David Blackwood
@ghostforest.bsky.social
Whimsical nihilist. Passionately apathetic. Humanist misanthrope.
Pinned
While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Thro’ many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Thro’ many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
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if I don't stumble upon a portal to an enchanted forest full of magical creatures soon I'm going to lose my shit
December 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
if I don't stumble upon a portal to an enchanted forest full of magical creatures soon I'm going to lose my shit
Every day of my life.
December 11, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Every day of my life.
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Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Pornhub has released the top most searched terms in the United States and every state searched “industrial crane lifting a dark and dripping shape from an unquiet sea” bc America is going through it,
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December 11, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I saw a post on IG of Millennial parents complaining that their kids don't like "Hook." Which I find funny because, (unpopular opinion incoming) if you're not viewing it through the lens of childhood nostalgia, that movie is objectively a trainwreck. I have sort of a love/hate relationship with it..
December 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
I saw a post on IG of Millennial parents complaining that their kids don't like "Hook." Which I find funny because, (unpopular opinion incoming) if you're not viewing it through the lens of childhood nostalgia, that movie is objectively a trainwreck. I have sort of a love/hate relationship with it..
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there has never been a squirrel or raccoon in an attic it is always ghosts
December 11, 2025 at 3:44 AM
there has never been a squirrel or raccoon in an attic it is always ghosts
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it you send someone a mazzy star song you’re basically proposing marriage
December 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
it you send someone a mazzy star song you’re basically proposing marriage
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I don’t understand what’s so scary about a clown that kills kids
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 AM
I don’t understand what’s so scary about a clown that kills kids
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
"I sure miss the days when you could just choose to give a stranger lung cancer and there wasn't shit they could do about it."
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 AM
"I sure miss the days when you could just choose to give a stranger lung cancer and there wasn't shit they could do about it."
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
Nostalgia is a mental illness.
This must be a massive disappointment to people who irrationally expect McDonald's to have standards.
"Wow, I can't believe that terrible company that sells garbage food to poor people used AI in their ad."
"Wow, I can't believe that terrible company that sells garbage food to poor people used AI in their ad."
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
Comments have been turned off on YouTube
December 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
This must be a massive disappointment to people who irrationally expect McDonald's to have standards.
"Wow, I can't believe that terrible company that sells garbage food to poor people used AI in their ad."
"Wow, I can't believe that terrible company that sells garbage food to poor people used AI in their ad."
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Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
December 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.
Not really a low bar, I guess. But it's certainly damning with faint praise. I've never read Dan Brown but the general consensus is that, if nothing else, he keeps you entertained. And Harry Stephen Keeler's prose is never boring, but that doesn't necessarily make it actually good.
Also, "never boring" is an insanely low bar for prose writing.
December 9, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Not really a low bar, I guess. But it's certainly damning with faint praise. I've never read Dan Brown but the general consensus is that, if nothing else, he keeps you entertained. And Harry Stephen Keeler's prose is never boring, but that doesn't necessarily make it actually good.
Damn. I usually listen to my music library on shuffle when I'm reading and a Mavericks song came up the other day. I hadn't heard anything about Raul Malo in a while so I looked him up and found out he had cancer. And today I woke up to this. RIP.
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60.
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60
Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of The Mavericks, has died at age 60. He was battling colon cancer and later leptomeningeal disease, a rare complication when cancer spreads to membranes around the brain and spinal cord.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Damn. I usually listen to my music library on shuffle when I'm reading and a Mavericks song came up the other day. I hadn't heard anything about Raul Malo in a while so I looked him up and found out he had cancer. And today I woke up to this. RIP.
Where the hell do they even find these people? I refuse to believe that people this tonedeaf and self-involved actually exist. I think the legacy media corporations grow them in a lab somewhere in Connecticut or Marin County.
Possibly the only thing more freakish than Nuzzi's prose is the contortions her defenders twist themselves into. "She's not just hot, but she definitely is hot, while also being a vulnerable smol child. Also, criticizing her is sexist."
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Where the hell do they even find these people? I refuse to believe that people this tonedeaf and self-involved actually exist. I think the legacy media corporations grow them in a lab somewhere in Connecticut or Marin County.
