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Mark Ward

@markbward.bsky.social

I'm a former BBC tech journalist who now does cyber security research. I also paint toy soldiers, do the odd bit of gaming and am regularly found gimbling in the wabe. Lens is blazing. Everything QX.

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I read it an age ago but it has definitely haunted me ever since. Genuinely odd in places. Memorable and vivid like most of Crowley's output.

19.09.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same here - went in expecting standard scary ant movie and it zoomed off in a very strange direction. There are scenes of it I can still recall very clearly.

05.09.2025 07:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals: Main

Why am I only learning about this organisation now? iapsop.com

19.08.2025 08:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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2,178 Occult Books Now Digitized & Put Online, Thanks to the Ritman Library and Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown In 2018 we brought you some exciting news.

What could possibly go wrong?
www.openculture.com/2025/08/2178...

18.08.2025 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Lordy, that'll be useful. Just browsing it answers so many questions and good that it steers away from the base coat and wash combo.

08.08.2025 09:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fab, that looks so far up my alley it is practically knocking on my door. At night.

30.07.2025 12:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

No and I'm wondering if you are whispering that message.

30.07.2025 11:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I wonder how they judge that and can you train for it? I'm wondering if there is the occult equivalent of a gym in the town where you have to book time in a pentacle.

19.03.2025 12:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, it was a surprise to me too. I like that the town has embraced the excommunication too.

19.03.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trasmoz - Wikipedia

Picking up something I saw on Futility Closet - the Spanish village of Trasmoz is the only one cursed by the Catholic Church - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trasmoz

18.03.2025 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I regularly fail them which does make me wonder if I'm human.

10.12.2024 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Easy. Close Colin, Foreground Fiona, Barely Buckled and, that meal to end all meals, the Cheesy Comestible.

10.12.2024 09:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, this is me. Does that help? Perhaps this will. "Jon, Jon with your trousers on".

06.12.2024 08:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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