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Jesse "Pecke in the Crowne" Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 1d

Ghost turnip, Fintown, County Donegal, Ireland, c. 1900 (replica), National Museum of Ireland

Frightening face carved into a turnip to place a candle in

"In 1943 the National Museum of Ireland received a turnip lantern from a schoolteacher, Rois Ní Braonáin who was teaching near Fintown, Co. Donegal. She stated that it was the type that was always made in that locality around 1900. This plaster-cast model was created and painted by the museum artist, Eileen Barnes.

Candles were placed inside the turnips and they were used to frighten people on the night of 31 October. The pumpkin that is prevalent today is an American development of this Irish tradition." https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collections-Research/Collection/Top-things-to-see-in-the-Irish-Folklife-Collection/Artefact/Ghost-turnip/b202e8ea-0728-4b3d-b0f1-82660fe45ce9

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 4h

wikipedia entry for "the year of the four emperors", includes a disambiguation note, "not to be confused with Tetrarchy, Year of the Five Emperors, or Year of the Six Emperors"

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Peter Tarras @petertarras.bsky.social · 15h

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

Opened palimpsest codex (Leiden UL Or. 14236) with Syriac upper text and Armenian undertext. The upper text is written in black and red ink and decorated braided band patterns. There's also a fragment with Arabic on it between the two pages of the opened codex.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 6h

She left out the witches, liches, and draculas.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 7h

“Telework” because apparently I’m 70.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 7h

Baffling move, as if media companies, magazines, newspapers haven’t had regional and foreign bureaus since the telegraph. What is telework but that?

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 7h

2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.

My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 7h

Can’t stop won’t stop

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 7h

I…. I’m just gonna have to sit with this one for a while. Maybe record an episode about it. Put it on the patreon. Wait, no, that’s just spreading the sickness further…

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 7h

There’s something vaguely unsettling about married people who podcast together and I think it’s because an intrinsic part of podcasting is shame and I don’t know if married people should display that publicly like a kink sort of thing

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 8h

“Oh, I’m way too rational to employ a wizard, I just need my own personal Anglican clergyman.”

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Bafflegabs @bafflegabs.bsky.social · 8h

An absolutely flawless filmed entertainment! What else, literally what else, could you even want a movie to contain?!

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(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 8h

Reject the futurist, suit and tie aesthetic of the Bald Wizard, return to the traditional bog-dweller aesthetic of the Beard Wizard.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 9h

I have *employer-based* healthcare and it’s going up another 30%, my sister’s insurance through(? I don’t know how it works) Medicare was canceled and she has to find a new one, what is this asshole lying about?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

THUNE: These premiums are going up a little bit b/c of the expiration of the enhanced tax credits

VITALI: I think people hearing their premiums are doubling don't feel that it's a little bit

T: I'm just saying only a small part of that is attributable to the expiration of the enhanced tax credits

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K. A. “Kîck Åß” Pillë @keithpille.bsky.social · 9h

"this picture is just too cool for us" - disney

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 13h

The iconic art deco movie poster designed by John Mattos was cited by Disney as a key issue in the marketing for THE ROCKETEER (1991) as it was a mysterious image that didn’t showcase the cast enough. Funny enough, this is exactly what made me want to see the film originally.

Original art deco movie poster for THE ROCKETEER (1991)

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Critical Hauntology @highway62.bsky.social · 9h

Buried lede here is the secret origin of a lot of Elvira's look and styling.

Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 12h

Pat Barrington in ORGY OF THE DEAD (1965)

She was BOTD in 1939

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 9h

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9h

Should bring back the Ma and Pa Kettle movies, let's go back to the basics

Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 1d

At some point we're gonna have to have media that isn't just a rehash of what Boomers had when they were kids

A photo of Jim Carrey overlaid with a Variety headline that says he's in talks to star in 'The Jetsons' live-action movie.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 9h

Reupping our review of my favorite thing we’ve watched for the show in quite a while.

Mary Versus the Movies @maryvsmovies.bsky.social · 7d

A group of girls headed to an elderly aunt’s haunted house are quickly consummed by the past. This cult classic is one of the strangest films we’ve covered, full of wild video effects and a guy who turns into a pile of bananas.

Episode 205 - House / ハウス (1977)
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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 5d

This is a great movie, a psychedelic gothic fairytale, and we had a fantastic time covering it.

Mary Versus the Movies @maryvsmovies.bsky.social · 7d

A group of girls headed to an elderly aunt’s haunted house are quickly consummed by the past. This cult classic is one of the strangest films we’ve covered, full of wild video effects and a guy who turns into a pile of bananas.

Episode 205 - House / ハウス (1977)
sites.libsyn.com/398906/episo...

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In https://theonion.com/recession-plagued-nation-demands-new-bubble-to-invest-i-1819569940/

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 11h

I say again, these dweebs naming their torment nexuses after things in Tolkien are completely missing that the fear of death and willingness to do anything to escape it is the root of almost all evil committed by humans in middle earth.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 11h

This isn’t just about Christians or faith-based experiences.

Tech bros and authoritarians are desperately pursuing life extension and immortality. For them, it’s AI, digitization, and storage advancements that hold the key.

But the premise is the same: tear the curtain between life and death.

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 12h

I wrote “20 years”, but given that I’m 46 now, it’s around 30. Ouch.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 13h

Here's the first appearance of Llwyd's version in print, adapted by another Welshman David Powel in 1584

The best explanation we have, in the available evidence, is that the claim to a specifically American voyage was built onto an existing Welsh seafaring character to bolster Tudor imperialism

Madoc another of Owen Gwyneth his sonnes left the land [of Wales] in contention betwixt his brethren, and prepared certaine ships with men and munition, and sought adventures by seas, sailing West […] he came to a land unknowen, where he saw manie strange things. This land must needs be some part of that countrie of which the Spaniardes affirme themselves to be the first finders […] Whereupon it is manifest, that that countrie was long before by Brytaines discovered, afore either Columbus or Americus Vespatius lead anie Spaniardes thither

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 13h

The first sources we have for a specifically American voyage are from the sixteenth century, in writings by the Welsh/London-Welsh antiquarians Humphrey Llwyd and John Dee, both in an explicitly imperial context and, in Dee's case, directly implicated in Elizabethan imperial politics at court.

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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 13h

This is the oldest surviving reference we have to a relevant Madog, from a fifteenth century Welsh poem - he's clearly known as a voyager, but no mention of America

Translation here by Jerry Hunter, whose full overview you can read with a free JSTOR account:

www.jstor.org/stable/10.56...

In thanking his patron, Maredudd ap Rhys drew a comparison with a character named Madog who was apparently known in tradition:

Mewn awr dda minnau ar ddŵr,
O fodd hael, a fydd heliwr.
Madog wych, mwyedig wedd,
Iawn genau Owain Gwynedd,
Ni fynnai dir, f’enaid oedd,
Na da mawr ond y moroedd.
Minnau rhodiaf yr afon
Ar hyd y gro â rhwyd gron.

[At a fitting time it is I who will be upon water,
Enabled by generous means, a hunter.
Splendid Madog, of great countenance,
Proper scion of Owain Gwynedd,
He did not desire land, he was my inspiration,
Nor [did he desire] great wealth other than the seas.
I for my part travel the river
All along the gravel with a round net.]

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Mary Jones @tlachtga.bsky.social · 13h

Can’t wait

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