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Dan Mitchell

@specileptic.bsky.social

Folklorist, writer, comedian, storyteller. PhD candidate. Friend of nature, hugger of trees. Uncommon Folk- my folklore podcast is available everywhere https://uncommonfolk.buzzsprout.com

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!! … ah

13.02.2026 07:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2034    πŸ” 413    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 29
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

05.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 32071    πŸ” 13793    πŸ’¬ 591    πŸ“Œ 1606
Local newspaper ad board:  
MOULDY ROLLS RUINED FAMILY BBQ.

Local newspaper ad board: MOULDY ROLLS RUINED FAMILY BBQ.

A modern-day tragedy, BUT YOU CAN HELP.

1 Like = 1 Pray
1 Share = 10,000 Prays

01.02.2026 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

It looks like she's lying on the pelt of her giant ancestor, contemplating vengeance, then seeing a snack and thinking better of it

25.01.2026 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

This story is truly something. I'm imagining the 'tiny people' like the lemmings in the 90s video game phenomenon Lemmings. Marching towards you in a solemn line. Shaking their little heads at you.

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

23.01.2026 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1

The cheapness of that rent makes me think that rock is igneous or has igneous cladding

22.01.2026 17:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Look at you and your incredibly niche name drop. Mine is I swam in a moat at midnight as Riley from Buffy's body double.

11.01.2026 13:29 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I'm there today, drinking mulled cider and enjoying the familiar clack of horses teeth and folk music

11.01.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
I am tired of Earth. These people.

I am tired of Earth. These people.

03.01.2026 23:10 β€” πŸ‘ 6175    πŸ” 2204    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 40

Like someone put face paint on a hemorrhoid

02.01.2026 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It just reminds me of this

02.01.2026 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Buttons are back. Knobs are back. Dumb devices are back. Own-it-forever software is back. Print is back. Personal websites and chronological feeds are back. Touching grass is back. People keep saying 2015, but it’s not far enough. The entire 2010s were a mistake. We must retvrn to… 2009.

28.12.2025 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5091    πŸ” 1152    πŸ’¬ 129    πŸ“Œ 127

A Lord of the Rings band called Durin Durin

21.12.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

My son made one in school. It looks like a hand grenade made by an Ent.

20.12.2025 13:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you!

03.12.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is what The Cardigans were talking about when they wrote β€˜My Favourite Game’ #totp

21.11.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 207    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3
Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Mr Poirot in Mischief on the Nile SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage 

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

Mr Men x Agatha Christie crossover with Little Kiss Marple in Muddle at the Vicarage SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSHOP

this, *this*, is the greatest crossover of all time

21.11.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4327    πŸ” 630    πŸ’¬ 61    πŸ“Œ 57

This is part of the new citizenship test

05.11.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I can't say I know which Nerys, but I know the others!

30.10.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you! This is 100% in my wheelhouse and I am very interested

21.10.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The magpie has returned with friends and family

17.08.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The witch trials of 1612 still cast a long shadow.

15.08.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2260    πŸ” 487    πŸ’¬ 51    πŸ“Œ 42
The slow but real progression into fascism as charted by the Γ©volution of the lego police officier

Lego police officier looking meaner and meaner.

The slow but real progression into fascism as charted by the Γ©volution of the lego police officier Lego police officier looking meaner and meaner.

Good morning Bluesky !

14.08.2025 04:43 β€” πŸ‘ 7815    πŸ” 1429    πŸ’¬ 92    πŸ“Œ 59
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This week I have had a red kite and a buzzard in the garden. Yesterday a magpie came into the house. Either something has died nearby or I'm getting a load of omens.

04.07.2025 13:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Magnificent Shite

03.07.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Why is Rod Stewart making Glastonbury political? Artists should just shut up and perform

28.06.2025 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1720    πŸ” 266    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 62

Yeah, I like the actors but can't see any of them as Bond. Especially Tom Holland who is Spiderman and also quite short

28.06.2025 18:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

It Ain't Tart Hot Mum

26.06.2025 12:02 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Only Raspberry Fools and Horses

26.06.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This is the last thing the BBC needs

17.06.2025 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 11883    πŸ” 2278    πŸ’¬ 177    πŸ“Œ 132

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