon lad!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Once-extinct European wildcats set to make a comeback in England
Fifty wildcats could be reintroduced to the countryside in south west England, conservationists say.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Look at this lovely Devon lad!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A quick question. I'm in my early 50s & considering applying to be a USPS mail carrier in Vermont. Asking USPS employees, if this is ... "inadvisable."
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
November 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
A quick question. I'm in my early 50s & considering applying to be a USPS mail carrier in Vermont. Asking USPS employees, if this is ... "inadvisable."
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
FWIW: Yes, I have worked outdoors (in the UK, before anyone asks). Yes, I do have sensible footwear.
(DMs are open, I believe.)
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I am looking for material evidence of failed futures—futures that never came to pass—in #Vermont & #NewEngland. Literature, film & TV, music, & architecture (f’rex, ruined geodesic domes & Brutalist architecture). Can anyone help a fella out? #Hauntology, #Hauntological, #1970s?
November 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I am looking for material evidence of failed futures—futures that never came to pass—in #Vermont & #NewEngland. Literature, film & TV, music, & architecture (f’rex, ruined geodesic domes & Brutalist architecture). Can anyone help a fella out? #Hauntology, #Hauntological, #1970s?
I would LOVE to get this BBC Radio Iain Banks / Iain M. Banks collection on CD but ... as that doesn't seem to be an option, can anyone recommend a download service? www.penguin.co.uk/books/470032...
Iain Banks: A BBC Radio Collection
Selected readings and full-cast dramatisations from across the literary and science fiction of Iain Banks
Iain Banks, aka Iain M Banks, came to fame in 1984 with his transfixing debut The Wasp Factor...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I would LOVE to get this BBC Radio Iain Banks / Iain M. Banks collection on CD but ... as that doesn't seem to be an option, can anyone recommend a download service? www.penguin.co.uk/books/470032...
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Meanwhile back in Glasgae.
November 17, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Meanwhile back in Glasgae.
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Does anyone have or know of a decent reconstruction drawing of the stoa at Brauron? I know there's the isometric drawing from Bouras (that's the one Ekroth uses), but I want something a bit fuller in interpretation (and specifically showing the courtyard). #ClassicsBluesky
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Does anyone have or know of a decent reconstruction drawing of the stoa at Brauron? I know there's the isometric drawing from Bouras (that's the one Ekroth uses), but I want something a bit fuller in interpretation (and specifically showing the courtyard). #ClassicsBluesky
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If you're interested in landscapes and landscape history, this online conference should be right up your street...
Join us on Saturday 6 December, 10:00 to 14:15, for our online AGM and #Conference, where we'll explore topics including woods, land use, John Constable and watermeadows.
It's free to attend.
More details and bookings at www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...
Please share! #landscape #history
It's free to attend.
More details and bookings at www.landscapestudies.com/society-even...
Please share! #landscape #history
Society for Landscape Studies AGM and December Online Conference 2025 – The Society for Landscape Studies
www.landscapestudies.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:50 PM
If you're interested in landscapes and landscape history, this online conference should be right up your street...
Apparently, the #PokemonGo fans are out in force in Haddonfield (New Jersey, not Illinois 😉). Is there a big event or launch? I had genuinely rhought this was no longer a thing. (Sorry! 😳)
Would love to see your Haddonfield Pokemon Go pics.
Would love to see your Haddonfield Pokemon Go pics.
November 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Apparently, the #PokemonGo fans are out in force in Haddonfield (New Jersey, not Illinois 😉). Is there a big event or launch? I had genuinely rhought this was no longer a thing. (Sorry! 😳)
Would love to see your Haddonfield Pokemon Go pics.
Would love to see your Haddonfield Pokemon Go pics.
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I got my @badsquiddogames.bsky.social Resistance figures! These are a brilliant commemoration of the resistance against fascism in World War 2. They also make great character figures.
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
November 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I got my @badsquiddogames.bsky.social Resistance figures! These are a brilliant commemoration of the resistance against fascism in World War 2. They also make great character figures.
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
I've shot them here in black and white against the World War Ruins Backdrop Book. Packing pre-orders right now!
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
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Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...
When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposting for later!
Also, this a cracking little set. And Jarvis performing in a confined space is quie something
youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?...
youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?...
Pulp: Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
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November 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Reposting for later!