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💫 Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the holiday theme is presents! With your holiday gift legends, your secret santa traditions, swapping rituals, religious offerings, & gifting deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫
December 9, 2025 at 2:29 AM
💫 Join us Wednesday for #LegendaryWednesday where the holiday theme is presents! With your holiday gift legends, your secret santa traditions, swapping rituals, religious offerings, & gifting deities. Share a #legend #folklore #quote #fairytale #poetry #film #art #mythology 💫
You will be visited by three spirits... (so hold on for one for one more day).
December 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
You will be visited by three spirits... (so hold on for one for one more day).
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If I’m going to be visited by spirits, make them doubles please.
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 AM
If I’m going to be visited by spirits, make them doubles please.
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An image a day for December 2025 no 9. Holly berries!
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
December 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
An image a day for December 2025 no 9. Holly berries!
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
In a year in which people couldn't find holly bearing berries to use as a Christmas decoration, they might instead redden the berries of ivy, and put that up instead. Putting up holly without berries would bring bad luck, especially to farmers.
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This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)
December 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is Uni. She has ridden to work with her human every day in their bike basket for the last seven years. Has been offered many other forms of transportation, but refuses them all in favor of the Honey Baked Ham Express. 14/10 #SeniorPupSaturday (IG: unihalo)
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Happy Krampusnacht!!!!
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
December 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Happy Krampusnacht!!!!
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
We hope you aren't visited...unless you want to be 😅.
I'm currently working on my own Krampus mask but didn't have it ready for tonight so enjoy this one from 2020 i made for a client. Sculpted by me and cast in resin.
#krampus #propmaker #horror #folklore
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it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
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December 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
it's wild how the positive use cases are like "save 5 minutes reading a long doc" and "write a generic email faster" and the negative use cases are "get encouraged to dive deeper in psychosis, misogyny, or suicidal thoughts" and we're still on the fence about overall value
argh! why can't we have these elfish red squirrels??
He just kept on munching while I just stood there in sheer delight. #RedSquirrel #mammals
December 1, 2025 at 5:39 PM
argh! why can't we have these elfish red squirrels??
Cloud people... what is going on here? Flying into Zurich.
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Cloud people... what is going on here? Flying into Zurich.
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Nisse, Tomte and Tonttu, Scandinavian gnome-like beings that help on farms; that in lore, are particularly active around Christmas
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Nisse, Tomte and Tonttu, Scandinavian gnome-like beings that help on farms; that in lore, are particularly active around Christmas
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
more: "Boggarts, Brownies, Hobs and their Goblin Kin; an encyclopedia of world folklore"
bardofcumberland.com/folklore/
art: Theodor Kittelsen
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Chione is the North wind Boreas's daughter and goddess of snow. She lives in the mountain tops and will turn people to ice sculptures when angered.
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
Heart of Snow - Edward Robert Hughes by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
"Heart of Snow" is taken from a poem by Baudelaire. Lord Alfred Douglas’ (1870-1945 English translation of 1909 reads: In the blue air, strange sphinx, I brood supreme With heart of snow whiter than...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Chione is the North wind Boreas's daughter and goddess of snow. She lives in the mountain tops and will turn people to ice sculptures when angered.
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
🎨Edward Robert Hughes redbubble.com/people/forgo... #FolkyFriday #art #wallart #decor #interiordesigner #mythology #gifts #fairytale #folklore
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The Ice Maiden wanders the ice at night searching for broken hearts. She carries them back to her castle & warms them in a circle of fire.
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
The Ice Maiden - Edmund Dulac by forgottenbeauty | Redbubble
The Ice Maiden - Edmund Dulac
This lovely lady apparently walks the ice looking for broken hearts. She then takes them home to her fire to keep them warm. This illustration was done for "The Dreamer o...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The Ice Maiden wanders the ice at night searching for broken hearts. She carries them back to her castle & warms them in a circle of fire.
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
"Everything about her was white."
🎨Edmund Dulac
redbubble.com/shop/ap/3339... #FolkyFriday #art #illustration #gifts #Christmasgiftidea #fairytale #folklore
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
Opinion | Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Your Phone Isn’t a Drug. It’s a Portal to the Otherworld. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/o...
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In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought on by Mother Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle seeking reparations for the vicious attack.
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
In June 2024, the Oklahoma Supreme Court dismissed a lawsuit brought on by Mother Fletcher and Lessie Benningfield Randle seeking reparations for the vicious attack.