For some reason some of my posts lately have been getting a lot of responses from people I've never interacted with before. Sometimes these people feel the need to tell me that they think that the thing I posted is Wrong and, I gotta say, I am not a fan of this.
December 9, 2025 at 12:07 AM
For some reason some of my posts lately have been getting a lot of responses from people I've never interacted with before. Sometimes these people feel the need to tell me that they think that the thing I posted is Wrong and, I gotta say, I am not a fan of this.
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Guy at Primus concert: It’s almost like heavier than heavy music. Because it’s so challenging.
Primus:
I’m a real funny bunny, and I know you’ll be my honey, when I put on my big wig and preen,
That hunter got a shock, when I went and called him doc, and started munching beta-carotene. YIPPEE!
Primus:
I’m a real funny bunny, and I know you’ll be my honey, when I put on my big wig and preen,
That hunter got a shock, when I went and called him doc, and started munching beta-carotene. YIPPEE!
September 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Guy at Primus concert: It’s almost like heavier than heavy music. Because it’s so challenging.
Primus:
I’m a real funny bunny, and I know you’ll be my honey, when I put on my big wig and preen,
That hunter got a shock, when I went and called him doc, and started munching beta-carotene. YIPPEE!
Primus:
I’m a real funny bunny, and I know you’ll be my honey, when I put on my big wig and preen,
That hunter got a shock, when I went and called him doc, and started munching beta-carotene. YIPPEE!
Fascinated by the dude on goodreads who gave one star to The Great Gatsby and five stars to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
December 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Fascinated by the dude on goodreads who gave one star to The Great Gatsby and five stars to Dungeon Crawler Carl.
They need to teach instagram's algorithm to stop suggesting that I follow members of my family that I don't like. There's a reason that I don't already follow that aunt that I haven't spoken to in twenty years and who never even sent me birthday cards when I was little.
December 8, 2025 at 11:39 AM
They need to teach instagram's algorithm to stop suggesting that I follow members of my family that I don't like. There's a reason that I don't already follow that aunt that I haven't spoken to in twenty years and who never even sent me birthday cards when I was little.
Happy birthday to Tom Waits.
Really cool to be reminded of how many people I follow on here are Waits fans, even if there isn't much overlap in our musical taste, otherwise. Waits is one of those artists that a certain type of person just "gets" regardless of what musical background they come from
Really cool to be reminded of how many people I follow on here are Waits fans, even if there isn't much overlap in our musical taste, otherwise. Waits is one of those artists that a certain type of person just "gets" regardless of what musical background they come from
December 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Happy birthday to Tom Waits.
Really cool to be reminded of how many people I follow on here are Waits fans, even if there isn't much overlap in our musical taste, otherwise. Waits is one of those artists that a certain type of person just "gets" regardless of what musical background they come from
Really cool to be reminded of how many people I follow on here are Waits fans, even if there isn't much overlap in our musical taste, otherwise. Waits is one of those artists that a certain type of person just "gets" regardless of what musical background they come from
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To anyone who’s not really familiar with the goofy Santa lore, the songs must sound like, “Love this huge guy, hiding in the pipes. Giant god in my house, he wants his bisque. And he’s kissing my family, he’s kissing my family. Is he supposed to?”
December 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
To anyone who’s not really familiar with the goofy Santa lore, the songs must sound like, “Love this huge guy, hiding in the pipes. Giant god in my house, he wants his bisque. And he’s kissing my family, he’s kissing my family. Is he supposed to?”
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December 8, 2025 at 4:34 AM
I was thinking earlier that the cool thing about sleep is that it has all of the advantages of being dead, but you can still get up and have a snack occasionally. Then I realized that's also what's cool about being a vampire 🤯
December 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I was thinking earlier that the cool thing about sleep is that it has all of the advantages of being dead, but you can still get up and have a snack occasionally. Then I realized that's also what's cool about being a vampire 🤯
Was I not born
to walk in scorn
where others walk in pride?
The Maker marred
and, evil-starred
I drift upon his tide
to walk in scorn
where others walk in pride?
The Maker marred
and, evil-starred
I drift upon his tide
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Was I not born
to walk in scorn
where others walk in pride?
The Maker marred
and, evil-starred
I drift upon his tide
to walk in scorn
where others walk in pride?
The Maker marred
and, evil-starred
I drift upon his tide