Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
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Professional Alter Ego. Manc. Psychogeography, deep maps, hauntology, zines, games, music, art, photography, sci-fi, & horror—& any gubbins that sheds new light on old places. (He/him) Was LostDiarist & MrBlipvert on the Bird Site. GPA, NJ, & VT
Ok I had to go find the clip bc this is the energy I will be bringing when anyone ever asks me if I use this ugly nonsense
x: www.instagram.com/reel/DQun5Qr...
Any way
08.11.2025 15:17 — 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Mm hm. No mention of the sexism Franklin was constantly forced to endure in this cosy little, “they were all respectful colleagues, actually” article.
08.11.2025 12:16 — 👍 91 🔁 33 💬 5 📌 3The Double Helix shenanigans are getting a lot of discussion following Watson's death. This article is DJing the rounds. It's a really interesting read. But I'm interested in people's take on it.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
My first experience with Hammer Horror was via a couple of sets of bubblegum cards in the mid-1970s. These pictures in this blog post look a lot like them. “Shocking Laffs”? Anyone else remember these?
cobwebbedroom.blogspot.com/2008/05/shoc...
Starting to suspect that Monster movies are not necessarily Horror movies. 😱
07.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I am looking to buy a DVD of Walter Ungerer’s Vermont folk horror film, The Animal (1976). But it looks like Dark Horse Films’ website has been out for the count for a few years. Anyone have any leads? expcinema.org/site/en/even...
06.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0a digital painting of a girl and a fox in front of a torii gate and shrine; autumn colours
I painted this autumn scene a few years ago. medium: Photoshop
01.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 860 🔁 200 💬 7 📌 2A dark blue vintage Austin car.
This is the car that my parents used at their wedding 55 yrs ago. It was at a car show where I live and the man who chauffeur them still owns it and remembered them.
07.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 35 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Well, the "Skinhead" & "Suedehead" books, I think I dimly knew about. (Thanks, Steven Patrick Morrissey.) But do any folks know anything about Richard Allen's other novels, including "Knuckle Girls," "Sorts," & "Smoothies"? 📚💙 #booksky
projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2025/11/rich...
Starting to suspect that Monster movies are not necessarily Horror movies. 😱
07.11.2025 12:41 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Just one more open source bit of software for me to research. (Seriously, every time Microsoft, Apple, or some major software company pulls this kind of nonsense, I beetle off and find an Open Source replacement.)
07.11.2025 12:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0that fantastic clock was designed by Kit Williams of Masquerade fame.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
small cabin on tree stumps. Tree stumps look like chickenfeet
This Norwegian stabbur, ca 1700, one of the oldest buildings in the region. Used to store foods & other things off of the ground, away from animals.
I'm not OK, for all the Crone reasons.
We know where her house came from! Its origins, most likely!
imma go get my evil mortar and pestle now brb
And the archived link of the dead web page for Vermont’s Dark Horse Films: web.archive.org/web/20170704...
06.11.2025 18:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I am looking to buy a DVD of Walter Ungerer’s Vermont folk horror film, The Animal (1976). But it looks like Dark Horse Films’ website has been out for the count for a few years. Anyone have any leads? expcinema.org/site/en/even...
06.11.2025 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Four cats in the window of a narrowboat. An orange and white one, two black and white ones and a tortoiseshell and white one. Possibly dad, mum & two kittens.
I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am
06.11.2025 09:58 — 👍 1150 🔁 183 💬 21 📌 15carnival of souls (1962) dir herk harvey
carnival of souls (1962) dir herk harvey
now watching: carnival of souls (1962) dir herk harvey
01.11.2025 00:07 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 1One of my favourite films & one of the films that made me a “horror fan.” #CarnivalOfSouls (1962, obviously!)
01.11.2025 15:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Some photos of cricket in South New Jersey. 🏏
www.flickr.com/photos/camde...
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
28.10.2025 13:45 — 👍 604 🔁 187 💬 3 📌 13The Wombles.
Adverts should be representative of traditional British families.
27.10.2025 19:55 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Letter showing the month cost of a high deductible bronze plan in Vermont for 2026
Just opened the letter stating the premiums for our high deductible bronze plan in 2026.
Hahahahahahahaha
Thanks for the prescription food tip--our Magnificent Beast has finally fully turned up her nose at the prescription wet food and I was wondering whether we could donate.
27.10.2025 14:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Colorado Pet Pantry is a similar organization in my area.
I'd note that prescription food (soooo expensive) can be donated. CO Pet Pantry has vet offices among its dropoff locations, and if you're elsewhere, your local vet probably knows needy patients.
a hand holding copies of the same zine in different coloured paper. it reads: notes for working class zine makers (and why you should be one)
Notes for Working Class Zine Makers (and why you should be one too) ✍️
If you've caught me at a zine fair lately you might have seen one of my new zines. Well now they're up on the online store - with cheaper copies available for working class people. #DIYzines
penfightdistro.com/shop/notes-f...
Halp! I've found a ladybird / ladybug apparently trying to hibernate inside my house. I need suggestions for where I can relocate them to optimize their survival chances over the winter.
I have a deck, a mostly empty garage, and trees/ shrubs. The best option is ...? (🐞)
BUT WHEN WILL AI REPLACE CEOs, NIGEL?
27.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Who’s joining Artists for the Green Party?!
(he says with zero artistic ability himself 😬 )