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November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan
November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
November’s early darkness enfolds us. The smell of applewood fires and rot is a constant companion at twilight. We hurry between home and evensong, home and pub. Ghosts crowd the lanes, our folklore becomes filled with tales of cold teeth. Winter begins to growl. - #CLNolan
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It's a hybrid event with a great line-up...and me!
Two weeks until The Haunted Ladscape VII: Ghosts, Magic and Folklore
Terrific speakers @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Full details at the following link:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
@icysedgwick.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
Terrific speakers @conwayhall.bsky.social and online.
Full details at the following link:
forteanlondon.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...
@icysedgwick.bsky.social @folklorepod.bsky.social
@magicnotwitches.bsky.social
The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
Whose claws are scratching at the church door? What’s that ghost tumbling over the moor? Who’s that figure cut into the earth? What can I do...
forteanlondon.blogspot.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's a hybrid event with a great line-up...and me!
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The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
How the US sets its poverty rate is shocking
It's so horrible, it should actually piss you off
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 AM
open.substack.com/pub/kellysca...
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
The fact of the matter is that helping people costs money and that is just not popular with corporations that, for all practical purposes, own a vast number of congresspersons.
Get money out of politics and we can move onward and upward
#EndCitizensUnited
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Since nothing matters anymore and there are no rules, let’s knock out Thanksgiving this week, do Christmas next week, then have six beautiful weeks of that full goblin mode space between Xmas and new years where time doesn’t exist and sweatpants are required dress
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Since nothing matters anymore and there are no rules, let’s knock out Thanksgiving this week, do Christmas next week, then have six beautiful weeks of that full goblin mode space between Xmas and new years where time doesn’t exist and sweatpants are required dress
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Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians
October 21, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Whether you’re a fan of Hallowe’en or not, you have to give it credit for being the last line of defence against Christmas advancing even earlier into the year, a ragtag gang of goths holding the line against a battalion of baubled barbarians
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It's Halloween month — and it's also #AmericanArchivesMonth, so it's only right that we bring you a ghost story from 1972.
Bill Crabtree and the Clinch Valley Boys perform a song about a hitchhiker's ghostly encounter with "Big Josie," animated by Glenn Palumbo's drawings.
📷 Appalshop Archive
Bill Crabtree and the Clinch Valley Boys perform a song about a hitchhiker's ghostly encounter with "Big Josie," animated by Glenn Palumbo's drawings.
📷 Appalshop Archive
October 28, 2025 at 12:03 PM
It's Halloween month — and it's also #AmericanArchivesMonth, so it's only right that we bring you a ghost story from 1972.
Bill Crabtree and the Clinch Valley Boys perform a song about a hitchhiker's ghostly encounter with "Big Josie," animated by Glenn Palumbo's drawings.
📷 Appalshop Archive
Bill Crabtree and the Clinch Valley Boys perform a song about a hitchhiker's ghostly encounter with "Big Josie," animated by Glenn Palumbo's drawings.
📷 Appalshop Archive
Tis the season
Caramel Apple Twizzlers (2014-2017): Green apple-flavored Twizzlers, filled with caramel. Received four consecutive Halloween-season releases. Came in standard size or bite-sized trick-or-treat portions
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Tis the season
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Stately homes, pubs and theatres have commodified their phantoms. Turned them into neat little stories, spectre-magnets to draw in visitors with ache for ghost-glimpse. Then there are the places where shades and their stories are feral. Unowned, uncurated spots. I hold to these. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts
October 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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The year cools. Untroubled skies become rare. These are the last days where the witch walks without coating her boots in mud. Our place in the year may change the spirits that speak, but it never diminishes the land's magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
October 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The year cools. Untroubled skies become rare. These are the last days where the witch walks without coating her boots in mud. Our place in the year may change the spirits that speak, but it never diminishes the land's magics. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
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Cancel Christmas aka Blackout Black Friday is gaining steam fast as Americans stare at the reality of fascism and the poverty it brings with it. Families torn apart by ICE have already had their holidays cancelled without choice.
“The time for fantasy is over”
“The time for fantasy is over”
October 18, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Cancel Christmas aka Blackout Black Friday is gaining steam fast as Americans stare at the reality of fascism and the poverty it brings with it. Families torn apart by ICE have already had their holidays cancelled without choice.
“The time for fantasy is over”
“The time for fantasy is over”